Response: Adobe Profits Show Cloud is Expensive For Consumers
Adobe reports massive increase in revenue and profits on the back of moving to the cloud. First, let’s have a look at the numbers. Adobe reported a record $1.31 billion in revenue for the quarter, a 22 percent year over year increase. It disclosed record annual revenue of $4.8 billion. Mind you these are significant, but the big number to […]
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Briefing: Versa Networks – Managed Service SD-WAN
During the ONUG conference I attended a TechFieldDay event with Versa Networks and an introduction to their Service Provider SD-WAN product.
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Pearson Gets Owned, Cisco Certifications Database Taken
In the "least surprising security breach" category, Pearson VUE got hacked and your personal details have been taken.
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Network Dictionary: Skull Glitter
Define "Skull Glitter"
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Nerdgasm: Karl Brumund – Building a Small DC… For the rest of us – RIPE71
I've just finished watching a talk at RIPE71 conference by Karl Brumund for Dyn about real-world experience of building a small-scale datacenter and using automation etc. etc. and it had a lot of great lessons. Really, just great.
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Response: Number of VMS Per Rack ? Its more than 1000, Dell & MS for example
Following through on Ivans blog post to show that 1000 VMs per rack is conservative.
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Governments Want Cheap Interception and Cheap Politics
The US, UK and Australian governments have all introduced legislation that effectively co-opts Internet Providers/Carriers to become legal surveillance arms for secret services. Why are governments pushing forward to use private companies to perform activities that were previously restricted to secret services such as the NSA, GCHQ and DSD ?
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Nerd Knobs Are Career Limiting
Redefining the term Nerd Knobs as Wanker Knobs
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Response: Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?
I'm standing on my office chair screaming, fist pumping and yelling YES YES YES
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Its Hewlett Packard Enterprise Day
As an Enterprise IT person you probably know that today is the day that HP splits into two companies and discards the “deadweight” of the $50 Billion PC and Printer business to “HP Inc” while the new Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) company is expected to be leaner and more focussed on Webscale and Enterprise $50B […]
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Blessay: Intel the Networking Company
Intel is entering the networking market as part of its strategy for growth in the years ahead. Here is how.
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Network Dictionary – Head Down or Head Up
Define "head down" or "head up"
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Basics: Explaining the Difference Between Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
The next generation of networking is more complex and multi-functional compared to the networks of today. Networks are moving from “connectivity as a service” to “multi- service platform. Takeaways SDN & NFV are complementary technologies NFV depends on SDN to deliver network features that enable it. Both use controller concepts for Operations and Administration (OAM). […]
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AWS IoT vs Cisco Fog Computing – Cloud vs Network IoT
Amazon Internet of Things PaaS platform was announced yesterday with the buzz line "Cloud Services for Connected Devices". I am comparing the strategic differences with Cisco Fog Computing.
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Musing: Amazon stops selling competitor products, impact on AWS ?
If you build a service on the AWS cloud, are you at risk if Amazon decides to compete with you ?
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SDN Progress is at GhandiCon 3 – September 2015 –
Are we at GhandiCon Three ?
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Teaching AND Training Are Education
Training isn't enough. You need some teaching too.
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Musing: Skipping 10Gig Ethernet and Going Direct to 25Gigabit ?
With 25GbE costing just 1.4 times that total cost of 10GbE, its time to start considering whether 25GbE is right for you. For many data centres, this might mean skipping 10GbE products completely.
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A Segmented Front End Web Network Architecture
I present an outline of a segmented front end that avoids the limitations of the traditional load balancer designs. It allow horizontal scaling of for multi-10Gb ISP service, resiliency, redundancy at a fraction of the cost of conventional design.
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Network Dictionary – Security Blanket Failure
Define "Security Blanket Failure"
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