Cumulus customer highlight

Behind each Cumulus customer is an awesome story about the future of open networking. These companies are forward thinkers who know that web-scale is the best solution for their network — enabling flexibility, reducing TCO, increasing efficiency — but it’s more than just our innovation. When we begin working with our customers, we get to see what innovations they’re driving, and recognize how we now fit into their story. We wanted to take a moment to highlight a few of our newer case studies that have been published and highlight the awesome work that these organizations have accomplished.

iNNOVO Cloud
iNNOVO Cloud truly blew us away with one of the most energy efficient data centers in the world. They decided to run everything as an L3/IP fabric and not have large layer 2 domains (music to our ears). Partnering with OpenStack and Kubernetes, iNNOVO built an environment that brings efficiency and scale to their cloud and blockchain services. In fact, they reduced the time to configure switches by 83%. How’s that for increased efficiency? The best part is that their data center is all about sustainability and they’ve gone above and beyond your average infrastructure. Here’s a hint: think shipping Continue reading

We’ve Added a New AWS Course to Our Video Library!

interested in Amazon Services but not sure where to start? Check out our Newest AWS course, The AWS Ecosystem: AWS Overview Course. This video includes over 7 hours of introductory content from Geoff Douglas, an AWS Certified Architect, Developer and SysOps Admin and his brother Peter Douglas, an AWS Certified Architect with over 20 years of experience.

This is the perfect starter course for anyone that wants to learn more about Amazon and have a basic understanding of the many different services offered through AWS. This course covers all of the main areas of the Amazon platform including: security and compliance, networking, storage, computing, how to go server-less, developer tools, internet of things and automation. Each module will be discussed in-depth and real-world examples will be presented to bring things into perspective. At the end of this course, students will have a complete picture of the AWS ecosystem.

Istanbul/Turkey Onsite CCDE Training – 33

Istanbul/Turkey Onsite CCDE Training will be held between August 30 – September 3, 2018.   Course will be in English as usual, everyday will be between 9am – 6pm, 9 hours.     I am going to extend my CCDE Materials for this course as there was new scenarios and the technologies after August 29, …

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Istanbul/Turkey Onsite CCDE Training – 33

Istanbul/Turkey Onsite CCDE Training will be held between August 30 – September 3, 2018.   Course will be in English as usual, everyday will be between 9am – 6pm, 9 hours.     I am going to extend my CCDE Materials for this course as there was new scenarios and the technologies after August 29, …

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Istanbul/Turkey Onsite CCDE Training – 33% OFF until August-15, 2018

Istanbul/Turkey Onsite CCDE Training will be held between August 30 – September 3, 2018.   Course will be in English as usual, everyday will be between 9am – 6pm, 9 hours.     I am going to extend my CCDE Materials for this course as there was new scenarios and the technologies after August 29, […]

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Chip maker TSMC will lose millions for not patching its computers

Taiwanese chip-making giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), whose customers include Apple, Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, and Broadcom, was hit with a WannaCry infection last weekend that knocked out production for a few days and will cost the firm millions of dollars.Most chip companies are fabless, meaning they don’t make their own chips. It’s a massively expensive process, as Intel has learned. Most, like the aforementioned firms, simply design the chips and farm out the manufacturing process, and TSMC is by far the biggest player in that field.CEO C.C. Wei told Bloomberg that TSMC wasn’t targeted by a hacker; it was an infected production tool provided by an unidentified vendor that was brought into the company. The company is overhauling its procedures after encountering a virus more complex than initially thought, he said.To read this article in full, please click here

Chip maker TSMC will lose millions for not patching its computers

Taiwanese chip-making giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), whose customers include Apple, Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, and Broadcom, was hit with a WannaCry infection last weekend that knocked out production for a few days and will cost the firm millions of dollars.Most chip companies are fabless, meaning they don’t make their own chips. It’s a massively expensive process, as Intel has learned. Most, like the aforementioned firms, simply design the chips and farm out the manufacturing process, and TSMC is by far the biggest player in that field.CEO C.C. Wei told Bloomberg that TSMC wasn’t targeted by a hacker; it was an infected production tool provided by an unidentified vendor that was brought into the company. The company is overhauling its procedures after encountering a virus more complex than initially thought, he said.To read this article in full, please click here

Ask these questions before you replace any technology in your network !

If you are replacing one technology with the other, these questions you should be asking.         This may not be the complete list and one is maybe more important than the other for your network , but definitely keep in mind or come back to this post and check before you replace …

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Ask these questions before you replace any technology in your network !

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Ask these questions before you replace any technology in your network !

If you are replacing one technology with the other, these questions you should be asking.         This may not be the complete list and one is maybe more important than the other for your network , but definitely keep in mind or come back to this post and check before you replace […]

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Datanauts 144: Managing Work Stress And Cognitive Biases

This Datanauts podcast episode dives into the realities of dealing with work stress, especially when trying to embrace time off and unplugging from work. Our guest is Eric Shanks.

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Worth Reading: Hedgehogs and Foxes

There were several reasons for this: foxes were more willing to be self-critical thinkers, possessing intellectual humility. More importantly, they were willing to update their beliefs when presented with new evidence, and were more skeptical of grand explanations. —Ilana R. Akresh @Heterodox Academy

AWS Eyes the 6,000 Enterprise Clients of DXC Technology as Public Cloud Prospects

AWS and DXC Technology have agreed to build a new multibillion-dollar DXC-AWS Integrated Practice that will help DXC clients migrate their existing IT environments to AWS.

SoftNAS Calculator Targets AWS, Azure Storage Costs

The SD-storage and cloud data provider launched a free calculator that compares costs associated with using its automated storage tiering feature versus public cloud vendors.

On the ‘net: A Riff on RIFT

Today, an update on some compelling projects at IETF 102. Ours guest are Jeff Tantsura and Russ White. We review the following projects to see what’s new and understand what problems they’re solving: RIFT (Routing In Fat Trees), BIER (Bit Indexed Explicit Replication), PPR (Preferred Path Routing), and YANG data modeling. We also look at the state of SD-WAN, which is a bit of the Wild West, to look at standards and interoperability efforts underway. @Packet Pushers

Cisco upgrade enables SD-WAN in 1M+ ISR/ASR routers

Cisco is moving rapidly toward its ultimate goal of making SD-WAN features ubiquitous across its communication products, promising to boost network performance and reliability of distributed branches and cloud services.The company this week took a giant step that direction by adding Viptela SD-WAN technology to the IOS XE software that runs its core ISR/ASR routers. Over a million of ISR/ASR edge routers, such as the ISR models 1000, 4000 and ASR 5000 are in use by organizations worldwide.[ Related: MPLS explained -- What you need to know about multi-protocol label switching]To read this article in full, please click here

Cisco upgrade enables SD-WAN in 1M+ ISR/ASR routers

Cisco is moving rapidly toward its ultimate goal of making SD-WAN features ubiquitous across its communication products, promising to boost network performance and reliability of distributed branches and cloud services.The company this week took a giant step that direction by adding Viptela SD-WAN technology to the IOS XE software that runs its core ISR/ASR routers. Over a million of ISR/ASR edge routers, such as the ISR models 1000, 4000 and ASR 5000 are in use by organizations worldwide.[ Related: MPLS explained -- What you need to know about multi-protocol label switching]To read this article in full, please click here

Cisco upgrade enables SD-WAN in 1M+ ISR/ASR routers

Cisco is moving rapidly toward its ultimate goal of making SD-WAN features ubiquitous across its communication products, promising to boost network performance and reliability of distributed branches and cloud services.The company this week took a giant step that direction by adding Viptela SD-WAN technology to the IOS XE software that runs its core ISR/ASR routers. Over a million of ISR/ASR edge routers, such as the ISR models 1000, 4000 and ASR 5000 are in use by organizations worldwide.[ Related: MPLS explained -- What you need to know about multi-protocol label switching]To read this article in full, please click here

Network Collective: Security and Analytics

In this community roundtable, Eyvonne and I talk to Eric Osterweil about the increasing reliance on analytics in the realm of security.

Frinx Does Software-Defined Networking for SoftBank

"SoftBank trusted us in 2016, and we’ve been working with them as partners ever since," says Frinx's CEO. "Folks say it is very important who your first customer is.”