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Cool Network Vendors 2017
by Andrew Lerner | April 18, 2017
Every year, we publish Cool Vendors in Enterprise Networking to highlight lesser-known vendors doing cool things in the networking market. Coolness is certainly subjective, and my wife (or anyone who knew me...
The “C” in OCP Is for Coolness
by Andrew Lerner | March 22, 2016
This is a guest blog from Joe Skorupa
There has been a lot of coverage of the latest Open Compute announcements by Facebook, Google and Microsoft. Some saw these announcements...
Branded Switching + White-Box Switching = Brite-Box Switching
by Andrew Lerner | November 19, 2014
White-Box Switching and Disaggregation
There’s been increasing interest among Gartner clients around the topic of White-Box and disaggregated switching. Today, nearly all mainstream organizations use traditional (integrated) switches from vendors like Cisco, HP,...
Facebook's New Data Center Network Design
by Andrew Lerner | November 17, 2014
For all the talk about the hyper scale data centers, there hasn’t actually been a ton of detailed information about how they do the network stuff they do. This week,...
White-Box Switching Market Share
by Andrew Lerner | September 2, 2014
In August, we published market share research for Data Center Ethernet Switching, which covers 1G/10G/40G/100G port shipments/revenue.
While it is no surprise that Cisco is on top with over 50%...
Coolness in Networking
by Andrew Lerner | April 23, 2014
Gartner’s Cool Vendors in Enterprise Communications published today in which Tim Zimmerman, Joe Skorupa and myself profile four “cool” vendors including Cumulus Networks, Nuage Networks, Pica8 and Plexxi and also revisit...
Network Disaggregation is Cool
by Andrew Lerner | April 17, 2014
There has been a lot of talk lately around white-box switching and the associated concept of network switching "disaggregation". While understood by cloud service providers and/or operators of really large networks, the...
Finally an Interesting Week in Networking
by Andrew Lerner | January 31, 2014
Prior to this week, the most influential company in the networking market so far in 2014 was arguably Elliott Management. Elliott – an activist investor –has been doing activist investor-type...
