Blueprint: The Year of Actionable Data
by Rod Bagg, vice president of customer support at Nimble Storage As more businesses strive to become data-driven, business leaders will rely heavily on IT teams to easily access, manage...
Blueprints
Contributed columns on network architecture
Blueprint: 2016 Predictions — Big Guns and Long Tails
by Michael Murphy, CTO for North America, Nokia Networks In 2014, I suggested that 2015 would be an inflection point due to the start of serious 5G activity and the...
Blueprint: What’s in Store for the Database in 2016?
by Roger Levy, VP of Product at MariaDB In 2015, CIOs focused on DevOps and similar technologies such as containers as a way to improve time to value. During 2016,...
Blueprint: What’s Coming in 2016 and Beyond for Cybersecurity
by Vincent Weafer, VP of Intel Security’s McAfee Labs, Intel Corporation A five-year look ahead at how cybersecurity is likely to evolve Clouds, devices, and sophistication are three of the...
Blueprint: How Advanced Analytics Will Change Business in 2016
by Shawn Rogers, Chief Research Officer, Dell Statistica As advanced analytics continue the trajectory from buzzworthy idea to business imperative, we will see companies and consumers alike beginning to optimize...
Blueprint: Cloud and Networking Predictions 2016
by Elad Rave, CEO of Teridion The cloud is no longer a luxury for enterprises, it is a must have. With more complex applications entering the enterprise, like video streaming...
Blueprint: Three Predictions for Network Monitoring in 2016
by Tom Kelly, CEO, AccelOps Why do armies set up look-outs all around their camps? Why do people read their horoscopes and shake magic eight-balls? Simple: they want to see...
Blueprint: Four SDN Predictions for 2016
by Carolyn Raab, VP of Product Management at Corsa In 2015, service providers, telcos and national research and engineering consortiums went through a major transition as they began implementing software-defined...
Blueprint: 2016 and the Rise of NFV – Practicality Rules
by Martin Taylor, CTO, Metaswitch With network function virtualization quickly moving into the mainstream and proliferation of related technology offerings on the rise, clarity of purpose and ease of use...
Blueprint: 2016 is the Year SDN Finds its Home, and its Name is NFV
by Peter Margaris, Head of Service Provider Product Marketing at F5 Networks For the past few years, the testing and adoption of Software Defined Networking (SDN) has progressed incrementally. While...
Blueprint: The (Near) Future of Enterprise Apps, Analytics, Big Data and The Cloud
by Derek Collison, Founder and CEO of Apcera In 2016, technical innovation, combined with evolutionary trends, will bring rapid organizational changes and new competitive advantages to enterprises capable of adopting...
Blueprint: 2016 Predictions – Death of Traditional ADC, Ubiquitous SSL
by Sonal Puri, CEO of Webscale Networks With the end of the year comes the inevitable flood of predictions about the evolution of various technologies in the coming year. And...
Blueprint: One Box or Two? New Options in “Hyper” Storage
by Stefan Bernbo, founder and CEO of Compuverde Cisco’s latest Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast offers just one example of what enterprises are facing on the storage...
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