The most cost and energy-efficient way of storing data is still tape. Offline data storage is still a major requirement for many organisations. For the fifth time since 2006, IBM…
Sputtered tape capacity boosts from IBM and Sony
Viptela to accelerate Cisco’s intent vision.
Cisco have announced that they have completed Viptela's acquisition, with a press-release that indicates this fits within their intent-based networking strategy announced last week. As predicted, the value of the…
Big four cloud providers continue to dominate in 2017Q2
Synergy Research has completed their analysis of the cloud marketplace for the end of Q2 2017. This shows that Amazon is still out in front (34%), with share exceeding the…
Keeping VMware ESXi Updated: 6.5 Update 1
So you might have followed my post about upgrading to VMware 6.5 from 5.5U3 using the console. It's been a while since then, and those folks over at VMware have…
IPv6 Security Myths
I've been reading an article on Linux.com on various IPv6 security myths. IPv6 was originally proposed with several in-built security features. Expectations have expanded over time to IPv6 to be…
Cisco joins Hyperledger Blockchain as Premier Member
The Hyperledger project managed by the Linux Foundation announced that Cisco is joining as a Premier Member of the project. Thier press-release (Hyperledger Adds Cisco as a Premier Member) states…
LinkedIn Passes 50% IPv6 Traffic Milestone
If you thing that IPv6 traffic isn't taking off, think again. Linkedin has seen IPv6 traffic reach more than 50% of the volume received. In their blog post, they state…
SDxCentral: CenturyLink Releases New Flavours of SD-WAN connectivity
SDxCentral are reporting the CenturyLink have launched new flavours of their SD-WAN service. This continues the Versa Networks service originally deployed. It now looks like they have optimised the bundling…