One of my recent blogs alluded to inbound QoS. This topic came up in a recent consulting engagement. After considerable thought and some research (sounds better than “I googled some things”, doesn’t it?), I’ve concluded the following … —Peter Welcher
An artificial intelligence (AI) strategy for data center management and operation requires more than just data and some very smart humans. Selecting specific use cases and understanding the types of data that influence AI outcomes — and then validating those outcomes — will be key if the needs of the business are to be met.…
Over the last three years, large hyperscale and cloud computing deals have provided most of the headlines for public data center companies during earnings season. During the second quarter of 2019, enterprise adoption came to the fore. —Rich Miller
For decades, large organizations have controlled their internal network traffic with switches and routers configured by proprietary operating systems. The hardware is expensive (a single appliance can easily hit $10,000) and the cost of hiring the trained admins needed to maintain them can be much higher. —David Clinton
After a slow start to 2019, the volume of IPv4 numbers traded is picking up — though still far below the peak trading periods of 2018. —Janine Goodman
Today, many commonly used services such as hijack detection, outage detection, or importance rankings rely on the data of route collectors. While a single route collector can have a large number of feeders due to various business aspects of inter-domain routing, every feeder only provides a limited ‘view’ of the Internet’s routing ecosystem. —Lars Prehn
5G represents a huge business opportunity for operators able to offer wholesale transport solutions to the mobile network operators (MNOs). This can be existing mobile backhaul (MBH) wholesalers evolving their current 3G and 4G MBH portfolio. —David Stokes
Much has been said and written in recent times about the use of the Domain Name System (DNS) as a means of looking at the behaviour of end systems and inferring user behaviours. —Geoff Huston