PCE and PCEP Overview
In the last blog, I briefly mentioned about PCE and how BGP-LS can be used as one of the ways to collect the topology information. In this blog we will explore more about PCE, the problems it tries to solve and different elements of PCE. But before we go any deeper, I do want to […]
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PCs To Play An Integral Role In A Combined Dell/EMC
Dell sees the PC is part of a comprehensive strategy to serve customers from the end point all the way through to data center infrastructure.
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6WIND Offering Accelerated L3 Virtual Appliances
6WIND, a Packet Pushers sponsor, has been helping get the most networking performance from x86 hardware, making the acceleration software that other companies could use to make the most of their standard servers with multi-core CPUs and Linux. 6WIND has recently taken a further step, offering its own VNFs and virtual networking acceleration software packages to end users like you and me. For example, the Turbo Router and Turbo IPSEC appliances compete with virtual routers from Cisco and Brocade. 6WIND will be appearing on the Packet Pushers Priority Queue podcast near the end of October 2015.
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Automating Adding New Networks to a Data Center with UCS Director
Introduction Working as an Cloud Architect with Cisco means I get the chance to talk to many different customers and discuss their challenges and pain points. One that continually comes up is what should be fairly simple, adding a new network segment to their data center network. It used to be that a network team […]
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DellWorld Preview: Questions For Michael Dell
I've got a lot of questions about the Dell/EMC merger. I plan to ask them at DellWorld, and I hope to get good answers.
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Network Break 58: On Dell And EMC, Open Networking
We drill into details of the Dell/EMC acquisition, critique HP's response, examine Intel's quarterly results, opine on Wal-Mart's open source contribution, and check in on the latest from the open networking movement.
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Could Cisco Sell Hardware Subscriptions? Brocade, Big Switch Already Do
Brocade and Big Switch offer subscription and capacity pricing models for network hardware. Could Cisco follow?
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SD-WAN Vendor Roundup
The SD-WAN vendor scrum grows; an increasing number of companies are contending for a place in your WAN traffic patterns. Here’s a list of the companies (some of whom are Packet Pushers sponsors) I've heard present about their SD-WAN products, sorted alphabetically.
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Getting Started with Packet Pushers Community Podcasting
We wrote this introductory guide to help those considering Packet Pushers community podcasting understand what is required. This is not a detailed list of everything you will need to know. Rather, this guide shares enough information to get you started. You'll still have to do a bit of Googling, research, and decision making of your own. We hope this helps. Happy podcasting!
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Show 259: Don’t Forget The Basics
In Packet Pushers Weekly Show #259 (two hundred and fifty nine, really?), Greg Ferro and Ethan Banks have a wide ranging discussion about several different things that have been on their minds. Perhaps the biggest idea in this discussion is "Don't forget the basics."
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PQ Show 60: The IO Visor Project And Linux Networking
IO Visor is an open source project to bring a programmable data plane to the Linux kernel. We find out how it works and how it compares to other projects to optimize Linux for networking.
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PQ Show 59 – Docker Network Plugin Architecture
While attending an influencers event at Intel in Portland, Oregon I got into a discussion with Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower and Keith Townsend @ctoadvisor on the nature of Docker networking and its plugin architecture.
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Machine Learning For Networks: It’s Coming
Machine learning is an emerging technology that could significantly affect networking, including security, predicting the effects of changes, bug detection, and more.
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Savvius Launches Low-Cost Monitoring, Packet Capture Appliance
Savvius has launched a new monitoring appliance, Insight, that integrates with Splunk and can capture packets for forensic analysis.
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Datanauts 012: The Scintillating Storage Smorgasbord
The Datanauts and Howard Marks serve up a buffet of storage topics, including the pros and cons of all-flash and hybrid arrays, the ins and outs of cloud and object storage, and what's up with Virtual Volumes.
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Moving to the cloud? Willing to talk about it on Datanauts?
The Datanauts Podcast is looking for enterprise infrastructure folks who have worked on a project to migrate applications from in-house to the cloud. Interested in being a guest? Ping me -- [email protected] -- and let us know. You can be anonymous if you like, and you don't have to use your company name.
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FlexVPN QoS
This post will cover several most common QoS configuration techniques for Multipoint VPNs. Focus will be on FlexVPN DMVPN, however most of the conclusions will be applicable to the traditional DMVPN as well. Assumptions Most of the FlexVPN and DMVPN deployments use Internet as a WAN transport. This creates a very unique set of requirements […]
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Network Break 57: Vendor Upheaval, Zombie Cookies Bite
Network Break 57 delves into Dell and EMC and looks at upheavals affecting Juniper, Cisco, and AT&T. We also run from a new Verizon zombie tracking cookie, and opine on the rest of the week's tech news.
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Show 258: Application Centricity With Kemp Technologies (Sponsored)
Kemp Technologies joins the Packet Pushers for this sponsored episode to talk about how application and network owners can leverage SDN, NFV, and hybridity to deliver applications more effectively.
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Risky Business #386 — Katie Moussouris on the (groan) disclosure debate
On this week's show we're checking in with Katie Moussouris of HackerOne. She's an ex Microsoftie who's spent something like a decade working on vulnerability disclosure policies. She even helped get a vuln disclosure ISO standard ratified!
And she'll be joining us this week to discuss disclosure politics, I guess you'd call it... for those of us who've been around infosec for a while, most of us would rather stick our face in a blender than talk about it, but Katie will be along to point out why people should fight their "disclosure debate fatigue" and get involved.