While most readers, commenters, and Twitterati agreed with my take on the uselessness of OSPF areas and inter-area summarization in 21st century, a few of them pointed out that in practice, the theory and practice are not the same. Unfortunately, most of those counterexamples failed due to broken implementations or vendor “optimizations”.
Read more ...Noction is pleased to announce the Lite version of the Intelligent Routing Platform (IRP) – a limited version of the IRP platform
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With the rise of cloud, database administrators need to understand basic networking in order to be truly effective.
In this post we’ll use Chef, unnumbered BGP and Cumulus VX to build a massively scalable “Lapukhov” Leaf-Spine data centre.
Continue readingThe inevitable axe will fall later this year.
Welcome to Technology Short Take #71! As always, I have a list of links related to various data center technologies found below; hopefully something here proves useful.
It is week one of the new Dell Technologies, the conglomerate glued together with $60 billion from the remaining parts of the old Dell it has not sold off to raise cash to buy storage giant EMC and therefore server virtualization juggernaut VMware, which is owned mostly by EMC but remains a public company in the wake of the deal.
By adding EMC and VMware to itself and shedding its outsourcing services and software business units, Dell is becoming the largest supplier of IT gear in the world, at least by its own reckoning. You could argue that consumer PCs …
The New Dell Stops Trying To Be The Old IBM was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.