TCO, CapEx, and OpEx
Gone are the days of where you pay once and ride off into the sunset. The industry is changing and renting virtual servers for a deterministic price per hour allows flexibility when investing in a cloud platform. But before you…
Melbourne VMUG
Last thursday I attended my local VMUG. This was my first experience outside tacking on the end of a previous jaunt. The Melbourne VMware Users Group convenes on multiple occasions throughout the year. The aim of VMUG is two-fold. One…
OneConfig for JUNOS
Ever need to make a firewall change or update a rule set but not had access to the device? An always on, cloud based software as a service solution has grown from the labs of OneConfig. Based on the premise of…
NX-OS and Cisco Nexus Switching
The data center is ever evolving and in the heart of many is the Cisco Nexus platform. This device series has many different opinions based on who you speak to. Birthed out of a secret project, the Nexus family hit the market…
Plexxi Control
The previous post to this one in my Plexxi series discussed the platform in which Plexxi deliver their software solution. The hardware was rounded off and numbers fired off. The optical cable pass through and topologies were discussed. That was…
Who needs more than 4094 VLANs?
First world DC problems Cloud computing has thrust multi-tenant DC’s forward in their advancements. The elasticity required for rapid deployment has pushed the bounds of many fields including storage, virtualisation, server architectures, and orchestration. As our environments onboard different customers…
Learn to Code – Embrace the Future
My previous post on my blog and over at packet pushers got some traction. It was in regards to DevOps and Junipers offering. It is clearly prevalent with emerging technologies such as SDN and open-flow, that scalability can be achieved through programming and automation. What…
Dancing on the strings of DevOps
The buzzword in the industry of late is DevOps. It is one that I hope isn’t tarnished by the marketing machine where buzzwords go to die. DevOps is the shift in the paradigm of network and infrastructure management. Centralized infrastructure…
Tar-Covered Clouds
When people say Mykonos they generally think of white buildings, cliffs, partying, and stunningly amazing woman. Australian’s might add The Wog Boys to this. Well Juniper has added another meaning. It involves Tar pits, reverse proxy magic, lies, deception, and…
Rite of Passage
It was over a game of pool with John Harrington that I met Doug Hanks. I knew very little of the man other than he was “the man” at Juniper to speak to regarding MX-anything. It was very shortly after we…
All quiet at the Doubletree
It is the morning after the week before. I have taken my first step into a larger world by the awesomeness that is Gestalt IT’s Network Field Day 4. I am the last delegate remaining at the SJC Doubletree Hilton…
Network Field Day 4
If you are in IT and not a 9-to-5’er you have most definitely exposed to the ever evolving nature of technology. SDN this, Virtualize that, and to the cloud with the rest. Keeping up with technology that vendors develop without the marketing…
Cisco Application Control Engine 4710
Cisco ACE is ACE. I am finding that this statement is a semi-truth. Before inheriting this network with a few ACE clusters, I did some reading. A light google confirmed what I had read on the Twitters but I wanted to find out…
Defence Signals Directorate – iOS Hardening Guide
Ever needed to look at deploying iOS in your enterprise? Well the Australian Defence Signals Directorate have released a iOS Hardening guide for iPad, iPhone, iPod which allows Network Administrators to thoroughly assess the product and it’s place in a…