Worth Reading: Trademarking hashtags
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Network Break 80: Microsoft Moves Markets, Cisco Reorganizes
Take a Network Break! We serve up a bounty of tech news, including Microsoft's influence over hardware players, Cisco's big reorganization, a new Citrix appliance & more.
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Network Break 80: Microsoft Moves Markets, Cisco Reorganizes
Take a Network Break! We serve up a bounty of tech news, including Microsoft's influence over hardware players, Cisco's big reorganization, a new Citrix appliance & more.
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The Design Mindset (3)
So you’ve spent time asking what, observing the network as a system, and considering what has actually been done in the past. And you’ve spent time asking why, trying to figure out the purpose (or lack of purpose) behind the configuration and design choices made in the past. You’ve followed the design mindset to this point, so now you can jump in and make like a wrecking ball (or a bull in a china shop), changing things so they’re better, and the new requirements you have can fit right in. Right?
Wrong.
As an example, I want to take you back to another part of a story I told here about my early days in the networking world. Before losing the war over Banyan Vines, I actually encountered an obstacle that should have been telling—but I was too much of a noob at the time to recognize it for the warning it really was. At the time, I had written a short paper comparing Vines to Netware; the paper was, perhaps, ten pages long, and I thought it did a pretty good job of comparing the two network operating systems. Heck, I’d even put together a page showing how Vines Continue reading
Dell Sells Its IT Services Unit to NTT Data for $3.05B
It's selling the unit for less than it paid for it.
Change Control: Embrace the Red Tape
Change control isn’t so bad. With the underlying goal of risk mitigation, good change control can save a network engineer from the dreaded resume generating event we sweat over during cutovers. Change management frameworks such as ITIL layer an element of bureaucracy over network operations to provide a basis for a quantitative approach to IT […]
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Change Control: Embrace the Red Tape
Change control isn’t so bad. With the underlying goal of risk mitigation, good change control can save a network engineer from the dreaded resume generating event we sweat over during cutovers. Change management frameworks such as ITIL layer an element of bureaucracy over network operations to provide a basis for a quantitative approach to IT […]
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Open Source Groups Invited to Play Ball With AT&T
Ecomp would be the mother of SDN open source groups.
How we implemented the video player in Mail.Ru Cloud
We’ve recently added video streaming service to Mail.Ru Cloud. Development started with contemplating the new feature as an all-purpose “Swiss Army knife” that would both play files of any format and work on any device with the Cloud available. Video content uploaded to the Cloud mostly falls into one of the two categories: “movies/series” and “users’ videos”. The latter are the videos that users shoot with their phones and cameras, and these videos are most versatile in terms of formats and codecs. For many reasons, it is often a problem to watch these videos on other end-user devices without prior normalization: a required codec is missing, or the file size is too big to download, or whatever.
In this article, I’ll go into detail to explain how video playback works in Mail.Ru Cloud, and how we made the Cloud player “omnivorous” and ensured support on a maximum number of end-user devices.
Storing and Caching: two approaches
Worth Reading: Building a (human) network, part 2
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Drop and bogons list on Cisco router
The Cyberspace a.k.a. the Internet is full of bad guys wanting to mess with our computers right? Of course everyone of us have a firewall configured with proper access and inspection rules, don’t ya? Spamhaus and Team Cymru can help providing list of known bad IPs and subnets that should be filtered in our networks. […]Prophylactic Network Security
This week’s comedy gold was listening to a conversation emanating from a nearby inhabitant of our corporate cube accomodations, where one of my colleagues, Bob, was explaining to another coworker, George, the reasoning behind the decision to deploy firewalls to a particular new location.
Roughly summarized, the argument was this:
George, deploying a firewall is like having sex.
(No; I confess I had not anticipated ever typing that particular sentence, and I hope I never have to type it again.)
When you want to have sex, you decide whether you want a baby, and thus you choose whether or not to use contraception. If you don’t use contraception, while there’s no guarantee that a baby will arrive, there’s a real good chance that it will, so don’t be surprised if it does. Contraception isn’t perfect, but it at least reduces the likelihood of having a baby.
I confess I was laughing hard as I listened to the explanation because it’s an inspired analogy. However, buried somewhere in my subconscious was an Australian voice saying something like All these security products are a waste of money. It’s cheaper to save the money you would have spent, deal with a breach Continue reading
Featured Interview: CA Technologies’ Tim Diep – Why Network Assurance is Vital to the Service Chain
Network assurance saves you time, money and keeps you away from implementation sweats. Learn more with CA Technologies' Tim Diep.