Plexxi Pulse January 11, 2013
How important is your IT department to the success of your enterprise? A recent study found some interesting stats that showcase the different perceptions people have of their IT department; the...
View ArticlePlexxi Pulse January 18, 2013
SDN is being positioned as a driver for innovation in 2013, as we’ve read in numerous industry articles over the last few weeks. But what I’m interested in seeing this year is how organizations and the...
View ArticleSDN and Commoditizing the Network
In a recent article, GigaOm’s Stacey Higginbotham writes about SDN (and more specifically, OpenFlow) and commoditization. She asserts the following: “If 2012 was the year that software-defined...
View ArticleOn the Winchester Mystery House and Incrementalism
For anyone who lives or has worked at all in The Valley, there is a local tourist attraction called The Winchester Mystery House. The house is a 7-story Queen Anne Style Victorian mansion that was...
View ArticleThe Insidious Cost of Incrementalism – Part 2
When I said that the networking industry at large is mired in a culture of incrementalism, I was really painting a broader brush than just networking vendors. The costs of incrementalism on the...
View ArticlePlexxi Pulse – Exciting Week at OFC/NFOEC!
We’ve had a busy week at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) demoing our integration with CALIENT’s S320 optical circuit...
View ArticlePlexxi Pulse – Ready for SDN Dallas and ONS
Plexxi is gearing up for the Open Network Summit on April 15-17, 2013. Dave Husak will be presenting and debating how startups have opportunities to lead amidst the SDN-driven transformation of...
View ArticlePlexxi Pulse: From OpenDaylight to ONS
OpenDaylight has dominated news headlines the past few days, bringing SDN front and center before the Open Networking Summit next week. Quentin Hardy from the New York Times observed, “Now, this is...
View ArticleSDN Market to Reach $35B by 2018
I’ve opined in the past about the impacts of SDN on the networking market at large, covering topics like commoditization and pricing mix and suggesting that there would be increasing pressure to size...
View ArticlePlexxi Pulse – SDN Market Buzz
There was a lot of buzz this week around the report released by Plexxi, SDNCentral and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The report showed SDN market growth exceeding previous industry estimates over a...
View ArticleThe problem with everything in aggregation
Anyone who lives and works in a major city has lots of war stories about their daily commute. Most of us have found our own little short cuts and tricks that shave off a few minutes here or there (or...
View ArticlePlexxi Pulse – Launching Plexxi.com 2.0
Plexxi launched our new website this week, which we have been eagerly anticipating for some time now. We believe it marks an important transition for us. We are now well out of stealth mode, building...
View ArticlePlexxi Pulse – Harnessing data
This week I spoke with analysts Patrick Moorhead, Paul Teich and John Fruehe from Moor Insights & Strategy about Plexxi’s position in the market and the products Plexxi offers. We also discussed...
View ArticleA Cisco-Insieme primer: What is application-centric infrastructure
With the launch of Cisco’s software-defined networking startup Insieme expected tomorrow, our industry is about to hear a lot about “application-centric” everything. So what does “application-centric...
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Short T’s
There’s been a lot of hullaboo in the last few years about the current cycle of disruption in IT: Public Cloud, Private Cloud, SDN, DevOps, Everything-as-a-Service… the list goes on and on and every...
View ArticlePlexxi Pulse – Moving Out of Startup
This week Kyle Alspach wrote a feature on Plexxi in the Boston Business Journal: Plexxi heads out of startup mode, says Cisco ‘in tune’ with networking approach. Kyle discusses how far we’ve come as a...
View ArticleThe Five Dysfunctions of a Network
A book I have had on my fairly small pile of books to keep is “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” by Patrick Lencioni. In this book he outlines 5 critical failures of teams, key areas for any leader to...
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What a Network Engineer Does
In a previous article, we talked about “Short T’s.” We talked about how, in network engineering, the “T” is very long: Configuring a network to achieve business goals requires considerable skill and...
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Types of Network Automation
In networking, workflows are awfully complicated. There are many workflows, and the exact nature of each depends on a number of variables. What task comes next is often dependent on the outcome of...
View ArticlePlexxi Pulse—Adding Flexibility to the Cloud
It’s been a busy week here at Plexxi. On Tuesday, we announced our partnership with Cari.net, a high-performance, scalable and flexible hosting platform based on Microsoft Cloud OS. CARI.net’s newly...
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