Time for a Summer Break
So many things have happened since I wrote “this is what we’re going to do in 2018” blog post. We ran
- An automation course and a data center course, resulting in three new modules in the automation course, and over 20 hours of fresh content
- Three workshops, two of them brand new and resulting in material for VMware NSX Deep Dive and AWS Networking webinars (both coming in early autumn).
We also did a ton of webinars:
Read more ...Another 10 Years Later
The evolutionary path of any technology can often take strange and unanticipated turns and twists. At some points simplicity and minimalism can be replaced by complexity and ornamentation, while at other times a dramatic cut-through exposes the core concepts of the technology and removes layers of superfluous additions. The evolution of the Internet appears to be no exception and contains these same forms of unanticipated turns and twists. In thinking about the technology of the Internet over the last ten years, it appears that it’s been a very mixed story about what’s changed and what’s stayed the same.SharkFest 2018!! Woot woot! So Excited!
On Saturday I leave North Carolina to head to Sunnyvale, California for…… (insert drumroll here)… SharkFest! I’m am so pumped and excited! I have wanted to attend SharkFest since 2009 when I first learned about it! I’m finally going! Woot woot!
It is not uncommon that I find myself having to explain what SharkFest is… even to diehard WireShark users and enthusiasts. So let me take a step back and explain what SharkFest is.
What is SharkFest?
SharkFest
, launched in 2008, is a series of annual educational conferences staged in various parts of the globe and focused on sharing knowledge, experience and best practices among the Wireshark® developer and user communities.
SharkFest attendees hone their skills in the art of packet analysis by attending lecture and lab-based sessions delivered by the most seasoned experts in the industry. Wireshark core code contributors also gather during the conference days to enrich and evolve the tool to maintain its relevance in ensuring the productivity of modern networks.
https://sharkfestus.wireshark.org/about
Teehee. So basically it is a major WireShark geek fest!!!! And I am STOKED! Who wouldn’t be? Just look at the classes I’ve Continue reading
NSX Cloud Blog Series: Part 1
On the heels of announcing general availability of NSX Cloud on June 5th, we’re pleased to announce that NSX Cloud was selected as Best of Show runners-up in the cloud computing category at Interop Tokyo. The full list of all winners is available here. For those unfamiliar, Interop Tokyo is a major event of over 140,000 attendees, and this award requires an hour presentation including a demo and Q&A to the Interop Committee, so this award came with some scrutiny and we’re proud to have received it.
Let’s deep dive a little into what NSX Cloud is all about. As enterprises make the transition to a hybrid cloud model, new challenges inherent to managing this hybrid cloud model arise, including: how to extend enterprise network policies seamlessly to the cloud, how to have complete operational visibility into traffic flows across your hybrid environment, and how to maintain a consistent security policy across private and public clouds. These are key concerns for Network and Security administrators as well as cloud architects. NSX Cloud is designed to address these requirements.
NSX Cloud together with NSX Data Center provides a uniform operational model across Public Cloud and on-premises Continue reading
BiB 046: Arista 7170 Multi-function Programmable Network Switches
Ethan Banks attended a technical webinar held by Arista Networks talking about their recently announced 7170 series multi-function programmable network switches. In this webinar, Arista explained what the new 7170 switch line was all about. The central reason this switch line exists is programmability.
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DroneDeploy and Cloudflare Workers
Images courtesty of DroneDeploy
When we launched Workers a few months ago, much of the focus was on use cases surrounding websites running on origins that needed extra oomph. With Workers you can easily take a site, introduce a raft of personalization capabilities, A/B test changes or even aggregate a set of API responses around a range of services. In short by layering in Cloudflare Workers we can take origin websites and do transformational things.
One of the joys of a platform, is that you never know where you are going to see the next use case. Enter DroneDeploy
DroneDeploy is a cloud platform that makes it easy to collect and analyze drone imagery and data. Simply install DroneDeploy on your mobile device and connect to a DJI drone. DroneDeploy flies the drone, collects the imagery, then stitches the photos into maps.
The maps can show things like crop conditions & stress, construction project progress, or even thermal temperature ranges across vast solar farms or for search and rescue situations.
Using plant health algorithms applied to drone-generated maps, growers can pinpoint crop stress in their fields and stomp out pests, disease, or irrigation issues.
With Thermal Live Map, it’s possible Continue reading