FIRE Panel: Networks not Ready for Cloud
May 28 2009 by 
Greg Ness (Infoblox)
FIRE Conference: Today's Networks Need to Embrace Automation
Richard Kagan from Infoblox (center) comments as VMware’s Thiele and Infoblox’s Ness listen.
Photo copyright © 2009 by Sandy Huffaker Jr
Future in Review Infrastructure 2.0 Panel from InfobloxInc on Vimeo.
This panel features Richard Kagan from Infoblox, Mark Thiele from VMware, Erik Giesa from F5 Networks and Doug Gourlay from Cisco. Infoblox’s Greg Ness is the moderator. It is about 35 minutes long.
Key message: Today’s networks are run like yesterday’s businesses and factories because they have not embraced automation. Those high cost networks today managed by legions of clerks will become chokepoints as enterprises embrace virtualization and cloud. Jobs and wealth will follow automation just as they followed investments in just-in-time manufacturing.
Cisco's Gourlay: Cloud could break the Internet if not deployed on capable networks. Photo copyright © 2009 by Sandy Huffaker Jr
The first part of the panel addresses the technology challenges and limitations inherent with many of today’s high cost, static networks, while the second addresses the bigger picture commercial/economic impacts of embracing (or not) network automation.
F5's Giesa: As systems move their delivery policies need to move with them.
Photo copyright © 2009 by Sandy Huffaker Jr
The Infrastructure 2.0 panel was recently covered by IT PRO bloggers who attended FIRE.
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3 comments
May 29, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Fantastic seminar. Too bad it you had to quit early just when the discussion was getting even more interesting. The analogies on static & dynamic infrastructure and security were great. I will be sure to use them as I talk to IT Executives!
Keep up the good work!
May 30, 2009 at 1:21 PM
Looks like Cisco's Gourlay is running for next national CTO. Makes solid points though about need for dynamic network addressing.
May 31, 2009 at 8:33 AM
Doug has been simply amazing as a thought leader on Infrastructure 2.0.
Greg