CNCF Project Journey Proves Kubernetes Is Everywhere

Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey: ‘We Don’t Sell Vaporware’

T-Mobile US Taps the Brakes on 5G Amid Merger Delays

OnX Adds Cisco SD-WAN to Its Managed Service Portfolio

3 leading network access control products reviewed

Real IT users evaluate network access control solutions: Cisco Identity Services Engine, Aruba ClearPass and ForeScout CounterACT. (Download the 27-page comparison.)

3 leading network access control products reviewed

Real IT users evaluate network access control solutions: Cisco Identity Services Engine, Aruba ClearPass and ForeScout CounterACT. (Download the 27-page comparison.)

Celebrating Linux’s 28 years

Linux just turned 28 years old. From its modest beginnings as an interesting project to the OS that now empowers all 500 of the top 500 supercomputers, along with a huge variety of tiny embedded devices, its place in today's computing world is unparalleled.I was still working with SunOS at the time that Linux was announced — a couple years before it evolved into the System V based Solaris. The full ramifications of what it would mean to be "open source" weren't clear at the time. I was in love with Unix, and this clearly related newborn was of some interest, but not enough to draw me away from the servers I was managing and articles I was writing in those days.To read this article in full, please click here

Impostor Syndrome and Loser DNA

Most of you are probably already familiar with impostor syndrome. Wikipedia defines it as:

Despite external evidence of their competence, those experiencing this phenomenon remain convinced that they are frauds, and do not deserve all they have achieved. Individuals with impostorism incorrectly attribute their success to luck, or as a result of deceiving others into thinking they are more intelligent than they perceive themselves to be.

Basically, it’s the feeling that you don’t really know how things work and one day you’ll get caught, your lies will be exposed, and the world will come crashing down.

Let me let you in on a secret, all people has likely felt as an impostor at times. Even the people you look up to the most. Lately, there has been a lot of tweets and blog posts on impostor syndrome, and that is great. Raising awareness is the first step. However, not many people are saying what to do about it or how to prevent you from developing a “loser DNA”. What is loser DNA?

My Friend Nick Russo wrote about it after listening to Gary Vaynerchuck. Loser DNA is when you compare yourself to others that are, at least according to you, a lot more advanced Continue reading

Upcoming Events and Webinars (September 2019)

We’re back from the summer break for real - the first autumn 2019 ipSpace.net event takes place today: I’ll talk about the fallacies of distributed computing.

September will be an intensive month:

• We’re starting the autumn 2019 network automation course on September 3^rd;
• A week after that (September 10^th) I’ll run a day-long VMware NSX workshop in Zurich;
• Azure Networking webinar series is starting on September 12^th and continuing on September 24^th;
• Lukas Krattiger will talk about service insertion in leaf-and-spine fabrics on September 17^th.

Of course, we’ll keep going… our event calendar is fully packed till mid-November. More about that in a month.

VMware touts hyperscale SD-WAN

SAN FRANCISCO –  VMware teamed with Dell/EMC this week to deliver an SD-WAN service that promises to greatly simplify setting up and supporting wide-area-network connectivity.The Dell EMC SD-WAN Solution is a package of VMware software with Dell hardware and software that will be managed by Dell and sold as a package by both companies and their partners.The package, introduced at the VMworld event here, includes VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud software available as a subscription coupled with appliances available in multiple configurations capable of handling 10Mbps to 10Gbps of traffic, depending on customer need, said Sanjay Uppal, vice president and general manager of VMware’s VeloCloud Business Unit.To read this article in full, please click here

HPE’s Paul Miller: Unlike Dell, We Give You Choice

How Will Open Source Deal With Success?

Complete a survey on enterprise purchasing for a shot at $500

IDG is conducting its annual Customer Engagement survey on how businesses make buying decisions for their major enterprise IT purchases. The survey should take no more than 10 minutes of your time, and it's confidential. Neither your name nor your company's name will be associated with your answers.In return for filling out the survey, you can enter to win a $500 cash prize. For complete sweepstakes rules, click here.To read this article in full, please click here

Sprint Spikes 5G Launch on LA Beach

Check Point Expands CloudGuard to SD-WAN Security

Cisco Makes CloudCenter Management Tool SaaSy

How Customer Success Managers Advocate for and Engage with Customers

“Hi! My name is Cosmin and I am your Customer Success Manager here at Cloudflare” is how I usually introduce myself and almost always I get met by a blank stare. It could be the name (it’s uncommon, to say the least) but in actual fact, many Customer Success professionals go through the same experience. Could it be that the title doesn’t give away much? What does ‘Customer Success Manager’ actually mean? Is that how they call Customer Support nowadays? And in fact, isn’t everyone in a business responsible for ‘customer success’?

Well let me explain..

Customer Success is a relatively new function that is becoming increasingly popular with XaaS businesses (XaaS stands for Anything as a Service).  With any XaaS product, it is no longer the case that you make a significant investment in a perpetual license and are left to figure out how to implement it, how to use it and what else it can do. XaaS businesses operate a subscription model whereby if the product is not actually solving your problem, you can just stop the subscription and move on. Businesses operating a subscription model need to ensure that there is continuous and even increasing Continue reading

Simple Complicated Complexity

In this episode Jordan shares his thoughts on some of the nuanced differences between simple, complicated, and complex network designs. These are terms and descriptions that get thrown around a lot in our industry but do you really understand what they are or how they should impact your design?

Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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IoT roundup: Smart buildings, airport headaches and off to Paris

This week’s internet of things roundup takes a trip to the airport to learn how IoT can ease security line angst and then jets off for Paris and India.

IDG Contributor Network: Monitoring the Amazon wildfires with satellites, IoT sensors and GIS

The Amazon spans 2.1 million square miles of rain forest spread over nine countries. And on its edges are miles of agricultural fields, whose farmers routinely burn in order to control pests and weeds, and to encourage new growth.Brazil is the largest cattle exporter in the world with over 200 million head of cattle. Ranchers often set fires to clear land for grazing, reports the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. However, these long-practiced techniques have raised concerns of the threat that accidental forest fires could pose during drought years. Climate change, which is beginning to show its effects around the world, could exacerbate this threat.To read this article in full, please click here