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I Didn’t Even Know I Was Sick

This piece was originally published in the Packet Pushers’ Human Infrastructure Magazine, a publication about the human side of working in technology. HIM is sent every other week or so to Packet Pushers Ignition members. Sign up for free.

I recently tweeted…

I’ve become okay with only having so much time in my schedule. Would adding this { new | random | unexpected } thing to the mix stress me out? Yes? Then I can’t do it. Have to leave some space. Have to execute well on the things already on the list.

I grabbed a couple of replies that especially impacted me.

Cutting Things Loose Has A Cost

The hard part for me is deciding when to cut things loose in order to make room for new things that are more valuable. Sometimes it’s natural, like a job transition, but most of the time it’s not. I’d rather make intentional choices, not wait until I’m burned out. Of course, often the major problem with intentionally stopping a project is the social cost. Disappointing people is expensive for multiple reasons. And it’s very difficult to weigh that against the benefit of doing something new.

@bensons

Benson crammed a whole lot Continue reading

I Didn’t Even Know I Was Sick

This piece was originally published in the Packet Pushers’ Human Infrastructure Magazine, a publication about the human side of working in technology. HIM is sent every other week or so to Packet Pushers Ignition members. Sign up for free.

I recently tweeted…

I’ve become okay with only having so much time in my schedule. Would adding this { new | random | unexpected } thing to the mix stress me out? Yes? Then I can’t do it. Have to leave some space. Have to execute well on the things already on the list.

I grabbed a couple of replies that especially impacted me.

Cutting Things Loose Has A Cost

The hard part for me is deciding when to cut things loose in order to make room for new things that are more valuable. Sometimes it’s natural, like a job transition, but most of the time it’s not. I’d rather make intentional choices, not wait until I’m burned out. Of course, often the major problem with intentionally stopping a project is the social cost. Disappointing people is expensive for multiple reasons. And it’s very difficult to weigh that against the benefit of doing something new.

@bensons

Benson crammed a whole lot Continue reading

Get the facts on SD-WAN: Understanding the most common myths

The topic of SD-WAN has been a hot one over the past several years. This makes sense because in most companies, the WAN hasn’t been updated for decades and SD-WANs have the potential to modernize the network and bring it into alignment with the rest of IT.However, like most new technologies, I find there are a number of common misconceptions when it comes to SD-WANs. Part of the problem is that the vendor ecosystem has exploded, and the many vendors that approach the market from different angles muddy the waters — making it hard to discern what’s real, what’s misleading, and what's downright wrong.[ Click here to find out more about SD-WAN and why you’ll use it one day and learn about WANs and where they’re headed. | Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ] The top SD-WAN myths To help buyers make sense of what's happening in the SD-WAN world, here are seven myths to watch out for — and why they aren't correct.To read this article in full, please click here

Get the facts on SD-WAN: Understanding the most common myths

The topic of SD-WAN has been a hot one over the past several years. This makes sense because in most companies, the WAN hasn’t been updated for decades and SD-WANs have the potential to modernize the network and bring it into alignment with the rest of IT.However, like most new technologies, I find there are a number of common misconceptions when it comes to SD-WANs. Part of the problem is that the vendor ecosystem has exploded, and the many vendors that approach the market from different angles muddy the waters — making it hard to discern what’s real, what’s misleading, and what's downright wrong.[ Click here to find out more about SD-WAN and why you’ll use it one day and learn about WANs and where they’re headed. | Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ] The top SD-WAN myths To help buyers make sense of what's happening in the SD-WAN world, here are seven myths to watch out for — and why they aren't correct.To read this article in full, please click here

Episode 29 – MPLS Part 2 – VPNs

In a continuation of our MPLS deep-dive series, Nick Russo, Russ White, Jordan Martin, and Eyvonne Sharp return to discuss some of the operational considerations when using MPLS VPNs.

 

We would like to thank Core BTS for sponsoring this episode of Network Collective. Core BTS focuses on partnering with your company to deliver technical solutions that enhance and drive your business. If you’re looking for a partner to help your technology teams take the next step, you can reach out to Core BTS by emailing them here.

 

We also would also like to thank Cumulus Networks for sponsoring this episode of Network Collective. Cumulus is bringing S.O.U.L. back to the network. Simple. Open. Untethered. Linux. For more information about how you can bring S.O.U.L. to your network, head on over to https://cumulusnetworks.com/networkcollectivehassoul. There you can find out how Cumulus Networks can help you build a datacenter as efficient and as flexible as the worlds largest data centers and try Cumulus technology absolutely free.

 

Show Notes:

  1. When enterprise use the term “MPLS”, SP provided VPNS is often what they mean
  2. Generally means a private WAN service, L2 or L3VPN
  3. Quick packet Continue reading

Datanauts 140: Exploring End User Compute

There s a lot to be said about consuming technology remotely. Heck, the cloud is just that – someone else stands up infrastructure and services, and you consume them.

But what about for the desktop environment, which for many is their main working environment and something of a tug-of-war when it comes to ownership, management, and administration?

In today s episode of the Datanauts, join us as we de-mystify the exotic world of End User Compute, or EUC.

Our guest is Sean Massey, Senior Technical Architect at AHEAD. You can follow him on Twitter at seanpmassey and check out his blog at TheVirtualHorizon.com.

We discuss what EUC encompasses, including technologies such as VDI as well as mobile devices, laptops, and desktops. We also look at how SaaS and cloud apps affect end users and application delivery, and explore the impact of EUC/VDI on the data center.

Show Links:

Carl Stalhood – Filling gaps in EUC vendor documentation

The Virtual Horizon – Sean Massey’s blog

Sean Massey on Twitter

The post Datanauts 140: Exploring End User Compute appeared first on Packet Pushers.

BrandPost: Answering the Demand for Scale Out

Data sprawl is a problem. Most companies, regardless of industry or size, are trying to balance their need to store increasing volumes of data with the associated costs to their infrastructure.IDC expects continued growth in data, with an estimate that the world will generate 163 zettabytes by 2025. The massive build up is being driven by technologies including machine learning, AI, IoT, video streaming, and augmented and virtual reality. Add digital transformation efforts into the mix and the requirements for data storage become even greater.The straightforward answer is to the data sprawl problem is to add capacity. But that option is often made untenable by variables such as costs, next-generation workloads, increased amounts of unstructured data, and growth of the business and its locations.To read this article in full, please click here

Enhancing IoT Security Project Continues with Second Successful Multistakeholder Event in Ottawa

The Enhancing IoT Security project hosted its second multistakeholder event on June 21, 2018. This meeting served as an opportunity for new participants to join the conversations and for participants of the first meeting to continue working toward consensus on IoT security norms that would empower consumers and ensure network resiliency. A group of 30 individuals met in Ottawa, with another 16 joining virtually, to prioritize the action items from the last meeting and establish working groups that will collaborate and conduct further research for each item. Participants included representatives from private sector companies, public interest groups, the technical community, academia, and government agencies, and each offered unique and valuable insights to the project. Andrew Sullivan, Fellow at Oracle/Dyn, facilitated this discussion and the creation of the working groups.

The meeting began with a discussion about the ten outputs from the first multistakeholder event. The group agreed that it should prioritize work on a few outputs to begin and then expand the projects scope as necessary. Participants decided to focus on the following three issue areas:

  1. Labeling
  2. Consumer education and awareness
  3. Network resiliency

Participants then identified what work would need to be accomplished for each action item and established working Continue reading

Bootstrapping a Typescript Worker

Bootstrapping a Typescript Worker

Cloudflare Workers allows you to quickly deploy Javascript code to our 150+ data centers around the world and execute very close to your end-user. The edit/compile/debug story is already pretty amazing using the Workers IDE with integrated Chrome Dev Tools. However, for those hankering for some Typescript and an IDE with static analysis, autocomplete and that jazz, follow along to see one way to set up a Typescript project with Webstorm and npm run upload your code straight to the edge.

Pre Requisites

My environment looks like this:

  • macOS High Sierra
  • node v8.11.3
  • npm v5.6.0
  • Webstorm v2018.1.3

You'll also need a Cloudflare domain and to activate Workers on it.

I'll be using cryptoserviceworker.com

I'll also use Yeoman to build our initial scaffolding. Install it with npm install yo -g

Getting Started

Let's start with a minimal node app with a "hello world" class and a test.

mkdir cryptoserviceworker && cd cryptoserviceworker
npm install generator-node-typescript -g
yo node-typescript

That generator creates the following directory structure:

drwxr-xr-x   16 steve  staff     512 Jun 18 20:40 .
drwxr-xr-x   10 steve  staff     320 Jun 18 20:35 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 steve  staff     197 Jun 18 20:40 .editorconfig
-rw-r--r--    1 steve  staff       Continue reading

Instructor Spotlight: A Bit About Joseph Holbrook

If you’ve watched any of our Google or Blockchain courses, you may be familiar with Joseph Holbrook. Continue reading to learn more about this talented course author:

Joe Holbrook has been in the IT field since 1993 when he was exposed to several HPUX systems on board a US Navy flagship. He has migrated from UNIX world to Storage Area Networking(SAN) and then onto Enterprise Virtualization and Cloud Architecture. In the past, Joe has worked for numerous companies like HDS, 3PAR Data, Brocade, Dimension Data, EMC, Northrup Grumman, ViON, Ibasis.net, Chematch.com, SAIC and Siemens Nixdorf. Currently he’s a Subject Matter Expert specializing in Cloud/IT Security focused on Data Storage infrastructure services and Data migrations to the Cloud.

Joe holds Industry leading certifications from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Brocade, Hitachi Data Systems, EMC, VMWare, CompTIA, HP 3PAR ASE, Cloud Credential Council and other orgs. He is now working on the Google Cloud Platform for several organizations.

Joe is married with children and lives in Jacksonville, Florida. In his free time, he enjoys traveling to South America, spending time with my 5 year old daughter and learning about cryptocurrencies. He is also an avid hockey fan and enjoys Continue reading

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