Networking Pioneers, Settlers and Town Planners
Can we broadly separate Networking into Pioneers, Settlers, and Town Planners? I’ve been thinking about how to apply Simon Wardley’s PST model to networking. This leads to thinking about how we can encourage networking evolution. The model needs a lot of fleshing out, but I’m interested in what others think.
Pioneers, Settlers and Town Planners (PST)
Simon Wardley has written about “Pioneers, Settlers and Town Planners (PST)” in many places – e.g. here and here. It derives from Cringely’s Commandos, Infantry, Police model (see Chapter 12 of Accidental Empires). It provides a organisational structure, grouping areas based upon their current state of evolution. It recognises that no one operational model works for all parts of a business. You can’t say “We’re using Agile, or Lean, or Six Sigma” – you need to use the appropriate model for each area. Even “Bi-Modal IT” is too limiting, as the divide is too great.
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Applying PST to networking
The model is a helpful way of thinking about the role of different groups across a business. It also helps us understand why teams need to evolve over time, Continue reading
LDP Label Allocation Revisited
One of my readers was having an LDP argument with his colleague:
Yesterday I was arguing with someone who works for a large MPLS provider about LDP label allocation. He kept saying that LDP assigns a label to each next-hop, not to each prefix. Reading your blog, I believe this is the default behavior on Juniper but on Cisco LDP assigns a unique label for each IGP (non-BGP) prefix.
He’s absolutely right; Cisco and Juniper use different rules when allocating MPLS labels.
Read more ...Containers – Format, Runtime and Platform
1 of the big announcements in Dockercon 2015 was the Open Container project(OCP). OCP is an Opensource project under Linux foundation to define a common Container format. Container format, runtime and platform mean different things. There are many Container formats, runtime and multiple acronyms surrounding it. In this blog, I have tried to capture my … Continue reading Containers – Format, Runtime and Platform
Containers – Format, Runtime and Platform
1 of the big announcements in Dockercon 2015 was the Open Container project(OCP). OCP is an Opensource project under Linux foundation to define a common Container format. Container format, runtime and platform mean different things. There are many Container formats, runtime and multiple acronyms surrounding it. In this blog, I have tried to capture my … Continue reading Containers – Format, Runtime and Platform
Citizens of Tech 009 – Robotic Conservation Game Unicorns
Today on the show: unicorns watching your every move, reducing your electricity consumption, bikes, E3 bombshells, tiny robotic lassos and more. So buckle into your Aluminum Falcon and prepare to jump to hyper-speed as we dive into this week's edition of Citizens of Tech!
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IPv6: Yet Another Post Trying to Urge You to Start TODAY
“Okay, who wants to learn IPv6 and be the IPv6 person for CPOC?” This was the question asked by our manager to our team back in 2002 when we heard “IPv6 is COMING – GET READY NOW!” My hand went up almost without me even realizing it. No other hands went up. Not one. So, by default, it was me. I was pumped with excitement! After the meeting I immediately went online and ordered about 8 IPv6 books. (For those of you who know me… this will not be a shock) 
Then what happened? Was 2003 the “year that CPOC got SLAMMED with IPv6 requests”? Uh…. no. Was 2004? ….. No. Don’t get me wrong. People came in with IPv6 in the test plan. But typically IPv6 was on the list of things to test more as a “checklist” test just to make sure the boxes could do IPv6.
In ~2006 I started believing that this “IPv4 exhaustion scare” wasn’t “real”. NAT would take care of everything. If it was “really” that much of a big deal …… people would be doing something serious about it. Continue reading
Citizens of Tech 009 – Robotic Conservation Game Unicorns
Today on the show: unicorns watching your every move, reducing your electricity consumption, bikes, E3 bombshells, tiny robotic lassos and more. So buckle into your Aluminum Falcon and prepare to jump to hyper-speed as we dive into this week's edition of Citizens of Tech!
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Citizens of Tech 009 – Robotic Conservation Game Unicorns
Today on the show: unicorns watching your every move, reducing your electricity consumption, bikes, E3 bombshells, tiny robotic lassos and more. So buckle into your Aluminum Falcon and prepare to jump to hyper-speed as we dive into this week's edition of Citizens of Tech!
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Datanauts 002 – Insert Tab A into Slot B with Converged Infrastructure
Converged infrastructure integrates discrete components, such as compute and storage, along with orchestration software, into a package that’s simple to deploy and certified to interoperate. Join Chris Wahl, Ethan Banks, and special guest Stu Miniman as they drill into the origins and benefits of converged infrastructure, how it differentiates from hyperconverged systems, and how the convergence trend will affect IT roles.
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Datanauts 002 – Insert Tab A into Slot B with Converged Infrastructure
Converged infrastructure integrates discrete components, such as compute and storage, along with orchestration software, into a package that’s simple to deploy and certified to interoperate. Join Chris Wahl, Ethan Banks, and special guest Stu Miniman as they drill into the origins and benefits of converged infrastructure, how it differentiates from hyperconverged systems, and how the convergence trend will affect IT roles.
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Datanauts 002 – Insert Tab A into Slot B with Converged Infrastructure
Converged infrastructure integrates discrete components, such as compute and storage, along with orchestration software, into a package that’s simple to deploy and certified to interoperate. Join Chris Wahl, Ethan Banks, and special guest Stu Miniman as they drill into the origins and benefits of converged infrastructure, how it differentiates from hyperconverged systems, and how the convergence trend will affect IT roles.
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