Mike Fratto is a senior analyst on 451 Research’s Applied Infrastructure and DevOps team covering enterprise networking. He has extensive experience reviewing and writing about enterprise remote access, security and network infrastructure products, as well as consulting with enterprise IT, equipment and software vendors, and service providers.
Prior to joining 451 Research, he was with GlobalData as Research Director with the Global IT Technology & Software team covering the enterprise networking and datacenter technology markets. Mike was with TechWeb for more than 15 years, most recently as Editor of Network Computing. He was Lead Analyst with InformationWeek Analytics, Senior Technology Editor with Network Computing and Executive Editor for Secure Enterprise. He has spoken at several conferences including Interop, SD-WAN Summit, MPLS + SDN + NFV World Congress and SDN NFV World Congress, as well as to local groups, and he served as the chair for Interop's Datacenter and Storage tracks. Prior to Network Computing, Mike was an independent consultant.
Mike teaches a graduate course in network security for Syracuse University’s Information Science and Technology program. The course presents a technical and theoretical overview of network security strategies and technologies and how network security can fit into an organization's overall IT architecture.
Mike graduated from Syracuse University with a bachelor's degree in Information Science and Technology.
The acquisition adds reliable internet application performance monitoring to its growing cadre of SaaS capabilities. Cisco can leverage the data and performance output from ThousandEyes in numerous ways across its enterprise and service-provider portfolios, amplifying the applicability to a large customer set.
The company has expanded its Open Networking support with SONiC on its datacenter-oriented switches families. It hopes to attract tier 2 and 3 cloud providers and other large vendors to adopt SONiC into their infrastructure while relying on Dell for validated configurations, software and security updates, and hardware and software support.
The company has reinforced its commitment to open network software with the introduction of Arista switches powered by SONiC. A new Arista Switch Abstraction Interface provides customers with the flexibility to deploy SONiC software on Arista switching platforms.
Looking to capitalize on the network requirements of 5G, Airspan is developing a virtualized RAN platform and wireless backhaul link that operators and service providers can leverage to build their 5G networks.
After closing its purchase of Mellanox in April, NVIDIA has announced its intent to buy Cumulus Networks for an undisclosed sum, adding the white-box switch vendors to its growing networking portfolio, and pushing the company to the front of the pack of the high-performance and cloud-scale networking segment.
Despite being a relatively new player in the wireless networking space, Celona looks to provide a software-centric portfolio to help enterprises and service providers deploy private LTE/5G solutions. It's a good strategy, but whether there is enough pent-up demand for private LTE and 5G in the market remains to be seen.
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