Really good article on how a person should conduct themselves in my opinion.  In my short stint as a consultant this is what I lived each day and found it best for the customer and myself:


This was pulled from a great article by Greg Ferro: http://etherealmind.com/favourite-section-anixter-blue-book/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedpress.me&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+etherealmind

Really good article on current RDMA standards and configuration:  https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/smb-direct-the-state-of-rdma-for-use-with-smb-3-traffic-part-ii

I agree with this viewpoint.  Both the Cloud and Software Defined Datacenters have over turned all of the apple carts:

http://etherealmind.com/big-fail-likely-fail/

Cloud Storage or OnPrem, that is the question.....  At the end of the day I feel that this question is still answered with, "it depends".  I think the answer is currently largely based on:

• whether a company wants to control their data thereby keeping it in house
• operational cost control (on prem) is most important
• capital cost control (cloud) is most important

Clear as mud ;)  

https://blog.architecting.it/aws-introduces-s3-one-zone-ia/?utm_source=rss-feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed

Have recently started down the Mellanox hardware road with our new primary whitebox Hyper-V 2016 cluster running Storage Spaces Direct on Mellanox 2700 switches.  Super excited.  As we were going through the design and purchasing faze for our new Co-Lo infrastructure I fought to start process of migrating off of Cisco chassis based switches (7k's, 9k's) with whitebox switches.  I lost some of that battle (moving off of cisco) but succeeded in moving to fixed port based modular switches.  This article somewhat explains my viewpoint on this:  http://www.mellanox.com/blog/2018/04/why-leaf-spine-networks-taking-off/

Great option to keep up to date on latest networking news on a weekly basis.  Highly recommend them:  http://packetpushers.net

You should always ask yourself this set of questions before tweaking a nerd knob:

• What problem am I trying to solve?
• Are there better ways to solve the problem?
• What’s the worst thing that could happen if I twiddle that knob?
• Why would twiddling the nerd knob break things and what can
• I do to alleviate that (assuming I still feel it makes sense to twiddle it)?

Truly awesome!  Why hasn't this been done before?  https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/18/supermicro_battery_backup_module/

The con's of complexity when using Microsegmentation COULD outway the benefits in certain environments.  I personally am a fan of securing east/west traffic but this article does highlight the difficulties associated with it: http://blog.ipspace.net/2018/02/how-useful-is-microsegmentation.html

Hmmm this is kind of neat and by trusting no-one would seem more secure and have the ability to collect robust access logs:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cloudflare-access/

Changes for core Internet protocols!

https://www.ietfjournal.org/big-changes-ahead-for-core-internet-protocols/

SDN really excites me.  I think white/bright box hardware with a solution like Cumulus Networks just makes sense and has the potential to dramatically save companies money while also giving network operators a full featured Network OS.  Example of a dream environment: https://cumulusnetworks.com/blog/evpn-cumulus-linux-makes-cto-yell-booyah/ running on Mellanox switches.

I personally can attest to how awesome working from home is:  https://youtu.be/oiUyyZPIHyY