How do you back up your apps/data in the Cloud? How do you do that efficiently for massive amounts of data? Can you do better than cloud vendor-supplied tools? Commvault’s 2024 acquisition Clumio pres...

Cloud Field Day 26 took place September 23-24, i.e.

Broadcom will be at Cloud Field Day 26 to make the case that private cloud, based on VMware Cloud Foundation, is the most cost-effective and more secure infrastructure for production AI. Across three ...

Broadcom will be at Cloud Field Day 26 to make the case that private cloud, based on VMware Cloud Foundation, is the most cost-effective and more secure infrastructure for production AI. Across three ...

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Cloud-native applications depend on data distributed across databases, object stores, retrieval pipelines, and lakehouse tables. When that data is deleted, corrupted, or changed by a bad deployment, r...

This past week there were some interesting developments in AI worth commenting on. “AI Apocalypse”, “AI Pause”, “AI Crash”.

NetAI is a vendor-neutral flow-aware network management and root cause finding tool, with impressive graphics, including a graphical view of key network layers. NetAI presented at NFD40 — see the link...

Cisco recently announced MyAgent for internal use. It’s important, and I have some thoughts about it, hence this blog.

Every network engineer knows the 2 AM problem: you're on a customer jump box, you can't install anything, and the tools you do have won't show you what's actually happening. HopMatrix is one portable executable that answers it — continuous visual traceroute with per-hop latency and loss graphs, autonomous system mapping, a time slider to replay intermittent issues, and hop-by-hop path MTU discovery. Here's a first look, plus two real cases where it found what packet captures alone couldn't.

I asked an AI to tidy up my blog repo and it accidentally organized itself into a nine-member development team. I'm releasing that team, free, on GitHub.

Discover how Kentik and Infoblox combine network observability, authoritative network data and AI-driven operations to simplify hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure.

I planned to write about Kentik. Very recently Infoblox announced plans to acquire Kentik.

There’s a new book out that might be of major interest to folks looking to add AIOps to their network. The content looks very useful and on-target, but I have not yet read the book in detail.

I’ve collected a lot of AI-related links, but I’m not feeling like organizing them to share in a full Quick Take blog. Hey, it’s Summer! Instead, here’s a brief blog with my impressions of the current...

Huh? Splunk does AIOps? Or not? This blog discusses that. It also compares Splunk’s market positioning to some of the AIOps tools, like the ones I’ve already covered: Selector.

Forward is now the name of the former “Forward Networks”. Their website is still forwardnetworks.

Systems can remain fully operational from an infrastructure perspective while becoming completely untrustworthy.

This blog is a follow-on to some of my #NFD40 and #AIFD8 related blogging. It is intended as the first in a series, one blog per AIOps / Net Management product.

Here’s a number worth sitting with: modern AI inference systems commonly show 100% GPU utilization while wasting 60% of their compute cycles recalculating context they already processed. The GPUs aren’t...

Here’s a number worth sitting with: modern AI inference systems commonly show 100% GPU utilization while wasting 60% of their compute cycles recalculating context they already processed. The GPUs aren’t...

We keep hearing about the glamorous side of artificial intelligence: massive frontier models, reasoning loops, and multimodal breakthroughs.

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As organizations deploy AI workloads at scale, operational complexity is increasing across infrastructure, storage, GPUs and models.

I've heard from Cisco more than a few times at prior Tech Field Days. As AI continues to penetrate every aspect of IT organizations' workflows, they offered some interesting insights on the future of...

For the recent NFD40 event, I had the idea of including and updating other delegates’ article postings on each vendor I posted about. I’ve gone back through and cross-checked against the Tech Field Da...

Selector.AI recently presented about their impressive product at several Tech Field Day events, most recently NFD40, AIFD8, and NFD37.

For the recent NFD40 event, I had the idea of including and updating other delegates’ article postings on each vendor I posted about. I’ve gone back through and cross-checked against the Tech Field Da...

For the recent NFD40 event, I had the idea of including and updating other delegates’ article postings on each vendor I posted about. I’ve gone back through and cross-checked against the Tech Field Da...

The activist has launched a website to track community concerns as AI data centers proliferate across the country.

Breaking: “Uber COO Andrew Macdonald said he’s not seeing proportional productivity gains from increasing AI costs.”

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For the recent NFD40 event, I had the idea of including and updating other delegates’ article postings on each vendor I posted about. I’ve gone back through and cross-checked against the Tech Field Da...

Most of these decisions were not made by people who understood the limits of the technology.

Lightyear.AI provides AI-assisted web-based automation for ease of contracting and managing telecom services.

The Futurum Group Research is part of the presentations at Security Field Day on April 29, 2026. Presented by both Fernando Montenegro and Tom Hollingsworth.

Upscale AI is rethinking and optimizing AI networking with their SkyHammer architecture, due for 2026 release. Their solution architecture encompasses from ASIC chip up through the system, and rack la...

Network engineering has spent the better part of a decade trying to figure out how to fit artificial intelligence into workflows.

Thomas Scheibe walked on stage and said the quiet part out loud. Most “AI for networking” pitches you’ve sat through this year work the same way: vendor has a controller, they bolt-on an LLM and call ...

NetAI presented about its Core + GraphIQ components. They form a machine-learning (“ML”), Graph Neural Network (GNN), and AI-based tool that ingests data from multiple sources, models it, and identifi...