Cloud Business Sends Intel Data Center Revenue Soaring

The chip giant’s third-quarter fiscal 2018 revenue of $19.2 billion was an all-time record, up 19 percent year over year, with all business groups posting record revenue.

BrandPost: Top Ten Reasons to Think Outside the Router – No. 10: It’s Getting Cloudy

Borrowing from the iconic David Letterman Top Ten List segment from his former Late Show, this new blog series will countdown the Top Ten Reasons to Think Outside the Router.The #10 reason it’s time to retire traditional routers at the branch: It’s getting cloudy! In fact, it’s already cloudy. In November 2017, Forrester projected that 2018 would be the year that more than 50% of enterprise applications would be hosted in public and private clouds. Here we are in 2018, and  96% of 997 SMB and enterprise companies surveyed now use cloud services. The migration to cloud-based applications and infrastructure continues to accelerate and is happening faster than anyone predicted. The challenge: enterprise router-centric WAN architectures weren’t designed for the cloud.To read this article in full, please click here

BT Replaces Departing Chief Executive With Worldpay’s Philip Jansen

The London-based telecom provider’s current Chief Executive Gavin Patterson announced in June that he would leave BT amid company struggles.

Rackspace launches disaster recovery as a service program

Give managed cloud computing provider Rackspace points for timing. Coming right after the Uptime Institute issued a warning for data center operators to improve their environmental disaster plans, the company announced it is broadening its existing disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) program for on-premises, colocation, and multi-cloud environments.The expansion utilizes Zerto’s disaster recovery software, which is specifically designed to provide business continuity and disaster recovery in a cloud and virtualized environment.To read this article in full, please click here

Rackspace launches disaster recovery as a service program

Give managed cloud computing provider Rackspace points for timing. Coming right after the Uptime Institute issued a warning for data center operators to improve their environmental disaster plans, the company announced it is broadening its existing disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) program for on-premises, colocation, and multi-cloud environments.The expansion utilizes Zerto’s disaster recovery software, which is specifically designed to provide business continuity and disaster recovery in a cloud and virtualized environment.To read this article in full, please click here

Worth Reading: Spanning clouds with Kubernetes

The use of Kubernetes and other opens standards also means that enterprises can place workloads not only on IBM’s private or public clouds, but into environments of other cloud providers that conform to the container orchestration platform. —Jeffrey Burt @The Next Platform

Gartner Ranks VMware Highest in Its Inaugural WAN Edge Magic Quadrant

VMware has more than 2,000 SD-WAN customers, while the second and third ranked SD-WAN vendors count about 1,000 customers, each.

Trump Wants a National 5G Spectrum Policy

The president issued a memorandum that is intended to make more spectrum available so that operators can more quickly deploy 5G.

OpenStack Foundation releases software platform for edge computing

The OpenStack Foundation, the joint project created by NASA and Rackspace to create a freely usable Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform, has announced the initial release of StarlingX, a platform for edge computing.StarlingX is designed for remote edge environments, offering node configuration in host, service management, and perform software updates remotely. It can also warn operators if there are any issues with the servers or the network.The foundation says the platform is optimized for low-latency, high-performance applications in edge network scenarios and is primarily aimed at carrier networking, industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and Internet of Things (IoT).To read this article in full, please click here

Nokia Will Cut Thousands of Jobs Amid 5G Transformation

CEO Rajeev Suri told investors the company need to shave nearly $800 million in costs by the end of 2020.

Mirantis Rides Kubernetes to Supercharge Open Source Edge Ecosystem

The company admits that Kubernetes might not be the answer for managing edge deployments. But it says it's important to get an open source option out now ahead of 5G deployments.

Lenovo Leads Scale Computing’s $34.8M Series F

CEO Jeff Ready expect this to be the last round before reaching profitability. But he won’t comment on IPO plans.

Engineers With SDN Expertise Don’t Necessarily Attract Higher Salaries

IT organizations complain that the lack of SDN-specific skills among engineers is resulting in a slow transition to virtualization but engineers don’t have much incentive to get those skills.

Does NFV Stand For Not Financially Viable?

It's been more than six years since NFV became a reality but for service providers the transformation is far from over.

Worth Reading: Banning Chinese phones won’t fix the supply chain problem

All of our computerized systems are deeply international, and we have no choice but to trust the companies and governments that touch those systems. And while we can ban a few specific products, services or companies, no country can isolate itself from potential foreign interference. —Bruce Schneier @The Washington Post

5G and 6G wireless technologies have security issues

Network security concerns remain an issue with the upcoming 5G and 6G wireless network standards.That's because security measures being aren't being adopted in new 5G standards, and there's a newly discovered potential for Man-in-the-Middle attacks in terahertz-based 6G networks, multiple research studies have discovered.One of those studies — a formal analysis of 5G authentication conducted by scientists from ETH Zurich, the University of Lorraine/INRIA, and the University of Dundee — found that criminals will be able intercept 5G communications and steal data because “critical security gaps are present,” the group says in their press release. That’s in part because “security goals are underspecified” and there’s a “lack of precision” in the 3GPP standards, they say.To read this article in full, please click here

Making the Most of Big Data in a 5G World

Learn how Dell EMC can help service providers navigate this new data-intensive world to operate more efficiently and profitably.

United in Build. Come See Us at Mozfest and Start to Connect the World.

Builders, creators, inventors, and tinkerers – we can start to connect half the world. Meet us at Mozfest.

Around 3.5 billion people do not have Internet access, many of them living in remote locations. How can they share the benefits of this amazing resource?

Tackling the digital divide is not easy, but everyone can help. Community networks are a great way to get involved.

What Are Community Networks?

Community networks are a global movement. From Asia with the Wireless for Communities project to the Tusheti region of Georgia and Rhizomatica’s initiative in Oaxaca, Mexico, community networks are examples of how to build, empower, and sustain communities of people. By communities, for communities, with communities.

Sound awesome? Find us at Mozfest

If you love the Internet, you’ll love Mozfest.  This year you’ll be able to learn about community networks. First, visit us at the Science Fair. We’ll be featuring an interactive exhibit of photos and videos of community network projects from around the world.

From Zimbabwe to Georgia find out what it took to build each community network and why they are so unique.

There will also be a workshop where you can learn how to build your Continue reading

Introducing Spectrum with Load Balancing

We’re excited to announce the full integration of Cloudflare Spectrum with Load Balancing. Combining Spectrum with Load Balancing enables traffic management of TCP connections utilising the same battle tested Load Balancer our customers already use for billions of HTTP requests every day.

Customers can configure load balancers with TCP health checks, failover, and steering policies to dictate where traffic should flow. This is live in the Cloudflare dashboard and API — give it a shot!

TCP Health Checks

You can now configure Cloudflare’s Load Balancer health checks to probe any TCP port for an accepted connection. This is in addition to the existing HTTP and HTTPS options.

Health checks are an optional feature within Cloudflare’s Load Balancing product. Without health checks, the Cloudflare Load Balancer will distribute traffic to all origins in the first pool. While this is in itself useful, adding a health check to a Load Balancer provides additional functionality.

With a health check configured for a pool in a Load Balancer, Cloudflare will automatically distribute traffic within a pool to any origins that are marked up by the health check. Unhealthy origins will be dropped automatically. This allows for intelligent failover both within a pool and amongst Continue reading

Keynote address from Tim Cook to European Parliament

Passionate advocation for privacy by Tim Cook as the voice of Apple in this speech to European Parliament.

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