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Verizon Writes Down Oath by $4.8 Billion
And now they dream of selling SDWAN to Enterprises ? LOL
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Response: Google’s CEO thinks Android users know how much their phones are tracking them – TechCrunch
I think thats a bare faced lie. And google knows it.
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Are Huawei Products Unsafe or Insecure ? A Review
I’ve done quite a bit of research in the Huawei issue. There are two key areas that I will cover in this review of the available information. The network has to work before it can secured. Software Quality and poor process. Insider Threats by Chinese Nationals. TL:DR Huawei has substantial problems with product quality and […]
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Response: How Important is it to Understand Hardware Architecture?
This reddit post asked the question: For example, I’m going through a Cisco Live presentation on troubleshooting ASR routers, and the first 50 slides or so are completely dedicated to describing the Route Processors, Packet Engines, ASICs, Buffers, etc., and the different paths that packets can take through the hardware. While that’s all obviously important […]
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Response: Super Micro says no implants on motherboards
I’m convinced that Bloomberg is wrong about the hardware implants. Until they retract the story they don’t have credibility to report on technology. Supermicro commissioned 3rd party audit and found nothing which is confirmation of many other sources who also refute the claims. The ONLY people making the claim is Bloomberg and there is no […]
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Lotus Bloody Notes/Domino Sold
For a time, I was the designated dumb person who managed a Lotus Bloody Notes deployment. This includes the server and desktop application plus a range of internal developed apps. But mostly it was an really poor attempt at an email solution. The ‘bloody’ is my way of being polite It was horrible. Everything about […]
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Thought: Face-to-face is effective, No One Talks About How much it costs
This HBR article from April 2017 highlights a researcher talking about their paper that face-to-face is more effective than email. Well, duh. However, prior to making their requests, we asked participants in each condition to predict how many of the 10 strangers they asked would agree to fill out the survey. Participants in the face-to-face […]
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Virtual Design Clinic 3 at Packet Pushers
Attending conferences has always been expensive, time consuming and tiring. Most people don’t talk about this but prefer to highlight the positives of meeting people, sitting in high quality sessions and enjoy some time off from the repetitive activities of the $dayjob. If you have questions that you want answered but can’t attend, head over […]
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Weekly Show 418: A Real-World Network Design Session
Today we discuss actual network design challenges with two network engineers at the University of Idaho, including firewalling and microsegmentation, identity management in the wireless network, and a home-grown network management system.
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Tools: MacOS Mojave Dark Mode with Safari in Reader mode is blissful
I don’t always work in Dark Mode on Mojave but I’m is liking a lot more than I expected. I guess I’m using it about 70% of the time. In particular, I use the Reader feature from Safari to block out the distractions and other bits of branding ‘chrome’ that make it difficult to read. […]
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STFC Data Centre Tour 2018 – 45PB of Distributed IP Storage, 3 Tier CLOS network at 100G/200G/400G
Video tour of data centre with 45PB of distributed IP storage and its network
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Keynote address from Tim Cook to European Parliament
Passionate advocation for privacy by Tim Cook as the voice of Apple in this speech to European Parliament.
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More Videos By Us
During VMworld 2018, the Packet Pushers team girded themselves with an array of video gear. We conducted a live deployment to validate some ideas we had about producing video. Our starting idea is to asking a single question “What do customers not know about your company/product/technology?” In the end, we did about 30 videos of […]
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Video: Using Scrivener and Devonthink for Research, Writing
Don't take my word for it
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Supply Chain Integrity Needed for Repair Cycle tool
Supply chain safety is more than just implants
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BIB 56: Corporate Scar Tissue with Chris Swan
I got together to Chris Swan @cpswan to record a two beer networking. Through my own staggering incompetence the video hasn’t turned out but the audio is just fine. Chris a leader in service practice and the conversation talks about how organisational scar tissue. He recently attended the European IDC CIO summit in Lisbon which […]
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Unconscious Competence and Imposter Syndrome In A Spa in Silicon Valley
I have reached the conclusion that “imposter syndrome” is healthy. You know you have more to learn and will act correctly to ensure that any weakness is addressed and managed. The problems start at unconscious incompetence however – I attempt to explain it here: 
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Weekly Show 407: Delivering Applications In Multi-Cloud Environments With Avi Networks (Sponsored)
Running applications in a multi-cloud environment presents serious networking challenges. On today's sponsored Weekly Show, we talk with Avi Networks about how its software-based ADC and load balancer can help customers working in multi-cloud environments ensure application delivery, provide security, and enable automation at scale.
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PQ 155: Forecasting Network Evolution At VMworld’s Future:Net 2018
This Priority Queue was recorded live at the Future:Net conference at VMworld 2018. Guests Bruce Davie and Guido Appenzeller discuss service meshes, differences between hybrid and multicloud, intrinsic security, intent-based networking and more.
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