At Networking Field day 9 there was a great deal of discussion regarding monitoring, modeling, and maintaining networks, as would be expected at an event with such a focus. Luckily for us, an interesting product that comes from a company that I was unfamiliar with called NetBeez gave an inspired presentation. Now, NetBeez got my attention for a few reasons. First off, NetBeez is doing some really great things in the field of network monitoring.

NEC brings a strong offering to the SDN table - Tech Field Day - Feb 5, 2015 […] NEC brings a strong offering to the SDN table […]

When NEC began talking about SDN at Network Field Day 9, I was not sure what to expect. I knew they had been heavily involved with openflow since the early days, and many years ago I was able to get my hands on their early OpenFlow controller and was immediately frustrated by its cryptic nature and frankly, poor documentation. Their switches were fine and were heavily utilized in early OpenFlow deployments.

BigSwitch Networks Unveils Big Cloud Fabric 2.5 - Tech Field Day - Jan 4, 2015 […] BigSwitch Networks Unveils Big Cloud Fabric 2.5 […]

BigSwitch is making waves again, this time with its Big Cloud Fabric product update. I was lucky enough to get a bit of a preview of what was coming and was pleasantly surprised by the new features, finding them functionally useful for both operators, security folks and management alike. Not only is the fabric fit to operate at hyper scale proportions, they’ve paid close attention to making such operations even easier.

What's Network Field Day 9 (NFD9) About? - Feb 1, 2015 […] Nick Buraglio: Networking Field Day 9 […]

In a few weeks I’ll have the opportunity to participate in another Network Field Day. I’ve been lucky enough to have the opportunity to attendin the past and have done some remote participation when possible, but like some of the other rare opportunities I have had in my career, NFD is fairly unique in that it is constantly evolving in both the information provided and the individuals involved. As the saying goes, variety is the spice of life.

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Work Profile Nick Buraglio, Anita Nikolich, Dale Carder, Securing the SDN WAN, October 30, 2014 Nick Buraglio,Vincent Stoffer, Adam Slagell, Jim Eyrich, Scott Campbell, Von Welch, Securing the Science DMZ: a discussion,October 28, 2014 Nick Buraglio, Best practices for securing an open perimeter network, August 18, 2014   Video  Nick Buraglio, Securing the Science DMZ, June 14, 2014 Nick Buraglio, Real world IPv6 deployments, Westnet, June 9, 2014

VMWare is a powerful tool, and monitoring is a critical service. How does one monitor such an integral piece of infrastructure, and what do they monitor it with? There are powerful commercial ways of monitoring VMware, however, for those with existing SNMP based systems in place, specifically cacti, there are options. To that end, I’ll set aside my strong distaste for SNMP [yet again], because those are for a larger, less useful series of posts.