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Enterprises Have Many Unprofitable Applications, Public Clouds Do Not
Enterprise IT supports many unprofitable applications. Microsoft Exchange, legacy databases, obsolete accounting systems, end-of-life desktop operating systems and much more. Public clouds can, and do, cancel unprofitable products. This is a brutal truth in cloud planning. Takeaways: Enterprise IT supports many applications that are unprofitable to own and maintain Executives and managers are commonly unprepared […]
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The End of Fixed Voice
IP Telephony is an end stage market. Here is why.
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Internets of Interest – 12 December 2014
Collection of useful, relevant or just fun places on the Internets for 12 December 2014 and a bit commentary about what I've found interesting about them:
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Show 214 – Storage versus Networking
The eternal loathing between Storage and Networking professionals has manifested into a podcast when I am joined by well known storage people to debate our dysfunctional family relationship.
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Response: Docker Networking | Chris Swan’s Weblog
I’ve spent some hours taking a look at Docker containers and how they connect to the network. The short summary is “messy” and better description is “train wreck”. Chris Swan has a 30 minute presentation on his experiences with Docker as part of his company VNS3. Docker Networking | Chris Swan’s Weblog. At this point […]
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PQ Show 37 – Fancy Network Adapters with Solarflare
As servers get faster, network speed and latency is impacted by the performance of network adapters inside the server. There are many after market options for radically improving the throughput and latency performance and we discuss them in this 20 minute show.
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Network Break 23
This week we are sponsored by Solarwinds NPM and topics: its Net Neutrality, Facebook's Data Centre Design, Resellers and SDN, Amazon tilts at the Enterprise, Project Squared, and Too Many Salesman.
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Tech Notes: Difference Between OS1 and OS2 Fibre Optic Cable
These are two standards for single mode fibre optic cabling from a total of five types of fibre that are generically used today known of “OF types” (OM1, OM2, OM3 for multimode and OS1,OS2 for single mode.) OS1 is for indoor use i.e. Campus, Data Centre. Cabling is is tight buffered (i.e. manufactured into solid […]
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PQ Show 36 – ENIGMA NMS – Network Management – The Engineers Monitoring System from NETSAS Australia
Network management and monitoring is at the heart of every network but not every product is based on client requests. Enigma NMS has been built by engineers for engineers to use. That's why the interface will be totally familiar to you and has the features you expect to be in the product.
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We Are At HP Discover Conference in Barcelona Next Week
The Packet Pushers team are once again packing their virtual underpants and this time heading to Spain at HP Discover in Barcelona with our “cloud studio”. Next week we will enjoying some warm winter nerdiness on HP Networking products and strategy, looking closely at the ever-growing HP VAN strategy for SDN and also diving in the bread & […]
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Network Break 22
Cisco Loves and Hates Net Neutrality, SDN WAN continues to grow and Analysts as AWS puppy dogs - drooling, licking themselves and barking at the AWS reinvent conference.
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Less Sales, Simpler Products, Easier Buying
Out of sheer frustration this week, I tweeted this and got a big response: The Back Story I’ve wasted about 60 hours of customers time working with resellers & vendors to get a quote for a relatively simple network upgrade. Neither the vendor staffers or the reseller employees knew how the product was licensed or […]
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Cisco On Net Neutrality Isn’t What It Seems
Chambers pointed the finger at Net Neutrality for a slow down in purchasing by carriers in US markets and that he perceives it as damaging to Cisco business interests. I find it more credible that SDN/NFV is slowing capital investments than some far off political change.
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Network Break 21
IT Talent Shortage and Whiny CIOs, Podcasts Make Money, ACI vs NSX wobbles and Dell busts some moves at its conference.
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Network Break 20
This week we walk through the news of the week (there wasn't much).
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Network Break 19 – Fixed
Note: We had an audio problem and Network Break 19 is now fixed.
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Musing: On Using Cisco ACI and VMware NSX in the same network
So, sure, you COULD run NSX and ACI in the same network. No, you WOULD NOT run NSX and ACI in the same network.
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Show 212 – HP Networking in the Data Centre – Sponsored
In today's sponsored podcast, HP Networking looks to educate network engineers about HP’s data center portfolio and technologies that make it a formidable choice for architecting today’s data center networks. Tune in to learn how HP is helping customers develop Data Center solutions that deal with today and tomorrow’s challenges.
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Response: Black Energy 2 Malware Router Abuse – Kaspersky
Kaspersky published a research note on Black Energy malware that uses backdoors and exploits on Cisco routers to install a TCL file, perform surveillance or destruction of the device configuration. And, they revealed that their Cisco routers with different IOS versions were hacked. They weren’t able to connect to the routers any more by […]
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Musing: VMware Sells More Services Than Licenses
In their Q3-2014 VMware results, the revenue from "services" is 30% larger than licensing revenue. What does this mean for customers ?
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