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Network Break 43

Network Break episode 43 looks at Cisco's OpenDNS acquisition, the OpenDaylight Lithium release, a global IT spending forecast, and Amazon's s2n open source TLS implementation

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Drew Conry-Murray

I'm a tech journalist, editor, and content director with 17 years' experience covering the IT industry. I'm author of the book "The Symantec Guide To Home Internet Security" and co-author of the post-apocalyptic novel "Wasteland Blues," available at Amazon.

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IPv6 “RFP Requirements” – What do you include?

I was working with several peers in Asia over the last few years on big network build outs. As everyone should know, limited IPv4 space means you really need to engineer everything for IPv6 with IPv4 as the “extra” protocol. The real state of vendor IPv6 readiness was a shocker. It was rare to find […]

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The post IPv6 “RFP Requirements” – What do you include? appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Barry Greene.

Show 244 – Design & Build #3 – Dual Stack IPv4 + IPv6

In this third entrant into the design & build series, Guilherme Goes & Jeff Carrell join Ethan Banks for a discussion of running IPv4 & IPv6 dual stack.

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Ethan Banks

Ethan Banks, CCIE #20655, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financials and high tech since 1995. Ethan co-hosts the Packet Pushers Podcast, which has seen over 3M downloads and reaches over 10K listeners. With whatever time is left, Ethan writes for fun & profit, studies for certifications, and enjoys science fiction. @ecbanks

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Microsoft Acquisition Rumors & Drones Vs. People

Tech media speculates on Microsoft acquiring AMD and Docker. And here's why drones and people don't always mix.

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Drew Conry-Murray

I'm a tech journalist, editor, and content director with 17 years' experience covering the IT industry. I'm author of the book "The Symantec Guide To Home Internet Security" and co-author of the post-apocalyptic novel "Wasteland Blues," available at Amazon.

The post Microsoft Acquisition Rumors & Drones Vs. People appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Drew Conry-Murray.

Network Break 42

Take a Network Break! Grab a coffee, a doughnut and then join us for an analysis of the latest IT news, vendor moves and new product announcements. We’ll separate the signal from the noise–or at least make some noise of our own. Sponsor: Sonus Networks This week’s show was sponsored by Sonus Networks. Sonus wants […]

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Network Break 42

Take a Network Break! Grab a coffee, a doughnut and then join us for an analysis of the latest IT news, vendor moves and new product announcements. We’ll separate the signal from the noise–or at least make some noise of our own. Sponsor: Sonus Networks This week’s show was sponsored by Sonus Networks. Sonus wants […]

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Greg Ferro

Greg Ferro is a Network Engineer/Architect, mostly focussed on Data Centre, Security Infrastructure, and recently Virtualization. He has over 20 years in IT, in wide range of employers working as a freelance consultant including Finance, Service Providers and Online Companies. He is CCIE#6920 and has a few ideas about the world, but not enough to really count.

He is a host on the Packet Pushers Podcast, blogger at EtherealMind.com and on Twitter @etherealmind and Google Plus.

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Citizens of Tech 009 – Robotic Conservation Game Unicorns

Today on the show: unicorns watching your every move, reducing your electricity consumption, bikes, E3 bombshells, tiny robotic lassos and more. So buckle into your Aluminum Falcon and prepare to jump to hyper-speed as we dive into this week's edition of Citizens of Tech!

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Ethan Banks

Ethan Banks, CCIE #20655, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financials and high tech since 1995. Ethan co-hosts the Packet Pushers Podcast, which has seen over 3M downloads and reaches over 10K listeners. With whatever time is left, Ethan writes for fun & profit, studies for certifications, and enjoys science fiction. @ecbanks

The post Citizens of Tech 009 – Robotic Conservation Game Unicorns appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.

Datanauts 002 – Insert Tab A into Slot B with Converged Infrastructure

Converged infrastructure integrates discrete components, such as compute and storage, along with orchestration software, into a package that’s simple to deploy and certified to interoperate. Join Chris Wahl, Ethan Banks, and special guest Stu Miniman as they drill into the origins and benefits of converged infrastructure, how it differentiates from hyperconverged systems, and how the convergence trend will affect IT roles.

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Datanauts 002 – Insert Tab A into Slot B with Converged Infrastructure

Converged infrastructure integrates discrete components, such as compute and storage, along with orchestration software, into a package that’s simple to deploy and certified to interoperate. Join Chris Wahl, Ethan Banks, and special guest Stu Miniman as they drill into the origins and benefits of converged infrastructure, how it differentiates from hyperconverged systems, and how the convergence trend will affect IT roles.

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Datanauts 002 – Insert Tab A into Slot B with Converged Infrastructure

Converged infrastructure integrates discrete components, such as compute and storage, along with orchestration software, into a package that’s simple to deploy and certified to interoperate. Join Chris Wahl, Ethan Banks, and special guest Stu Miniman as they drill into the origins and benefits of converged infrastructure, how it differentiates from hyperconverged systems, and how the convergence trend will affect IT roles.

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Ethan Banks

Ethan Banks, CCIE #20655, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financials and high tech since 1995. Ethan co-hosts the Packet Pushers Podcast, which has seen over 3M downloads and reaches over 10K listeners. With whatever time is left, Ethan writes for fun & profit, studies for certifications, and enjoys science fiction. @ecbanks

The post Datanauts 002 – Insert Tab A into Slot B with Converged Infrastructure appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.

Show 243 – Network Virtualization with Juniper QFX & Contrail – Sponsored

The Packet Pushers discuss network virtualization, automation, and scaling up data centers with our sponsor, Juniper Networks. Our guests are Parantap Lahiri, Sr. Director, Solutions Engineering and Damien Garros, Technical Marketing Engineer at Juniper Networks.

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Ethan Banks

Ethan Banks, CCIE #20655, has been managing networks for higher ed, government, financials and high tech since 1995. Ethan co-hosts the Packet Pushers Podcast, which has seen over 3M downloads and reaches over 10K listeners. With whatever time is left, Ethan writes for fun & profit, studies for certifications, and enjoys science fiction. @ecbanks

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This Week’s Irritating Tech News

A car automation company scores a marketing victory with a non-story and Microsoft's corporate mission statement is anodyne, disingenuous pap

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Drew Conry-Murray

I'm a tech journalist, editor, and content director with 17 years' experience covering the IT industry. I'm author of the book "The Symantec Guide To Home Internet Security" and co-author of the post-apocalyptic novel "Wasteland Blues," available at Amazon.

The post This Week’s Irritating Tech News appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Drew Conry-Murray.

Show 243 – Network Virtualization with Juniper QFX & Contrail – Sponsored

The Packet Pushers discuss network virtualization, automation, and scaling up data centers with our sponsor, Juniper Networks. Our guests are Parantap Lahiri, Sr. Director, Solutions Engineering and Damien Garros, Technical Marketing Engineer at Juniper Networks.

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Designing A Multi-Region, Multi-Hub Phase 3 DMVPN With BGP

This network design uses global/regional MPLS backbone as primary WAN connectivity method, with Cisco DMVPN backup. DMVPN spokes should have a regional primary hub with secondary hubs also based on location.

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Matt Love

Matt Love

Matt is a network engineer in Greenville, SC, USA, working in the enterprise space. He enjoys solving complex routing, data center, and security (ish) problems, and writes about those when he can. When not at work, Matt can be found traipsing around Greenville on a road bike, or at home with his wife and two study-preventing kids.

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Linux Network Interface Configuration With udev

I’m recently been running down (or is it through) the Linux, systemd, networkd, udevd rabbit hole at full pelt and thought perhaps now was a good time to come up for some air and to share what I’ve learned so far. I could (and have elsewhere) written long essays on why Linux makes an excellent network […]

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Steven Iveson

Steven Iveson

Steven Iveson, the last of four children of the seventies, was born in London and has never been too far from a shooting, bombing or riot. He's now grateful to live in a small town in East Yorkshire in the north east of England with his wife Sam and their four children.

He's worked in the IT industry for over 20 years in a variety of roles, predominantly in data centre environments. Working with switches and routers pretty much from the start he now also has a thirst for application delivery, automation, SDN, virtualisation and related products and technologies. He's published a number of F5 Networks related books, is a regular contributor at DevCentral and was an F5 DevCentral MVP for 2014.

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Silver Peak Launches EdgeConnect SD-WAN Product

Silver Peak gets into the SD-WAN market with Unity EdgeConnect, a new product that aims to make it easier to provision, manage, and monitor WAN connectivity for remote and branch offices.

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Drew Conry-Murray

I'm a tech journalist, editor, and content director with 17 years' experience covering the IT industry. I'm author of the book "The Symantec Guide To Home Internet Security" and co-author of the post-apocalyptic novel "Wasteland Blues," available at Amazon.

The post Silver Peak Launches EdgeConnect SD-WAN Product appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Drew Conry-Murray.

Arista Gets An SDN Strategy With CloudVision

In 2014, Arista was telling me that SDN was "Still Don't kNow" and "Still Does Nothing". In 2015, Arista releases their CloudVision™ SDN controller for cloud networks.

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Greg Ferro

Greg Ferro is a Network Engineer/Architect, mostly focussed on Data Centre, Security Infrastructure, and recently Virtualization. He has over 20 years in IT, in wide range of employers working as a freelance consultant including Finance, Service Providers and Online Companies. He is CCIE#6920 and has a few ideas about the world, but not enough to really count.

He is a host on the Packet Pushers Podcast, blogger at EtherealMind.com and on Twitter @etherealmind and Google Plus.

The post Arista Gets An SDN Strategy With CloudVision appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.