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.
Yes, things have changed since the early 1990s. Some networks live in the cloud, some are virtual, and some rely on application-to-application connections, but networks still connect IT systems together in one way or another.
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