How does a network engineer deal with divestiture--that is, getting rid of some part of your company's business? On today's Weekly Show, Jeremy Filliben shares his lessons learned in separating networking one from another is. Jeremy is a network engineer for a Fortune 500 insurance company.
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The torrid growth projected for the SD-WAN market means that a ridiculous number of competitors will be able to sustain themselves for a long time.
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The torrid growth projected for the SD-WAN market means that a ridiculous number of competitors will be able to sustain themselves for a long time.
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On today's Datanauts episode we're joined by Jason Edelman to dig into why the network has traditionally been so hard to automate, what tools are available, and how to get started.
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On today's Datanauts episode we're joined by Jason Edelman to dig into why the network has traditionally been so hard to automate, what tools are available, and how to get started.
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Want to be a better engineer? Learn to troubleshoot Since I have been working in IT for many years there are a few traits that generally separate a good engineer from a great engineer. One of those traits is troubleshooting. For those of you out there who have been doing this a long time would […]
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Want to be a better engineer? Learn to troubleshoot Since I have been working in IT for many years there are a few traits that generally separate a good engineer from a great engineer. One of those traits is troubleshooting. For those of you out there who have been doing this a long time would […]
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On today's Network Break we look at Verizon's embrace of OpenStack, peer into the minds of tech sales people, examine a layoff prediction, review financial news and more!
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On today's Network Break we look at Verizon's embrace of OpenStack, peer into the minds of tech sales people, examine a layoff prediction, review financial news and more!
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Today's show is a thought-provoking look at anycast TCP. We start with anycast basics, explore use cases for providers and the enterprise, and then dig into the technical issues of anycast use in production.
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Today's show is a thought-provoking look at anycast TCP. We start with anycast basics, explore use cases for providers and the enterprise, and then dig into the technical issues of anycast use in production.
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There is an African proverb that it takes a whole village to raise a child. The basic meaning is that child upbringing is a communal effort. The responsibility for raising a child is shared with the extended family. Everyone participates especially the older children, aunts and uncles, grandparents, and cousins – even neighbors and friends. […]
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There is an African proverb that it takes a whole village to raise a child. The basic meaning is that child upbringing is a communal effort. The responsibility for raising a child is shared with the extended family. Everyone participates especially the older children, aunts and uncles, grandparents, and cousins – even neighbors and friends. […]
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Test results show that a Tomahawk-based switch unfairly allocates bandwidth, while a Mellanox Spectrum-based switch allocates bandwidth fairly regardless of which ports are used.
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Test results show that a Tomahawk-based switch unfairly allocates bandwidth, while a Mellanox Spectrum-based switch allocates bandwidth fairly regardless of which ports are used.
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What follows is an article about how I recently rebuilt a single-purpose home NAS into a multi-purpose data services machine, all while keeping the data storage structures untouched and completely intact. Plan for about 10 minutes to read this article. Data storage is boring A couple years ago I built a NAS for personal use. […]
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What follows is an article about how I recently rebuilt a single-purpose home NAS into a multi-purpose data services machine, all while keeping the data storage structures untouched and completely intact. Plan for about 10 minutes to read this article. Data storage is boring A couple years ago I built a NAS for personal use. […]
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Verizon has deployed an OpenStack infrastructure, using software from Red Hat and Big Switch Networks and hardware from Dell, on which it will offer NFV services.
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Verizon has deployed an OpenStack infrastructure, using software from Red Hat and Big Switch Networks and hardware from Dell, on which it will offer NFV services.
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On today's episode of Datanauts we learn about Snap, an open source telemetry framework to make collecting, processing, and publishing data center metrics modular, dynamic, and open. Snap was originally developed by Intel.
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