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Show 248 – GPON For Campus Use Cases

Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) is an interesting alternative to traditional Ethernet in situations where Ethernet might be difficult or expensive to deploy. Network engineers Andy Burridge and Wallace Chase join us to talk about exactly what GPON is, potential use cases for the technology, and network design challenges.

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Network Break 46: Car Hacks, Cloud Natives

Network Break 46 analyzes car hacking, a new Google-driven open source project for container orchestration, Cisco news and VMware financial results, an exuberant VC market, and a Chrome project promoting the Physical Web.

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Drew Conry-Murray

I'm a tech journalist, editor, and content director with 17 years' experience covering the IT industry. I'm author of the book "The Symantec Guide To Home Internet Security" and co-author of the post-apocalyptic novel "Wasteland Blues," available at Amazon.
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Datanauts 004 – The Silo Series – Provisioning Perspectives

Chris Wahl and Ethan Banks bust IT silos by walking through a service request at a fictional corporation. They outline the steps required from network and server domains, providing context to help each group understand what the other is trying to accomplish. The result? A more effective team.

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Datanauts 004 – The Silo Series – Provisioning Perspectives

Chris Wahl and Ethan Banks bust IT silos by walking through a service request at a fictional corporation. They outline the steps required from network and server domains, providing context to help each group understand what the other is trying to accomplish. The result? A more effective team.

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Drew Conry-Murray

I'm a tech journalist, editor, and content director with 17 years' experience covering the IT industry. I'm author of the book "The Symantec Guide To Home Internet Security" and co-author of the post-apocalyptic novel "Wasteland Blues," available at Amazon.
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Startup Radar: Verilume Builds Private Clouds From Spare Capacity

Startup Verilume uses OpenStack, Ceph, and proprietary software to assemble private clouds and Hadoop clusters from spare capacity in VMware environments. The product targets developers and data scientists.

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Drew Conry-Murray

I'm a tech journalist, editor, and content director with 17 years' experience covering the IT industry. I'm author of the book "The Symantec Guide To Home Internet Security" and co-author of the post-apocalyptic novel "Wasteland Blues," available at Amazon.
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Network Break 45

Network Break 45 talks Plexxi switches, Cisco moves, Intel revenue, the latest open networking news from CloudRouter and OpenStack, a prediction of rising cloud prices, and why Flash should die.

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Drew Conry-Murray

I'm a tech journalist, editor, and content director with 17 years' experience covering the IT industry. I'm author of the book "The Symantec Guide To Home Internet Security" and co-author of the post-apocalyptic novel "Wasteland Blues," available at Amazon.
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Network Break 44

Network Break 44 analyzes cloud spending numbers from IDC, the impact of virtual appliances on hardware purchases, EMC and Symantec storage moves, and a new OpenStack appliance from Mirantis.

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Drew Conry-Murray

I'm a tech journalist, editor, and content director with 17 years' experience covering the IT industry. I'm author of the book "The Symantec Guide To Home Internet Security" and co-author of the post-apocalyptic novel "Wasteland Blues," available at Amazon.
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Datanauts 003 – Opening the OpenStack Stack

OpenStack is an open source platform for creating cloud services. Special guest Eric Wright, who leads the Toronto VMUG and Virtual Design Master competition, joins Chris Wahl and Ethan Banks to bring some clarity to this cloudy topic.

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Drew Conry-Murray

I'm a tech journalist, editor, and content director with 17 years' experience covering the IT industry. I'm author of the book "The Symantec Guide To Home Internet Security" and co-author of the post-apocalyptic novel "Wasteland Blues," available at Amazon.
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Startup Radar: Fiber Mountain Blends Optics & SDN For Data Center Efficiency

The startup Fiber Mountain aims to make data center networks more flexible and efficient using a combination of fiber optics and SDN.

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Drew Conry-Murray

I'm a tech journalist, editor, and content director with 17 years' experience covering the IT industry. I'm author of the book "The Symantec Guide To Home Internet Security" and co-author of the post-apocalyptic novel "Wasteland Blues," available at Amazon.
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Network Break 43

Network Break episode 43 looks at Cisco's OpenDNS acquisition, the OpenDaylight Lithium release, a global IT spending forecast, and Amazon's s2n open source TLS implementation

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Drew Conry-Murray

I'm a tech journalist, editor, and content director with 17 years' experience covering the IT industry. I'm author of the book "The Symantec Guide To Home Internet Security" and co-author of the post-apocalyptic novel "Wasteland Blues," available at Amazon.
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