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Leave Your Gas Can at Home
Talking about current events with my dad recently, he gave me a sage piece of advice. He said, “Son, leave your gas can at home.” Now obviously we weren’t talking about IT, but it got me to thinking. There’s seems to be a lot of this same type of reasoning in our industry. Think about […]
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Keep Your Growing List of Service Providers Honest
As the number of service providers you rely on increases, you need detailed network forensic data you can share with providers to assist with troubleshooting and speed up resolution.
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Keep Your Growing List of Service Providers Honest
As the number of service providers you rely on increases, you need detailed network forensic data you can share with providers to assist with troubleshooting and speed up resolution.
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Riverbed Buys Ocedo To Sell SD-WAN Products Sooner
Riverbed is buying the German startup Ocedo, which makes hybrid WAN gateways, to get an SD-WAN product to market this March. Riverbed will also release internally developed SD-WAN appliances later this year.
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Riverbed Buys Ocedo To Sell SD-WAN Products Sooner
Riverbed is buying the German startup Ocedo, which makes hybrid WAN gateways, to get an SD-WAN product to market this March. Riverbed will also release internally developed SD-WAN appliances later this year.
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Skyport Systems: Fortress Infrastructure
The attitude of breach presumption is one that has fostered a family of seek-and-destroy security products. Find the infected system and fix it. Fair enough. Breach presumption is perhaps a wise posture to take, but it doesn’t mean we have to give up the perimeter. While some security consultants I’ve talked to tell me they […]
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Skyport Systems: Fortress Infrastructure
The attitude of breach presumption is one that has fostered a family of seek-and-destroy security products. Find the infected system and fix it. Fair enough. Breach presumption is perhaps a wise posture to take, but it doesn’t mean we have to give up the perimeter. While some security consultants I’ve talked to tell me they […]
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Why Compatibility And Support Don’t Justify $1000 Optics
Howdy. By now I hope y’all realize I don’t pull any punches and no subject is off-limits. Having said that, I want be upfront and say this subject is very near and dear to my heart and is one of my main areas of work for almost two years. I’ll do my best to be […]
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Why Compatibility And Support Don’t Justify $1000 Optics
Howdy. By now I hope y’all realize I don’t pull any punches and no subject is off-limits. Having said that, I want be upfront and say this subject is very near and dear to my heart and is one of my main areas of work for almost two years. I’ll do my best to be […]
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Debug Generator – Fortigate Flow Trace
I’ve found that when working with Fortigate firewalls and needing to be able to use the debug flow command set, it takes a bit too long to manually type out the commands. If you’re in a pressurised environment saving a few seconds here and there can be valuable. First we need to grab the script […]
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Debug Generator – Fortigate Flow Trace
I’ve found that when working with Fortigate firewalls and needing to be able to use the debug flow command set, it takes a bit too long to manually type out the commands. If you’re in a pressurised environment saving a few seconds here and there can be valuable. First we need to grab the script […]
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Configuration Management: DevOps From Ops
Configuration Management is a big category today, largely comprised of Puppet and Chef, followed by Ansible and Salt, but what is Configuration Management? Configuration Management is, at it’s simplest, a matter of boolean states on a machine, stack, or infrastructure. Is the Apache httpd installed on this server? If not, install it. Does this file […]
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Configuration Management: DevOps From Ops
Configuration Management is a big category today, largely comprised of Puppet and Chef, followed by Ansible and Salt, but what is Configuration Management? Configuration Management is, at it’s simplest, a matter of boolean states on a machine, stack, or infrastructure. Is the Apache httpd installed on this server? If not, install it. Does this file […]
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What Are SAI And Switchdev And Why Do We Need Them To Succeed?
Howdy. In my last post I discussed the need for an open source framework to drive merchant switching silicon. Towards the end of that long post, I mentioned a future post talking about the Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) and switchdev in depth. Welcome to that post. There’s been a lot of synergy between both projects, […]
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What Are SAI And Switchdev And Why Do We Need Them To Succeed?
Howdy. In my last post I discussed the need for an open source framework to drive merchant switching silicon. Towards the end of that long post, I mentioned a future post talking about the Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) and switchdev in depth. Welcome to that post. There’s been a lot of synergy between both projects, […]
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OpenConfig: Standardized Models For Networking
The customer-driven OpenConfig project is establishing network models to encourage development & use of platform independent configuration tools. But will vendors support this effort? And what about the IETF, who is also working on standard networking models? Is there a conflict?
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OpenConfig: Standardized Models For Networking
The customer-driven OpenConfig project is establishing network models to encourage development & use of platform independent configuration tools. But will vendors support this effort? And what about the IETF, who is also working on standard networking models? Is there a conflict?
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Make Like A Tree And Branch Out
Alright, so you’ve decided to branch out and you may be wondering what else you can do to help things along. You can always try your friendly neighborhood blog or message board, but there’s always the problem of whether or not you’re getting good information. You should also check to see if your company has […]
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Make Like A Tree And Branch Out
Alright, so you’ve decided to branch out and you may be wondering what else you can do to help things along. You can always try your friendly neighborhood blog or message board, but there’s always the problem of whether or not you’re getting good information. You should also check to see if your company has […]
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Don’t Do Anything Twice
Hello, and welcome to my first blog post! Today I’ll be talking automation and why we automate things, including the simplest response of “it’s more interesting than doing the same thing 15 times a day”. That seems like such a simple thing to say, but it’s boring to do the same thing every day. It […]
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