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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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Breaking down the Ivory Tower part 2 – Strategy
In my last post I discussed the first part of the Architects job namely to create a Vision for the future state of the infrastructure based on business needs and requirements. In this blog I want to go into the second piece of work the architect has to create being the Strategy. The Architect as […]
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Citrix’s New Management Software Plays Nicely With Automation
Citrix announces a new management platform for its NetScaler products, with a YAML-driven automation component for its ADCs.
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Snapshot: Cable Management Survey
Check out the results to our quick survey on cable management!
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Snapshot: Cable Management Survey
Check out the results to our quick survey on cable management!
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The End Of The Private WAN?
The traditional private WAN is being sidelined in part due to the growth of mobility and the cloud. Plan to increase your use of "Internet as WAN" going forward.
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The End Of The Private WAN?
The traditional private WAN is being sidelined in part due to the growth of mobility and the cloud. Plan to increase your use of "Internet as WAN" going forward.
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Riverbed Adds Microsoft PaaS, AWS Monitoring To SteelCentral
Riverbed has announced a series of updates to its SteelCentral Application Performance Monitoring (APM) platform, including monitoring for Microsoft Azure Cloud Services and AWS. Other updates include support for Skype for Business.
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Riverbed Adds Microsoft PaaS, AWS Monitoring To SteelCentral
Riverbed has announced a series of updates to its SteelCentral Application Performance Monitoring (APM) platform, including monitoring for Microsoft Azure Cloud Services and AWS. Other updates include support for Skype for Business.
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Startup Radar: Siemplify Takes Threat Analysis Beyond SIEM Correlation
Security startup Siemplify aims to pick up where SIEMs leave off with threat analysis software that provides additional context and visualization to security alerts to help analysts identify and respond to the most relevant events.
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Startup Radar: Siemplify Takes Threat Analysis Beyond SIEM Correlation
Security startup Siemplify aims to pick up where SIEMs leave off with threat analysis software that provides additional context and visualization to security alerts to help analysts identify and respond to the most relevant events.
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You Can’t Do Everything Yourself
Don't be the IT hero who has to do everything yourself. It might feel good, but you're an operational bottleneck who doesn't give others a chance to learn.
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You Can’t Do Everything Yourself
Don't be the IT hero who has to do everything yourself. It might feel good, but you're an operational bottleneck who doesn't give others a chance to learn.
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RadiUID: Palo Alto User-ID and RADIUS
The Palo Alto User-ID feature is awesome as long as you can feed it IP-to-User mappings. PAN provides agents to do this which work in many environments, but not usually without Active Directory. I wrote RadiUID to perform this function is situations where all you have is RADIUS. Approx Reading Time: 5-15 Minutes You see, […]
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RadiUID: Palo Alto User-ID and RADIUS
The Palo Alto User-ID feature is awesome as long as you can feed it IP-to-User mappings. PAN provides agents to do this which work in many environments, but not usually without Active Directory. I wrote RadiUID to perform this function in situations where all you have is RADIUS. Approx Reading Time: 5-15 Minutes You see, […]
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Survey: Should The Packet Pushers Host A Conference?
Deep inside the virtual ideas lab at Packet Pushers, we’ve been debating the merits of organizing a two-day Packet Pushers conference. We love live events because there’s no better way to strengthen a community and share ideas. And because at a live event there’s no fast-forward button–we can lock the conference doors so that you […]
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Survey: Should The Packet Pushers Host A Conference?
Deep inside the virtual ideas lab at Packet Pushers, we’ve been debating the merits of organizing a two-day Packet Pushers conference. We love live events because there’s no better way to strengthen a community and share ideas. And because at a live event there’s no fast-forward button–we can lock the conference doors so that you […]
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Monitoring CPU on firewalls
There is a trend in network monitoring toward Push Model (versus Pull Model) where network devices send metrics to a collector in a ‘netflow’ like fashion (read blog post of Matt Oswalt). It is up to the collector to interpret that data; no need to standardize what is being sent. The only agreement is on data format […]
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