Data Center Archives - Packet Pushers

Office 365 – are users safe?

Petr McAllister September 14, 2017

Have you seen recent Span attacks? They get more and more believable – I’m ashamed that I followed one of them few months back. Email was coming ...

Kubernetes and Slack on Google Cloud Platform

Petr McAllister August 25, 2017

The title of this blog post seems to be really loaded with technologies names. It’s really impressive on how quickly anyone is able to get a feel for ...

10GBaseT Is Not A Big Deal. Why?

Greg Ferro August 24, 2017

There are many reasons for the relatively slow adoption of 10GBaseT Ethernet. Here are some of them: Not many uses for 10G outside of the data ...

Forward Networks Releases New Network Modeling Option, Raises $16 Million

Drew Conry-Murray August 24, 2017

Startup Forward Networks sells software that models the state of your data center network, including device configurations, protocols in use, ...

Checking software for vulnerabilities

Petr McAllister August 15, 2017

While delivering a temporary consulting engagement as Principal Security Engineer for one of Canadian Universities I was asked to “veto” some of ...

Your Data Center Is On Fire: Do You…? Survey Snapshot

Drew Conry-Murray August 15, 2017

Your data center is on fire. What do you do next? That was the question in our latest Quick Survey in our Human Infrastructure newsletter (which comes ...

Infrastructure As Code For The Network – Part 3

Anthony Miloslavsky July 28, 2017

In Part 1 and Part 2 we covered everything from initial device provisioning to the continuous deployment of changes to our network. We ended with a ...

Infrastructure As Code For The Network – Part 2 – Day 1 Operations And Beyond

Anthony Miloslavsky July 26, 2017

In Part 1 of our look into the feasibility of infrastructure as code for the network stack, we laid the foundation for device provisioning. Now comes ...