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And Then They Join You…– Open Source @VMware
This seems significant. VMware has hired a key Linux kernel contributor, specifically Real Time. We have seen a substantial reversal of open source commitments by many incumbent vendors eg. Cisco in...
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Your Business Won’t Use a Server in 5 Years ? What Bull….
What a load of bull. The journey to cloud is a matter of when, not if. The first step in that journey is well underway with organizations replacing on-premise servers with cloud-based systems that are...
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Musing: Google Establishes CA Root Authority.
Google continues to build out its ownership of key Internet infrastructure. Email/Spam filtering, Chrome Browser, DNS As we look forward to the evolution of both the web and our own products it is...
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Response:New Office 365 subscriptions for consumers plunged 62% in 2016 |...
Another “public cloud isn’t for everyone” story: By charting Office 365’s new subscribers using a trailing 12 months — the latest quarter plus the three previous — to eliminate seasonal spikes, the...
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Musing: Conferences and Travel Bans
The IETF posted that travel bans may impact its decisions on where to hold conferences. This has got me thinking. A substantial number of people travel internationally to conferences that are hosted in...
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Response: BGP in 2016 – Geoff Huston
Geoff Huston taking a withering look at the crapness of BGP in the Internet. As always, its quite crap excluding the fact that it actually works (more or less). It has become either a tradition, or a...
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Response: Oracle effectively doubles licence fees to run its stuff in AWS ...
Oracle doubles pricing on cloud use in AWS which will ‘coincidentally’ make the high pricing of its own cloud look relatively cheap. Will customers lie down and take this ? Almost certainly, its hard...
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Help Wanted: Stitching a Federated SDN on OpenStack with EVPN
I am working with a client that has a rather unique problem and I’m looking for help on the possible solution. For unusual, but practical, reasons there is a need to deploy three SDN solutions. VMware...
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ENISA online training material updated and extended — ENISA
Free Training materials on IT Security incident and breach response. Looks quite good. The new training material provides a step-by-step guide on how to address and respond to incidents, as an incident...
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Dictionary: friendor
Friendor – a vendor person who pretends to be your friend but all they really want is your money / purchase order. (Brutal) The post Dictionary: friendor appeared first on EtherealMind.
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Musing: Open Network Linux Expansion | Big Switch Networks, Inc.
Progress towards standardised switching hardware is moving along nicely. Big Switch is support 14 MORE platforms with its OpenNetworkLinux NOS and applications. Support for 12 New Platforms In addition...
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Thought: Latest Apple Mac Customers Are Switching from Windows
Tim Cook in the latest earnings calls. The Mac not only returned to growth but generated its highest quarterly revenue ever. Our latest data shows that most Mac customers are buying their first Mac,...
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Tutorial: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking –...
Added to my to-do list to watch and re-watch this about every 6 months. Topics include: How fiber works (the basics, fiber types and limitations, etc) Optical power (understanding dBm, loss, using...
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Response: Four Ways to Tackle H-1B Visa Reform – IEEE Spectrum
A balanced discussion on the merits of the US H1B visa program. These programs exist in most developed nations, and the same issues apply. As you would expect, the program is used to benefit some...
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Response: Facebook – The growing ecosystem around open networking hardware
There is more genuine innovation and change coming from Facebook than any networking vendor. Whether its hardware designs, firmware (BMC , FBOSS applications and new protocols. I’m remain confident...
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Research: BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control – ACM Queue
The BBR algorithm appears to be building critical mass of support in the Internet community which makes reading this research paper even more worthwhile. When bottleneck buffers are small, loss- based...
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Research: Router Optics Evolution and Market Trends
Timely information on the future of optics and SFP modules. The current situation of price overloading by vendors is seriously grim (markups of 1000% are common) and this could help to increase your...
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Response: AT&T, Microsoft Ventures back networking startup SnapRoute in $25...
How does a BGP/OSPF routing app on a network device cost more than Microsoft Office ? One is really complex with thousands of features, complex interface and must support a huge range of hardware. The...
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Response: Network Icons –‘net work
These are great icons for network diagrams from Russ White. Much more useful for all diagrams purposes than most other icons. I’ve developed this set of vendor neutral network icons for drawing...
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Sponsor: FutureWAN – a virtual conference on SD-WAN
A couple of months Packet Pushers hosted an open format, non-boring, live discussion about the reality of operating a SD-WAN with people who have lived through it. This was part of the Future WAN...
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