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Musing: Network Fabrics Of History
Once upon a time, there were many fabrics. There can be only one.
Response: Network Management: Why the CLI?
People get angry when I talk about the death of the CLI for network operations. I’m not the only one: I believe that in today’s network device landscape, the CLI is primarily a tool to promote vendor lock-in by training network engineers to rely on and value it so highly. Yes, devices can be configured […]
Zodiac WX – Northbound Networks
A WiFi Base station using OpenFlow for $250. The Zodiac WX is the world’s first fully integrated OpenFlow® Wireless Access Point. It is a high powered ceiling / wall mountable Dual-Band AC1200 AP that includes 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports and support for PoE. We have integrated our Zodiac OpenFlow® engine directly into the wireless drivers so […]
GE’s Irish wind farm to supply total output to Microsoft for 15 years
Getting difficult to build a cloud DC when you have to buy your own power source
Troubleshooting: A journey into the unknown
Enjoyed this troubleshooting 'war' story from Booking.com
Response: Oracles Chides US Govt For Believing in DevOps, Open Source
Oracle acts like a dad berating naughty teenager.
Reuters: HP Enterprise let Russia scrutinize cyberdefense system used by Pentagon
One of the challenges that faces HP, Cisco and Dell is that running a sales company is losing relevance. They don’t make products they sell them. A sales company is one that sells products: any product, to anyone, anywhere for the right price. The technology giants have been buying products from various OEMs, bundling them […]
Intent Washing with @CloudToad
Now this is marketing I can get behind.
Response: Three Advances Make Magnetic Tape More Than a Memory – IEEE Spectrum
I’m reasonably convinced that tape backups and cockroaches will survive environmental collapse. Think of each bit as a rectangular magnetic region. On IBM’s latest commercially available tape, each bit measures 1,347 by 50 nanometers. (Hard disk bits are 47 by 13 nm.) In the new demo system, the researchers shrunk the data bits to 103 […]
Video: The End of Cloud Computing – Peter Levine
If you are starting to think about Edge Computing this is good place to start. Key Themes: A car has 140 CPUs today, its a data centre. The centralised vs edge model that swings like a pendulum. What does the Edge look like ?
Musing: The Right Start For Your Career
Cisco certifications are a good start but not a long term strategy
Show 359: Juniper And The Self-Driving Network (Sponsored)
Juniper Networks joins the Packet Pushers on this sponsored podcast to talk about Juniper's vision of the Self-Driving Network to bring more automation, efficiency, and security to the network. The post Show 359: Juniper And The Self-Driving Network (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.
Cable Breakage: When and How Submarine Cables Go Down
Sound bites on submarine cables.
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Announce: Briefings In Brief – A New Packet Pushers Podcast Channel
Briefings In Brief is a new podcast channel from the Packet Pushers that summarizes tech news and announcements in quick doses.
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Response: Cisco ASA Firewall breaks after 213 days of uptime
Continuing with my theme of paying premium prices for faulty products, Michael McNamara shares a recent experience: I just recently had two HA pairs of Cisco ASA firewalls just stop communicating. A reboot of both the primary and secondary firewall in each HA pair resolved the problem. I had never observed such odd behavior from […]
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Response: The Worm Has Turned Against Tech Companies
For the past decade, the loudest arguments waged regarding the Four (Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google) were about which CEO was more Jesus-like or should run for president. These platforms brought down autocrats, were going to cure death and put a man on Mars, because they are just so awesome. Media outlets were coopted into […]
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Response: Microsoft Teams is replacing Skype for Business to put more pressure on Slack
Comedy, surely. Microsoft's 15 years of collaboration has been disastrous. Can I say 'sharepoint' ?
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Completion of 160Tb Trans-Atlantic Subsea Cable In Two Years – Microsoft
Two years to deploy 160Tb of bandwidth
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How Far Behind is NetApp ?
This NetApp presentation is confusing
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Finally, a post-Chambers Cisco
Uncle John Stands Back, At Last.
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