Show 282: Why We’re Stuck With Middleboxes And How To Improve Them
Middleboxes--that is, non-routing and non-switching network devices such as firewalls and caches--can be expensive, hard to manage, and prone to failure. But they're also widely deployed, and show no signs of going away. Today's Weekly Show episode goes deep on middleboxes to explore why these devices have proliferated, and find ways to make them more reliable and easier to manage.
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Show 282: Why We’re Stuck With Middleboxes And How To Improve Them
Middleboxes--that is, non-routing and non-switching network devices such as firewalls and caches--can be expensive, hard to manage, and prone to failure. But they're also widely deployed, and show no signs of going away. Today's Weekly Show episode goes deep on middleboxes to explore why these devices have proliferated, and find ways to make them more reliable and easier to manage.
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Datanauts 029: The Evil Behind Long-Distance vMotion & Stretched L2 Domains
The Datanauts explore the network and application issues that make moving VMs from one data center to another dangerous, and share ways to enable it safely.
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Datanauts 029: The Evil Behind Long-Distance vMotion & Stretched L2 Domains
The Datanauts explore the network and application issues that make moving VMs from one data center to another dangerous, and share ways to enable it safely.
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Intel Cloud Day Preview
I’m heading to the Intel Cloud Day event courtesy of Tech Field Day. Intel will provide details on its efforts to build software-defined infrastructure for the cloud, including NFV.
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Intel Cloud Day Preview
I’m heading to the Intel Cloud Day event courtesy of Tech Field Day. Intel will provide details on its efforts to build software-defined infrastructure for the cloud, including NFV.
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The Next Level: Agile Networking Part 1
Agile is a set of principles for software development, but its values and goals can be generally applied in other contexts. This episode explores how to use Agile concepts for IT infrastructure projects and to foster better collaboration.
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The Next Level: Agile Networking Part 1
Agile is a set of principles for software development, but its values and goals can be generally applied in other contexts. This episode explores how to use Agile concepts for IT infrastructure projects and to foster better collaboration.
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PQ Show 75: Talking Network Analytics And Telemetry
Today we talk about how network analytics and telemetry differ from traditional monitoring, what new data sources & techniques are available, and how we can put this data to good use.
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PQ Show 75: Talking Network Analytics And Telemetry
Today we talk about how network analytics and telemetry differ from traditional monitoring, what new data sources & techniques are available, and how we can put this data to good use.
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Multipathing With NFS4.1 And KVM
Today, we’re going to talk about performance and especially network performance. The main goal of this article is to present to you a way to boost progressively your network bandwidth at minor costs. Welcome to the wonderful world of the multipathing! We can define the multipathing as a method to use more than one way […]
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Multipathing With NFS4.1 And KVM
Today, we’re going to talk about performance and especially network performance. The main goal of this article is to present to you a way to boost progressively your network bandwidth at minor costs. Welcome to the wonderful world of the multipathing! We can define the multipathing as a method to use more than one way […]
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United States Hosts 72% Of Compromised DNS Domains
A recent report from Infoblox says the U.S. far and away hosted the largest number of domains that were used “for hosting and launching attacks using malicious DNS infrastructure” in the fourth quarter of 2015.
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United States Hosts 72% Of Compromised DNS Domains
A recent report from Infoblox says the U.S. far and away hosted the largest number of domains that were used “for hosting and launching attacks using malicious DNS infrastructure” in the fourth quarter of 2015.
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Network Break 80: Microsoft Moves Markets, Cisco Reorganizes
Take a Network Break! We serve up a bounty of tech news, including Microsoft's influence over hardware players, Cisco's big reorganization, a new Citrix appliance & more.
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Network Break 80: Microsoft Moves Markets, Cisco Reorganizes
Take a Network Break! We serve up a bounty of tech news, including Microsoft's influence over hardware players, Cisco's big reorganization, a new Citrix appliance & more.
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Change Control: Embrace the Red Tape
Change control isn’t so bad. With the underlying goal of risk mitigation, good change control can save a network engineer from the dreaded resume generating event we sweat over during cutovers. Change management frameworks such as ITIL layer an element of bureaucracy over network operations to provide a basis for a quantitative approach to IT […]
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Change Control: Embrace the Red Tape
Change control isn’t so bad. With the underlying goal of risk mitigation, good change control can save a network engineer from the dreaded resume generating event we sweat over during cutovers. Change management frameworks such as ITIL layer an element of bureaucracy over network operations to provide a basis for a quantitative approach to IT […]
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Show 281: How To Shop For SD-WAN
SD-WAN products are a bit hard to tell apart. Most have a central controller, a policy manager, the ability to handle several Ethernet circuits, and other features. Steve Garson joins the Packet Pushers to discuss key criteria for evaluating the many SD-WAN options out there.
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Show 281: How To Shop For SD-WAN
SD-WAN products are a bit hard to tell apart. Most have a central controller, a policy manager, the ability to handle several Ethernet circuits, and other features. Steve Garson joins the Packet Pushers to discuss key criteria for evaluating the many SD-WAN options out there.
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