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In our next Juniper Ambassador interview, I spend time with fellow Juniper Ambassador Nupur Kanoi at the Juniper NXTWORK 2018 conference in Las Vegas. We discuss her life as an Ambassador, her engineering role at Virtela, her upcoming Day One Guide “MPLS Up and Running” scheduled for release next month, and her family life back home.
Nupur’s Twitter – https://twitter.com/nupur_kanoi
Nupur’s LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/nupur-kanoi-520/
In our next Juniper Ambassador interview, I spend time with fellow Juniper Ambassador and French compatriot Pierre-Yves Maunier at the Juniper NXTWORK 2018 conference in Las Vegas. We discuss his life as an Ambassador, his architecture role at Dailymotion, his thoughts on the conference around DevOps and automation, and his family life back home.
Pierre’s Twitter – https://twitter.com/pymaunier
Pierre’s LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/pymaunier/
In this first ever Juniper Ambassador interview, I spend time with fellow Juniper Ambassador Jeff Fry at the Juniper NXTWORK 2018 conference in Las Vegas. We discuss his life as an Ambassador, his job at Dimension Data, his recent contribution to the 2018 Juniper Ambassador’s Cookbook, his interest in DevOps and automation, and his contribution to the JNCIA-Cloud exam.
2018 Juniper Ambassador’s Cookbook with his contribution here – https://www.juniper.net/us/en/training/jnbooks/day-one/ambassadors-cookbook-2018/
Jeff’s blog – https://www.fryguy.net/
Jeff’s Twitter – https://twitter.com/fryguy_pa
The world of malware and exploits has a long history, and anyone involved in this industry knows that we are at a tipping point. Threats continue to evolve, from the first viruses seen in the wild back in 1982, to the modern day malware of today that’s capable of spreading laterally in the blink of an eye.
We are in an arms race, and the traditional, legacy ways of dealing with these types of problems just doesn’t cut it anymore. For the last few months I’ve been learning and playing with Palo Alto’s Endpoint Protection solution, aptly entitled Traps. As someone who has worked in the network and cybersecurity industries over the last 20 years, I can tell you, it’s a revolutionary approach to the problem of dealing with these types of attacks. While the industry as a whole has focused on Antivirus (AV) mechanisms and more recently, Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Palo Alto is taking an altogether different approach; an approach that in my opinion will ultimately leave these legacy approaches in the dust.
Finally getting caught up with work since my time in Cali and although this post is a little late, I wanted to take a moment to capture my thoughts on Juniper Network’s Data Center Cohesion event which took place in Sunnyvale at Juniper’s Aspiration Dome last week. I had an awesome time and the sessions were full of a ton of useful information geared towards all things Data Center. Apparently this was the first time that Juniper opened the conference to outside partners — roughly 16 partners showed up, so to say that I was honored to be there is quite an understatement.
Recently I set my sights on Juniper Networks‘ Design track as I am working with customers on an almost daily basis with regards to Data Center design. As such the Juniper Network Design – Data Center curriculum and associated JNCDS-DC certification looked very appealing. To top that off, according to Certification Magazine, the JNCDA and the JNCDS-DC certifications are two of the top six design related certifications at the moment, as of October 2016.
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One of the biggest trends in the IT industry at the moment is enterprise adoption of the public cloud. It’s obvious that it’s been accelerating over the recent years, but perhaps more importantly, Federal agencies are beginning to take a serious look at the cloud in an effort to reform IT and to achieve greater agility and operational efficiencies. In fact, according to recent data by various integrators and tech companies, U.S. government agencies are moving to the cloud and away from their own in-house data centers faster than private corporations.
According to Gartner and IDC, if you look at the capital expenditures, approximately $392 billion in total IT spend on the cloud will take place in 2017. That’s a massive number, and Federal agencies are starting to represent a big proportion of that:
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