This week, security author, trainer, conference speaker, and consultant Raven Alder adds her bright star to the Packet Pushers constellation. Her wit and wisdom are joined by data center geek and repeat guest Josh O’Brien, along with regulars Greg and Ethan. Dan was sidelined unexpectedly, but plans to be back next time.

Greg has asked Doug Gourlay from Arista Networks to get his feet under the workbench and talk about Arista Networks. A reasonably new vendor to community, Arista have a unique approach to building Ethernet switches that are software driven for enhanced data centre management and better operation.

Jennifer Huber pulls up a chair at the workbench this week. Her experience and knowledge of in wireless networking is quite awesome. Submarine Cables that carry traffic across the globe have been mapped by Telegeography who has commercial research, some of which is freely available and at cable Map Info where someone is overlaing data […]

SolarWinds Orion fanboy Ethan talks to the Head Geek at SolarWinds, Josh Stephens. The discussion is around Orion Network Performance Monitor v.10. If you haven’t checked out Orion in a few years, it’s all grown up now. Ethan’s implementing Orion NPM and loving it, and had a nice chat with Josh about the core Orion features.

Josh O’Brien, who consults in the world of Data Center 3.0 and blogs at staticnat.com, joins the Prime Pushers for the podcast. In this show, we go off on the week’s more interesting news, and discover a bit of technology that Greg actually likes! (He went on so long, we blushed and had to look away.)

Dan is down with the flu, so Greg and Ethan bring Brandon Carroll on board to discuss the news of the week in an abbreviated program.

Packet Pushers are adding a new series of sporadic and occasional podcasts where we take a single topic, probably technical and very focussed and discuss just that thing. These podcasts should be about fifteen minutes and be brief and possibly even interesting.

Packet Pushers are adding a new series of sporadic and occasional podcasts where we take a single topic, probably technical and very focussed and discuss just that thing. These podcasts should be about fifteen minutes and be brief and hard hitting.

This week we’re joined by Aaron Conaway of ‘Aaron’s worthless Words’ fame, while we did our usual chit chat about a few things, the main subject was a conversation about career progression.

So Cisco “announced” the Cius Android tablet. It’s not innovation. It’s just a cheap knockoff that’s easy to do.