While it’s good for contractors and vendors, defense spending as I’ve come to discover can be a total waste of taxpayer money. I’m going to be very vague here because I don’t want to get into any trouble. During my visit to a certain well-known Department of Defense client of ours in Washington, DC last week, one of their network engineers complained to me about how his department is throwing a significant amount of money (easily into eight figures) into a highly costly technology that not only doesn’t improve their network, but actually decreases their network’s fault tolerance and survivability. This wasn’t a case of opinion or personal preference; any network engineer would come to the same conclusion. (Read on …)