Corporate to Consumer Devolution
Selling Enterprise IT is moving to bottom up instead of top down. Consumer first.
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Tools: Conn-check
conn-check – A deployment utility to check connectivity between services conn-check is a small utility, written in Python using the Twisted network library, that verifies outgoing connections from your application servers to services it depends on, e.g. databases, caches, web service APIs, etc.conn-check is used not only to verify network dependency changes at deploy time, […]
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Response: Why On-Premises Software Will Die Sooner
This is the most compelling article I’ve ever read about why on-premises applications/software are less competitive. I am reasonably certain that private cloud infrastructure can be as efficient as public cloud and cheaper over some period. What I’m coming to understand is that many of types of cloud-based applications may be much more efficent than […]
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TCP/IP Is Lossy Protocol
The foundation of TCP/IP design is that the network is unreliable and packets will be lost.
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Musing: Cisco ACI Bosses Quit, Will it Survive ?
This article at Recode : In what appears to be a messy shakeup with hints of an internal power struggle nearing an end, Mario Mazzola, Prem Jain, Luca Cafiero and Soni Jiandani are leaving the company. This management team has been responsible for developing a range of Cisco products Nexus 5000, parts of Cisco UCS & […]
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Response: Videoconferencing Numbers
IDC published a promo piece about their research into videoconferencing market. From a market segment perspective: Multi-codec telepresence equipment revenue ($23.9 million) was down 44.4% quarter over quarter, but increased 27.4% year over year in 1Q16. Unit shipments were down 47.1% quarter over quarter, but increased 48.8% year over year. Room-based videoconferencing system revenue ($359.6 […]
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Response: OpenSwitch now a Linux Foundation
Openswitch has transioned from HPE to Linux Foundation project.
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DELL OS10 – FIB Optimisation
Dell OS10 is an open network operating system ounces its open network operating system(NOS) called OS10. Here are my thoughts and reactions. Operating System OS10 is a open source linux for networking devices. The base operating system has limited features in the same way that Windows or Linux on x86 has limited features. You can purchase […]
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Useful Tools for Firewall Rules Checking
This app looks useful for testing firewall rules after they have been applied
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Response: Fibre Optic Multi-Core per Core Is Exciting
This article has opened my eyes to a future where a single fibre cable can have multiple cores. The future of Ethernet is yet to be determined as the IEEE community fights over whose technology patents will be used so that revenue from FRAND licensing can justify their own positions. So while we wait for […]
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Blessay: Proof of Concept Testing Should Never Happen
Its “best practice” to assume that IT vendor products are faulty, have serious bugs and will fail in normal operation at anytime.
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Cisco Nexus 6000 is EOL
Cisco has killed the Nexus 6000 product line and you have 12 months to get your last orders in. This is long overdue. I’ve never understood why Cisco has so many different different Ethernet switch products that are effectively identical. The impact of merchant silicon and the success of the Nexus 9000 product overshadowed this […]
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Response: Broadcom’s Secretive Behaviour
The limited about of public information available on Broadcom products is frustrating and annoying.
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Federated Systems & Network Protocols Are Unfixable
Federation means that nothing can change in networking. Right ?
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H3C/Tsinghua Completes
A new IT behemoth has bellied its way up onto the beach. IDC has issued a press release: One year after the announcement of the subsidiary of Tsinghua Holdings, Unisplendour Corporation Limited’s plans to acquire 51% share of H3C Technologies and Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s China-based server, storage and technology services business, the company finally completed […]
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Open Source in The Enterprise Panel
Open Source TL:DR – I hosted a keynote panel during Interop Las Vegas 2016 on the topic of Open Source in the Enterprise. Here are the panel notes I prepared. Network Computing wrote up the article here: Open Source: The Enterprise Impact | Network Computing. Premise: In 2016, we are talking about new problems with Open Source […]
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Gartner Being Wrong on OpenStack
This week saw established analyst firm scrambling to recover after realising that OpenStack is a huge, unstoppable thing. Sean Kerner writes that 451 Research released some data : 451 Group now reports 2015 OpenStack ecosystem revenue at $1.2 billion and forecasts it will grow to $3.37 billion by 2018. From 2014 to 2018, 451 Group has […]
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Blessay: IPv6 was Designed For Different Er
IPv6 is badly designed. Constant updates make us uncertain. Lack of features make us unwilling.
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Analytics of Everything
The ashes of network monitoring products from the last 30 years is a Sauron-sized mountain of tears on which we must build the a new generation of tools. Analytics, machine learning, big data and user interfaces are the new hope. Network as a Service A key feature in “as a Service” products is transparency & […]
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Blessay: Your Future WAN is a 5G Network
But I've been reading whitepapers about the possible future of 5G networking and its becoming clear to me that the larger part of any private WAN (if you have one at all) is going to be wireless in the next ten years.
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