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.
BiB 32: Netscout Adds Security Chaining To nGenius PFS5000
Netscout talked to Ethan Banks about how they are unifying visibility fabrics inside of an IT team with features like security tool chains.
BiB 31: VMware NSX 6.4 Release Notes Round Up
Ethan Banks does a quick walk through of VMware’s official release notes for NSX 6.4.
BiB 30: Mellanox, Ixia & Cumulus At NFD17 – VXLAN & Whitebox
Mellanox, Ixia, and Cumulus Networks shared the presentation stage at Networking Field Day 17 to talk EVPN VXLAN, whitebox switching, open source, and data center design and performance validation.
BiB 029: Cisco At NFD17 – Automation, Telemetry & Intent
Cisco Systems presented at Networking Field Day 17. Three broad themes emerged from the presentations: intent, automation, and telemetry.
BiB 028: VMware NSX At NFD17 – SD-WAN & Security
VMware presented at Network Field Day 17. The company covered several topics, including an update on VeloCloud, NSX-T features, and a dive into the latest version of vSphere.
BiB 027: Juniper Networks At NFD17 – A Platform Emerges
Juniper Networks presented for a second day at Network Field Day 17, this time focusing on Appformix for analytics & automation; and PeerBot, a BGP configuration application.
BiB 26: Extreme Networks At NFD17 – Composing Workflows For Mean Time To Payrise
Extreme Networks demonstrates network automation via Workflow Composer and StackStorm at Network Field Day 17.
