5 Career Tips I Learned From John Chambers and Cisco
My work life has been closely tied to Cisco’s success over the last 15 years and "Uncle" John Chambers has been my constant companion in that journey. Now that he has moved on to Chairman of the Board it is time to talk career tips that I learned from the master.
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IIX Launches Console, a SaaS Spinoff for Networking
Silicon Valley startup Console Inc. sounds like it's got another take on SD-WAN.
Oracle Is Readying Its OSS Suite for a New, Open World
Preparing telcos for a new, open world.
CEO Rich Napolitano Named to the 2015 CRN Top 100 Executives List
We’re thrilled that CEO, Rich Napolitano has been named to CRN®’s Top 100 list of the IT industry’s foremost channel leaders. CRN’s annual list recognizes the efforts of agile decision-makers who play an integral role in evolving the way the channel does business. These 100 leaders, picked by the CRN editorial staff, represent the pre-eminent innovators, influencers, disrupters and channel sales leaders in the IT channel today.
Rich has been at the helm of Plexxi since November 2014. He brought with him a simple formula to success: bring high quality and disruptive products to market through partners that are looking to carve a new path in the market. With channel partners like CloudGov Technologies and Arrow Electronics, Plexxi is bringing this vision to the market and ushering in the next era of IT.
CRN also named Plexxi a 2015 Emerging Vendor, and reporter Michael Novinson recently spoke exclusively with Rich about our newly announced channel distribution agreement with Arrow Electronics and how this helps move the industry further faster.
“We are at a major transition point and opportunity in the IT landscape. This transformation will not only upend the networking industry as we know but will transform the Continue reading
Improve Your Open Networking Experience with Cumulus® VX™
In past jobs, when I was responsible for the architecture and engineering of networks, my peers and I would often spend measurable time working in the lab and testing out the setup of new network designs or approaches that we were looking to implement.
As anyone who has had to build a lab themselves will attest, you never have enough gear, power or space to do all of the testing you would like. Between the problems of having to build the network from gear that’s been cast-off from the production network to not being able to run the latest software, you can end up questioning your testing results. From being limited on cooling and power to having to find and run the cables to connect it all together, it can be a lot of work that may not answer everything you need for production.
In the compute space, this has been less of an issue in recent years. With the introduction of accessible virtualization, the application teams could simulate entire solution stacks on their desktop. While you wouldn’t want to run your production environment on many of them, you could at least simulate all of the components in the solution and verify what you were doing different was viable. Continue readingMikroTik unveils new RouterOS development cycle
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As we all patiently await the release of RouterOS (RoS) v7 beta, MikroTik has announced a change in the way RoS development is organized. There will now be three different tracks of development:
Bugfix only – When a current build is released, only fixes to known bugs will be added to this branch of development
Current – Current release will contain bugfixes and new features
Release Candidate – The release candidate will remain the development build for the next “current” release.
Graphical Overview of the new development cycle
Image and notes below are from here
A small addendum: the Bugfix only will only contain verified fixes, and no new features. The Current release contains the same fixes but also new features and other improvements, sometimes also less critical fixes than in Bugfix. And finally the Release Candidate is more likely to a nightly build. We will not to intensive testing before publishing these, only quick check if upgrade can be done and if most features work fine.
Origin
The idea originally came out of this thread and after a flurry of positive commentary, it became a working practice shortly therafter.
We plan to make sub-version releases Continue reading
MikroTik unveils new RouterOS development cycle
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As we all patiently await the release of RouterOS (RoS) v7 beta, MikroTik has announced a change in the way RoS development is organized. There will now be three different tracks of development:
Bugfix only – When a current build is released, only fixes to known bugs will be added to this branch of development
Current – Current release will contain bugfixes and new features
Release Candidate – The release candidate will remain the development build for the next “current” release.
Graphical Overview of the new development cycle
Image and notes below are from here
A small addendum: the Bugfix only will only contain verified fixes, and no new features. The Current release contains the same fixes but also new features and other improvements, sometimes also less critical fixes than in Bugfix. And finally the Release Candidate is more likely to a nightly build. We will not to intensive testing before publishing these, only quick check if upgrade can be done and if most features work fine.
Origin
The idea originally came out of this thread and after a flurry of positive commentary, it became a working practice shortly therafter.
We plan to make sub-version releases Continue reading
Auvik Release Notes – July 29th – Ping Service and Freshdesk/ConnectWise integration!
NEW! Cloud ping and Internet connection checksAuvik now has cloud ping checks that allow you to monitor the reachability of public IPs fromService Provider SDN Webinar — Sign Up & Learn Ericsson’s Core Principles
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TECH.unplugged And Being Present
I wanted to let everyone know that I’m going to be taking part in an excellent event being put on by my friend Enrico Signoretti (@ESignoretti) this September. TECH.unplugged is a jam-packed day of presentations from people that cover storage, computing, and in my case networking. We’re getting together to share knowledge and discuss topics of great interest to the IT community. As excited as I am to be taking part, I also wanted to take a few moments to discuss why events like this are important to the technology community.
WORM Food
There’s no doubt that online events are becoming the standard for events in recent years. It’s much more likely to find an event that offers streaming video, virtual meeting rooms, and moderated discussions taking place in a web browser. The costs of travel and lodging are far higher than they were during the recession days of yore. Finding a meeting room that works with your schedule is even harder. It’s much easier to spin up a conference room in the cloud and have people dial in to hear what’s going on.
For factual information, such as teaching courses, this approach works rather well. That’s Continue reading