Due to close scare in my lab I decided to switch the datastore from a single onboard hdd to iSCSI. I use a WD MyCloud EX2 Ultra but there are a lot of more advanced NAS out there with a whole host of extra features. The WD is rather basic but is sufficient for my needs of partitioning it into a backup drive and an iSCSI drive. Since moving onto this I haven’t noticed any real performance degradation in my lab, its run over 1 Gig port.
As a network type, it’s hard not to be excited when heading to a Networking Field Day event. I joined then NFD club by attending NFD14 and have been hooked ever since.
Not only is it an honor and a privilege to be invited to an NFD event, the personal relationships that are forged in the larger TFD community are some of the most valuable I’ve ever had in my career.
This go around we’ll be visiting Aruba (A Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company) in Santa Clara to deep dive on the newest addition to the Aruba product line – the 8400 core switch.
It’s been a while since anything exciting happened in the world of campus networking. It’s a steady segment for most vendors but nothing disruptive has really happened in the last few years.
And that’s not incredibly surprising. For better or worse, as long as campus networks aren’t broken in most enterprises, they are often neglected in favor of the data center and cloudy pursuits.
Aruba is touting the 8400 to increase automation and visibility in the campus core – both are areas Continue reading
As a network type, it’s hard not to be excited when heading to a Networking Field Day event. I joined then NFD club by attending NFD14 and have been hooked ever since.
Not only is it an honor and a privilege to be invited to an NFD event, the personal relationships that are forged in the larger TFD community are some of the most valuable I’ve ever had in my career.
This go around we’ll be visiting Aruba (A Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company) in Santa Clara to deep dive on the newest addition to the Aruba product line – the 8400 core switch.
It’s been a while since anything exciting happened in the world of campus networking. It’s a steady segment for most vendors but nothing disruptive has really happened in the last few years.
And that’s not incredibly surprising. For better or worse, as long as campus networks aren’t broken in most enterprises, they are often neglected in favor of the data center and cloudy pursuits.
Aruba is touting the 8400 to increase automation and visibility in the campus core – both are areas Continue reading
Could predictive analytics help foresee network failures?
Enterprises looking to deploy containers are struggling with connectivity challenges.
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As many of you know, I’ve been diving into the home automation pond for awhile now. I’ve been asked to blog out my current home setup and this is an attempt to do that. There’s MUCH too much to be put into a single post, which is why I started a new blog for this subject over at www.homekitgeek.com as well as doing some video reviews of different HomeKit accessories. Work in process, but I’ll do the short version here.
I chose to use the Apple homeKit framework as the base for my home automation journey for a few reason. The biggest one is that I already owned a couple of Apple TV (gen4) devices which fit the home automation hub role. These devices are a homeKit hub and are the always-on/always-present devices that are used to perform orchestration/automation actions when I’m home or away. These also tie directly into Apple’s iCloud which allows me remote access to my homeKit gear without having to VPN into my home network.
There’s a lot to talk about here, but I thought I would just do a quick description of what’s going on room-by-room Continue reading
Equinix already offers direct connectivity to AWS, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, and IBM Bluemix.
In the IT business, just like any other business, you have to try to sell what is on the truck, not what is planned to be coming out of the factories in the coming months and years. AMD has put a very good X86 server processor into the market for the first time in nine years, and it also has a matching GPU that gives its OEM and ODM partners a credible alternative for HPC and AI workload to the combination of Intel Xeons and Nvidia Teslas that dominate hybrid computing these days.
There are some pretty important caveats to …
The Shape Of AMD HPC And AI Iron To Come was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
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Google has been at the bleeding edge of AI hardware development with the arrival of its TPU and other system-scale modifications to make large-scale neural network processing efficient and fast.
But just as these developments come to fruition, advances in trimmed-down deep learning could move many more machine learning training and inference operations out of the datacenter and into your palm.
Although it might be natural to think the reason that neural networks cannot be processed on devices like smartphones is because of limited CPU power, the real challenge lies in the vastness of the model sizes and hardware memory …
Google Research Pushing Neural Networks Out of the Datacenter was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Platform can support Kubernetes-based container deployment in 10 minutes.
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