Response: What is your netflow strategy? – The Forwarding Plane
Nick Buraglio rounds up your choices
Project Falco joins SONiC Community (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud) | LinkedIn Engineering
Linked chooses SONIC for hardware abstraction
Response: Do we really need a new BGP? | APNIC Blog
Russ White on the tragedy of BGP
ISP Column – January 2018
Geoff Huston reports the miserable state of Internet BGP
Research: 2017 Internet Society Report – Paths to our Digital Future
ISOC is getting in the face of politics. Which is good.
VMware Releases Dispatch, an Open Source Serverless Framework | VMware Open Source Blog
VMware tests the private cloud waters for serverless
Response: The Five Stages of Cloud Grief | Postmodern Security
Five stages of cloud grief
Is This is What Happens When You Hire Inexperienced, Unskilled Executives
Advice for entrepreneurs is school level learning
Meet and Greet in Silicon Valley from 15 Jan – 3 Feb 2018
I’ve reduced the travel and conferences I’m attending in 2018 to focus on content – writing, podcasting and video is my future. The negative impact is that I’ll miss meeting many people in the industry. So I am spending 3 weeks in San Jose 15 Jan – 3 Feb 2018 and hoping to meet as many […]
Don’t Delete PCAP Files – Trim Them! – NETRESEC Blog
Nice tool for people who are crafting an artisanal logging system
Response: HP, Asus announce first Windows 10 ARM PCs: 20 hour battery life, gigabit LTE | Ars Technica
Hey look, Microsoft just arrived in 2010.
Response: media.ccc.de – 1-day exploit development for Cisco IOS
How to crack Cisco IOS with SNMP RCE examples.
Internet Giants Should Be Broken Up
This is a 30 minute presentation that highlights the lack of societal value that Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon deliver. Galloway examines their market dominance and how the market is failing to regulate or control the tech companies. I recommend watching this and considering the ideas proposed here. Galloway is well known and worth listening […]
Starboard Value discloses 10.7% stake in Mellanox
Too Much R&D Makes a Vulnerable Tech Company ? Really ?
Nutanix: We don’t need a traditional channel program | Channelnomics
Interesting piece on Nutanix and resellers: Nutanix’s senior director of EMEA channels Jan Ursi has defended against a claim the firm has no clear channel strategy, suggesting that the hyperconverged vendor does not rely on conventional methods, such as reward programs, in order to foster partner relationships. Some thoughts Building a reseller channel is expensive […]
Research: CrystalNet: Faithfully Emulating Large Production Networks
Microsoft research paper on network emulation at scale
Turn Network Engineers into Software Engineers
Peyton Koran, Director of Technical Engagement at Electronic Arts, delivered a great session on why network vendors are losing to open source and whitebox. His view is that network engineers need to embrace software engineering, be flexible. Vendors and VARs are no longer working to benefit of the customer but to benefit themselves with increased […]
WISP Design: Using eBGP and OSPF transit fabric for traffic engineering – YouTube
Kevin Myers talks at the Mikrotik conference about the use of BGP & OSPF in WISP design.