Tom Hollingsworth

About the Author:

Tom Hollingsworth is a networking professional, blogger, and speaker on advanced technology topics. He is also an organizer for networking and wireless for Tech Field Day.  His blog can be found at https://networkingnerd.net/

Articles by Tom Hollingsworth

Asking the Right Questions About Network Monitoring

April 17, 2019

Every monitoring person is going to get questions. According to Leon Adato, there are four big ones that every monitoring engineer needs to know the answers to. Read on for a review of Leon’s new book, The Four Questions Every Monitoring Engineer Is Asked.

Keeping the Network OS Contained with SnapRoute

April 16, 2019

SnapRoute is building a cloud-native NOS by building it from cloud-native software: Kubernetes. Read on for Tom Hollingsworth’s take on why that’s going to be important for the future of the cloud network.

Battling Bad Behavior with Exabeam

April 15, 2019

Insider threats are at an all-time high. They have the tools and the skills to evade traditional security measures. See how Exabeam is taking a new approach with machine learning to find the bad actors and combat their behavior.

Earning Your Belt in Travel Kung-Fu

April 12, 2019

Are you getting into business travel? Confused about how to get the most from your experience? Trying to reduce the suck? Sit down, Grasshopper, and learn from Sensei Stephen Foskett as he teaches you how to get your white belt in business travel.

NSX-T Is Transformative For The Future of VMware

April 12, 2019

NSX-T 2.4 is out and the feature list is impressive. But it’s the feature that isn’t listed that has Tom Hollingsworth excited. Read on to learn why NSX-T is the vehicle that will power VMware success in the future.

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Routing Around Cloud Networking Challenges at Koch Business Solutions

April 10, 2019

The cloud doesn’t have a magic wand that allows you to wave away networking planning or complexity. And sometimes your architecture isn’t going to fit perfectly into the cloud model the way that you might like. Tom Hollingsworth makes the case why you need the networking expertise of a company like Cisco Viptela to help you work around the restrictions inherent in a cloud environment.

Who Do You Trust In Your Community?

April 9, 2019

How do you build a community? You have to build Trust first. Ethan Banks gave a great talk on Trust at Security Field Day and Tom Hollingsworth gives some thoughts on what this means.

Detecting Malicious Programs with Intelligence from Ziften

April 4, 2019

How can you hope to fight viruses when you’ve never seen them before? Is the world of heuristic detection dead? Tom Hollingsworth takes a look at Ziften and how they are harnessing the power of AI to provide a way to find unknown viruses.

Gestalt IT Live Blog – Aruba HER Keynote Address

April 3, 2019

Join Gestalt IT live on April 3, 2019 at 10:30am Pacific Time as we cover Aruba HER, a premiere event coming to you from Aruba Atmosphere 2019! Tom Hollingsworth will be blogging about the keynote address from Mobility Field Day Exclusive delegate Zoë Rose!

Virtual Workload Microsegementation with ShieldX

April 3, 2019

How can you protect your virtual workloads in the cloud? Or your east/west traffic flows between hosts behind a perimeter firewall? Tom Hollingsworth talked to ShieldX about how they’re able to microsegement the traffic flows between your virtual workloads.

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