Cisco vs. Arista: The Battle for Market Share, Money & Pride (Part 2)
Part 2 of the timeline highlighting the hurdles both companies have jumped through to stay on top.
Cisco vs. Arista: The Battle for Market Share, Money & Pride
Here is a timeline highlighting the hurdles both companies have jumped through to stay on top.
5 WiFi Networking Predictions For 2017
IoT security, cloud-managed WiFi, and other trends will reshape the WiFi market next year.
9 Things IT Pros Want For 2017
The SolarWinds THWACK community lists its dreams for next year, including training and IoT security.
Generating OSPF, BGP and MPLS/VPN Configurations from Network Data Model
Over a month ago I decided to create a lab network to figure out how to solve an interesting Inter-AS MPLS/VPN routing challenge. Instead of configuring half a dozen routers I decided to develop a fully-automated deployment because it will make my life easier.
I finally got to a point where OSPF, LDP, BGP (IPv4 and VPNv4) and MPLS/VPN configurations are created, deployed and verified automatically.
Read more ...Looking Back: 2016 Project Report Card
As I’ve done for the last few years, in early 2016 I published a list of my planned personal projects for the year. In this post, I’d like to look back on that list of projects and grade myself on my progress (or lack of progress, if that is the case). Even though 2016 isn’t over yet, it’s close enough to the end of the year that things won’t change that much before 2017 is upon us.
For reference, here’s the list of planned 2016 projects:
- Complete a new book (again)
- Make more open source contributions
- Expand my knowledge and use of Python
- Expand my knowledge, use, and focus on public cloud services
- Complete a “wildcard project”
Let’s look at each of these planned projects and see how I fared.
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Complete a new book (again): Well—in the spirit of total honesty and transparency—this was a major failure. Not only did I fail to complete the network automation book I’ve been working on with Matt Oswalt and Jason Edelman, but the other book project I had planned also did not go anywhere. Granted, the circumstances preventing the second book project were outside my control, but the fact remains I still did Continue reading
“From Putin with Love” – a novel by the New York Times
In recent weeks, the New York Times has written many stories on Russia's hacking of the Trump election. This front page piece [*] alone takes up 9,000 words. Combined, the NYTimes coverage on this topic exceeds the length of a novel. Yet, for all this text, the number of verifiable facts also equals that of a novel, namely zero. There's no evidence this was anything other than an undirected, Anonymous-style op based on a phishing campaign.The question that drives us
It's not that Russia isn't involved, it's that the exact nature of their involvement is complicated. Just because the hackers live in Russia doesn't automatically mean their attacks are directed by the government.
It's like the recent Islamic terrorist attacks in Europe and America. Despite ISIS claiming credit, and the perpetrators crediting ISIS, we are loathe to actually blame the attacks directly on ISIS. Overwhelmingly, it's individuals who finance and plan their attacks, with no ISIS organizational involvement other than inspiration.
The same goes for Russian hacks. The Russian hacker community is complicated. There are lots of actors with various affiliations with the government. They are almost always nationalistic, almost always pro-Putin. There are many individuals and Continue reading
Worth Reading: Driverless infrastructure
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New Cumulus Linux features: Snapshots & Rollback
Sometimes you really need a do over
This is the 2nd blog in a 4-part series highlighting many of the Cumulus Linux features in our 3.2 release. In this post, we’ll be detailing a feature exclusive to Cumulus Networks — Snapshots.
You know the feeling — you just ran your favorite Linux command with the –force option and typed “yes” to the question “Are you sure?”.
The command generates WAY more output than you were expecting. The back of your neck starts to tingle. And it’s late Friday afternoon no less. This can’t be good. You really need a do over.
We hear you. In order to help you undo, fix and mitigate command errors, we created snapshots and rollbacks — the newest Cumulus Linux features, now available in our 3.2 release.
With Cumulus Networks, web-scale networking is easier and more powerful than ever. We incorporate the best technology from the Linux desktop and server ecosystems. When we come across a desktop application that works well, we bring it to network switches.
In the latest version of Cumulus Linux, we deploy the Btree File System (BTRFS) for the root file system. BTRFS brings a number of Continue reading