Lindsay Hill comments on his blog: I find it frustrating when people take a narrow, short-sighted view when looking at technology trends. We all see things from our own perspective, but it’s good to lift your head up, and look a bit further out. It’s easy to throw out a few disparaging lines about new technologies […]
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VeloCloud & Information Brokerage
Lindsay Hill comments on his blog: VeloCloud was the first presenter at Network Field Day 9. They are one of the new breed of SD-WAN vendors. I’m impressed by what they’re doing, and and the potential it offers for re-thinking the way we do WAN connectivity. But I think the most interesting part is the increased visibility […]
Big Switch Chaos Monkey Network Testing
Lindsay Hill comments on his blog: Whenever you build a complex system, you need to test that it works as expected, including properly handling failures. It’s easy enough to do simple component failure testing, but harder to do rapid automated failure tests. Big Switch is showing that it can be done though. Hopefully we can keep improving our […]
Using Firewalls for Policy Has Been a Disaster
Lindsay Hill comments on his blog: Almost every SDN vendor today talks about policy, how they make it easy to express and enforce network policies. Cisco ACI, VMware NSX, Nuage Networks, OpenStack Congress, etc. This sounds fantastic. Who wouldn’t want a better, simpler way to get the network to apply the policies we want? But […]
HP SDN App Store Launches
Lindsay Hill comments on his blog HP’s SDN App Store has finally seen the light of day. This is intended to be a common platform for users and developers, to find and distributed real-world, practical SDN applications. Some of the launch apps include: Network Optimizer, for automated QoS for Lync Network Protector, for security & […]
Knowing Your Audience…and Showing It
Lindsay Hill writes on his blog: We all know that you’re supposed to “Know Your Audience.” Doing so improves engagement, and avoids faux pas like “Suggested Tweets.” But recently I realised that this doesn’t have to be subtle. Drop hints early on in your presentation that you’ve taken the time to understand the audience — […]
No Alarms May Not Mean No Problems
Lindsay Hill comments on his blog: Network monitoring is often a reactive process. Engineers see an alarm, and take action. Alarms mean someone broke something, and it needs attention. Deal with the alarms, and all will be well. No alarms == Good. But every now and then no alarms means that monitoring is broken. Here’s […]
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 […]
IPv4 Address Transfer Process
Lindsay Hill comments on his blog: IPv4 exhaustion is a real issue for large parts of the world. IPv6 is the long-term solution, but it doesn’t solve today’s problems facing ISPs. Alternatives are needed — either CGN, or purchasing more IPv4 blocks on the open market. Recently I’ve been involved in the purchase & transfer […]
HP Wireless Future: Reading the Tea Leaves
Lindsay Hill comments on his blog: Recently I posted some speculation about where HP is going with their Comware and ProCurve networking lines. But what about the wireless gear? Where’s that going? As before, I have no inside information on this, and I’m just speculating based upon public information: Do your own research and thinking […]