What apps belong in the cloud and which are better on premises? Dave Wagner, Senior Manager, Product Marketing at SolarWinds, joins Day Two Cloud to develop a strategy and find the right tooling to help you make the best decision. SolarWinds is the sponsor for today's episode.
It's a baker's dozen of tech news in today's Network Break episode. We analyze Nvidia's $40 billion bid for Arm, Broadcom's banishment of Cumulus, vSphere's Kubernetes injection via Tanzu, a new hardware strategy from Extreme, new products from Palo Alto and Juniper, and more!
In today's sponsored show, we talk with Sinefa about its Digital Experience Monitoring capabilities. Sinefa assembles network traffic, DPI, end point monitoring, and synthetic transactions to get clear, actionable information on network performance to measure end user experience and improve troubleshooting. Our guests are Chris Siakos, CTO; and Alex Henthorn-Iwane, VP of Product Marketing.
Mark Thiele joins the Day Two Cloud podcast to school us on all things edge. He argues that edge is more than a buzzword, with a specific set of opportunities and challenges for IT operations and infrastructure.
Network Break analyzes Samsung's multi-billion 5G contract from Verizon, a new Jericho ASIC from Broadcom, the insiders driving Zoombombing, the persistence of DDoS attacks, and more tech news.
The 4poKalypse is coming, and service providers need more tools in their toolbox to combat congestion in eyeball networks. Local content caches close to the eyeballs (pretty much how we do it today) isn’t going to be quite enough. Jake Holland of Akamai is here to tell us just why inter-domain multicast is important, and why...this time...we can make it work.
SD-WAN vendors offer a variety of mechanisms to connect end users to cloud applications while incorporating policy and performance requirements. Day Two Cloud co-host Ethan Banks interviewed many of these vendors to understand the architectural nitty-gritty of different approaches. In this episode, he shares the fruits of his research.
Network Break dives into a new Cisco project that ties microservices to SD-WAN, a CenturyLink outage, new vulnerabilities in IOS-XR, Broadcom's new Gen7 Fibre Channel switches, and more IT news.
Today's show dives into Nokia's approach for automating and operating data center fabrics. In this sponsored episode we examine key elements of Nokia's approach including the SR Linux network OS and its Fabric Services Platform. Our guest is Steve Vogelsang, CTO for IP and Optical Networks at Nokia.
Today's Day Two Cloud podcast makes the case for bringing Ansible into your Windows automation toolkit with guest Josh Duffney. Josh is an SRE, a Microsoft MVP, and author of a book on Ansible. We discuss key elements of Ansible, how it fits in a Windows shop, using Ansible with the Chocolately package manager, and more.
Today's Network Break shares listener follow-up, then dives into a new Cisco acquisition of an audio company; discusses how Facebook is responding to an Apple update that will hurt a part of Facebook's business; covers financial results from HPE, VMware, and Nutanix; and more tech news.
The networking community seems to have coalesced around Ansible for network device automation and Terraform for cloud. Why this divide? Are the two tools really that different? Today's Heavy Networking explores how and where you can use both these tools, with guests Ned Bellavance and Josh VanDeraa.
Planning a database migration to the cloud? If you're going to do it right, prepare to dig in because you have many options and trade offs to consider, including whether to go with IaaS or PaaS, security and monitoring issues, and much, much more. Day Two Cloud dives into the inner workings of database migration with expert Joey D’Antoni, Principal Consultant at Denny Cherry & Associates.
Take a Network Break! Pass around the virtual pickles as we delve into Arista's new SaaS version of CloudVision, Cisco and Megaport's SD-WAN partnership, new Intent-Based Networking features from Apstra, and more tech news.
Today's Heavy Networking dives into sponsor Arrcus's Virtualized Distributed Router, new software that transforms the monolithic chassis that can scale to thousands of ports while being operated and managed like a single device. Our guests are Murali Gandluru, Keyur Patel, and Nalin Pai from Arrcus.
Some words mean different things to different IT disciplines. And tech vendors often twist the meaning of technical terms to suit their own purposes. On today's Day Two Cloud, guest Karen Lopez helps us sort out the semantics of IT language and discusses why accuracy matters.
The latest Network Break podcast debates whether security spending is worth it, discusses new APs from Juniper, reviews two new startups, analyzes Cisco's latest financial reports, and more tech news.
Today's Heavy Networking is a roundtable show where a group of engineers tell us what's on their minds. Topics include why EVPN/VXLAN is useful even for small data centers, how to get automation going despite internal constraints, the pros and cons of unique network designs, and tales of how working from home has affected projects, teams, and priorities.
The Day Two Cloud podcast explores different approaches to using the public cloud for disaster recovery. We examine costs and benefits, discuss recovery times, dive into planning, and more. The show draws on co-host Ned Bellavance's experience working on DR projects for a variety of customers during his VAR days.
Heavy Networking dives into building cost-effective, practical, and easily managed leaf-spine networks with sponsor Dell Technologies. We discuss Dell's SmartFabric Services offering, including the underlying infrastructure and software overlay, key automation features, interconnects for enterprise uses such as HCI, and more. Our guest is Saleem Muhammad, Director of Product Management and Marketing at Dell Technologies.
The latest Network Break podcast examines Cisco's acquisition of Modcam for video analytics, discusses how the Mirai botnet takes advantage of vulnerable F5 load balancers, reviews financial results from Extreme and Arista, and tackles even more IT news.
Today's episode assembles the Packet Pushers to wrangle over a grab bag of ideas including the evolution from SD-WAN to SD-Branch, new compression standards to preserve Internet bandwidth, and the pros and cons of BGP over QUIC.
What's really going on in the cloud? ThousandEyes, our sponsor for this episode, has just released its inaugural Internet Performance Report, which tracks the performance and availability of ISPs, public clouds, CDNs, and DNS across multiple geographical regions. The report measures performance over time and also looks at the current impact of COVID-19 on Internet usage. Angelique Medina, Director, Product Marketing at ThousandEyes, is our guide.
Today's Network Break podcast explores a new multi-cloud offering from Arista, Juniper's WAN Assurance service that leverages Mist AI, and Marvell's Ethernet ASIC line. We also discuss financial results from Juniper, A10 Networks, and F5, plus a space networking update and more.
Today's Day Two Cloud is a smorgasbord of cloud-related vendor analysis courtesy of Cloud Field Day 8, where host Ned Bellavance and guest Adam Fisher were delegates. This episode includes discussions about Veeam, Zerto, Diamanti, and others, but it's not a sponsored show.
Today's Network Break analyzes multi-cloud networking announcements from Fortinet and Arrcus, discusses additional venture funding for ASIC-maker Innovium, looks at more consolidation in the SD-WAN market, and debates whether "Internet" should be capitalized.
Today's Day Two Cloud gets into career advancement with guest Sam Erskine. Curiosity is key, and the mistakes you make can actually lead to new knowledge and opportunities. Sam is head of cloud engagement for a large consulting firm and has worked in a variety of IT roles. He's distilled his career experiences into a helpful five-step process, which we explore.
Today's Network Break scrutinizes HPE's big payout for Silver Peak and Dell's plans for a possible sale of VMware. We also discuss new capabilities in VMware Cloud on AWS, a new synthetic monitoring service from Kentik, how NIST thinks "giga" is pronounced, and more.
Day Two Cloud gets into data visualization with the open-source Grafana project. Grafana helps you visualize, alert on, and query all kinds of data and metrics. We look at how Grafana works, how it manipulates and stores data, and common use cases. Our guest is Ryan McKinley, VP of Applications at Grafana.
On today's Network Break we discuss Nokia's new network OS, examine a Cisco/AT&T partnership on SD-WAN, and analyze Google's pullback from a cloud venture in China. We also cover a new video codec and an image format that will save bandwidth, the rise of online learning, and what Uber's Postmates acquisition can tell us about IT startups.
