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Show 231 – OpenFlow’s Possible Futures with Curt Beckmann
Seen as a unifier and enabler in its early days, OpenFlow has come up against some adoption barriers in the form of silicon challenges and vendor-specific extensions that has resulted in a marketplace of OpenFlow options awash in inconsistency. How does OpenFlow rise above this current state of things? Or does it? The Packet Pushers discuss with Curt Beckmann.
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Is Juniper The Next Cisco?
Juniper flexed its muscles at the Innovation Showcase held in March 2015. What did they talk about? What does it mean for their customers going forward? I perform an introductory analysis.Show 230 – Load Balancing With Citrix NetScaler – Sponsored
Load balancers (or application delivery controllers, if you prefer) have been a topic that come up from time to time on Packet Pushers. In today’s sponsored show, members of the Citrix NetScaler team join hosts Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro in an introductory discussion of the NetScaler load balancer family.
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Show 229 – Network Break 32 – Juniper Innovation Showcase & More
Over-opinionated analysis on data network and IT Infrastructure. And virtual doughnuts.
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Listen to Packet Pushers? Take Our 2015 Audience Survey!
Packet Pushers wants to know about you. Now, we don’t want to know about you specifically, because that would be creepy. We’re big believers in your privacy for the same reasons we’re believers in our own. But we do want to know about our audience as a whole. Data about our audience helps us figure out […]
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Can You Still Get To The Top Climbing the Cisco Certification Ladder?
Should you go from the CCNA to the CCIE directly? Why or why not? Considering SDN, is going after the CCIE even a good idea? I opine.Show 228 – Standards Bodies vs. Open Source with Dave Ward & Lauren Cooney
Cisco's Dave Ward and Lauren Cooney join Packet Pushers' co-hosts Greg Ferro and Ethan Banks for a discussion on the value of standards bodies in the age of open source software.
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Production Designs Are Compromise – And That’s Okay
During a bout of stress & jet lag induced insomnia, I logged onto Twitter in the wee hours to see what folks were saying. I found a number of twitpisses in my timeline. Twitpisses are arguments in which people assert that Someone On The Internet Is Wrong in 140 characters or less. After […]Show 227 – OpenStack Neutron Overview with Kyle Mestery
Today's Packet Pushers adventure is piloted by hosts Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro. They are joined by guide Kyle Mestery on a tour of OpenStack Neutron.
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The post Show 227 – OpenStack Neutron Overview with Kyle Mestery appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
The ‘Why Talented Employees Stay’ Listicle – ORLY?
I’ve seen a list entitled “Why Talented Employees Stay” floating around Twitter. The list has been bothering me, because I don’t think it’s quite…right. The list is interesting, but I don’t believe it tells the whole story. Taken at face value, I think the list could even make it more difficult to retain certain people — not less.What is the difference between throughput & goodput?
Throughput Throughput is the rate at which data is traversing a link. For example, take a look at the virtual router output below. The throughput rate is 643Kbps in each direction. [crayon-54facc3328376599378258/] Goodput Goodput is the rate at which useful data traverses a link. Assuming an uncongested path between endpoints, goodput and throughput will […]Show 226 – What Is A Load Balancer, Anyway?
Eric Flores joins Greg Ferro and Ethan Banks for a discussion about the fundamentals of load balancers, aka "Application Delivery Controllers." What is a load balancer (ADC)? What's it good for? How does it work?
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Review: Hosting WordPress with GoDaddy
GoDaddy recently entered the turnkey WordPress hosting fray, offering a one year trial for $1 a month. I had been toying with the idea of another blog, so I decided to give them a try. The experience of hosting at GoDaddy has been...sort of neutral.Show 225 – SolarWinds on The Cost of Monitoring + NPM 11.5 – Sponsored
SolarWinds' Head Geek Leon Adato joins Packet Pushers co-hosts Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro for a discussion about the cost of (not) doing proper network monitoring. We also get an update on the new features found in the NPM 11.5 release including wireless heat maps, web-based alerting, auto-discovery of application types for DPI, automatic dependency mapping, integrated capacity planning, and duplex mismatch detection.
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Let’s Meet at Interop Las Vegas 2015
I will be at Interop Las Vegas this year from Tuesday, April 28 through Thursday, April 30. If you are a vendor who would like to brief me, someone who would like to explore consulting opportunities, or if you just want a word, let's connect. I'd be happy to swing by your booth, meet for coffee, or simply hang out.News Analysis: CloudGenix, LightCyber, VMware, Meru
This week, Greg and I decided to do a review of some of the briefings we received via an audio recording. We published the audio on the Packet Pushers Community Show feed, which you can subscribe to specifically on iTunes or access via the Packet Pushers Fat Pipe iTunes feed. Here's a summary of my take on these briefings.Questions I’m Asking Myself About SD-WAN Solutions
There’s a lot to SD-WAN technology, and there are a number of devils in the implementation details that have been nagging at me as I listen to briefings and record podcasts from vendors in the space. SD-WAN technology questions that bother me… What’s the impact to hosts on virtual machine based endpoints, i.e. how much CPU does […]Community Show – Greg’s & Ethan’s Briefing Review for February 2015
In this show, we discuss recent briefings we received from CloudGenix, Light Cyber, VMware, and Meru. We also go on a little rabbit trail about Brocade, because they came to mind. You know how we are.
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Community Show – Our Briefing Review for February 2015
In this show, we discuss recent briefings we received from CloudGenix, Light Cyber, VMware, and Meru. We also go on a little rabbit trail about Brocade, because they came to mind. You know how we are.
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