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Has the time come for Ethernet as a WAN service?

For its entire existence as an entity, data networking has been a conglomeration of special interface and protocols. In stark contrast to the "plug and play" simplicity of analog telephony – where you simply attach the cord to an RJ-11 jack on the wall ...

From JIM METZLER AND STEVE TAYLOR, NetworkWorld,  18 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Global Crossing Ltd.

Network-based e-mail – Ready for prime time?

In the prior newsletter, we raised the question of whether the time is here – or past due – for moving e-mail from local PCs back to the network. This time we want to continue the discussion by looking at some of the key questions that need to be ...

From JIM METZLER AND STEVE TAYLOR, NetworkWorld,  16 Nov 2009

Do collaboration tools enable collaboration?

At the recent IT Roadmap conference in Washington D.C. there was a panel discussion about how the younger generation uses tools such as texting to stay in touch with friends. One of the implications of the discussion was that the younger generation is ...

From JIM METZLER AND STEVE TAYLOR, NetworkWorld,  4 Nov 2009

What's driving Application Delivery 2.0?

In the last WAN newsletter we pointed out our belief that we are entering a new ear of application delivery – one that we refer to as Application Delivery 2.0. We also began to discuss some of the challenges that are associated with this new era of ...

From JIM METZLER AND STEVE TAYLOR, NetworkWorld,  2 Nov 2009

Welcome to Application Delivery 2.0

Network World - In many IT organizations, the WAN does not matter. What you do with the WAN, however, matters greatly. One of the primary roles of the WAN is to enable acceptable application delivery. We are entering a new era of –- one that we refer ...

From JIM METZLER AND STEVE TAYLOR, ComputerWorld,  28 Oct 2009

Be cautious - be very, very cautious

In our last newsletter we discussed how our research into cloud computing had sensitized us to the overwhelming concern that IT organizations have for the security and privacy of their data. We also began to analyze how the U.S. government has been ...

From JIM METZLER AND STEVE TAYLOR, NetworkWorld,  7 Oct 2009
Related Topics: University of California, Los Angeles

The justification for paranoia

We normally focus on technology and its impact on business. That is our background and those are areas we feel comfortable writing about. In the next two newsletters we are stepping out of our comfort zone to write about something that gets us ...

From JIM METZLER AND STEVE TAYLOR, NetworkWorld,  5 Oct 2009

Adaptive Private Networking – Show me the money

The last few newsletters have discussed the relatively high cost of wide area networking and described how adaptive private networking (APN) has the potential to significantly reduce the price/performance of enterprise WANs. This newsletter will ...

From JIM METZLER AND STEVE TAYLOR, NetworkWorld,  16 Sep 2009

Making IPSec VPNs Enterprise Class

The last newsletter highlighted the fact that the improvements that we have seen over the last 25 years in the price/performance ratio of wide area networking is nothing close to the price/performance improvements that we have seen for other areas of ...

From JIM METZLER AND STEVE TAYLOR, NetworkWorld,  9 Sep 2009

No litmus test for cloud computing

In a previous newsletter we discussed the fact that in spite of all of the hyperbole that surrounds cloud computing, there is not a widely accepted definition of what is meant by the phrase. Further proof of that assertion comes from an article in the ...

From JIM METZLER AND STEVE TAYLOR, NetworkWorld,  31 Aug 2009

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