There is NO IPv6 Standard
Geoff Huston highlights that the IETF has never completed their standard process. One hundred and forty-six of these RFCs are Informational, four of these are Historic, 23 are Experimental, five are Best Current Practice and the remaining 193 are Standards Track documents. Of these 193 documents, 24 are already obsoleted, 164 are Proposed Standards, just five […]
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SDN is NOT an Innovation, its Iteration
The big Red Herring in networking over the past ten years is most things labeled “innovative” when the word that should be used is “iterative.”
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Response: Stack Overflow: The Hardware
StackOverflow doesn’t run on the public cloud, its runs on dedicated hardware beacuse performance matters. Baremetal is fast. because their human infrastructure knows what they are doing the installation uses physical routers and firewalls. 2 Ethernet switches – Nexus 5596UP ( I don’t count Nexus 2000 as they are not switches, they are hubs running 802.1BR) I’ve […]
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Response:What should IETF “standard track” actually mean?
Russ White blogs on “What should IETF “standard track” actually mean?”. I’m critical of two things: lack of focus on Enterprise networking that standards being produced have little relevance to real world uses. The second is likely to be people problem because organisations inherently build up resistance to new ideas and become self-referential. The first […]
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Enterprise Sticking With Private Cloud
This slide was posted on Twitter this morning rom Sam Charrington: This matches with what I hear and see in the market. Most enterprises will build private clouds They have so much data in their existing DCs that migrating is impossible/impractical That OpenStack (not VMware SDDC) is the preferred platform Some key market points that I […]
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Dell & “One of Everything” Strategy
I understand Dell's product strategy best when I consider it as "one of everything".
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Network Monitoring, Moral Hazards and Crumple Zones
Software Defined Networking & self-driving cars are closely related because they are automated systems. When automated systems go wrong who takes responsibility ?
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Response:Pricing and Perdition
Standardised product pricing led to big results.
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IETF and an “Acid” Testing Suite
Since I roundly dumped all over the IETF I’ve been thinking how the IETF could improve. My current best idea is “testing”.
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The IETF and Not The Enterprise
Now I know why the IETF isn't doing stuff that Enterprises care about.
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Response: Inside Facebook Networking
I was inspired by this presentation rom Petr Lapukhov from Facebook Networking about the software they have been developing to monitor and operate the network.
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Research:The Evolution of Layered Protocol Stacks Leads to an Hourglass-Shaped Architecture
One reason why IPv6 has slow adoption is that the seven layer model has created a “waist” where change is possible in some layers but impossible in others. As the diagram below suggests, change in applications and protocols (Layer 5/6/7) is possible while Layer 1/2 has slower change but it does happen. The one thing that […]
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Repsonse: Design in Tech Report 2016
I have been talking about the value of well designed interfaces in network monitoring tools for a few years because the current generation is badly designed. I'm wasting a lot of time getting through the pain barrier before the software becomes useful.
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Playing Sportsball In High School Damaged My Team Skills
Takeaway: I was supposed to learn life lessons by participation in “sportsball” at school. Looking back, everything I learned was wrong for the modern era. So you played sportsball because the school education systems tells you that its good for your education. Sportsball is generic term for whatever team sport you played at school – […]
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HP will Announce ProLiant Hyperconverged This Month
Just in case you wondered why HP doesn’t have an hyperconverged system, here is what Meg Whitman said this quarter investors call: Looking forward, you can expect this momentum and investment in innovation to continue. Later this month, we will announce a new market-changing hyper-converged offering based on our industry-leading ProLiant virtualization server. Our new […]
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Response: Cisco vs Arista Update on Protecting Innovation
I almost missed this in the barrage of announcements form Cisco during its Partner Conference this week. Why didn’t they announce these strategies and products at the Cisco Live customer event last week in Berlin ? Is this a sign that Cisco resellers partners are getting rebellious ? It details some of Cisco’s favourite parts of […]
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Cisco HCI & Springpath – Some Questions
Now that Cisco is freed from the VCE/vBlock engagement (rumoured to be exclusive arrangement), most people are wondering why Cisco took so long to announce this. Cisco announced another HyperConverged Infrastructure (HCI) platform this week. I say “another” because Cisco already works with several partners for Converged and Hyperconverged such as NetApp, VCE, Simplicity and […]
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Musing: First Class Assets, Second Rate Staff
Takeaway: DevOps is a first rate staff, second class assets. Helluva difference from Enterprise IT.
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Musing: Why Oracle Bought Ravello ? Its the Network, Stupid
Takeaway: Ravello lets Oracle uses any underlying cloud but effectively hide that completely from the customer thus Oracle gets to “manage” any cloud, gives customers “any cloud” and yet maintain full control of the customer account by hiding the underlying services. But it was the networking features that really made Ravello unique. Oracle Scorned Its […]
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Network Dictionary: Footgun
Define Footgun
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