Cloud Computing: How To Make A CEO Understand Networks
December 14, 2014
Grazed from Forbes. Author: Adrian Bridgwater.
The “market” for system- and network-level technologies has become (or at least needs to become) more comprehensible to many business managers in a world where we understand that cloud and managed and/or virtualized computing services are increasingly driving our IT functions. CEOs who might have never heard the term Application Delivery Controller, load balancer or log file now have a chance to grasp the new back-end jive-talk and develop an appreciation for the provenance and health of the technology inside their firms’ operational guts.
Piggy in the middleware
Network engineers at Cisco know that the holiday season is approaching, but haven’t let the forthcoming revelry stop them from releasing the “alpha” of Snort 3.0 this late into December. Snort (yes, they do use a piggy for the logo) is an open source Intrusion Prevention/Detection System (IPS or IDS, depending on which way you swing) capable of real-time traffic analysis and packet logging…
Packet logging, as every hip and self-respecting CEO knows, is simply the interception, measurement, decoding and analysis of raw data traffic as it flies around a digital network. When you want to sniff out on your Internet Protocol (IP) network traffic and know what’s going on in your IT systems, then packet logging works a treat – and knowledge is power anyway, right?…
Read more from the source @ http://www.forbes.com/sites/adrianbridgwater/2014/12/14/how-to-make-a-ceo-understand-networks/