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SACRAMENTO, CA 26-Jan-2022 System Engineer Barry Atrik at Nofault Hosting Services says that he “was excited by the possibilities when asked by management to move their services into containers”. Barry, a perennial go-getter known for not just his indomitable work ethic and willingness to “jump in with both feet, immediately”, but also his ever-present waist pack which as been described as “not unlike the Tardis, bigger on the inside” and “holds seemingly everything under the sun” immediately arranged for two dozen shipping containers to be delivered to the facility in order to containerize their systems....

LILLEHAMMER, NORWAY 19-Jan-2022 In a not-totally-unexpected move, the telecommunications and data powerhouse TeleCommuniData has chosen to rebrand their global services offering as “Komuniki”, spokesperson Veru Klammath told JumboFrameInternet. “We’re really looking to simplify our marketing strategy, so we’ve chosen what we think is a much more descriptive name.”, Veru said. “The name is far easier to understand, being based on the universal language Esperanto, the world’s most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language, which most people should know, being that there is at least one movie done entirely in the language, and that it is meant to be totally universal....

GAINSVILLE, FL 24-Jan-2022 Self proclaimed network architect and amateur DJ Byron Galantowitz AKA bgzzzDJ101 provides valuable input on how cloudflare should run their network after a brief 302 redirected cloudflare.com to popular site clickfunnels.com, which to many looking for actual funnels, did not deliver the goods via a convenient large to small opening for efficiently moving liquid. Taking to networking expertise juggernaut Reddit, Byron delivered valuable if unconventional advice on how to run a global, highly redundant, and exceptionally well engineered content provider....

CHICAGO, IL 23-Jan-2022 Storage engineer Damian Rothgar reported “bewilderment and perplexing feelings” about a recent networking meet-up in his local Chicago community. “No one really welcomed me in, they all seemed really confused as to why I was there” he stated. “I mean, storage networks are just like any other network”, Damian said, confused. “You can totally run IP over Infiniband, and fiber channel has so many similarities it’s not even funny!...

AKRON, OH 19-Jan-2022 Engineers actively participating in the NANOG email list had a rare breakthrough on a major problem plaguing nearly no one on Wednesday evening. After a hearty debate and several days of pedantic, tangentially and often unrelated back and forth, Torg Bromlington announced that although he had no real stake in the issue and does not run any networking at scale, that he deemed the issue “resolved, thank you”....