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Response: Whats New in systemd, 2015 Edition
Summary of a presentation at FOSDEM about systemd is very interesting. Lots of improvements and practical changes from what I can see that would Linux more usable and viable. But this caught my eye about replacing syslog with HTTP: journald-remoting: the binary logger now has remote support (aka: remoting) via HTTP (instead of the syslog […]
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PQ Show 45 – Talking About PR & Marketing
I was lucky enough to attend the Powering the Cloud Conference in October last year. While I was there I say down with Federica Monsone from A3 Communications to talk about the role of PR, Marketing and Social media. While we poke fun at marketing it is a deadly serious business. We need our vendors […]
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Network Break 26
We are back after the Christmas Break with the Networking News.
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2015 is all about SDN WAN
The technology that gives me a “nerd hard-on” this month is SDN WAN. Here is why.
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Poster: How To Make a Single Pane of Glass
A Poster for your desk on building a "single pane of glass" network management system.
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Announcing: Pieces of Human Infrastructure Magazine
TL-DR: This week I'm started a magazine style newsletter called "Pieces of Human Infrastructure". You can sign up at http://etherealmind.com/pieces-human-infrastructure-newsletter/
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Could Arista EOS Run On Whitebox Hardware ?
I was recently asked if Arista EOS could run on Whitebox network hardware. From a blog post on the Arista website on July 1, 2013 : In fact, a little known secret is that Arista EOS was intended to run on third-party hardware. The Arista vEOS control plane provides the ability to run as a VM […]
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Community Show – The Rash Came Back After 19 Hours
While Packet Pushers were covering the Barcelona HP Discover conference and we got together with some of the folks attending the event on the show floor. The result is non-coherent discussion about whatever topics each person wanted to raise and discuss.
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Community Show – The Rash Came Back After 19 Hours
While Packet Pushers were covering the Barcelona HP Discover conference and we got together with some of the folks attending the event on the show floor. The result is non-coherent discussion about whatever topics each person wanted to raise and discuss.
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My Review of 2014. Who Cares ?
I started to think about what happened in 2014 and decide which events changed networking.
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Why Replacing The Fibre Optic Patch Lead Often Fixes Network Problems
When installing Fibre Optic cable care must be taken to ensure that cable is not bent beyond a certain radius. Most people believe this is to prevent breaking of the fibre core but there is a worse scenario.
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PQ Show 39 – HP Networking – 3 Virtual Network Strategies Compared
HP Networking has three solutions for overlay or virtual networking in the Data Centre. Each solution meets different customer needs Show Notes HP Networking has three products for network virtualization and each product addresses different customers needs. NSX Federation – physical networking integrating with NSX Distributed Cloud Networking (DCN) Virtual Cloud Networking (VCN) NSX Federations […]
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Vendor Marketing as a Security Risk – Badge Scans and Sign-up Attack Vectors
Many old-style marketing people believe that capturing your contact information is the first step in making a sale. But any capture of your personal information is also leaking critical security information about your organisation, technology and personnel that are perfect for reconnaisance.
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Network Break 25
Another week of looking critically and cynically at the technology market, especially networking and storage.
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PQ Show 38 – HP Networking, Helion, OpenStack and Cloud Networking
HP Helion is the cloud platform HP is bringing to Enterprise for private cloud and used by HP to build their Helion public cloud. In this show, recorded at HP Discover as part of our show coverege, we talk about Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) for OpenStack that uses OpenFlow and OVSDB as a basis for implementing features in the physical network in OpenStack and Helion.
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Show 217 – IETF, YANG Proliferation and the Lack of Cooperation and Co-ordination
This week are talking about the IETF and it's inability to cope with massive change in networking around SDN and NFV. For example, there are more than 70 drafts on NETCONF models for common networking tasks that often overlap or repeat the same work. What does this means for standards development ?
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How Many Hosts In An VLAN or IP Subnet and Why ?
It is common to allocate /24 or /22 subnets to a single VLAN but William writes to ask why and whether is related to broadcasts. What is the best subnet size for VLAN allocation and why ? The answer isn't what you think.
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Unreliable Multicast means Unreliable VMware VSAN
Howard Marks from Deep Storage and long-term curmudgeon sent Ethan & I the following email: As I continue to tilt at the VMware windmill I’m facing fanbois telling me that all you have to do is plug the EVO:RAIL in and turn it on. This of course leaves out the fact that the little sucker still […]
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Network Break 24
It’s time for the Network Break! Sit back, grab a coffee, and 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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Are SDN Controllers a Security Risk ?
No. When compared to the operation of existing networks, SDN is much more secure.
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