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API as a foundation of Datacenter operations

Petr McAllister December 6, 2018

As a member of vExpert community – I had a very unique opportunity and honor to present at vBrownBags spot during Re:Invent 2018 – the video of my presentation is available at YouTube  Below is the content of my thoughts around my quest into the new reality of Software Defined everything. 10-15 years ago System and…

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Cisco ACI Cloud APIC: Fast, Cheap, Good. You Can’t Have All Three.

Ethan Banks November 2, 2018

In October 2018, I heard a presentation from Cisco about the future of ACI. The presentation was entitled “ACI Anywhere.” The idea was to talk through how Cisco is expanding ACI’s footprint from the data center to other locations, including the cloud. The Cloud APIC was the most interesting part of the ACI Anywhere vision…

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Nyansa Lets Customers Friend Each Other To Unmask Anonymous IT Performance Metrics

Drew Conry-Murray October 17, 2018

Nyansa, which monitors user experience for IT operations, has a new feature that lets willing customers unmask anonymized performance metrics to share with one another to facilitate collaboration and peer-to-peer learning.

Think Before You Cloud

Brian Keys October 3, 2018

Seems everyone wants to move to the cloud but, should they move?  It’s the classic answer: it depends. What workloads, projects and companies are best for the cloud?  Certain companies and projects were designed for the cloud and others are not. To start off I was going to give a definition of what the cloud…

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Aruba Networks Joins The SD-WAN Crowd With SD-Branch Release

Drew Conry-Murray June 20, 2018

Don’t call it an SD-WAN: Aruba Networks thinks bigger with its SD-Branch announcement, but also asks more of potential customers.

3 Unspoken Messages From Chuck Robbins’ Cisco Live Keynote

Drew Conry-Murray June 12, 2018

I inferred 3 unspoken messages in Chuck Robbins’ Cisco Live 2018 keynote: you need Cisco to survive, Cisco is still relevant, and we hear your complaints.

OpenStack Summit – May 2018

Petr McAllister June 4, 2018

The second time the opportunity was presented to attend OpenStack Summit. Here is few thoughts and observations. Venue – In one of the recent podcasts Greg has mentioned – that probably the decision to have the summit in Canada (not US) was based on premises that it is easier for Out-of-North-America OpenStack users to get…

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ChatOps – more Ops?

Petr McAllister March 2, 2018

In the recent years we observed several movements inside of Corporate IT – DevOps and NetOps are two big ones in my experience. Probably there are more. While the definition of those is constantly changing depending on who you talk to and what time of day. Recently I came across a new term – ChatOps….

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Cisco’s HyperFlex 3.0, Container Platform, Target Hybrid Cloud

Drew Conry-Murray February 5, 2018

Cisco announces the latest version of its HyperFlex HCI product and the brand new Container Platform based on Kubernetes.

FireMon Announces Intelligent Policy Automation For AWS Security Groups

Drew Conry-Murray December 8, 2017

FireMon has announced Intelligent Policy Automation (IPA) for Cloud. The new software can automatically update security groups in AWS.

Notes from FireEye Cyber Defense Summit

Petr McAllister October 13, 2017

It’s not a sponsored post, however I’m thankful to FireEye for assisting me with getting to the event. The conference details can be seen on CDS official page. Here I’ll just touch up on a couple of observations and thoughts that were triggered during the event by keynotes and session speakers as well as talking…

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Public Cloud Security

John Merline September 15, 2017

Security and Compliance is a shared responsibility between AWS and the customer. This shared model can help relieve customer’s operational burden as AWS operates, manages and controls the components from the host operating system and virtualization layer down to the physical security of the facilities in which the service operates. The customer assumes responsibility and…

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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 from my company’s HR and asked to provide feedback on my manager – and I had a lot of feedback. So I clicked the URL it took me…

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VMware On AWS – How it Fits, Thoughts On How To Use It

Greg Ferro September 8, 2017

Some thoughts on why VMware is partnering with AWS in the public cloud and what it means for VMware’s long-term strategy.

VMwrold 2017 US – Technology review

Petr McAllister September 1, 2017

My personal experience at VMworld is described here. In this post I just want to summarize my discoveries of the event. It seems that one of common pinpoint that vendors see is “feature requests”. Almost every vendor faces the problem that they need to fill up all possible checkboxes to be considered during purchasing process…

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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 all three of them! I was very lucky to attend Google Developer Group – Cloud Vancouver at Slack office Vancouver. Let’s start with Slack – a year or…

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Accelerite’s Rovius Readies Your Hybrid Cloud

Ethan Banks August 7, 2017

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

Ethan Banks August 4, 2017

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

Ethan Banks August 3, 2017

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.

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 very simplistic example that barely scratched the surface of the corner cases and scaling challenges that can be encountered along the way.  From a process perspective however, now that we have this…

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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 the challenge of operating our newly built or converted infrastructure and incorporating it into our change control processes.   Day 1 & Beyond: Daily Operations & Change Management Version Control :…

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Infrastructure As Code For The Network – Part 1 – Introduction And Day 0 Provisioning

Anthony Miloslavsky July 24, 2017

Automate, orchestrate, disable the CLI, fire your entire network team… The message has been pretty universal over the past couple of years, whether catching up on your favorite blogs, listening to the latest podcast, or engaging with other engineers on social media. While no one will deny its importance or even its inevitability (sort of), why…

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Cloud Images with cloud-init Demystified

Richard July 24, 2017

If you build multi-VM test clusters and have downloaded generic images from CentOS/RHEL/Ubuntu/Fedora you will have encountered the bootstrapping system known as cloud-init. The purpose of the post is to demystify cloud-init and tips on how to use it effectively. There is a benefit to using these pre-built VM images: they are typically a minimal…

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Startup Radar: Volta Networks Puts The Router Control Plane In The Cloud

Drew Conry-Murray July 7, 2017

Startup Volta Networks is decomposing the traditional router by moving the control plane to the cloud.

Go Big or Go Home

John Merline June 26, 2017

A motorcycle parts company in Southern California in the 1990s used the phrase as a sales slogan for oversized Harley Davidson exhaust pipes.  Others say the phase originated with mogul skiing in the 1980s as skiers taunted each other into more and more spectacular runs. Or maybe it came from the surfing and refers to the…

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