Show 138 – HP’s Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Strategy and Solution [Written by HP.] There has been a lot of interest in the market place recently around software-defined Networking (SDN). HP has been a leader in SDN technologies from the very beginning. HP has played an instrumental role in the development of OpenFlow and continues to […]
The post Show 138 – HP’s Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Strategy and Solution appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
Background This post is the story of my first practical look at Junos on Juniper EX-series switches. One day last December, Skeeve Stevens from eintellego opened a can of worms by offering a deal on Juniper equipment to all network engineers on the AusNOG mailing list. I had been looking for an excuse to try […]
The post My First Junos Switch: Detailed Review After Three Days Under The Covers appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Paul Gear.
One of the questions I’m frequently asked via e-mail is how to get started in networking and/or whether or not a particular job change is a good idea. Those are always hard questions to answer intelligently because everyone’s individual situation is different. In addition, everyone’s personality is different. Different jobs work for different people. It […]
The post Thoughts On Working As A Consultant For A VAR appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
Darkness falls across the land, The hacker hour is close at hand. Creatures crawl in search of 0-days To terrorize your enterprise. And whosoever shall be found, Without the soul for clamping down, Must stand and face the nerds of hell, And rot inside a clear text shell. The foulest stench is in the air, […]
The post Healthy Paranoia Show 10: Beware the Shmoo appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Mrs. Y.
Summary Packet Pushers co-hosts Ethan Banks & Greg Ferro chat with Aneel Lakhani, a research director at Gartner about his job. Aneel provides an insider perspective on how the research & analysis business works. More Info Analyst firm research offerings seem to cynical network engineers like bought-and-paid-for shill pieces whose conclusions follow the money back to its […]
The post Show 137 – Gartner Is Not For Sale with @Aneel Lakhani appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
It’s been an exciting couple of weeks in the security realm, with a number of innovative startups appearing. That’s refreshing because recently most “innovation” in the security space has been something involving a new way of marketing a signature or reputation based system – and that’s just a bit rubbish, and not a little tiresome. Most […]
The post NetCitadel and Software Defined Security appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Neil Anderson.
The buzzword in the industry of late is DevOps. It is one that I hope isn’t tarnished by the marketing machine where buzzwords go to die. DevOps is the shift in the paradigm of network and infrastructure management. Centralized infrastructure that is transparent to the administrator and end-user, IaaS, cloud – whatever you want to […]
The post Pull My Strings, I’m Your Puppet: Juniper Bringing DevOps to Networking appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Anthony Burke.
We’ve done a few shows now on Ethernet Fabrics where we have been getting deep into the different technology options and different vendor implementations. Avaya has sponsored this show where we actually interview customers who were early adopters of fabric-based and talk about what drove these customers to implement a network fabric, how they went […]
The post Show 136: Avaya – Considerations for Turning your Network into an Ethernet Fabric – Sponsored appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.