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Burnout in Networking : networking
No one talks about the human consequences of Enterprise IT
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Response: Ireland to offer first Bachelor’s degree in data center engineering
Most people learned DC in 6 weeks on the job. Why a degree ?
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Musing: FTC Accepts Proposed Consent Order in Broadcom $5.9 Billion Acquisition of Brocade
Fibrechannel competition is reduced to two suppliers who use the same ASICs.
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Human Resources Is Not Your Friend
Human Resources exists to protect the company from its employees not to protect you from the company.
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Research: Intent Based SDN at ESnet
Demonstration of the ESnet research on a research project using intent based networking including an ontological engine for plain english requests. While this is specific to the ESnet requirements there is some really interesting ideas around interpreting user intent and the architecture of an intent-based system.
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Response: Can Cisco Restore Confidence with SD-Access?
I'm not only one weary of Cisco's buggy products and half-baked strategies.
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Dictionary: Stunt Networking
Define 'stunt networking'
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Red Sweater Blog – MarsEdit 4 Public Beta
Marsedit is the best blogging app. Get a free taste.
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IETF: The Harmful Consequences of Postel’s Maxim
This Internet-Draft resonates strongly with me: Jon Postel’s famous statement in RFC 1122 of “Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send” – is a principle that has long guided the design of Internet protocols and implementations of those protocols. The posture this statement advocates might promote interoperability in the short […]
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Broadcom Trident 3 Telemetry
Seems like everyone is building telemetry applications that look pretty much the same.
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Show 344: Analyst Talk With John Fruehe
SDN, hybrid cloud, vendor product reliability and more are on the table for a conversation with analyst John Fruehe in this Weekly Show episode. The post Show 344: Analyst Talk With John Fruehe appeared first on Packet Pushers.
Outburst: BOFH – Halon is not a rad new vape flavour
HOW MUCH DO I LOVE THE BOFH ON THE REGISTER!!!!!!!!!! “YOU JOINED A WEBINAR – or, as we call it – willingly watched an advert?” “I… It wasn’t an advert.” “Right, so if someone came up to you and suggested that they take half an hour out of your day – at a time […]
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PQ Show 119: Can The Network Do That?
Guest Dave McCrory discusses the network in relation to distributed systems and problems of consistency. The post PQ Show 119: Can The Network Do That? appeared first on Packet Pushers.
Response: draft-bourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6-00 – IPv6 is Classless
Does any sane bystander not see the IPv6 standards process as a terrible road accident ?
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Response: OneLogin Breach Compromised Customer Data, Ability to Decrypt Encrypted Data | Threatpost
A password management business has their passwords compromised. IT Security comedy gold.
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Research: Mary Meeker’s 2017 internet trends report
Anyone working in IT Infrastructure need to have some awareness of what is happening on the Internet. This is the fastest, densest, most compressive information you can get in 30 minutes. You can see into the future if you look hard enough, this is a major source. Link: 2017 Internet Trends — Kleiner […]
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Research: Network Security Using ntopng
Presentation on using NTOP-NG as a security tool
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Interop 2017 Reflections
Interop is changing, thats a good thing. After 31 years, the Interop conference is one of the last independent conferences where the focus is on the person paying for the ticket and less “rolling sales thunder” from the vendors. Thats good for attendees who get to hear genuine, thoughtful content that hasn’t been selected based […]
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Can’t Find Qualified People
When a business leader says I can't find enough qualified people, I hear......
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Cord-cutting explodes – Axios
Cord cutting is an existential threat to MPLS
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