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Internets of Interest for 5th May 2013

bookmarks — Mon, 06 May 2013 15:00:18 +0000

Collection of useful, relevant or just fun places on the Internets for 5th May 2013 and a bit commentary about what I’ve found interesting about them: Schneier on Security: The Public/Private Surveillance Partnership - Soon, governments won’t have to bother collecting personal data. We’re willingly giving it to a vast network of for-profit data [...]

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Nerdgasm: Arista 100GB Ethernet Just Blew My Data Centre Design Up

Greg Ferro — Wed, 01 May 2013 10:00:26 +0000

Today, Arista announces the availability large scale 100GB Ethernet for 7500 chassis and it looks like a serious change in the way network hardware is priced and will change the way you look at network hardware.

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SDN Is Tomorrows Reality but You Will Love It When It Gets Here – CloudCamp London

Greg Ferro — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:49:17 +0000

I was invited to speak at Cloud Camp, London last night. The Cloud Camp format is for just 5 minutes so this presentation is short and brief. The basic point is that SDN vendors are staging into the market but that mainstream adoption won’t happen in Enterprise networks until mid-2014. No doubt vendors will want [...]

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Cloud Networking Is Not Virtual Networking – Presentation at London VMware Users Group 20130425

Greg Ferro — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:27:36 +0000

I was pleased to be able to present a talk at the London VMUG today. They even let me choose the topic and after some consideration I decided to talk about my recent experiences at Canopy Cloud in designing and testing Cloud Networks in a VMware vCloud. The presentation is in three parts: First I discuss the [...]

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Mac OS X: Disable LCD Font Smoothing on Mac OS X

Greg Ferro — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:30:08 +0000

But somewhere in my upgrades, the LCD Font Smoothing has been enabled - this makes the fonts on the screen look blurry /fuzzy due to sub-pixel rendering which is not necessary on Apple screens or retina displays.

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Internets of Interest for 16th April 2013

bookmarks — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:40:16 +0000

Collection of useful, relevant or just fun places on the Internets for 16th April 2013 and a bit commentary about what I’ve found interesting about them: VMware Communities: vSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide – Official Release – Can’t imagine too many network engineers that won’t need to be reviewing this. At least you should read [...]

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Thoughts on Choosing node.js for Network Automation

Greg Ferro — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:30:24 +0000

I've been looking at various languages, architectures and frameworks to perform an automation self-project. I'm going forward with node.js and JavaScript. Here is my defense.

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Mac OS X: My Three Screen Setup for MacBook Pro Retina

Greg Ferro — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:03:11 +0000

Sometimes you need to try dumb things. I thought it was dumb to even consider having three screens at once on my MacBook Pro Retina but it turns that not only does it work, it works very well for me. I’ve tried it before but today I stumbled onto the thing that works for me. [...]

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A Hosting Cathedral or a Cloud Bazaar ?

Greg Ferro — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:30:34 +0000

I woke up at three o’clock this morning with a thought racing around my brain – am I building a Hosting Cathedral or Cloud Bazaar ? My data centre is like a cathedral – regimented rows of seats, full of disciplined and controlled resources all looking towards the technical priests for inspiration and direction. Each [...]

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Response: Application Visibility and Control | Aerohive Networks

Greg Ferro — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:17:55 +0000

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 [...]

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SDN White Paper Nuage Networks VSP – Delivers SDN in a Big Way

Greg Ferro — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 16:00:00 +0000

I wrote a white paper for Nuage Networks that is the first Packet Pushers White Paper. Nuage Networks have announced their version of SDN and I think it's solid vision of what Software Defined Networking will become over the next couple of years - tunnel fabrics, software network agents in the server with load balancing and routing capabilities and controller/application software that can manage multiple data centres and their WAN networks. Jump in and take a read.

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Humour: Types of Networking Crap Poster

Greg Ferro — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:38:12 +0000

I figured this would make a good poster. So I made a poster about the "Types of Network Crap" (since I prefer not to use swear words on my blog) after a strong response to the tweet I did a couple of weeks ago.

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◎ DevOps, Visual Representation, Monitoring for Humans

Greg Ferro — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:54:53 +0000

I was reviewing some presentations on monitoring and visual charts from the monitorama conference. This caught my eye for a 3D representation for unicast, Multicast and Broadcast traffic (using Barycentric co-ordinates if I understand correctly). Barycentric representation uses 3D-coordinate system. Presentation can be found here Monitoring for Humans Can’t remember how I found this link Monitoring [...]

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Internets of Interest for 1st April 2013

bookmarks — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 09:55:17 +0000

I’ve been very busy lately with several large analyst/research writing projects so less links than usual this week. It will be sometime before I return to a more regular blogging schedule. You should check out Packet Pushers in the next few days where we will be launching a new feature – we are writing our own [...]

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OS X: Comparing Microsoft Word Documents in Kaleidoscope on Mac OS X

Greg Ferro — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:43:41 +0000

Have you ever needed to compare two Microsoft Word documents to see what change have been been made by your editor ? I'm using Kaleidoscope to perform exactly that. Works for text, image and code too.

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Response: What’s in a Name? Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel Changes the Game

Greg Ferro — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:53:00 +0000

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 [...]

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Rant: Everything at Cisco Is a “Game”

Greg Ferro — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:50:24 +0000

Is everything at Cisco a game ? Cisco is changing the game, reducing complexity and making it simpler for enterprises to deliver and manage application delivery to users. Cisco ISR-AX is Now a Part of the Integrated Services Router Family!. Protecting Our Networks: It’s a Team Game Now! Cisco is changing the game for B2B [...]

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Internets of Interest for 24th March 2013

bookmarks — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:40:55 +0000

Collection of useful, relevant or just fun places on the Internets for 24th March 2013 and a bit commentary about what I’ve found interesting about them: Top 20 OS X command-line secrets for power users - But OS X brings its unique capabilities to the command-line table, in the form of utilities that leverage [...]

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Network Dictionary – Delaminated

Greg Ferro — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:56:26 +0000

Define Delaminated

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Internets of Interest for 20th March 2013

bookmarks — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:44:10 +0000

Collection of useful, relevant or just fun places on the Internets for 20th March 2013 and a bit commentary about what I’ve found interesting about them: Configure an HP OpenFlow Switch for Floodlight | NetworkStatic | Brent Salisbury’s Blog – Brent continues with real world posts about SDN & OpenFlow deployments with screencasts. ( [...]

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Response: CloudFlare Goes Down, Cites Router Issue in DDoS Attack — Tech News and Analysis

Greg Ferro — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:39:33 +0000

One of the challenges for software defined networking or, more generally, automation is that you can create network failures that are faster and more comprehensive than ever before. Flowspec accepted the rule and relayed it to our edge network. What should have happened is that no packet should have matched that rule because no packet [...]

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Rant: A Better Cisco Software Experience (Licensing) for Partners (but Not Customers)

Greg Ferro — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:54:06 +0000

Cisco customers can update their licenses using this handy portal. Sounds good ? Exciting ? No, not the person who bought the software license, the partner that sold you the license can update the licenses. You might have forgotten who is Cisco’s real customer, and it’s not the person who paid for products. Partners, the [...]

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Webinar – Anuta Networks Demonstrates nCloudX – Register Now

Greg Ferro — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:43:21 +0000

Join our webinar about the nCloudX controller abstracts commonly deployed network routers, switches, firewalls and application delivery controllers, along with traditional tools like BGP, OSPF, MPLS and VRFs. Cloud operators and as well as cloud consumers can provision the network using predefined templates that remove the need to individually configure the underlying network hardware.

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Cisco Wireless Has a Lot of Issues

Greg Ferro — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 22:04:03 +0000

I have an RSS subscription to the all of the hot issues for Cisco Wireless for the last couple of years. One thing I know, Cisco Wireless has a lot of hot issues

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◎ SDN Use Case: Firewall Migration in the Enterprise

Greg Ferro — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:00:45 +0000

Looking at using SDN & OpenFlow to perform a firewall migration on a rule by rule basis instead of using any of the other nasty, crufty hacks. Very useful when you want to find an easier and low risk way to get rid of those pesky CheckPoint firewall products.