A thought, since I’ve just returned form Networking Field Day 9: I’ve heard it said that delegates to Tech Field Day events hate Gartner; that this is stupid, or that it’s some other form of snobbery. It’s certainly true that on the whole, TFD delegates do not like to see Gartner slides in presentations.
So why do Tech Field Day delegates hate Gartner?
We don’t.
We do.
We don’t, but we do. It’s complicated.
Hey, it’s complicated, alright?
Bonus points for obvious movie reference identification. So look, here’s the thing. You folks reading this blog are likely pretty intelligent. The fact that you read tech blogs means you are looking to get information that will help you make a decision or solve a problem.
In my opinion, the problem with a company at Tech Field Day putting up a Gartner slide and maybe boasting that “we’re in the top right quadrant” is that it’s not what we think we’re there to hear. We’re sitting in front of the actual people who make the product, and instead of convincing us of their product’s merits by telling and showing us how amazing it is, they’re saying “Here’s what Continue reading
HTTP/2 is now submitted to the RFC Editor and will bring major changes to networking. Efficient design means smaller firewalls, less bandwidth and faster response times for users. And the default to encryption means that transparent caches, proxies, IDS/IPS and other network security systems will be seriously impacted.
The post Show 224 – HTTP2. Its The Biggest (Network) Thing Happening on the Internet Today appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Greg Ferro.
In the Myths That Refuse to Die: Scalability of Overlay Virtual Networking blog post I wrote “number of MAC addresses has absolutely no impact on the forwarding performance until the MAC hash table overflows”, which happens to be almost true.
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