Writing from experience, without knowing much about it, “moving to the cloud” can be a nebulous concept. It seems easy to just think that, “hey, we have applications hosted in our data center today, then tomorrow they will be in the cloud.” However, a cloud migration is much more than that. A fair amount ofContinue reading “Cloud Essentials+ Journey – Cloud Migration Phases”
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Cloud Essentials+ Journey – Shared Responsibility
Although it goes without saying, especially these days; when it comes to information technology infrastructure and data, security is paramount. That goes for both on-premises infrastructure and data, as well as cloud-hosted. I want to dive more into the cloud side of this thought. People have been running workloads, applications, and services in private, on-premisesContinue reading “Cloud Essentials+ Journey – Shared Responsibility”
Bridging the Gap – IP Helpers
In a recent post, I wrote about a helpful feature on switches named DHCP snooping. Writing that article got me thinking, what else is helpful in regards to DHCP? Ah yes, IP helpers. In that post, I made mention of a concept called a DHCP relay agent, but I did not go into detail onContinue reading “Bridging the Gap – IP Helpers”
ENSLD Journey – The Intro
I have a 2022 goal of achieving the CCNP Enterprise certification. Late last year, I passed the ENCOR exam and now need to pass one of the concentration exams to achieve the full CCNP certification. Due to my interests, I have decided to go for the design specialization. To achieve this specialization, I need toContinue reading “ENSLD Journey – The Intro”
Challenges and Opportunities – Year Over Year
At the end of 2020, I made a conscious decision that 2021 was going to be different. Now, I should say that things had been going well. I had been happy with my career and home/family life. However, there was something missing. I had never really set solid goals for myself. I would always justContinue reading “Challenges and Opportunities – Year Over Year”
NFD26 – Performance Monitoring w/ NetBeez
The NFD26 series of posts are my commentary from specific presentations held for Networking Field Day 26, a virtual event presented by Tech Field Day. Let’s face it. None of us like getting that call. You know which one I’m talking about. The one that makes you cringe immediately when your brain processes it. TheContinue reading “NFD26 – Performance Monitoring w/ NetBeez”
NFD26 – Scaling Discussion w/ Arista
The NFD26 series of posts are my commentary from specific presentations held for Networking Field Day 26, a virtual event presented by Tech Field Day. Something that really peaked my interest during Arista Network‘s NFD26 presentation was the time they spent discussing scaling caveats and opportunities in modern data centers. There continues to be debates,Continue reading “NFD26 – Scaling Discussion w/ Arista”
NFD26 – Experience First Networking w/ Juniper
The NFD26 series of posts are my commentary from specific presentations held for Networking Field Day 26, a virtual event presented by Tech Field Day. Before getting started, I want to put some high-level definitions on some terms used throughout this post. MistAI: Juniper’s cloud hosted platform that aggregates analytical data from a customer’s JuniperContinue reading “NFD26 – Experience First Networking w/ Juniper”
Networking Field Day 26
I am honored to have been invited as a delegate the the virtual Networking Field Day 26 event from September 14th – 16th. What is Networking Field Day (NFD)? NFD is a series of events put on by Tech Field Day with the purpose of getting network-minded technical individuals in front of the sponsoring vendorsContinue reading “Networking Field Day 26”
ENCOR Journey Series – Quality of Service
Bandwidth is infinite and we never need to worry about congestion, slowness, and packet drops, right? Of course, the answer to this is “no”. Networks transport many different kinds of data, and the different types may need to be handled in different ways to provide the best user experience during times of congestion. When IContinue reading “ENCOR Journey Series – Quality of Service”
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