Define The Cloud – The Intersection of Technology and Reality

There’s a lot of buzz around the term micro-segmentation (uSeg) and I thought I’d take some time to demystify it, starting with some history. If you’re more of a visual learner skip to the end and check out the video.
uSeg has roots in ‘zero-trust model’ type of thinking and architectures. At the most basic level the idea is to greatly enhance security models based primarily on perimeter security implementations, like firewalls....

Driving Digital Transformation
“Digital, Digitization, Digital, Digital, Digital Transformation. There, I’ve hit my mandatory quota of 5 digital mentions for my presentation, now we can get to something interesting.”
That was my opening line at a large data center and cloud conference in Rome. It wasn’t the one I’d planned, but I had just spent a day listening to my executive colleagues from around the industry wax philosophically about ‘digital’ with no mention...

Scour the data sheets and marketing of the best business technology hardware and software and you will see complexity. You will see references to ports, protocols, abstractions, management models, object-oriented and non-object-oriented practices, etc...

Pop quiz hot-shot. What do the following three people all have in common?
A product manager responsible for defining a product, driving engineering, and taking that product to market.
Anyone working a sales job for any product, in any place.