The Network Break reports on HPE's coming-out party in London, looks into news that Dell will sell assets to reduce debt, digs into Cisco's recent upgrades to ACI, hears Steve Ballmer shouts from the sidelines about Microsoft's cloud revenue, and watches OpenFlow competitor P4 get attention from chip manufacturers.
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The Network Break reports on HPE's coming-out party in London, looks into news that Dell will sell assets to reduce debt, digs into Cisco's recent upgrades to ACI, hears Steve Ballmer shouts from the sidelines about Microsoft's cloud revenue, and watches OpenFlow competitor P4 get attention from chip manufacturers.
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Due to the high level of demand for my early CCDE bootcamps, the increase of individuals pursuing the CCDE and very high passing rate of my class (75%) I have [...]
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Network automation is a hot topic right now. However, many of the automation solutions focus on edge-port provisioning. I can understand why vendors are chasing this niche; port-provisioning is a high-volume and error-prone activity. Network Automation Ideas Port provisioning isn’t the only … Continue reading
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PowerPoint is a necessary evil. No program allows us to convey as much information in a short amount of time. PowerPoint is almost a requirement for speaking in front of groups. Information can be shown in a very effective manner for audiences of five or five hundred. But PowerPoint also allows presenters to do some very silly things that impact our ability to learn.
The biggest offense in the land of PowerPoint is the build slide. Build slides are those that have elements that must be layered together in order to show the complete picture. In some cases, build slides have complex graphic overlays with many different elements. They may have clip art overlays. But build slides can also be simple bullet points that appear one at a time in a list. The key is that all the parts of the slide must progress in series to “build” the whole thing.
Build slides look very awesome. They provide the appearance of motion and give a movie-like quality to a static presentation. And they often take up a large amount of time during the creation process. But they are almost always unnecessary.
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A few thoughts on new technology from around the web over the last week. Is data center software defined networks crossing the chasm? According to the Next Platform, for instance, it is —
This still leaves me with a question, however — what does a “software defined network” really mean? From one perspective, I’ve been working on software defined networks since the mid-1990’s. It is the software based centralized and distributed control planes that have defined the network ever since then; the last hardware defined network I worked on was based on inverse multiplexers and physical interconnects to direct and manage traffic. So what do we mean when we say “software defined network” today? It seems the biggest Continue reading