Before we go in to observed trends, let’s put some context on this post and definitions around monitoring.

Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs) that produce incumbent profit busting white box switching technology could soon be releasing the next wave of programmable networking based on technology from a silicon company best known for it’s encryption products.

As horizontal scalability demands increase for policy based fabrics such as Cisco’s ACI and performance demands push the development of high speed Ethernet standards like 25G, 50G, 100G and beyond in to 400G, how that data is pushed and pulled on the fabric begins to become a problem.

After watching the Tech Field Day (TFD) events for a while, I decided to fill out the form and apply to be a delegate.

“Sir, Skynet is self aware…” Not really the line anyone wants to hear, especially after watching the Terminator films!

With the current interest in network automation, it’s imperative that the correct tools are chosen for the right tasks.

We have mostly all been burnt to a level of severity that we will or will not admit to by prodding and poking networks.

Too many times the question has been asked “How do I adopt DevOps and will I need to become a programmer?

The cultural divide between delegation of network control such as in the case of Cisco ACI, or VMware’s NSX is a cause for questioning.