17. July 2011 by admin.

www.sanjaysays.comIt seems Cisco is back with vengeance and focusing vigorously on their core routing and switching technology. They are releasing VNET on ASR 1K platform. They are set to introduce OTV on Cat6K and it seems OTV will be on the roadmap for ASR.It will be awesome if Cisco decouples their IOS from their hardware platforms and makes it available for some hypervisors like ESXi or OpenStack to address Cloud markets.. Enterprise and HPC environments should still implement Cisco hardware but virtual environments should have the ability to choose the vendors for the virtual network components.The network OS market should follow the PC OS market. Like MS Windows or Linux, IOS should be compatible with any x86 based hardware. The user should have the choice to run IOS on any hypervisor on any hardware platform. But again for service-provider class services IOS-XR may be only available on Cisco hardware platform.If Cisco and Juniper open up their Network OS (IOS and JunOS) for virtualized environments (Private/Public/Hybrid clouds), there will be a healthy competition and result in more innovation in this space.

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7. September 2010 by admin.

vShield edge

• Firewall, VPN, Load Balancer, DHCP and DNS
  
• Integrated with vCloud Director and manageable through vCloud APIs

vShield App

• Hypervisor firewall
  

vShield Endpoint

• Offloading agents like AV (Now Trend Micro, MacAfee next year) from guest to hypervisor
  
   

All products are managed by vShield manager

Sometimes can be self managed by customers

Scalability benchmarking for load balancing ?

1000 tenants per vShield manager

Firewall approximately - 2 Gbps throughput per tenant

BTW this is my first post by using the Wordpress API from MS WORD 2007

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11. January 2010 by admin.

I never expected a gripping plot. A science-fiction movie is all about CGI and FX. Oh boy! this one just blew my mind. The plot is about love, good-over-evil, sacrifices and power of nature over stampeding technology. But this movie is great because of the seemless mix of special effects with CGI.

The year is 2154 and the advanced space-faring human civilization is colonizing the planet Panodar, a moon to a gas giant Polyphemus, to mine Unobtanium. The corporation in charge, is trying to relocate the 9 feet blue-skinned natives… Anyway the plot is hackneyed but the story telling is great. So is the CGI. So last year you didn’t miss anything if you hadn;t seen Watchmen. But this movie needs to be watched.

 Also watched Shelock Holmes, the year 2010 take on Mr Holmes. The set is very authentic late 19th century London.  But Sherlock and Watson are very modern 20th century James Bond with a sidekick. But a over all good movie from Guy Ritchie - gritty like RocknRolla…

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11. January 2010 by admin.

So far, the summit sessions are very balanced. Couple of them are very technical while the others are more for informational and managerial. I enjoyed Ben Wright’s philosophical discussion around the legal framework. I agree with him that some of these privacy laws and PCI compliance as such are ridiculuous and of no practical use. I liked also the technical presentations by Chris Brenton and Rich Mogull. They rekindled my interest in doing a PoC with open source (FOSS) DLP tools before investing heavily in commercialized DLP product.

Reached New Orleans yesterday. The flight was almost 2 hours late and I missed the opening gala for the SANS alumni in Sheraton. Today is the first day of training. Looking forward for tomorrow’s presentation.

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24. February 2009 by admin.

I think it is now clear or becoming clear that Cloud Computing is the next logical step in the evolution of information communication outsourcing primarily for a Web-enabled world.The entire spectrum of cloud computing covers more traditional models like managed and hosted applications to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) to the emerging software-as-a-service (SaaS). Customers should be able to pay and consume infrastructure modules or applications packages as per their day-to-day needs. The major benefits are a) lower capex in this global economic downturn, b) reducing internal IT costs, c) consolidating services and IT functions. Over the next few years it seems Cloud Computing acceptance will be accelerated as a result of the credit crunch. Cloud Computing service providers should have a robust, scalable and highly performant infrastructure to play in this emerging market. I think the Managed Service Providers will move towards Open Transport where Public and Private Internets will play a major role.BT is already offering a MPLS based Private Internet service to large enterprises. Verizon is coming out with one and last I heard Equant is piloting one in Asia Pac.When combined with the public Internet transit backbone, the Private Internet services offers expanded reach of the Internet along with the privacy and security of a private network. Since the service Provider owns and operates both networks worldwide, and can offer multinational organisations a single point of contact to connect their operations anywhere in the world.Private Internet provides connection speeds ranging from 64 Kbps to 1 Gbps (higher in some locations). Customers who need to support IP-based application e-business initiatives such as customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), provide Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Notes services or who simply require basic data any-to-any communication, will find that Private Internet, coupled with our Managed Firewall Services and Internet Gateway Service deliver a comprehensive service that meets all of their IP network needs. Additionally, Private Internet supports remote-access services, so even dial-in locations can access a company’s secure VPN.

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23. February 2009 by admin.

Slumdog Millionaire slams the Oscar with eight wins including best picture. As usual my Indian friends are evenly divided in two groups. The first group is elated that an Indian movie (Bollywood production) won eight OSCARs including best movie for the first time. The other group is angry because they think that this movie is still following the trend to sell poverty (Slums) and riots in India to Western audience.

I tend to disagree with both the group. Yes I am happy with the success of Slumdog because it was really a well made movie. The movie is not directed by a Bollywood director. The director, producer and lead actors are British or British of Indian origin. The movie along with the soundtrack was edited overseas and not in India.

But on the other hand the entire movie was shot in Mumbai and most importantly the author is an Indian and the story is about an Indian in India. On a more serious note, the story depicted real facts. Mumbai does house the largest Slum of the world – Dharavi. The riots happen every year or so. Ancient Hindus didn’t wage any holy war because probably they were not religious enough. But the new face of Hindutva is not. They are as bad as any other fundamentalist belief system. There are organized crime groups which force street kids to be beggars. So whatever was depicted in the book and the movie was based on truth.

I am happy that Slumdog won the OSCARs.

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17. February 2009 by admin.

Last Thursday I was in AA stadium, watching the Mavs Vs. Celtics game… obviously rooting for Mavs… In the beginning Dallas had complete control of the game. At one point Dallas was 51-40 points ahead. But in the end, Boston won the game by 99-92..

Not that I am a sports pundit, but I am sure the secret of Boston’s success is tenacity, not giving up… During most of the game, Boston was outclassed by Mavericks. But the doggedness of Celtics players paid off…

This is how the present economic recession can be overcome. With persistence and patience we can beat the recession. I think if just continue to do our job (if we have them) we can overcome the recession. I still think it is self inflicted. More and more we scream recession, less and less we release money to the market and all of usgo down the spiral..

So go out and spend and splurge and bring back the golden time of consumerism… buy less expensive homes though…

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