Facebook’s hours long outage on October 4th snarled completely unrelated applications globally, underscoring the criticality — and fragility — of publicly shared digital infrastructure

If development and operations teams are going to work together, they need to learn from each other

Consolidation is producing too many single points of failure

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but there are a multitude of fathers

Single-mode fiber offers superior longevity, distance and upgradeability, while costs have dropped dramatically in recent years

Highlights from the State of the Data Center Networking report

Progress rarely comes without a cost and a fair bit of hassle, warns CommScope’s Ken Hall

It's time to rethink IT architecture to increase flexibility and utilization

Connecting with customers today can be hard enough, but what will it take to connect to the customer of tomorrow?

Surprisingly, perhaps, the root causes of many network problems point towards errors during installation

It is imperative to think about automation from Day Zero

Once you've adopted new interfaces, you need to make sure they keep working

Increasing traffic is driving faster adoption of new interconnection technologies

When you make the jump to 400G, there's a choice of transceivers: pick the one that fits your future plans

Forget the fridge: flexible fibers are the future

The demand for subsea cables will soon exceed capacity

It may look simple on the topology diagram. In real life there will be thousands of fiber strands to organize

Before you light up a new fiber path, make sure it is up to the job

Understanding complex cable connectivity is crucial to the overall installation and your project’s success

Application-specific networking empowers its enterprises to set up specially configured networks that meet the needs of individual applications

Automation enables IT pros to allocate more time and resources to wider IT issues where human input is vital, such as researching new technologies

Colocation firms should consider six key items for near-term prioritization to ensure long-term business model viability

Data center operators and the data center supply chain stay the course toward 400G

How cloud acceleration and accelerated routing affects enterprises

It will continue to be a challenge in the industry to develop products that can scale effectively to reach the required fiber counts while not overwhelming existing duct and inside plant environments

How multi-tenant data centers can create a dynamic business model with emerging connectivity services

Developing sound practices around these key dimensions is not only the purview of IT staff, it is a strategic imperative that requires attention and commitment throughout the organization

Overall, data center customers are looking for lower latency, higher resiliency and lower cost per bit