Is Your Approach to SDN Putting Lipstick on Your Networking Pig?
Your network is ugly. I know you agree, even if you don’t want to publicly admit it. If it looks like any of the organizations I’ve visited recently, your network is an aging hodgepodge of hardware and...
View ArticleInterop 2015: It’s Time for the Internet of Business Things
Is the Internet of Things ready for the enterprise? It’s a question that’s front-and-center in my mind as Avaya gears up for this year’s Interop conference in Las Vegas. To help frame the question,...
View ArticleWhy Your Network Isn’t Ready for the Internet of Things
Businesses face a tough reality—every day, employees, customers and partners bring a growing number of mobile devices into the enterprise, opening up the network to potential security risks. BYOD is...
View ArticleBuilding the Network of Tomorrow, Today
Imagine you want to travel from Los Angeles to San Francisco. You can either get in a car and drive there, moving from city to city, waiting at red lights, traffic jams and bottlenecks … or, you can...
View Article10 Must-Ask Questions for Hospitals Adopting the Internet of Things
Hospitals are increasingly adopting Internet-connected devices, in hopes of tapping into their impressive benefits. Imagine “smart beds” that can automatically detect if they’re occupied (or the...
View ArticleAvoiding Network Outages: When the Cost of Doing Nothing is Everything
What does downtime mean to you? Time, productivity, money? Likely, you’re nodding at all three — and you’re not alone. According to Aberdeen Group, the average downtime costs a company $2,700 per...
View Article89% of Employees Apparently Don’t Care About Mobile Security
IT security has a big job: keep corporate data safe in the face of motivated hackers and unaware employees. Today that job is harder than ever — employees are bringing their own devices and...
View ArticleThe Top 5 Networking Security Lessons from Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Watching a movie generally requires suspension of disbelief, especially with an escapist movie like Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Tom Cruise’s latest summer blockbuster. As I watched the film...
View ArticleWhy Avaya + VMware = SDN Success
Why it doesn’t have to be an either-or decision between the underlay and the overlay Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization, virtualization, data center automation, the...
View ArticleSDN Solutions Provide the Tools to Revolutionize the Enterprise
The recent buzz in the industry is astonishing. I would dare to argue that we have never before seen this level of activity and innovation around networking, not even during the heyday of the early...
View ArticleIntelligent Software to Improve Network Automation
Let intelligent software do all the work. Much has been written about the complexity of today’s networks and how mega trends like mobility, social and the Internet of Things (IoT) are straining them,...
View Article“Thinking Small” Earns Avaya Network Innovation Award
The networking world often comes down to a battle of big boxes. Big boxes, at times, are needed to address legitimate throughput constraints; at other times, they’re needed to cover up network...
View ArticleAvaya Takes Home Top Gartner Recognition in Networking
What do smartphones, pollution monitors, traffic lights and door locks have in common? They’re all now “connected” –among the more than 25 billion “things” that will connect to the Internet by 2020....
View ArticleVirtual Reality Will Improve Thanksgiving Football (Soon)
Virtual reality (VR) will be bigger than ever in 2016. Spotlighted as one of the top five trends for businesses to watch, I’m jumping on the prediction bandwagon by wagering that one of the biggest...
View ArticleWhy Service Providers are Taking the TLA Approach
Every couple of years, there seems to be a new crop of TLAs (three-letter acronyms) that appear in the telecom industry, most of which overpromise and under-deliver. Today, I’d like to focus on two...
View ArticleThe Brave New World of Network Security
In light of highly-publicized data breaches that have shaken some of the world’s top brands, where should IT leaders focus their security efforts? The frequency of malicious, cybersecurity attacks is...
View ArticleWho’s Securing Your Security Solution?
As highlighted in my recent blog, ‘The Brave New World of Network Security,’ cybersecurity is top of mind for IT leaders across the globe. The increased frequency of new security breaches is startling....
View ArticleNext time you visit Dubai, take a public transport
With happiness being a key focus in Dubai, government agencies are looking towards contributing to the goal of raising the quality of life of customers and ensuring public happiness. These agencies are...
View ArticleNetwork Security – It’s Everybody’s Business
As the week kicks off, we are greeted with yet another network security breach making headline news. The story comes from Bangladesh’s Central Bank, where hackers failed in their “e-heist” to transfer...
View ArticleThe SDN Effect on Network Security
For enterprise organizations around the world, Software Defined Networking (SDN) is transforming the way we build and operate our networking infrastructure. Similar to the way virtualization technology...
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