Early in my high-tech career, Sun Microsystems was thought of as a computing visionary. Sun coined an intriguing company’s tag line early on: “The network is the computer.” What did that mean? It meant IT infrastructure was linked together in a loosely-coupled architecture, tied together via networking technologies such as Ethernet cables and the TCP/IP protocol. Thus, it was critical to engineer the network correctly to maximize network availability, performance, and business benefits.
