Battle Scars from OpenStack Are Just Cloud Problems
Cloud scars are the same everywhere, not just OpenStack.
Facebook exec: ‘Just not true’ that we listen to your phone’s mic | The Outline
Because Facebook makes billions exploiting the personal surveillance business data it collects, stores and analyses. More data means more revenue from better targeted advertising (in theory): “I run ads product at Facebook. We don’t – and have never – used your microphone for ads. Just not true,” tweeted Rob Goldman, vice president of ads products […]
How to be an infosec thought leader – YouTube
Funny because its true. Security professionals are a weird bunch of people. Becoming a thought leader is the epitome of professional success. But a thought leader isn’t a title that one attains by going to Harvard, or Cambridge. No, it’s a title bestowed by your peers. How to be an infosec thought leader – YouTube […]
Musing: Apple Pulls Off Marketing Trick Unbelievably Well With iPhone X
Increase the price by 30% and customers love it
We Broke IT Purchasing
Top notch rant on over-selling by vendors
HUAWEI CloudEngine Series Switches Large Layer 2 Network Introduction – YouTube
Good primer on L2 Loops for low competency people
China Telecom Guangzhou and Huawei Complete World’s First 400GE Test
Practical testing at 400GE
Musing: Network Fabrics Of History
Once upon a time, there were many fabrics. There can be only one.
Response: Network Management: Why the CLI?
People get angry when I talk about the death of the CLI for network operations. I’m not the only one: I believe that in today’s network device landscape, the CLI is primarily a tool to promote vendor lock-in by training network engineers to rely on and value it so highly. Yes, devices can be configured […]
Zodiac WX – Northbound Networks
A WiFi Base station using OpenFlow for $250. The Zodiac WX is the world’s first fully integrated OpenFlow® Wireless Access Point. It is a high powered ceiling / wall mountable Dual-Band AC1200 AP that includes 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports and support for PoE. We have integrated our Zodiac OpenFlow® engine directly into the wireless drivers so […]
GE’s Irish wind farm to supply total output to Microsoft for 15 years
Getting difficult to build a cloud DC when you have to buy your own power source
Troubleshooting: A journey into the unknown
Enjoyed this troubleshooting 'war' story from Booking.com
Response: Oracles Chides US Govt For Believing in DevOps, Open Source
Oracle acts like a dad berating naughty teenager.
Reuters: HP Enterprise let Russia scrutinize cyberdefense system used by Pentagon
One of the challenges that faces HP, Cisco and Dell is that running a sales company is losing relevance. They don’t make products they sell them. A sales company is one that sells products: any product, to anyone, anywhere for the right price. The technology giants have been buying products from various OEMs, bundling them […]
Intent Washing with @CloudToad
Now this is marketing I can get behind.
Response: Three Advances Make Magnetic Tape More Than a Memory – IEEE Spectrum
I’m reasonably convinced that tape backups and cockroaches will survive environmental collapse. Think of each bit as a rectangular magnetic region. On IBM’s latest commercially available tape, each bit measures 1,347 by 50 nanometers. (Hard disk bits are 47 by 13 nm.) In the new demo system, the researchers shrunk the data bits to 103 […]
Video: The End of Cloud Computing – Peter Levine
If you are starting to think about Edge Computing this is good place to start. Key Themes: A car has 140 CPUs today, its a data centre. The centralised vs edge model that swings like a pendulum. What does the Edge look like ?
Musing: The Right Start For Your Career
Cisco certifications are a good start but not a long term strategy
Cable Breakage: When and How Submarine Cables Go Down
Sound bites on submarine cables.
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Announce: Briefings In Brief – A New Packet Pushers Podcast Channel
Briefings In Brief is a new podcast channel from the Packet Pushers that summarizes tech news and announcements in quick doses.
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