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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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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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