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Response: Arista Victory Seen by Street in Cisco Patent Win – Tech Trader...
Analysts take the view that Arista is winning the legal battle with Cisco Alex Henderson, Needham & Co.: Reiterates a Buy rating, and a $110 price target. “The news is good for ANET. The ITC threw...
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Response: Slimming down the Internet routing table
Another company using whitebox switch instead of costly Internet edge routers through careful design and thought. Key realisation for Internet edge, you don’t need the entire public routing table, just...
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Cisco upgrades with IOS XR & ASR 9K
This press release is interesting because it highlights the IOS XR operating system repeatedly: “Cisco Upgrades Telefonica’s Critical Network in Spain with Cisco IOS XR & ASR 9000” “Reducing Opex:...
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Numerai and Polychain – AVC
The term ‘investing’ and ‘betting’ used synonymously by Fred Wilson, a well known VC. Unconscious slip ? Gambling and venture capital are synonymous in my world view. Numerai and Polychain – AVC: ” We...
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Ashley Madison to pay $1.6M settlement related to data breach | PCWorld
The company behind Ashley Madison, the adultery enabling website, has agreed to pay a $1.6 million settlement related to a major data breach last year that exposed account details of 36 million users....
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Open Network Linux Expansion – Big Switch Networks, Inc.
BigSwitch blogging about their additions to OpenNetLinux network operating system New CPU, ASIC Support: ARM, Mellanox, Cavium Added support for ARM based CPUs. ARM CPUs help move ONL into more cost...
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Cisco OpenDNS Umbrella 1 Million
OpenDNS (recently acquired by Cisco ) writes: With that, we are very excited to announce the Cisco Umbrella 1 Million — a free list of the top 1 million most popular domains. This project came from our...
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Looking Past The Cloud Computing Era
Presentation from Peter Levine at A16z on the theme of edge computing will see a return to distributed computing the in the years ahead. The amount of data collected/created at the network edge is vast...
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Response: Important Security Information for Yahoo Users
Yahoo announces large scale theft/loss/breach of 1 Billion personal account details. For potentially affected accounts, the stolen user account information may have included names, email addresses,...
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Network Dictionary: oligopsony
oligopsony: a market situation in which each of a few buyers exerts a disproportionate influence on the market This word is becoming significant as the cloud providers drive the IT infrastructure...
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January Events: Networking Field Day 14, Viptela, TWiT.tv
I will be in Silicon Valley for Networking Field Day, Viptela and TWiT.tv in January 2017. Networking Field Day 14 Its always a privilege to participate in Tech Field Day events and Network Field Day...
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Now its a Microblog
The transition to Packet Pushers is complete. My long-form technical and analytical writing is published there. Etherealmind will become a “microblog”: I want to share links, thoughts, references,...
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Musing: Average Life Span on S&P Index
On average, your big corporate employer won’t be around in ten years. Plan your career accordingly. When the boss says “people are our most important asset” its not about you particluarly. Don’t...
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Response: Vendor Frustrations on Subscription Pricing
The pain of software subscriptions is only just beginning. In this case, $vendor is being sneaky about unchallenged price increases. MrFogg97 – Network Ramblings: Vendor Frustrations: “Today I sit...
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Response: Cisco iWAN costs : networking
Doing an initial look into the cost of deploying a Cisco iWAN to see how it stacks up against Viptela or another SDWAN provider. Does anyone know what components or licensing is required for this? I’m...
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Posit: Private Cloud Has Less Lock-In
Posit: A private cloud has less lock-in than a public cloud because realistic, practical alternatives exist and migration is possible Moving between public cloud services is practically impossible. It...
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Response: XenDesktop and XenApp Interoperability with VMware NSX
Citrix and NSX integration to build departmental isolation between VDI desktops. In this blog, I am going to focus on XenDesktop, NetScaler and NSX interoperability. I will discuss a field use case,...
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Musing: Norton Core Router | Introducing the Future of WiFi.
We set out to change WiFi forever. Our uncompromising vision: a wireless router that secures your digital life, while delivering the highest level of performance. The result is Norton Core. Core uses...
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Response: The Orphaned Internet – Taking Over 120K Domains via a DNS...
So obvious but I’m checking my unused domains to make sure they have no nameservers configured The root of this vulnerability occurs when a managed DNS provider allows someone to add a domain to their...
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Response: Proposed server purchase for GitLab.com | GitLab
Gitlab is talking about heading into the private cloud after successfully building a cloud-ready application. The savings are substantial for a small, technology-rich company: The cloud hosting for...
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