Happy 25th, Hubble. Fold my keyboard. Trains didn't (and don't) suck. Batteries are sexy again. Puking in your VR helmet. FM radio on Deathwatch. These and more stories on Citizens of Tech #2!
The post Citizens of Tech 002 – Electric Space Trains appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
Happy 25th, Hubble. Fold my keyboard. Trains didn't (and don't) suck. Batteries are sexy again. Puking in your VR helmet. FM radio on Deathwatch. These and more stories on Citizens of Tech #2!
The post Citizens of Tech 002 – Electric Space Trains appeared first on Packet Pushers.
With more companies jumping on the SD-WAN bandwagon every day, it’s getting harder than ever to figure out how to differentiate solutions. Luckily, Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro help shed some light on what an SD-WAN is, what you should look for and what to be concerned about in this interview with John Dickey, co-founder and CTO at Talari.
The post Show 236 – Talari and the Software-Defined WAN – Sponsored appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
This week: VMware hearts Docker, Cisco buys again, and VMware teams with Arista.
As many of you know I work in Cisco’s Customer Proof of Concept (CPOC) lab and have for many years (since February of 2001). What this has meant is that for the past 14 years I’m never in one specific lab environment for more than 1 month. Which, admittedly, works great when one is a “little” A.D.D.
But for the next 5 months I will be playing (oh… right “working”) in one specific lab environment. Specifically related to Cisco’s Intelligent WAN (IWAN)
The above diagram is of the current “CPOC IWAN PreBuilt Static Testbed”. It was built late last year by CPOC engineers Robert Kintner, Steve Moore, and Gina Cornett.
Guess who will be taking this over for the next few months? I’m very stoked! …. and I’m going to take you along for the fun.
Obviously I don’t want to play and mess up the environment that is already set up and built. So tossing the below environment together for us to play and learn in. I will NOT be encrypting the DMVPN tunnels so we Continue reading
This week we announced that Clark Masters, Senior Vice President of HANA Cloud Computing at SAP, has been appointed to our Board of Directors—filling the seat vacated when Rich Napolitano was named Plexxi CEO last November. At SAP, Clark is responsible for strategy and advanced architectures relating to in-memory database operation in public and private clouds. With more than 30 years of technology and industry leadership, he brings a wealth of high-technology vision, knowledge and execution to our board. Clark will help to support our ongoing expansion and efforts to drive the networking industry’s transition to an application and data-focused era. Join us in welcoming Clark to the Plexxi team!
Below please find a few of our top picks for our favorite news articles of the week. Have a great weekend!
Enterprise Networking Planet: SDN Gets Some Help with Scalability
By Arthur Cole
Nearly everyone who is contemplating software defined networking (SDN) these days is thinking about scale-out architectures. Big Data and the Internet of Everything have the enterprise industry spooked that if a solution does not scale, it isn’t likely to be taken seriously. What most IT executives may not realize, however, is that scale is not actually Continue reading
SDN is just the beginning, FireHost learns during the company-wide migration.