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Cisco HCI & Springpath – Some Questions

Now that Cisco is freed from the VCE/vBlock engagement (rumoured to be exclusive arrangement), most people are wondering why Cisco took so long to announce this. Cisco announced another HyperConverged Infrastructure (HCI) platform this week. I say “another” because Cisco already works with several partners for Converged and Hyperconverged such as NetApp, VCE, Simplicity and […]

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Musing: Why Oracle Bought Ravello ? Its the Network, Stupid

Takeaway: Ravello lets Oracle uses any underlying cloud but effectively hide that completely from the customer thus Oracle gets to “manage” any cloud, gives customers “any cloud” and yet maintain full control of the customer account by hiding the underlying services. But it was the networking features that really made Ravello unique. Oracle Scorned Its […]

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Blessay: Successful Private Clouds Aren’t Spoken Of In Public

You don’t hear much about successful “Private Clouds” because they aren’t done in public. Two takeaways. People are talking a lot about public cloud because its good business not necessarily because its good technology [1] Private Clouds are being successfully deployed in vast numbers and no one is talking about them. This is also good […]

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Response: Why You Shouldn’t Be Hosting Your DNS

Michelle Chubirka from Post Modern Security  spent ten years as a sysadmin with a primary focus on managing a BIND DNS for a very large university in the US. With some regret, she says: This history makes what I’m about to recommend even more shocking. Outside of service providers, I no longer believe that organizations should […]

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Bug Bounties for Network Software

Its a fact that bugs and faults in networking products is not a key issue for customers. Indeed vendors rely on customer testing and deployment to find bugs before declaring their products as fully tested or generally available. I believe this created a process of moral hazard and false incentives. IETF RFC1925  2. The Fundamental Truths – […]

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Cisco Merging IOS-XE Code Trains

Reliable sources tell me that Cisco is undergoing a huge internal transformation now that Chuck Robbins is in charge. I haven’t been able to see any evidence of this transformation and have been wondering when customers would see the results. Cisco Enterprise was presenting at Network Field Day 11 and this particular presentation from Cisco Enterprise […]

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Talking NVMe, 3DXpoint and Networking

The IT Storage market is going through a lot of change. New silicon designs from Intel & Micron branded 3D Xpoint are impacting the short term future of the “all flash array” market. Intel has developed NVMe so that that speed of accessing this fancy new storage can be realised because the 30-year old SCSI/NFS/Fibrechannel protocols […]

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Response: Doing No Harm

Ivan posted here: I’ll take ownership of the statement because at least it sounds like something I have discussed on the podcast and, sadly, because there aren’t that many networking podcasts. The comment is in relation to the purpose of a stateful firewall when compared to a stateless firewall aka access lists. I do think that […]

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