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Musing: Does Oracle Prove that OpEx Beats CapEx in the Enterprise ?
Oracle has a tough quarter with its top line business shrinking quickly as developers choose open source databases instead. – Source: Bloomberg At a business level, there is definitely a trend by corporates to “avoid” Oracle as licensing fees have increased dramatically to reach a pain threshold that CIOs cannot ignore. While the choice for […]
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Show 240 – Software Defined WAN – Night of Nerdery – Live From New York – Sponsored
A live show recorded with a panel of customers who are well advanced into projects to deploy SD-WAN in their Enterprise networks. The Packet Pushers were pleased to be invited to host and record a live recording in New York in partnership with Viptela.
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Three Questions on Network Switch & Operating System Disaggregation
In which I respond to three questons hardware & software disaggregation.
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Analysis: Convergence In All The Markets as Big Acquisitions Go Down
What is the common theme ? Avago buys Broadcom, EMC buys Virtustream, Intel rumoured to buy Altera, HP buys Contextstream and Palo Alto buys Cirrosecure.
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Network Break 39
Take a Network Break! Grab a coffee, a doughnut and then join us for an analysis of the latest IT news, vendor moves and new product announcements. We’ll separate the signal from the noise--or at least make some noise of our own.
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Why Firewalls Won’t Matter In A Few Years
This presentation from Alex Stamos, CSO of Yahoo during the AppSec conference is explains why firewalls are not part of their security strategy. Firewalls operating at 10G or more are not cost effective. Vertical scaling of performance costs more than the services are worth. At 100G, a firewall has less than 6.7 nanoseconds to “add value” […]
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Blessay: Linux on Network Switches Makes Sense. For Your Career
Why do you want Linux on a network switch ? Mostly its about enhancing your career.
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Do Networking Vendors Make Their Own Products ?
Not even close. Software & hardware components are multi-sourced to build a product you want to buy.
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Network Break 38
Take a Network Break! Grab a coffee, a doughnut and then join us for an analysis of the latest IT news, vendor moves and new product announcements. We’ll separate the signal from the noise--or at least make some noise of our own.
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Where are we with SDN in May 2015 ?
There is so much to talk about in SDN that I couldn’t finish any of the dozen or so blog posts that I started in the last three weeks. Instead I created a 15 minute Keynote presentation that had the key points that I wanted to blog about.
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Network Break 37
Take a Network Break! Grab a coffee, a doughnut and then join us for an analysis of the latest IT news, vendor moves and new product announcements. We’ll separate the signal from the noise--or at least make some noise of our own. Sponsored by Viptela and Open Networking Summit 2015.
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Show 236 – Talari and the Software-Defined WAN – Sponsored
With more companies jumping on the SD-WAN bandwagon every day, it’s getting harder than ever to figure out how to differentiate solutions. Luckily, Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro help shed some light on what an SD-WAN is, what you should look for and what to be concerned about in this interview with John Dickey, co-founder and CTO at Talari.
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SNA was Awful. SDN Isn’t Awful (Yet)
Back in the day, I wasn’t a SNA expert but that was because almost no one was using it. Oh sure, SNA was used by all the big companies to connect their TN5250 terminals to their mainframes using SDLC but back in 1995 there A) weren’t that many companies who could afford to operate a […]
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Cisco’s Has a New CEO as John Chambers stays on.
John Chambers steps down as CEO, remains Executive Chairman & Chairman of Board. Chuck Robbins, sales & operations executive, will become CEO suggesting not much will change. Some thoughts and speculation.
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Network Break 36
Coffee, virtual donuts and cloudy networking stuff. Whatever that means.
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Response: A QUIC update on Google’s experimental transport – Chromium.org
Google is set to make QUIC the default protocol for web browsing to improve performance by using HTTP over UDP.
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Network Dictionary: Homoglyphs
A homoglyph is a text characters with shapes that identical or similar to each other. Common examples are zero/O and one/l . More complex Homoglyphs are derived from characters used in other languages that are a part of Unicode. In the following, this website converts english text “EtherealMind” into characters that looks similar but use completely different HTML […]
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Basics: What Is a Network Service ?
This article provide a practical and workable definition of "What Is a Network Service ?"
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Upcoming Event: Packet Pushers at ONUG Talking Software Defined WAN
The Packet Pushers are recording a live show on SDN WAN on May 13 in New York in partnership with Viptela. Please join us.
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Is the Cisco Nexus 9000 is a Whitebrand strategy ?
I was reviewing the non-ACI Nexus 9000 products this week and started thinking that the Nexus 9000 will become Cisco's response to whitebox disruption.
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