Robb Boyd

Running an efficient, secure data center today is a bit like running an obstacle course in the dark. Except, on this course, someone keeps moving the obstacles and adding more track. In any given moment, we really can’t know for sure what’s going on in the data center. SDN, virtualization, container…

I love buffets.  (Especially when they are all you can eat). But what I really like is the ability to choose what and how much I want. This is where I know that the use of cloud services will become useful. When we don’t have to make an ‘either/or’ decision. How work gets done has…

As part of the work we did for TechWiseTV 181: Shining a Light on the Digital Ceiling, I had a chance to meet and work with some really smart people from Cree. Cree pioneered much of what we are now seeing as commonplace when it comes to LED’s. They have also come in as a key partner in our Digital…

The term NEXT-Generation, (especially when it comes to firewalls…) has been around awhile…to the point that I almost think NOW-Generation may be a more accurate term. There has been too much focus on application & access control and we have forgotten about threat defense. How do you know i…

As we like to do on TechWiseTV we got a chance to pick and choose among our favorite technologies being featured in this launch focus on the Digital Network Architecture. So as to avoid burying the lead, you will get a chance to experience Enterprise Network Function Virtualization (E-NFV), APIC-EM…

Virtualizing your network functions and decoupling them from specific hardware can help you simplify operations, automate service delivery, and make money more quickly. Find out how to do it the right way in our latest Fundamentals installment. At one level, NFV (Network Function Virtualization) is…

How the Digital Age has us re-thinking the victor of the AC/DC wars. Remember when gas lighting gave way to electricity as the future for lighting? Me either, it was over one hundred years ago. A traditional incandescent light bulb, originating from the 1860’s, still produces light in the same way t…

The challenge of trying to make a good visual for technology resides somewhere in the ability to tell a story and/or leverage a metaphor. As I dug into the logic around why we needed interim speeds to preserve the accelerating capabilities arriving for mobility…I recalled my favorite pastime as a bo…

Long before before ‘virtual’ became synonymous with servers, Network VLANS gave us a layer 2 answer for much needed network segmentation.  It also opened things up for more flexible network designs. Watch TWTV 186 “Scaling Multitenancy with VXLAN” As server virtualization exploded however, multiple…