• Expand Expunged

    Expand are gone. I would say acquired by Riverbed, but what Riverbed seem to have acquired is the ability to tell the Expand customers they have a year to migrate to Riverbed.

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  • My predictions for 2012

    1) The ISPs will find billions of IPv4 addresses down the back of the sofa, in the rear pocket of their pants, and in their “guy” drawer, and decide that we don’t need IPv6 for anther decade.

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  • Stop shouting and start whispling

    Two things to share with you: One the official launch of Whisple – a consortium offering cloud services. Replify are a founding member and we look forward to partnering with global vendors like EMC, and local specialists like Novosco and Anaeko, to enable local companies to embrace the cloud as both a marketplace and an enabler for their own businesses.

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  • Like SharePoint only fast

    The Enterprise Content Management war is over. It couldn’t have been foreseen, but it wasn’t won by Opentext or Documentum or Filenet, or any of the companies that defined the space originally.

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  • Dear Santa

    Network World have just run an item on IT professional’s favorite products. I wouldn’t have guessed it, but in the list you’ll find 2 WAN Optimization controllers, 2 Application Delivery Controllers and a couple of network monitoring technologies.

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  • Update on Bufferbloat

    It’s been a while since I mentioned bufferbloat. Dave Taht and his team continue to work on tools to explore the problem.

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  • Gartner’s key IT trends for 2012

    Gartner have identified their key IT trends for 2012. Nothing terribly surprising: cloud, virtualization, big data, social networks and energy costs are all in there. Interestingly though, in-line de-duplication gets a mention as part of the big data story, and I wouldn’t have foreseen a key element of WAN optimization finding its way into the list.

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  • Too Late

    Network World have an article on WAN optimization hardware vs. WAN optimization services I broadly agree with the statements but can’t help feeling the comments are about two years too late in coming.

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