Network

Intent-based Networking – A Must for SDN

11/16/15 SDN is about making networking more flexible and agile through programming network elements. Such programming needs to be done in a standard way. Hence, standardizing the …

When Should You NOT Virtualize That System?

11/11/15 Virtualization is an amazing and valuable tool for so many reasons. I’ve been a proponent of the concept since GSX server, and early Workstation products. In the early day…

The Five Commandments of Tomorrow’s Network

11/10/15 Recently, I’ve been giving some thought to the roadblocks I discover when I attempt network automation and orchestration, and how those roadblocks affect the software-defi…

Windows Guest Licensing: To KMS or Not?

10/20/15 To better combat software piracy, Microsoft introduced License Activation with Windows XP/Server 2003; however, activation was pretty much implied and automatic if you had…

The Challenges of Network Virtualization Technologies

10/20/15 Network virtualization, software defined network (SDN), and network function virtualization (NFV) have taken the communication industry by storm. They are no longer buzzwo…

Looking Backward to Look Forward

10/15/15 “Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past” -unspecified “wise men” quoted by Niccolò Machiavelli With so many articles out there telling me how SDN will …

The Premise of Premises: All Clouds Are Not Created Equal

10/09/15 If you take one thing away from this article, it will be that you will have a far better fundamental understanding of the premise of your premises. The title of this artic…

A Look into the Pi-Shaped Expert Model

10/07/15 So you’ve started planning your career using a VCDX skillset. Continuing on that same train of thought, I want to walk you through an additional concept that might help yo…

Learning to Pivot

09/18/15 Industries as a whole tend to resist change. This makes sense because industries are made of corporations, those corporations are made of people, and people tend to resist…

Four Ways Your Network Could Change in Four Years

09/02/15 While SDN is still in its infancy, the value is indisputable as are the initial attempts at implementation in the form of Cisco® ACI and VMware® NSX. With ARIN down to abo…

Why You Still Need Network Alerts

09/01/15 Retracing an intractable alert hairball today, I’m reminded of how critical, and often critically broken, alerting actually is in many environments. You can be a departmen…

Throttling Network Bandwidth

08/04/15 One of the aspects of monitoring that IT professionals (and monitoring software developers in particular) think about a lot is “throttling.” How do you control the flow of…