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.
Future Of Networking Summit 2017 Preview: Automation
Automation is a controversial topic. On the surface, automation translates into a loss of jobs for people. We think that if we assign to software what we once did, that we won’t have anything left to do. This is a theme in futurist fiction purporting to be news. The sky is falling, the sky is falling! Humans will no longer have work to do! Automation will take our jobs! But I disagree. I have felt for sometime that automation equals paradise for the skilled meatbot ready to make the shift.
ZeroStack Adds Learning To Their Automated Infrastructure
In the spirit of making infrastructure even easier to use, ZeroStack has added a learning capability to their policy engine. Behold, the self-driving cloud.
Video News for Jan 11, 2017 – Arista, NetBeez, Viptela, Silver Peak, Velocloud, ETSI, Extreme
Press release round up in YouTube form for Jan 11, 2017. We hit Arista, NetBeez, Viptela, Silver Peak, Velocloud, ETSI, and Extreme Networks.
How much does network latency matter to application performance?
When designing a network, how much does latency really matter? For our purposes in this discussion, I’m defining latency as the amount of time it takes for a packet to leave a source and arrive at a destination. In other words, network latency specifically.
Apstra’s Ethereal Network State
Apstra is not about configuration management. Yes, configuration of network devices happens along the way in the paradigm most of us work in. But Apstra is after something much bigger.
Free Unikernels E-Book From O’Reilly
Russell Pavlicek has written a free e-book introducing readers to unikernels. The book is a concise, plain-spoken read.
