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[player] In this first part of CCNA Datacenter sessions , Anthony Sequeira and Orhan Ergun are talking about the topics in the blueprint. They identify all the technologies which you should know for the CCNA Datacenter exam. Topics include : DCICN exam which is the first exam. DCICT exam which is the second exam. Datacenter Fundamentals, Unified Computing, Unified Fabric, Storage Networking, Virtualization and Datacenter Network Services sections of the exam will be explained.   They talk about the strategy for studying and the important technologies for the CCNA Datacenter exam. This talk should be considered as preparation for the many other Datacenter related session , and obviously Anthony and Orhan are planning many other podcast for the packetpushers. Let us know which topics you would like to learn from them.      

[player] We have renamed the show to “The Network Break” Research: 2014 State of the Data Center – InformationWeek Reports The data center is full of nonstop action. In the physical infrastructure, SDN is disrupting networking, flash is shaking up storage, and hypervisors have revolutionized how we buy servers. For managers, DevOps and Lean business models are changing attitudes and application strategies. And of course, cloud is everywhere. The Case for Why Marketing Should Have Its Own Engineers A lot of startups — especially those that are deeply technical — are strapped for resources and don’t prioritize or invest in marketing until their product’s mold has been cast. Mitchell believes this is a mistake, and that product and marketing should grow up side-by-side. Brocade – Brocade Joins 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium in Support of New Ethernet Specification to Drive the Data Centers of Tomorrow “This is a natural progression with relatively minimal incremental cost and an excellent re-use of existing infrastructure,” said Martin Skagen, chief architect at Brocade. “Our support of this consortium and the standard it has created reflects the strong commitment we have to the industry and our customers.” Rackspace says so long to commodity cloud wars with new pricing model Rackspace is rolling out a new price model to get out of the commodity death spiral. Makes me wonder if Rackspace plans to move upmarket with services that go just beyond basic management and support. “In line with that shift, today the company unveiled a new way to charge for its public-cloud services. Rather than display prices that cover compute power as well as the “fanatical support” it has long boasted about, Rackspace will now break out the infrastructure cost from the support cost. That way, prospective customers can see more clearly why Rackspace costs more than the basic infrastructure from Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft.” Scripting Does Not Scale For Network Automation – EtherealMind Lots of interest is using scripting for automation and, for a few scripts or tasks, you can get a lot done for not much effort. My experiences with scripting have left me bitter and jaded. Here is why. Scripting is automation, but automation is not scripting – Plexxi And creating and maintaining APIs is far more than the technology used to access them. It does not matter whether its XML, JSON, REST, NETCONF or anything else. Those are definitions of how information is carried to and from the device and network. I can build a wonderful REST API that takes a CLI command as an argument and spits me back the output from that CLI command in some format. I am sure that sounds familiar to some, but this is not an API. Not in a truly meaningful way that would elevate our automation abilities. Bare Metal Pricing Impacts Resellers – Plexxi Blog The other is an analysis of how bare metal switching will cause margin pressure in the networking industry, and so Cisco will look to squeeze resellers: Related: https://packetpushers.

[player] The Coffee Break will be renamed to the “The Network Break” and will be getting its own channel on the Packet Pushers Network. Welcome to 25G Ethernet Consortium | 25G Ethernet Consortium The 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium is an open organization to all third parties who wish to participate as members to enable the transmission of Ethernet frames at 25 or 50 Gigabit per second (Gbps) and to promote the standardization and improvement of the interfaces for applicable products. The 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium enables industry participants to develop new technologies that function in accordance with the Specification(s) outlined in the consortium agreement in order to benefit consumers and the industry by facilitating accelerated adoption of 25 and/or 50 Gbps technologies. Vendors Push Cloud Offerings to Offset PBX Declines | Dell’Oro During the first quarter of 2014, total Enterprise Telephony revenues declined 10% sequentially.  The market is continuing to shrink due in large part to the secular decline in premise-based equipment. This trend was compounded by corporate transitions at three of the largest seven vendors.  The various corporate transitions are likely to continue to put downward pressure on the market throughout the rest of the year.  The premise-based PBX market will likely be the hardest hit. To offset the declines in premise sales, many vendors are continuing to push their cloud offerings.  For example, ShoreTel and Mitel’s cloud offerings are up significantly while their premise businesses are declining.  Other vendors are also experiencing similar trends. Cisco ACI misses the promised ship date. Cisco ACI: In the market, building momentum. Full suite on schedule for Q2 2014 This message will indicate that they have an unapproved third- party 40G or 100G optic and that in EXOS 15.5 a third party 40G/100G feature license will be required for full functionality of the new hardware. Beginning with EXOS 15.5, customers will need to purchase a feature license to achieve full functionality of new unapproved third-party 40G or 100G optical interfaces. If customers do not purchase the feature license for these new modules, they will receive an informational message via SNMP/ Syslog. This message will indicate that they have an unapproved third- party 40G or 100G optic and that a feature license is required for full functionality of the new hardware. Customers will have 90 days to obtain the feature pack before the port’s egress bandwidth is rate-limited to 25% of line rate. Everything We Know About Facebook’s Secret Mood Manipulation Experiment

[player] In this first part of the Multicast Design and Deployment Series, Orhan Ergun talks with Mr.Multicast Beau Williamson about many multicast concepts. They both start from the basic and deep dive many multicast concepts while giving real life examples. Why Multicast? What are the general use cases in real life ? Layer 2 and Layer 3 Multicast Concepts. PIM Dense , Sparse and Sparse-dense modes. PIM Any Source Multicast , Source Specific Multicast and Bidirectional Multicast. Which one apply to which type of environment. How Any source Multicast design affected John Chamber’s internal speech and many other real life examples is covered in this podcast Participants: Orhan Ergun @OrhanErgunCCDE Beau Williamson @Mr_Multicast

[player] Health week on the Coffee Break – we are drinking water instead of coffee or kool-aid.   Hating on the Public Cloud The cloud isn’t all “ponies and rainbows,” and it’s not for everyone — Tech News and Analysis WanOp takes a break. WAN Optimization Market Declines 12 Percent Sequentially Indicating Softening Demand | Dell’Oro Primary factor: Bandwidth is getting cheaper and make WanOp less attractive. Secondary: 1. network complexity and scale makes WanOp harder to consume. 2. We are in a market transition and customer attention (and budgets!) are focussed on other technology like private clouds, SDN etc. Battle of Converged Infrastructure Musing: Flexpod at $2B Run Rate, VCE at $1.8B – Thats Unexpected – EtherealMind FlexPod Passes $3 Billion in Joint Sales for Cisco and NetApp – The Network: Cisco’s Technology News Site “Since 2010. ” Cisco and NetApp today announced that the FlexPod® integrated infrastructure solution has generated $3 billion in joint sales since its launch in 2010. FlexPod unit shipments have grown 81 percent year-over-year, with demand for FlexPod solutions now reaching a $2 billion annualized demand run rate. VCE Surpasses 2013 Goal of $1 Billion in Annual Sales[1], Accelerates Growth in Q1 2014 VCE, the leader in converged infrastructure systems, today announced that it surpassed its 2013 goal of generating $1 billion in annual sales, and demand for VCE products and services reached a $1.8 billion annualized demand run rate exiting the fourth quarter of 2013. (My emphasis) Recent Survey results for State of Data Centre show that interest in converged platforms is dropping quickly: Facebook and their FBOSS switch Facebook Hastens the Era of Open Source Hardware – Forbes Introducing “Wedge” and “FBOSS,” the next steps toward a disaggregated network | Engineering Blog | Facebook Code | Facebook Supermicro MicroBlade with Pluribus Networks Netvisor – Products – Pluribus Networks

[player] This is “The Coffee Break”. A podcast on state of the networking business where we discuss vendors moves and news, analysis on product and positioning, and look at the business of networking. In the time it takes to have coffee break. Show Links   Cisco Q1 Slump Drops Ethernet Switch Market HP Links SDN, OpenStack In New Application Docker 1.0 released at DockerCon Google Open Sources Its Secret Weapon in Cloud Computing | Enterprise | WIRED IBM Said Near Deal With Globalfoundries for Chip-Making – Bloomberg Get a Warrant for Cell Phone Location Tracking, US Appeals Court Says

[player] This is “The Coffee Break”. A podcast on state of the networking business where we discuss vendors moves and news, analysis on product and positioning, and look at the business of networking. In the time it takes to have coffee break. Show Links Cisco’s 3 Commandments – Drew’s take on Chambers’ CLUS keynote Cisco Faces Make-Or-Break Week For SDN – Network Computing Amazon Opens On-Ramp For VMware Workloads Amazon has created a portal that runs inside vCenter to create and manage Amazon instances. “An existing ESX Server, normally incompatible with the Xen-based Amazon cloud, can be imported and activated as an Amazon Machine Image, the type of virtual machine that is native to EC2.” “The process may also be reversed, with an Amazon Machine Image converted back into a virtual machine file that will be compatible with VMware’s vSphere environment and sent back to the enterprise from which it was migrated in the first place.” VCE/Nutanix and Ambush Marketing (as pioneered by EMC). * switching converged buyers is cheap marketing instead of making converged buyers * EMC pioneered pissy marketing. * VCE has been playing rough with its marketing in the past. Facebook and OpenCompute switches – going into production.

[player] This is “The Coffee Break”. A podcast on state of the networking business where we discuss vendors moves and news, analysis on product and positioning, and look at the business of networking. In the time it takes to have coffee break. Thanks to Steven Hill from Current Analysis for joining us this week. Show Links Bored with trading oil and gold? Why not flog some CLOUD servers? I was particularly disconcerted with the Chicago Merchantile Exchange’s interest in turning IaaS into a tradable commodity market. This seems wrong on SO many levels. Arista co-founder may have switch maker by its jewels and other Arista speculation. Net neutrality dead for good? Supreme Court Debates Aereo’s Fate Also in the “kind of old news” category is Zebra Technology’s purchase of a $3.4bn hunk of Motorola stuff April 23, 2014 – Akamai Releases Fourth Quarter 2013 ‘State of the Internet’ Report

[player] Cisco Certified Design Expert exam is the popular expert level vendor independent certification. In this podcast Orhan Ergun – CCIE & CCDE  talks   with his three guests who have CCDE certificate as well ,  about preparation, resources, recommendations and many other topics. We also discussed whether CCIE is losing its value. Please share your comments about this podcast.   Participants * Orhan Ergun * Andre Laurent * Diptanshu Singh * Marwan Al-Shawi  

[player] This is “The Coffee Break”. A podcast on state of the networking business where we discuss vendors moves and news, analysis on product and positioning, and look at the business of networking. In the time it takes to have coffee break. Topics Cisco Reveals OpenFlow SDN Killer:OpFlex protocol for ACI offered to IETF, OpenDaylight Researchs find thousands of potential targets for Heartbleed OpenSSL bug Google may soon give greater prominence in its search results to websites that use encryption, a move that would indirectly make it more difficult for hackers or governments to track what people do on the internet.Link Niche SRAM Sees Steady Demand From Network Gear Meanwhile, Cypress Semiconductor Corp., a significant player in the SRAM market, just introduced QDR-IV SRAMs in 144 and 72 megabit densities to support the RTRs required for 100 to 400 gigabit linecards in next-generation switches and routers. Sudhir Gopalswamy, senior director of Cypress’s SRAM business unit, says the bottleneck for reaching increased linecard rates is the processing of lookup tables, statistics, and state counters stored in memory, as well as scheduling functions.

[player] News of the Networking Industry in the time it takes to drink a coffee (more or less). This week we are joined by Amy Engineer to parse the news and dig into the business of technology. Topics This Week. Cisco InterCloud: Corporate puff piece at Cisco.com Cisco Press Release on InterCloud Blog Post with info you can use Hardware-Defined Networking: Bridging The Gap for Enterprise SDN – Netowrk Computing Cumulus and Midokura announce partnership to connect physical network to overlays AT&T Promises To Lower Your Internet Bill If FCC Kills Net Neutrality Netflix Wants Strong Net Neutralit Without strong net neutrality, big ISPs can demand potentially escalating fees for the interconnection required to deliver high quality service. The big ISPs can make these demands – driving up costs and prices for everyone else – because of their market position. For any given U.S. household, there is often only one or two choices for getting high-speed Internet* access and that’s unlikely to change. Furthermore, Internet access is often bundled with other services making it challenging to switch ISPs. It is this lack of consumer choice that leads to the need for strong net neutrality. Gartner Says 70 Percent of CIOs Will Change Their Technology and Sourcing Relationships in the Next Two to Three Years Torrential changes will reshape the service provider landscape over the next several years as organizations struggle to adjust to a digital future, according to Gartner, Inc. A recent global survey of CIOs by Gartner’s Executive Programs found that 70 percent of CIOs will change their technology and sourcing relationships in the next two to three years for a variety of reasons.

[player] Our attendance at the Open Networking Symposium promotes a discussion of events there. ONS had a demonstration of OpendDaylight / OpenStack integration. Nicira: The Last Billion-Dollar SDN Acquisition? – InformationWeek Vello launched the Open Source Optical initiative this week. Software Takes Center Stage as Vello Systems Leads Industry’s First Open Source Optical (OSO) Effort – Vello Systems This press release from Huawei really grabbed my attention because it’s an MPLS enabled router that is finger sized and built for carrier networks. – Response: Huawei unveils the world’s tiniest Atom Router – EtherealMind AT&T lays out ‘radical’ network changes with SDN – Network World  

[player] This week Andrew & Greg are joined Howard Marks whose abundance of commentary leads to a surfeit of opinions on the lack of anything happening at Mobile World Congress. Show Notes MWC – Wearable computing on the rise? Netflix and Comcast: Is this the first Network Neutrality domino to fall? Frontier customer complaints drop nearly 70 percent – Business – Charleston Daily Mail – West Virginia News and Sports Nearly four years after taking over Verizon’s West Virginia landline operations, Frontier Communications has expanded broadband access to roughly 176,000 households and seen consumer complaints drop by nearly 70 percent. Cars and Smartphones are not a good mix – Why your next Ford car may run on BlackBerry, not Microsoft, software

[player] Mike Fratto joins us this week to talk about the news of the week on IPv4, Broadband Performance, Net Neutrality, IBM, SDN and more.  About Mike Fratto Mike is a principal analyst with Current Analysis’ Business Technology and Services group covering the enterprise networking market. Prior to Current Analysis, Mike was with TechWeb for over 15 years finishing as Editor of Networking Computing. He has extensive experience evaluating enterprise remote access, security, and network infrastructure products. He previously was Lead Analyst with InformationWeek Analytics, Senior Technology Editor with Network Computing and Executive Editor for Secure Enterprise. He has spoken at several conferences including Interop, MISTI, the Internet Security Conference, as well as to local groups. He was track chair for Interop’s Data Center and Storage tracks. He also teaches a network security graduate course at Syracuse University. Prior to Network Computing, Mike was an independent consultant. You can find him on the web at Linkedin , Twitter and blog Topics What happened to IPv4 crisis ARIN currently has “approximately 24 million IPv4 addresses in the available pool for the region,” according to President and CEO John Curran. They’re available to ISPs large and small, but Curran predicts they will all likely be handed out by “sometime in 2014.” [A call for open standards for broadband performance testing]http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/021814-broadband-performance–278832.html) With AT&T announcing its sponsored data initiative, a federal appeals court ruling that the FCC can no longer protect net neutrality, and Comcast announcing a $45 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable, business and consumers alike need accurate information on broadband performance more than ever. Net Neutrality and Net Reality. Truth Is Hard to Find — EtherealMind Recently, Dave at DavesBlog made some rather startling observations that Verizon is throttling Netflix traffic, backed up by a comment from some low level help desk staffer that this is true. Taking a casual comment as “truth” is wildly unreasonable. On the Internet, it is very hard to pick the difference between Net Neutrality and Net Reality. Why IBM May Abandon SDN Cisco reports its number. Revenue down 12%, profit down 11%, dividend up 2c. Slow’n’steady: NetApp’s revenues flatline while profits increase – The Register – “In the advent of cloud and FAS and new technologies, there’s elongated decision cycles, because people don’t want to make bets on technologies at a long term in nature that they’re going to regret in a few years“ Big Switch CEO: We’re Not for Sale | Light Reading

[player] This is “The Coffee Break”. A podcast on state of the networking business where we discuss vendors moves and news, analysis on product and positioning, and look at the business of networking. In the time it takes to have coffee break. Guest Our guest today is Kurt Marko – @kmarko Kurt Marko is an IT analyst and regular contributor to InformationWeek and Network Computing. From the VT100 to the iPad AIr, for 30 years his world has revolved around technology. Starting as an EE designing chips and transistors, he evolved into an IT architect designing systems and networks. Lately, he’s found analyzing and reporting on all things IT, focusing on cloud infrastructure, services and software, with a helping of mobile device and application coverage for good measure. Show Notes Cisco ACI now includes security – Cisco.com – Security Blog Cisco drops $6M into Embrane – GigaOm Is Google about to disrupt the teleconferencing business with ‘Chromebox for Meetings’ bundle? Business Insider Will we see a shakeout in second-tier network vendors like Extreme which missed the latest quarter and guided lower? Stock about 30% off its high, but still double what it was a year ago.Seeking Alpha AlcaLu Enterprise Goes to China Are we seeing cracks in network neutrality and what to do if you think traffic to specific sites is being throttled? – InformationWeek Netflx, Verizon and Net Neutrality More data from Netflix seems to indicate something is fishy on Verizon’s network – The Register digs a bit deeper What’s going on in the MDM/MAM market with VMware buying AirWatch and Blackberry repositioning as a software company? Is MDM now a feature, not a standalone product category? techcrunch – VMware and MDM VMware Airwatch Purchase is Blackberry Problem – Seeking Alpha- VMware Airwatch Purchase is Blackberry Problem Subscribe to the Show Subscribe the show in iTunes or your favourite podcast client with this RSS link:  https://packetpushers.net/category/podcast-post/community-podcast/feed/