Worth Reading: Manual Work Is a Bug
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Tom Limoncelli wrote a great article about starting an automation journey from sysadmin perspective. Not surprisingly, his recommendations aren’t that far off from what I’m telling networking engineers in my network automation presentations, Network Automation 101 webinar, and introductory part of Building Network Automation Solutions online course:
Read more ...HPE Acquires Plexxi For HCI, Composable Infrastructure
HPE buys Plexxi to provide the network fabric for HPE's hyperconverged and 'composable infrastructure' products.Sprint, Verizon Reveal New 5G Launch Markets
Early 5G markets will be a diverse group of cities — from densely populated New York City to flat, sprawling Phoenix.
Netscout’s Monitoring Makes the Cut in Telefónica’s Lab
Vendors that want to sell to Telefónica’s Unica must get their VNFs certified and comply with OSM.
Check Out Our New Overview of Microsoft Azure Course!
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This simple step-by-step class will teach you the basics of Cloud services and provide a solid foundation of knowledge to build on. Given the amount of services available on Azure, it would be impossible to learn each one with just one class, so this course covers the basics of storage, networking, virtual machines, SQL databases, and web apps. Through the discussion of these 5 topics, we can effectively demonstrate how Azure works and how to set up different services in Azure.
What You’ll learn
After viewing Overview of Microsoft Azure, you will have a basic understanding of Azure and its abilities, and be better prepared for the Azure exams.
About the Author
Jonathan started in the electronics field and moved into the IT field after relocating to the U.S., he has Continue reading
Cisco Live 2018 – Tweetup Information!
Cisco Live 2018 is in a few short weeks, can you believe it?!?! Are you as excited as I am …
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VMworld is almost upon us! As the world’s premier digital infrastructure event, VMworld attracts the most talented professionals around the world who care deeply about virtualization and cloud computing.
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Cumulus content roundup: May
Hope you brought your networking acronyms dictionary with you – this month’s Cumulus content roundup is going full tech-geek and we’re NOT ashamed! We’re brushing up on EVPN, ECMP, DWDM and TGIF (okay, not the last one. But did that make you LOL?) See a term that makes you go WTF? Don’t worry — we’ve got webinars, videos, blog posts and more to help you differentiate between BGP and OMG.
From Cumulus Networks:
EVPN content hub: Deploying EVPN enables you to enhance your layer 3 data center with benefits such as multitenancy, scalability, ARP suppression and more. Don’t know where to begin? Browse this EVPN resources page to learn more about how you can incorporate EVPN into your Cumulus network.
Celebrating ECMP in Linux — part one: Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) routes are a big component of all the super-trendy data center network designs that are en vogue right now. Read part one of this series about ECMP’s history, how it’s evolved and what Cumulus is doing to help.
Networking how-to video — What is Voyager?: Voyager is a Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) platform Facebook brought to the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), bringing the first Continue reading
ADVA Drives Cloud-Native Encryption Into ConnectGuard Platform
The cloud-native update also bolsters the platform's ability to protect against the Spectre and Meltdown processor vulnerabilities.
HPE Buys Plexxi, Flexes Hyperconverged and Composable Muscles
Plexxi simultaneously announced updates to its hyperconverged software stack, building on its intent-based networking capabilities.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Scoops Up Plexxi
HPE says it will integrate SDN startup's technology into its hyperconverged and composable infrastructure product lines.
Adtran Shepherds Broadband Forum Project on Application-Level Testing
While Adtran has been working internally to build models for application-level testing, with Broadband Forum it can create a standards-based approach to the modeling.
Verizon to Migrate 1,000 Biz Apps and Backend Systems to AWS
The deal bolsters Verizon’s overall operations, but it also boosts AWS’ position among the country’s largest telecom operators.