With another New Year upon us, I’ve found that as an industry we’re once again spending a lot of time looking forward, which is a good thing, but also not enough time grounded in the present or even the past, which absolutely can be a bad thing, especially for network administrators. After all, as the old adage goes: “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.”
Remember when the Internet became ubiquitous in the workplace? We weren’t prepared for that spike in capacity and had to scramble to fix existing issues to accommodate the influx of network usage. The same thing happened with BYOD – once people started sharing resources among an explosion of new devices, it exposed existing problems within our networks that needed to be resolved before BYOD could really be successful.