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Heavy Networking 615: Optimize User Experience With Palo Alto Networks’ ADEM (Sponsored)
How do you know your remote workers are having good performance--a good experience--using the applications they need to get their work done? Today we drill into Autonomous Digital Experience Management (ADEM) with sponsor Palo Alto Networks, including how ADEM works, the benefits of real-time and synthetic monitoring, how ADEM integrates with SASE, and more.
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Heavy Networking 615: Optimize User Experience With Palo Alto Networks’ ADEM (Sponsored)
How do you know your remote workers are having good performance--a good experience--using the applications they need to get their work done? Today we drill into Autonomous Digital Experience Management (ADEM) with sponsor Palo Alto Networks, including how ADEM works, the benefits of real-time and synthetic monitoring, how ADEM integrates with SASE, and more.Day Two Cloud 131: Monitoring The Cloud From The Cloud
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast delves into issues about monitoring all the things, including the notion of monitoring the cloud...from the cloud. Ned Bellavance and Ethan Banks discuss the pros and cons of DIY vs. using a service, differences between monitoring infrastructure stacks and applications, what to monitor and why, how to deal with all that data, the necessity of alerting, constructing meaningful dashboards, and more.
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Day Two Cloud 131: Monitoring The Cloud From The Cloud
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast delves into issues about monitoring all the things, including the notion of monitoring the cloud...from the cloud. Ned Bellavance and Ethan Banks discuss the pros and cons of DIY vs. using a service, differences between monitoring infrastructure stacks and applications, what to monitor and why, how to deal with all that data, the necessity of alerting, constructing meaningful dashboards, and more.Heavy Networking 614: eBPF, Cloud-Native Networking, And Other Modern Networking Trends
Today's Heavy Networking gets deep in the guts of what’s going on with all the modern trends in networking: cloud-native, containers, eBPF, Kubernetes, DPUs, and so on. Guests Brent Salisbury and Dave Tucker give their insider’s view of developments in cutting-edge networking tech. You’ll walk away with a better idea of what to pay attention to in the months and years to come.
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Heavy Networking 614: eBPF, Cloud-Native Networking, And Other Modern Networking Trends
Today's Heavy Networking gets deep in the guts of what’s going on with all the modern trends in networking: cloud-native, containers, eBPF, Kubernetes, DPUs, and so on. Guests Brent Salisbury and Dave Tucker give their insider’s view of developments in cutting-edge networking tech. You’ll walk away with a better idea of what to pay attention to in the months and years to come.Heavy Networking 613: Deploying An Active-Active Data Center Network For Private Cloud (Sponsored)
This Heavy Networking episode focuses on building a data center fabric. Pluribus Networks is our sponsor. Pluribus brought along a customer to talk about their active/active DC deployment. We’ll get into stretching layer 2 safely, Pluribus's L3 capabilities, operational concerns of active/active when the DCs are many hundreds of miles apart, and the pressure of delivering customer-facing services that drove the selection of the Pluribus architecture.
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Heavy Networking 613: Deploying An Active-Active Data Center Network For Private Cloud (Sponsored)
This Heavy Networking episode focuses on building a data center fabric. Pluribus Networks is our sponsor. Pluribus brought along a customer to talk about their active/active DC deployment. We’ll get into stretching layer 2 safely, Pluribus's L3 capabilities, operational concerns of active/active when the DCs are many hundreds of miles apart, and the pressure of delivering customer-facing services that drove the selection of the Pluribus architecture.Day Two Cloud 129: Practical Advice On Optimizing Cloud Costs
Optimizing cloud costs means more than looking at your bill and hunting down unused instances. It's about understanding the full lifecycle of cloud workloads, dealing with management that wants predictable spending even as your actual usage varies, and setting up repeatable processes. Guests Fred Chagnon and Jeremy Roberts, both at Info-Tech Research Group, offer practical advice for optimizing your cloud spending.
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Day Two Cloud 129: Practical Advice On Optimizing Cloud Costs
Optimizing cloud costs means more than looking at your bill and hunting down unused instances. It's about understanding the full lifecycle of cloud workloads, dealing with management that wants predictable spending even as your actual usage varies, and setting up repeatable processes. Guests Fred Chagnon and Jeremy Roberts, both at Info-Tech Research Group, offer practical advice for optimizing your cloud spending.Heavy Networking 612: Cloud-Native Kubernetes Networking For CSPs (Sponsored)
Heavy Networking explores big ideas around service provider and cloud provider network services in 2022, both how they collide and are complementary. Our sponsor is Juniper Networks. We also get an update on Juniper’s Contrail product, a software-defined networking platform that now includes native integration with Kubernetes.
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Heavy Networking 612: Cloud-Native Kubernetes Networking For CSPs (Sponsored)
Heavy Networking explores big ideas around service provider and cloud provider network services in 2022, both how they collide and are complementary. Our sponsor is Juniper Networks. We also get an update on Juniper’s Contrail product, a software-defined networking platform that now includes native integration with Kubernetes.Heavy Networking 610: Network Automation With Nautobot
On today's Heavy Networking we discuss a Nautobot, an open-source software tool that can serve as a source of truth for network automation. We explore how Nautobot works, what it's used for, how it ties in with Python and Ansible, major features, and more.Day Two Cloud 127: Avoiding Infrastructure As Code (IaC) Pitfalls
There are a lot of good things you can do with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for automation, repeatability, and ease of operations and development. But there are also code and infrastructure pitfalls where you can tumble into a hole, break your leg, and get eaten by spiders. OK, maybe not that bad, but on today's episode we talk about potential IaC pitfalls and how to avoid them with guest Tim Davis.
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Day Two Cloud 127: Avoiding Infrastructure As Code (IaC) Pitfalls
There are a lot of good things you can do with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for automation, repeatability, and ease of operations and development. But there are also code and infrastructure pitfalls where you can tumble into a hole, break your leg, and get eaten by spiders. OK, maybe not that bad, but on today's episode we talk about potential IaC pitfalls and how to avoid them with guest Tim Davis.They’ll Remember The Rage Monster
I was tired. Very tired. Tired in my brain. Tired in my body. I needed to eat, puke, and scream…all of those things as soon as possible. Big cutovers are like that. You know the kind of change I’m talking about. The kind where you only get a maintenance window twice a year, so you plan to throw in the new core switch pair because that’s easy, re-tool the BGP peering that twelve other changes are waiting for, and bring up the new firewall all in one night.
Stupid! Unthinkable! Small changes only!! I mean…obviously. Of course. But sometimes, that’s just not the way it works out. And so it was that after several hours of executing a meticulously planned change that would create the network foundation for the company’s big plans, I needed to eat, puke, and scream.
You see, the change hadn’t got entirely well. It had only gone mostly well. The core switch upgrade really was easy. The BGP peering work went well enough. The new firewall was a fight, though.
At first, the firewall pair wouldn’t pass traffic. At all. Despite a lovely routing table and so on. After sitting in the freezing data center for Continue reading
Heavy Networking 608: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About NAC (And Then Some)
Today's Heavy Networking goes deep on Network Access Control (NAC) for wired and wireless networks. Our guest is Arne Bier, a Senior Consulting Engineer and CCIE. We hit a bunch of topics including MAC authentication bypass, client certificates, EAP methods, and more. We also discuss reasons why NAC is worth deploying despite the effort.
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Heavy Networking 608: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About NAC (And Then Some)
Today's Heavy Networking goes deep on Network Access Control (NAC) for wired and wireless networks. Our guest is Arne Bier, a Senior Consulting Engineer and CCIE. We hit a bunch of topics including MAC authentication bypass, client certificates, EAP methods, and more. We also discuss reasons why NAC is worth deploying despite the effort.Day Two Cloud 124: New Cloud Security Thinking
Today on Day Two Cloud, we talk about new ways of thinking about security for cloud. As organizations adopt cloud services, they're applying on-prem security designs. Our guest Adeel Ahmad is here to argue that this doesn't work, and that you need a different approach.
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