In this multi-part series, Ethan Banks reviews the Aruba 8400 chassis switch after his attendance at the launch event in August 2017.
6WIND Offers Replacement Program for Dead Brocade vRouter
If you’re a Brocade vRouter customer, you are probably aware that the product is in its death spiral. Brocade has announced that vRouter will be end of sale and end of support shortly, if not already. Brocade vRouter 5400 has been end of support since August 20, 2017. Brocade vRouter 5600 will be end of support on…
Ask The Datanauts Anything For Their 100th Episode!
For the Datanauts’ 100th episode, ask us anything! https://packetpushers.net/ama
Accelerite’s Rovius Readies Your Hybrid Cloud
Accelerite claims that Rovius creates a ready-to-run cloud in hours, with no unusual technology skills required.
Nirmata’s Cloudy Control-Plane Is The Catalyst For Container Calm
Nirmata provides a unified interface that makes it easy to stand up microservice-based apps across different cloud environments.
Understanding HPE Nimble Storage’s Cloud Volumes
Cloud Volumes are an enterprise-class storage cloud, consumed via iSCSI over the network. Customers buy capacity and IOPS, and are not charged for transfer.
OpenDaylight Carbon And What SDN Has Become
Carbon, the latest release of the OpenDaylight SDN project, focuses on stability and usability, and adds new features around VNFs and service chaining.
Rubrik Integrates With Oracle, Hyper-V, Nutanix In 4.0 Release
Who is Rubrik? From their website, “Rubrik Cloud Data Management delivers automated backup, instant recovery, offsite replication, and data archival in a simple, scale-out platform built for hybrid cloud.” In short, Rubrik protects your data. All of your data. Rubrik describes themselves as handling backup and recovery, disaster recovery, archival and compliance, copy data management, search, and…
Don’t Make The Sale, Make The Relationship
Build real relationships with real people, working with them where they are at. Respect them not only for the role they have and the influence they exert, but also for the role they’ll play tomorrow.
Uila Adds User Experience Tracking To Their Monitoring Platform
Uila is all about root cause analysis of performance issues in complex infrastructure stacks. They’ve added user experience tracking to the platform.
Sometimes Vendor Lock-In Isn’t So Bad
As end users, we all think we want interoperability, openness, and the chance to swap out any individual pieces and parts whenever we want to. Only, that’s not actually true.
Heads Up – RSS Feed Provider Change
Packet Pushers is changing RSS providers today. You probably don’t need to care, but just in case, here are a few details.
Pluribus Networks Gets Back On My Radar With Adaptive Cloud Fabric Announcement
Pluribus Networks gets back on my radar with an announcement about its Adaptive Cloud Fabric, a network virtualization approach for the data center that uses a distributed, controllerless architecture.
Zentera’s Cloud Over IP Securely Connects Workloads Anywhere
Zentera’s Cloud Over IP uses SSL to connect workloads securely, no matter where they are hosted. A central controller and agent combo delivers policy.
Brief The Packet Pushers & Datanauts At OpenStack Summit Boston
Brief Ethan Banks, co-founder of Packet Pushers and co-host of the Datanauts podcast, at the OpenStack Summit Boston 2017.
Data Expedition Moves Your Data Into Public Cloud With CloudDat
On April 24, 2017, Data Expedition announced CloudDat, aimed at organizations needing to move data into and out of the public cloud.
Hang With The Packet Pushers In Las Vegas May 15, 2017
On May 15, 2017 at the Centrifuge Lounge in Las Vegas, we’ll be hanging out. Come meet us, tell us the things we get wrong, and get our opinions on SD-WAN.
Understanding How The IETF Works
Ethan visited the 98th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in March 2017. He made many observations about what’s really going on. Have a read.
Webinar With Citrix – Transitioning Load Balancing to the Cloud
In the face of public cloud services and the Amazons and Azures of the world wanting to own as much of your enterprise IT budget as possible, how does traditionally on premises technology remain relevant?
Future Of Networking Summit 2017 Preview: Orchestration
Imagine describing at a high level without too many details what you needed the network to be, and then the network being created to meet that need. That’s my definition of orchestration.
cPacket Cx4100 Brings Line Rate Packet Analysis To 100G
On February 21, 2017, cPacket announced the Cx4100, which offers 4 ports of 100Gbps line rate monitoring and analysis.
Avaya Surge IoT – Microsegmentation For The Internet Of Things
Avaya has announced their Surge IoT security product. What sort of security product is it? In a nutshell, Surge IoT is microsegmentation for your physical IoT devices.
Enterprise Tech Is Changing. People Aren’t
Most enterprise networks seem to be stuck in the past. Why is this? It’s not the tech.
Cisco’s Wireless Partnership With Apple
Cisco partnered with Apple in 2016 to improve the corporate wireless experience for iOS devices. How’s that working out so far?
Cisco in 2017 – The Business Solutions Company
Cisco has become a company that’s a bit different from the one I’ve always considered them.
