Opinion

Opinion

• User-, app-centric security key in enterprise security architecture

  Today's enterprise security architecture must become contextually aware in order to support the growth of mobile devices and cloud-based applications.  Continue Reading

• Juniper Contrail's open source SDN will change the enterprise network

  Glen Kemp discusses Juniper's open source SDN controller and the impact the OpenContrail project and NFV may have on enterprise customers.  Continue Reading

• Networking blogs: Cisco lays out ACI strategy

  This week's networking blogs cover the gamut from Cisco's SDN strategy to steps enterprises should take to ensure they have enough network capacity.  Continue Reading

• Will cloudification make enterprise IT jobs disappear?

  We have public, private and hybrid clouds. What does this mean for in-house IT departments? Will the cloud make enterprise jobs evaporate?  Continue Reading

• Networking blogs: Virtualization hobbles network oversight, study says

  This week's Networking blogs details a study investigating network management applications and highlights the birth of a new acronym: AANPM  Continue Reading

• Networking blogs: Congress must act on cybersecurity legislation

  In this week's Networking blogs, analysts discuss stalled cybersecurity legislation and how the battle for cloud management is evolving.  Continue Reading

• The art and science of troubleshooting network problems

  Troubleshooting network problems is part art and part science and requires creative use of tools and talent.  Continue Reading

• Open Networking User Group: CIOs want network programmability!

  The Open Networking User Group will provide a forum later this month for IT leaders and vendors to brainstorm the future of the programmable network.  Continue Reading

• Open APIs are nice, but vendors must shoulder data center integration

  Open APIs enable data center automation and integration, but they call for effort by engineers, without requiring vendors to work toward integration.  Continue Reading

• Networking blogs: Multivendor VPN tunnels still a hassle, but why?

  This week's networking blogs investigates what's needed to streamline multivendor VPN tunnels and the impact the iPhone 5 will have on enterprise WLANs.  Continue Reading

• The notion of intelligent networks shifts as Cisco addresses SDN

  Cisco's application-centric infrastructure strategy is Intelligent Network version 2.0 in every sense of the word, writes Keith Townsend.  Continue Reading

• Network configuration management: Old tools, new tricks

  With a few lines of your favorite scripting language, you could touch every machine in your environment without building anything new.  Continue Reading

• Seeking network efficiency? SDN may -- or may not -- be the answer

  SDN vendors promise network efficiency, but that will be hard to realize in the short term since SDN implementation requires so much capital spending.  Continue Reading

• Networking blogs: Citrix advances IT as a Service offering

  In this week's networking blogs, Citrix advances its CloudPlatform offering while VMware is urged to carefully target its NSX message.  Continue Reading

• Networking blogs: Security community needs STIX

  In this week's networking blogs, learn about the problems surrounding cloud-based security intelligence and how STIX and TAXII standards can help.  Continue Reading