technology, networking, virtualization and IP telephony
Over four years ago I had the idea of trying my hand at a podcast. I enlisted a number of IT professionals from the Network Infrastructure Forums to join me including Dominik Pickhardt, then real life intruded and the project fell idle just before we … [Continue reading]
The past two weeks have been insane thanks to CryptoWall and the many variants that are out in the wild. It started early Monday morning with a UK office, hit the US West coast mid-week and then finally came calling to the US East coast by weeks end. … [Continue reading]
While attending Networking Field Day 11 we stopped in to see the folks from Big Switch Networks. Big Switch has applied their SDN fabric solution to provide a very cost effective means of providing a virtual network tap within the Data Center. We … [Continue reading]
While at Networking Field Day 11 we stopped in to NetScout and heard from the Fluke Networking folks regarding TruView Live, a SaaS (software as a service) solution with both hardware and software based probes intended to provide both performance and … [Continue reading]
At Networking Field Day 11 I had the privilege of visiting Skyport Systems in Mountain View, CA and hearing first hand about their product offering, SkySecure. At first I thought Doug Gourlay was talking about some next-gen firewall until I realized … [Continue reading]