I've been doing Data Center design recently and the customers are interested in what to monitor and why it should be monitored. At first, a data center is just another set of edge devices, albeit servers, connected to a set of access switches. But the traffic patterns and usage in the data center...

I'm a proponent of network management automation and found a related blog post, Why End Users Love BPM , by long-time friend Scott Menter, who is working at BP Logix. BP Logix makes products for automating business processes. Scott's post discusses what happens when people are forced to run errands...