DATA CENTER Stories
Cloudian Gives MSPs Access to S3-Based Scalable Storage and Cloud Services
Published on: 2019-04-18
Cloudian's latest offering - a managed service provider (MSP) program - targets two lucrative markets: cloud storage and managed cloud services. It enables MSPs to offer cloud storage and services such as data management and disaster recovery built on Cloudian's Amazon S3-based storage.
VPN Vulnerabilities Point Out Need for Comprehensive Remote Security
Published on: 2019-04-17
VPNs are the primary tool for securing remote access, but recently disclosed vulnerabilities point out the weakness of relying on them as the only tool. "Encryption Everywhere" has become one of the rallying cries of enterprise security in the waning days of this millennium's second decade.
DriveNets Boasts Cloud-Native Router Breakthrough
Published on: 2019-04-17
Cloud-native router startup DriveNets has followed up its February funding announcement by claiming its virtualized routing software, dubbed Network Cloud, can support 400G-per-port routing and be scaled up to a whopping 768 Tbit/s, making it (possibly) the highest capacity router on offer.
What SDN is and where it’s going
Published on: 2019-04-16
Hardware reigned supreme in the networking world until the emergence of software-defined networking (SDN), a category of technologies that separate the network control plane from the forwarding plane to enable more automated provisioning and policy-based management of network resources.
What SDN is and where it’s going
Published on: 2019-04-16
Hardware reigned supreme in the networking world until the emergence of software-defined networking (SDN), a category of technologies that separate the network control plane from the forwarding plane to enable more automated provisioning and policy-based management of network resources.
Healthcare Providers Worldwide Adopt Cisco ACI as their Prescription for IT Excellence
Published on: 2019-04-11
SAN JOSE, Calif.-April 11, 2019 - A new application era is changing healthcare. Doctors, nurses and administrators are increasingly using mobile devices, artificial intelligence tools and telehealth solutions to better serve patients and improve organizational efficiency. These new tools and ...
Cisco taps into AWS for data center, cloud applications
Published on: 2019-04-10
Cisco has released a cloud-service program on its flagship software-defined networking (SDN) software that will let customers manage and secure applications running in the data center or in Amazon Web Service cloud environments. The service, Cisco Cloud ACI (application centric infrastructure) ...
Vodafone Idea Limited and Cisco: Building a Distributed Multicloud Network Strategy for Retail and Enterprise Customers
Published on: 2019-04-03
MUMBAI, India - April 3, 2019 - Vodafone Idea Limited, the largest telecom service provider in India, is deploying a state-of-the-art, automated multicloud network across the country to enable an unmatched experience for its retail and enterprise customers. As pioneers in Cloud implementation, ...
Intel's Agilex FPGA family targets data-intensive workloads
Published on: 2019-04-02
After teasing out details about the technology for a year and half under the code name Falcon Mesa, Intel has unveiled the Agilex family of FPGAs, aimed at data-center and network applications that are processing increasing amounts of data for AI, financial, database and IoT workloads.
Rockwell Automation, Panduit, and Cisco open Manufacturing Advanced Technology Center in Mexico City
Published on: 2019-03-28
Related Media Manufacturing Advance Technology Center, Mexico City MEXICO CITY, 28 March 2019.- Rockwell Automation, Panduit and Cisco, with special collaboration with Tecnologico de Monterrey, EY and Unified announced today the opening of their Manufacturing Advanced Technology Center (MATC) in ...
How to move to a disruptive network technology with minimal disruption
Published on: 2019-02-27
Disruptive network technologies are great-at least until they threaten to disrupt essential everyday network services and activities. That's when it's time to consider how innovations such as SDN, SD-WAN, intent-based networking ( IBN) and network functions virtualization ( NFV) can be ...
How to secure your Azure network
Published on: 2018-10-16
Cloud services like Azure offer a lot of security features straight out of the box, especially if you're using their platform services. But virtual infrastructures are much like physical infrastructures, connecting virtual machines with software-defined virtual networks. Thus, they need the same ...
Why dynamic mapping is changing network troubleshooting for the better
Published on: 2017-05-15
Effective network troubleshooting requires experience and a detailed understanding of a network's design. And while many great network engineers possess both qualities, they still face the daunting challenge of manual data collection and analysis. The storage and backup industries have long been ...
Comparing the performance of popular public DNS providers
Published on: 2017-05-10
ThousandEyes, a network intelligence company with the ability to monitor performance from hundreds of vantage points across the Internet, has insight into a variety of services across the globe, including public DNS service providers. In this article we'll dive into our results from testing 10 ...
Heavy Networking 442: The Source Of Truth Shall Set You Free (To Automate)
Published on: 2019-04-17
On today's Heavy Networking we explore how to build a source of truth for networking devices as a foundation for automation. Our guests Damien Garros and Adam Mills of Roblox share their real-world experiences developing sources of truth using Netbox and Git as part of a company-wide automation ...
Network Break 230: Google Anthos Targets Hybrid Cloud; Cisco Puts ACI In AWS
Published on: 2019-04-15
Podcast: Download | Embed Take a Network Break! We start with corrections from last week's show (and please do send corrections, opinions, and responses to things we say). Then we pivot to news from Google Next '19 including Anthos for hybrid cloud, plus Cisco makes ACI available in AWS, and ...
Applying Zero Trust to Google Cloud Environments
Published on: 2019-04-10
At Palo Alto Networks, we've been helping our customers make a dramatic, transformative shift on how they approach security. This journey is not just about the implementation of technologies, but rather a change in the very philosophy on what security is and how it should be designed across the ...
Heavy Networking 440: A Wireless Deployment Crash Course
Published on: 2019-04-09
Today's Heavy Networking is a crash course in executing a new wireless deployment for engineers who are wired, not wireless, experts. We explore how and why to gather user and technical requirements, understanding the RF environment, channel management, and more. Our guest is Robert Boardman.
Practice Safe BGP
Published on: 2019-04-04
This blog is a "fun BGP story" - let's call it a Case Study #1, a recent design situation involving local-as (Case Study #2), plus some lessons learned. One theme is that local-as can be fairly handy, so handy there might be a danger of over-using it!
The Cloud Is (Not) Magic
Published on: 2019-03-21
Cloud technologies are changing the world. Sometimes faster than businesses can keep up, both as consumers of managed or SaaS application, but also on the vendor side. This blog is about some things I've noticed recently as potential pitfalls, and business challenges affecting ability to ...
Interview with Joe Onisick
Published on: 2019-03-19
With this blog, I try to inspire and mentor. One person I have a lot of respect for is Joe Onisick. I had the pleasure of interviewing Joe. Joe has really transformed himself and everything about him lately and I
Cisco Live – Network Building Blocks for IoT
Published on: 2019-03-07
Cisco Live happened in Barcelona end of January, and as usual I am a little late with my blog posts about it. Like the last two years I was invited to join the group of technology experts for Tech Field Day Extra, with various presentations covering a number of new and improved Cisco ...
Amazon Transit VPCs and Transit Gateway
Published on: 2019-03-07
This blog is about AWS, specifically multiple VPCs and routing, and some recent developments. My intent is to give you the flavor of some AWS design approaches, and then point you to some good material for the details. Amazon AWS Transit VPCs is an important cloud concept to consider using as ...
Dealing with Performance Brownouts
Published on: 2019-02-07
I've done a couple of application slowness (brownout) troubleshooting sessions recently. This blog is my attempt to condense some observations from both engagements, to share lessons learned. "Condense" might not be the right word, seeing how long this blog got! Troubleshooting with some process ...
Plexxi Recognized on CRN’s Data Center 100 List (again)
Published on: 2018-02-26
It's no secret that the demands on modern data centers are changing and that companies want networks that are agile, flexible, and simple. Plexxi embraces this approach to networking when developing the solutions we provide to our customers and partners. As a result, once again CRN, a brand of ...
Plexxi Recognized on CRN’s Data Center 100 List
Published on: 2018-02-26
NASHUA, N.H., February 26, 2018 - Plexxi, the leader in Hyperconverged Networking (HCN), announced today that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Plexxi to its 2018 Data Center 100 list. This annual list recognizes technology suppliers that excel at powering, supporting and protecting ...
PlexxiPulse – Plexxi HCN™, The Most Powerful Software-Defined Network, Now Available On Dell
Published on: 2018-02-23
This week, we announced support for Dell Networking Z9100-ON and Dell Networking S4048-ON data center fabric switches. Plexxi HCN™ will give Dell customers the power to scale data center networks flat and cost-effectively while still delivering unrestricted performance for all application ...
Innovation or Iteration
Published on: 2018-02-16
The word "innovation" gets thrown around a lot these days. I wouldn't blame anyone if the word now evokes a gag reflex similar to how we all eventually reacted to "cloud" a few years back. Every product and presentation seemed to be reworked to make it appear it was a "cloud" product.
L3 fabric DC -The underlay Network (BGP) -part2
Published on: 2017-01-17
In the previous post, we laid the foundation of L3 fabric DC In this post we will discuss the underlay network which mainly provide IP reachability plus ECMP capability, here BGP would play a role in your DC next to the 3 other that we discussed one of the previous posts.
L3 fabric DC -The underlay Network -Part1
Published on: 2016-12-07
In the previous posts we have discussed the classic DC designs and the M-LAG solution. In this post we will cover the basic L3 fabric DC, you might never heard of it or you think that's a solution for massive scale DC, yes the massive DC in the world would be running L3 fabric but nowadays more ...