Ethan Banks

Last updated Feb 15, 2024 Thank you to the many list contributors that added their favorite projects to this LinkedIn thread . I had no idea how much joyful work I was creating for myself when I posted it.

How-to articles industry news opinion and analysis career advice , and more, for curious network pros looking to stay on top of a constantly changing tech industry.

Even the simplest equipment may hide security gaps. Make sure your off-the-shelf hardware is safe.

In my networking career, I worked with several Cisco Catalyst 6500 chassis switches. The first I remember was a 6509 running in a sort of hybrid mode.

Data centers are energy hogs. Here are some tech considerations to help turn down the heat.

The big idea is simple enough. Bring engineering and finance together using a common language of unit economics to deeply analyze costs and drive more efficient solutions. How do you get this done? In part with CloudZero's SaaS offering that will perform the deep cloud usage analysis. The other component is smart CloudZero people that can help fully allocate cloud spends and make architectural recommendations to save money.

The folks at Drut (pronounced “droot”, supply your own I am Droot jokes) have created an AI compute environment for the rest of us. Who's the rest of us? Anyone that's doing AI-related work–training models for generative AI applications, for instance–but isn't doing so with hundreds of billions or trillions of tokens. This matters because most of the noise around the challenges of AI data centers is related to problems that hyperscalers have…but probably not your company.

Commvault's answer to this dilemma is Cloud Rewind . Cloud Rewind is the new name of Appranix, which Commvault acquired in April 2024. Cloud Rewind is a key component of Commvault's “continuous business” concept. Cloud Rewind's promise is to recover your entire cloud estate with the click of a button–make your entire data processing environment as if the ransomware attack never happened.

How-to articles industry news opinion and analysis career advice , and more, for curious network pros looking to stay on top of a constantly changing tech industry.

At the conference held the week of November 18, 2024, Jeremy Schulman from Major League Baseball took the stage to discuss where they are currently in their network automation journey. If you don't know Jeremy, know that he's an OG network automator–doing it before it was cool. Before we had a bunch of models. Before we had reliable sources of truth. Before Ansible was a thing. If there are bodies buried, Jeremy knows where they are. He might have even wielded the shovel.