VMware have reported that ICSA Labs have certified their NSX for vSphere 6.3 platforms micro-segmentation capabilities, among others. Testing three features, the NSX Distributed Firewall, the NSX Edge Services Gateway…
What are the choices for SD-WAN currently?
There is a lot of hype over SD-WAN at the moment, with movements by telcos and OEM suppliers investing in some of the new startups. And folks that have been…
IBM acquires Sanovi for Cloud DR Orchestration
IBM is acquiring disaster recovery orchestration specialist Sanovi. Based in Banglore, India, Sanovi created Sanovi Cloud Continuity, a platform providing automated backup, testing and DR. This has been used on…
Further infinite musings on monkeys (1 of ?)
When Émile Borel first wrote about his singes dactylographes as a thought experiment about thermodynamics for his article in 1913 titled "Mécanique Statistique et Irréversibilité", little did he know he'd…
Fixing resource constraints with an infinite number of monkeys
As part of the training I am receiving as an element of the new role, I recently partook in a Design Thinking course, where as there are no wrong or…
LinkedIn now available on IPv6
A blog post from the LinkedIn engineering page announces that they've permanently enabled IPv6 on their infrastructure. I am guessing they took a phased approach, with services migrated to IPv6…
The Future is Forever, with World IPv6 Launch Day
So today (June 6 2011) was World IPv6 Day, the day on which several major players in the Internet field turn on, and enable IPv6 for testing for the day.…
This one time, when I found two identical MAC addresses…
So, this one time, I discovered two network cards with identical MAC addresses. During 1993, and a network transition from Token-Ring to 10-BaseT Ethernet, I had to deal with a…