NAE: Automation and Time
Time is the enemy of everything in the field of IT. It doesn’t matter whether you are a designer or operator. Time is your sworn enemy.
In all the training and certifications I’ve ever done, all that is missing is a knighting ceremony in which a sword is laid on your shoulders and you’re sworn in to be an enemy of the phenomena.
Time
Time is a speculative investment, time is relative, highly subjective and makes us emotional. It offers us unsolvable yet predictable challenges. We only ever hear "we need more time". Managers demand it and engineers beg for it. Everything costs time and nothing will give us time back. Given that last statement, high return time investments are key.
In software, we’ve moved to agile, which lets us split software releases up in to super tiny chunks. Instead of a huge development cycle followed by huge deployment and troubleshooting window, we’ve moved to a tiny slice model, in which we do a tiny amount of design, a tiny amount of coding and a tiny amount of deployment and troubleshooting. This move allows us to target the highest priorities quicker and target more accurately, which results in appearing to Continue reading
Network Automation Is More than Just Ansible
One of the attendees of my Building Network Automation Solutions online course sent me this suggestion:
Stick to JUST Ansible - no GitHub, Vagrant, Docker or even Python - all of which come with their own significant learning curves.
While I understand how overwhelming the full-blown network automation landscape is to someone who never touched programming, you have to make a hard choice when you decide to start the learning process: do you want to master a single tool, or understand a whole new technology area and be able to select the best tool for the job on as-needed basis.
Read more ...MX7000 Networking – Part 1 : Introduction, Components
This post is the first of a few, on Networking for Dell EMC’s new MX7000 Modular Chassis Platform. Dell EMC PowerEdge MX is a completelyHeadcount: The Latest in Firings, Hirings, and Retirings — January 7, 2018
Mesosphere names a new CEO to replace its co-founder; Indian software provider Sterlite Technologies hires new execs; Lattice Semiconductor expands its leadership team.
Consensys and AMD Build Blockchain-Based Cloud Infrastructure
The new company, called W3bcloud, is developing data center products to support blockchain-based workloads and applications.
Percentage of HTTPS (TLS) Encrypted Traffic on the Internet ?
Reviewing a Threat report from Fortinet Networks suggests that 73% of internet traffic is now encrypted. Thats a substantial change in five years for a network protocol. More than I expected but good news that the status quo CAN be changed. I wonder what happened to telcos that were selling data extracted from capturing HTTP […]
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New Year, New Post, NFDx!
You may be thinking “Wait, he hasn’t posted in ages.. how lazy is he?” but thankfully I haven’t been entirely slothful for the last seven months. Most recently I authored a series of six posts related to SDN and automation on the Solarwinds Orange Matter blog. I can’t republish that content here, but I will be sharing links to the posts in the coming days and I hope you’ll find them interesting and thought-provoking.
Cisco SP – Networking Field Day Exclusive!
More immediately, I’m preparing to start the new year with a quick trip to see Cisco’s Service Provider group at a Networking Field Day Exclusive event. I’ve seen the proposed agenda, and it looks like it’s going to be an intense day filled with the kind of topics that I know my readers will appreciate. As always, I’ll be posting about some of the topics covered (maybe even all of them…who knows?), but it’s even better if you can take part too.
The event takes place on Tuesday, January 15th, 2019. If you can, I recommend hopping on the live stream on Tech Field Day and then using the #TFDx hashtag on Twitter to join in the Continue reading
Huawei Works With Arm, Not Intel, on New CPU
Huawei says it will still continue its long-term strategic partnerships with Intel, but that computing demands have become more diverse.
Radware Snaps Up ShieldSquare for New Bot Management Product Line
ShieldSquare provides an API-based service that leverages machine learning to detect and eliminate “bad bots” from a variety of applications.
Windstream sells EarthLink consumer internet business
Another nail in the “telco cannot provide customised services” folder. Windstream sells its consumer business: “This transaction enables us to divest a non-core segment and focus exclusively on our two largest business units. In addition, it improves our credit profile and metrics in 2019 and beyond,” said Tony Thomas, president and CEO of Windstream. As […]
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Sprint and T-Mobile Throw More 5G Pieces on the Table
Sprint is touting a new Samsung device while T-Mobile completed a 5G data session with Ericsson and Intel.
Former Red Hat CEO Backs Tidelift’s $25M Series B
The startup's business model works like this: companies pay Tidelift a subscription, and in return they receive support for the open source projects they use from the developers who created and maintain these projects.
Bouygues Telecom Signals 5G Progress as France Gets Its Ducks in Line
France may have been propelled to the 5G race by the U.S. and South Korea, but its 5G roadmap and competitive mobile players support its ambition to play a leading role.
Investing in Indigenous Connectivity Is an Investment in Our Future Online
There’s one New Year’s resolution we can bank on to improve the health and livelihoods of millions of people across North America this year, and it doesn’t involve buying into health fads or gadgets.
The newly-released 2018 Indigenous Connectivity Summit (ICS) Community Report shows a strong correlation between Indigenous connectivity and the well-being and sustainability of rural and remote Indigenous communities, especially when solutions are local.
The report summarizes outcomes of the 2018 Indigenous Connectivity Summit that brought nearly 140 Indigenous leaders, policy makers, network operators, and community members to the Arctic community of Inuvik, NT last October.
Like most New Year’s resolutions, connectivity solutions are neither quick nor cheap. This is especially true in northern rural and remote regions of the U.S. and Canada with geographic hurdles that make it hard for Internet service providers to achieve economies of scale.
It’s one of the main reasons today in 2019, millions of people across North America – yes, millions – still don’t have access to reliable broadband Internet.
Last October, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities called on the federal government to invest $4 billion over ten years to connect all Canadians to the Canadian Radio-television and Communications Commission’s universal Continue reading