Show 261: Lessons Learned From SD-WAN Deployments (Sponsored)
Talari CTO and co-founder John Dickey joins Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro, along with four IT leaders from various organizations, in a sponsored podcast about real-world SD-WAN deployments and use cases.
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PQ Show 62: Open Networking At Dell
We sit down with Tom Burns of Dell to get an update on Dell's open networking efforts, including support for additional switch OSs. We also discuss the risks the company took in embracing the concept, and the implications of HP's recent open-source switch OS release.
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Risky Business #387 — Hack people to death!
In this week's feature interview we're chatting with Chris Rock from Kustodian. Chris did a great presentation at Ruxcon last week about how easy it is to hack people to death!
He's found out just how easy it is to register births and deaths in the united states and Australia via online systems. He says it's a problem that could result in a virtual baby harvest for fraudsters who plan ahead. It's really fun stuff, that's this week's feature.
Startup Radar: NS1 Taps Telemetry To Accelerate Content Delivery
The startup NS1 offers a managed DNS service to accelerate the delivery of Web and mobile content for its customers. It collects network and system telemetry to make intelligent routing decisions.
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VRRP on Linux Using Keepalived – The Basics
I’ve recently been working on an implementation of VRRP on Linux using Keepalived to provide IP redundancy for some HA Proxy load balancers. I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how simple and fast it is and thought I’d share the details now I understand why it’s the default choice for many. Keepalived has been around for 15 […]
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Join the Packet Pushers – Live SD-WAN Podcast with Viptela Nov. 4 in NYC
Next week, the Packet Pushers will be recording a podcast live in front of a crowd in NYC. We'll be talking SD-WAN deployment with Viptela customers who have been actively rolling out the solution. With this show, we want to move from "what is SD-WAN?" to "how is SD-WAN working for you?" Sign up to attend this event here:
http://viptela.com/sd-wan-evening-with-packet-pushers-part-2/
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Network Break 59: Dell’s Vision, HP Folds Public Cloud, HTTPS Advances
Network Break analyzes Dell's acquisition strategy, examines HP's decision to shutter its public cloud offering and sell TippingPoint, discusses SolarWinds going private, celebrates a milestone for the Let's Encyrpt project, and more!
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CloudGenix SD-WAN Whitepaper by Packet Pushers
Packet Pushers took on an SD-WAN whitepaper sponsored by CloudGenix. There were two main ideas behind this whitepaper. (1) Describe a typical SD-WAN solution. (2) Discuss CloudGenix specifics. When done reading, you should know both what SD-WAN will do for you, as well as how to integrate CloudGenix into your existing WAN with a minimum of disruption. Download with no regwall from here: http://bit.ly/PPCGWP.
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Field Engineering – A Garage bar in Oregon
A show recorded in a bar. What could go right ?
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Field Engineering – A Garage Bar In Oregon
A show recorded in a bar. What could go right?
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Show 260: Design & Build 7: Security In Small/Medium Enterprises
The Packet Pushers talk with Jay Swan, Operations Security Engineer at GitHub, about how small and medium-size organizations can build robust security and ops without spending a ton of money.
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25% Off Your ONUG Fall 2015 Registration
The Packet Pushers will be at the Open Networking User Group fall gathering at the New York University Kimmel Center in Manhattan, November 4 & 5, 2015. We'll be attending most of the open sessions, chatting with real people, and doing some live blogging. If you haven't registered for ONUG yet, you can get 25% off using code Packet25.
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PQ Show 61: The UNetLab Project
UnetLab, or the Unified Networking Lab, is a virtual lab for networking engineers. An alternative to GNS3 and Cisco VIRL, it aims to be easy to use. Find out its unique features and how to get started with a lab project.
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Back to Basics: Power and Cooling Cheat Sheet
As a supplement to the Back to Basics: Power article, I created this cheat sheet to stow away for a rainy day. Next time you need to remember how to calculate wattage, or need to look up a foreign power connector, this will be a handy tool.
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Back to Basics: Power
In this article I will be walking through some of the elements of power design and management in a context relevant to IT engineers. Although we, as IT-centric engineers, may only deal with electrical power systems once in a while, it can be very useful to understand the principles at work and come in handy […]
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Foundational Packet Pushers Podcasts: A List
New to networking? Or maybe just new to Packet Pushers? Want to know which shows will help you build a foundation? Here you go. These shows cover major networking concepts, take on emerging technologies, and provide context for what we might talk about in other shows.
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Datanauts 013: Apache Mesos: A Data Center OS
Join the Datanauts as they explore Apache Mesos, an open-source data center OS that abstracts compute, storage, and network to make it easier for applications to share resources.
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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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