network automation

We have all seen the segmentation of people and technologies into what we lovingly refer to as ‘silos.’ Initially, these silos were formed to group together teams with common skill sets, ownership, accountability, etc. The effect that we see from this division into functional groups typi…

Guest Blogger: Lori MacVittie – Principal Technical Evangelist, F5 Networks Lori MacVittie is a subject matter expert on emerging technology responsible for outbound evangelism across F5’s entire product suite. MacVittie has extensive development and technical architecture experience in both h…

A Cisco DevNet meet-up was conducted in mid-April for partners and integrators from Belarus. The event brought together engineers, administrators, and developers of local integrators and partners, and consisted of several parts. Cisco DevNet: capabilities, solutions and examples of use During the f…

Previous posts in the DevOps Series are available here. In a constantly changing ecosystem of DevOps tools, it is hard to keep up with new solutions. And it’s even harder to be genuinely impressed by something new. But every once in a while, a new solution appears, making such a strong impression, t…

When new hardware is ordered and it arrives on site, it’s an exciting time. New hardware! New software! … But new challenges too!  But the age-old challenge of getting new devices on the network doesn’t need to be one of them. Sitting in the lab pre-provisioning devices is no longe…

My father is a real craftsman.  He always used to tell me whilst I was growing up (and still does to this day :-), “you cannot do all the jobs with the same tool. You would not use a hammer to cut wood, right?” He’s right of course, and the same folk wisdom is true for network automation. As of yet…

The story used to go something like this: DevOps would code a new purpose-built application in C++ or Java designed for scale across multiple servers. They would work closely with DBAs to optimize the backend SQL calls and ensure a client located in the same server room would have great response tim…

In the past… Unless you have lived under a rock for the past 10 years, you know that these days everything is software defined. Networking is software defined, data center is software defined, you name it, is software defined. Makes sense of course. Networks have become so vast, so central to…

Openness, Programmability, DevOps Software applications are the life blood of corporate enterprises. Enterprise IT departments (and Lines of Business) are under immense pressure to bring applications faster to market. To remain competitive, many businesses have either already adapted, or are on the…