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Did my Networking Field Day (#NFD13) blog about Veriflow demonstrated their product for me recently. Veriflow is a San Jose-based company, with a product based on researchers with UC Berkeley [...]

Ixia, which is known for its high-performing test tools, started its presentations at Networking Field Day 13 (#NFD13) by making the point that their testing tools let them load test [...]

At the closing session of Tech Field Day 12 (Docker presented on the significant new features in Docker networking. I and some of the Microsoft nano server”). Some Thoughts My [...]

You did read my prior two blog posts on VeloCloud and Viptela, right? And my older blog posts from #NFD13 and writing those two blogs, I’ve been pondering some questions [...]

I haven’t had a regular office for 17 years. When I was teaching for Global Knowledge, instructors were never in one city long enough to need an office, so I [...]

The 2017 RSA Conference was filled with interesting, inspiring, and informative topics. My limited experience in security allowed me to come in with an open mind; I was willing to [...]

So you want to get certified. Nearly every technology vendor you can think of offers a certification program. You might have a few different reasons for wanting to get certified, [...]

I was recently troubleshooting an SVI issue with a pair Nexus 7000 switches. The switches were a vPC pair, and had been set up a couple of years ago. I [...]

There were two SD-WAN vendors at Khalid Reza’s blog (Viptela) and responded to #NFD13’s Ethan Banks on some questions, including some that touch on this topic. The Viptela hardware devices [...]

Like snowflakes, no two IT projects are the same. Each has many unknowns, and each varies with the complexity of the enterprise’s technology environment. Therefore, project management involving the implementation [...]

Network Field Day 13 was my second encounter with the smart people at VeloCloud. Just as in VeloCloud provided an awesome series of presentations to the report by Mike Fratto. [...]

The App-ID and content-ID engines of the Palo Alto next generation firewall (NGFW) identify the application in use by examining the traffic/packets within a session. Once the firewall has seen [...]