October 18 2008 by
Greg Ness (Infoblox)
Cloud computing has become a reality, yet the hype surrounding cloud has started to exceed the laws of physics and economics. The robust cloud (of all software on demand that will replace the enterprise data center) will crash into some of the same barriers and diseconomies that are facing enterprise IT today.
Certainly there will always be a business case for elements of cloud, from Google’s pre-enterprise applications to Amazon’s popular services and the powerhouse of CRM, HR and other popular cloud services. Yet there are substantial economic barriers to entry based on the nature of today’s static infrastructure.
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October 13 2008 by
Greg Ness (Infoblox)
Over the last three decades we’ve watched a meteoric rise in processing power and intelligence in network endpoints and systems drive an incredible series of network innovations; and those innovations have led to the creation of multi-billion dollar network hardware markets. As we watch the global economy shiver and shake we now see signs of the next technology boom: Infrastructure2.0.
Infrastructure1.0- The Multi-billion Dollar Static Network
From the expansion of TCP/IP in the 80s/90s, the emergence of network security in
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October 13 2008 by
Greg Ness (Infoblox)
I just watched Cisco’s John Chambers “Can IT Strengthen the Economy?” interview at the recent Gartner conference just released at ZDNet. John clearly sees innovation as the way out. The network is strategic to business productivity. Flexibility, speed and scale are becoming even more important. That means dynamic connectivity and intelligence will become critical to the network.
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October 09 2008 by
Greg Ness (Infoblox)
October Computerworld Research Report
A few days ago Computerworld released a MarketVibe report (sponsored by Infoblox) that showed a strong correlation between an organization’s size and the amount spent per IP address to manage the network. One would think that with more users that costs per user would actually decline as additional IP addresses are added against fixed or even slightly increasing IT expenses. That wasn’t the case in this survey. Costs per IP address were actually notably higher at large enterprises:
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