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January 18, 2016 Non-Blocking 1: sFlow with Peter Phaal of InMon and sFlow.org
Have you seen sFlow options in your router configuration or flow collector? Are you looking for alternatives to SNMP or NetFlow? Have you been curious about the instrumentation of your new white box or virtual switch? Yes? Then you will probably enjoy learning more about sFlow!
In episode one of my data networking series I’m calling “Non-Blocking“, Brent Salisbury of networkstatic.net and I discuss the often overlooked protocol sFlow with Peter Phaal of InMon.
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January 18, 2016 Non-Blocking 1: sFlow with Peter Phaal of InMon and sFlow.org
The inaugural "Non-Blocking" podcast for ForwardingPlane.net. We discuss sFlow with one if its creators, Peter Phaal of InMon.Discuss sFlow, the protocol, it's uses, similarities to other management frameworks, how it is dissimilar from netflow and why it is worth while to take some time to learn it.
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January 14, 2016 Community Podcast: The Next Level – Building A Technical Team
Imagine you’ve been given the opportunity to put together a technical team of your own for the first time. Your company has an established business model, but they’re looking for new technical leadership and ideas.
Executive management has confidence in you and has given you the authority to direct your team or department’s resources to provide the most value and benefit to the organization.
On today’s episode of “The Next Level,” we’ll walk through six steps to help you design and assemble your team members, set clear objectives, and manage this team for long-term success.
Joining us to discuss team building and management is Craig Campbell, an experienced leader and the IT security and compliance manager for a major law firm.
Six Steps For Building Technical Teams

* Identify the functional roles needed to fulfill your team’s operational duties and strategic goals
* Quantify the scale–for example, in Full Time Employees (FTEs)–for each functional role
* Sketch an org chart for your team design
* Gather the best people
* “Burn in” the team
* Optimize

Sanity Check
Our Sanity Check segment tackles management questions from real engineers and IT pros. If you’d like to ask a question for an upcoming segment, send an email to [email protected] or check out our survey.
All questions will be kept anonymous. We hope to hear from you!
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January 12, 2016 PQ Show 70 – The HPE-Aruba Networks Merger – How Is That Going To Work?
I was fortunate to be a guest at the HP Discover conference in December 2015, shortly after HPE announced its acquisition of Aruba. I was able to collar Ozer Dondurmacioglu from Aruba and Chris Young from HPE to talk frankly about what the merger looks like.
Topics Covered:

* Some history about Aruba and how they structure their go-to-market strategy.
* What does the Aruba/HPE merger mean for customers?
* How is the merger going internally?
* What do we know about changes in the product portfolio at this time?

Guests
Ozer Dondurmacioglu @ozwifi
Chris Young @netmanchris
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January 06, 2016 Community Podcast: The Next Level – IT As A Revenue Center
Welcome to The Next Level, a new podcast in the Packet Pushers’ Community Channel that delves into IT management and leadership.
Engineers, architects, and operations pros live and breathe technology, but that technology comes tangled up with business requirements, management issues, and interpersonal relationships.
You can’t ignore the business and human elements of your job if you want to thrive at work and advance your career.
Hosts Damian Huising and Drew Conry-Murray will explore management, leadership, and professional development topics geared toward networking and IT pros.
The first episode, IT As A Revenue Center, looks at six ways IT pros can generate revenue for the organization. IT has a reputation as a cost center, and we talk about how to flip that perception on its head.
Jay Mellon, CEO of AtNetPlus, joins us to offer his insights on how IT can add value and help drive the business forward.
Six Ways To Create Revenue
Our discussion touches on six ways IT can drive the business. They include

* Get more out of existing data
* Work with marketing, sales, and other departments to enable new business
* Use technology to improve customer engagement
* Spin off IT projects into standalone businesses
* Add more value, charge more
* Find cost savings

Show Notes:
IT as revenue generator: McKinsey Global Survey results – McKinsey&Company
Rainmakers: Three CIOs who made revenue generation their business – TechTarget
Digital Revenue Generator – The Center For Sales Strategy
Three Revenue Generating Strategies You Don’t Want to Ignore – Executive Forums
CIO 100: Revenue Generation: Money (That’s What They Want) – CIO.com
Study: 78% Of Salespeople Using Social Media Outsell Their Peers – Forbes
Generating growth and revenue with IT – Interview with ING Direct CIO Andrew Henderson – PicNet Information Technology Services
Contact Us:
If you have comments about the show, suggestions for future episodes, or something to share for the Sanity Check segment, drop us a line at [email protected]. Thanks for listening!
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December 29, 2015 PQ Show 69: Sonus VellOS And QoE For Unified Communications (Sponsored)
One of the things we like to discuss on Packet Pushers are use cases—why you’d want to use a specific technology in the real world. Today, we’re going to discuss, with our sponsor Sonus, how to enforce QoS end to end across a network to support real-time communications.
If you’ve built a campus QoS scheme, you think in terms of DSCP marks, low-latency queuing, and so on. But the reality is these schemes are static and designed for peak loads in the hope that UC traffic doesn’t exceed those static allocations.
So what if there was a way to build out a QoS prioritized path in real time? What if, when the call was stood up, the path between the end points had traffic prioritization configured automatically?
Sonus’s VellOS allows us to do this and more. VellOS is a network operating system that allows you to fully automate flows through a network, so you can control bandwidth, packet marketing, MPLS values, and more to ensure voice and video calls get the highest quality available.
On today’s show, we’re going to drill into how VellOS works, including its use of OpenFlow, and its integration with Microsoft’s UC SDN API. Joining us for today’s conversation are Kevin Isacks, VP of Engineering at Sonus; and Dan Malek, Software Engineering Fellow at Sonus.
Learn More
If you want to learn more about Sonus and VellOS, you can check out the resource page Real-time Service Quality for Unified Communications from Sonus.
You can also get more details from the blog posts QoS Done Right and Leveraging SD-WAN For Skype For Business Enterprise Voice, and from Packet Pushers Weekly Show 253 with Sonus.
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December 18, 2015 Virtualization Field Day 6 Roundtable
The Data Center is changing as a result of challenges to traditional businesses. As a result, a new crop of IT vendor has arisen. Traditional solution providers need to adjust while maintaining their customer base. It’s the classic innovator’s dilemma.
In this extended CTO Advisor Podcast, Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor) sits down with TechField Day Founder Stephen Foskett (@SFoskett) and Justin Warren (@JPWarren) of PivotNine. The trio discusses the mix of presentations at the last Virtualization Field Day event.
Links

Keith’s Blog – TheCTOAdvisor.com
Justin’s Blog – Eigenmagic.com
TechfieldDay – TechFieldDay.com
Virtualization Field Day 6 Event Page – #VFD6

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December 18, 2015 PQ Show 68: Geneve Data Center Overlay Update
A few years back, the number of data center-oriented overlays the market saw got to be a bit humorous. There was VXLAN, NVGRE, and STT all targeted (mostly) at helping with network virtualization and scale inside the data center.
The funny part was how similar these overlays all seemed to be. Why not get behind one standard as an industry?
Then in February 2014, Geneve was announced. Some of us face-palmed. Another overlay? What could possibly be the point of another one? Well, there was — and is — a point.
Geneve, which is an IETF project, aims to take the best parts of STT, NVGRE, and VXLAN. And while you might assume VXLAN has won the overlay war, Geneve is seeing active development for some good reasons we’ll discuss today.
Several folks who are involved in Geneve were kind enough to give up some of their time for this conversation:
Jon Hudson, Futurist & Principal Engineer, Office of the CTO at Brocade; Dinesh Dutt, Chief Scientist at Cumulus Networks; and Jesse Gross, Senior Staff Engineer at VMware.
Show Notes:
-Why was Geneve conceived in the first place? What was going on at the time?
-In the IETF project hierarchy, Geneve is grouped with NVO3. What is NVO3, and how does Geneve fit into that framework?
-Geneve wants to take the best parts of STT, NVGRE, and VXLAN. What are those parts, and why do they represent significant advantages?

* STT
* NVGRE
* VXLAN

-Geneve is extensible, which gives it a long-term market advantage. What do we mean by extensible here?
-What is the IETF status of Geneve as a standard?
-I thought VXLAN won. If that’s not the case, what market adoption are we seeing for Geneve?

* Hardware (silicon) vendors
* Software/NFV vendors
* Open source community projects

Will Geneve ultimately replace VXLAN, etc.? Or will it be just another overlay option?
Links:
Geneve – Russ White
Geneve, VXLAN, And Network Virtualization Encapsulation – Bruce Davie, VMware
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December 03, 2015 PQ Show 67: VMware NSX Everywhere With Guido Appenzeller (Sponsored)
On today’s Priority Queue, we discuss the idea of NSX Everywhere. VMware NSX is not a new topic on Packet Pushers. We’ve been covering NSX since Nicira was a startup, and kept up with its evolution over the years.
The last Priority Queue show we did with VMware was episode 56 on NSX in production. If you want to catch up with where NSX is at, you might want to listen to that show before you listen to this one.
This show is an evolution of the NSX story, bringing up the notion of using NSX Everywhere. Typically we think of NSX as a data center play; a centrally managed network overlay for network virtualization, micro-segmentation, and centrally managed firewall services.
Guido Appenzeller, Chief Technology Strategy Officer in the network and security business unit at VMware, joins Ethan and Greg in this sponsored podcast to talk about NSX’s capabilities for containers, the cloud, mobile devices, and more.
What We Discuss:

* How the conversation is changing from ‘What is SDN?’ to ‘Where will it make a difference in our organization?’
* NSX 6.2 updates, including support for containers and Amazon’s cloud
* Instantiating new features in software rather than hardware
* The impact of containers on networking and infrastructure
* How NSX and microsegmentation apply to container security
* Why hypervisors will still be relevant for containers
* Using NSX to help enforce mobile device policy
* Why separating policy from IP addressing makes sense

Links:
You can follow Guido on Twitter at @appenz. He also blogs at Network Heresy. To find out more about NSX, check out vmware.com/products/nsx/.
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December 02, 2015 Citizens of Tech Has Moved to CitizensOfTech.com!
Looking for the Citizens of Tech podcast? We moved it to CitizensOfTech.com. Join me (Ethan Banks) and Eric Sutphen there as we discuss space, science, gaming, gadgets, energy, transportation, and whatever else strikes our nerdy fancy. We figure if we like the topic, you’ll like it to!
We have features like Deathwatch, Today I Learned, and Content I Like to keep you in touch with the interesting bits of the Internet and tech world at large that tickle your brain.
The show is free, and we’ve cut the format to a very digestible 30 minutes as of show 19 to be published later this week. So find us on iTunes or head on over and subscribe!
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