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Why F5 and Tempered Networks founder Jeff Hussey left retirement and ‘bought’ himself a job

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Jeff Hussey, CEO and co-founder of Tempered Networks, and his wife on a trip to Austria. Jeff Hussey , co-founder and CEO of Seattle’s Tempered Networks, is not a believer in long-term work-from-home practices. “We But the burst of the dot-com bubble ravaged the company, and its stock plummeted to around $7 at the close of 2000.

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Scott Lowe

Networking Lee Briggs (formerly of Pulumi, now with Tailscale) shows how to use the Tailscale Operator to create “free” Kubernetes load balancers (“free” as in no additional charge above and beyond what it would normally cost to operate a Kubernetes cluster). Thanks for reading!

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VMware by Broadcom: The First 100 Days

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While much work remains, we’ve made substantial progress as we build the world’s leading infrastructure technology company. Many major brands and Fortune 500 companies run their mission-critical workloads on VMware software. We recently passed the 100-day mark since VMware joined Broadcom.

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VMworld 2013 – Network Virtualization: Moving Beyond the Obvious (My Notes)

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Speaker: Martin Casado (VMware Networking CTO). NSX is basically a network hypervisor similar to how ESXi is a server hypervisor. So, NSX would sit on top of the physical network, which would give you the same capability to provision extremely complex virtual networks from Layer 2 to 7. Operations.

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Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card

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Solarflare, a global leader in networking solutions for modern data centers, is releasing an Open Compute Platform (OCP) software-defined, networking interface card, offering the industry’s most scalable, lowest latency networking solution to meet the dynamic needs of the enterprise environment. Marty Meehan.

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On Network Virtualization and SDN

Scott Lowe

Is there a difference between network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? So, in a similar fashion to my post on network overlays vs. network virtualization , I thought I’d weigh in with some thoughts. With this definition in hand, let’s compare network virtualization to SDN.

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Q&A: DexCare CEO Derek Streat’s advice on raising cash in a rough market: ‘Don’t if you don’t have to’

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With capital markets somewhat frozen, Streat drew on his vast experience during a recent fundraising effort, one that resulted in the Seattle company announcing $75 million in funding this week. After raising in this environment, how is it different than the past companies you started? The conversation was edited for brevity.