Datanauts 007 – Decoupled Storage Architecture
While cruising in our Galaxy-class starship to another data center, we’ve hit a storage scaling issue. There’s no way to add any more performance to our antimatter storage array! The chief engineer suggests that we perform a saucer separation to decouple capacity from performance, which will allow us to scale the two requirements individually. Release the docking latches, and let’s hope this maneuver can save us! Satyam Vaghani of PernixData joins the Datanauts for this discussion of decoupled storage.
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Intrinsic Benefits Of Certification
I’m gearing up for a new certification effort, but after eighteen years of progressive experience in IT, a piece of paper or some new initials in my email signature was an extrinsic motivator I didn’t need. Still I found something about the entire process inviting and realized that it was the intrinsic benefits of certification […]
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Assured Security Model for Data Center and Cloud
In the Assured Security Model, software-defined infrastructure is assisted by an analytics system with state awareness of dynamic data center components.
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Network Break 49: Oracle Scolds Customers Over Security
Take a network break! In this episode Oracle tells customers to stop security testing on its software, Arista posts a strong Q2, Symantec sells Veritas, F5 releases a new version of Big-IP and more.
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Show 250 – How To Document A Network
A favorite topic among network engineers, documentation is a source of both wonder and horror. Network documentation is difficult to get right. How much detail is enough? How old is that diagram, really? Can't this be automated? Wait, the automated generator spit out *that*? In this show, the Packet Pushers along with former guest Dominik discuss their documentation experiences, good and bad. What have we gotten right? What have we gotten wrong? What's been worth the trouble? What was a waste of time? What did we wish we'd documented before we really needed it?
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Network Break 48: Apple Smugness, ONIE Pwned
This episode of Network Break looks at ONIE security risks, a sensible car hack lawsuit, missing millions at Ubiquiti, EMC and VMware going all the way, a potential Apple win at IBM, and other tech news.
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Risky Business #378 — Mary Ann Davidson vs Krebs and Dowd
On this week's show we're chatting with Mark Dowd and Brian Krebs about Oracle CSO Mary Ann Davidson's somewhat odd blog post from earlier this week. In the post she laid into security researchers for violating Oracle's EULA when reverse engineering their products. The post got pulled, much drama, we sift through the ashes of that. Plus we chat to Brian about the daring $46.7m online heist against Ubiquiti Networks.
Datanauts 006 – Assessing IPv6 Readiness
New IPv4 address space is almost gone from the global market. Organizations need to introduce IPv6 into their environments to ensure uninterrupted business operations with the rest of the world. Yet, implementing IPv6 is not as simple as firing up a routing scheme. How does an organization know if it’s ready? Special guest Ed Horley joins the Datanauts in this discussion.
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SDN Controller Benchmarking
There’s been a lot of talk of late on the performance of centralized network controllers (such an odd thing to say when you think about it, but there it is). Ethan recently had a post up on the topic of scaling and SDNs that overlaps with this topic, and SDN Testing ran some interesting tests […]
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Show 249 – Juniper QFX DC Fabrics & Automation – Sponsored
Today's show looks at building a data center fabric around Juniper's QFX switch line to improve automation and enable IT service delivery. Thanks to our sponsor Juniper Networks.
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How To Fix Your Weekly Show Feed In iTunes
TL;DR: Delete and resubscribe to the Weekly Show feed, as the current RSS feed is correct on iTunes now. You will only see the Weekly Show podcasts again, as in the past. Sorry about the issue; it was an accident. Read on for the gory details if you care to...
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Network Break 47: Network Services, Cisco Housecleaning
Network Break 47 looks at the fate of network services companies, Cisco's Invicta shutdown, an HP acquisition, a new Intel chip and more.
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PQ Show 55 – LISP Update 2015
LISP (Locator/ID Separation Protocol) separates the IP host address from the routing path to improve scalability. Join us to find out what's new with LISP.
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Risky Business #377 — Wassenaar back to drawing board, latest from BlackHat
On this week's show we discuss the BIS decision to ditch its car-a-zay plans for Wassenaar regulation, the latest car hacking news and more.
We also check in with Trey Ford in this week's feature slot. Trey was the General Manager of the BlackHat conference, these days he works at Rapid7, and he joins us to talk about the vibe in Vegas at this year's conference.
Packet Pushers Forums Are Live!
Packet Pushers forums let you connect, share knowledge, vent, ask questions, and hang out.
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PQ Show 54 – IPv6 Adoption Trends With Alain Fiocco
IPv6 is inevitable, but what's the real rate of adoption in North America? Join Ethan Banks and Alain Fiocco as they discuss the state of the protocol, share educational opportunities, and offer tips to get your vendors to fully embrace IPv6.
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Gigamon Wants To Feed Your Security Devices
Gigamon aims to make it easier to detect intruders by directing internal traffic flows to security and analysis products, including firewalls, IDS/IPS devices, and SIEM systems.
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Senseless Wifi Sense
Pardon me while I rant. This week, the world seems to have gone a little more insane. I’ve upgraded to Win10 over the weekend — after figuring out how to get my Wacom pad to work in some sort of reasonable manner (the Wacom drivers don’t really like the touchscreen drivers that don’t really like […]
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Network Documentation Series: Port Mapping
In this post, I will be doing a brief commentary on creating and maintaining a physical port mapping spreadsheet. A port mapping spreadsheet is useful for keeping track of used/available ports on your network equipment, thoroughly documenting to which remote device each port connects, and generating configuration scripts to update port descriptions on the equipment. […]
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Citizens of Tech 012 – Biofuel Pyramid Cables
We start with a discussion of jail time. Jail. Time. And…147 MPH. Yeah. Eric tells the story. And then we hop into our show. Present Doomception: How modders got Doom to run inside of Doom http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/07/doomception-how-modders-got-doom-to-run-inside-of-doom/ Doom was open sourced in the 90’s. Folks have gone nuts porting it to all sorts of things. Now, […]
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