Cisco Live: Keynote Day One

Enjoying the keynote today. Cisco Defense Orchestrator is interesting. This allowing for centralized security policy. Already deployed with initial customers. Cloud designed from the start. Advanced Machine Learning to detect threats. This using the network as signal detection device. This creates the product called Cisco Stealthwatch. Protection against branch network threats. Cliqr in the data […]

The bad thing about Business Class…

You get some much needed legroom. This is good. You tend to speak with folks that are not wearing yoga pants or adult onsies. The problem though is you bumping up right against first class and thier food smells delicious. Only two hours and nineteen minutes to go. Why did is have to be chicken?

Off to Cisco Live

My first time attending a Cisco conference. Hoping to get more information on Cisco ACI, the new 9k switches, some Contiv action, and if time allows a bit on Cisco Spark. I will post more as the week progresses.

The Hateful Eight

I have been watching the progression of this movie since it was announced. As a complete sucker for Quentin Tarantino movie’s I was hooked from the beginning and yes I enjoyed Jackie Brown. This looks to be another fun movie, I always like Western style movies, they don’t get made very often today and when […]

Suicide Squad

So, I had caught the trailer earlier this summer and resurfaced it again this past weekend. In my attempts to make a case that DC will try to make a Marvel like run at the Big Screen. I am rather eager to see the final product at this point.  

Cisco Live: Keynote Day One

July 12th, 2016 Christian Weidelman

Enjoying the keynote today.

Cisco Defense Orchestrator is interesting. This allowing for centralized security policy. Already deployed with initial customers. Cloud designed from the start.

Advanced Machine Learning to detect threats. This using the network as signal detection device. This creates the product called Cisco Stealthwatch. Protection against branch network threats.

Cliqr in the data center is allowing for multiple clouds and enterprises to be maintained from a single simple platform.

The bad thing about Business Class…

July 10th, 2016 Christian Weidelman

You get some much needed legroom. This is good. You tend to speak with folks that are not wearing yoga pants or adult onsies. The problem though is you bumping up right against first class and thier food smells delicious. Only two hours and nineteen minutes to go. Why did is have to be chicken?

Off to Cisco Live

July 10th, 2016 Christian Weidelman

My first time attending a Cisco conference. Hoping to get more information on Cisco ACI, the new 9k switches, some Contiv action, and if time allows a bit on Cisco Spark. I will post more as the week progresses.

The Hateful Eight

August 13th, 2015 Christian Weidelman

I have been watching the progression of this movie since it was announced. As a complete sucker for Quentin Tarantino movie’s I was hooked from the beginning and yes I enjoyed Jackie Brown. This looks to be another fun movie, I always like Western style movies, they don’t get made very often today and when they do few hit the mark in my mind. Anyhow, check out the teaser trailer below. I think you will like it, or at least burn two minutes of time you weren’t doing anything with anyhow.

Suicide Squad

August 10th, 2015 Christian Weidelman

So, I had caught the trailer earlier this summer and resurfaced it again this past weekend. In my attempts to make a case that DC will try to make a Marvel like run at the Big Screen. I am rather eager to see the final product at this point.

 

Redfish Standard Signoff

August 6th, 2015 Christian Weidelman

After seeing this being mentioned last year at HP Discover and a full double down by HP this year at Discover it’s great to see that it’s coming to life. Redfish isn’t just an HP thing, HP is one of the players in aiding in its development. Other promoters and supporters are Broadcom, Dell, Emerson, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, Supermicro, VMware, AMI, Oracle, Fujitsu, Huawei, and Seagate. you may have already noticed that Cisco is somewhat absent from this supporting list. While I haven’t seen anything official I would start leaning towards Cisco is carefully hedging its bets on its own capabilities for its UCS line. Why would you want to provide a standardized management platform that could allow you to have HP, Dell, Lenovo, and Cisco gear in the same rack, room, or data center? We shall see where Cisco Goes.

Back to the tech, you can see it as a replacement as IPMI, to build a scale-out and standardized ways of managing and monitoring your hardware. By using REST anybody can really just pick up and run with it as REST has become so common place within IT. Here’s a link to the standard for your reading pleasure. Can’t wait to see it get implemented.

DMTF and Redfish

 

Deadpool

August 5th, 2015 Christian Weidelman

So, we all know Ryan Reynolds had a hard time with Green Lantern, but just some of the fun he had with the character for the short stint as Deadpool in Wolverine’s Origin movie begged to see more of him as the character. From this red band trailer I’m pretty sure I’m OK with this being a Marvel movie. I’m hoping for pure hilarity from this movie.

Batman v Superman

August 4th, 2015 Christian Weidelman

I for one enjoyed Man of Steel and even though my initial thought was Ben Affleck as Batman, otherwise known in my mind as #NotMyBatman wasn’t as bad after I saw the trailer. My hopes are that DC will really pair well with the Marvel Universe movie and TV show scene. We shall see…

 

Or Was It?

August 3rd, 2015 Christian Weidelman

Yeah, so April, May, June, and July have gone and past with nothing to post. It took longer than planned, but I can now come out of incommunicado. We’ve made some technical changes at work that had to complete before I started posting again regularly. Expect now new topics as I venture back into the world or at the very least a summary of what has been good so far this summer.

Back Online – This is not an April Fools Joke

April 1st, 2015 Christian Weidelman

Well I’m back to writing again. It’s been a year today since I moved to a new roll at work. The last year has been an intense transition for myself and the team we have been building. With the anniversary I wanted to refocus my after hours efforts to something more productive than watching TV or shooting Skags in Borderlands. I hope to get in a regular posting habit this time around. Time will tell.

Dreadnought

September 8th, 2014 Christian Weidelman

So, I sit here watching this video and go, cool I get to fly one of these mean “Flight of the Intruder” like planes. Then the end happens and I say, “No, I get to fly that SoB”. Sold, hurry up and take my money already!


More video and in game action…

Sunday Football is back and so am I

September 7th, 2014 Christian Weidelman

header-shieldIt has been a long summer, it started early, but it is coming to an end. Football is back and so am I. Expect more regular postings now that I have acclimated to my new position at work and not traveling every other week.

Python for the locked down Linux box.

March 29th, 2014 Sully

By Sully 3/29/14

So there you are.  Your linux box is locked down in the middle of a firewall battlefield.  Production is down because program alpha is broken. Support wants a log file sent in.    The only ports you have open are specific to secure telnet and the broken service itself.  A simple option, Python.  Python is a simple and rich programming suite that also has some pretty powerful tools.  Most Linux distributions come with it installed standard.

The command that I use most often as a support admin is python -m SimpleHTTPServer 9090.  This will start a simple web serve on port 9090 that displays the folder it was started from.  In this case /tmp/mydir.

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You can use any port you like.  In this example I stopped the application first because the port is already open on the firewall meaning no late night firewall admin call required.  Simply load a web browser using https://serverip:9090 and download any file in the directory you need.

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Control-C back in the Linux shell to kill python’s web server and you can get back to surfing.

Sell Sell Sell

March 16th, 2014 Christian Weidelman

You ever have a feeling that your on the precipice of something, but can’t see 6 inches over the ledge? That’s how I feel about IBM storage after the sale of IBM’s server business to Lenovo. You look at some of the post sale news articles, employee postings on the IBM alliance web page and you get this feeling that stability for this sector at IBM is anything but solid. This could be said for a lot of storage vendors out there today with the direction of commodity storage, storage start-ups and cloud outsourcing starting to take its toll upon the big rack and stack storage vendors.How quickly these type of vendors like IBM can start to make a play into one or more of these fields will decide how healthy they can remain in the storage sector.

I stumbled across this below graphic from a Register article about storage woes for NetApp.

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We can see that IBM on this chart has its ups and downs like many vendors, but like the rest after each set of four quarters the next set has a slightly reduced peak sale point. I think the main part of this reduction is partly attached to the above mentioned sector shifts to new storage consumption models, but also I think the questions of the Lenovo sale for the server business more than likely stalled sales staff with deals that combined storage and server components.

IBM has a very eclectic and varied set of storage offerings which many like Storewize, FlashSystem and XIV have plays into the new directions. The key question is can IBM position well enough into these areas in a timely and cost-effective way. Time will always tell, but with the previous Lenovo sale and the unknowns for where all the storage products will land we could be in for a bit more of the following…

With IBM’s drive to improve share price we may see some sales or shutdowns of under-performing storage solution lines. Again time shall tell.

 

vSphere 5.5 U1 Has Landed

March 16th, 2014 Christian Weidelman

vSphere 5.5 U1 has landed and brings vSAN and Hybrid Cloud integration support among many bug fixes.

Find some of the details here.

As always adopt the update after testing, measured consideration and a double of your favorite drink.

Cloud Killed the Systems Admin

March 16th, 2014 Christian Weidelman

I tell you I have missed some great posts by The Register this week. I could not agree more with the ideas conveyed by Jack Clark in his article on The Register. People hear the word “cloud” and they see money saved, staff not needed and skill sets not required to get their idea turned into a cash machine. Too quickly into spending money do people realize the hidden costs in services, software and staff that crop up after you have pulled the cloud ripcord. It’s not to say cloud is a dirty word; on the contrary there are many uses for cloud services both public and private that make sense. What it requires is a very measured and researched process before you decide to go one direction or another.

For Jack’s full article click here.

Azure gets cozy with Oracle

March 16th, 2014 Christian Weidelman

While not news that Microsoft and Oracle have been building tighter ties for a while now it has now opened up an announcement for Azure built images of Oracle. For those of us that get to deal with Oracle on occasion this provides an opportunity to work with Oracle without a larger investment.

 

The Register has a good article on the details of what types of images have been added to Azure as well as some conceptual pricing.

 

With this news it may signal a sea change for Oracle and a more open licensing policy in regards to virtualization. One could at least hope.

More Info on the Target Breach Detailed

March 16th, 2014 Christian Weidelman

This is the best read I have seen so far…

Business Week Target Breach

This reinforces the thought that every IT person should have a minor in security for the their day-to-day job.

Big Thanks to a Few Trainers

March 13th, 2014 Christian Weidelman

I was lucky enough to get to learn from some great guys from VMware over the past three weeks. A big thanks goes out to the crew at VMware Education.

Brian Watrous

Joe Desmond

Rodney McIntosh

These guys provided a great deal of information about vCAC, vCloud Director and VMware Orchestrator. If you get a chance to have a class with them you will enjoy it most certainly.

Thanks again guys for your time.

Crazy Cat

March 12th, 2014 Christian Weidelman

Ok, so I hardly ever listen to the radio these day, but my wife had it set on when I drove to work this morning and I heard the most entertaining sound byte in a while.

Listen all the way through. Number one rule, don’t get stoned and then hit your cat.

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