LogicMonitor Extends Monitoring Capabilities to the Cloud
The software helps customers formulate a cloud strategy.
The Docker Modernize Traditional Apps (MTA) Program Adds Microsoft Azure Stack
In April of this year, Docker announced the Modernize Traditional Apps (MTA) POC program with partners Avanade, Booz Allen, Cisco, HPE and Microsoft. The MTA program is designed to help IT teams flip the 80% maintenance to 20% innovation ratio on it’s head. The combination of Docker Enterprise Edition (EE), services and infrastructure into a turnkey program delivers portability, security and efficiency for the existing app portfolio to drive down total costs and make room for innovation like cloud strategies and new app development. The program starts by packaging of existing apps into isolated containers, providing the opportunity to migrate them to new on-prem or cloud environments, without any recoding.
Docker customers have already been taking advantage of the program to jumpstart their migration to Azure and are experiencing dramatically reduced deployment and scaling times — from weeks to minutes — and cutting their total costs by 50% or more.
The general availability of Microsoft Azure Stack provides IT with the ability to manage their datacenters in the same way they manage Azure. The consistency in hybrid cloud infrastructure deployment combined with consistency in application packaging, deployment and management only further enhance operational efficiency. Docker is pleased Continue reading
Scality Bridges the Microsoft, Amazon Cloud Storage Divide
Scality Direct is also available in a stateless version for hosting on a VM within Azure.
History Of Networking – Tony Li – BGP
Tony Li has had a distinguished career working as a networking software architect at some of the largest networking vendors in the world. In this episode of Network Collective, Tony joins us to discuss his involvement in the creation and implementation of BGP, the routing protocol that enables the Internet.
Links, FYI:
The image above is a capture of the original BGP design, sketched on two napkins by Kirk Lougheed of Cisco and Yakov Rekhter of IBM in 1989.
Tony Li
Guest
Russ White
Host
Donald Sharp
Host
Eyvonne Sharp
Host
Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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History Of Networking – Tony Li – BGP
Tony Li has had a distinguished career working as a networking software architect at some of the largest networking vendors in the world. In this episode of Network Collective, Tony joins us to discuss his involvement in the creation and implementation of BGP, the routing protocol that enables the Internet.
Links, FYI:
The image above is a capture of the original BGP design, sketched on two napkins by Kirk Lougheed of Cisco and Yakov Rekhter of IBM in 1989.
Tony Li
Guest
Russ White
Host
Donald Sharp
Host
Eyvonne Sharp
Host
Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
The post History Of Networking – Tony Li – BGP appeared first on Network Collective.
Datanauts 103: Azure Infrastructure And PowerShell At Microsoft Ignite
Chris Wahl records a live Datanauts at Microsoft Ignite to talk Azure, Azure Stack, PowerShell and more with Microsoft Technical Fellow Jeffrey Snover. The post Datanauts 103: Azure Infrastructure And PowerShell At Microsoft Ignite appeared first on Packet Pushers.
Plans for First Exascale Supercomputer in U.S. Released
This morning a presentation filtered from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science showing the roadmap to exascale with a 2021 machine at Argonne National Lab.
This is the Aurora machine, which had an uncertain future this year when its budgetary and other details were thrown into question. We understood the deal was being restructured and indeed it has. The system was originally slated to appear in 2018 with 180 petaflop potential. Now it is 1000 petaflops, an exascale capable machine, and will be delivered in 2021—right on target with the projected revised plans for exascale released earlier this …
Plans for First Exascale Supercomputer in U.S. Released was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Response: Cisco ASA Firewall breaks after 213 days of uptime
Continuing with my theme of paying premium prices for faulty products, Michael McNamara shares a recent experience: I just recently had two HA pairs of Cisco ASA firewalls just stop communicating. A reboot of both the primary and secondary firewall in each HA pair resolved the problem. I had never observed such odd behavior from […]
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SAP Cloud Is Embracing the Open Source World
The company joined CNCF and the Open API Initiative.
You Need Configuration Management. Really. (Thwack)
Oops, lost a network device. I sure hope we have a configuration backup…
On the Solarwinds Thwack Geek Speak blog I looked at how configuration management can help not just with total loss scenarios, but also with audit and compliance issue. Please do take a trip to Thwack and check out my post, “You Need Configuration Management. Really“.
Please see my Disclosures page for more information about my role as a Solarwinds Ambassador.
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Bin Packing Problem of Distributed Traffic Engineering
Bin Packing Problem ? What is Bin Packing ? I will explain in this post Bin Packing Problem in MPLS Traffic Engineering. Very complex post normally but I will make it simple for you. And trust me, it is important to understand. Before I start explaining Bin Packing problem, let’s just […]
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What is IRU ? Indefeasible Right of Use ?
What is IRU (a.k.a Indefeasible Right of Use) ? If you are working in the Operator, Service Provider or Telco/Carrier networks, you probably heard this term. If you haven’t, you need to learn it. Note: This content is received from my Telecom/Service Provider Course. You can join the course and learn much more about […]
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How Cloudflare Streams
Every day, close to 1 billion people watch video through Cloudflare. That’s 100 petabytes of video every month. Last year, video made up 73% of all internet traffic, which is why earlier today we announced Cloudflare Stream, an end to end video solution designed to bring instant video to any device and network connection. Here’s how Stream works to optimize video upload, encoding and delivery.
Uploads
Using Cloudflare Stream starts with a call to the Stream API to /upload a video.
HTTP does not by default provide a reliable upload mechanism for large files, which can make it tricky to upload large media content like high quality video. If there’s any latency in the network connection, a timeout can cancel the entire upload and require the client to start over.
We use an open source upload protocol called Tus which allows for resumable uploads where the upload previously failed. Tus does this by splitting the download into manageable chunks and tracking completed chunks on the server.
Encodes
Video files are containers that hold the video file, the audio track, and some metadata. The video file is compressed by a codec. The codec is a compression algorithm for encoding video Continue reading
Introducing Cloudflare Stream: Fixing the Streaming Video Market
Cloudflare turns seven years old today. We launched on September 27, 2010.
It was only a few days after our launch that we got our first request to support video streaming. Yet, until today, we'd avoided it.
Why? Simply put: the video streaming market is screwed up. While there's a lot of money spent on video, there are only really about 1,000 customers that do any meaningful level of streaming.
This is in large part because it's technically far too complicated. If you want to move beyond just uploading your videos to a consumer service like YouTube, then you have to use at least three different services. You need someone to encode your video into a streamable format, you need someone else to act as the content delivery network delivering the bytes, and you need someone else still to provide the player code that runs on the client device. Further, since video encoding standards keep evolving and vary across generations of devices, it becomes challenging to ensure a consistently high quality experience for all visitors.
And if that sounds like a technical mess, the business side is even worse. Encoding companies charge based on CPU usage, which is driven by Continue reading
SDN Startups: Where Are They Now?
An update on some players in the once-hot software-defined networking space.