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Josh Saul
Josh Saul has pioneered open source network solutions for more than 25 years. As an architect, he built core networks for GE, Pfizer and NBC Universal. As an engineer at Cisco, Josh advised customers in the Fortune 100 financial sector and evangelized new technologies to customers. More recently, Josh led marketing and product teams at VMware (acquired by Broadcom), Cumulus Networks (acquired by Nvidia), and Apstra (acquired by Juniper). Josh lives in New York City with his two children and is an avid SCUBA diver.
Gigaom Radar Report – Network Operating Systems 2023
https://githedgehog.com/gigaom-radar-report-network-operating-systems-2023/https://research.gigaom.com/report/key-criteria-for-evaluating-network-operating-systems-3/
A CCIE Gets Fired – Part 2 – “It’s Hard to Fire a CCIE”
It’s actually hard to fire a CCIE. And no, this isn’t a veiled threat to my boss. Let’s put ourselves in the shoes of management for a moment. The network is a scary black box, you can’t just plug a VGA monitor into it and see what is on the screen. There are a...
Migrating from Cumulus to SONiC for Broadcom ASICs
As a lot of people already know, Cumulus Networks was acquired by Nvidia/Mellanox in 2020, which was very exciting for some, but something of a problem for the customers who had Broadcom ASIC-based switches. Now let’s be clear, Nvidia makes some of the most bad-ass...
A CCIE Gets Fired – Part 1 – Even CCIEs Break Things
Last year I celebrated 20 years of CCIE certification. No one threw me a party, there was no ticker tape parade, hell, if I didn’t rescue the email from my spam folder I wouldn’t have known that it even happened. So I celebrated content that I no longer have to pay...
The Benefits of Containerization in SONiC
If you're into network operating systems like me, then you'll know that the containerization architecture of SONiC is a huge step forward for delivering on higher levels of network uptime. In the past, most network operating systems were monolithic, which means they...
How to Select a SONiC Enterprise Support Provider
As hardcore IT engineers, we all love Open Source software. But as network engineers and architects, we’ve previously had few opportunities to use open source in the network infrastructure itself, historically the network devices used proprietary Network Operating...
https://githedgehog.com/futuriom-50-2023/
Thank You Cumulus!
If you are reading this, you are probably in agreement that the Open Networking revolution is real! I recently attended the OCP Global Summit and the Linux Foundation ONE Summit, and there was indeed electricity in the air. The size of the community has...
SONiC builds muscle for enterprise-network service in 2023
https://githedgehog.com/sonic-builds-muscle-for-enterprise-network-service-in-2023/https://www.networkworld.com/article/3682768/sonic-builds-muscle-for-enterprise-network-service-in-2023.html