Drew Robb

Cloud networking is all about removing internal concern for all or part of the networking function by farming it out to a third party. Done right, the advantages are faster delivery of content, lowered costs, and more time available for IT resources. That makes it a popular option for content providers, ecommerce operations, SaaS providers, […]

Server virtualization has been with us since the rapid rise of VMware almost two decades ago. With server sprawl so prevalent in the days when there were endless Windows boxes strewn across the data center or server room, it made perfect sense to consolidate multiple physical servers into one physical machine containing many virtual machines […]

The router market is an interesting space. It is split into two broad categories: enterprise Wide Area Network (WAN) routers and branch routers. This article focuses on the former category. Enterprise WAN routers are used to communicate to and from head office to branches. Sitting in the main data center, WAN routers are part of […]

Cisco has such a large customer base to talk to that it would be foolish not to pay attention when it chooses to talk about its original field of innovation: networking. Joel Conover, Senior Manager for Borderless Networks at Cisco, sees two key trends emerging: the rise of video and the consumerization of IT. “Video […]

In simple terms, switches are used to interconnect the various parts of a network. As a core component of any Ethernet-based local areas network (LAN), they are available at various bandwidths — typically 100, 1000 or 10,000 megabits per second (Mbps). According to analyst firm Dell’Oro Group, 1000 Mbps enterprise switches have been dominant for […]