Posts in 2020
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How to destroy always-at-a-meeting dynamics
Friday, May 15, 2020 in Playing Smart
Why work feels like chaos I’ve had this feeling for far too long. My entire team, me included, are always at the meetings. And when we do get some time to dedicate to real work, we get interrupted by emails, chat, or people just approaching and …
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On future of Kubernetes
Wednesday, May 06, 2020 in Playing Smart
How we got to “the age of Kubernetes” For decades we ran our critical applications on physical servers, and life was good. Simple. Then we reached the Virtual Machine era. Provisioning a virtual machine on same physical machine saved us a …
Posts in 2019
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How failing VCDX changed my life
Sunday, December 01, 2019 in Playing Smart
I started my professional career in 2003, in a NOC (Network Operations Center), making sure that Network and Security services of the VIP customers of the ISP (Internet Service Provider) ran smoothly. Till 2013, I mostly worked on big Network and …
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I use API Gateway. Can I claim I have an API Strategy now?
Saturday, April 06, 2019 in Playing Smart
In the last few years, I’ve had the opportunity to talk to a number of customers who, when asked what their API strategy is, simply answer something like “We’re using a NGINX as API Gateway”, or “we got …
Posts in 2018
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On relevance of CCIE in 2019
Friday, November 16, 2018 in Playing Smart
A question I’ve been getting a lot from the Network Engineers, should they go for CCIE. There are two points to this question: Knowledge and skill Value of CCIE as a Certification Let me get into more detail. Value of CCIE as gaining skill …
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Just married: IBM and RedHat. What does this mean for Cisco and VMware Multi-cloud offer?
Monday, October 29, 2018 in Playing Smart
As per yesterdays announcement, IBM is acquiring Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion (more about this here). This is another one in a row of deals I did not expect to happen: Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems Microsoft acquired GitHub Dell acquired …
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Why SDN isn't where we thought it would be
Thursday, August 30, 2018 in Playing Smart
The SDN hype started a few years ago. Everyone was talking about it as the next big thing, and it all made so much sense. I started exploring SDN while Nicira and Insieme were just two startups, and got even deeper into it when they were bought by …
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Big Data for Infrastructure Engineers: What is Hadoop?
Tuesday, February 27, 2018 in Playing Smart
Before we start, let’s make sure we know what we’re talking about here. A few concepts need to be clarified: OLTP vs OLAP Big Data Machine Learning OLTP and OLAP We can divide IT systems into transactional (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP). …
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Why is Hybrid Cloud so important? Cisco Cloud Blog
Tuesday, February 06, 2018 in Playing Smart
As you probably know, CiscoLive 2018 was celebrated in Barcelona in January 2018, and I had the pleasure of speaking at 3 sessions, two about ACI Anywhere and Hybrid Cloud and one about IoT. My focus was on how Cisco products can help you with these, …
Posts in 2017
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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 …