Colt Launches Enterprise Connectivity Services in the U.S.
Colt services now available in the United States include enterprise bandwidth services up to 100 Gb/s.
Twistlock Adds Serverless Runtime Defense for Cloud Platforms
A recent Gartner report found that more than 20 percent of global enterprises will have deployed serverless technologies by 2020, compared with less than 5 percent today.
Article 13 of the Copyright Directive Raises Serious Questions
The next couple of days will be important for the future of the Internet, as the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) will vote on the proposed Copyright Directive. The Directive, which aims to update and reinforce the rights of rights holders within Europe’s Digital Market, is largely a positive step forward inasmuch as the law needs to be updated in light of modern technologies and the Internet. However, Article 13 of the directive raises serious questions about the implications for free expression, creativity, and the freedom to publish.
Under this article, “information society service providers” will be required to use “content recognition technologies” to scan videos, audio, text, photos, and code to the detriment of open-source software communities, remixers, livestreamers, and meme creators.
Last week, many Internet luminaries penned an open letter to the President of the European Parliament asking for the deletion of Article 13. The Internet Society agrees with the concerns raised in this letter and urges the Parliament to reconsider Article 13 in light of the implications for the open Internet.
In the meantime, civil society and academia, including EFF, EDRI, Creative Commons, and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Continue reading
Cisco Buys July Systems, Adding Indoor Location Services Capabilities to Its Mix
The purchase of July Systems fits within Cisco’s broader push toward intent-based networking, particularly its push toward connecting with developers.
4 Vendors Pay $500,000 Each to Join ONF’s Partner Supply Chain
Adtran, Dell EMC, Edgecore Networks, and Juniper Networks joined the ONF at the partner level in which they each pay $500,000 per year for five years.
Research: Lessons from Evolve or Die
Google runs what is probably one of the largest networks in the world. Because of this, network engineers often have two sorts of reactions to anything Google publishes, or does. The first is “my network is not that big, nor that complicated, so I don’t really care what Google is doing.” This is the “you are not a hyperscaler” (YANAH) reaction. The second, and probably more common, reaction is: whatever Google is doing must be good, so I should do the same thing. A healthier reaction to both of these is to examine these papers, and the work done by other hyperscalers, to find the common techniques they are applying to large scale networks, and then see where they might be turned into, or support, common network design principles. This is the task before us today in looking at a paper published in 2016 by Google called Evolve or Die: High Availablility Design Principles Drawn from Google’s Network Infrastructure.
The first part of this paper discusses the basic Google architecture, including a rough layout of the kinds of modules they deploy, the module generations, and the interconnectivity between those modules. This is useful background information for understanding the remainder Continue reading
Tintri Collapse Imminent as Funds Wither, Stock Plunges
The cloud storage vendor has blown through more than $300 million in private and public funding since its founding in 2008.
The Future of Virtualization
In this eBrief from SDxCentral, we take an in-depth look at the future of virtualization and the role of intent-based networking and what it means for service providers and enterprises.
TunapandaNET Paves the Way for Kenya to Connect the Underserved
Currently, 53% of the world’s population is offline due to factors such as high cost of Internet infrastructure and lack of relevant local content. Internet access remains unaffordable in many economies in transition where people have to choose between the Internet and other vital necessities such as food and health. Maybe one day we will look back at this historic moment in which Community Networks were paving the way for equitable and meaningful access to technology.
Community Networks are an emerging complementary and sustainable solution to address the connectivity gap existing in underserved urban and rural areas around the world. Such networks rely on the active participation of local communities in the development and management of shared Internet infrastructure as a common resource. Existing examples provide concrete evidence that community network development can prompt positive effects to help communities leverage on technology for socioeconomic empowerment. We have gained experience from Guifi.Net, Zenzeleni Network, Rhizomatica and Wireless For Communities, all successful projects proving that the technical side of the community network model can be replicated.
I asked Josephine Miliza a few questions to get deeper insight into the project. Josephine is a network engineer with a Continue reading
Uptycs Raises $13M, Launches Osquery-Based Security Platform
Facebook developed the osquery security framework to monitor its own infrastructure before open sourcing it in 2014.