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FCC 5G wait time

By Richard Arneson Whether you’re a dyed-in-the-wool technophile or just one of those people who has to be the first to have the latest gizmo or gadget, you’re probably eagerly anticipating 5G, which will provide for consumers a host of benefits, including faster speeds, lower latency and a more IoT-friendly

SD-WAN security

By Richard Arneson You wouldn’t be doing your job if IT security wasn’t at your mind’s forefront, especially if you’re looking to move to a new technology like SD-WAN. Hopefully the It won’t happen to us mindset has given way to a It can happen to anybody—we better be fully

Gen V

By Richard Arneson Gen X, Gen Y, NextGen, 5G, 4G…if you could buy stock in the number of ways Gen has been used, I’d be the first to reach for my checkbook. Here’s another one, and may possibly be the most important―Gen V. Gen V is what Checkpoint, a 25-year-old

5G technology

By Richard Arneson Like the G’s that have preceded it, 5G has gotten a lot of press and pub for seemingly years. In the IT industry, however, months can feel like years. Eager technophiles are anticipating the day when they can use―then proudly broadcast that to the world―whatever technology we’ve

Fiber optics myths

By Richard Arneson How often do you and your buddies sit around and talk about fiber optics? That little, huh. It would be a bit like chewing the fat about your home’s electrical wiring. Sure, it could happen, but conversations related to politics, sports, religion, et al. will probably trump

HPEs acquisition of Plexxi

By Richard Arneson In May of this year, HPE announced its purchase of Plexxi, an eight-year-old, Boston-based company that set the IT world on fire based on this one (1) idea: data center networking needed to be less complicated, yet more powerful. They combined software-defined networking with intent-based automation that

Container Orchestration

By Richard Arneson Containers, if you recall from last week’s blogs, pull from the application layer and package code and related application dependencies into one (1) neat, tidy package. Remember, this provides a step up from hypervisors, which require each VM to run their own OS, making them less efficient,

Docker containerization

By Richard Arneson I would be grossly remiss if I didn’t dovetail yesterday’s post about containerization without following up with info on the leader in that space―Docker. In fact, they’re so dominant in containerization, some use Docker and containers interchangeably, much like referring to all clear tape as Scotch tape,

virtual machine or container

By Richard Arneson Containers have been around for years, but we’ll leave its history for another blog. Hypervisors, if you recall, are software that manage virtual machines (VMs), each of which can run its own programs but gives the appearance of running the host hardware’s memory, processor and resources. Hypervisors