Containers-as-a-Service is a Fresh Battleground for Cloud Giants
Half of container users started less than 12 months ago, providing new blood for AWS, Azure, Google, Docker, VMware, Red Hat to fight over.
Iraq Protests Lead To Two-Day Blackout
After a week of widespread protests against corruption and poor government services, the Iraqi government declared a state of emergency last week. And as part of that measure, the government ordered the disconnection of the fiber backbone of Iraq that carries traffic for most of the country.
On Monday, Internet services in Iraq were coming back online (however, social media site are still blocked according to independent measurement outfit NetBlocks). The blackout, which lasted almost 48hrs, was clearly visible in our Internet Intelligence Map (screenshot below):
A history of government-directed outages
Government-directed Internet outages have become a part of regular life in Iraq. Just yesterday, the government ordered its latest national outage to coincide this year’s last 6th grade placement exam.
The first government-directed outage in Iraq that we documented occurred in the fall of 2013 and revolved around a pricing dispute between the Iraqi Ministry of Communications (MoC) and various telecommunications companies operating there. While the intention of this outage was to enforce the MoC’s authority, it served mainly to reveal the extent to which Iraqi providers were now relying on Kurdish transit providers operating outside the control of the central government – a topic Continue reading
WeWork bans meat – Business Insider
How will Enterprise IT companies close deals without lavish steak dinners
Commercial Kubernetes Services: There’s an App for That
The Google Cloud Platform Marketplace updates its previously launched Cloud Launcher service and offers applications that are tested and vetted to work on Kubernetes.
Cato Networks Incorporates User Identity Into SD-WAN Policies
Cato Networks can now incorporate user identity and roles into SD-WAN policies.Ericsson Rebounds in Q2 as 5G Momentum Grows
The Swedish firm reported an operating profit of $23 million. It’s the first time since the third quarter 2016 that the company has reported a profit.
Amazon To Sell Whitebox ? They Could But More Likely to Sell SD-WAN
More likely about moving enterprise onto AWS.
Nokia Nuage and Globe Telecom Bring SD-WAN to the Philippines
With Nokia Nuage SD-WAN, Globe Telecom customers across the 7,000 islands that comprise the Philippines will have automated, cloud-based connectivity.
Big Switch Takes the Fast Path to Hybrid Cloud Via On-Prem VPCs
It’s delivering a public-cloud management paradigm, which customers are familiar with, to on-premises workloads.
Security Vendor Claims 98 Percent of Serverless Deployments at Risk
The company scanned thousands of serverless-based apps running in production on AWS, with 16 percent of those at risk considered "serious."
Complexity Sells
Networks are complex. But why? There are two fundamental reasons. The first is complexity is required to solve hard problems, specifically in the area of resilience. The second is that complexity sells. In this short take, I look at the second reason in a little more depth.
Announcing our second year on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Networking
We couldn’t be happier to report that Cumulus Networks has been placed on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Networking in the Visionaries category — for the second year in a row. This acknowledgement and honor once again solidifies not only our place in the industry, but also open networking’s place as a whole. The report states, “Cumulus continues to pioneer a vision based on open components, disaggregation of switching hardware/software and automation.” We couldn’t agree more, and we’re excited to be driving the industry forward into efficiency, flexibility, simplicity and innovation.
Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Data Center Networking gives an assessment of the current data center networking solutions for enterprises, and evaluates where they fall on ability to execute as well as completeness of vision. Without further ado, here is this year’s quadrant:
A few key highlights:
- Cumulus was mentioned continually throughout the report in relation to hardware support, enterprise growth and leaders in the disaggregation and open networking movement. Most notably, Gartner highlighted our growth with enterprise customers, which helped us differentiate ourselves on the quadrant from other vendors. The report states, “Cumulus grew its enterprise customer count by more than 200 over the past Continue reading
Clark County Embraces Intrinsic Security with VMware NSX Data Center
Allen Tyson is a Senior Network Analyst at Clark County, located in the State of Nevada. Clark County encompasses the City of Las Vegas, and sees 47 million visitors each year. With roughly 10,000 employees and 38 departments, Allen has a large network to maintain.
Alex Berger, Networking and Security Product Marketing Manager, spoke with Allen about software-defined networking (SDN), and what led Clark County to choosing VMware NSX Data Center.
The Power of Social Media Communities
When a forward-thinking Deputy Chief Information Officer began talking about SDN, Allen did his due diligence to decide on the best option for Clark County. He took to social media to determine whether that choice would be NSX Data Center or Cisco ACI.
“First thing I did was I got on Twitter,” Allen explains. “It seemed like NSX was capable of doing a little bit more [than Cisco ACI] and it also seemed like the communities behind NSX and the people who were using NSX and the ability that I had to get a response from people was greater on the NSX side. And so, I started looking more into NSX.”
Allen was looking for stories from other customers with similar Continue reading
Datanauts 142: Cloud-First Networking With Big Switch Networks (Sponsored)
You ve got your traditional on-premises network. You know how it works. Lots of manual configuration and ticket-y stuff to get the job done when someone needs something.
And then you ve got your cloud network. You don t worry about that one as much. The devs provision what they need automatically, hitting APIs as they go, and you keep tabs on things from a watchful distance, helping out as needed.
What if you could operate your on-premises network like you do your public cloud network? What if your hybrid cloud was operationally consistent? Today on the Datanauts, sponsor Big Switch Networks makes some pretty big hybrid cloud networking announcements, and we quiz them on the why and how.
Our guest is Kyle Forster, founder of Big Switch.
We talk about Big Switch’s new products, including the ability to create an on-premises VPC within Big Switch’s data center fabric. The goal is to provide the same operational constructs within your own data center as you’d get in a public cloud like AWS, Azure, or Google.
Show Links:
Multi-Cloud Director Tech Demo
Big Cloud Fabric-Public Cloud Tech Demo