loopback0 - Douglas Gourlay's Blog» networking team http://www.douglasgourlay.com/blog Data Centers, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing Sat, 01 May 2010 05:08:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Will Virtualization Commoditize the Network and Threaten Network Vendors http://www.douglasgourlay.com/blog/2009/08/will-virtualization-commoditize-the-network-and-threaten-network-vendors/ http://www.douglasgourlay.com/blog/2009/08/will-virtualization-commoditize-the-network-and-threaten-network-vendors/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:59:24 +0000 Douglas Gourlay http://www.douglasgourlay.com/blog/?p=135 This is Greg, he likes DNS and DHCP, IP Address Management, Fine Scotches, and Infrastructure 2.0

This is Greg, he likes DNS and DHCP, IP Address Management, Fine Scotches, and Infrastructure 2.0

Just a quick link and shout-out to Greg Ness of Infoblox and Twitter fame for a nice piece in SeekingAlpha that just hit here.

As I have said often enough to have been quoted and mis-quoted a few times there is a potential value-shift in enterprise IT given the increased business value many enterprises are realizing from virtualization which in some cases takes the network for granted or as one rather esteemed company once stated, "just dumb plumbing."

I don't want to be just a dumb plumber, and I think there are a set of very strategic activities the networking vendors can do to ensure that the network continues to deliver high-value and business-relevant services that enable the networking team within IT to keep their place in the pecking order.

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