Making the Cloud Safe for IT
Over 80% of respondents to an F5 survey state they are currently at least in trial stages for a public or private cloud deployment. The survey indicates that cloud computing appears to have reached critical mass, but with a high level of confusion over what that actually means, it is difficult to say “Everybody is [...]
I really like being a Product Manager. Sure, it can sometimes be a (very) thankless job, but I like seeing what happens when the software development team for my product meets with the IT department of our own company (who are effectively representing my future customers). I got both teams in a design room last week to [...]
In: Network
1 Jul 2009This is the second of a two part series. You can read the first part HERE.
A few days ago I wrote about Web 2.0’s “Reverse Network Effect” due to the concentration of folks at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston. The lack of wireless access can be truly crippling as I experienced first-hand.
Before Boston, I [...]
In: Conferences| Network
25 Jun 2009This article is part one of two in the series.
What happens when Web 2.0 technologies are so pervasive that everybody is online all the time and everywhere? At any given conference, you have people catching up on work (email), killing time (aka surfing), or working on a document. The bane of a laptop user’s existence [...]