Chris Wahl and Ethan Banks bust IT silos by walking through a service request at a fictional corporation. They outline the steps required from network and server domains, providing context to help each group understand what the other is trying to accomplish. The result? A more effective team.
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Chris Wahl and Ethan Banks bust IT silos by walking through a service request at a fictional corporation. They outline the steps required from network and server domains, providing context to help each group understand what the other is trying to accomplish. The result? A more effective team.
The post Datanauts 004 – The Silo Series – Provisioning Perspectives appeared first on Packet Pushers Podcast and was written by Drew Conry-Murray.
Cloud Xpress is starting to pay dividends (figuratively).
CloudFlare has over 5,000 partner hosting providers. Every day, thousands of our partners' customers take advantage of CloudFlare to help them be faster and more secure. The benefits to our partners aren't just happier customers, they also translate into real savings. In the last month, for instance, we saved our partners more than 25 Petabytes in aggregate bandwidth. In addition to bandwidth savings, in that same period, we stopped more than 65 billion malicious requests that would have otherwise impacted our partners' infrastructure. Now we've broken out the bandwidth and performance data by partners so they can see the savings and protection we're delivering.
Back when we launched the CloudFlare Partner Program four years ago, we periodically distributed these figures as high level summaries of bandwidth saved, threats blocked, and number of domains protected and accelerated via each partnership. Our partners knew anecdotally from their own logs and operating expenditures that CloudFlare was reducing their costs and greatly improving their customers’ experiences, but we did not yet have the tools to help demonstrate these benefits on a repeatable and granular basis.
It wasn’t that we didn’t want to provide this data, it was that our tremendous growth rate had stretched Continue reading
We’re happy to announce that Ansible Tower 2.2 is now available.
Ansible Tower is the console and service that builds on the solid foundation of Ansible’s simple automation to bring the control, security, and delegation you need to spread automation across your IT infrastructure. We’ve worked hard to update Tower to bring new capabilities to our users. I’ve talked about these some when I discussed how Tower 2.2 was coming soon - now I’d like to go into a little more detail.
We’ve talked to many of our customers who use Tower on an everyday basis. And the continuing refrain is:
“Foreground the stuff we need every day. Background what we don’t.”
We’ve started that process with Tower 2.2. First, you’ll notice the changes on the dashboard, where we’ve removed extraneous graphs so you can concentrate on the important information - are your hosts OK, and are your jobs succeeding. Plus, you’ll see lists of both recent completed jobs, and recently used playbooks.
We’ve also added sparklines to the display of job templates so that wherever you’re seeing your job templates, you have an easy visual display of how that job Continue reading
The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) announced their intent to create an SDN certification program back in September ‘14. The message since that time has been that they’re working on it. In June, at the ONS15 conference, the ONF showed a few more details, and now the ONF web site lists plenty of details about their new certification program. Today’s post kicks off what will likely be a few posts working through what the ONF has posted about their new certification exams.
The official name of the program - ONF Certified Professional Program - begins its history with two certifications:
The two certifications separates the conceptual (the first certification) from the hands-on skills requirements (the second certification).
Each certification requires that you pass a single exam, with the exam names being obvious as to which certification they apply.
CSDNA-110
CSDNE-111
The exams have a few key differences from what you may be used to seeing with vendor-focused exams. The big differences is that the exams will be offered online, with an honor system to prove that it’s you taking the exam. Obviously that’s a Continue reading
