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IBM Buys HashiCorp To Control The Alternative To Red Hat Kubernetes

It has been quite a week for Hashi Corp, the company behind the open source Hashi Stack of systems software for creating and running modern, distributed applications. …

IBM Buys HashiCorp To Control The Alternative To Red Hat Kubernetes was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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KU054: OpenTelemetry: Open Source Observability

Observability is foundational to application and infrastructure performance. That’s why it’s fitting that OpenTelemetry is the second most active project in the CNCF after Kubernetes. Today CNCF ambassador Dotan Horovits tells us about the project: OpenTelemetry is a uniform, vendor-agnostic observability framework for generating and collecting telemetry data across both infrastructure and application, across different... Read more »

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Understand Enterprise Connectivity by Going Directly to the Source

Discover the benefits of scalable backbone and network services for application and cloud providers.

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Single-AS EVPN Fabric with OSPF Underlay: Underlay Network Unicast Routing

 Introduction

Image 2-1 illustrates the components essential for designing a Single-AS, Multicast-enabled OSPF Underlay EVPN Fabric. These components need to be established before constructing the EVPN fabric. I've grouped them into five categories based on their function.

• General: Defines the IP addressing scheme for Spine-Leaf Inter-Switch links, set the BGP AS number and number of BGP Route-Reflectors, and set the MAC address for the Anycast gateway for client-side VLAN routing interfaces.

• Replication: Specifies the replication mode for Broadcast, Unknown Unicast, and Multicast (BUM) traffic generated by Tenant Systems. The options are Ingress-Replication and Multicast (ASM or BiDir options).

• vPC: Describes vPC multihoming settings such as vPC Peer Link VLAN ID and Port-Channel ID, vPC Auto-recovery and Delay Restore timers, and define vPC Peer Keepalive interface.

• Protocol: Defines the numbering schema for Loopback interfaces, set the OSPF Area identifier, and OSPF process name.

• Resources: Reserves IP address ranges for Loopback interfaces defined in the Protocols category and for the Rendezvous Point specified in the Replication category. Besides, in this section, we reserve Layer 2 and Layer 3 VXLAN and VLAN ranges for overlay network segments.

The model presented in Figure 2-1 outlines the steps for configuring an EVPN fabric using the Continue reading

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Repost: Think About the 99% of the Users

Daniel left a very relevant comment on my Data Center Fabric Designs: Size Matters blog post, describing how everyone rushes to sell the newest gizmos and technologies to the unsuspecting (and sometimes too-awed) users¹:

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Absolutely right. I’m working at an MSP, and we do a lot of project work for enterprises with between 500 and 2000 people. That means the IT department is not that big; it’s usually just a cost center for them.

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Repost: Think About the 99% of the Users

Daniel left a very relevant comment on my Data Center Fabric Designs: Size Matters blog post, describing how everyone rushes to sell the newest gizmos and technologies to the unsuspecting (and sometimes too-awed) users¹:

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Absolutely right. I’m working at an MSP, and we do a lot of project work for enterprises with between 500 and 2000 people. That means the IT department is not that big; it’s usually just a cost center for them.

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Meet NFA 24.04: SNMP Data Explorer, FQDN Filtering & Improved Data Aggregation

The post Meet NFA 24.04: SNMP Data Explorer, FQDN Filtering & Improved Data Aggregation appeared first on Noction.

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IPv6 Prefix Lengths

These days its up to IPv6 Service providers to determine what IPv6 address prefix length they assign to each customer. This leads to the question: What lengths are commonly used for customer assignments? Let's see if we can answer it.

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Fixed Wireless Access Benefits Extend to Enterprises

Pending 6GHz spectrum availability, faster speeds, and private wireless access use drive FWA forward.

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NAN061: Transforming Network Telemetry Into Operational Insights With Kentik (Sponsored)

The expectations for application delivery are higher than ever before, the networks that support those applications are increasingly distributed, and visibility is essential for network operations and troubleshooting. On today’s sponsored episode, Kentik’s Phil Gervasi joins us to discuss how Kentik collects essential performance data to help you monitor and manage all the networks your... Read more »

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How to Get the Maximum Value Out of Network Automation

Network automation is gaining momentum. Here's how you can drive this powerful technology to its full potential.

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Sandia Pushes The Neuromorphic AI Envelope With Hala Point “Supercomputer”

Not many devices in the datacenter have been etched with the Intel 4 process, which is the chip maker’s spin on 7 nanometer extreme ultraviolet immersion lithography. …

Sandia Pushes The Neuromorphic AI Envelope With Hala Point “Supercomputer” was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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D2C241: Choose Your Own Adventure: Manager, Director, or IC

What makes for a good manager, director, and independent contributor (IC), and how do you figure out which is the best fit for you? Hazel Weakly has had a whirlwind tour of all three and is ready to share her insight into each. We talk about the skill set needed for each, and figuring out... Read more »

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Aruba Networking Unveils Wi-Fi 7 Access Points

The new HPE Aruba 730 series Wi-Fi 7 access points tout high performance, enhanced security, location tracking capabilities, and more.

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Stop the Network-Based Application Recognition Nonsense

One of my readers sent me an interesting update on the post-QUIC round of NBAR whack-a-mole (TL&DR: everything is better with Bluetooth AI):

So far, so good. However, whenever there’s a change, there’s an opportunity for marketing FUD, coming from the usual direction.

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Stop the Network-Based Application Recognition Nonsense

One of my readers sent me an interesting update on the post-QUIC round of NBAR whack-a-mole (TL&DR: everything is better with Bluetooth AI):

So far, so good. However, whenever there’s a change, there’s an opportunity for marketing FUD, coming from the usual direction.

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PP011: IoT Protocols: Detection and Protection

IoT devices are often like the tiny aliens in the locker in Men in Black: They’ve created a whole little world on your network without almost any humans knowing they exist. Today Troy Martin joins the show to teach us the basics of how to find and secure IoT devices on your network, specifically focusing... Read more »

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Good Things Happen when Network Engineers Internalize Spider-Man’s Mantra

NetOps teams, like Spider Man, have great powers and great responsibilities. Increasingly, they are adopting a Zero Trust approach to network operations to help fight their battles.

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Sweetened IT Spending Forecast Is Not Precisely A GenAI Boom

Here is a paradox for you: Spending on infrastructure to support generative AI is apparently booming, as clearly evidenced by the skyrocketing revenues and profits of Nvidia. …

Sweetened IT Spending Forecast Is Not Precisely A GenAI Boom was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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HS070: Living on the Edge: The Present Future of Edge Architecture

Right now we’re in the first generation of edge architecture. We won’t even really know how to define it until we’re past it. Greg and Johna discuss the operational milieu in which the edge is forming: Vast numbers of IoT devices, increased remote computing capabilities, questions around cloud operational costs and efficiency, and vendors jostling... Read more »