Kicking off with NAME CHANGES AGAIN! Is this a yearly thing? I expected to hear about Aria, and instead it’s all Tanzu now. What does it mean!? Well now that Tanzu has control of the lifecycle of cross-cloud services, lets talk a bit about Tanzu Transformer, and migration practices. Tanzu transformer looks like it lives …
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AMD with #CFD18 – What’s a chip manufacturer doing in a cloud conference?
AMD is here to talk about Cloud native solutions, and started with an understanding of what it truly is. With it being application deployment at a faster speed. With a slide like this I don’t care what the company is building, I want to know more about what they what to say: Within the cloud …
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Prosimo – How Multi-Cloud Networking Should Work – CFD18
multiple different networking tools exist in all clouds expanding multi-cloud multiplicatively. With all the different tools it creates complexity but even more than that. When a simple VPC connects to another VPC it creates the need for a hub and spoke configuration, but what about endpoints? What about other solutions that are public facing but …
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Mezmo – #CFD18
An introduction to a new company and this one is called Mezmo, what what does this group really want to talk about? Well how about Telemetry and observability? First thing that would be discussed about Mezmo is that they have been around for a while. They were originally LogDNA and are now Mezmo and have …
Juniper – Being an operations superhero – #CFD18
So in the first two talks from Juniper we discussed building a network via automation, and the second was on AI cluster creation and the networking issues that came from that. Now our discussion is around operations analytics and what Apstra does in order to help operations to understand what is happening and what should …
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Juniper – building AI Clusters
AI is spending large amounts of funds for AI deployments, and AI is a bottleneck to completing AI jobs. Juniper wants to push this back to being compute bound. Each GPU has its own 400G NIC! I cannot even fathom that amount of networking. GPU fabric Rail-optimized Design: https://cloudlabs.apstra.com in order to find and do …
Juniper Networks IaC Apstra – #CFD18
What is this about? Automating the datacenter as if you were automating the cloud! Juniper Apstra is able to drop itself into the networking side of things in order to orchestrate the network. Apstra has the ability to build the network from OOB to the different subnets and networks that are used. Using Terraform you …
A DevOps Mindset
So you wanna do DevOps, well here is a take from a guy who has never been in a DevOps role, and has never utilized DevOps practices in an environment, and lets face it, I really have no idea what “Modern DevOps” is. In fact, I hate the notion of “DevOps” as a snapshot of …
A Practice of Learning
If I was looking in my history and wanted to find what made the biggest impact it would be the creation of a practice of learning. Creating a practice of learning is very simple, in concept, but extremely difficult in its actuality. In my own life there have been days where I study and learn …
WE-ARE-ables – What to wear?
I’ve heard the “o” word from 3 doctors, in the last year. Let’s just say that COVID hasn’t pulled its punches with me. I think my first problem was understanding that my favorite food was buffalo wings, followed up by Beer, which may not be the best diet for those looking to stay fit. Having …
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