Robert has 30 years of experience in IT technology development and infrastructure management. He was the founder of several infrastructure ventures including Intellivence, MaxSP, Sentrik and most recently was the CTO of Iron Networks. As CTO of Iron Networks in San Jose, CA, he worked directly with many companies in the Silicon Valley to design and architect network, security, and cloud solutions. He worked directly with Microsoft engineering in the design of their cloud architectures including storage, Hyper-V, Systems Center and Virtual Networking. He also worked directly with Hortonworks to design a Hadoop deployment and management system using CentOS and many layered software packages.
This article is a brief overview of the Kubernetes ingress architecture including the Kubernetes services and ingress controllers. Ingress is a Kubernetes core concept responsible for managing ingress network traffic between hosted application services and external clients. Ingress infrastructures have specific technical and business requirements such as high availability, scalability, security, performance or specific application…
Microsoft Office 365 Enterprise Network Architecture
This article presents a high-level overview of the Office 365 network infrastructure from end-user clients to the services running inside the Microsoft clouds. This is a cloud-based software are a service (SaaS) solution and requires specific architectural planning for enterprise network architectures. This topic is broad and complex. It is covered briefly here as an…
This article provides an overview of several of the most important new technologies developed for the 5G Networks. To meet the 5G design vision, service and performance requirements, new technologies were required; some are extensions of 4G and, some are developed explicitly for 5G. Related articles: What is 5G? 5G Network Reliability Explained 5G Energy…
This article describes telemetry - the technology of collecting and receiving data from remote sensors or data collection systems. The market is exploding with new telemetry systems in the form Internet of Things (IoT) devices and billions of devices are being deployed worldwide. Related articles: What is 5G? 5G Network Reliability Explained 5G Energy Efficiency…
