Cisco Tetration Now Available As A Cloud Service And Virtual Appliance
Cisco Tetration will be available as a SaaS offering, as well as a virtual appliance that runs on ESXi. Cisco positions Tetration for workload protection.Why Routers And Switches Don’t Matter Now
Individual routers and switches don't matter. It's time to think of the entire system.Network Break 179: Microsoft Targets Edge Computing; HCI Revenues Boom
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.
We’ve got links to all the stories we cover just after our sponsor messages.
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Coffee Talk: Kentik
Stay tuned after the news for a Coffee Talk conversation with sponsor Kentik. Kentik makes a big data platform to provide actionable insight from network data. Our guest is co-founder and CEO Avi Freedman, and we talk about how to use network data for fun and packets!
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Link Propagation 113
Welcome to Link Propagation, a Packet Pushers newsletter. Link Propagation is included in your free membership. Each week we scour the InterWebs to find the most relevant practitioner blog posts, tech news, and product announcements. We drink from the fire hose so you can sip from a coffee cup. Blogs Getting started with Jenkins for […]Show 384: The Packet Pushers Unleashed
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.
Sponsor: ThousandEyes
ThousandEyes gives you visibility, insights, and actionable intelligence into user experience from every user to every application over any network, so you transform your WAN, troubleshoot faster and deliver exceptional user experiences in the cloud and on premises. Try ThousandEyes for free at thousandeyes.com/packetpushers and grab a fun t-shirt!
Sponsor: Cumulus Networks
The Cumulus Linux network OS is simple, open, untethered Linux that can run on more than 70 hardware platforms and help you transition from your legacy infrastructure. Cumulus Networks is Web-scale networking for the digital age. Go to cumulusnetworks.com to find out more.
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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
Infoblox Updates Cloud-Based DNS Security Offering To Block Malicious Sites
Infoblox updates its cloud-based DNS security service to run without agent software and improves its ability to filter unwanted and malicious sites.PQ 144: Engineer Roundtable: Encryption, Code Style, Tech Over 40
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.
Sponsor: Paessler AG
Paessler AG is the maker of PRTG Network Monitor. PRTG monitors your entire IT infrastructure 24/7 and alerts you to problems before users notice. Find out more about the monitoring software that helps system administrators work smarter, faster, better by visiting paessler.com today.
Show Links:
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
Where Is My Feature Request?
Getting a feature request implemented by your vendor can be a long and painful process. In this post we will take a look at some of the reasons feature request processes take so long and what a customer can do to avoid some of the pain and suffering.Datanauts 128: Kubernetes, Serverless And No Code With Kelsey Hightower
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.
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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 I Learned About VeloCloud SD-WAN
Some things about VeloCloud I learned at #NFD17
Network Break 178: Cisco Disaggregates, ATT Bets Big On Whitebox
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.
Get links with more details to all these stories after our sponsor message.
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An Architectural Approach to Flexible Consumption for Service Providers with IOS XR – Cisco
Enabling IOS-XR on Third-Party Network Hardware Continue reading
Considering The Future Of Juniper’s Contrail And OpenContrail/Tungsten
I'm positive on Juniper Contrail, but there are many things to think about regarding the company's SDN strategy and the changing market.
OpenContrail & dNOS Join The Linux Foundation, Get New Names
Juniper's OpenContrail and AT&T's dNOS projects have joined the Linux Foundation and gotten new names. Should you care? Yes, a little bit.Link Propagation 112
Welcome to Link Propagation, a Packet Pushers newsletter. Link Propagation is included in your free membership. Each week we scour the InterWebs to find the most relevant practitioner blog posts, tech news, and product announcements. We drink from the fire hose so you can sip from a coffee cup. Blogs The problem of unpredictable interface […]Show 383: Optimizing Internet Traffic With Expereo (Sponsored)
BGP is good for keeping the Internet connected. And that s about it. BGP isn t good at optimizing the path between two endpoints, as it s more about optimizing service provider costs than traffic performance.
Therefore, there are products on the market that optimize your traffic flows across the Internet despite default BGP behavior. Some of these products actually manipulate BGP, which will be the focus of our sponsored show today. Our sponsor Expereo is here to discuss their XCA and XCA Edge products with us.
Joining us from Expereo are Francois Devienne, VP of Networks; and Sander Barens, VP of Commercial Development.
Expereo is a managed service provider. We discuss how the company optimizes BGP to get the best out of the Internet, and explore Expereo’s XCA and XCA Edge products.
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A Silicon Beach CCIE Job Hunts in 2018 (with salary numbers!)
I got my digits in summer of 2008, and I’ve been in various hands-on roles across content, ISP, and corporate networks since January of 2000. My last few years have been long- and medium-term contracts (3-year, then 2, then 1), and here are a few trends I’ve noticed in the Los Angeles job market, which […]Datanauts 127: Found On The Internet Series 4
Today on the Datanauts we crack open our cabinet of curiosities to explore a variety of subjects, ideas, and blogs gleaned from the Internet.
Topics include Site Reliability Engineering, AWS vs. Amazon for your cloud career, the pros and cons of abstraction, and the ups and downs of industry certifications.
Check out the show links for more details on everything we discuss.
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You need SRE skills to thrive in a serverless world Kelsey Hightower – A Cloud Guru
AWS Vs. Azure: Which One s Right for Your Cloud Career? – SimpliLearn
The CNCF takes steps toward serverless computing – Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Serverless Working Group – GitHub
How Self-Sufficient Do You Want to Be? – IP Space
The Law of Leaky Abstractions – Joel on Software
Rehashing Certifications – Rule 11 Reader
Computer Networking Problems And Solutions – Rush White and Ethan Banks
Building Next-Generation Data Center – IP Space
RedHat to acquire CoreOS – RedHat
On-call doesn’t have to suck – Medium
Open source project trends for 2018 – GitHub Blog
The State of the Octoverse 2017 – GitHub
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Network Break 177: Dell Launches New Branch CPE; Sonic In The Spotlight
Take a Network Break! In this week’s show, Dell EMC rolls out new branch hardware to run VNFs, the Sonic switch OS gets its turn in the open networking spotlight, and Innovium announces sampling of its Teralynx programmable ASIC.
The IEEE ratifies a standard for 25Gbps over single-mode fiber, Dropbox embraces security researchers, and Micro Focus suffers a massive drop in value.
Cryptojacking roars onto the threat scene, and Orbitz reports that attackers may have breached a legacy site, exposing up to 880,000 customers.
Get links to all these stories after our sponsor message.
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Dell EMC Takes on Cisco, Launches Open uCPE for SD-WAN – SDX Central
Dell EMC Takes Open Networking to the Edge for Next-Generation Access – Dell EMC
Innovium announces OCP SAI and open-source SONiC solution to accelerate TERALYNX market adoption – Innovium
Apstra Demonstrates Open Networking SONiC over Mellanox at OCP Summit Continue reading
Link Propagation 111
Welcome to Link Propagation, a Packet Pushers newsletter. Link Propagation is included in your free membership. Each week we scour the InterWebs to find the most relevant practitioner blog posts, tech news, and product announcements. We drink from the fire hose so you can sip from a coffee cup. Blogs Is Patching And Tech Support […]Show 382: Whitebox In The Enterprise With Pica8 (Sponsored)
On today’s show we explore whitebox switching in the enterprise with our sponsor Pica8.
Pica8 makes a network OS for data centers and enterprises, which customers can run on a variety of third-party switches including Dell, HPE, and Edgecore.
Our guests are James Liao, CEO and co-founder of Pica8; and Sharad Ahlawat, VP of Technology.
We get details about Pica8’s switch OS, called PicOS, and find out how Pica8 differentiates itself from other OSs.
We also talk about how SDN has to change to be useful, such as targeting specific use cases. We look at the state of the whitebox market, the role of open source, and why Pica8 is shifting its focus to enterprise customers.
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