Packet Pushers Podcast Network (OLD)

Today s show, sponsored by Sonus Networks, examines ways to deliver predictable traffic behavior in an environment of congestion via an intelligent network control coupled with application-aware policies driven by business rules.

Network Break 51 talks VMware and EMC leadership, new VMware products, Aristas quality manifesto, Dells business unit for high-performance compute, Brocade financial news, and a container update.

BGP is typically found in the data center at the edge, but it keeps popping up in SDN conversations. For data centers of a certain size, maybe BGP makes sense. To find out, we gathered four engineers to discuss data center BGP.

In this Datanauts episode, Chris and Ethan walk through performance troubleshooting from virtualization and network perspectives, and share tips for troubleshooting across silos.

Network Break 50 covers new pricing ideas from Big Switch, routing around censorship, Targets settlement with Visa card issuers, insurance and InfoSec, SD-WAN patents, and partner ecosystems.

Arista CloudVision is a turnkey approach to workload orchestration and workflow automation. Building on Arista s success in building programmable and open software for the cloud with Arista EOS, CloudVision extends the EOS architecture to a network-wide perspective.

While cruising in our Galaxy-class starship to another data center, we ve hit a storage scaling issue. There s no way to add any more performance to our antimatter storage array! The chief engineer suggests that we perform a saucer separation to decouple capacity from performance, which will allow us to scale the two requirements individually. Release the docking latches, and let s hope this maneuver can save us! Satyam Vaghani of PernixData joins the Datanauts for this discussion of decoupled storage.

Take a network break! In this episode Oracle tells customers to stop security testing on its software, Arista posts a strong Q2, Symantec sells Veritas, F5 releases a new version of Big-IP and more.

A favorite topic among network engineers, documentation is a source of both wonder and horror. Network documentation is difficult to get right. How much detail is enough? How old is that diagram, really? Cant this be automated? Wait, the automated generator spit out *that*? In this show, the Packet Pushers along with former guest Dominik discuss their documentation experiences, good and bad. What have we gotten right? What have we gotten wrong? Whats been worth the trouble? What was a waste of time? What did we wish wed documented before we really needed it?

This episode of Network Break looks at ONIE security risks, a sensible car hack lawsuit, missing millions at Ubiquiti, EMC and VMware going all the way, a potential Apple win at IBM, and other tech news.

New IPv4 address space is almost gone from the global market. Organizations need to introduce IPv6 into their environments to ensure uninterrupted business operations with the rest of the world. Yet, implementing IPv6 is not as simple as firing up a routing scheme. How does an organization know if it s ready? Special guest Ed Horley joins the Datanauts in this discussion.

Todays show looks at building a data center fabric around Junipers QFX switch line to improve automation and enable IT service delivery. Thanks to our sponsor Juniper Networks.

Network Break 47 looks at the fate of network services companies, Ciscos Invicta shutdown, an HP acquisition, a new Intel chip and more.

LISP (Locator/ID Separation Protocol) separates the IP host address from the routing path to improve scalability. Join us to find out whats new with LISP.

IPv6 is inevitable, but whats the real rate of adoption in North America? Join Ethan Banks and Alain Fiocco as they discuss the state of the protocol, share educational opportunities, and offer tips to get your vendors to fully embrace IPv6.