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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Open Source CloudRouter Goes to Production
If you have wondered why there isn't a open-source project for IP routing then you will be pleased to know that CloudRouter has announced that it is production ready.
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Do 5th Graders Really Need Laptops?
I’m conflicted about the expansion of tech into education. Is another screen really going to enhance learning, or just make kids increasingly distracted?
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Show 253 – Sonus Networks SDN & NaaS IQ – Sponsored
Today’s show, sponsored by Sonus Networks, examines ways to deliver predictable traffic behavior in an environment of congestion via an intelligent network control coupled with application-aware policies driven by business rules.
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Risky Business #381 — Samy Kamkar on his outlaw days
On this week's show we're chatting with hacker superstar and YouTube phenomenon Samy Kamkar. Samy is a security researcher of note -- his recent hardware hacks have been coming thick and fast. This week I spoke to him about his brush with the law following his unleashing of the Samy worm on MySpace a decade ago, some of his recent research and his plans for the future.
Arista EOS: Benefits & Challenges Of A Single OS
Arista's EOS is a single binary image that runs on all its products. This lets Arista do interesting things with APIs and an SDK, but it creates potential challenges too.
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Network Break 51: The VMware Machine, Arista On Quality
Network Break 51 talks VMware and EMC leadership, new VMware products, Arista's quality manifesto, Dell's business unit for high-performance compute, Brocade financial news, and a container update.
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Looking at IS-IS Security
Engineers hardly ever think of the control plane as an attack surface — from the new/old wave of centralized controllers (Rule 11!) to the middle term wave of distributed routing protocols, the control plane just hums along in the background without many people thinking about it from a security perspective. That is, until a big […]
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Yet Another new BGP NLRI: BGP-LS
Yes, that’s right, we have another new BGP NLRI: BGP-LS. In this post we will be looking at BGP with Link State (LS) extension which is an integral part of the Carrier SDN strategy. We will look at why we need BGP-LS, its internals and its applications. What I won’t cover is things like do we need SDN?, […]
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Just How Big Is The SD-WAN Market? And Should We Care?
Incumbents and startups alike are rushing into the SD-WAN market. So how much of an opportunity is there? So far, the data points aren't very good. And maybe they don't matter anyway.
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Show 252 – Design & Build 5 – BGP In The Data Center
BGP is typically found in the data center at the edge, but it keeps popping up in SDN conversations. For data centers of a certain size, maybe BGP makes sense. To find out, we gathered four engineers to discuss data center BGP.
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Datanauts 008 – The Silo Series: Performance Troubleshooting
In this Datanauts episode, Chris and Ethan walk through performance troubleshooting from virtualization and network perspectives, and share tips for troubleshooting across silos.
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Risky Business #380 — AshMad fallout: Attackers doxed, suicides and mayhem
On this week's show we look at the fallout from the Ashley Madison attack. Did Brian Krebs just dox the Impact Team ringleader? Is he Australian?
Adam Boileau and I talk about all the AshMad fallout and other infosec news.
Startup Radar: Rubrik Rethinks VM Backups
Startup Rubrik tackles VM backups with an integrated appliance that offers premises and cloud-based storage, and offers deuplication and replication. It can back up to Amazon S3 or OpenStack private clouds.
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Network Break 50: InfoSec Arguments & Anti-Censorship Routing
Network Break 50 covers new pricing ideas from Big Switch, routing around censorship, Target's settlement with Visa card issuers, insurance and InfoSec, SD-WAN patents, and partner ecosystems.
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How Distributed Network Monitoring Boosts Visibility, Speeds Troubleshooting
Active distributed monitoring gathers network and application performance data from multiple locations to give IT better visibility and improve troubleshooting. Find out how NetBeez simplifies distributed monitoring.
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SD-WAN Gold Rush, Quality Products, And DPDK
Highlights from Network Field Day 10 include the SD-WAN goldrush, the novel concept of quality products, and the performance-boosting DPDK project.
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Show 251 – Arista Networks CloudVision – Sponsored
Arista CloudVision is a turnkey approach to workload orchestration and workflow automation. Building on Arista’s success in building programmable and open software for the cloud with Arista EOS, CloudVision extends the EOS architecture to a network-wide perspective.
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Risky Business #379 — Ashley Madison dump, Troy Hunt and The Grugq
In this week's podcast we check in with Troy Hunt from HaveIBeenPwned.com. Troy has done the responsible thing in adding the Ashley Madison dataset to his service -- you can only search for email addresses in the dump after you've verified that you control them. We'll talk to him about why he did that.