If you d heard of Cisco Tetration when it was first announced, you might have a vague memory of it being this huge rack of hardware at an eye-watering price that did some sort of analytics for massive data centers.
Tetration has evolved into a platform that meets needs for organizations of many sizes. Tetration also has a bunch of genuinely interesting use cases, as Cisco has become increasingly clever about what they can do with all of that data Tetration gathers.
For example, you can auto-implement a whitelist policy for application workloads. You can detect when your apps are deviating from their normal traffic patterns. You can detect software vulnerabilities. And depending on where you run Tetration, you can still get deep network performance insights, what I think of as the original Tetration value proposition.
Today on this sponsored episode, we delve into what Tetration does, explore use cases, and dive into how it fits into compute environments. Our guests from Cisco are Jason Gmitter, Principal Systems Engineer; and Yogesh Kaushik, Senior Director of Product Management for Tetration.
Cisco Tetration – Cisco Systems
Cisco Tetration Workload Protection Extended with new Options: SaaS and Virtual Appliance – Cisco Continue reading
Ethan Banks does a five minute review of the enterprise-oriented D-Link DGS-1510-52 Ethernet switch.
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Jeff Gray, CEO at Gluware, chatted to the Packet Pushers about how they can automate any network, including the one you've already got.
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Today the Datanauts explore three key concepts to make cloud management and operations more bearable: automation, understanding new services and capabilities, and security.
Our guest is Kenneth Hui, Technical Marketing Engineer at Rubrik. Ken blogs at Cloud Architect Musings. While our conversation focuses primarily on AWS, many of the principles discussed will apply to any cloud platform.
In part one we parse automation, infrastructure-as-code, and DevOps to understand how these concepts are related, how they differ, and why culture and human behavior matter more than labels.
Part two explores the latest offerings in AWS including serverless, container support, and machine learning.
Part three tackles cloud security essentials including encryption, not exposing S3 buckets, and best practices.
Infrastructure as Code: A Reason to Smile – Thoughtworks.com
DevOps Culture (Part 1) – IT Revolution
The AWS Love/Hate Relationship with Data Gravity – Cloud Architect Musings
Data Encryption in the Cloud, Part 1: Why You Should Care – Cloud Architect Musings
Last Week In AWS – Newsletter
Unsecured server exposed thousands of FedEx customer records – ZDNet
Vault Project – Vault.io
AWS Blogs – Amazon
AWS Security – Amazon
AWS Security Best Practices – Amazon
Take a Network Break! Edge computing is the new hotness for traditional IT vendors as Microsoft and HPE, via its Aruba business unit, target edge computing infrastructure and software for new growth.
Meanwhile, Intel sells embedded software developer Wind River to a private equity firm, and we review the potential financial impact to legacy networking vendors as AT&T plans a massive whitebox rollout.
HCI revenues skyrocket in 2017; Delta, Sears, and Sacks Fifth Avenue get hacked; and Panera Bread picks a security fight with the wrong person.
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On today’s show Greg and Ethan talk about a few things that have been on their minds, including updates on the forthcoming Packet Pushers subscription site and a post-mortem of the recent Virtual Design Clinic.
They also hash out some tech conversations, including Cloudflare’s new DNS resolver, peak open networking, a review of the Aruba Atmosphere wireless conference, and more nerdy topics.
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Introducing DNS Resolver, 1.1.1.1 (not a joke) – Cloudflare
Announcing 1.1.1.1: the fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service – Cloudflare
jedisct1/dnsblast: A simple and stupid load testing tool for DNS resolvers – Continue reading
Today on the Priority Queue we have a roundtable show. We’ve gathered a few engineers around the microphone to talk about their experiences and what’s on their minds.
We often hear this format is an audience favorite, so we plan to record more of these in the Priority Queue and Weekly channels, so keep an eye out.
Today we welcome Alex Clipper, Eric Gullickson, Matt Elliott, and Stafford Rau to the podcast. We discuss encryption, code styles to ensure that code written by networkers is up to snuff, and what it’s like to work in technology after a certain age.
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Understanding Media Access Control Security (MACsec) – Technical Documentation – Support – Juniper Networks
Layer 2-Encryptors For Metro And Carrier Ethernet WANs And MANs – Inside-IT (PDF)
Thales L2 Encryption – Thales
Senetas – Senetas.com
What Is Optical Encryption? – Ciena
Google Style Guides – GitHub
Today, the Datanauts revisit the world of Kubernetes and container scheduling, but we also loop in Serverless or Functions as a Service (FaaS) along with building an incredibly famous project that has literally no code.
Our guest is Kelsey Hightower, a Google employee as well as a Kubernetes advocate and expert. We talk with Kelsey about the latest evolution of Kubernetes, whether the notion of Kubernetes lock-in is a concern, and how it’s being used in production.
We also delve into serverless computing or Functions as a Service (FaaS) and discuss the technology’s development and adoption. We also explore Kelsey’s latest project, No Code.
Last but not least, we look at how containers and orchestration affects the interaction between Devs and Ops, and how to embrace the new world of application design.
Kubernetes Up And Running – Amazon
Kubernetes The Hard Way – GitHub
Datanauts 058: Kubernetes A Deep-Dive Introduction
Datanauts 042: Understanding Serverless Architecture
Datanauts 047: A Serverless Architecture Follow-Up
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Kubernetes as First Graduated Project – CNCF
Some things about VeloCloud I learned at #NFD17
Take a Network Break! Cisco announced that it would allow third-party OSs to run on Nexus 9200 and 9300 switches, and let customers run NX-OS on other hardware. The company is also making its IOS-XR router OS available for “curated” third-party hardware.
AT&T announces a plan to deploy 60,000 whitebox routers as part of its 5G rollout, and its dNOS open network OS moves to the Linux Foundation. Juniper’s OpenContrail also joins the Linux Foundation and gets renamed Tungsten Fabric.
The P4 network programming language becomes an official project of the Open Networking Foundation, HPE buys Cape Networks for WLAN performance monitoring, Microsoft reorganizes the company, and Arista announces new 25 and 100GbE switches.
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An Architectural Approach to Flexible Consumption for Service Providers with IOS XR – Cisco
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I'm positive on Juniper Contrail, but there are many things to think about regarding the company's SDN strategy and the changing market.