The Open Fabric

Electronic networks existed long before electronic compute and storage.   Early on, the network was simple wires and switch boards, and...

I think of classical firewall-based security like a community with a common manned gate, and where the homes inside the community don’t...

Early on in my automation journey, I learned some basic lessons from experiencing what happens when multiple scripting newbies independ...

A very large part of my professional career in network design was spent working on automation.  A journey in automation that began in 1996 w...

Maybe I’m old school, but I’m leery of black box networking.  Especially if critical services are dependent on my network infrastructure.  I...

It’s been over 3 years since I last shared my thoughts here.  It’s been that long since I left an amazing 19 year journey at Bloomberg, at t...

This is the second installation in my Better than Best Effort series.  In my last post I talked about how the incentive models on the Inter...