Innovation Exercises to Increase Your Personal Creativity

To advance in most careers these days you need to be creative and able to think outside of the box, but this is easier said than done. As children, we freely use our imagination and our creativity, but as we mature we are often asked to leave our imagination behind in order to perform in the “real world.” So how do you get back that personal creativity as an adult? Here are some innovation exercises that will help you increase your personal creativity.

5 Innovation Exercises to Boost Brain Power and Creativity

Try Looking at Things from a New Perspective

Over time, it becomes ingrained in us to look at things from one given perspective; however, learning to look at things from a different perspective may help us to see things in a different light and spur creativity. For example, if you normally view that tree in your backyard from a distance, why not sit under its branches and look up. Close your eyes, inhale deeply, and touch its leaves and branches, “seeing” it not through your eyes but through your sense of touch or smell. This will help you to see the tree more creatively than by simply Continue reading

Cumulus content roundup: September 2019

And with that, September has come and gone. Did you miss some of the great content we published? In true Cumulus Networks fashion, we’ve made it easy for you to catch up on all the blog posts and articles we had to offer below so take a moment to settle in and then dive into all things open networking!

From Cumulus Networks:

How open standards help with defense in depth:Networking is a vital part of security, and of defense in depth in particular. So how would open standards help this approach to InfoSec? Read this blog to learn.

EVPN-PIM: BUM optimization using PIM-SM: Does “PIM” make you break out into hives? You’re not alone. In part one of a two part blog series we talk about using PIM-SM to optimize BUM flooding in a L2-VNI with single VTEPs.

EVPN-PIM: Anycast VTEPs: In part one we learned about EVPN-PIM. This second part of the two-part blog series we throw MLAG into the mix and break down the additional procedures needed for it.

News from the web:

The future of networks: switching to 100G: Pete Lumbis shares five tips on changing to 100G networking in the latest Continue reading

Nubix Shrinks Containers to Fit Edge, IoT Limitations

Cisco Hooks Up Altice With SD-WAN Package

Will Extreme’s ‘Maniacal Enterprise Focus’ Propel It Past Cisco?

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Juniper Powers Telefonica UK’s Automated IP Network

Top Reasons to Attend VMworld Europe 2019

In the digital age, everyone is responsible for the organization’s overall security.  DevSecOps brings together the disciplines of DevOps, Cloud and now Security toward a common goal of distributing security decisions with agility and scale.  At VMworld Europe, you will network, learn and practice the industry’s latest technology with industry insiders, experts and your fellow co-workers and peers.

We’ve put together a list of VMware’s networking and security business unit’s top sessions, hands-on-labs and keynote sessions that you can’t miss!

Networking and Security Showcase Keynotes at VMworld Europe

Showcase Keynote: Networking and Security for the Cloud Era 

•  Tuesday, 5 November, 13:00 – 14:00 (CET/GMT+2)
• Speaker: Tom Gillis (@_TomGillis), SVP and GM, Networking and Security,

Showcase Keynote: Intrinsic Security – How Your VMware Infrastructure Can Turn the Tide in Cybersecurity [SEC3412KE]

• Wednesday, 6 November, 15:30- 16:30
• Speakers: Tom Corn, SVP Security Products, VMware, Shawn Bass, VP & CTO EUC, VMware

 Cloud Networking Sessions at VMworld Europe

Tuesday, 5 November, 2019

 Edge to Hybrid Cloud, the Network Matters [CNET3628BES]

• Tuesday, 5 November, 11:00 – 12:00
• Speakers: Amit Pandey, VP, Head of NSX Service, VMware and Bob Ghaffari, General Manager, Intel

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Arm’s Chances In Servers May Hinge On Success In HPC

It has been eight years since Arm announced its intentions to enter the server arena. …

Arm’s Chances In Servers May Hinge On Success In HPC was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.

Network Break 254: Amazon Develops Wireless Gadget Protocol; Mellanox Gear Harmonizes With SONiC

Network Break 254: Amazon Develops Wireless Gadget Protocol; Mellanox Gear Harmonizes With SONiC

Network Break feasts on a variety of tech news including a new wireless protocol proposed by Amazon, Mellanox support for the SONiC NOS, Palo Alto Networks saying it will build an SD-WAN offering, a dip in cloud infrastructure spending, and more.

The post Network Break 254: Amazon Develops Wireless Gadget Protocol; Mellanox Gear Harmonizes With SONiC appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Kubernetes Shadow Hangs Over Docker Financial Squeeze

Insider Threat Detection with NetFlow

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BiB082 – LPWANs, Amazon Sidewalk and Apple U1 Wideband

BiB082 – LPWANs, Amazon Sidewalk and Apple U1 Wideband

Last week we saw LPWAN announcements from Amazon and Apple, lets consider what that means.

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Both BGP and Power Point are Turing complete.

Its not a sign of superiority or actual usefulness.

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New book on LISP – Locator and Identity Separation Protocol

New book is released on LISP – Locator and Identity Separation Protocol. “LISP Network Deployment and Troubleshooting: The Complete Guide to LISP Implementation on IOS-XE, IOS-XR, and NX-OS” I still couldn’t start to read it as the authors didn’t send my own copy yet :), but I want to congratulate the authors, Tarique, Vinit and …

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What is last hop router and first hop router in Multicast?

What is last hop router and first hop router in Multicast? These are important  terms which are used in Multicast. In this post, I will explain the terms, differences and some detail about this term.   In fact, last hop router and the first hop router can be considered as the same thing. But I …

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When Is Something SD-WAN?

A couple of days ago, I wrote on LinkedIn asking you what a SD-WAN solution should consist of.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danieldib_sdn-sdwan-wan-activity-6583614108971655168-BH8x

The post was meant to create a discussion and there were a lot of great answers. Some of the features are “must have” and some of them are “nice to have”. I’m not claiming to have all of the answers but here are some of my thoughts on the topic.

Automated VPN – There should be a mechanism to help you build the IPSec tunnels. You should not have to configure them manually. Traditionally, we often used something like DMVPN to build the tunnels for us. Consider the following:

• How are devices onboarded? Who can join the overlay?
• Are tunnels built using certificates or pre-shared key?
• How often are keys rotated? If at all
• How do you prevent a stolen router from joining the overlay?

Separation of control- and data plane – This one is debatable but there should a mechanism to influence topology of the overlay, and routing of the edge devices, using a central mechanism. With DMVPN, we had the ability to do Hub & Spoke or fully meshed, but there was no granular control. We could Continue reading

Changing Cisco IOS BGP Policies Based on IP SLA Measurements

This is a guest blog post by Philippe Jounin, Senior Network Architect at Orange Business Services.

You could use track objects in Cisco IOS to track route reachability or metric, the status of an interface, or IP SLA compliance for a long time. Initially you could use them to implement reliable static routing (or even shut down a BGP session) or trigger EEM scripts. With a bit more work (and a few more EEM scripts) you could use object tracking to create time-dependent static routes.

Cisco IOS 15 has introduced Enhanced Object Tracking that allows first-hop router protocols like VRRP or HSRP to use tracking state to modify their behavior.