Get Ready for Real Disruption: The State of NFV
During the last five years, the NFV market has been heating up, but in order to reach the next steps of innovation and growth the market must fill a number of technological gaps.
You get TLS 1.3! You get TLS 1.3! Everyone gets TLS 1.3!
It's no secret that Cloudflare has been a big proponent of TLS 1.3, the newest edition of the TLS protocol that improves both speed and security, since we have made it available to our customers starting in 2016. However, for the longest time TLS 1.3 has been a work-in-progress which meant that the feature was disabled by default in our customers’ dashboards, at least until all the kinks in the protocol could be resolved.
With the specification finally nearing its official publication, and after several years of work (as well as 28 draft versions), we are happy to announce that the TLS 1.3 feature on Cloudflare is out of beta and will be enabled by default for all new zones.
For our Free and Pro customers not much changes, they already had TLS 1.3 enabled by default from the start. We have also decided to disable the 0-RTT feature by default for these plans (it was previously enabled by default as well), due to its inherent security properties. It will still be possible to explicitly enable it from the dashboard or the API (more on 0-RTT soon-ish in another blog post).
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Sprint Joins ORAN Alliance and Linux Foundation Networking Fund
The operator is growing its open source clout prior to its merger with T-Mobile.
Culture Shifts and Work Travel Learnings
I’ve seen a few Twitter threads recently about learning to live with the sudden plenty of working for tech companies. If you didn’t grow up that way, the adjustment takes time. It made me think about a few things I’ve learnt about corporate travel, and mistakes I’ve made along the way. People who grew in the corporate world instinctively know stuff I had to learn. Here’s some of the mistakes, and learnings:
Sudden Change of Scene
There’s been a few threads recently on Twitter related to the concept of “growing up poor, and learning how to adapt to working in well-paid industries.”
Here’s an example thread:
Starting a conference for people that work in tech but grew up poor. Talks:
— Mikeal Rogers (@mikeal) May 1, 2018
* Low fee ways to send money to family.
* Making yourself feel ok about spending $50 on brunch.
* Where people with money store their extra money instead of just leaving it in your checking account.
Read the thread - there’s some gems in there. Stuff like these hit home for me:
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RingCentral Unites SD-WAN and Unified Communications
RingCentral partners, such as VMware and CloudGenix, are optimizing their SD-WAN offerings to work in concert with RingCentral’s unified communications products.
The Piikani Cultural and Digital Literacy Camp Program
The Piikani Nation in Southern Alberta, concerned they were in danger of losing their Blackfoot culture and traditions, sought out an innovative way to share it with younger generations. Elders and school officials in Piikani focused on how they could use technology to engage youth and preserve their knowledge and history. As a result, the Piikani First Nation, University of Alberta, First Nations Technical Service Advisory Group, and Piikani Board of Education created a youth-based project, the Piikani Cultural and Digital Literacy Camp Program, that combines digital technology and cultural and language studies for grade 9 students.
From the beginning, Piikani Elder Herman Many Guns and University of Alberta Assistant Professor Dr. Rob McMahon knew it was crucial to combine traditional Blackfoot and digital teaching styles in the program. To accomplish this, Herman reached out to community ceremonial Elders with transferred rights who could ensure the project followed traditional protocol. The partners decided to host a summer camp that would teach students about their culture, as well as gain digital skills, such as video production, editing, and data stewardship. Students apply these new digital skills to the preservation of the ancestral knowledge shared by the Elders at an outdoor Continue reading
Episode 27 – State Of The Podcast
In this episode we’re changing things up a bit. Eyvonne, Russ, and Jordan come together to chat a bit about the past year and share some exciting news about where we are heading as a podcast. Thank you for making Network Collective possible and we’re looking forward to producing even more great content over the coming year.
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Eyvonne Sharp
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Russ White
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Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Datanauts 134: Preventing Failures With AI And HPE InfoSight (Sponsored)
The Datanauts travel to a galaxy of artificial intelligence and machine learning. The good ship InfoSight is piloted by sponsor HPE Nimble Storage as we explore automating infrastructure on today s episode.
Our guest is Ryan Brown, Enterprise Storage Architect and Chief Technologist for Storage in Canada at HPE.
We talk about InfoSight, HPE’s cloud-based predictive analytics platform that works with HPE’s Nimble Storage arrays, and soon to work with other products from HPE. InfoSight applies machine learning and AI to help customers better manage storage resources and predict problems before they affect the business.
We look at the kind of information that InfoSight gathers, how it collects that information and ships it to the cloud, and how it’s protected.
We also delve into the value that InfoSight can provide for resource allocation and operational benefits such as preventing outages, maintaining uptime, and improving performance.
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Video: Two Beer Networking – Whats Wrong With Network Diagrams ?
I think that the time for Network Diagrams is coming to a close. It takes large amounts of time ( and thus money) to produce diagrams. Maintaining diagrams is difficult, costly and something that should be automated. Networks are not static today. Overlays, IPsec Tunnels, VMs, virtual appliances. How can a diagram stay up to […]
Cryptojacking Is the New Black, Cloud Security Reports Say
One report found that 25 percent of organizations currently have illicit cryptomining activity in their cloud environments.
Together Let’s #SwitchItOn and #KeepItOn! The Internet Society Releases Joint Statement with Access Now
This week the Internet Society is at RightsCon, one of the world’s leading conferences on human rights in the digital age. The event brings together business leaders, policy makers, government representatives, technologists, and human rights defenders from around the world.
We are proud to stand together with Access Now in our belief that a globally connected, secure and trusted Internet is the foundation for exercising our online rights. We are proud to release this joint statement calling for an open Internet that includes everyone.
Please support our call to the nations of the world to #SwitchItOn and #KeepItOn.
Visit our #SwitchItOn page and find out more about Community Networks.
Image © Nyani Quarmyne: Ucha Seturi (left), Murmani Tcharelidze and a helpful visiting journalist giving raising a tower near Koklata in Tusheti, Georgia, on 23 July 2017.
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Martin Casado on the Future of Networking
In this video, software-defined networking pioneer Martin Casado, a general partner at VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, talks about how he expects enterprise networking will adopt SDN. He also explains how he sees traditional IT functions such as networking as key to IoT and the massive expansion of technology in every industry.
The Internet’s Lessons in Resiliency
Enterprises can learn from how the internet's diversity of links and collaborative nature has helped it withstand disasters and address tough challenges, expert says.