BrandPost: What to do when yesterday’s technology won’t meet today’s support needs

You probably already know that end user technology is exploding and are feeling the effects of it in your support organization every day. Remember when IT sanctioned and standardized every hardware and software instance in the workplace? Those days are long gone. Today, it’s the driving force of productivity that dictates what will or won’t be used – and that can be hard on a support organization.Whatever users need to do their jobs better, faster, more efficiently is what you are seeing come into the workplace. So naturally, that’s what comes into your service desk too. Support organizations see all kinds of devices, applications, systems, and equipment, and it’s adding a great deal of complexity and demand to keep up with. In fact, four of the top five factors causing support ticket volumes to rise are attributed to new and current technology.To read this article in full, please click here

Stop Using GUI to Configure SDN or Intent-Based Products

This blog post was initially sent to subscribers of my SDN and Network Automation mailing list. Subscribe here.

At the end of my vNIC 2018 keynote speech I made a statement along these lines:

The moment you start using GUI with an SDN product you’re back to square one.

That claim confused a few people – Mark left this comment on my blog:

Mavenir and Big Switch Networks: Working together to bring 5G revolution

BrandPost: Achieve Compliant, Cost-effective Hybrid Cloud Operations

Enterprises are introducing cloud services to improve productivity, increase business agility, and accelerate the pace of innovation. But adopting this new paradigm while delivering the right level of visibility and control can overtax resources and impact existing governance, risk, compliance, and cost strategies. In addition, organizations often lack a holistic view of their security posture and state of controls to satisfy internal and/or external regulators.This guide will help you discover ways to fine-tune oversight and operations of your hybrid cloud solution.Click here to download the white paper.To read this article in full, please click here

Microsoft, Oracle Link Clouds to Support Enterprise Workloads

Rakuten, NEC Jointly Develop 5G vRAN Equipment

SentinelOne Scores $120M Series D Amid Skyrocketing Growth

Orange Flags LTE-M Roaming With AT&T, KPN, and Swisscom

Silver Peak Partners With NSC for Managed SD-WAN Services

Cisco Sees Service Providers as Three Sales Models

Reading a transcript where Jonathan Davidson is taking to analysts and investors at the recent conference. He is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s Service Provider Business since August 2018.  He stats that the SP market is three distinct businesses” What SP buy for their own networks What SP consume as corporate IT […]

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Check Your Firefox Privacy Settings

Firefox 67 comes with boosted privacy settings but they aren’t activated by default if you have been using Firefox previously. Blocking trackers and privacy threats sometimes caused web pages to break so Mozilla has taken a cautious approach.

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Datanauts 166: Can You Hire ‘DevOps’?

Matt Stratton beams aboard the Datanauts starship to share his opinions and experiences with DevOps. Is DevOps a role you can hire for, or a culture you create? If it's the later, how do you get started, what are the impacts, and how do you iterate?

The post Datanauts 166: Can You Hire ‘DevOps’? appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Enhancing the Optimizely Experimentation Platform with Cloudflare Workers

This is a joint post by Whelan Boyd, Senior Product Manager at Optimizely and Remy Guercio, Product Marketing Manager for Cloudflare Workers.

Experimentation is an important ingredient in driving business growth: whether you’re iterating on a product or testing new messaging, there’s no substitute for the data and insights gathered from conducting rigorous experiments in the wild.

Optimizely is the world’s leading experimentation platform, with thousands of customers worldwide running tests for over 140 million visitors daily. If Optimizely were a website, it would be the third most trafficked in the US.  And when it came time to experiment with reinvigorating their own platform, Optimizely chose Cloudflare Workers.

Improving Performance and Agility with Cloudflare Workers

Cloudflare Workers is a globally distributed serverless compute platform that runs across Cloudflare’s network of 180 locations worldwide. Workers are designed for flexibility, with many different use cases ranging from customizing configuration of Cloudflare services and features to building full, independent applications.

In this post, we’re going to focus on how Workers can be used to improve performance and increase agility for more complex applications. One of the key benefits of Workers is that they allow developers to move decision logic and data Continue reading

Cisco will use AI/ML to boost intent-based networking

Artificial Intelligence and machine learning are expected to be some of the big topics at next week’s Cisco Live event and the company is already talking about how those technologies will help drive the next generation of Intent-Based Networking.“Artificial intelligence will change how we manage networks, and it’s a change we need,” wrote John Apostolopoulos Cisco CTO and vice president of Enterprise Networking in a blog about how Cisco says these technologies impact the network. [ Now see 7 free network tools you must have. ] AI is the next major step for networking capabilities, and while researchers have talked in the past about how great AI would be, now the compute power and algorithms exist to make it possible, Apostolopoulos told Network World. To read this article in full, please click here

Thought For My Day: Blitzscaling is Monopoly Building

The negatives of blitzscaling, a critique of building a monopoly

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Want to Make a Difference in Your Community? Apply for a Beyond the Net Medium or Large Grant

Applications are now open for the 2019 Beyond the Net Medium and Large Grants. All Internet Society Chapters and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) in good standing are eligible to apply.

For more than a decade, Beyond the Net Medium and Large Grants and the former Community Grants Programme have played a major role in empowering people to improve their communities via the Internet. These programmes have reached thousands of people by helping to bring to life community-driven projects that teach digital skills, enable continued trust in the Internet, build infrastructure in rural and underserved areas, and connect Indigenous communities.

The Beyond the Net Funding Programme is now part of the Internet Society Foundation, but will continue to support the excellent work of our Chapter and SIG communities. The Medium and Large Grants are available for funding at a maximum of USD $30,000.

Applications are open until 31 July 2019. For more details, visit Beyond the Net Medium and Large Grant Programme page. 

While you’re there, check out everything else the Foundation is doing!

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Snowflake Adds Google Cloud Platform, Azure Govt Support

Three years on air

Hello my friend,

Three years ago, on the 5^th June 2016, we have posted the first article about Nokia SR OS/ Cisco IOS XR interop. We can dispute, if it was long ago or not, but what we can’t dispute the amount of information shared with you since that time on various network and automation topics!

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Over these three years we have posted 75 (seventy five!) articles about the design, configuration and implementation of the multivendor networks with Nokia SR OS, Cisco IOS XR, Arista EOS and Cumulus Linux. Out of that 75, the 21 articles were written in this third year. Thanks to the blog activity we were awarded as the CiscoChampion 2019 as a top tech influencers worldwide.

Review of the first year articles

Review of the second year articles

New format

The last year was a kind of breakthrough, not only based on the topics we were covering, about which we’ll Continue reading

Do Packet Drops Matter for TCP Performance?

Approximately two years ago I tried to figure out whether aggressive marketing of deep buffer data center switches makes sense, recorded a few podcasts on the topic and organized a webinar with JR Rivers.

Not surprisingly, the question keeps popping up, so it seems it’s time for another series of TL&DR articles. Let’s start with the basics:

科技点燃未来，未来尽在指掌之间 — Cloudflare 与你共赏安全界 “奥斯卡” DEF CON China 1.0 大会

科技在发展，时代在进步，许多事情或许本质并没有改变，但呈现的方式已经日新月异，这或许就是我们常说的 — 未来。就像许多年前，我们还通过明信片和相册向亲友分享我们生活中的点点滴滴。许多年后，我们有了朋友圈、微博、Facebook、Instagram、抖音、各式博客。幼时还守着电视看着预录好的节目，接触外界的形形色色，现在我们透过直播的镜头，弹指间便能瞬息感受世界当下的脉动。

科技改变着我们，我们推动着未来

许多人都在电影中看到过极客指尖敲动，在数字的世界中急速驰骋的场景。然而现实生活中，这些人在哪儿不得而知。随着技术的发展，越来越多的年轻人加入了这个群体。在国外一直都有 DEF CON 这样的世界极客盛会。中国此前也还没有，直到去年 DEF CON 来到了中国，主办方斥巨资引进大会，想打造属于中国的技术社区，通过这样一个契机，将大家聚在一起，一同成长，最终构建一个属于中国自己的、真正的安全社区。于是，在 DEF CON 的名下，多了一个 DEF CON China。  

今年，DEF CON 经过一年的沉淀后，进入了正式版本 1.0，这个世界顶级的安全会议，在五月底，以 "Technology's Promise" — “科技点燃未来” 为主旨，于北京拉开了序幕，像是一位家长等待着 “孩子们” 一起过节。这个六一，还有什么能比来 DEF CON China 1.0 众乐乐更具意涵呢？

作为在中国地区的正式版本，DEF CON China 吸引了很多大咖前来参与，一直致力于网络安全的 Cloudflare，这次也前来共襄盛举，带来了最新的科技跟大家分享。

Cloudflare 的使命是建立一个更好的互联网

Cloudflare 成立于 2009 年，是一家跨国科技公司，在全球 80 个国家部有 180 个数据中心。我们的性能和安全服务协同工作，以减少网站、移动应用程序和端到端 API 的延迟，同时防御 DDoS 攻击、滥用机器人和数据泄露。

此次大会是 Cloudflare 在区域深耕的第一小步。相信随着时间的推移，越来越多的用户会认识并了解 Cloudflare，此而加入我们。点此启用免费帐户，立即体验更快更安全的网络：cloudflare.com/sign-up

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