I’m trying to figure out what makes a network engineer truly a “senior” engineer. What skills, mostly non-technical, do they possess in order to bring value to the work place?
I’ll share my opinions based on my experience having held junior and senior IT engineering roles, as well as multiple managerial stints with engineers as direct reports. I’m mostly going to address IT engineering broadly rather than networking specifically, as my opinion is the same no matter which tech silo an engineer might hail from.
As Ravi asked about “mostly non-technical” skills, I’ll be brief here. From a technical perspective, I believe a senior IT engineer is primarily differentiated from a junior in one word–experience. The senior engineer has installed more systems, planned more changes, fixed more problems, and survived more outages than a junior engineer in the same organization.
Ideally, that experience has led to wisdom about how technology can best serve the business needs of an organization. This wisdom will tend to eschew needlessly complex designs, nerd knobs, and “science experiments” conducted in production. This wisdom will also result in difficult problems being resolved more quickly. Experienced folks know somewhat instinctively Continue reading
We talk global IP backbones and 400G with sponsor Telia Carrier on today's Tech Bytes podcast. The company offers IP services from multiple PoPs in the US and is making significant investments in 400G, creating new opportunities for Telia Carrier and its customers. Our guest is Mattias Fridstrom, VP & Chief Evangelist at Telia Carrier.
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Take a Network Break! We discuss how HPE raises the stakes on its GreenLake hybrid cloud strategy with new features, look at new products from Aruba Networks, review the latest changes in Windows 11, and more tech news. Guest commentator Tom Hollingsworth brings the virtual donuts this week.
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Security keeps getting more complex, and despite a multitude of products, tools and processes, organizations find it challenging to prevent 100 percent of breaches or unwanted access. Zero Trust holds the promise of achieving tighter security by only trusting network traffic that is specifically permitted by a security policy. While the task appears daunting, those organizations that follow a step-by-step approach can achieve success.
The process followed by VMware IT (VMIT) can serve as a blueprint for other organizations, removing some of the mystery and complexity. VMIT embarked on a Zero Trust project for data center security to prevent unwanted lateral movement, restricting communication among workloads to only the minimum needed to complete their jobs. The goal was to make Zero Trust the new normal for all applications in the data center. To do so, the team needed to gain a complete understanding of all applications, down to the workload level. Once understood, effective policies can be crafted to permit only the desired behavior.
Step one: macro-segmentation
Achieving Zero Trust fits neatly into a five-step approach (see A Practical Path to Zero Trust in the Data Center white paper), which starts with macro-segmenting the network and culminates in micro-segmenting all Continue reading
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We compared Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Cisco Webex, Google Meet, BlueJeans, and GoToMeeting in real-world tests to see which videoconferencing platforms perform best for business users. Here’s how they stack up.
It’s time for another this is what we did in the last six months blog post. Instead of writing another wall-of-text, I just updated the one I published in early January. Here are the highlights:
That’s about it for the first half of 2021. I’ll be back in early September.
It’s time for another this is what we did in the last six months blog post. Instead of writing another wall-of-text, I just updated the one I published in early January. Here are the highlights:
That’s about it for the first half of 2021. I’ll be back in early September.