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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

The Applications of Our Lives

The Internet of Things will soon become The Internet of Nouns

There are a few 'The ______ of Our Lives' out there: Days. Time. Moments. Love. They define who we are, where we've been and where we are going. And today, many of those days, times, moments and loves interact with applications. Both the apps we tap and the back end applications used to chronicle these events have become as much a part of our lives as the happenings themselves.

The app, Life.

As reported on umpteen outlets yesterday, Twitter went down for about an hour. As news broke, there were also some fun headlines like, Twitter goes down, chaos and productivity ensue, Twitter is down. NFL free agency should be postponed, Twitter is down, let the freak-out commence and Twitter goes down, helps man take note it’s his wife’s birthday. It is amazing how much society has come to rely on social media to communicate. Another article, Why Twitter Can’t Keep Crashing, goes right into the fact that it is globally distributed, real-time information delivery system and how the world has come to depend on it, not just to share links and silly jokes but how it affects lives in real ways.

Whenever Facebook crashes for any amount of time people also go crazy. Headlines for that usually read something like, 'Facebook down, birthdays/anniversaries/parties cease to exist!' Apparently since people can't tell, post, like, share or otherwise bullhorn their important events, it doesn't actually occur. 'OMG! How am I gonna invite people to my bash in two weeks without social media?!? My life is over!' Um, paper, envelopes, stamps anyone?

We have connected wrist bracelets keeping track of our body movements, connected glasses recording every move, connected thermostats measuring home environments and pretty much any other 'thing' that you want to monitor, keep track of or measure. From banking to buying, to educating to learning, to connecting to sharing and everything in between, our lives now rely on applications so much so, that when an application is unavailable, our lives get jolted. Or, we pause our lives for the moment until we can access that application. As if we couldn't go on without it. My, how application availability has become critical to our daily lives.

I think The Internet of Things will soon become The Internet of Nouns since every person, place or thing will be connected. I like that. I call 'The Internet of Nouns' as our next frontier!

Sorry adverbs, love ya but you're not connected.

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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

GartnerDC 2013: Application Services Reference Architecture

I chat with Marketing Solutions Architect Robert Haynes to learn more about F5’s Application Services Reference Architecture. Robert talks about the challenges of application deployment, how organizations are handling it today and of course, how the Reference Architecture creates a fabric to ensure all applications get the services it needs.

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Monday, March 5, 2012

Pulse2012 - How F5 Optimizes IBM Solutions

I talk with F5 Solution Engineer Nojan Moshiri about how F5 can optimize IBM solutions. We discuss ssl off-load, wan optimization, web acceleration, how industries use IBM's Maximo and some other interesting tidbits. We’re at the IBM Pulse 2012 Conference at the MGM Grand.

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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Oracle OpenWorld 2011: Interview with F5's Keith Gillum

I interview F5's Keith Gillum, Product Manager for BIG-IP WAN Optimization Manager (WOM). We discuss WANOp, latency sensitive networks and applications, database replication and other bandwidth challenges.

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Monday, October 3, 2011

Oracle OpenWorld 2011: F5 ARX & Oracle ZFS Storage

I meet with F5's ARX Solution Engineer Matt Quill for a F5 ARX and Oracle ZFS Storage along with chatting with Oracle's David Wallace.

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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Cloud Computing Making Waves

Every once in a while, I’ll do a news search for ‘cloud computing.’ Yesterday was one of those days and while there are always a few stories about ‘the cloud,’ I was somewhat amazed by the number and range of topics that appeared. Also, the most recent issue (Oct 2011) of Consumer Reports had an article about ‘what’s the cloud.’ It was fairly elementary but for some reason when something is covered in Consumer Reports, I tend to think it’s finally reaching the masses. I’m glad they included, ‘Use caution when signing up for any cloud service. Make sure your information is well protected against cyber thieves. The company you're using should encrypt sensitive data and have state-of-the art privacy safeguards. And use strong passwords—a combination of letters, numbers, and symbols in a minimum of six characters’ Yes, we love encryption.

And to the search results.

With the economy still sputtering along, Forbes had an article talking about how Cloud Computing May be a Shot in the Arm our Economy Needs. On demand applications, pay-as-you-go and agility were common themes, as they have been for a couple years. The author talks about the fear of ‘hollow corporations,’ or those that do not produce and good or services but simply act as middle-men – brokers of services. However, these services are coming from the cloud, delivered via technology from the provider to the consumer. They are not really ‘hollow’ but what is called, ‘loosely coupled’ corporations. How a system or entity can do fine on it’s own, but when coupled with other systems, that’s when the fireworks fly. These providers would simply be the aggregation point of various third-party services which are made available to the consumer on-demand. He talks about how cloud computing can blur the lines between IT consumers and providers. How traditional non-IT companies, like online retailer Amazon, is also a cloud provider and how corporations could build their own private cloud and offer those services to partners and customers. He also looks into how Cloud can get a startup going very inexpensively; how small application shops can survive by selling their innovative software in app stores; and how ‘micro-outsourcing,’ not the entire bundle but pieces of IT resources are becoming more common. He really talks about the business angle rather than cloud technology.

When the cloud first started making headlines, there was a notion due to costs and even technical knowledge, that the cloud would be perfect for small businesses. While some SMB took advantage, the big growth came when large enterprises began tinkering with cloud services, albeit with small portions of their infrastructure. Over at SmallBusinessComputing.com, an article called Cloud Computing Tips for Small Business gives small businesses some areas of focus when looking into cloud services. Things like software management, data storage and IaaS as a potential area for investigation for those with equipment like servers that may be nearing end of life. Avoid that onsite upgrade, especially for storage. Security is certainly another area not only for small business but all companies that consider cloud. The cloud can give small businesses (and their customers) that round-the-clock feeling of a large enterprise. Of course, plan and budget wisely, according to the article.

We knew it was happening and CIO has an article about How Cloud Computing Is Changing Data Center Designs and Costs. Interesting look at how cloud computing is driving data center design. Formally, the cloud advantage relied on efficient use of current data center design patterns and now the cost basis of data centers is transforming by the creation of new data center designs focused on scale, efficiency and commodity components. They are becoming mass scale computing environments rather than raised floor cages housing individual company servers. Cost is a big topic of this article.

Of all the IT services that could benefit from cloud computing, email was always considered a great contender. Jumping on a Gartner report which says Gmail Now Credible Rival to Microsoft Exchange, a bunch of folks wrote about the implications of cloud email. While still only around 4% of the total enterprise email market, Gartner expects it to grow to 20% by 2016 and 55% market share by 2020. Still a way off and lots can happen but certainly a trend to follow. Financial institutions, who may require greater security and other features may not be so quick to adopt, but others are signing up rapidly. One way to transition is to have a hybrid of cloud and on-premise inboxes.

Public? Private? Oh, no…it’s Hybrid Cloud to the rescue. Yes Public is growing fast; yes, companies feel more comfortable with Private; but Hybrid might be the best of both worlds. The ability to balance workloads, move peak traffic, outsource less critical apps, adhere to SLAs and overall agility is making Hybrids very attractive to those looking to cloud computing.

On any given day a ‘cloud computing’ search can give varying results depending on the hot topics, this time it seemed to return a cornucopia of stories covering a wide section of topics. And now I’m caught up….until tomorrow.

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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

VMworld 2011: Multi-Site Application Deployment with vSphere & vCloud Director

I get F5's Sr. Solution Architect, Charlie Cano, to whiteboard the solution for Multi-Site Application Deployment with vSphere & vCloud Director. See how applications can be packaged once and delivered from any data center and how Route Domains can solve static mapping challenges.

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