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Posts in 2017

  • On PaloAlto and NSX Integration

    Friday, June 30, 2017 in SDN and Network Virtualization

    The VM-Series firewall for VMware NSX is jointly developed by Palo Alto Networks and VMware. NetX APIs are used to integrate the Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls and Panorama with VMware ESXi servers. Before getting into the technical …

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  • Nuage Networks VSP Deep Dive

    Saturday, June 24, 2017 in SDN and Network Virtualization

    Ever since Cisco bought Insieme and created Cisco ACI, and VMware bought Nicira and created NSX, I’ve been intensively deep-diving and blogging about both these solutions, how they compare to each other and to some Open Source SDN solutions out …

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  • How to sell SDN

    Saturday, June 24, 2017 in Playing Smart

    The most important thing about presenting SDN to a potential Customer, and about how you need to focus your Presentation, and I cannot stress this enough: your entire speech needs to be adapted to your audience. 1. Networking and Security Department …

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  • What are Cisco Cloud Center (CliQr) and UCS Director, how to choose/integrate?

    Friday, June 02, 2017 in Virtualization and Private Cloud

    Before we get into the details about each technology, and how you should choose which one best fits in your environment, I would strongly advise you to sit down and think about what exactly you need, what would be your ideal target environment. While …

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  • How DevOps and Cloud raise the importance of System Integrator

    Wednesday, May 31, 2017 in Playing Smart

    System Integrators, buckle up, DevOps is coming, and if you play your cards right - your role is about to get crazy important. Let me start this post by telling a story. It’s a story that involves a stubborn customer, 3 big vendors and a Cloud. …

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  • Cisco ACI Unknown Unicast: Hardware Proxy vs Flooding Mode

    Monday, May 22, 2017 in SDN and Network Virtualization

    Before we start, lets once again make sure we fully understand what Bridge Domain is. The bridge domain can be compared to a giant distributed switch. Cisco ACI preserves the Layer 2 forwarding semantics even if the traffic is routed on the fabric. …

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  • What is NFVi or Cisco NFV Infrastructure, and where exactly does it "fit"?

    Tuesday, April 11, 2017 in Virtualization and Private Cloud

    Follow @SnarchsCOM First let’s establish the difference between the NFV and the VNF: VNF (Virtualized Network Function) refers to the implementation of a network function using software that is decoupled from the underlying hardware. It simply …

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  • Low Power Wide Area Networks for IoT: SigFox, LoRa, LTE-M, 5G LP-WAN

    Thursday, February 02, 2017 in Playing Smart

    [In collaboration with guest blogger Marc Espinosa] The important topic of connectivity protocols was discussed in our previous IoT post, it is time to dive deeper into the telecommunications protocols underneath. The fact is that the technologies …

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  • Understanding the IoT Protocols: MQTT, CoAP, ZigBee

    Wednesday, February 01, 2017 in Playing Smart

    [In collaboration with the guest blogger, Marc Espinosa] Let’s start with the messaging protocols, MQTT and CoAP, and consider which of the following open standard protocols should be considered for your implementation. If you’re looking …

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