This week, Ken Nalbone and Rich Stroffolino are looking at the IT news of the week with the Gestalt IT Rundown. Did Alphabet just kill Splunk? How did Dell EMC’s earnings look after going public again? What does Juniper Networks’ acquisition of Mist Systems mean? All this and more!
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Getting Out From Under the Policy Boulder with Juniper’s Contrail Policy Framework
As networks grow and applications spread to across clouds and sites, enforcing and setting policy often bumps against the harsh realities of scale. Juniper Networks’ Contrail platform gives you the tools to automate policy creation and easily visualize any gaps.
Orchestration From the Top Versus Automation From the Bottom
Automation and orchestration are key topics that are driving conversations around SDN and other IT ideas. Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at each through the lens of top-down vs. bottom-up methodology and why each has a place in your environment.
GDPR, Enrico Signoretti, and Licensing in Gestalt News 18.4
In this edition of Gestalt News:
– Tom Hollingsworth breaks down what GDPR means for your data
– Enrico Signoretti sits down for the IT Origins Interview
– The On-Premise IT Roundtable discusses why licensing models matter
Welcome the New Year with Gestalt News 18.1
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A New Year, a new iteration of Gestalt News!
On tap for this week:
– The On-Premise IT Roundtable discusses Intent-Based Networking
– The Gestalt IT Rundown looks at the biggest news stories of 2017
– and Rich Stroffolino debates is data is the new…solar?
Cumulus Networks, DDoS Detection, and Automation in Networking News 17.2
Gestalt IT is here with your bi-weekly slate of all the latest and greatest in networking news. In this edition:
– Cumulus Networks and the conundrum of hardware
– Juniper Networks defines the self-driving network
– DDoS detection solutions
– And automating in a sea of vendors
All this plus a review of the best novelty MacBook Pro Touch Bar apps!
The Quest for the Self-Driving Network with Juniper Networks
At Networking Field Day, Juniper Networks gave details and a technical deep dive into their Junos operating system for their routers. They specifically went into great detail about some of the automation now available. It’s genuinely impressive. But I really enjoyed how the presentation started.
4 Possible Outcomes For Brocade’s IP Networking Business
By now, you’ve probably heard that Brocade was purchased by Broadcom (if you haven’t… I’m sorry to break it to you this way). But what you might not have heard is that Broadcom plans to sell off Brocade’s IP networking business. Drew Conry-Murray at Packet Pushers breaks down how this sale might go down. In […]
Juniper Backdoors and vendor stone throwing
Anthony Burke of Network Inferno comments: By now many in the network and security field will have heard about the announcement from Juniper. Juniper’s commentary about an internal code review identifying malicious code on their ScreenOS platform sparked a marked increase of hype on the Twittersphere. Everywhere ranging from the US Senate down to the […]
Know Your Hardware Architecture!
John Herbert of Lame Journal comments: Some years back I took the Cisco LAN Switch Configuration (CLSC) exam as part of my CCNP. One of the my biggest complaints about the exam was that in my opinion, there was not enough technical subject matter to fill the exam, so Cisco fell back on testing us […]