A CCIE Gets Fired – Part 2 – “It’s Hard to Fire a CCIE”
CCIEs (in addition to doing actual, you know, work) are a bit like insurance. They are the top dogs in the IT organization, they are who you go to when things are REALLY broken. They can’t fix all the application layer issues, but they can at least point to what system is not doing what it should. So your CCIE, possibly by reading a packet capture, can tell your organization where the problem lies. Which server is not responding? And if things are broken and you don’t have a CCIE, what sort of options do you have?
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 $80 every 2 years to Cisco, and then I downloaded a CCIE Lifetime Emeritus logo to put on my LinkedIn page (fancy huh?).
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...
Thank You Cumulus!
Open Networking with Cumulus Linux was the first time many engineers used a disaggregated system. Today’s Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) takes the torch and runs straight into the future.
Kubernetes Eats Network
Kubernetes is one of the most critical platform transitions in the history of computing. Kubernetes is how we deploy, schedule, and operate distributed cloud-native applications. The platform is quickly becoming the de-facto way modern applications deal with cloud infrastructure, including compute, storage, networking, GPU, and DPU resources. In the public cloud, at the edge, or in private environments (private data centers or colocation centers), Kubernetes is everywhere.
The Networking “Aha!” Moment
The future of networking is OPEN.
How fast can you run?
I know that Hedgehog can run pretty darn fast. We have more than a few people who believe we can run fast, too. Hedgehog is a world class team backed by a world class group of investors. We are well financed to build an open network fabric for distributed cloud,...
A fox knows many things, but a hedgehog knows one big thing
Millions of cloud native workloads will deploy on distributed cloud infrastructure with open network fabrics I am writing this blog post to announce my new company Hedgehog, so I might as well talk about hedgehogs. If I’m going to write about hedgehogs I might...