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I had the privilege of being an NFD31 delegate in April 2023. HashiCorp gave a good demo on Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform. I had not used Terraform for some time, so this 3-part blog post series is my Terraform refresher.   This blog post focuses on Terraform basics.   What is Terraform? Terraform is an […]

I had the privilege to be on the NFD20 panel in early 2019. Lots of vendors presented about their cool products, and shared their product updates. This blog is based on Fortinet’s presentation on Secure SD-WAN, and summarizes the important updates from Fortinet. Fortinet Company and Product Updates The presentation started with the company update […]

Last week Juniper announced it’s intent to acquire Mist Systems for $405M. Mist brings a lot of innovation to Wireless Networking while its competitors have not kept up with innovation. The full press release can be found at – https://newsroom.juniper.net/press-releases/juniper-networks-announces-intent-acquire-mist-systems-bring-ai-it-delivering In addition to cloud managed WLAN, Mist has many good features like: 1. ML/AI backed […]

Networking Field Day 20 is around the corner. I am excited to attend NFD20 and it is my privilege to be part of the NFD20 delegates. NFD20 has an exciting vendor lineup. The two major themes of NDF20 seem to be SD-WAN and Network Analytics & Visibility. Below is what I am guessing that the […]

Image source: gatesnotes.com Many industry experts were expecting the SD-WAN market to start consolidating in 2017. The predictions turned out to be true with a big surprise yesterday when Viptela announced that they are being acquired by Cisco. Cisco is paying $610M in cash to buy Viptela. The Cisco official press release can be found […]