Datanauts 155: The Mad Libs Prediction Show
In our final Datanauts episode for this year, we review how the show did over 2018, talk a little about how the show comes together, and finish with our 2019 predictions done Mad Libs-style.
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Weekly Show 421: Containing Breaches With Illumio’s Microsegmentation (Sponsored)
On today's Weekly Show we dive into microsegmentation with our sponsor, Illumio. We discuss how Illumio builds an app dependency map in the data center to inform security policies, and leverages existing controls on hosts and in networking gear to cordon high-value workloads and contain attacks.
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Datanauts 154: Modernizing IT Infrastructure With HPE (Sponsored)
Today's Datanauts episode, sponsored by HPE and Intel, explores how HPE helps companies unify their silos and build a modern IT infrastructure. Our guest is Garth Reid, Senior Strategist - Enterprise Portfolio at HPE.
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Full Stack Journey 028: Turning The Mic On Scott Lowe
Today's Full Stack Journey episode puts host Scott Lowe in the guest chair to share his own sojourns through the IT stacks.
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Full Stack Journey 028: Turning The Mic On Scott Lowe
Today's Full Stack Journey episode puts host Scott Lowe in the guest chair to share his own sojourns through the IT stacks.
Tech Bytes: How Silver Peak’s SD-WAN Helped Gentherm Beat Global MPLS Hassles
Today's Tech Bytes, sponsored by Silver Peak, discusses how SD-WAN can give you more leverage over your MPLS providers and improve performance for users. Our guest is Bruce Jarrett, Infrastructure Team Lead and Network Architect at Gentherm.
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Network Break 215: Dell Buys Its Way To Wall Street; Arista Inks Container Partnerships
On today's Network Break we analyze Dell's move back onto the public market, Arista's partnerships for container networking, startup funding, new products, and more of what's happening in IT.
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Weekly Show 420: Real-World Network Design Part 2
The Weekly Show returns to the University of Idaho to continue the real-world network design session we started in Show 418. Today's episode focuses on the university's wireless architecture and design with guests Brian Jemes, Mike Rusca, and Jake Snyder. We cover 5Ghz, PoE, next-gen APs, and more.
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PQ 161: Inside Juniper’s Programmable Silicon (Sponsored)
Today's Priority Queue dives into Juniper's programmable Penta ASIC in this sponsored episode. Guest Chang-Hong Wu shares details on how the Penta ASIC works and discusses the future of silicon design for networking.
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IPv6 Buzz 015: How ‘Happy Eyeballs’ Improves User Experience With v6
Today's IPv6 Buzz episode peers into RFC 6555, aka 'Happy Eyeballs,' which helps dual-stack clients select a v6 or v4 address faster. Our guest is Dan Wing, a co-author of Happy Eyeballs.
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Datanauts 153: Understanding Metadata For IT Operations
What is metadata, and why should IT practitioners care? How is metadata stored? What impact does metadata have on enterprise IT storage? We answer these questions and more on today’s Datanauts podcast with guest Karen Lopez.
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Tech Bytes: HPE’s Composable Fabric For Data Center Automation (Sponsored)
On today's Tech Bytes, sponsored by HPE and Intel, we explore HPE's Composable Fabric. It combines top-of-rack switches and automation software to pool networking resources and help your data center scale. We also discuss how Composable Fabric integrates with Simplivity, HPE's hyperconverged platform.
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BiB 067: Custom APIs For Business Logic With BlueCat Gateway
BlueCat Networks offers a free add-on product to their DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM) product called Gateway. Gateway is a platform customers can use to create their own custom APIs that make sense for their business. Put another way, Gateway provides a REST API endpoint for other applications within the business to talk to. That makes for some interesting workflow capabilities.
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Weekly Show 419: Benchmarking Public Cloud Network Performance With ThousandEyes (Sponsored)
You need to know a cloud provider's network performance before you spin up workloads because the end user impact is measurable. On today's Weekly Show, sponsor ThousandEyes breaks down latency, jitter, and performance numbers for AWS, Azure, and GCP.
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BiB 066: Why Cloud Visibility Matters
Complex cloud applications need decent visualizations to help infrastructure engineers understand what's going on. For cloud visibility, Kentik absorbs AWS & GCP flow logs, with Azure support coming. Kubernetes & Istio are also data providers to Kentik. Using the Kubernetes API, Kentik correlates pod IPs to pod names and cluster namespaces. With that information, Kentik can visualize pod to pod and service to service traffic flows within a Kubernetes cluster.
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PQ 160: Inside ArcOS®: The Internet-Scale, Carrier-Grade Network OS (Sponsored)
On today's Priority Queue we dive into ArcOS®, a new network OS designed for whitebox routing and switching from our sponsor Arrcus. We examine how the OS was designed, how it differentiates itself from competitors, and explore key use cases.
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BiB 065: Barefoot Networks Announces A New 12.8Tbps Tofino ASIC
Barefoot Networks has announced the newest version of its Tofino programmable ASIC. Tofino 2 offers 12.8Tbps total throughput and promises greater efficiency thanks to its 7nm design.
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Tech Bytes: How VIAVI Measures End User Experience To Improve Performance Management (Sponsored)
In this Tech Bytes episode we talk with sponsor VIAVI about performance management and the essential role that end user experience metrics play in turning piles of data into actionable insights.
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BiB 064: Is Riverbed’s SD-WAN Product Too Late To Matter?
There are 2 appliances Riverbed has announced, adding to the SteelConnect SD-WAN products they launched a couple of years ago. The first new appliance is the SteelHead SD. The second appliance is the SteelConnect SDI. Are these enough to make Riverbed a major SD-WAN player?
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BiB 063: Can An SD-WAN Device Replace A WAN Router?
Let’s examine the assertion from Silver Peak that they can replace WAN routers. Is an SD-WAN device able to be a drop-in replacement for a WAN router from Cisco or whomever? Probably, but it depends.
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