GitLab Pushes Kubernetes-Based Update for Auto DevOps

Developer concern over Microsoft's $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub could provide a long-term opportunity in the open source Git repository community.

BrandPost: Growing Reliance On Multi-Cloud Boosts Need For Smart Data

As the cloud computing market has soared, businesses have begun incorporating a mix of cloud services to meet their Digital Transformation (DX) objectives. Multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments are fast becoming the option of choice. In fact, according to a recent Information Age article, 451 Research determined that the future of IT is multi-cloud and hybrid with 69 percent of survey respondents planning to incorporate some form of multi-cloud environment by 2019.To read this article in full, please click here

Watch Live On Monday, 25 June – DNSSEC Workshop at ICANN 62 in Panama

With the DNSSEC Root Key Rollover coming up on October 11, how prepared are we as an industry? What kind of data can we collect in preparation? What is the cost benefit (or not) of implementing DANE? What can we learn from an existing rollover of a cryptographic algorithm?

All those questions and more will be discussed at the DNSSEC Workshop at the ICANN 62 meeting in Panama City, Panama, on Monday, June 25, 2018. The session will begin at 9:00 and conclude at 12:15 EST (UTC-5). [Note: this is one hour different than current US Eastern Daylight Time – Panama does not change to daylight savings time – and so this will begin at 10:00 EDT (UTC-4).]

The agenda includes:

• DNSSEC Workshop Introduction, Program, Deployment Around the World – Counts, Counts, Counts
• Panel: DNSSEC Activities and Post Key Signing Key Rollover Preparation
• DANE: Status, Cost Benefits, Impact from KSK Rollover
• An Algorithm Rollover  (case study from CZ.NIC)
• Panel: KSK Rollover Data Collection and Analysis
• DNSSEC – How Can I Help?
• The Great DNSSEC/DNS Quiz

It should be an outstanding session!  For those onsite, the workshop will be in Salon 4, the ccNSO room.

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Weekend Reads 062218: Bitcoin and Security Flaws

But, as with all new technology, security risks can be found beneath the hype. Indeed, threat actors are finding new targets amid the rise of blockchain as they serve up social-engineering attacks, malware, and exploits to businesses and consumers, according to a recently published report by McAfee’s Advanced Threat Research Team. —Kelly Sheridan @Dark Reading

After last Thursday’s regulatory news that bitcoin and ether were not considered securities, which was widely considered a win for crypto enthusiasts, digital currencies had failed to hold on to gains, a sign the bear market is firmly intact. However, investors were hoping Monday’s move above the post-SEC-statement high will be the start of a more fruitful period for digital currency owners. —Aaron Hankin @MarketWatch

Dubbed Lazy FP State Restore, the vulnerability (CVE-2018-3665) within Intel Core and Xeon processors has just been confirmed by Intel, and vendors are now rushing to roll out security updates in order to fix the flaw and keep their customers protected. The company has not yet released technical details about the vulnerability, but since the vulnerability resides in the CPU, the flaw affects all devices running Intel Core-based microprocessors regardless of the installed operating systems, except some modern versions of Continue reading

Nutanix Gives International Speedway Corporation Instant Octane Boost

International Speedway Corporation needed its applications to run as fast as the race cars on its tracks.

Sprint Spent $1B on Massive MIMO for Its 5G Network in Q2

T-Mobile’s acquisition of Sprint will mean a larger 5G footprint and a higher capacity network, says Sprint’s CTO.   

Red Hat Stock Stung by Foreign Currency Exchange, Billing Concerns

The company's stock plunged as much as 13 percent early Friday having just hit a new 52-week high last week.

Road by the Mountain

SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — June 22, 2018

ZTE stock sinks after U.S. Senate bill; T-Mobile and Sprint advance their proposed merger; and VMware works with the U.S. government and public sector.

Show 395: The Nature Of Optical Networking

Short Take – Thinking About Your Career Trajectory

In this Short Take, Eyvonne explores how to think about your career trajectory and covers 5 questions you should ask yourself when planning your career.

Eyvonne Sharp

Host

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IDG Contributor Network: Welcome to the edge era: where a second lost on the network has insurmountable consequences

The next great leap forward in progress will be marked by an exponential growth in connection and connectivity. As sensors become smaller and more energy efficient, mobile devices become more capable and our networks become more robust, industries as disparate as healthcare, transportation, education, government and entertainment will find opportunities for new efficiencies, new ways of interacting with consumers and transformative approaches to serving their communities.In short, advancements in network technology are helping us achieve great things. We’re seeing the well documented benefits of agility, reliability and performance of networks in healthcare, where wireless networks are supporting complex EHR systems and M2M communications are delivering moment-to-moment information on patient status and improving health outcomes. There’s also been an emergence of new educational (and job) opportunities provided via emerging eSports programs in K-12 and higher education settings.To read this article in full, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: Welcome to the edge era: where a second lost on the network has insurmountable consequences

The next great leap forward in progress will be marked by an exponential growth in connection and connectivity. As sensors become smaller and more energy efficient, mobile devices become more capable and our networks become more robust, industries as disparate as healthcare, transportation, education, government and entertainment will find opportunities for new efficiencies, new ways of interacting with consumers and transformative approaches to serving their communities.In short, advancements in network technology are helping us achieve great things. We’re seeing the well documented benefits of agility, reliability and performance of networks in healthcare, where wireless networks are supporting complex EHR systems and M2M communications are delivering moment-to-moment information on patient status and improving health outcomes. There’s also been an emergence of new educational (and job) opportunities provided via emerging eSports programs in K-12 and higher education settings.To read this article in full, please click here

Leveling Up Women One Edit at a Time

Only 1 in 10 Wikipedia editors is a woman. Unfortunately, the underrepresentation of female perspectives is quite common within the tech world. In order to help achieve gender equality in content creation and dissemination, Wikipedia Editathons are held as a way of bridging the gap and encourage female editors to increase the coverage of women’s topics.

The Internet Society India Delhi Chapter, in partnership with the Women Special Interest Group and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, organized the 1st Global Editathon “Girls in ICT” on 28 April, 2018. Various Chapters and groups participated in this event to increase Wikipedia pages about Asian women who have contributed to any technology-related fields.

“Women are seriously underrepresented in Wikipedia’s content,” says Amrita Choudhury, treasurer of the Internet Society India Delhi Chapter. She has over 17 years of experience in IT and the Internet industry and is a member of the SIG Women team. “Exact figures vary depending on which research you’re reading, but only around 17% of individuals profiled on Wikipedia are women.”

What Chapters were involved and how did you work together?

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New To The INE Course Library: AWS Automation Options

We’ve added another AWS course to our Collection. This course is 6 hours and 18 minutes long and taught by James Fogerson. You can view this, and all of our other AWS courses, by logging into your streaming account.

This course will provide guidance on the various native options that can be used to script and deploy AWS resources. The course will cover a number of options from the easiest (Elastic Beanstalk) to the most complex (CloudFormation). AWS Opsworks and the CLI will also be covered and a brief introduction to Opscode Chef will also be included as an alternative to native CloudFormation. The course will be somewhat detailed but should allow the viewer to follow along so that he/she can create their own resources.

Teridion enables higher performing and more responsive SaaS applications

Up until the advent of Software as a Service (SaaS), almost every business-critical application ran inside an enterprise’s own data center. The company had complete control over the performance of the application and could use technologies such as MPLS and techniques like WAN optimization to ensure that users across the enterprise always had a good experience with the application.That’s no longer the case now that SaaS has become the de facto delivery model for core business applications today. In effect, the cloud is the new data center, and the internet is the new LAN. The most business-critical network between the end user and the application is not the corporate LAN but the public internet, which itself is a big collection of networks. When the internet is what sits between the end user and the SaaS application, the company depending on that application may no longer have good performance, reliability, and control.To read this article in full, please click here

Announcing NDSS 2019 & the Call for Papers

It may seem far away, but it’s time to begin planning for the 26^th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium. NDSS 2019 will once again be held in sunny San Diego at the lovely Catamaran Spa and Resort from 24-27 February 2019.

This annual security symposium is a premiere venue for fostering information exchange among researchers and practitioners of network and distributed system security. The target audience includes those interested in practical aspects of network and distributed system security, with a focus on actual system design and implementation. A major goal is to encourage and enable the Internet community to apply, deploy, and advance the state of available security technologies.

NDSS 2019 will have a new General Chair, Dr. Trent Jaeger of Pennsylvania State University. In addition, the Program Committee for NDSS 2019 is being chaired by Dr. Alina Opera of Northeastern University and Dr. Dongyan Xu of Purdue University. Additional positions will be announced in the coming weeks.

Most importantly for all you researchers out there, the NDSS 2019 Call for Papers has been released. As in years past, the focus of the symposium will be the many aspects of security and privacy including the security of emerging Continue reading

Finding Value in Cisco Live 2018

The world famous Cisco Live Sign picture, 2018 edition

Another Cisco Live has come and gone. Overall it was a fun time for many. Catching up with friends. Meeting people for the first time. Enjoying the balmy Orlando weather. It was a chance to relive some great times for every one. But does Cisco Live 2018 dictate how the future of the event will go?

Packing The Schedule

Did you get a chance to attend any of the social events at Cisco Live? There were a ton. There were Tweetups and meet ups and special sessions galore. There was every opportunity to visit a lounge or area dedicated to social media presence, Boomerang videos, goofy pictures, or global outreach. Every twenty feet had something for you to do or some way for you to make an impact.

In fact, if you went to all of these things you probably didn’t have time for much else. Definitely not time for the four or five keynote addresses. Or a certification test. Or the classes and sessions. In fact, if you tried to do everything there was to do at Cisco Live, you’d probably not sleep the whole week. There’s almost as much Continue reading

HPE Says Composable Infrastructure Is the Future of Data Center Tech

HPE started shipping its composable infrastructure product last year, and says in the first quarter of fiscal year 2018 alone it increased its customer base by more than 50 percent.

Kernel of Truth episode 02 — Day 2 operations

Network monitoring, “Wonderwall” by Oasis, virtual test environments, Wu-Tang Clan (Cumulus Rules Everything Around Me!), validating configurations and cursed email chains. What do all of these things have in common? They’re all topics in Kernel of Truth’s second episode! Now, if you want to know HOW all of these seemingly random talking points fit together, you’ll have to listen for yourself, but the main focus of this discussion is Day 2 operations. Specifically, we get into important topics like:

• The importance of accurate virtual environments
• Managing configuration changes
• How to handle updating configs and removing vulnerabilities
• Why screenshots of Word documents make network operators die inside
• And more!

Our guest panel consists of two networking ops experts from Cumulus Networks: Senior Consulting Engineer Rama Darbha (also known as “Tough Tiger Fist” according to the Wu-Tang name generator), who you’ll remember from our previous episode on network automation, and Technical Marketing Engineer Pete Lumbis (aka “Master Block Warrior”). These industry pros joined me (“Ungrateful Ambassador”) to provide first-hand experience and insight into why Day 2 operations deserve just as much attention as architectural design.

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