Software Defined Network

I have followed Brighten Godfrey (Technical Director at VMware and Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) for a while. Brighten was the key technical person behind Veriflow, similar [...]

I just HAD to write this blog, given the title idea! More seriously, several themes in networking and automation are coming together: the overall troubleshooting picture is getting less fuzzy? [...]

There’s a lot of good stuff happening in the various tech areas I’m tracking. Among others, thank you, GestaltIT/TechFieldDay for all the great presentations. I’ve got quite a backlog of [...]

Life used to be simple. Or so we fondly think (details and pain tend to vanish in the rear-view mirror). This blog looks at some of the design aspects around [...]

Cisco has produced a containerized version of the ASA firewall code, suitable for running in Catalyst 9K switches. It is something to factor into your design thinking. This blog is [...]

I’ve been pondering why this feels like we had a relatively quiet tech summer and fall so far. Is there more to it than tech companies and startups dialing back [...]

I’ve  noticed recently that blog and “news” topics etc., that I’ve been seeing have changed. So, I started trying to figure out what’s different and why. This blog discusses some [...]

BlueAlly/NetCraftsmen’s Joel King has been experimenting with tools from pangea.cloud. This blog tells you about that. Thanks to Joel for his Pangea testing efforts, his review of this blog, and [...]

As NetCraftsmen’s CTO, I am constantly being asked questions such as: What happens to NetCraftsmen now that it has been acquired? What is BlueAlly? What capabilities do they add? Where [...]

This blog quickly looks at a phenomenon I noticed a while back, and referred to briefly in a recent blog. I call it “Brain Capture.” My hope is that by [...]

Edge (Computing, Networking, Security, etc.) is one of the recent hot topics, getting some well-deserved attention lately. And of course, edge security goes with that. (Does that make security the [...]

This continues some of the thoughts around NAAS, shifting focus away from what types of things the vendors do and what the future might bring, to how we consume such [...]