Increased Security Spending: Good Money After Bad?
A couple of recent analyst reports tout significant growth in the information security market. But More security spending on products doesn’t necessarily mean better outcomes for customers.
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Network Break 54: HP Blues, Listener Corrections
Network Break 54 examines HP's anticipated layoffs, financial news from startups, and listener feedback on what we got wrong about an Apple/Cisco partnership.
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The Open Networking Cheat Sheet
A variety of open projects target the network. This cheat sheet keeps track of who's doing what at OpenDaylight, OpenFlow, OVS, OpenStack, ONOS, and Open Compute.
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Starbucks On Dune, WiFi Allergies: This Week On The Internet
From pumpkin spice on Dune to WiFi allergies to a giant robot fight and more, here's some interesting stories that crossed my browser this week.
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Show 255 – Future of Networking with Douglas Comer
What is the Future of Networking according to Douglas Comer ?
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Risky Business #383 — Inside FireEye’s research gag
On this week's show we take a look at what the hell it happening in Germany, where FireEye sought and obtained an ex parte injunction against a bunch of security researchers over a presentation they were about to do at 44Con. We speak with infosec lawyer Alex Urbelis -- he was at 44Con when all this came to light and he shares his insights.
Datanauts 009 – The Silo Series: Designing A vSwitch
Today, networks extend into hypervisors via vSwitches. Network engineers ignore vSwitches at their peril. At the same time, virtualization engineers ignore the physical network at theirs. Let’s work together to configure a vSwitch as good as it can be.
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Brocade Launches SDN Controller 2.0 Built On OpenDaylight
Brocade has launched version 2.0 of its SDN Controller, a commercial distribution of OpenDaylight, the open source project. The company also announced two applications for topology visualization and managing flows.
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Network Break 53: Apple At Work, OpenFlow Rising
Network Break 53 bites into Apple's latest announcements, wonders at Intel abandoning a science competition, ponders FireEye's reaction to vulnerability research, and opines on OpenFlow's rise in the network.
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Cisco FlexVPN DMVPN, Part 1 – Overview and Design
This post will introduce a new type of DMVPN – FlexVPN, unofficially called “DMVPN phase 4″ . We will go through the basic building blocks of Cisco FlexVPN DMVPN and some of the design best practices for a typical enterprise WAN network. FlexVPN Introduction FlexVPN is a configuration framework (a collection of CLI/API commands) aimed to […]
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This Week On The Internet: Animated AT-AT, Abused Robot
From an animated AT-AT to the need for punchable robots to a post-Internet utopia, here's a selection of strange and interesting items coughed up online.
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Show 254 – Riverbed: Beyond WAN Optimization – Sponsored
Riverbed’s Hansang Bae, Brad Wood, and Scot Wilson discuss how network engineers can conquer the complexities of today’s hybrid WANs. Hear about the latest advancements from Riverbed and why the company is primed to support the emerging SD-WAN market.
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HTIRW: The Internet Society
In ending this series — which I hope has been useful for Packet Pusher’s readers to get a solid survey of the entire Internet’s operational structure — we’ll talk about one of the “forgotten” groups of people helping to build and maintain the ‘net as we know it. Without this organization the Internet probably simply […]
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Big Switch Takes A Risk With Innovative SDN Pricing
Big Switch takes an innovative approach to pricing a hardware/software SDN product that cuts the customer's capital expenditure in half and takes advantage of usage-based billing.
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Fortinet and Software Defined
Can there be a market category for software defined network security ? If so, Fortinet is going after it.
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Oracle VirtualBox Network Modes
There’s been a whole heap (programming pun intended) of blogs around automation and virtualisation over the last few years, with some rather good ones of late centred around the now classic mix of VirtualBox, Vagrant and Ansible*|**. I’m particularly enjoying the Hey, I can DevOPS my Network too! series by Larry Smith Jr. at the moment. I may […]
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Risky Business #382 — Charlie Miller talks car hax, Uber
On this week's show we're checking in with Charlie Miller. We chat car hacking and we also (kind of) find out what he's up to now he's working at Uber.
This week's show is brought to you by HackLabs, an Australian security consultancy. They're a key sponsor of Australia's Cyber Security Challenge, which is basically a CTF for Australian CS students. What makes this one a bit different is it's being run by the Prime Minister's Office, which is, yeah, unexpected. Chris joins us later to discuss the challenge, that's this week's sponsor interview.
Rebuilding Reader
For the time being, we are discontinuing Reader.PacketPushers.net. We didn't advertise it heavily in the past. Reader saw some traffic, but not a lot. And...we were never entirely happy with the result we got out of it. Our plan is to reboot Reader at some point in the future with new software. We still think it's a good idea, but we want to get a more polished look and feel out of it first.
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How not to pass the CCIE Lab Exam in R&S V5
I am very pleased to announce that last week I did pass the CCIE Lab Exam in Routing & Switching version 5 and am now CCIE #50038 To explain the title of this post the method I chose to pass the CCIE is not best practice and it took me quite a few attempts across […]
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Network Break 52: From AI To Ashley Madison Bots
Network Break 52 offers a reality check on VMware's prediction of AI for IT, covers VMworld news, speculates on the Cisco/Apple partnership, and delves into Ashley Madison bots.
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