SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — May 18, 2018
Red Hat enhances its virtualization game; HPE releases AI and ML suite for telcos; CA Technologies gets stamp of approval from U.S. Department of Defense.
DC Blox Snares $37M in Funding for Southeast Data Center Expansion
The Atlanta-based firm expects to add new data centers by year-end to support multi-access edge computing and cloud services.
Dustin’s Internet Community Roadtrip: In the Bay Area, What Redwoods Can Teach Us About the Internet
Dustin Phillips, Co-Executive Director of ICANNWiki, is traveling across the United States in his red Toyota Corolla, making connections with the people who are making their communities – and the Internet – a better place. While making his way to the Bay Area from Portland, Oregon, he took a slight detour.
On my way down to the Bay Area from Portland, I made a trip through the Redwood National and State Parks of Northern California. These Coastal Redwoods have existed for over 20 million years and individual trees can live over 2,000 years. What makes these ancient giants so resilient?
They find strength in community.
Redwoods grow in groves, or “communities,” where the roots only go down 10-13 feet (3-4 m) before spreading outward 60-80 feet (20-27 m). In this phenomenon, survival is dependent on interconnection, meaning the roots intertwine and fuse with each other to provide resiliency against the threats of nature and share the resources necessary to thrive.
This lesson from the redwoods is directly applicable to the Internet. The “network of networks” would be nothing without interconnection or the shared resources of open standards and protocols. Expanding wider, not deeper, is essential to the resilience Continue reading
Is Training The Enemy of Progress?
Peyton Maynard-Koran was the keynote speaker at InteropITX this year. If you want to catch the video, check this out:
Readers of my blog my remember that Peyton and I don’t see eye-to-eye on a few things. Last year I even wrote up some thoughts about vendors and VARs that were a direct counterpoint to many of the things that have been said. It has even gone further with a post from Greg Ferro (@EtherealMind) about the intelligence level of the average enterprise IT customer. I want to take a few moments and explore one piece of this puzzle that keeps being brought up: You.
Protein Robots
You are a critical piece of the IT puzzle. Why? You’re a thinking person. You can intuit facts and extrapolate cause from nothing. You are NI – natural intelligence. There’s an entire industry of programmers chasing what you have. They are trying to build it into everything that blinks or runs code. The first time that any company has a real breakthrough in true artificial intelligence (AI) beyond complicated regression models will be a watershed day for us all.
However, you are also the problem. You have requirements. You need a Continue reading
What to Expect: CCIE Security Written Exam Bootcamp
Whether you’ve just started your CCIE training journey, or are already several months along, an INE bootcamp can help get you to where you need to be before taking the CCIE Written or lab exam. This blogpost is for anyone who may be interested in attending a CCIE Security bootcamp but is hesitant to dive in. Keep reading to find out what a bootcamp is and what you should expect when attending a CCIE Security Bootcamp with INE.
What is a Bootcamp?
Bootcamps are intensive, live classes that typically last from 5-7 days. Bootcamps allow you to dive further into your study path in a small classroom environment with an in-person, expert INE instructor leading the way. Each bootcamp class will cover a specific list of topics tailored to the Cisco track and certification level you are studying. Our instructors will customize the training to focus on certain topics and technologies that best meet the individual requests of the students in your bootcamp.
What to expect: Instructor’s Point of View
In this short video, our CCIE Security instructor, Rohit Pardasani, explains what topics he typically covers in a bootcamp and what the environment is like.
What to Continue reading
Digital Self-Defense for Palestinian Schoolgirls
Cyber-bullying is a growing phenomenon amongst preteens. Studies have established that nearly 43% of children are victims of cyberbullying and girls are twice as likely to be targeted. Students who experienced cyber attacks suffer drops in school grades and have more suicidal thoughts than those who had never dealt with such forms of peer aggression. A link between cyber harassment victimization and noncompletion of school has been demonstrated resulting in increased risk of poor education and substance abuse in adulthood.
Sadly, the majority of the victims do not report the incidents to adults or authorities due to fear of negative effects and social scandal. The tacit support given to the bullying perpetrators through silence contributes to the escalation of victimization. Banning technology is not the answer. Cyberbullying prevention in schools is crucial to defend students from this new face of violence.
The Internet Society Palestine Chapter is conducting a campaign to raise awareness about the dangers of electronic blackmail and cyber harassment. The project, funded by the Internet Society Beyond the Net, has already reached more than 2250 schoolgirls in 25 Palestinian schools in phase I of the project.
Ahmad Alsadeh, assistant professor at Birzeit University and Continue reading
Short Take – Security As A Tradeoff
In this episode Russ White talks about how security absolutism is actually detrimental to securing important data and systems, and how shifting our view of security to a balance of tradeoffs would be a much better approach.
Russ White
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5G Rollout: A Realistic View
There's been a lot of hype about what 5G will bring, but we're years away from highly immersive experiences. Here's what to expect.
Automation Example: Deploy MPLS/VPN Services
Steve Krause created a full-blown network services deployment solution, including post-deployment validation of OSPF and BGP routing, while attending Building Network Automation Solutions online course (I prefer course attendees working on real-life problems instead of artificial ones).
Hope you’ll enjoy exploring it ;)
House Committee Snubs Trump’s Request to Save ZTE
Trump today said his support of ZTE came directly from a request made by Chinese President Xi.