Review: Being Logical (Logical Thinking)
Being LogicalThis review is a little off the beaten path for most engineering blogs, perhaps — but I consider logic to be one of those “must have skills” for engineers. Being able to pull an argument apart, to understand the concept of a syllogism and the flow of logic, along with the various logical fallacies, adds greatly to your ability to write and process arguments for and against technologies and solutions (as well as in larger life). For some time, I’ve been looking for a concise description of the formal logic system I’ve encountered in philosophy a number of times, and a description of the many logical fallacies I’ve encountered in everyday life. Being Logical comes as close to fulfilling my desire for such a book as any I’ve encountered in my search.
Although this book is a trim 129 pages, it covers logic on a wide scale. The problem space is divided into five part; part one is preparing the mind for logic, which includes learning to observe, matching ideas to facts, matching words to ideas, and being mindful of the origin of ideas. It’s fair to note, at this point, that this first section Continue reading
Virtual Appliance Transition Pain for Barracuda & The Addiction to Hardware Revenues
Barracuda share price drops 16% as the shift to virtual appliance reduces sales dollars but increases profits.
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You Cannot Buy A Software Defined Network
Really.
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Why Should I Care About Networking?
A month ago I was asked to deliver a short presentation on “something interesting about networking” at my local university. The temptation to talk about network automation and SDN was huge, but I quickly figured out that would make no sense (the audience were students in their freshman year) and decided to talk about a fundamental question: why should a programmer care about networking.
Unfortunately the presentation wasn’t recorded, but you can browse the slide deck on the ipSpace.net public content web site.
Datanauts 003 – Opening the OpenStack Stack
OpenStack is an open source platform for creating cloud services. Special guest Eric Wright, who leads the Toronto VMUG and Virtual Design Master competition, joins Chris Wahl and Ethan Banks to bring some clarity to this cloudy topic.
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Datanauts 003 – Opening the OpenStack Stack
OpenStack is an open source platform for creating cloud services. Special guest Eric Wright, who leads the Toronto VMUG and Virtual Design Master competition, joins Chris Wahl and Ethan Banks to bring some clarity to this cloudy topic.
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MikroTik CCR1072-1G-8S+ Review (Part 1) – hardware, specs and design use cases
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07/25/2015 – Thanks to Normunds @ MikroTik for sending over photos of the production CCR-1072-1G-8S+ which have now been included in the slideshow
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CCR-1072-1G-8S+ available soon @
http://www.roc-noc.com/mikrotik/routerboard/CCR1072-1G-8Splus.html
UPDATE 7/10/2015 – MikroTik officially lists the CCR1072
http://routerboard.com/CCR1072-1G-8Splus
NOTE: The pictures in this review are of a pre-production CCR1072. The CCR1072 that is shipping has some minor differences on the mainboard and the case. MikroTik is sending updated pictures and we will post those as soon as they come in!
StubArea51.net prepares for CCR1072 performance testing in the Flowood, MS lab
Well, the long wait is finally over. According to Tom over at www.roc-noc.com, the CCR1072 will start shipping in the next 2 weeks and we will be adding it to our development lab in Flowood, MS. We were fortunate enough to get a significant amount of time with the new flagship router down in Miami at the 2015 USA MUM thanks to MT. The arrival of the CCR1072 and 80 Gbps of throughput opens up new doors for MikroTik. The CCR1072 positions MikroTik to break into larger markets and enables competition against industry players like Cisco and Continue reading
Docker and the Three Ways of DevOps Part 3: The Third Way – Culture of Continuous Experimentation and Learning
written by John Willis, Evangelist at Docker The Third Way of DevOps completes the full cycle. It has also been referred to as just “Continuous Learning”. In DevOps speak, we sometimes allude to the word Kaizen as a method of … ContinuedAruba and HP – The Remaining Pieces
I wrote previously about the Aruba and HP ecosystems. You can find that post here. I also wrote about Aruba’s culture here, and although I had planned on writing about HP’s culture as I understand it, I don’t know that I need to spend too much time on that. When you look at the difference in the two ecosystems from a wireless perspective(HP is a big company with a broad portfolio), HP is a completely different animal and that HAS to affect their company culture.
Well, what really remains to talk about? I think two things. Execution and product disposition.
Execution
Ask anyone who follows the industry about HP, and you will get a variety of thoughts. However, one of them that always seems to surface is in regards to their ability to execute. There is a history of missteps regarding HP in the executive arena over the past several years. Since Meg Whitman has taken over as CEO, I think we have seen a bit more stability in that regard. When thinking about Aruba and HP combining forces for wireless, I am reminded of a comment that Andrew vonNagy made during a Tech Field Day roundtable at the Continue reading
Recap of Contributor Summit @ DockerCon 2015
The Docker Project had its first ever contributor summit the day after DockerCon 2015. We brought together the most active contributors from the many different Docker projects for a one day summit where the community gathered together to meet in person … ContinuedNetDevOps: Delivering Network Levers
As a recent transition from the VAR side of the room to that of the vendor, it’s been eye opening and a great reset experience to view the world from a previously unexperienced angle. Truly.
Just for clarity, this post contains my own views. Period.
What is so apparent and this falls perfectly inline with Matt Oswalt’s floweringly hilarious post, is we’re moving to a period where sexy has to be real and functional. It could be an easy button (something that makes your life easier as an operator of network infrastructure) or an insight shared with your customer that results in infrastructure being used or consumed slightly differently to solve a real business problem. After all, the infrastructure wouldn’t exist without the business requirement to consume it. The days of huge world changing massive behemoth solutions has died a death. Why would an enterprise change their entire operational procedures and practices just because “MEGA SOLUTION-TRON” can make an omelette? The NOC team doesn’t even eat omelettes!
Take the story of Software Defined Networking. Starting out as a centralised control-plane for distributed data paths and being churned up by the stampeding vendor crusades, it’s now a $variable that covers Continue reading