TAP Into Technology Blog: Data Center
The Evolution from Monitoring to Software-Defined Networking
One of our technology partners, Big Switch Networks, recently achieved a significant milestone—placement in the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Networking. This achievement is telling of the ever-increasing practicality of...
Data at Risk Series: Cyber Security Needs of the Healthcare Industry
Back in 2013, the healthcare industry took over as the highest value sector of the United States economy with about $21.8 billion in revenue. Healthcare is huge and the sensitive nature of patient information and health records puts a big...
Visibility by Design for Application/Network Performance Monitoring and Security
We recently formalized a technology partnership with Savvius, a company I’ve been working with since early in my career when they were called WildPackets. The Savvius and Garland Technology partnership adds value to companies deploying the...
Defining a True Data Center Rack TAP Solution
Think back to the beginning days of IT—the 1980s and 1990s when portable network analyzers were all the rage. These massive suitcases might have been anything but portable as IT professionals threw out their shoulders lugging them around;...
Purpose Built Network Packet Brokers
I’ve been talking with quite a few customers lately on data center management and monitoring projects. One recurring specification I keep hearing is to be able to accommodate a variety of network speeds, for example - customers want to be...
What's the State of SDN?
It feels like there have been two extremes in software-defined networking (SDN) discussions over the last few years. On one side, you have people who focus on the fact that SDN hasn’t lived up to its early hype. And on the other side, you...