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Musing: First Class Assets, Second Rate Staff
Takeaway: DevOps is a first rate staff, second class assets. Helluva difference from Enterprise IT. The post Musing: First Class Assets, Second Rate Staff appeared first on EtherealMind.
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Cisco HCI & Springpath – Some Questions
Now that Cisco is freed from the VCE/vBlock engagement (rumoured to be exclusive arrangement), most people are wondering why Cisco took so long to announce this. Cisco announced another HyperConverged...
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Response: Cisco vs Arista Update on Protecting Innovation
I almost missed this in the barrage of announcements form Cisco during its Partner Conference this week. Why didn’t they announce these strategies and products at the Cisco Live customer event last...
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HPE will Announce ProLiant Hyperconverged This Month
Just in case you wondered why HPE doesn’t have an hyperconverged system, here is what Meg Whitman said this quarter investors call: Looking forward, you can expect this momentum and investment in...
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Playing Sportsball In High School Damaged My Team Skills
Takeaway: I was supposed to learn life lessons by participation in “sportsball” at school. Looking back, everything I learned was wrong for the modern era. So you played sportsball because the school...
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Repsonse: Design in Tech Report 2016
I have been talking about the value of well designed interfaces in network monitoring tools for a few years because the current generation is badly designed. I'm wasting a lot of time getting through...
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Research:The Evolution of Layered Protocol Stacks Leads to an...
One reason why IPv6 has slow adoption is that the seven layer model has created a “waist” where change is possible in some layers but impossible in others. As the diagram below suggests, change in...
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Response: Inside Facebook Networking
I was inspired by this presentation rom Petr Lapukhov from Facebook Networking about the software they have been developing to monitor and operate the network. The post Response: Inside Facebook...
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The IETF and Not The Enterprise
Now I know why the IETF isn't doing stuff that Enterprises care about. The post The IETF and Not The Enterprise appeared first on EtherealMind.
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IETF and an “Acid” Testing Suite
Since I roundly dumped all over the IETF I’ve been thinking how the IETF could improve. My current best idea is “testing”. The post IETF and an “Acid” Testing Suite appeared first on EtherealMind.
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Response:Pricing and Perdition
Standardised product pricing led to big results. The post Response:Pricing and Perdition appeared first on EtherealMind.
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Network Monitoring, Moral Hazards and Crumple Zones
Software Defined Networking & self-driving cars are closely related because they are automated systems. When automated systems go wrong who takes responsibility ? The post Network Monitoring, Moral...
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Dell &“One of Everything” Strategy
I understand Dell's product strategy best when I consider it as "one of everything". The post Dell & “One of Everything” Strategy appeared first on EtherealMind.
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Enterprise Sticking With Private Cloud
This slide was posted on Twitter this morning rom Sam Charrington: This matches with what I hear and see in the market. Most enterprises will build private clouds They have so much data in their...
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Response:What should IETF “standard track” actually mean?
Russ White blogs on “What should IETF “standard track” actually mean?”. I’m critical of two things: lack of focus on Enterprise networking that standards being produced have little relevance to real...
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Response: Stack Overflow: The Hardware
StackOverflow doesn’t run on the public cloud, its runs on dedicated hardware beacuse performance matters. Baremetal is fast. because their human infrastructure knows what they are doing the...
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SDN is NOT an Innovation, its Iteration
The big Red Herring in networking over the past ten years is most things labeled “innovative” when the word that should be used is “iterative.” The post SDN is NOT an Innovation, its Iteration appeared...
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There is NO IPv6 Standard
Geoff Huston highlights that the IETF has never completed their standard process. One hundred and forty-six of these RFCs are Informational, four of these are Historic, 23 are Experimental, five are...
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Blessay: Your Future WAN is a 5G Network
But I've been reading whitepapers about the possible future of 5G networking and its becoming clear to me that the larger part of any private WAN (if you have one at all) is going to be wireless in the...
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Analytics of Everything
The ashes of network monitoring products from the last 30 years is a Sauron-sized mountain of tears on which we must build the a new generation of tools. Analytics, machine learning, big data and user...
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