Application availability for all users, anytime, from any location, on any cloud, is critical in meeting business needs. Businesses can no longer afford planned or unplanned downtime; applications must be available 24 x 7. When a data center network has an outage, all servers and applications are affected. Statista.com reports that in 2019 survey of… More The Secure, Automated, Modern Data Center
Anchor DNS: The developers of TrickBot created anchor_dns, a DNS tunnel, as a new tool to send and receive information from the victims’ machine. Trickbot, a popular banking trojan, acts as a trojan horse for other malware. Anchor_dns was first observed in early 2019. Anchor_dns acts as a backdoor that allows victims machines to send… More Digging into Anchor_DNS
Rita Younger is an industry-recognized expert in Software Defined Networking and Data Center Security. She speaks at many events around the globe and is passionate about promoting technical careers to women and minorities. With nearly 30 years as a technical woman, she shares that journey with college students as well as IT professionals hoping to inspire them to continue to pursue technical careers. Rita is the founder of www.TotalPackets.com… More Believe in Yourself. Keynote at Woman’s Hackathon.
The importance of community and collaboration in the technology community. Tech Field day is much more than three or four days of vendor presentations. Tech Field day is a community of bloggers, podcasters, webcasters, speakers, who have become industry influencers, we are a community that shares knowledge, support one another, and lift each other up.… More A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats
Privacy is incredibly important in public opinion, technology must be implemented correctly to ensure data is private. Armis has quantified normalcy. Armis has created a two-tailed, 95% confidence interval for the amount of information a piece of hardware should be transmitting or taking up. At the end of the day, bandwidth is money. Every bit… More Armis is Keeping IoT in Check
Today there are a lot of startups in Silicon Valley and beyond trying to figure out how to manage applications in the modern hybrid infrastructure. Some of the best solutions however are coming from companies with a history in Networking. I have been doing Network Monitoring and Analytics since before Network Analytics became a “thing”… More Netscout, Smart Network Analytics
At a recent trade show, someone referred to me as a software-defined networking veteran. This struck me as odd, because I’ve only been talking about SDN for five years, but also as being true — because I’ve been studying it for five years. I started speaking about this technology because it was so clear to… More 5 Years into SDN, it is Here, it is Real and It is a Fast Moving Train
Bill Nye, was just one of the keynote speakers during todays session here in Nashville at CommvaltGO. One of the statements that stood out was the way that we as techies are responsible for proper data management, we are responsible for using technology for good. The ability to connect nations across the world and improve… More Bill Nye- Change the World