I especially agree with Rob Whitely's take on the network becoming the backplane. As network performance and capability have increased we have seen two tectonic shifts based on it: 1) Servers have increasingly become disaggregated. 2) Network technologies have consolidated.
Application architectures have also evolved in a consistent fashion - becoming more network dependent than ever before, significantly increasing the relevance of application aware technologies.
The next few years will certainly be interesting - the shift to 10GbE is upon us, that enables tremendous consolidation opportunities. The VM is becoming the atomic unit of the new data center - that drives significant network equipment changes and topology/architectural considerations. Everything we build is becoming virtualized- SAN, LAN, Firewall, Load Balancer.
And I believe over the next year you will see the network and the server get closer together than ever before. Virtualization brings some challenges - there are opportunities to add more value there.
|
Does Verizon's Voyager stack up to the iPhone? |
|
|
5 IT skills that won't boost your salary 
[1,407]
Women 4 times more likely than men to cough up personal info [589]
Japan's 10 funniest tech-related commercials [Videos] [407]
Throwing away a promo CD is "unauthorized distribution"? [1,265]
Adults too quick to dismiss educational video games [682]
Attack of the iPhone clones [Slideshow] [578]
10 things IT needs to know about AJAX [1,258]
This Year's 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries [Slideshow] [409]
|
|
Cruddy
This was the cruddies article I've read in awhile. Why?
Here's why. In one breath I'm told that with virtualization the "network pipe" is more important than ever. In the next breath I'm told that all those strategies we've developed over the years to make networks robust, resilient, and high-performance need to be thrown out the window to accommodate virtualization. Biggest crock of poo-poo I've read to date in this magazine.
Post new comment