The most dangerous moment on an enterprise network is not when something noticeably breaks, but when a change works exactly as designed yet opens a door that nobody meant to open. I think about this ...

Imagine a fictitious business-critical network is running smoothly. No critical trouble tickets are open, and all services are operational. A change control board has successfully vetted the day's ...

When deploying network changes, network teams want to find and fix configuration errors before pushing the changes to their network environments. That's why network change management and pre-change ...

If you recall, some time ago I had problems with my AT&T U-verse DSL service until a small village’s worth of AT&T folk got involved and resolved the issues. Since then, an executive director from the ...

AI usage will surely drive additional network traffic, but for most enterprises it likely won’t require a major overhaul of the entire data center network. Everyone is into AI these days, even network ...

I was recently reminded of the most cited article in my academic field, sociologist Mark S Granovetter’s 1973 “The Strength of Weak Ties”. The occasion was a National Science Foundation-supported ...