The Catalyst for Cloud Networking with Containerization
Today’s applications are connected both to users and other applications, increasing traffic and profoundly affecting performance. Recently, there has been much discussion around the Application Performance Management (APM) category. This got me thinking about new cloud migration versus legacy application tools. Is the industry being myopic and dealing with silos? Wouldn’t it be amazing if...Continue reading »
My ITIL Experience In An Org Chart
Some time back, someone challenged me to explain how ITIL impacted my workflow.
The diagram is largely inspired by my time working for a Top 5 IT Consultancy which was utterly convinced that more managers and project managers would improve the efficiency of the work performed because we could improve the process. In the end there were twelve project managers plus three manager-managers to schedule the work for just three engineers.
I pointed out that hiring another another engineer would improve work output by 33% but none of the ITIL project managers could understand this. It wasn’t about productivity, the customer, or address the need, the only focus was about hitting the deadlines, planned work hours and budgets.
ITIL is a disease. Kill it with fire.
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The Ever-Increasing Complexity
Eyvonne Sharp wrote a great blog post describing Cisco’s love of complexity and how SD-WAN vendors proved things don’t have to be that complex.
I know Cisco (and every other vendor) loves making ever-more-complex solutions that lock you into their morass for the rest of your life (long-distance vMotion anyone?).
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The company's CEO is the former CTO of Yahoo.
Cybersecurity and National Elections
The European Union today faces a number of serious challenges including growing levels of populism and the threat of foreign intervention through cyber-attacks. Last year’s alleged Russian-led cyberattacks on US Democratic Party servers as well as Chinese government cyber espionage against other governments and companies have provided worrying precedents. Although it is hard to measure the actual impact these attacks had on the election results in the US, concerns are growing amongst European leaders that their electoral procedures are vulnerable to manipulation.
The Linux Migration: Creating Presentations
Long-time readers of my site know that I’m a fan of Markdown, and I use it extensively. (This blog, in fact, is written entirely in Markdown and converted to HTML using Jekyll on GitHub Pages.) Since migrating to Linux as my primary desktop OS, I’ve also made the transition to doing almost all my presentations in Markdown as well. Here are the details on how I’m using Markdown for creating presentations on Linux.
There are a number of tools involved in my workflow for creating Markdown-based presentations on Linux:
- Sublime Text 3 (with the Markdown Extended and Monokai Extended packages) is used for editing the “source” files for a presentation. Three “source” files are involved: a Markdown file, a HTML file, and a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) file.
- Remarkjs takes the Markdown-formatted content and converts it into a dynamic HTML-based presentation, formatting it according to the styles defined in the CSS file. This gives tremendous flexibility in formatting the presentation. (Check it out on GitHub.)
- I use a web browser to display the HTML output generated by Remarkjs (in my case, I’m using Firefox on my Fedora laptop).
- To help with creating a PDF version of Continue reading
Open Networking Summit 2017: Harmonize, Harness, and Consume!
Ready to make your mark as a networking innovator and leader? Interested in learning how today’s open source and open standards initiatives are coming together? Want to know how networking is revolutionizing hot markets such as micro-services and Internet of Things (IoT)? Feeling the need to reach out to executives, technologists, vendors, and investors? If... Read more →
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Japan to Unveil Pascal GPU-Based AI Supercomputer
A shared appetite for high performance computing hardware and frameworks is pushing both supercomputing and deep learning into the same territory. This has been happening in earnest over the last year, and while most efforts have been confined to software and applications research, some supercomputer centers are spinning out new machines dedicated exclusively to deep learning.
When it comes to such supercomputing sites on the bleeding edge, Japan’s RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science is at the top of the list. The center’s Fujitsu-built K Computer is the seventh fastest machine on the planet according to the Top 500 rankings …
Japan to Unveil Pascal GPU-Based AI Supercomputer was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Worth Reading: Five jobs robots will take first
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