Today, a vast number of companies are going through a digital transformation by adopting a cloud-centric approach to application delivery. As core business applications move to the cloud, the Internet becomes the business-critical network: when the cloud is the new datacenter, the Internet is the new LAN. A large portion of the traffic which was […]
I read an excellent article in CIO magazine about DevOps versus Site Reliability Engineering. The opinion piece, SRE vs DevOps: What’s the difference?, compared and contrasted the functions of the two roles and how they each benefit an organization. What struck me more than anything is that these roles are very application and infrastructure […]
BGP Routing Needs to Mind Its MANRS I’m not sure if anyone has told you this yet, but there are people on the Internet who want your money. Not only that, but some of them are prepared to do some pretty shady things to get it, particularly identifying, and then exploiting, system and network vulnerabilities. […]
UCaaS Vendors: Feeling the Churn Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) has been on an accelerated growth path the past couple of years, with vendors like RingCentral, Dialpad, 8×8, and others aggressively growing and converting premises-based phone system customers to Internet based VoIP and collaboration solutions. There are wild fluctuations in analyst estimates of the […]
The Cloud and The Internet: An Uneasy Partnership Long, long ago, Marc Benioff started a little company in San Francisco called Salesforce, and the Cloud had taken its first tentative baby steps into the world. As it grew, Salesforce famously proclaimed “Software is dead” with a giant logo of a triumphant cloud. In 2011 another Marc- this time Andreessen– declared that […]
Strategies for Optimizing Web App Performance The worldwide SaaS market is growing at a prodigious rate, and thanks to an increasingly mobile workforce and the potential for meaningful collaboration around the globe, collaboration and productivity apps are powering a lot of that growth. Particularly in these highly personalized and interactive areas, a positive and engaging […]
How Cloud Networking Can Drive Application Performance Not very long ago, I could have started this blog post by declaring that “enterprises and service providers are moving to cloud”. But now, the transition to cloud that has been foretold, prognosticated about, and tracked feverishly by the industry is… well, it’s done. A recent study found that 96 […]
I’d like to say a few words about why I joined Teridion. I see networking as the next frontier for Cloud. As more services are hosted in the cloud, user experience and business productivity is increasingly dependent on interactions over the Internet, but with uncertain performance. The network enables, but it can also severely handicap. Teridion’s unique approach to […]
China represents a tremendous business opportunity for the application providers who can tap into its market. China is the most populous nation on Earth and 53% of its 1.4 billion people have access to the Internet. That percentage will grow to 66% by the 2020 or beyond as the country expands its web and […]
Porg Teaches Us Why TTLB (Time to Last Byte) Beats TTFB (Time to First Byte) In honor of the new Star Wars movie, I planned a DIY project with my five kids (yes, I have five!). We figured out parts and material and were ready to dive in. However, first I had to order some […]