Daniel Conde

• Blogs
  Mar 3, 2016

  RSA Conference, Day Three

  Some quick RSA thoughts before I jump into the next jam-packed day of sessions.
• Blogs
  Mar 2, 2016

  Cisco's new DNA: A new Digital Network Architecture

  Enterprises have been struggling to take good ideas found in data centers and extend them into the rest of the network, like the campus. The two worlds have stayed separate for a long time, but people managed to get by without tight integration, since the workloads and network connections were often managed by different groups, and the network traffic tended to have different characteristics.

• Blogs
  Mar 2, 2016

  RSA Conference, Day Two (with photos)

  One of the great things about these conferences is that I get to meet a variety of end-customers (CISOs), essentially security consultants who are in-house practitioners. I had the pleasure of having dinner and lunch with some of them yesterday. One thing that’s apparent from talking to them, is the cybersecurity skills shortage, which Senior Principal Analyst Jon Oltsik recently described in an ESG Brief

• News
  Feb 24, 2016

  QLogic Ethernet adapters target 25/100 GbE, focus on flash - TechTarget
• Blogs
  Feb 23, 2016

  Network Automation with Ansible: 5 weeks of work reduced to 4 minutes of joy

  ESG recently completed research on network automation, and that reminded me of a talk presented by Adam Mills of Riot Games at a Juniper meetup last year, where we learned that a build out of datacenter in Japan got compressed from 5 weeks down to 4 minutes. Granted, "4 minutes" is about the network configuration tasks, and you still need time to rack and stack the devices, but this is still a significant reduction in configuration time.

• Blogs
  Feb 18, 2016

  Looking to RSA Conference 2016: Network Visibility for Precrime, Incrime, Postcrime

  Following up on my previous blog on network visibility, I want to distinguish pre-crime, in-crime and post-crime network based cybercrime. Pre-crime is like someone visiting you at home with an unexpected knock on your door. You: "Who's there?" Them: "Oh, I'm just here to pick up a package". You: "Not me. I didn't request that". Them: "Sorry, must be the wrong address." (They're thinking: "OK, this house is occupied, better not burgle them".)

• Blogs
  Feb 17, 2016

  Looking to RSA Conference 2016: Network Visibility

  I’m looking forward to RSA Conference 2016 in San Francisco, and although I’m a networking analyst focused on core networking technologies, we must also be aware that networking is a critical component of security. For the same reason that you don’t want a security guard with really bad eyesight, you want good visibility in the network to understand what is going on.
• News
  Feb 11, 2016

  Linux Foundation Launches IO Services Framework - Network Computing
• research reports
  Feb 9, 2016

  Trends in Data Center Networking

  ESG conducted an in-depth survey of 306 IT professionals responsible for evaluating, purchasing, and managing campus and data center networking technologies for their organizations. Survey participants represented midmarket (100 to 999 employees) and enterprise-class (1,000 employees or more) organizations in North America (United States and Canada). A broad cross section of verticals is represented in this sample.

• Blogs
  Feb 4, 2016

  Cisco Furthers its IoT Ambitions with Jasper Acquisition

  Cisco announced it was acquiring Jasper, a an Internet of Things (IoT) platform provider for $1.4 billion (USD). How does a software platform for IoT benefit a networking vendor like Cisco? As I wrote in a prior blog looking back at Cisco Live, their focus for the future emphasizes the importance of architectures, solutions, and outcomes, as opposed to being a vendor of networking equipment, so this brings them one more step closer to creating an IoT architecture that's based on solutions (and not simply devices) and to put more weight on their software assets.

• News
  Feb 3, 2016

  Midokura, Pluribus address demand for better SDN management - TechTarget
• News
  Feb 2, 2016

  Cisco ships 32-gig 'beast,' MDS 9718 FC director - TechTarget
• Blogs
  Feb 1, 2016

  RIP, Marvin Minsky

  Marvin Minsky, an artificial intelligence pioneer and co-founder of the M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab, passed away on January 24th. Artificial intelligence went into a period of reduced interest called the "AI Winter" after long being over-hyped. But more recently, AI has resurrected itself in different forms, finding its ways into everyday life through as self-driving cars or virtual assistants like the Amazon Echo, Google voice search, and Microsoft's Cortana. We must remember that Minsky's lab's efforts from the 1950's laid the groundwork for what we have today.
• Blogs
  Jan 22, 2016

  Predictions for Networking in 2016

  I recently recorded a video on what we're expecting to see in 2016 in the world of networking. To keep things simple and make it easier for you see I hit the mark at the end of 2016, I'm making just two predictions!

• video
  Jan 21, 2016

  ESG 360: ESG 2016 Predictions - Networking

  ESG VP of Research John McKnight and Senior Analyst Dan Conde discuss Dan's 2016 predictions for the Networking segment.

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