by Josh Saul | Apr 11, 2023 | Blog
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...
by Josh Saul | Apr 1, 2023 | Blog
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...
by Josh Saul | Mar 22, 2023 | Blog
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...
by Josh Saul | Feb 21, 2023 | Blog
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...
by Josh Saul | Jan 16, 2023 | Blog
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...
by Mike Dvorkin | Dec 5, 2022 | Blog
Kubernetes eats infrastructure 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...
