Posts in 2017
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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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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 …
Posts in 2016
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Which SDN solution is the right one for me? NSX vs ACI vs Nuage vs Contrail
Wednesday, December 21, 2016 in Playing Smart
This is a question I’ve been getting A LOT in the last few years, and even though it sounds rather simple, somehow it gets really complex to convince all the parties (Developers, Systems/Virtualization and Network engineers and the CEO/CTO) why …
Posts in 2015
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SDN Wars: Cisco ACI vs VMware NSX
Tuesday, December 22, 2015 in Playing Smart
In the last few years, with an exponential growth of interest in the SDDC (Software Defined Data Center), many vendors have shown an interest, and some have even managed to engineer a more-or-less decent SDN (Software Defined Networking) solution. …
Posts in 2013
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Is SDN really the future?
Thursday, October 24, 2013 in Playing Smart
For all the Network Engineers out there who, like myself, scream inside whenever someone confidently declares that SDN is the future - Don´t panic… But DO consider expanding your skill set with a bit of Scripting/ Process Automation and …