Presentation: Three Paths of Enterprise IT

During last week’s SIGS Technology Conference I had a keynote presentation about the three paths of enterprise IT.

Unfortunately, the event wasn’t recorded, but you can view the presentation here. Contact me if you have any questions, or Irena if you'd like to have a similar keynote for your event.

Cisco’s David Goeckeler talks security, networking, software and SD-WAN outlook

David Goeckeler doesn’t wear all of the hats at Cisco but he certainly wears one of the biggest.Responsible for 20,000 engineers and $32 billion worth of the networking giant’s business, Goeckeler, executive vice president and general manager, masterminds Cisco's network and security strategy which now features ever more emphasis on software. In fact, at the recent Cisco Live, Goeckeler emphasized that notion saying, “all the routers and switches and wireless access points (and in big networks there are going to be tens of thousands of those in a single enterprise network) we're thinking about that as one large software system.”To read this article in full, please click here

Cisco’s David Goeckeler talks security, networking, software and SD-WAN outlook

David Goeckeler doesn’t wear all of the hats at Cisco but he certainly wears one of the biggest.Responsible for 20,000 engineers and $32 billion worth of the networking giant’s business, Goeckeler, executive vice president and general manager, masterminds Cisco's network and security strategy which now features ever more emphasis on software. In fact, at the recent Cisco Live, Goeckeler emphasized that notion saying, “all the routers and switches and wireless access points (and in big networks there are going to be tens of thousands of those in a single enterprise network) we're thinking about that as one large software system.”To read this article in full, please click here

Cisco’s David Goeckeler talks security, networking, software and SD-WAN outlook

David Goeckeler doesn’t wear all of the hats at Cisco but he certainly wears one of the biggest.Responsible for 20,000 engineers and $32 billion worth of the networking giant’s business, Goeckeler, executive vice president and general manager, masterminds Cisco's network and security strategy which now features ever more emphasis on software. In fact, at the recent Cisco Live, Goeckeler emphasized that notion saying, “all the routers and switches and wireless access points (and in big networks there are going to be tens of thousands of those in a single enterprise network) we're thinking about that as one large software system.”To read this article in full, please click here

Oracle launches global internet ‘health’ map

While major cloud providers such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google have spent billions investing in their own networks to provide high-speed backbones, as have connectivity players like Verizon Enterprise, the fact remains that you still have to contend with regular internet traffic on a daily basis.And if your connections to the cloud seem slow, blame Netflix and YouTube, as they account for half of all internet traffic.With that headache in mind, the Oracle Internet Intelligence group has launched a free map of the global health of the internet, allowing enterprises to see where there are bottlenecks in internet traffic and perhaps route around them to their cloud providers.To read this article in full, please click here

Worth Reading: Measurement in the gigabit era

Now is an opportune time for those of us in the technical and research communities to explore the implications of the expanding deployment of gigabit per second (Gbps) end-user connection speeds (throughput capacity of an end-user’s connection) for large-scale measurement systems. —Jason Livingood @APNIC

Worth Reading: Cable management and air damming

As data centers increasingly become the heart of businesses, proper distribution and cable management have also taken on new importance. Traditional methods of preventing air damming, cooling vital components and ensuring proper containment simply fail to deliver. —Jeff Hodges @Data Center Journal

Alert – Web server host migration on June 19, 2018

As you may have noticed, our shiny new website has some speed issues. It is slow for many visitors. Over the past few months we’ve worked on a number of potential changes to improve the site performance. One big change we’re making is to move to a different hosting provider.

That change will happen tomorrow – Tuesday, 19 June 2018 at 13:00 UTC.

Assuming all goes well, you shouldn’t really notice – except that the site should be faster! But if you happen to be browsing the site around 13:00 UTC, you might see some glitches on pages while the DNS magic happens and we change to pointing to the new server.

Once we’ve made this migration, I’ll write more about what we have done and how it has helped our site’s performance. Meanwhile, I just wanted to give a quick alert about this impending change to anyone viewing our site.

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What is Cohesity and why did it just pull in $250M in venture money?

Normally venture funding stories don’t get much play here, but when a company scores $250 million, for a grand total of $410 million raised, one has to wonder what all the hoopla is about. Especially given some of the spectacular flameouts we’ve seen over the years.But Cohesity isn’t vapor; it’s shipping a product that it claims helps solve a problem that has plagued enterprises forever: data siloing.Founded in 2013 and led by Nutanix co-founder Mohit Aron, Cohesity just racked up a $250 million investment led by SoftBank Group’s Vision Fund, which includes funding from Cisco Investments, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, and Sequoia Capital. Those are some big names, to say the least.To read this article in full, please click here

What is Cohesity and why did it just pull in $250M in venture money?

Normally venture funding stories don’t get much play here, but when a company scores $250 million, for a grand total of $410 million raised, one has to wonder what all the hoopla is about. Especially given some of the spectacular flameouts we’ve seen over the years.But Cohesity isn’t vapor; it’s shipping a product that it claims helps solve a problem that has plagued enterprises forever: data siloing.Founded in 2013 and led by Nutanix co-founder Mohit Aron, Cohesity just racked up a $250 million investment led by SoftBank Group’s Vision Fund, which includes funding from Cisco Investments, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, and Sequoia Capital. Those are some big names, to say the least.To read this article in full, please click here

Docker’s Name and Operations Could Appeal to Microsoft, Red Hat, VMware

Acquisition rumors are nothing new for Docker, which said it has attracted more than 1 million new developers and hosted more than 1 million new applications in its Docker Hub over the past year.

Reflecting on the Internet Society’s 2017 Asia-Pacific Activities

The Asia-Pacific Bureau has been producing an annual snapshot of its activities and initiatives for a couple of years now, and we are pleased to present the 2017 edition. While it is not meant to be an exhaustive record of all that we did, it does provide a good overview of our activities in the region.

In addition to the Bureau’s core programmes, our Chapters are also very active in their local communities and, as volunteer-led entities, do amazing work in helping to support and carry out the Internet Society’s mission at the local level. We invited our chapters in the region to submit a summary of their activities, and the submissions that made it before the deadline are included in the report.

As I reflect on 2017, it probably stands out as the year the digital economy began to cement itself in the Asia-Pacific. Across the region, numerous developments, from the emergence (and to some extent, dominance) of local technology firms to new policies designed to facilitate the growth of connected societies all signify that countries in the largest region of the world – both in geography and population – are finally putting their plans into action.

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Sprint Is Building a Dedicated IoT Core Network

By creating a separate core network, Sprint can dynamically add capacity and computing power as it is needed.

Public Cloud Providers Spent 32% More on Infrastructure Year Over Year, Says Synergy Research

This is squeezing the growth opportunity for traditional vendors such as Dell EMC, Cisco, and HPE.

Pivot3 CEO: Our HCI Tops the Acquisition Target List

CEO Ron Nash expects his company to be profitable by next year, which could set the stage for an IPO if Pivot3 isn’t gobbled up first.

Off to the Kubernetes – Networking in a Post VM world

Few people are using containers so why are all the vendors into it ?

Off the Cuff: Microsoft Purchases Github

Last week, Eyvonne, Donald, Alistair, and I sat and talked about the recent purchase of Github by Microsoft. Will this be the end of git as a widely used open source repository, or will we all look back in five years and think “move along, nothing to see here?”

x86 assembly doesn’t have to be scary (interactive)

x86 assembly doesn’t have to be scary (interactive)

Assembly programming can be intimidating for people who have never looked into it any deeper than a glance, but giving that it underpins how the computers we use work it can be helpful having cont

Network Break 189: The Big Cisco Live Roundup; LiveAction Buys Savvius

Worth Reading: Looking forward at session encryption

With TLSv1.3 approved and in the IETF publication queue, it’s time to think about deployment options and obstacles, and planning for changes inherent in this revision. —Kathleen Moriarty @APNIC