Join SolarWinds Head geek as he discusses his top 3 things every network engineer should plan for to be successful in 2010. He’ll discuss each of the following items, how they can impact your network management strategy, and what steps you can take to plan for them.
• Truly know your network – Understand where you have bottlenecks, single points of failure, and limited management visibility.
• Distributed management technologies – Understand how network performance metrics differ at different points throughout the network and how to gather those metrics.
• Virtualization in the network – The virtual servers you saw in 2009 are multiplying and being joined by virtual switches and firewalls and virtual storage. Planning for this additional virtualization will be a key component of your success in 2010 and beyond.