More confirmation that the end of the firewall era (as we know it) is nearly here. Palo Alto and Aerohive are partnering to: Aerohive’s Cooperative Control networking infrastructure equipment along with Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls provide a comprehensive and robust solution for optimizing the user experience on a mobile first network Looks like a [...]
Response: What’s in a Name? Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel Changes the Game
28th March 2013 by Leave a Comment
OK. I’m stumped. I’m having a full blown WTF moment here. It seems the storage industry gets it’s spiral into dumb and dumber by the day. Here is lustrous and full bodied marketing failure from Brocade: I would often start product launch training meetings with the following rules: The first rule of this launch is [...]
Response: OpenStack Isn’t Our Savior From Lock-in or Support Costs — the Lone Sysadmin
31st January 2013 by 7 Comments
Bob Plankers is making the point that the purchasing proprietary corporate software for virtualization (such as VMware vCloud or Citrix Cloudstack) has its own value by avoiding having to build & test your own software: There is an attitude among some now that OpenStack is, or at least will be, our savior from vendor lock-in [...]
Response: OpenStand: Principles for the Modern Standard Paradigm
27th January 2013 by 2 Comments
The IAB, IEEE, IETF ISOC and W3C are jointly declare the need for open standards. As a public relations move it looks more like an American government response to Chinese government moves in the ITU to take a share in developing Internet standards. The movement is suspect. OpenStand is a global community that stands together [...]
Response: Georgia & Verdana – Typefaces for the Screen – www.will-harris.com
14th January 2013 by 1 Comment
It seems to me that many people do not understand that the fonts used in your documents are specifically designed for printing or use on a computer. Many fonts that look great on a printed page look fuzzy and ill defined on a computer screen. The typefaces you normally read have been designed to be [...]
Response: IPspace.Net – Redundant Data Center Internet Connectivity
14th January 2013 by Leave a Comment
Ivan Peplnjak posts an outstanding summary of the myriad networking challenges when designing a dual Data Centre . Complete with cynical commentary and live action diagrams, he explains the problem and some suggestions for the solution. Recommended for everyone! We have a network with two data centers (connected with a DCI link). How could we [...]
Response:Remembering the Management Plane « Network Heresy
19th December 2012 by 6 Comments
Nicira is attempting to explain why they have chosen to use Open vSwitch Database protocol to configure network devices. By network devices, I mean virtual switches because I read this article as “we are making our own standars & API for configuring devices”. My question is why? There is a requirement to configure network device itself, [...]
Response: Intel SDK Update Boosts Data Center Switching Features
18th December 2012 by Leave a Comment
Intel announces that their SDK for their premium merchant silicon FM6000 now supports VXLAN, EVB with VEPA and TRILL. This is faster than I expected to announce VXLAN and TRILL. In essence, these features are now vital for modern data centre switching. Assuming that vendors can rapidly integrate the SDK into their firmware OS, the [...]
Response: Geoff Huston Archives | RIPE 65
31st October 2012 by 2 Comments
I’ve just finished watching this fantastic video from Geoff Huston at RIPE 65. Geoff is talking clearly, honestly and directly about how stupid implementing QOS is. Simply put: QOS doesn’t fix anything, the damage just gets moved. The amount of investment in deploying QOS is far more expensive than buying more bandwidth. The carriers are [...]
Response:Revenge of the TOE and TCP Offload Problems
2nd October 2012 by 6 Comments
Very interesting story from the front lines here where a lot of effort finally discovered the TOE was causing a major problem:
