If you’ve got “Create Content” as a 2022 goal but aren’t sure how to start, consider the Packet Pushers’ Community blog or our Human Infrastructure newsletter. We welcome articles from folks in networking and IT who have ideas to share or the inclination to write, but don’t have the interest in setting up their own […]
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Optimizing cloud costs means more than looking at your bill and hunting down unused instances. It's about understanding the full lifecycle of cloud workloads, dealing with management that wants predictable spending even as your actual usage varies, and setting up repeatable processes. Guests Fred Chagnon and Jeremy Roberts, both at Info-Tech Research Group, offer practical advice for optimizing your cloud spending.
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Happy New Year! Last year I wrote a series of blogs under the “Infrastructure as Software” banner exploring how to build a Django three-tiered application from pyATS that parsed network state data. Now that I’ve built a working Django application locally the challenge is to make it available to others. README After I had built […]
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Heavy Networking explores big ideas around service provider and cloud provider network services in 2022, both how they collide and are complementary. Our sponsor is Juniper Networks. We also get an update on Juniper’s Contrail product, a software-defined networking platform that now includes native integration with Kubernetes.
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Today on the Tech Byte podcast we discuss redefining networks and policy in today’s hybrid world–that is, a network that needs to be available anywhere, anytime, anyhow, and any way. Aruba is our sponsor and we’re joined by James Robertson, CTO Advisor and Technology Strategist in the Office of the CTO.
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This article was originally posted on the Packet Pushers Ignition site on July 9, 2021. The ascendance of Software Defined Networking (SDN) has catalyzed a renaissance in specialized hardware designed to accelerate and offload workloads from general-purpose CPUs. Decoupling network transport and services via software-defined abstraction layers lets a new generation of programmable networking hardware […]
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Take a Network Break! This week we examine Oracle's purchase of network assurance vendor Federos, discuss why Cisco has added a service mesh manager to its Intersight Kubernetes service, explore why some users are frustrated with a crypto-miner in NortonLifelock's anti-virus software, and cover more tech news.
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This post originally appeared on the Packet Pushers’ Ignition site on August 20, 2021. For both individuals and businesses, the past 18-months have vastly increased their reliance on the Internet to access cloud services, online retail and entertainment venues and each other via high-definition video conferences. In the period from just before the initial SARS-CoV-2 […]
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The following post is by DriveNets. We thank DriveNets for being a sponsor. At service providers and network operators, demand for new and talented staff is on the rise, but with the ongoing move to software-based approaches and the cloudification of networks, the types of skills they are now seeking is changing. So in line […]
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This post was originally published on the Packet Pushers’ Ignition site on September 21, 2021. It sounds trite to say that enterprise IT environments are multi-cloud, but the extent of cloud heterogeneity might shock those not paying attention. A recent survey found that 44 percent of organizations had more than half of their workloads deployed […]
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The DENT network OS has been designed with edge use cases in mind.
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Fortinet's FortiExtender cellular gateways support multiple LTE or 5G connections. The FortiExtender can be placed in the best physical location to get a mobile signal, and then tied back into an SD-WAN appliance to provide an active link or failover option in an SD-WAN deployment.
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Fortinet customers can leverage AI/ML and a simplified NAC solution to get a more performant and secure LAN at both the core and edge. Here's how.
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As we approach the end of 2021, it's informative to look back at how much change has gone on in the industry. One of the biggest transitions we've seen in enterprise networking has taken place in the data center. Software-defined approaches that emerged over the past decade have matured and are being deployed in production. On today's Heavy Networking, we talk with Juniper Networks in a sponsored episode about its Apstra Intent-Based Networking (IBN) platform and how Apstra is transforming the enterprise data center.
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