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DNS Flag Day is a community effort by service providers and DNS software vendors to address DNS issues. In this week's IPv6 Buzz episode, Ed and Scott speak with guest Andrew Wertkin about the DNS flag day for 2020, which took place October 1st. They discuss what this year's DNS Flag Day addressed, plus DNS behavior that listeners should look for that might indicate they aren’t current with their...

Today's show is a vigorous discussion of multi-cloud networking. Our guest, networking expert Ivan Pepelnjak, brings a heavy dose of skepticism, nuance, and informed perspective to the tricky issue of connecting workloads across different public clouds.

For many organizations it’s now incumbent on IT to provide a seamless, secure experience for end users whether they’re working from home, in the office, or anywhere. On today's Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored today by Zscaler, we examine how to deliver a safe, high-performance remote access experience.

On today's Day Two Cloud podcast we talk with a real-live SRE, or Site Reliability Engineer, who works in an IT group that delivers applications using DevOps principles as part of their day-to-day work. Our guest is James Quigley, SRE at Bloomberg. He and his team builds infrastructure and tooling for application and infrastructure teams to develop for the public cloud.

Today's Tech Bytes, sponsored by NetMotion Software, explores how NetMotion integrates client VPNs with more modern approaches, including Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) and the Software Defined Perimeter. Our guest is Mike Spence, Systems Engineer at NetMotion.

Kit Colbert is the VP & CTO, Cloud Platform BU at VMware. In this briefing, Drew Conry-Murray and Ethan Banks reflect on a Zoom conversation they had with Kit during VMworld 2020. The context of the conversation was simple enough. Harshly stated, we wanted to know what VMware's future is in the cloud-native era. Will companies need VMware? Kit's answer was not hand-wavy, cheerleader-ish nonsense....

In this week's IPv6 Buzz podcast, Ed, Scott, and Tom talk about some of the weird things they've seen folks do with IPv6 addresses. IPv6 is different than IPv4 in many ways but the endless supply of IPv6 addresses yields endlessly crazy ways to use them.

Today's show explores cloud visibility with sponsor Riverbed. Perhaps best known for its Steelhead WAN optimization appliances, Riverbed has a suite of solutions that target cloud performance and visibility, and we'll get to know them. Our Riverbed guests are Dr. Vincent Berk, VP, Chief Architect Security, CTO; and Brandon Carroll, Director, Technical Evangelist, Worldwide Marketing Management.

Urgent care company PM Pediatrics relies on SD-WAN from Fortinet to provide the performance and security to support real-time voice and video applications as well as other critical apps, and to help cut bandwidth costs and streamline operations. Our guest is John Tabako, Director of IT Infrastructure for PM Pediatrics.

Today's Tech Bytes podcast, sponsored by Dell Technologies, examines an Azure Stack HCI offering from Dell EMC. Dell worked with Intel and Microsoft to optimize the performance and scale of the Azure Stack platform, including the use of Intel Optane's persistent memory. Our guests are Jayanth YK, Sr. Cloud Architect - Microsoft Hybrid Cloud at Dell Technologies; and Chris “Murph” Murphy, Regional...

What apps belong in the cloud and which are better on premises? Dave Wagner, Senior Manager, Product Marketing at SolarWinds, joins Day Two Cloud to develop a strategy and find the right tooling to help you make the best decision. SolarWinds is the sponsor for today's episode.

In this week's episode Ed, Scott, Tom, and guest host Greg Ferro talk to Vint Cerf about why the Internet needs IPv6, and whether the Internet is in danger of fragmenting along political lines and the impacts of that fragmentation. Vint is Google's chief Internet evangelist and the co-creator, with Bob Khan, of the Internet Protocol.

Mark Thiele joins the Day Two Cloud podcast to school us on all things edge. He argues that edge is more than a buzzword, with a specific set of opportunities and challenges for IT operations and infrastructure.

Today’s Tech Bytes episode is sponsored by AppNeta, and we’re going to discuss how companies can get performance visibility for end users now that many people are working from home and connecting over last-mile networks that IT has little visibility into or control over. Our AppNeta guests are Seth Differ, Senior Manager, Solutions Consulting; and Alec Pinkham, Director of Product Marketing.

SD-WAN vendors offer a variety of mechanisms to connect end users to cloud applications while incorporating policy and performance requirements. Day Two Cloud co-host Ethan Banks interviewed many of these vendors to understand the architectural nitty-gritty of different approaches. In this episode, he shares the fruits of his research.

Today’s Tech Bytes sponsor is secure remote access company NetMotion Software, and we’re going to talk about how to achieve secure remote access without compromising on user experience. Our guest is Chris Edgmon, Systems Engineer at NetMotion.

The IPv6 Buzz crew answers listener questions on today's episode, including use cases for Network Prefix Translation v6, challenges of asymmetric routing in IPv6, why Cisco supports LDPv6 on IOS-XR but not XE, and more.

Today's Day Two Cloud podcast makes the case for bringing Ansible into your Windows automation toolkit with guest Josh Duffney. Josh is an SRE, a Microsoft MVP, and author of a book on Ansible. We discuss key elements of Ansible, how it fits in a Windows shop, using Ansible with the Chocolately package manager, and more.

Today's Tech Bytes is a conversation with Silver Peak customer UCT about how it adopted SD-WAN to boost performance and minimize the downtime of critical business applications. With 21 sites in 8 countries, the company relies on its WAN to support in-house applications and manage the logistics of its global operations. Our guest is James Mccoll, Network Engineer at UCT.

Planning a database migration to the cloud? If you're going to do it right, prepare to dig in because you have many options and trade offs to consider, including whether to go with IaaS or PaaS, security and monitoring issues, and much, much more. Day Two Cloud dives into the inner workings of database migration with expert Joey D’Antoni, Principal Consultant at Denny Cherry & Associates.

In this week's episode Ed, Scott, and Tom talk to Nico Schottelius, CEO of Ungleiich Glarus, a Swiss IT services company that has developed a VPN IPv6 IoT Router Box (VIIRB), allowing cheap and secure access to the IPv6 Internet from anywhere.

Some words mean different things to different IT disciplines. And tech vendors often twist the meaning of technical terms to suit their own purposes. On today's Day Two Cloud, guest Karen Lopez helps us sort out the semantics of IT language and discusses why accuracy matters.

Today’s Tech Bytes podcast examines the challenge of securing remote workers with sponsor is NetMotion. We explore the difficulties of getting visibility into what remote workers are up to, and striking a balance between security of the organization and employee privacy. Our guest is Joel Windels, Chief Marketing Officer at NetMotion.

The Day Two Cloud podcast explores different approaches to using the public cloud for disaster recovery. We examine costs and benefits, discuss recovery times, dive into planning, and more. The show draws on co-host Ned Bellavance's experience working on DR projects for a variety of customers during his VAR days.

What do novice engineers need to know about IPv6? How can v6 help you rethink customer solutions? What will networking look like in 20 years? Today's IPv6 Buzz podcast explores these questions and more with guest Chris Grundemann, author and veteran IPv6 advocate.