Vendors keep telling me that every business is different and customer have different needs. We all buy the same products from the same companies, use the same deployment methodologies and best practices, have the same problems and deliver the same results to the business. You aren't a precious snowflake.
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Containers virtualize at the operating system level, Hypervisors virtualize at the hardware level. Hypervisors abstract the operating system from hardware, containers abstract the application from the operation system. Hypervisors consumes storage space for each instance. Containers use a single storage space plus smaller deltas for each layer and thus are much more efficient. Containers can boot and be […]
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Notes on the CheckPoint firewall clustering solution based on a review of the documentation in August 2014.
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VMware announced the vCloud Hosted Services a while back and it was mostly known as vCheese for short. This week it was rebranded as "vCloud Air Network" and that is too much of a mouthful to keep saying as well. Don't these marketing people live in the real world ? Lets me share my suggestion .......
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I've been reading the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Design Guide. Sometimes I see a product of genius and wondrous use of technology, other times I'm like 'did they do it the hard way or what' ?
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I often hear vendors and pundits proclaim that Enterprise is resisting change. In particular, they say that individuals in Enterprises can't see the change or won't discuss buying new technology. I see these objections as failure of the current system and much less due to the people.
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I've made my own handwritten font for those moments when you are "sketching" network diagrams and it is free for you to use.
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Cisco announced another 6000 job cuts in the Q4 2014 Results announcement yesterday in addition to the 5000 job cuts announced last quarter. Cisco has (or had) approx. 75000 employes so that’s a lot of jobs (more than 20%) in a short period of time and this leaves me pondering the impact to the products […]
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Collection of useful, relevant or just fun places on the Internets for 13 August 2014 and a bit commentary about what I've found interesting about them:
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Huawei is showing some signs of maturity in the Enterprise market with this Learning website offering free e-learning courses. Unfortunately, it’s seriously restricted to partners or some other weird criteria for membership. Entitlement E-Learning courses currently face to the following types of users: Huawei channel partners; Huawei Authorized Learning Partner(HALP) and the one who passed […]
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Define "Default Free Zone" or DFZ Routing
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Announcing the Network Break podcast - a regular look at the news in networking and cloud infrastructure in less than 30 minutes.
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I’m often told that the enterprise customer will take years to implement Private Clouds because the enterprise is slow to adopt new technologies. Yet the private cloud is happening faster than seems practical and there has to be a reason that is driving adoption so quickly. It's simple, point to the success of others and use that as proof of success and use that to generate permission to implement change.
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I collect data from three different research . This is much higher and sooner than my previous survey data in December 2013 and more recently for InformationWeek. Clearly, SDN demand is much greater than almost anyone predicts. Are people talking to the wrong sources about the future of networking ?
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Collection of useful, relevant or just fun places on the Internets for %dateend% and a bit commentary about what I've found interesting about them:
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Big Switch Networks (BSN) launches Version 4.0 of Big Cloud Fabric for hardware-centric SDN data centre fabric. The Data Centre Fabric solution clearly shows the maturity gained from 5 years of shipping products while adding innovation in switch hardware through Switch Light operating system. At the same time, they have completed the transition from platform to product. A product that really has what you need in a hardware-centric SDN platform and addresses nearly all of the issues the competitors have not addressed. And it is shipping now.
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There are many algorithms that can be used to for flow-based hashing to provide the best load balancing method over multiple IP or Ethernet connections but I recently learned that Cuckoo Hashing the preferred method.
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Here is a block diagram showing the functional areas in private & public cloud that I use when working with clients. I'm often explaining the full picture of cloud building especially in relation to how the network can be orchestrated to fully accelerate the cloud process. I hope you find it useful.
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I’ve been working on Mellanox S-Series switches lately in a largish network with several hundred 10GbE server ports. On the whole, the product has performed beyond my cynically low expectations and the product has good capabilities overall but the command line interface (CLI) is a really poor user experience. How about this gem for configuring […]
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Collection of useful, relevant or just fun places on the Internets for 9th July 2014 and a bit commentary about what I’ve found interesting about them: Will Software Defined Networking Actually Happen? – Ethan Banks is blogging at cisco.com on SDN: I understand the cynicism. After all, for a long time, networking had lapsed […]
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