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Network Field Day 11 and Meetups in the Valley
It is my privilege to return as a delegate for Network Field Day 11 in Silicon Valley on January 20-22. You can find full details on the event at Tech Field Day page which lists the vendors and...
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Less Suppliers = Less Competition
I was reviewing ESG Dell-EMC Customer Sentiment Analysis report which surveyed 202 IT decision makers about their views on the merger. Here is the headline result: Whatever my or anyone’s opinion of...
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Defining Software Defined Networking
Can you define what is a Software Defined Network ? Here is my take. The post Defining Software Defined Networking appeared first on EtherealMind.
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Response: Anomaly Detection For Monitoring
We manage a distributed system of autonomous elements where the operation, performance and stability is determined by external factors that are out of our operational control. The post Response:...
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Response: Doing No Harm
Ivan posted here: I’ll take ownership of the statement because at least it sounds like something I have discussed on the podcast and, sadly, because there aren’t that many networking podcasts. The...
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Talking NVMe, 3DXpoint and Networking
The IT Storage market is going through a lot of change. New silicon designs from Intel & Micron branded 3D Xpoint are impacting the short term future of the “all flash array” market. Intel has...
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Whitebox and NOS Specialisation
Whitebox and Merchant Silicon might mean network operating systems that are designed for specific use cases. The post Whitebox and NOS Specialisation appeared first on EtherealMind.
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Cisco Merging IOS-XE Code Trains
Reliable sources tell me that Cisco is undergoing a huge internal transformation now that Chuck Robbins is in charge. I haven’t been able to see any evidence of this transformation and have been...
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Bug Bounties for Network Software
Its a fact that bugs and faults in networking products is not a key issue for customers. Indeed vendors rely on customer testing and deployment to find bugs before declaring their products as fully...
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Machine to Machine Networking & IOT
The future of networking, and IT Infrastructure more generally, will be driven by machine to machine interactions. The post Machine to Machine Networking & IOT appeared first on EtherealMind.
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Nerd Knobs? No, It’s Wanker Knobs
For a few years now I have used the term “nerd knobs” to describe a wanker-knobs-optcertain class of features implemented in networking products. This may have created the (mistaken) impression that...
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Its Hard to Build “Cloud”– Netflix
Over at the Netflix blog, they were proudly announcing that it took SEVEN years to fully migrate to AWS public cloud platform. The post Its Hard to Build “Cloud” – Netflix appeared first on EtherealMind.
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The Data Centre Network of Networks
In my view, the most common architectural flaw made by network engineers is that the data centre has a single network. I believe that the correct perspective is that "network of networks". The post The...
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How Many IP Addresses does an IOT Car need ?
Its true that we are faced with billions of new devices being connected to networks but its not necessary true that every device will need a unique and publicly routable IPv6 address. Lets do a case...
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Response:Ingram Micro Sold. Supply Chain Integrity Question
One of the biggest distributors of IT technology is now owned by a Chinese company. Supply chain integrity anyone ? The post Response:Ingram Micro Sold. Supply Chain Integrity Question appeared first...
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Response: Why You Shouldn’t Be Hosting Your DNS
Michelle Chubirka from Post Modern Security spent ten years as a sysadmin with a primary focus on managing a BIND DNS for a very large university in the US. With some regret, she says: This history...
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Network Analytics Starting in 2016
One area of networking that is desperately waiting for new approaches is what we call visibility now but will be analytics tomorrow. The post Network Analytics Starting in 2016 appeared first on...
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Blessay: Successful Private Clouds Aren’t Spoken Of In Public
You don’t hear much about successful “Private Clouds” because they aren’t done in public. Two takeaways. People are talking a lot about public cloud because its good business not necessarily because...
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Network Dictionary: Footgun
Define Footgun The post Network Dictionary: Footgun appeared first on EtherealMind.
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Musing: Why Oracle Bought Ravello ? Its the Network, Stupid
Takeaway: Ravello lets Oracle uses any underlying cloud but effectively hide that completely from the customer thus Oracle gets to “manage” any cloud, gives customers “any cloud” and yet maintain full...
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