(Somewhat Recent) Publication List

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Tech Target(NASDAQ: TTGT)

Between Cis­co and VMware SDN, which will net­work engi­neers choose? Decem­ber, 2013 In the Cis­co vs. VMware SDN bat­tle, Cis­co ACI may win out among net­work engi­neers, who are more com­fort­able with the hard­ware-cen­tric approach.

Don’t fall for the old Coke vs. Pep­si method in choos­ing an SDN prod­uct Feb­ru­ary, 2014 In the bat­tle for SDN mind­share, Cis­co and VMware are pulling a Coke vs. Pep­si mar­ket­ing ploy. But there is plen­ty of oth­er SDN prod­uct to con­sid­er.

Your next job may be ‘net­work pro­gram­mer’: What you’ll need to know Novem­ber, 2013 SDN brings flex­i­bil­i­ty to net­work­ing, but this will require engi­neers to gain new skills in order to fill the emerg­ing role of net­work pro­gram­mer.

Cis­co Mod­el­ing Lab: What you need to know Feb­ru­ary, 2014 Net­work archi­tect Teren Bryson gives Search­Net­work­ing read­ers an ear­ly peek into Cisco’s forth­com­ing Cis­co Mod­el­ing Lab.

Seek­ing net­work effi­cien­cy? SDN may — or may not — be the answer Octo­ber, 2013 SDN ven­dors promise net­work effi­cien­cy, but that will be hard to real­ize in the short term since SDN imple­men­ta­tion requires so much cap­i­tal spend­ing.

IT silos aren’t always bad, but VMware NSX will launch a turf war Sep­tem­ber, 2013 IT silos aren’t as bad as peo­ple say they are, unless they abuse tools like VMware NSX. Don’t let it hap­pen.

Open APIs are nice, but ven­dors must shoul­der data cen­ter inte­gra­tion Octo­ber, 2013 Open APIs enable data cen­ter automa­tion and inte­gra­tion, but they call for effort by engi­neers, with­out requir­ing ven­dors to work toward inte­gra­tion.

Net­work­ers face tough slate of cloud and secu­ri­ty deci­sions April, 2015 Deploy­ing a cloud ser­vice means it’s time to craft new poli­cies that gov­ern secu­ri­ty pro­ce­dures.

Cisco

SDN in the Enter­prise: align­ing with busi­ness needs July 31, 2013

SDN in the Enter­prise: align­ing with busi­ness needs part 2 August 14, 2013

Enterprise Networking Planet

Big Secu­ri­ty Breach­es and How Big Data Can Pre­vent Them June 25, 2015 Secu­ri­ty threats are evolv­ing. Com­bat­ing them demands that enter­prise infor­ma­tion secu­ri­ty pro­fes­sion­als and per­spec­tives evolve, too.

Cis­co ACI in the Real World March 05, 2015 Cisco’s ACI is blaz­ing a trail for SDN in the enter­prise. Find out who’s deploy­ing ACI and why.

Def­i­n­i­tion: Lay­er-1 Switch­ing Jan­u­ary 22, 2015 Lay­er-1 switch­ing isn’t what it ini­tial­ly sounds like. The pro­gram­ma­bil­i­ty of this tech­nol­o­gy is earn­ing it a grow­ing fan­base.

Enter­prise Net­work­ing Trends for 2015 Jan­u­ary 20, 2015 What net­work­ing trends will shape 2015? From Lay­er 1 switch­ing to Pup­pet and Chef, Open­Stack to pub­lic cloud, Teren Bryson makes some pre­dic­tions.

Bro­cade Builds a Team of Vision­ar­ies April 07, 2014 What can recent high-pro­file defec­tions from Juniper and Cis­co do for Bro­cade and the net­work­ing indus­try?

Solarwinds’ Thwack

THE ATTACK VECTOR OF EVERYTHING Feb 23, 2015

OFFENSE, DEFENSE, AND BIG DATA Feb 18, 2015

SOPHISTICATED ATTACKS USUALLY AREN’T Feb 9, 2015

TRADITIONAL SECURITY MODELS ARE DEAD Feb 4, 2015

HOW TO AVOID “MONITORING SPAM” Aug 5, 2013

HOW TO MONITOR EFFECTIVELY Aug 12, 2013

WHAT NPM TIPS AND TRICKS DO YOU HAVE? Aug 19, 2013

ORION NPM ARCHITECTURE, SPEED, AND SQL Sep 8, 2014

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