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Fancy learning about all the new OpenStack Infrastructure tech? Then Open Infrastructure Days UK 2019 could be for you… Tell me more! OpenInfra Days UK 2019 is a two-day (1st-2nd April) event focusing on four subject areas, loosely arranged into tracks: Open Compute Project (OCP), Scientific Computing, Cloud Native, and

When it comes to Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), there is something that has always puzzled me; How do CDNs work with Anycast based DNS servers? Background For example, the way in which CDNs function is to serve content from nodes closest to the client. CDNs determine the closest node to

VMware recently announced changes to the NSX portfolio (the new NSX pillars shown below), introducing new NSX product pillars, on in other words a rebrand on the previous NSX product set. Figure 1: NSX Portfolio However, when it comes to licensing, it is good to know that the previous licensing

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), have just released issue #1 of their new magazine. For those of you who may not have heard of ETSI, they are an independent, not-for-profit, standardization organization in the telecommunications industry. This includes standards such as the NFV MANO framework. For those of you

The other day I was asked, What interface should we use for the vPC peer-keepalive link? In fact this is a good question, considering the fact you wouldnt want to burn a SFP port just for the peer keepalive. After a short amount of digging, the answer was found within