This video from Ken Duda at Arista is, perhaps, the best explanation of Arista’s success with customers. As an engineer, I found this talk inspirational. No bonuses for hitting ship dates. This avoids “good enough” code getting shipped. Sure there are money problems associated with this but Arista believes quality is better. You write the […]
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The Docker/shipping container metaphor is overdone. I don’t think people have fully thought through what it might mean if containers do the same thing to computing as they did to shipping. Are we prepared for hipsters taking over derelict data centers?
There is an unpublished rule that all Docker articles must be accompanied by a picture of shipping containers. Forbes is a particularly egregious offender. I don’t know if it’s the work of a serial offender sub-editor, or if it’s a company-wide policy. I suspect the latter.
Then there’s the DC2 Desktop Container Computer Kickstarter campaign:
(I must admit I do like this one)
But what happened when shipping converted to using containers? Consolidation of ports, dramatic reduction in required labour force, leading to waterfront dereliction. Years later cities re-discovered their waterfront spaces, leading to redevelopment & gentrification.
Wharfs went from this:
(Image from State Library of South Australia, CC license)
To this:
(Image by David Dixon, CC license)
To be re-born as this:
(Image from Wikimedia Commons, CC license)
So does that mean that our data centers will go from this:
(Image from Intel Free Press, CC license)
To this:
(Image from Wolfgang Stief, CC license)
One of my readers wondered how long my NFV webinar is supposed to take (and I forgot to add that information to my web site), so he sent me this question: “How long is this webinar? An hour? Two hours? If it says "webinar" does that imply a 60 minute duration, so I shouldn't ask?”
Short answer: live webinar sessions usually take between 90 minutes and 2 hours depending on the breadth of the topic, however…
Intel throws its weight behind OpenStack for the enterprise.
The industry is in a shift from the CLI to the API, from manual to automated, and from closed to open. While some vendors just say they have an API, some provide libraries and tooling to make it easier to consume their APIs. This post specifically highlights open source code that is publicly available on GitHub by vendors that participated in Networking Field Day 10.
Please realize this is not an extensive list, but only what is relevant to the specific products covered in the sessions at Networking Field Day. In order of their presentations…
The APIC-EM, used as part of the IWAN solution, has a full REST API. No SDK or libraries were mentioned, but it doesn’t seem like it’s officially shipping yet anyway — more details can be found here on the APIC-EM.
Both of Big Switch’s controller platforms have complete REST APIs. You can find some code examples here: https://github.com/bigswitch/sample-scripts/tree/master/bcf/webinar
Riverbed also talked quite a bit about their APIs across the SteelHead product suite. You can find plenty of Python libraries on their GitHub page. You can get started here: https://github.com/riverbed/steelscript
Gigamon also released REST APIs so that users can Continue reading
Highlights from Network Field Day 10 include the SD-WAN goldrush, the novel concept of quality products, and the performance-boosting DPDK project.
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Pivotal changes CEOs; Huawei goes big with Linux.
We launched Galaxy back around the beginning of 2014 with the intent of creating a place for the community to find and share Ansible roles.
Since that time some truly amazing things have happened including: tremendous growth in the Ansible community, huge successes with Tower, and the steady growth of our company to name just a few. During this time Galaxy grew as well, reaching more than 16,000 users and over 3,000 Ansible roles.
Galaxy as a web site and an application, however, changed very little since the early part of 2014. The home page looks almost exactly as it did the day we launched the site. About the only thing we changed was removing the BETA label and maybe fixing a bug or two.
Well, I’m happy to announce that this is changing. Galaxy will now get the attention it deserves - the attention our community and users deserve. Starting 4 weeks ago we officially made the decision and commitment to treat Galaxy as a product. Galaxy is now on a regular release schedule, and we have a team in place, dedicated to building Galaxy. Our first release launches today. Yay!
From this point forward Ansible is committed to making Continue reading
NEC Director of Business Development Don Clark shares the latest SDN deployment lessons and guidelines in a special SDxCentral webinar based on the new SDN Controller Report.
CCIE Candidates! We’re excited to announce a few updates to our CCIE Data Center, R&S, and Collaboration product portfolios!
Data Center:
1) Our Volume 1 WB (and DSG) has been overhauled. Jason now has all labs that can be done on our Technology Racks covered in this book. It’s very thorough and covers everything you’ll see on the lab from a technology basis.
2) Our Volume 2 WB (and DSG) has had a MAJOR overhaul. Quite a few updates, changes and we’re happy that all 5 labs are very up-to-date. This workbook consists of 5 Mock Labs that must be done on our Full-Scale Mock Lab Racks – which have been booked solid for several months.
3) We have just finished the addition of 5 more Full-Scale Mock Lab racks! First, they’ve cost us a fortune, but our commitment to you is to have the resources you need to prepare for your lab. There are timeslots ready and open NOW if you need time on these Full-Scale Mock Lab racks.
Routing & Switching:
1) JP has finalized an updated R&S V5 Volume 1 WB (and DSG), and it’s posted and available now.
2) We anticipate having our R&S V5 Continue reading
Thanks to hyperconvergence and virtualization, storage and compute have rapidly evolved over the last decade. Conversely, network architectures have remained virtually unchanged. Here at Plexxi, we believe it’s networking’s turn to innovate through consolidation and convergence. On August 27 from 2:00-3:30 p.m. EST, we’ll be hosting a webinar on how the network can finally keep pace with storage and compute. We’ll take thirty minutes to discuss application centric networking, convergence and how to optimize networks for east/west traffic. You can register here, we hope you can make it.
Below please find a few of our top picks for our favorite news articles of the week. Enjoy!
Tech.co: What Converged Infrastructure Means for Today’s Businesses
By Rick Delgado
Many organizations are currently undergoing a significant shift in how they operate, particular when it comes to IT departments. The idea is to slowly but surely move away from the traditional data center technologies that have been in use for years. With the traditional data center, operations have gotten quite complex and require expert IT personnel to keep up with the ever increasing workload. The complicated infrastructure and large teams simply weren’t compatible with business goals in many ways, which Continue reading
