What kind of growth did we see for IPv6 in 2012? What did we see in terms of adoption of IPv6 within various industries? Yesterday our colleague Phil Roberts outlined his view on the “Big Changes In The IPv6 Landscape in 2012“. Phil wrote about many of the changes that happened over 2012, particularly with World IPv6 Launch in June. Here are some of…
Media watchdogs, increasingly criticized, threatened and attacked by corporate interests and global governments, are also among the prominent victims of falling public trust in the wake of the proliferation of so-called ‘fake’ news. Despite some self-inflicted problems, such as those highlighted by the Leveson inquiry in the United Kingdom five years ago, news media and responsible journalism remain of critical importance to…
From home users to advance IT professionals – All of us have ran across obtaining an IP address dynamically for our devices; whether if it’s from our ISP for Internet home connectivity, when we connect to WiFi at our favourite coffee shop (Dunkin Cold Brew for me), or even when a new client is brought onto the network within a…
It’s seems Arista is one more step closer on closing the door with it’s battle with Cisco. As written by Tiernan Ray, reporter for Dow Jones, Arista gained a key victory from the Federal Circuit Appeals Courts. Per the article: Arista Gains ‘Key’ Win Against Cisco in Appeals Court, Says Piper “Earlier this morning [February 14, 2018], the Federal Circuit Appeals…
Aside from a DHCP Server – Two other important Network Services are DNS and NTP. In my previous Blog; DHCP to the Rescue, I show how to build and configure one based on Linux CentOS. Within the configurations, I showed how to add the DNS and NTP servers for the subnet to which an IP address will be assigned to…
Next up is NTP – which stands for Network Time Protocol and the server it runs on… (you guessed it!) Is called an NTP Server. The purpose of NTP is to synchronize the time of all devices within a domain and to provide ‘timestamps’ based on the services that utilizes them. Per David L. Mills, ‘…NTP is intended to synchronize…
These days Web Servers are more than just that. Web Servers can be used for a variety of things, including be a repository for files that can be used by your infrastructure devices, such as switches, compute, and storage. In this blog we’ll be installing the NGINX Web application on a CentOS VM (yes…I know). As a note – the…
If Andy Bechtolsheim, the chief technology officer at datacenter switching upstart Arista Networks, wanted to design ASICs to try to take a bigger piece of the switch pie – or more precisely, thought that this was a good idea at all – rest assured, Arista would be spending money engineering its own chips and fighting for capacity at the four…
HPE has complemented its recent high-end hyper-converged system with another HCI system to fit the space-constrained environments of branch offices or SMBs. The latest addition to HPE’s HCI portfolio aims to give smaller IT shops a little less bang for a lot less buck. The HPE SimpliVity 2600 configures up to four compute modules in a 2U space, and features…
Accenture recognized as a Google Cloud Partner Award Winner in consecutive years NEW YORK and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.; July 25, 2018 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Google Cloud today launched the Accenture Google Cloud Business Group (AGBG), which will help companies use Google Cloud technology to help deliver superior customer experiences and accelerate their digital transformation journeys. Combining Accenture’s extensive industry knowledge with…