Author: Terry Slattery

In the modern enterprise, configuration audits are central to managing an efficient and up-to-date network.

Here is how a global pharmaceutical company embraced network automation. Getting Started I had the opportunity to talk with Sal Rannazzisi, the Principal Network Architect at a global pharmaceutical company [...]

This is the first blog in a series that will dive into the details around a modern approach to network automation. Network automation of complex configurations is much, much harder [...]

Enterprises dependent upon a high-availability application should investigate active-active data center designs to ensure reliability and resiliency. Any enterprise running a high-availability application must answer the following fundamental question: How do [...]

Will new network protocols improve the net? What will it take for any of them to gain acceptance? Do we really need new network protocols? The short answer is yes. Sure, [...]

I recently talked with a customer about selecting an approach for network automation; a new technology for them. I did some up-front planning, made some notes, and then we talked [...]

Network automation was a big topic at Cisco Live 2018. Susie Wee announced that Cisco’s DevNet now has more than 500,000 registered users. There was coverage by other bloggers including: [...]

Is a slow application due to the network, an overloaded server, a poorly written database query, a bug in a client-side JavaScript module, or something else? Increasingly complex application stacks [...]

In order to troubleshoot a unified communications system, IT leaders should have a written list of common problems and a description of how to resolve those issues. A quality unified [...]

As you move real-time applications to the cloud, you might relinquish some network control. However, several mechanisms are available to monitor application performance. In general, with real-time applications, a person [...]

Latency, congestion and sluggish TCP stacks can plague application performance, but understanding data center interconnect technologies is key.  What factors influence the performance of a high-speed, high-latency data center interconnect? Redundant [...]

Gigamon and its partners Splunk and Phantom demonstrated improvements to network security at NFD16. APIs and integration between products from different vendors will be playing an increasing role in network [...]