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IPv6 Buzz 016: Happy Holidays With IPv6 Haiku
Thanks to everyone that tuned in this year! We're looking forward to bringing you more IPv6 Buzz in 2019!Datanauts 155: The Mad Libs Prediction Show
In our final Datanauts episode for this year, we review how the show did over 2018, talk a little about how the show comes together, and finish with our 2019 predictions done Mad Libs-style.
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Datanauts 154: Modernizing IT Infrastructure With HPE (Sponsored)
Today's Datanauts episode, sponsored by HPE and Intel, explores how HPE helps companies unify their silos and build a modern IT infrastructure. Our guest is Garth Reid, Senior Strategist - Enterprise Portfolio at HPE.
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Datanauts 153: Understanding Metadata For IT Operations
What is metadata, and why should IT practitioners care? How is metadata stored? What impact does metadata have on enterprise IT storage? We answer these questions and more on today’s Datanauts podcast with guest Karen Lopez.
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BiB 067: Custom APIs For Business Logic With BlueCat Gateway
BlueCat Networks offers a free add-on product to their DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM) product called Gateway. Gateway is a platform customers can use to create their own custom APIs that make sense for their business. Put another way, Gateway provides a REST API endpoint for other applications within the business to talk to. That makes for some interesting workflow capabilities.
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Weekly Show 419: Benchmarking Public Cloud Network Performance With ThousandEyes (Sponsored)
You need to know a cloud provider's network performance before you spin up workloads because the end user impact is measurable. On today's Weekly Show, sponsor ThousandEyes breaks down latency, jitter, and performance numbers for AWS, Azure, and GCP.
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BiB 066: Why Cloud Visibility Matters
Complex cloud applications need decent visualizations to help infrastructure engineers understand what's going on. For cloud visibility, Kentik absorbs AWS & GCP flow logs, with Azure support coming. Kubernetes & Istio are also data providers to Kentik. Using the Kubernetes API, Kentik correlates pod IPs to pod names and cluster namespaces. With that information, Kentik can visualize pod to pod and service to service traffic flows within a Kubernetes cluster.
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PQ 160: Inside ArcOS®: The Internet-Scale, Carrier-Grade Network OS (Sponsored)
On today's Priority Queue we dive into ArcOS®, a new network OS designed for whitebox routing and switching from our sponsor Arrcus. We examine how the OS was designed, how it differentiates itself from competitors, and explore key use cases.
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BiB 064: Is Riverbed’s SD-WAN Product Too Late To Matter?
There are 2 appliances Riverbed has announced, adding to the SteelConnect SD-WAN products they launched a couple of years ago. The first new appliance is the SteelHead SD. The second appliance is the SteelConnect SDI. Are these enough to make Riverbed a major SD-WAN player?
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BiB 063: Can An SD-WAN Device Replace A WAN Router?
Let’s examine the assertion from Silver Peak that they can replace WAN routers. Is an SD-WAN device able to be a drop-in replacement for a WAN router from Cisco or whomever? Probably, but it depends.
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BiB 062: Globally Scalable Microsegmentation With Illumio
Illumio is a security company focused on preventing breaches from spreading through an organization using microsegmentation. In this briefing, Illumio discussed their Policy Compute Engine Supercluster. The PCE Supercluster is, as the name implies, a cluster of Policy Compute Engines that spans regions or even the globe. Illumio cited several scenarios driving this available architecture of their central controller.
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Datanauts 152: No More Stretched Clusters!
Today on the Datanauts we examine why people stretch clusters, the problems this can cause, and alternative design strategies. Our guest is Erik Ableson, owner of the consultancy Infrageeks.
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BiB 061: Understanding DriveScale Composer Architecture
DriveScale is all about the software. And what is the software? Much of the magic happens in DriveScale Composer. The chief value of DriveScale Composer is to compose any compute to any disk or flash, in a scalable way.
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BiB 060: Focus On Your Data & Not Where It’s Stored With HammerSpace
The simplest way to describe HammerSpace is that they are an abstraction layer between data and metadata. David Flynn, CEO described it like this. “We have introduced an abstraction which separates the data consumer side and the storage infrastructure side. And that’s really what’s necessary before we can manage data in the cloud.”
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BiB 059: Recover From Cyber Attacks & Ransomware With Dell EMC
In this briefing, Dell EMC focused on their Cyber Recovery 18.1 product. You might be thinking, “Oh, another backup product. I already have one of those.” Sort of. Cyber Recovery is more than simply backup, and it’s more than what a decent disaster recovery plan gets you. The Cyber Recovery Vault is an orchestrated Data Domain storage platform that provides an isolated copy of known good data that can be used to recover from a security breach.
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Weekly Show 417: Meeting 5G Demands With Cisco’s 5G xHaul Transport (Sponsored)
In today’s sponsored podcast we discuss the new demands that 5G will put on service providers, and how Cisco’s 5G xHaul Transport solution can meet those demands.
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BiB 058: Build Workflows Around Unstructured Data With Igneous
I had a briefing with Igneous earlier this month. Who’s Igneous? Igneous is focused on providing “as-a-service” solutions for unstructured data, including storage, backup & archival, global metadata indexing, and data workflow management. In this briefing, Igneous discussed recent announcements around their DataProtect, DataDiscover, and DataFlow services
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BiB 057: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Wants Your Workloads
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is slowly working its way towards being feature competitive with the Big 3 - AWS, Azure, and GCP. How are they doing that? By building out robust cloud infrastructure aimed at the typical enterprise.
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Datanauts 151: An Insider’s View Of Technical Education And Certification
The Datanauts get an inside view of IT training and certification with guest Brett Guarino, who helps design and teach instructional courses for VMware Education.
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Weekly Show 415: Gluware’s Brownfield Automation For Big Pharma (Sponsored)
Gluware sponsors today's Weekly Show podcast and brings along a Big Pharma customer to talk about network automation in a brownfield production network. We dive into making network automation work in real life.
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