Roger Castillo is chief technical officer at AlterPoint, a network change and configuration management provider based in Austin, Texas. He is the technical founder of AlterPoint, having conceived and developed the company's NetworkAuthority solution. AlterPoint has integrated the ZipTie open source inventory framework into its NetworkAuthority suite of network automation, CMDB and life-cycle management solutions. As a result, AlterPoint's customers are not dependent upon AlterPoint or network equipment vendors to provide scripts, change templates, rules, policies, adaptors, plug-ins, best practices or other management components.
Enterprise networks are growing increasingly complex. Over the past five years, the increased focus on unified security, network optimization, and application acceleration has resulted in an explosion of new technologies, specialty devices, and vendors. The proliferation of high-speed ...Feb. 26, 2008 06:00 AM EST Reads: 8,247
Open source projects have had a significant impact in areas such as operating systems (Linux), databases (MySQL), web applications (Apache), and development tools (Eclipse). However, they have been slower in reaching other areas where open standards and community involvement can make a...
