Last week we held a webinar on network automation with Forrester Senior Analyst Glenn O’Donnell and US Bank VP Eric L. Cummings.  Eric offered to answer the following additional questions from the audience via the infrastructure 2.0 blog:

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This bog is inspired by a pair of recent blogs from Interop and Infoblox's recent acquisition of Netcordia.

If you drew a triangle and placed Cisco, Microsoft and VMware, respectively, at each corner you would have a good idea of where the center of power is regarding the future direction of the IT industry and the emergence of cloud computing.  And plenty of well-heeled tech companies would love to keep this status quo in tact for as long as possible, simply because they’ve run out of steam and are counting on complexity and lock-in to postpone the revolution.

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As I’ve mentioned, Cisco’s CTO predicted 1 trillion net connected devices by 2013 and I don’t think Padma was counting virtual machines.  With the rise of the three horsemen (netbooks, virtualization and cloud computing) it seems obvious that today’s enterprise networks are in need of a fundamental overhaul, starting with the automation of the tired, manually managed IPAM, DNS and DHCP infrastructure.

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Anyone within enterprise IT who is using manual spreadsheets to track IP addresses needs to rethink their career strategy.  Change is coming.

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While almost everyone in the tech industry is talking about the promise of cloud computing very little dialogue focuses on the technology challenges that will need to be addressed (before enterprises fully embrace cloud computing).  And it is in that blue sky between cloud vaporware and day-to-day reality on the ground that new tech fortunes will be made and lost.

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