PQ Show 83: Sonus Networks & Microservice Orchestration (Sponsored)

On todays episode of Priority Queue, sponsor Sonus Networks joins us to explore microservice orchestration for networking, particularly in the context of OpenStack. The post PQ Show 83: Sonus Networks & Microservice Orchestration (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Datanauts 039: The Silo Series – Resource Allocation for Virtualized Workloads

The Datanauts Silo Series explores how to determine how many resources to apply to a virtualized workload. We discuss how to properly size and configure tricky tier 1 applications and monster VMs. The post Datanauts 039: The Silo Series – Resource Allocation for Virtualized Workloads appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Network Break 92: LinkedIn Gets Rich; Cisco Goes Big With Tetration

The latest episode of the Network Break ponders the Microsoft/LinkedIn deal, looks at Ciscos new big data appliance, reviews acquisition news across the tech industry, and more! The post Network Break 92: LinkedIn Gets Rich; Cisco Goes Big With Tetration appeared first on Packet Pushers.

PQ Show 82: Aruba Certifications Overview

Today's Priority Queue climbs the Aruba certification ladder for wireless networking. Exam developer Kimberly Graves talks about what you'll learn, and offers training and testing insights.

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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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