Category Archives: Networking

Virtual, Cloud, Datacenters?

April 13, 2009 – 10:54

As a new market or technology emerges there is always a search for new, hopefully better, nomenclature to explain and differentiate.  Cloud computing infrastructure is as much a victim of this search as anyone else.  Some consider “cloud computing” to encompass infrastructure only.  Others use “Infrastructure-as-a-service” (IaaS) or even “Hardware-as-a-Service” (HaaS) to define that part [...]

By admin | Also posted in Cloud Computing, GoGrid, Storage, Systems, Technology, Virtualization | Comments

‘Operators’ and ‘Administrators’

November 29, 2008 – 19:44

Operating and administrating Internet infrastructure is not the same. For the uninitiated it may seem that ‘operators’ and ‘administrators’ (systems or network) are not different, but there is one important distinction: The primary job of an operator is “risk aversion”, while that of an administrator is to “control, manage, or maintain.” Given [...]

By randybias | Also posted in Cloud Computing, Security, Storage, Technology | Comments

Cloud Hype, Cloud Boom, Cloud Bust

June 30, 2008 – 02:33

While there is still a lot of discussion about defining ‘cloud computing‘ there seems to be a general consensus that it’s a burgeoning market, which will, at some unknown point in the future, hit the requisite ‘bust’. This was my sense this past week after attending not just one, but three separate web operations, [...]

By randybias | Also posted in Cloud Computing, Technology | Comments

neoTactics Networking Services

May 28, 2008 – 12:37

Just a quick blurb to mention that we recently released a one page brief on the networking services that neoTactics provides. You can get it here or from the services page.

By randybias | Also posted in Administrivia, Technology | Comments

Network Diagramming Examples

March 2, 2008 – 22:18

I have a number of blog posts in the hopper, but we’ve also been growing quite a bit around here, so I’m afraid that they are all rather delayed.
In the interests of keeping things alive, I thought I would share some older work that is still relevant. I’ve really striven over the course of [...]

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