The Packet Pushers’ Tech Bytes is a short, sponsored interview. Our sponsor is Silver Peak, and today’s guest is swyMed, which makes a telemedicine backpack so first responders can videoconference with doctors and nurses from anywhere in the field. Silver Peak’s SD-WAN mini-appliance helps enable connectivity and ensure a persistent, high-quality connection.
BIB 56: Corporate Scar Tissue with Chris Swan
I got together to Chris Swan @cpswan to record a two beer networking. Through my own staggering incompetence the video hasn’t turned out but the audio is just fine. Chris a leader in service practice and the conversation talks about how organisational scar tissue. He recently attended the European IDC CIO summit in Lisbon which…
BiB 055: Meta Networks Brings SD-Perimeter To Talari’s SD-WAN
In this briefing, Meta Networks discussed their new partnership with Talari. Talari is an SD-WAN provider for enterprises. Meta is providing remote access. Therefore, what you’ve got with the Talari/Meta partnership is a full-featured WAN solution.
BiB 054: Create & Deploy Unikernels With NanoVMs
NanoVMs makes software to help you create and deploy unikernels. In this briefing, CEO Ian Eyberg discussed with Ethan Banks the state of the unikernel ecosystem and how NanoVMs fits into things.
BiB 053: Mode.net’s Cloud Private Network For Your SD-WAN
Mode briefed Ethan Banks about their cloud private network. Whoa! Thought Mode was an SD-WAN company? Not quite. Mode partners with several SD-WAN platforms so that it’s easy to stand up a tunnel from your SD-WAN forwarders to Mode’s private network. That makes Mode a network alternative to private MPLS that integrates with your SD-WAN fabric.
BiB 52 Redhat Ansible – Moving up and scaling out
Redhat Ansible talking about the future of Ansible, making it biggerer and betterer.
BiB 51 Nyansa Networks Analytics for SD-WANs and Campus
Analytics for the real world WAN using agents to provide deeper visibility. Also Campus LANs and Wireless so you can build QOE dashboard.
BiB 50 Big Switch Networks Brings Off-prem to On-prem Network Field Day 18
Cloud First Networking – the challenge of networking in multiple clouds is substantial How can we make on-prem look like the public cloud. Don’t make AWS look like a on-prem network, make an off-prem network look like an on-prem network. Instead of configuring VRFs and VLANs, we should be configuring the public cloud equivalent of…
BiB 49 – IPinfusion – Its Takes Team to Make a Whitebox – Network Field Day 18
Edgecore Edgecore is a wholly owned subsidiary of Accton Producing increasing diversity of network equipment, the range of possible applications of Broadcom silicon. Includes a optical solution the choice to focus on SP is interesting, does this imply that All of these products run IPinfusion software. Broadcom Talking about the breadth of their portfolio …
BiB 48: Gluware at Network Field Day 18
I broadly consider Gluware an automation engine that can deliver effective automation inside an brownfield network. That is, its multi-vendor, multi-technology (e.g. switches / firewalls, routers, QOS,) and works with the existing tooling such as CLI. So you don’t have to buy new hardware to start the SDN process. Thats a useful way to start…
BiB 047: Arrcus ArcOS Competes With Cisco, Juniper, Arista
Arrcus is a startup that’s built a modern network operating system for the disaggregated networking market. They are running on $15M of Series A funding, and as of 16-July-2018, they have emerged from stealth. In this briefing, Arrcus shared some of the details behind ArcOS, their core product offering.
BiB 046: Arista 7170 Multi-function Programmable Network Switches
Ethan Banks attended a technical webinar held by Arista Networks talking about their recently announced 7170 series multi-function programmable network switches. In this webinar, Arista explained what the new 7170 switch line was all about. The central reason this switch line exists is programmability.
BiB 045: Rubrik Alta 4.2 AWS Native Protection For EC2
Rubrik Alta 4.2 offers AWS native protection for EC2, VMware vCloud Director integration, Windows full volume protection, as well as AIX & Solaris support. We zoom in on the EC2 part of the announcement.
BiB 044: Juniper Announces MX Series 5G Universal Routing Platform
Juniper makes announcements around the upcoming MX Series 5G Universal Routing platform, including Si5 silicon, hardware acceleration for CUPS, and MX variants of the Universal Chassis.
BiB 043: DriveScale’s Software Composable Infrastructure For Flash
In this briefing, DriveScale announced Software Composable Infrastructure for Flash, which they claim is a market first. Flash storage is all about high bandwidth and low latency, and the latest NVMe flash drives have ferocious network-filling capability. If you think serving storage over Ethernet is a performance compromise, think again.
BiB 42 – Pica8 Releases PicaPilot and PicaFabric
Pica8 makes it first steps into network automation in a unique fashion with apps for its PicOS NOS. PicaFabric build a virtual switch chassis from an leaf/spine switch clister. The PicaPilot app builds vitual switch stack for fat tree L2 everywhere campus networks. All this is done with open hardware that you can mix &…
BiB 41: VMware NSX SD-WAN By VeloCloud
VMware’s networking and cloud ambitions come into sharper focus with the introduction of NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud.
BiB 40: Anuta To Launch SaaS Version Of Its ATOM Orchestration Software
Anuta Networks will launch a SaaS version of its infrastructure orchestration software on June 1st.
BiB 039: Reviewing The D-Link DGS-1510-52
Ethan Banks does a five minute review of the enterprise-oriented D-Link DGS-1510-52 Ethernet switch.
BiB 038: Gluware Automates The Brownfield
Jeff Gray, CEO at Gluware, chatted to the Packet Pushers about how they can automate any network, including the one you’ve already got.
BiB 037: Emulate Big WAN Links with Apposite’s Netropy 100G
CEO Neal Roche at Apposite Technologies briefed Ethan Banks about WAN emulation and their new Netropy 100G appliance.
Find out more about Apposite at https://apposite-tech.com.
BiB 036: Anuta Launches ATOM For Network Infrastructure Orchestration
Anuta Networks launches its ATOM platform for multi-vendor network infrastructure automation and orchestration.
BiB 035: ReSTNSX Makes NSX Easier To Operate
Ethan Banks had a briefing with ReSTNSX, and they demoed their VMware NSX-enhancing platform to him. Have a listen for Ethan’s impressions of the demo.
BiB 034 Virtual Instruments at A3 Technology Live Feb 2018
Virtual Instruments has visibility and testing tools for FibreChannel networks.
BiB 033 – Micron Technologies at A3 Technology Live
Are there signs of change in the storage marketplace ? Yes, I think so.
