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AHA – Cisco Re-Certification Journey
I’m sure you remembered a posting I did titled: ‘Probably the easiest way to NOT to lose you’re CCIE! I’m giving it a try.’,right? Well, I started that journey few months back. The first thing I needed to do was to determine which courses I wanted to take...
BGP and Static Route redistribution using HPE Comware
Very interesting situation I came across in recent days. Let’s take a look at the diagram below: The diagram shows: An AGGR-switch which is an HPE Comware based switch. It has connections to the Core-X and EDGE-Switch(es)Core-X is the Core network, which are...
AHA Project: Lab WorkBench
As IT Professionals (regardless of career level) we started – at some point, by taking a PC apart and putting it back together.. Including laptops, servers, etc. We installed RAM, HDs, PCI card, CD/DVD drives, BIOS battery – you name it. For me it...
Arista
AAA: Automation, Ansible, Arista – 101 basic, from Network Engineer to NetOps Engineer
Paradigm shift in IT… The landscape on how we view Networking is changing. These days, and days/months/years to follow, automation seems to be a key aspect on how Network Infrastructure should be ran. When we look closer – it’s now the responsibility of the...
Automation
AAA: Automation, Ansible, Arista – 101 basic, from Network Engineer to NetOps Engineer
Paradigm shift in IT… The landscape on how we view Networking is changing. These days, and days/months/years to follow, automation seems to be a key aspect on how Network Infrastructure should be ran. When we look closer – it’s now the responsibility of the...
Certificates
Probably the easiest way to NOT to lose you’re CCIE! I’m giving it a try.
For those who have earned their Cisco CCIE certification through the rigorous task of going to a Cisco CCIE training class, then purchasing either rack time on places like INE.com or going to EBay and buying lab gear… then book studying for commands and configuration...
Big Switch Networks Certification
So for the last 10 Months I’ve been working with a company called Big Switch Networks. What’s Big Switch Networks? Well it’s a Data Center Infrastructure company who prides themselves as one of the original pioneers of SDN. Their Infrastructure offering is...
AHA – Cisco Re-Certification Journey
I’m sure you remembered a posting I did titled: ‘Probably the easiest way to NOT to lose you’re CCIE! I’m giving it a try.’,right? Well, I started that journey few months back. The first thing I needed to do was to determine which courses I wanted to take...
Electronics
Review: TaoTronics OTE (Over the Ear) Bluetooth Headphones w/ ANC (Active Noise Control)
In the world of Bluetooth headphones, especially OTE (Over the Ears) – I think Bose, Sony, nd Beats hand some great products… but – they are a bit pricey. The Bose quiet comfort 35 Series is about $349, Beats Studio3 is about $285 – $349, and Sony WH1000XM2 is...
HPE
HPE Composable Fabric
Current Landscape As technology change rapidly within the Industry – Companies and Organizations are trying to balance between CAPEX & OPEX; it’s probably safer to say – looking to lower CAPEX &OPEX. Which, in turn, lowers their TCO [total cost of ownership]....
Nutanix, HPE Partner on Private Cloud Service and Hyperconverged Appliances
HPE GreenLake will offer a pay-as-you-go private cloud service that runs on Nutanix’s Enterprise Cloud OS software. Nutanix has teamed up with Hewlett Packard Enterprise to make its hyperconverged software available as a managed private cloud service and on...
In The News
Tech Matters: Big Changes In The IPv6 Landscape
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...
Share on Twitter Email this post ENFRES Privacy 20 December 2017 The Future of Journalism in the Internet Age: Watchdogs or Lapdogs?
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...
‘Key’ win for Arista in Appeals Court, but the fight continues
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...
ARISTA RUNS BAREFOOT WITH TOFINO PROGRAMMABLE SWITCH CHIPS
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...
HPE’s HCI system takes aim at space-constrained data centers
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...
Accenture and Google Cloud Launch Business Group to Deliver Intelligent Enterprise Solutions and Transform Customer Experiences
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...
HPE Composable Fabric
Current Landscape As technology change rapidly within the Industry – Companies and Organizations are trying to balance between CAPEX & OPEX; it’s probably safer to say – looking to lower CAPEX &OPEX. Which, in turn, lowers their TCO [total cost of ownership]....
Network Services
DHCP to the Rescue…using Linux
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...
My name is DNS & Time Check with NTP, Part 1
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...
My name is DNS & Time Check with NTP, Part 2
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...
Web Servers – Start your NGIN…X
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...
Walk Like a Packet… Talk Like a Packet
For sometime now, I’ve gotten several questions on how a data flows from one end-device to another. Whether it’s from a student, colleague, and even customers. Interestingly enough – I’ve heard that this question is also asked as part of technical interviews for...
Software Defined
HPE Composable Fabric
Current Landscape As technology change rapidly within the Industry – Companies and Organizations are trying to balance between CAPEX & OPEX; it’s probably safer to say – looking to lower CAPEX &OPEX. Which, in turn, lowers their TCO [total cost of ownership]....
AAA: Automation, Ansible, Arista – 101 basic, from Network Engineer to NetOps Engineer
Paradigm shift in IT… The landscape on how we view Networking is changing. These days, and days/months/years to follow, automation seems to be a key aspect on how Network Infrastructure should be ran. When we look closer – it’s now the responsibility of the...
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