Wondering why Brocade bought Connectem, SteelApp from Riverbed, and Vistapointe? And what these have to do with Vyatta, OpenDaylight, and service providers? Read and find out.
Chef looks up the stack.
The startup Fiber Mountain aims to make data center networks more flexible and efficient using a combination of fiber optics and SDN.
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Now that Ansible has done all the information gathering for us it’s time to finally make use of it. In this post I will show how to use Ansible to run traceroutes from and to the hosts defined in a test scenario and perform verification of the results of those tests. Should any of those tests fail, Ansible will provide a meaningful description of what exactly failed and why. While doing all this I’ll introduce a couple of new Ansible features like conditional looping and interactive prompts.
Continue readingNetwork Break episode 43 looks at Cisco's OpenDNS acquisition, the OpenDaylight Lithium release, a global IT spending forecast, and Amazon's s2n open source TLS implementation
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