Developer: Network team, did you order the Code upgrade?! Operations Manager: You don’t have to answer that question! Network Engineer: I’ll answer the question. You want answers? Developer: I think I’m entitled! Network Engineer: You want answers?! Developer: I want the truth! Network Engineer: You can’t handle the truth! Son,…
Tag: SDN
Video: Cisco ACI Overview
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Oh, the Places You’ll Go! (A Cisco ACI Story)
In the fashion of my two previous Dr. Seuss style stories I thought I’d take a crack at Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI.) Check out the previous two if you haven’t read them and have time to waste: Horton Hears Hadoop: http://www.definethecloud.net/horton-hears-hadoop/ The App on the Crap (An SDN…
True Software Defined Networking (SDN)
The world is, and has been, buzzing about software defined networking. It’s going to revolutionize the entire industry, commoditize hardware, and disrupt all the major players. It’s going to do all that… some day. To date it hasn’t done much but be a great conversation, and more importantly identify the…
Engineers Unplugged Episode 14: Application Affinity
I had the pleasure of speaking with Nils Swart (@nlnils) of Plexxi about applications and the network. You can watch the quick Engineer’s Unplugged below. Related posts: Focus on the Ball: The Application Cloud Success Factor: Rethink Application Development Application Centric Infrastructure – The Platform True Software Defined Networking (SDN)…
Software Defined networking: The Role of SDN on Compute Infrastructure Administration
#vBrownBag Follow-up Software Defined Networking SDN with Joe Onisick (@jonisick) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo. Related posts: True Software Defined Networking (SDN) Why Software-Defined Networking Could Revolutionize Networking A Lesson on Infrastructure from Nigeria – SDN and Networking Digging Into the Software Defined Data Center Private Cloud Infrastructure Design: Go Beyond…
It’s Our Time Down Here– “Underlays”
Recently while winding down from a long day I flipped the channel and “The Goonies†was on. I left it there thinking an old movie I’d seen a dozen times would put me to sleep quickly. As it turns out I quickly got back into it. By the time the…
Focus on the Ball: The Application
With the industry talking about Software Defined Networking (SDN) at full hype levels, there is one thing missing from many discussions: the application. SDN promises to reign in the complexity of network infrastructure and provide better tools for deploying services at scale. What often seems to be forgotten are the…
Network Management Needs New Ideas
As networks have grown, the industry has sought better ways in which to manage them at scale. Traditional network management systems are typically device-centric, particularly for network infrastructure. These systems take a top-down management approach and use a central server to push configuration into devices and to manage device state….
Network Abstraction and Virtualization: Where to Start?
Network Abstraction and Virtualization: Where to Start? With the growth of server virtualization network designs and the associated network management constructs have been stretched beyond their intended uses. This has brought about data center networks that are unmanageable and slow to adapt to change. While servers and storage can be…