There are a lot of marketing claims about SD-WAN these days. There’s also an abundance of curiosity from IT managers. Four large organizations share their experiences with Talari's SD-WAN and what they learned.
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I’d like to share some personal news with you, industry watchers and fans of VMware’s network virtualization offering.
As network virtualization starts to mature, and it has, I have thought hard about how best to participate in the broader movement of infrastructure to software and services that I believe so strongly in. Having spent the last decade in a deep, but narrow operating roll, I have decided that going forward I would like to engage much more broadly.
Recently, Andreessen Horowitz VC reached out about a GP position in the enterprise space. Given my familiarity and history with the firm, and how rare these opportunities are, I knew this was my chance. So I accepted. Continue reading
Dan Roberts, leader of Interop's IT Leadership Summit and CEO and President of Ouellette & Associates Consulting, discusses how to be successful in a world of increased complexity, rising expectations, and accelerating change. Find out how and why you can move away from the tired idea of "aligning business with IT" toward a place where IT is integral to your business and driving new initiatives forward.
Learn more about the IT Leadership Summit and the IT Leadership Track. Register now for Interop, May 2-6 in Las Vegas.
In this episode of The Next Level we focus on a variety of options for training and skills to help us keep up with new technology and advance our careers. Joining us is Colleen Morrissey, Senior Network Engineer and Adjunct Lecturer. We talk certifications, labs, blogging, and more.
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In this episode of The Next Level we focus on a variety of options for training and skills to help us keep up with new technology and advance our careers. Joining us is Colleen Morrissey, Senior Network Engineer and Adjunct Lecturer. We talk certifications, labs, blogging, and more.
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At CloudFlare, we’ve constructed one of the world’s largest networks purpose-built to protect our customers from a wide range of attacks. We’re so good at it that attackers increasingly look for ways to go around us, rather than go through us. One of the biggest risks for high-profile customers has been having their domain stolen at the registrar.
In 2013, we became intimately familiar with this problem when domains for the New York Times were hijacked and the newspaper’s CTO reached out to us to help get it back. We were able to assist, but the newspaper had its web and email traffic rerouted for hours.
Since the New York Times domain hijack, a number of other sites have had their domains stolen. We ourselves have seen multiple attempts to take control of CloudFlare’s registrar account. Thankfully, none have been successful—but some have gotten closer than we were comfortable with. Given the risk, we began looking for a registrar with security protocols that we could trust.
In the early days of the Internet, domain registration was free. As the Internet began to take off, demand for domain registrations exploded. In 1993, unable to Continue reading
If you saw the news coming out of Cisco Live Berlin, you probably noticed that Internet of Things (IoT) was in every other announcement. I wrote about the impact of the new Digital Ceiling initiative already, but I think that IoT is a bit deeper than that. The other thing that seems to go hand in hand with discussion of IoT is big data. And for most of us, that big data is going to be a big problem.
Internet of Things is about dumb devices getting smart. Think Flowers for Algernon. Only now, instead of them just being smarter they are also going to be very talkative too. The amount of data that these devices used to hold captive will be unleashed on something. We assume that the data is going to be sent to a central collection point or polled from the device by an API call or a program that is mining the data for another party. But do you know who isn’t going to be getting that data? Us.
IoT devices are going to be talking to providers and data collection systems and, in a lot of cases, each other. But they Continue reading
The Datanauts and guest Warren Frame, an infrastructure engineer, nerd out about scripting, continuous integration, and Windows PowerShell as the heart of a full-stack engineering journey.
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The Datanauts and guest Warren Frame, an infrastructure engineer, nerd out about scripting, continuous integration, and Windows PowerShell as the heart of a full-stack engineering journey.
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