Network Dictionary – Qurinal

Define "Qurinal"

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Apple Keynote 2015 – Enterprise & Personal

Excerpt: I am fascinated by Apple's business strategy and product management. Every year Apple makes a huge multi-billion dollar bet on delivering complex technology products into the hands of untrained users in the one of the toughest computing platforms - the smartphone. Plus they build custom silicon, new materials and software features in every version. And this time, they have an Enterprise product.

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The Network Command Line is Dying

Configuring devices from the command line is time-honoured tradition for network engineers. But for everyday operational tasks, the CLI is no longer fit for purpose.

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Response: Hack | A typeface designed for source code

A new font for writing code. Free and open.

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Response: Nerd Knobs Are Symptom, Not Cause.

Nerd knobs are treating the symptom but not the cause of bad networking.

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Why I Hate ITIL So Much

In the middle of 2014, Justin Warren  sent me a series of interview questions on the topic of why I hate ITIL so much. The process of writing a response got me … um, motivated and spat a substantial amount of bile. Here it is.  Why do you hate ITIL so much? How did you […]

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Five Action Items For IT Infrastructure Architects If the Global Economic Slowdown Starts To Bite

There are signs that the global economy is slowing down. Is It Time To Delay Your Projects To Get Better Pricing and what does this means for IT Infrastructure ?

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Response: Snappy for Whitebox Switches | Ubuntu Insights

Ubuntu announces a version for devices, Penguin Computing uses it for network operating systems

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Response: Arista EOS & Quality

This video from Ken Duda at Arista is, perhaps, the best explanation of Arista’s success with customers. As an engineer, I found this talk inspirational. No bonuses for hitting ship dates. This avoids “good enough” code getting shipped. Sure there are money problems associated with this but Arista believes quality is better. You write the […]

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Network Dictionary – natatorium

Define natatorium in networking

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Walled Gardens and Other Overlay Networks

Russ White wonders if the resurgence of Walled Gardens on the Internet is bad or a good thing. The long-term rise of Facebook, WeChat, Snapchat and other applications seems to be a sustaining trend. Overlay Network Previous walled gardens like AOL and CompuServe have been composting for many years. Their unique value was that they […]

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Network Break 49: Oracle Scolds Customers Over Security

Take a network break! In this episode Oracle tells customers to stop security testing on its software, Arista posts a strong Q2, Symantec sells Veritas, F5 releases a new version of Big-IP and more.

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Four Reasons Why Whitebox Networking is Cheaper

Whitebox & Whitebrand network equipment has a lower purchase price than branded products. But why ?

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5 Career Tips I Learned From John Chambers and Cisco

My work life has been closely tied to Cisco’s success over the last 15 years and "Uncle" John Chambers has been my constant companion in that journey. Now that he has moved on to Chairman of the Board it is time to talk career tips that I learned from the master.

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Website Migration Imminent – Please Stand By

The long overdue Website migration and overhaul is planned for this week. Possible disruptions ahead.

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Greg Ferro is a Network Engineer/Architect, mostly focussed on Data Centre, Security Infrastructure, and recently Virtualization. He has over 20 years in IT, in wide range of employers working as a freelance consultant including Finance, Service Providers and Online Companies. He is CCIE#6920 and has a few ideas about the world, but not enough to really count.

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Briefing: Project Calico – BGP-driven SDN Without Overlays

The following is a "paper review" of Project Calico following a recent briefing. I've conducted a short review of the technology and business issues around the product and conclude that its unlikely to be competitive with Docker libnetwork that was announced a few weeks back or existing SDN Solutions in the market today.

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Open Compute Software Interface Platform Control Demonstration

This four minute demonstration from Mellanox is really well done. It provides a simple and direct demonstration of the OCP Platform Control system. I note the simplicity of the linux commands to drive the configuration of the switch. Especially, if you use Ansible/Puppet etc, you will appreciate how easy it is to configure and monitor […]

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Virtual Appliance Transition Pain for Barracuda & The Addiction to Hardware Revenues

Barracuda share price drops 16% as the shift to virtual appliance reduces sales dollars but increases profits.

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You Cannot Buy A Software Defined Network

Really.

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Network Break 43

Network Break episode 43 looks at Cisco's OpenDNS acquisition, the OpenDaylight Lithium release, a global IT spending forecast, and Amazon's s2n open source TLS implementation

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