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AWS regards IPv6 as a key mechanism to enable customer agility, and to meet rising demands from new applications and devices, particularly IoT. In this episode, Scott and Tom interview Alan Halachmi, Senior Manager of Solutions Architecture at AWS. They discuss current and planned IPv6 support in AWS services, the cloud provider's challenges in deploying the protocol, and advice for cloud users on adopting IPv6.

In Datanauts episode 80, we bemoaned the state of network automation. In the many comments we received on that episode, one especially stuck out to me.

Here’s a paraphrase. “Tools like Cisco Network Services Orchestrator can automate an entire network, and not just push config changes box by box. You tell the tool what your network is, and the tool computes the changes needed throughout the network for you.”

Today, we’re going to chat with sponsor Cisco about Network Services Orchestrator, and see how network automation has improved in the last couple of years.

Our guest is Carl Moberg, Technology Director at Cisco Systems.

Carl provides background on Network Services Orchestrator and delves into key issues including:

* NSO support for Cisco and non-Cisco physical and virtual gear

* The NSO architecture and configuration workflows

* NSO use cases

* The service developer role and how it fits into NSO

* Network automation challenges

* New features and capabilities

* More

Show Links:

Cisco Network Services Orchestrator – Cisco Systems

Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO): The Bridge To Automation – Cisco Systems (PDF)

Carl Moberg on Twitter

PQ Show 116: Practical YANG For Network Automation – Packet Pushers

In Datanauts episode 80, we bemoaned the state of network automation. In the many comments we received on that episode, one especially stuck out to me.

Here’s a paraphrase. “Tools like Cisco Network Services Orchestrator can automate an entire network, and not just push config changes box by box. You tell the tool what your network is, and the tool computes the changes needed throughout the network for you.”

Today, we’re going to chat with sponsor Cisco about Network Services Orchestrator, and see how network automation has improved in the last couple of years.

Our guest is Carl Moberg, Technology Director at Cisco Systems.

Carl provides background on Network Services Orchestrator and delves into key issues including:

* NSO support for Cisco and non-Cisco physical and virtual gear

* The NSO architecture and configuration workflows

* NSO use cases

* The service developer role and how it fits into NSO

* Network automation challenges

* New features and capabilities

* More

Show Links:

Cisco Network Services Orchestrator – Cisco Systems

Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO): The Bridge To Automation – Cisco Systems (PDF)

Carl Moberg on Twitter

PQ Show 116: Practical YANG For Network Automation – Packet Pushers

Your CIO recently returned from a global strategy summit in Vegas and sent an all-company memo announcing that the company’s cloud-first strategy is now a “multi-cloud” strategy.

Then your boss wanders in to ask you how long until that multi-cloud strategy will be fully implemented.

You wonder what they mean by multi-cloud. Do they even know? Why is the organization doing this? Why is my coffee cold?

Today’s Day Two Cloud episode examines the motivations that drive organizations to multi-cloud, and the consequences of that decision.

Going multi-cloud may sound like a great idea–and it might actually be, depending on your organization’s needs–but it’s full of trap doors in terms of training, operations, security, and cost.

My guest is Alex Neihaus, a Cloud Infrastructure Architect with Air11 Technology. We discuss the business, technical, and process implications of multi-cloud.

Show Links:

Alex Neihaus on Twitter

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More and more organizations are adopting “multi-cloud" strategies. Some do it as a hedge against cloud system failures, others as a competitive cudgel. Day Two Cloud looks at the business, technical, and process implications with guest Alex Neihaus, a cloud infrastructure architect.

The cloud is a set of design principles, not a location. Those design principles can be applied to the data center and data center networks.

That’s the gist of today’s Tech Bytes conversation with sponsor Big Switch Networks.

We discuss how Big Switch lets engineers use the same tools and techniques as major cloud providers to operate the data center network like an AWS VPC.

That also means network engineers can provide a developer-friendly network while still setting and enforcing policies, enabling security controls, and getting visibility into network operations and performance.

We discuss how Big Switch makes this possible on premises and in public clouds with Paul Unbehagen, CTO at Big Switch.

Show Links:

Big Switch Labs

Big Cloud Fabric for AWS

Big Switch Networks on Twitter

Today's sponsored Tech Bytes explores how Big Switch Networks applies cloud design principles to data center and cloud networks. Network engineers can provide a developer-friendly environment while still enforcing policy, enabling security controls, and getting visibility into the network. Our guest is Big Switch CTO Paul Unbehagen.

It's a heaping helping of Network Break as we try to parse all the Kubernetes pronouncements coming out of VMworld 2019, including Project Pacific and Tanzu Mission Control. Plus we cover new tech and new partnerships between Dell EMC and VMware, new products from Apstra and Mellanox, and HPE's latest financials.

It's a heaping helping of Network Break as we try to parse all the Kubernetes pronouncements coming out of VMworld 2019, including Project Pacific and Tanzu Mission Control. Plus we cover new tech and new partnerships between Dell EMC and VMware, new products from Apstra and Mellanox, and HPE's latest financials.

Building a business case for SD-WAN involves more than just anticipating savings by moving from private circuits to business broadband connections. On today's Heavy Networking, we look at how to tie SD-WAN capabilities to business benefits, what to consider when developing a business case, how measure ROI, and more with guest Jason Gintert.