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Datanauts 038: Failover Testing – Do It Now
An untested failover plan is a failover that won’t work when you need it. Therefore, test! The Datanauts talk about why, how, and what to do to get the most from a failover exercise.
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The Case for the 25GbE Access Layer
The 10GbE network interface card is rarely the bottleneck on the average enterprise host. So who needs 25GbE? The answer is about what you will need tomorrow versus what you do need today.
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The Cost Of “Sales” Isn’t Free
Why should you care how much a company spends on sales? Because the actual cost of selling products is paid for by the customer in the price of the product.
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Snapshot: Network Disaggregation
Our latest Packet Pushers snapshot survey asked about interest in network disaggregation. Check out the results!
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Network Break 91: Cisco Resignations; Is F5 For Sale?
Today's Network Break looks at the Cisco resignations, F5 sales rumors, the new Ericsson mobility report, the growth of the hyperscale market, and more.
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VMware Adds Arkin’s Distinctiveness To Their Own
VMware has acquired Arkin, a tool bringing visualization, operational planning, and straightforward troubleshooting to environments running NSX.
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Microsoft Blows $26 Billion To Buy LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a good cultural fit for Microsoft. It's not a fun or happy place. It’s a boring, bland site where people go to do dull, grown-up things. You could say the same thing about Office365.
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PQ Show 81: Network Testing With ToDD
On today's Priority Queue, Matt Oswalt shares details about ToDD (Testing On Demand: Distributed), an open source tool he developed for validating network changes.
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Datanauts 037: Integrating Public Cloud Into A Production Environment
Today's Datanauts episode gets into the sticky details of integrating public cloud services, particularly AWS & Azure, with a production environment.
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Netronome Supports P4 On Server Adapters For NFV
Netronome has announced server adapter support for P4, a language for programming packet-forwarding devices, to make x86 servers better suited for virtual networking.
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Network Break 90: OpenSwitch Joins Linux Foundation Party; Arista Debuts New Leaf Switch
Lots of product news in this Network Break episode, including a new Arista switch, new Mellanox adapters, and a new home at the Linux Foundation for the OpenSwitch network OS
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What Is Visibility Without Control? (On The Outside Looking In)
Teridion provides visibility into the performance of routes across cloud service providers and uses cloud-based networking to send your traffic across the best-performing link in real time.
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Useful Utilities
Troubleshooting and managing a network is much easier when you have the proper tools. Anybody who has been in the IT world for a time likely has a stash of small, portable, and often free programs they use to help in this area. Here is a list of my most-used utilities. To skip the descriptions […]
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Corsa’s DP2000 Brings Useful Programmability To WAN Switching
Corsa's DP2000 is a big-bandwidth WAN switch featuring a mix of merchant silicon, FPGAs, and a range of programmability options.
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Snapshot: Certification Exam Attempts
How many tries did it take you to past your most recent certification exam? Here's the results from a quick Packet Pushers survey.
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CCNA R&S Track Changes: Should You Be Worried?
Learning@Cisco recently announced some changes to the CCNA routing & switching track to now include a taste of software defined networking, among other emerging technologies. With some consternation, CCNA candidates are scratching their heads, wondering what, exactly, this new tech means to them. After all, SDN "still does nothing," at least to hear some folks tell the tale. ;-) And yet, here we have Cisco starting to test on this stuff, right down at the associate level of their certification ladder.
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Brocade Announces Ambitious Network Automation Platform
Brocade has announced Workflow Composer, an automation platform to provision, monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot data center networks. It's based on StackStorm Technologies, a startup Brocade acquired in March 2016.
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Take The 2016 Packet Pushers Audience Survey! (Please)
Please take the Packet Pushers audience survey. The results will help us improve our content & provide some useful info to share with sponsors.
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Anki, My New Love
Until now, I was never one to use flashcards. I could not see their value, and I was too lazy to actually write things down on a paper flashcard (and my handwriting is horrible). I recently discovered a program called Anki. On the surface, it is just a flash card program, but underneath, it can be as […]
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Back to Basics: Dijkstra SPF
Since I had been dealing with Graphs for the past few months, So I thought of writing on something basic rather than some new shiny thing. In this post we will take a look at Dijkstra, Pseudocode and code. As we all know that Dijkstra is a shortest path algorithm which is used by OSPF […]
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