On Incrementalism and Beards
It’s interesting to know that Incrementalism exists. It is more interesting still to understand the costs – both explicit and hidden – of an industry where Incrementalism is so prevalent. But if we...
View ArticleWhy Revolutionaries Fail (Dealing with Illusory Superiority)
If legacy vendors continue to churn out the same stuff and innovators re-create the same solutions but cleaner, it falls to the revolutionaries to move industries forward by leaps and bounds. But even...
View ArticleIntegratable is not the same as integrated
I left off the previous blog with the question: Is the networking market still well-served? Or has it shifted to under-served? If you had asked me a few years ago, I would have said it is well-served,...
View ArticleMaking it Sticky: You’re Doing it Wrong!
In a well-served market, the competitive levers shift from features and performance to price and flexibility. As I have summed up in previous posts, when the solution is “good enough”, ease of use,...
View ArticleWhat Networking Can Learn From the NFL
We are a few short days away from the biggest spectacle in sports – the Super Bowl. It is impossible to avoid talk this week of Peyton Manning, the Denver Broncos, the Seattle Seahawks, and the NFL in...
View ArticleNetworking lessons from high-performance car racing
If you take a high-performance racing class, one of the first things you will experience is a ride around the track in a vehicle that seems ill-equipped for racing. Some classes might take you around...
View ArticleThe Third Epoch: Re-verticalization of IT
The shift from the mainframe to modern epochs in IT infrastructure has been well documented numerous times. Depending on the particular storyteller, the tale starts with deeply-integrated, vertical...
View ArticleNetwork Engineers, Pay Attention to Big Data
You have probably realized we are having a Big Data kind of week here at the Plexxi blog. And for good reason. The amount of development and change in this big bucket of applications we conveniently...
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