Day Two Cloud 083: Should Cloud Be A Public Utility?
Computing power is a vital part of modern life. Should access to that power be more equitably distributed? Is there a role for a public-utility-style cloud that could make computing more cost-effective and accessible to a broader number of constituencies? These are the starting questions for today's episode of Day Two Cloud. Our guest is Dwayne Monroe, a cloud architect, consultant, and author.
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New Software Yields New Bugs – Video
Day Two Cloud podcast co-host Ned Bellavance asks Envoy creator Matt Klein about the insane rate of change in cloud tech, running plain old VMs, and growing hay. Matt’s not a fan of change for the sake of change. Hear this entire discussion on Episode 82 of the Day Two Cloud podcast published January 27, […]
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Tech Bytes: Aruba Fabric Composer Automates And Orchestrates Leaf-Spine Network Provisioning (Sponsored)
Today’s Tech Bytes dives into the Aruba Fabric Composer. This is data center software that can automate the provisioning of your network underlay and overlay, plus capabilities for orchestration, visibility, and troubleshooting. Aruba Networks is our sponsor. We're joined by Simon McCormack, Senior Manager, Product Management, at Aruba Networks.
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Network Break 318: Cisco Unveils New Catalyst Hardware; Internet Sleuth Uncovers Global IPv4 Misuse
Today's Network Break explores new Catalyst hardware and micro switches from Cisco, a new security offering from Fortinet that combines endpoint security with cloud analytics, an Internet sleuth tracking IPv4 shenanigans, financial results from Juniper and F5, and a whopping big investment for routing startup DriveNets.
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Modernize Network Security With Palo Alto Networks Prisma Access
Prisma Access, from Palo Alto Networks, combines security and access capabilities including CASB, FWaaS, and Zero Trust into a single, cloud-delivered service. Prisma Access can help enterprises provide a secure, high-performance experience for their remote workforces.
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Heavy Networking 559: Nokia SR Linux – A Hyperscaler NOS Designed For Everyone (Sponsored)
Today's sponsored Heavy Networking dives into SR Linux, a new network OS built by Nokia. SR Linux combines a microservices architecture with modern data center networking features and is designed to fit multiple use cases while also being automation-friendly and extensible. Our guest is Bruce Wallis, Senior Director of Product Management in Data Center Switching at Nokia.
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EdgeQ Shares Details On A New 5G Chip For The OpenRAN Market
Startup EdgeQ is making a SoC that combines a 5G modem and machine learning capabilities in the same chip. EdgeQ is targeting telcos and service providers building and upgrading base stations for 5G.
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IPv6 Buzz 068: Addressing The New Federal IPv6-Only Mandate
In this week's IPv6 Buzz episode Ed, Scott, and Tom talk about the likely impacts of the latest IPv6 mandate from the federal government, which directs that 80% of each fed network be IPv6-only by 2025. Our guest is Nick Buraglio. Nick is a network architect and technical analyst with the Energy Sciences Network and has decades of experience working in and on government nets.
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Lossless Cloud-Native Networking – Video
Day Two Cloud podcast co-host Ned Bellavance asks Envoy creator Matt Klein about the cloud-native networking complexity, autoscaling dynamically, overcoming failure states, and achieving losslessness. Hear this entire discussion on Episode 82 of the Day Two Cloud podcast, published January 27, 2021. You can subscribe to the Packet Pushers’ YouTube channel for more videos as […]
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The Future of Network Engineering; some possibilities through 2040 and beyond
Incident 1: October, 2006 Sydney Australia – Simply put, someone hit me with a tough question. Totally out of the box and very much to the point, so to the point that it took me years to swallow the impact. The question was an innocent one asked by one of the sharpest software engineers I […]
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Day Two Cloud 082: You Don’t Need A Service Mesh
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast speaks with the creator of the Envoy proxy, Matt Klein, about the challenges of networking, load balancing, and service discovery in microservices architectures. The upshot? Depending on what you're trying to do and why, you may not need a service mesh. You may not need microservices. Sometimes a VM is just right.
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Tech Bytes: Doing Better Than ‘Good’ Or ‘Bad’ For UX Metrics (Sponsored)
On today's Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by AppNeta, we talk about getting real-time monitoring in place so that you can clearly define your performance benchmarks, accurately measure them from the end-user perspective, and have a strategy to make sure those benchmarks are met. Our guests are John Tewfik, Director of Global Alliances; and Seth Differ, Senior Manager, Solutions Consulting.
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Network Break 317: Citrix Bets The House On SaaS Collaboration; AWS Forks Elasticsearch
Today's Network Break examines Citrix's multi-billion bet on a SaaS collaboration acquisition, a fight over the Elasticsearch project where everyone gets a black eye, Red Hat's sop to everyone angry about CentOS, a pair of dangerous Cisco SD-WAN bugs, and more IT news.
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VMware After Gelsinger: Integrating Fiefdoms For A Post-Hypervisor World
VMware's next CEO has two tasks: to construct a narrative about VMware's role and value as a company in a post-hypervisor world, and to integrate its various fiefdoms into a cohesive set of products that can provide greater utility when used together than when used individually.
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Heavy Networking 558: No Time For Hardware – The Case For NFV
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) transforms routers, load balancers, firewalls and other network devices into virtual instances that can be service-chained, spun up and down as needed, and are cloud-friendly. But if you're a hardware hugger or have been been burned by virtualization in the past, should you avoid NFV? Today's Heavy Networking guests want to change your mind. The Packet Pushers speak with Michael Pfeiffer, a Cloud Networking Architect for a VAR; and Brad Gregory, Senior Product Manager at Equinix.
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Stable: GNS3 2.2.17 + VMware Fusion 12.1.0 + macOS 11.1 (Build 20C69)
Even with minor caveats, I seem to be in a better place with macOS 11.1 Big Sur versus macOS 10.15.7 Catalina. Big Sur is not a flawless experience for me yet, but I have hope it will become so as software makers have time to adjust to all of Apple's changes. And I'll take being able to run GNS3 labs without kernel panics as a big win.
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Tech Bytes: VMware’s vRealize True Visibility Suite Illuminates Dark Corners Of Your IT Stack (Sponsored)
On today's sponsored Tech Bytes podcast we discuss VMware's vRealize True Visibility Suite (TVS), an add-on that helps you understand transactions from the physical layer all the way through to the application layer. Our guest is Apolak Borthakur, VP/GM at VMware.
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Day Two Cloud 081: Abstractions Should Save Typing, Not Thinking
Today's Day Two Cloud episode is part one of a two-part show on abstractions. Hosts Ned Bellavance and Ethan Banks riff on the idea that "Abstractions are there to save you typing, not to save you thinking." The upshot? Abstractions don't eliminate issues, they just move them someplace else. And that has repercussions for design, development, infrastructure, and operations.
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Full Stack Journey 050: What, Exactly, Is Serverless?
Serverless is all the rage these days, but what exactly is it? What does that term mean and what should the technology be used for? Is it the same as Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS)? Consultant Alex Ellis weighs in on these and other questions in today's Full Stack Journey podcast.
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Full Stack Journey 050: What, Exactly, Is Serverless?
Serverless is all the rage these days, but what exactly is it? What does that term mean and what should the technology be used for? Is it the same as Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS)? Consultant Alex Ellis weighs in on these and other questions in today's Full Stack Journey podcast.