In case you have missed the noise on my Twitter feed (@mrtugs) in the last couple of days, I’m currently at Networking Field Day 17 in Silicon Valley, and today (Friday, January 26) is the last day of presentations. So far this week, along with eleven other lucky delegates, we’ve been treated to presentations from Juniper, Thousand Eyes, Extreme Networks and VMware, including Velocloud from VMware. As usual, it has been a firehose of information and thankfully all the videos will be posted soon so I can go back and figure out what I might have missed.
The last two days of presentations have seen a very strong focus on automation, network fabric (including cloud connectivity) and hybrid cloud services. It’s uncanny how everything aligns, sometimes!
Today is the last day of NFD17 and we’re going to be starting at Cisco at 8AM PST, then after lunch we’re hearing from Mellanox, Ixia and Cumulus, all beginning at 1:30PM PST. We live stream all the presentations, so if you want to tune in and join us, pop over to the NFD17 site and the stream will be live on that page. If you are watching in real time and have a Continue reading
During Networking Field Day 17, there was a lot of talk about legacy IT constructs, especially as they relate to the cloud. Cloud workloads are much better when they are new things with new applications and new processes. Existing legacy workloads are harder to move to the cloud, especially if they require some specific Java version or special hardware to work properly.
We talk a lot about how painful legacy IT is. So why do we turn it into a monument that spans the test of time?’
Most monuments that we have from ancient times are things that we never really intended to keep. Aside from the things that were supposed to be saved from the beginning, most iconic things were never built to last. Even things like the Parthenon or the Eiffel Tower. These buildings were always envisioned to be torn down sooner or later.
Today, we can’t imagine a world without those monuments. We can’t conceive of a time without them. And, depending on Continue reading
Storage pros who embrace a broader role in the enterprise will succeed.
After describing the basics of internal data center switch architectures, JR Rivers focused on the crux of the problem the vendors copiously exploit to create a confusopoly: is it better to use big- or small-buffer switches?
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It uses the same device agents for its intent-based networking.
Because we all like a little bit of fun, I created an automatic Product Pitch Generator for network vendors. More accurately, a conversation about buzzwords occurred in the context of Networking Field Day 17 where it was jokingly suggested that we needed to take some of the amazing words we were hearing and make a generator. Here’s the best part (if you look at it this way); we ended up with two generators!
Big props to Jordan Martin who hacked together some Python, and created his Network Product Buzzword Generator which I think is hilarious (go try it out!). Meanwhile, I was hacking together some Go and came up with this mess of a Product Pitch Generator:
Hit Refresh to get a new Pitch!
And finally, if you’re watching the NFD17 livestream, why not ML-wash yourself and play NFD17 Buzzword Bingo?
Have fun!
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It's based on Ribbon Communications' SBC software.