Unlike Europe, where Net Neutrality is defined and enshrined, America is different. ArsTechnica have an article on their web-site that covers the mess that the FCC have gotten into with…
Cisco extends ENCS platform with low-end ENCS5104
At CiscoLive 2017 in Las Vegas, the ENCS platform gained a new four core box. The ENCS5104 is now appearing on the Cisco website in the form of an updated…
Explaining why the VMware update to v6.5U1 didn’t work
If you're looking previous posts on VMware updates on CoherentLight, you'll notice that the I had some problems upgrading to VMware ESXi 6.5 Update 1. Doing some further digging, it…
My challenges with upgrading VMware to 6.5u1
So in theory, a new VMware release is normally a doddle to upgrade to using the methods covered in Keeping VMware ESXi Updated: 6.5 Update 1. It's worked for the…
Adding a geolocation database to SiLK
Very quickly I've decided that having this is a good thing™. SiLK is great, but if you need to quickly discover where your traffic is coming from being able to…
Now we have SiLK, let’s get it set up..
So Installation of SiLK from the ground up on Centos 7 is only part of the story. You need to configure it to actually collect some data, and then to…
Installation of SiLK from the ground up on Centos 7
Here we go with more network analysis tool building. Not content with the Wireshark on Centos post that seems quite popular, I've decided to look at some NetFlow tools. I…
Sputtered tape capacity boosts from IBM and Sony
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…