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According to a United States Census Bureau report released in September 2022, “Between 2019 and 2021, the number of people primarily working from home tripled from 5.7% (roughly 9 million [...]

The title of this blog article may well be nothing new in your life. Or it may be something you and your company have discovered the hard way, evolving the [...]

Many organizations are running headfirst into the cloud but have never established or documented the reasons.  Understanding your options, assessing your needs, and building a cloud strategy before migrating to [...]

I’ve had the pleasure of working at several organizations, large and small, from internal IT roles and outside consulting positions, and have noted that the cultural structure of IT architecture [...]

TL;DR: pyATS is an automation testing framework that includes a parsing library called Genie. With over 1500 parsers available, Genie can parse device output from multiple vendors, including Cisco, Juniper, [...]

I try to think outside the box at times. Perhaps a bad habit, waste of cycles. This is a quick note with some thoughts (crystal ball time). Possibly provocative or [...]

Note: This blog was originally published in January 2017 and has been updated. “No man is an island.”  – John Donne This is from a famous poem (Devotions upon Emergent Occasions) [...]

This blog is an update on what the recent startup Graphiant brings to WAN networking. See also the launch blog from NFD29. From what I hear, Graphiant is growing by [...]

A recent blog was titled Doing IP Addressing Right. This blog does something similar for IP Routing. TL;DR: What are some goals for IP routing, common approaches, and how do [...]

Two of my daughters are twins, and they’re active online, so they are arguably digital twins. However, this blog will not be about them. TL;DR: Like other phrases that people [...]

2022 has been a tumultuous year impacting all aspects of business as we emerged from the pandemic and dealt with issues such as supply chain, employee recruitment/retention, and a return [...]

In my years of consulting, I’ve run across some interesting IP addressing schemes. “Interesting” as in “yuck” or “hot steaming mess.” You may have too. In fact, you may have [...]