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Zero Trust. Maximize Network Virtualization and Micro-segmentation

VMware recently commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate how organizations are improving the security of their infrastructure through network virtualization and micro-segmentation.

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CenturyLink Plans to Lay Off 2% of Its Workforce

Union leaders lash out at CenturyLink's CEO Glen Post, but it's likely the layoffs come from former Level 3 executives who are taking over leadership of the company.

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NetScout Revenue Sinks 27% in Q4 Fiscal 2018

The company also reported more downward guidance for its upcoming fiscal year, but remains optimistic about its product revenue.

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Link Propagation 117

Welcome to Link Propagation, a Packet Pushers newsletter. Link Propagation is included in your free membership. Each week we scour the InterWebs to find the most relevant practitioner blog posts, tech news, and product announcements. We drink from the fire hose so you can sip from a coffee cup. Blogs How Real Life Can Change […]

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Transitioning Away From Legacy IT

One of the more exciting things I saw at Dell Technologies World this week was the announcement by VMware that they are supporting Microsoft Azure now in additional to AWS. It’s interesting because VMware is trying to provide a proven, stable migration path for companies that are wanting to move to the cloud but still retain their investments in VMware and legacy virtualization. But is offing legacy transition a good idea?

Hold On For One More Day

If I were to mention VLAN 1002-1005 to networking people, they would likely jump up and tell me that I was crazy. Because those VLANs are not valid on any Cisco switches save for the Nexus line. But why? What makes these forbidden? Unless you’re studying for your CCIE you probably just know these are bad and move on.

Turns out, they are a legacy transition mechanism from the IOS-SX days. 1002 and 1004 were designed to bridge FDDI-to-Ethernet, and 1003 and 1005 did the same for Token Ring. As Greg Ferro points out here, this code was tightly bound into IOS-SX and likely couldn’t be removed for fear of breaking the OS. The reservation continued forward in all IOS branches except Continue reading

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Carbon Black Stock Raises $125 Million in Public Debut

The security company priced its IPO at the high end of its $17-$19 range.

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Weekend Reads 05042018: It’s time to opt in to security

Start with your business goals and decide which metrics are required to accurately measure the state of these goals. For example, say an ISP wishes to ensure that their subscribers get the best performance possible during peak usage time — this can be monitored by measuring the oversubscription ratio and uplink utilization of the terminating device. The required metrics to do this are the number of connected sessions, ifHCInOctets, ifHCOutOctets, ifHCSpeed of the uplink from the terminating device. —Tim Raphael @APNIC

What is the best threat management system for a business network? It’s a difficult question to answer because threat management isn’t about finding a single solution to every problem; it’s about layering multiple solutions in a way that offers the best protection against a variety of threats. —Diana Shtil @Dark Reading

Tomorrow, the House Judiciary Committee will host what’s likely to be a wide-ranging discussion of how social media companies moderate content, in its hearing on Filtering Practices of Social Media Platforms. While the hearing is sure to include some spectacle and grandstanding, make no mistake: This is a deeply serious issue that deserves thoughtful consideration by policymakers, companies, and users alike. Here are a few key themes we Continue reading

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Google Cloud Swallows 300 Petabytes of Twitter Storage

Twitter runs multiple Hadoop clusters across tens of thousands of servers for storage and analytics.

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Samsung Leverages Reliance Jio’s LTE Success for 5G Growth

The South Korean company provided the LTE core and RAN gear for the Indian operator’s greenfield network. The scale of the network is bigger than AT&T and Verizon’s networks combined.

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Fortinet Quadruples Q1 Revenues, Posts Triple-Digit Cloud Growth

Investors were not as impressed as the company's stock was trading down early Friday off of a recent 52-week high.

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Spectre Next Gen Bugs Hit Intel CPUs, Cisco Catches Cryptojacking Threats

Intel classified four of the new flaws as “high risk” and four as “medium,” and it's working on patches.

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Arista Predicts 20% Growth for the Remainder of 2018, But Stock Drops

Arista reported excellent earnings for its Q1 2018, but Wall Street, with its insatiable appetite, is concerned the company's growth rates are slowing.

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SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — May 4, 2018

Google releases workflow creation beta; Deutsche Telekom puts 5G technology on German soil; HPE and Red Hat collaborate on containers.

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Trinkets

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Show 388: The Future Of Networking With Kyle Mestery

The post Show 388: The Future Of Networking With Kyle Mestery appeared first on Packet Pushers.

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VMware and VeloCloud announce their networking and security strategy

It’s been a few months since VMware closed its acquisition of VeloCloud, a prominent SD-WAN provider. In that time, the two companies have worked to integrate their products, and recently they announced a unified strategy called the Virtual Cloud Network.The strategy fully supports the migration of applications and data out of the enterprise data center to the cloud and to branches — and with IoT, pretty much anything can be considered a branch today, as VeloCloud claims to have a customer with ocean-going ships as branches. The result is that many enterprises are in a position where their applications are everywhere, and their data is everywhere. This has profound implications on the network that needs to support all of this.To read this article in full, please click here

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VMware and VeloCloud announce their networking and security strategy

It’s been a few months since VMware closed its acquisition of VeloCloud, a prominent SD-WAN provider. In that time, the two companies have worked to integrate their products, and recently they announced a unified strategy called the Virtual Cloud Network.The strategy fully supports the migration of applications and data out of the enterprise data center to the cloud and to branches — and with IoT, pretty much anything can be considered a branch today, as VeloCloud claims to have a customer with ocean-going ships as branches. The result is that many enterprises are in a position where their applications are everywhere, and their data is everywhere. This has profound implications on the network that needs to support all of this.To read this article in full, please click here

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VMware and VeloCloud announce their networking and security strategy

It’s been a few months since VMware closed its acquisition of VeloCloud, a prominent SD-WAN provider. In that time, the two companies have worked to integrate their products, and recently they announced a unified strategy called the Virtual Cloud Network.The strategy fully supports the migration of applications and data out of the enterprise data center to the cloud and to branches — and with IoT, pretty much anything can be considered a branch today, as VeloCloud claims to have a customer with ocean-going ships as branches. The result is that many enterprises are in a position where their applications are everywhere, and their data is everywhere. This has profound implications on the network that needs to support all of this.To read this article in full, please click here

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Dogfooding Cloudflare Workers

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The Future is About the Business, Not the Technology