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!
The post Citizens of Tech 009 – Robotic Conservation Game Unicorns appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
“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
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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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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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.
The post Datanauts 002 – Insert Tab A into Slot B with Converged Infrastructure appeared first on Packet Pushers.
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.
The post Datanauts 002 – Insert Tab A into Slot B with Converged Infrastructure appeared first on Packet Pushers.
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.
The post Datanauts 002 – Insert Tab A into Slot B with Converged Infrastructure appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
The Packet Pushers discuss network virtualization, automation, and scaling up data centers with our sponsor, Juniper Networks. Our guests are Parantap Lahiri, Sr. Director, Solutions Engineering and Damien Garros, Technical Marketing Engineer at Juniper Networks.
The post Show 243 – Network Virtualization with Juniper QFX & Contrail – Sponsored appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Ethan Banks.
Giddy up! It's roundup time!
A car automation company scores a marketing victory with a non-story and Microsoft's corporate mission statement is anodyne, disingenuous pap
The post This Week’s Irritating Tech News appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Drew Conry-Murray.
Accedian Networks DemoFriday Q&A on performance monitoring and virtualized solutions is now available.
The dynamics of IT are rapidly changing. Rich Napolitano joined Plexxi as CEO last November to help guide Plexxi into the next generation of IT. He is passionate about sharing his intentions to build next generation networks that support new forms of data and applications. This week, he identified the characteristics of third era networks in a piece for Enterprise Networking Planet and discussed how the network needs to evolve to keep pace with developments in storage and compute in a blog post. Be sure to give them a read to learn more about the third era of IT—Rich will continue to share his thoughts on the Plexxi blog in coming weeks. Stay tuned!
Below please find a few of our top picks for our favorite news articles of the week.
IT Business Edge: Five Trends Shaping the Future of IT
By Staff Writer
When we think about the future or even the present of IT, it’s easy to get caught up in the vendor, analyst and media new-technology buzzword frenzy. Words and phrases such as cloud, IoT (Internet of Things), AI (artificial intelligence), Big Data, bimodal IT, DevOps, wearables and the quantified self, the consumerization of IT, BYOD and Continue reading