Unless you’re a software engineer, you may have not heard the term ‘stateless’ mentioned very often. If you have heard of the term ‘stateless’ at all, chances are you’ve heard it in the context of an individual’s geopolitical relationship to their country of origin. At Stateless Inc., we use the term often to refer to […]
Over the last 10 years, there have been a number of new technologies that have been hyped up so extensively that customers have become confused about what they really mean. The networking industry is by no means immune to this problem (think of ‘Cloud/Cloud Native’, ‘SDN’ and ‘Network Automation’ to name a few), however, one […]
All modern data networks rely on one simple process: packet routing. Let’s deconstruct this process. Step 1) Read the packet, look at the ‘to’ address Step 2) Look in the ‘routing table’ to find how to get the packet to its destination Step 3) Move the packet onto the path that goes to its destination […]
As the march towards digital transformation continues, the amount of digital data we need to protect continues to increase at an incredible pace. According to Visual Capitalist, about 188 million emails are sent every minute and that number will only continue to rise. Bad actors have more to gain than ever and CISOs are waging war with […]
It seems that humans never have enough ways to talk to each other. There are those of us that only speak when we have something important to say, and there are others that seem to talk to hear their own voices. We don’t always vocalize our communication either. As Tim Allen reminds us, sometimes a good grunt […]
A few weeks ago I wrote about the birth of the Internet. In that article I discussed the emergence of the communications technology that reinvented networking and enabled the Internet: packet switching. Packet switching was proposed by the builders of ARPANET but until the invention of the microprocessor wasn’t economically or logistically practical. In those […]
Last month the Internet was 47 years old. ARPANET, the precursor of the Internet, was first publicly demonstrated in October of 1972. Their first demonstration sent data packets between about 100 endpoints. As part of this demonstration the basic tenets of modern packet routing and switching were developed, and IMHO the Internet was born. Prior to […]
Today, Stateless announced that I joined their team as the Executive VP of Operations and Service Provider Strategy. To pair with the announcement, I wanted to provide a brief blog diving into more detail on the market opportunity that inspired me to join the Stateless team. I have been an operational leader in the data center and […]
Along with Murad Kablan, my colleague and co-founder of Stateless, we will explore, though in different directions, new insights on the revolutionary changes in the data center business. As CEO, Murad plans to focus on the business issues while I will focus more on the technology inside and outside data centers. Data centers and interconnections […]
This is part two of a continuing series of ideas, thoughts and comments on the digital transformation taking place in data centers today that I am writing as part of an ongoing series. In my last post I talked about the new enterprise deployment strategies that are changing the picture for data center operators like […]