2020-04-26 21:40
The blame game is a tricky effort these days. Maybe its part of the problem, not the solution. I cringed at many of the comments made across this year’s political theater. It see… Read More
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2020-03-06 23:00
Eerie discoveries in thin substance research fuel speculation about what comes after silicon and oil. Is free energy around the corner? Last year a highly respected technologist (and friend)… Read More
2020-02-17 00:05
The Capital One breach last year was significant on multiple fronts. A trusted financial services brand on a leading cloud IaaS environment was easily breached, to the tune of 10M reco… Read More
2020-02-15 21:34
Thank you for the responses to the first “Three Questions” blog! Do you know of a company that’s helping to accelerate the future by closing the gap between dynamic infrast… Read More
2020-02-10 19:09
SD-WAN deployment has accelerated in recent years as organizations extend SDN benefits across wide area networks. It’s a pretty transformative process, producing new management and cos… Read More
2019-12-21 20:46
Within the next ten years half of today’s network security leaders will be either: 1) replaced by a new generation of leaders built upon advanced architectures; or 2) will have acquire… Read More
2019-10-29 00:09
Network Effects are Powerful Since the early days of TCP/IP, connectivity has created waves of multi-billion-dollar markets, seemingly out of thin air. All of the successes have had one thin… Read More
2019-10-06 01:25
Attack Vectors in the… Trillions? The growing attack surface of the new industry 4.0 internet is a big problem. On this everyone agrees. But underneath the headlines and the frequent… Read More
2019-09-07 19:20
Everything is Connected In 5 years there will be 75 billion devices connected to the internet, perhaps a few billion insecure and unpatchable. An estimated 2 billion run VxWorks and pe… Read More
2019-08-10 14:25
The IIoT problem no one has been talking about, despite high profile attacks: “The hyper-converged infrastructures we’re building because of overwhelming business advantage is pu… Read More
2019-07-30 15:27
Right after we celebrate the birthdays of two of the most destructive cyber attacks ever launched (WannaCry and NotPetya) a disturbing VxWorks advisory is issued for billions of IoT devices… Read More
2019-05-28 14:57
The advantages of digitalization are well documented and understood, especially in health care. Patients, for example, benefit when their doctors can access critical data by simply plu… Read More
2019-05-16 17:51
Microsoft released a patch update to… Windows XP? What’s up with that? Here are highlights from Ars Technica ( Dan Goodin) augmented with recent commentary: Microsoft is w… Read More
2019-05-10 00:53
Or The Zero Trust Graveyard… your choice. I just glanced through an analyst report on “zero trust” and noted the sizable eco-system of startups and security cartel players… Read More
2019-04-24 00:12
Gabe is Back In the heady days of massive network infrastructure growth there was a single analyst who knew the vendors cold. And all of us on the Wall Street briefing circuit knew Gab… Read More
2019-04-15 22:50
Promiscuous Connectivity The TCP/IP stack made it easy for billions of devices to connect over the internet in just a few decades, starting in the 1990s. Now we’re expecting more than… Read More
2019-04-05 00:10
In 2018 I moderated a Future in Review panel on Russian cyber meddling in Ukraine. One of my comments during the panel (“What happens in Ukraine doesn’t stay in Ukraine.”)… Read More
2019-03-29 17:31
How to Fight Stack Fatigue and Win As I mentioned in OT/IT Convergence I had the chance to meet someone responsible for securing and isolating control infrastructure for a state-wide array o… Read More
2019-03-20 23:36
So much has changed since the creation of the TCP/IP stack. Work on the stack began in 1973 and the first public WAN was initiated in 1982 (see this timeline for a great point of reference)… Read More
2018-11-09 19:10
A Domain for a Cloud Provider or Partner with Passion Years ago I wanted to create the ideal name for a domain that expresses a vendor’s passion for enabling their customers to have th… Read More
2018-09-11 21:05
Marketer’s Corner Across 30 years of B2B marketing I’ve seen my fair share of changes. The last ten years have probably been the most disruptive, especially when it comes t… Read More
2018-08-27 18:17
Watching the strategic and near perfect strategic pivot VMware has made since its failed IaaS venture has been nothing short of awe-inspiring. Very few companies can make such a shift… Read More
2018-08-21 23:37
The Big Shift When tech trade publishers stopped printing B2B magazines they shifted their business models from cultivating carefully validated readers (for print ad revenue) to attracting l… Read More
2018-05-22 22:54
Money money money money. Money. A recent report on cyber attacks covered in ComputerWeekly found friendly terrain for hackers within the perimeter of internal banking networks. In othe… Read More
2018-04-16 21:18
It’s Time to Seize the High Ground The cloud and IoT are rendering the corporate network obsolete, with or without the rise of advanced threats. At least that’s the conclus… Read More
2018-02-23 20:30
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2018-02-23 20:00
It is great to see secure enclaves now listed in the AWS Marketplace. It’s a big step forward for cloud security and early participants are large enterprises creating highly secure clo… Read More
2018-02-15 20:45
The perimeter protecting the network, once considered impregnable, has been degraded by advanced threats and an explosion in the number of connected devices (and apps running on them) and a… Read More
2018-02-12 21:09
Second Panel on Ukraine’s Cyber War held at GWU Last fall we discussed how digital societies are more vulnerable to cyber mayhem and cited the recent Future in Review panel on Ukraine… Read More
2017-11-14 17:00
A powerful game-changing idea is now a reality thanks to advances in cloud security capabilities and software defined perimeter technology. One of the most significant new opportunities for… Read More
2017-11-10 21:36
Two Ominous Warnings from the US and Across the Pond For the most part westerners live in open societies. And many of them are undergoing accelerating connectivity across almost all as… Read More
2017-09-29 21:15
Malware has evolved to evade traditional security defenses and move laterally looking for vulnerabilities. It may even force a generational shift in security. In a recent CUBE intervie… Read More
2017-09-21 17:52
VMware and Verizon Announce App Security as a Service: Here’s Why It Matters In a “tip of the hat” to how polluted devices and networks have become, VMware and Verizon anno… Read More
2017-08-16 19:46
As nations and syndicates pursue their interests, they will become sponsors of offensive and defensive cyber capabilities, including information warfare, theft, and attacks designed to take… Read More
2017-07-31 20:37
Am reading reports of a breach of FireEye. Stay tuned. While three outlets have covered, I’m awaiting acknowledgement from company officials. Hackers Breach Cybersecurity Compan… Read More
2017-07-27 22:22
Hardware-Defined IT is About to End- Not with a Bang but a Whimper After completing Security Paradox the idea of death by maintenance really sunk in. The following is a “song of vapor… Read More
2017-07-26 17:41
A week ago I wrote about the recent AWS VMware partnership and how it threatens traditional IT vendors, practices and roles. The week before I talked about exploding security processes erodi… Read More
2017-07-20 17:12
In many ways and for most organizations the cloud is more secure than premises-bound security. It’s easy to understand why: The most widely deployed IaaS architectures are more a… Read More
2017-07-19 21:08
A recent interview with a security architect at a Fortune 100 firm with a network of hundreds of thousands of corporate and partner users brought out the explosion of complexity as networks… Read More
2017-07-19 17:46
Notice is Served to More than a Dozen Tech Leaders by Once Unlikely Alliance Recent talks between Amazon and VMware could ignite a second wave of cloud adoption, this time focused on brownfi… Read More
2017-07-02 20:23
My recent Vidder blog on security in the new cyber world explains why security will become more important to business success in the digital age and why CISOs will become as important to CMO… Read More
2017-07-02 18:44
A new Morgan Stanley CIO Report is out with a revised list of digitalization winners and losers. The shift to the cloud is increasing and creating a painful new reality for traditional… Read More
2017-06-24 19:18
This week the Washington Post published a bombshell story on the recent attacks on the US election infrastructure ironically under their motto “Democracy dies in darkness.” On th… Read More
2017-05-15 22:31
After my Goodbye NAC (network access control) blog the Vidder team created a very useful chart comparing key characteristics of NAC with Vidder’s Trusted Access Control Read More
2017-05-01 21:28
Because Complexity Doesn’t Scale Very Well… Last week Amazon announced another stellar quarter, with AWS again being the main headliner for the ecommerce high flyer. Yet I&rsquo&hell…Read More
2017-04-06 17:38
The question that many IT security pros are asking is: Why hasn’t network access control (NAC) lived up to its promise? I certainly did. And what I discovered helped me to make a caree… Read More
2017-02-16 17:20
Had a great time catching up with old friends last night at RSA. We have much to talk about this year, including greater recognition for bald security bloggers. Maybe we’ll even… Read More
2017-02-04 20:24
Trust is under attack. So much so that security experts are calling networks “zero trust.” A recent Kaspersky Labs survey found 77% of US businesses had breaches in the… Read More
2016-11-23 04:15
A disturbing look at how bad things could get in the very near future and how bad they really were in the ancient past. Recommended 18+ 280pp – published November 2016. Antioch is… Read More
2016-11-15 00:38
Infrastructure Tech Vendors: Prepare for the Wildest of Rides Just as VMware reveals an intent to become Airbnb for the cloud… a new Cisco study underscores massive future growth… Read More
2016-10-19 17:17
An important interview about the chasm between IT, existing apps and IaaS… Yesterday NetworkWorld published a notable interview discussing one of the core challenges faced by IT as we… Read More
2016-10-04 22:47
I spent most of last week at the Future in Review tech conference in Park City listening to a series of intense 30 minute sessions on tech disruptions occurring across multiple fields, from… Read More
2016-08-31 23:23
Innovation-centric IT teams are starting to embrace the cloud and the results are encouraging. They build their own internal cloud teams dedicated to driving innovation and agility vers… Read More
2016-08-23 16:50
Join us! We’re assembling a world class panel on the impact of digitalization and cloud on the 21st century enterprise. Join us at Future in Review in Park City Sep 27-30. Digital… Read More
2016-08-15 17:00
I spent five minutes with Marc last week discussing recent system-wide outages at Delta, Southwest and Salesforce. We talked about the challenges facing enterprises with cobbl… Read More
2016-08-10 17:54
Delta, Southwest and Salesforce Infrastructures Mark New IT Reality From the premier IT infrastructure of Salesforce.com to the cobbled infrastructures of major airlines, this year has been… Read More
2016-08-04 22:53
If you’re interested in understanding what the future of IT will look like forget trying to forecast how many trillions in IT spending will be influenced by the cloud. We already know… Read More
2016-06-21 18:32
The first newsletter dedicated to cloud automation strategy and tactics. Monthly. No vendor product pitches, just the latest and greatest ideas from experts. Read it Read More
2016-06-15 17:13
“Earlier this week VMware (VMW) CEO Pat Gelsinger spoke about “violent shifts” in the tech industry.” It may have been an understatement. Read complete article on Tal… Read More
2016-06-08 19:10
==> Salesforce announced a new strategic partnership with AWS This announcement was pivotal because it defied conventional cloud wisdom. Most analysts described SaaS as the ult… Read More
2016-06-02 18:34
Since January I’ve published a pair of articles at Seeking Alpha on what I consider to be early signs of a massive transformation of enterprise IT. Who will be crushed by Digitalizatio… Read More
2016-05-23 23:43
A special congratulations to the Exar team for accomplishing what many thought impossible. They migrated their Oracle stack onto AWS in days. Read more at InformationWeek: The pr… Read More
2016-05-11 19:11
A recent JP Morgan report predicted a massive uptake in enterprise cloud adoption in the next five years based on a recent CIO survey. Within a few weeks a May 2016 Forrester report indicate… Read More
2016-05-09 17:32
I posted an article at Seeking Alpha over the weekend after reading a CIO survey conducted by JP Morgan listing out tech vendors by projected sales growth. Highlights below: Digitalization a… Read More
2016-02-08 20:10
Seattle: From a Jobs Shortage to a Housing Shortage In 1971 an iconic billboard went up south of Seattle, across the street from a cemetery: “Will the last person leaving Seattle &ndas&hell…Read More
2015-08-05 23:36
Not Really… if you accept the results of a recent survey. We just finished compiling the results of a disaster recovery best practices survey of more than 300 IT pros (read about the… Read More
2015-06-18 00:09
After talking to VMblog and InformationWeek I’ve come to the conclusion that most companies are suffering through obsolete approaches to disaster recovery. I’ve gone so far… Read More
2015-04-24 17:36
2015 should prove to be a pivotal year for enterprise cloud adoption, thanks to a series of critical developments, including accelerating interest in the hybrid cloud. HIGH GROWTH FOR HYBRID… Read More
2015-04-21 16:18
HIGHLIGHTS Research and Markets just published a report predicting that “the hybrid cloud market is expected to grow from $25.28 billion in 2014 to $84.67 billion by 2019, at a Compoun… Read More
2015-03-22 20:04
A couple items grabbed my attention recently, including the recent Synergy report on the growing share of IT infrastructure spending going to the cloud. It surprised me. I had nothing… Read More
2015-03-19 21:22
We decided to bring together experts from Gartner, AWS, CloudVelox and cloud DR leader MyPoints for an in-depth and highly informative webinar that would give its viewers a competitive advan… Read More
2015-03-16 04:57
Synergy Research reports that cloud infrastructure spending has been growing rapidly: “Cloud infrastructure is a fast-growing market and now accounts for almost half of all data center… Read More
2015-03-11 20:40
A recent article from Forbes reports surprising benefits of cloud computing based on a survey of execs conducted by Tata Communications. One in Four Enterprises See ‘Surprise&rsqu&hell…Read More
2015-03-06 01:23
I was in Seattle for a couple days this week for meetings and had a chance to catch lunch at Agrodolce (a great local restaurant in Fremont) with Impinj IT leader Morgan Van Wely. As I enjoy… Read More
2015-02-27 01:09
Consistent with multiple predictions about cloud migration getting easier I present a case study for a financial services company in Florida. The case study was done last year, but it… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
When it comes to the emerging multi-billion dollar hybrid cloud market, Microsoft is becoming more than a force to be reckoned with; it is articulating a powerful vision, one that is increas… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I’m very excited about moderating the upcoming Future in Review panel entitled “Cloud: New Operating Models for Business Transformation”. It will be held on May 21 at… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Last fall I wrote a piece for VentureBeat on the contrasts between two key cloud operating models. My intention was simply to contrast cloud lock-in with cloud agility, and what that c… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Most of the early uses of cloud IaaS were for small and medium–sized businesses and tactical Dev/Test environments. For enterprises the cloud as a critical environment for production a… Read More
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