When Closed is Not a Bad Thing
I remember the days when the network was open. Your PC, workstation or whatever you had on your desk could access whatever it needed (or not needed). Networking was an enabler of communication, it...
View ArticleWho does what and where?
Going through regular strategy reviews the last few weeks brought some very lively discussions around network policy and network virtualization. The arrival of server based network virtualization...
View ArticleUnused networking capabilities are useless networking capabilities
Stop me if you have heard this before: “We have had the ability to do that for 10 years. It’s called MPLS.” For whatever reason, the networking industry seems more open to innovation these days than...
View ArticleSimplifying network simplification
Simplify. We all hear it all the time. We hear how this tool or that technology will simplify. In networking, we hear how controllers, protocols, APIs, and virtualization layers will all simplify....
View ArticleChanging the way we configure and provision our networks
Some people believe good or bad things always happen in 3s. I believe you will always be able to find 3 (and probably more) things that are good or bad and somewhat related, but sometimes I get...
View ArticleIt’s the Applications, Stupid (Part 2 of 3)!
In part 1 of this series, I mentioned a customer that was starting to understand how to build application policy into their deployment processes and in turn was building new infrastructure that could...
View ArticlePolicy versus ACLs, it’s those exposed implementation details again
In a blog week dedicated to the application and the policies that govern them, I wanted to add some detail on a discussion I have with customers quite often. It should be clear that we at Plexxi...
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