How can you protect your virtual workloads in the cloud? Or your east/west traffic flows between hosts behind a perimeter firewall? Tom Hollingsworth talked to ShieldX about how they’re able to microsegement the traffic flows between your virtual workloads.
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VMware’s Virtual Cloud Network: Riding the Wave of Digital Transformation
This week at Dell Technologies World, VMware announced their Virtual Cloud Network portfolio of products. They are charting a path to transform, organize, simplify, and automate technology services from the datacenter, to the cloud, and out to the edge with NSX, NSX SD-WAN by VeloCloud, and NSX Cloud.
The Case for an Apple VPN
Rich Stroffolino looks at Apple’s commitments to both privacy and growing services revenue. His conclusion? The company should offer a VPN service.
The Job Search: Interviewing Tips
Erik Freeland gives some great advise on how to deal with technical questions in a job interview. It’s important to realize that on these, there’s rarely a designed “perfect answer”, rather the interviewer is looking to gauge your understanding in general.
Why design simplicity is bad for your network
Kevin Myers has worked as an enterprise engineer for both a Telco and large enterprise, so he’s uniquely qualified to compare the different ways in which the two provision and deliver bandwidth with in their networks. One thing that jumped out to me was how the enterprise deployment scenario often leaves technology as a secondary […]
Apstra intends greatness beyond Sparta
Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow there will probably be new networking products that change they way you view the space! Not exactly catchy I know. But that’s what David Varnum was feeling after seeing the latest from Apstra. So what is Apstra? Easy, an intent-driven data center networking company! Oh, you’d like that […]
Software-Defined WAN: A Primer
Ethan Banks writing for Network Computing comments: In the world of software-defined networking, the focus has been on the data center. SDN in the data center has enabled integration with automated systems, allowing enterprises to build virtual networks, provide micro-segmentation, and integrate service chaining. That functionality has demonstrated SDN’s value and brings networking a step […]
SDDC14: Brocade — Something Defined Networking
Rob Koper of 50mu comments: Kelly Herrell, Brocade Kelly takes us back to 2013 and the software defined anything. Was it really there? Was anything real that year? In 2013 the real work on the Software Defined Network concept started! Rob has a great recap of Kelly’s presentation from the SDDC Symposium. Kelly has been […]
SDN Is The Mother(******) of Invention
Lame Journal comments: An interesting question from my daughter (who is NOT pictured above!), I thought, and it mirrors comments I’ve heard before that highlight what I believe is a misunderstanding about what the “invention” in question actually is. My daughter’s question seems to imply that what was invented was the circle (or at least, […]
Dell Fabric Manager & The Future for CCIEs
Lindsay Hill comments on his blog: Network Field Day 7 had many interesting presentations and discussions. I’m still working through them all, but one from Dell caught my eye, where they declared that CCIEs were no longer required. They were slightly exaggerating their case for impact, but there is some substance to it — we […]