Response: Three Advances Make Magnetic Tape More Than a Memory – IEEE Spectrum
I’m reasonably convinced that tape backups and cockroaches will survive environmental collapse. Think of each bit as a rectangular magnetic region. On IBM’s latest commercially available tape, each bit...
View ArticleReuters: HP Enterprise let Russia scrutinize cyberdefense system used by...
One of the challenges that faces HP, Cisco and Dell is that running a sales company is losing relevance. They don’t make products they sell them. A sales company is one that sells products: any...
View ArticleResponse: Oracles Chides US Govt For Believing in DevOps, Open Source
Oracle acts like a dad berating naughty teenager.
View ArticleTroubleshooting: A journey into the unknown
Enjoyed this troubleshooting 'war' story from Booking.com
View ArticleGE’s Irish wind farm to supply total output to Microsoft for 15 years
Getting difficult to build a cloud DC when you have to buy your own power source
View ArticleZodiac WX – Northbound Networks
A WiFi Base station using OpenFlow for $250. The Zodiac WX is the world’s first fully integrated OpenFlow® Wireless Access Point. It is a high powered ceiling / wall mountable Dual-Band AC1200 AP that...
View ArticleResponse: Network Management: Why the CLI?
People get angry when I talk about the death of the CLI for network operations. I’m not the only one: I believe that in today’s network device landscape, the CLI is primarily a tool to promote vendor...
View ArticleMusing: Network Fabrics Of History
Once upon a time, there were many fabrics. There can be only one.
View ArticleChina Telecom Guangzhou and Huawei Complete World’s First 400GE Test
Practical testing at 400GE
View ArticleHUAWEI CloudEngine Series Switches Large Layer 2 Network Introduction – YouTube
Good primer on L2 Loops for low competency people
View ArticleMusing: Apple Pulls Off Marketing Trick Unbelievably Well With iPhone X
Increase the price by 30% and customers love it
View ArticleHow to be an infosec thought leader – YouTube
Funny because its true. Security professionals are a weird bunch of people. Becoming a thought leader is the epitome of professional success. But a thought leader isn’t a title that one attains by...
View ArticleFacebook exec: ‘Just not true’ that we listen to your phone’s mic | The Outline
Because Facebook makes billions exploiting the personal surveillance business data it collects, stores and analyses. More data means more revenue from better targeted advertising (in theory): “I run...
View ArticleBattle Scars from OpenStack Are Just Cloud Problems
Cloud scars are the same everywhere, not just OpenStack.
View ArticleWISP Design: Using eBGP and OSPF transit fabric for traffic engineering –...
Kevin Myers talks at the Mikrotik conference about the use of BGP & OSPF in WISP design.
View ArticleTurn Network Engineers into Software Engineers
Peyton Koran, Director of Technical Engagement at Electronic Arts, delivered a great session on why network vendors are losing to open source and whitebox. His view is that network engineers need to...
View ArticleResearch: CrystalNet: Faithfully Emulating Large Production Networks
Microsoft research paper on network emulation at scale
View ArticleNutanix: We don’t need a traditional channel program | Channelnomics
Interesting piece on Nutanix and resellers: Nutanix’s senior director of EMEA channels Jan Ursi has defended against a claim the firm has no clear channel strategy, suggesting that the hyperconverged...
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