Wednesday 08 September 2010
All of these technologies enable, in one way or another more cool technologies like cloud computing (not the SaaS model, that ain’t cloud), Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE), mobility, agile networking, better access controls, green computing, unified communications, and a network that actually configures around a user. I am not going to tell you these technologies are fully baked today. Some, like UC are pretty far along. Others, like CEE and cloud computing, not so much.
Storage is getting denser and faster with drives offering hundreds of GB of SSD storage that reads and writes data faster, runs cooler, and consumes less power. These are initiatives large and small that impact not only what runs over the network, but how the network runs.
