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BrandPost: How digital transformation affects IT goals, staff

Every day, vendors are trying to sell you on digital transformation, but are they truly helping you transform? Most are simply looking for a sales pitch to move you to their latest and greatest products. They’re plying you with stories of operational savings and productivity numbers.However, they’re missing the key to a successful digital business: the experience. Be it customer, user, or administrator experience, the human interaction with technology is the difference between successful digital transformation and simply being on the cutting edge of technology.At Extreme, our tagline is Connect Beyond the Network. We understand the importance of the experience. Yes, we’ll offer you scalability, security, simplicity and all the other buzzwords touted throughout the industry; however, what we really offer are experience-driven outcomes.To read this article in full, please click here

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Some Things I Learned About VeloCloud SD-WAN

Some things about VeloCloud I learned at #NFD17

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Intel Offloads Wind River to Investment Firm TPG

The deal ends Intel’s near decade of ownership of Wind River. The embedded software firm will keep its existing management team when it's independent.

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CEO Succession at Internet Society – Friday Deadline for Open Call for Candidates

As I informed our community in my last note, we launched the Open Call for CEO Candidates on Friday, 9 March 2018.

The deadline for applications is 23:59 UTC on Friday, 6 April 2018

This means that potential candidates interested in applying still have a few more days to do so. Candidates can apply for the position by visiting the Perrett Laver (our search firm for this process) web site using the following link:

https://candidates.perrettlaver.com/vacancies/726/ceo/

While the Candidate Pack (information about the CEO position) has been available for download on the link above during the whole open call, we have received input from our community asking us to make the Candidate Pack available also on a regular URL outside the search firm’s portal. Accordingly, for your convenience, we have now made it available on the following link as well:

https://www.internetsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Internet-Society-CEO-Succession.pdf

Please, distribute this call to potential candidates who may be interested so that they can apply before the upcoming deadline.

The ongoing open call for candidates will result in a long list of candidates. Taking the long list as a starting point, the whole board (at this point the search committee has already done Continue reading

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Worth Reading: Connectivity as a consumer service

Having Comcast et al provide Internet connectivity is like having your barber do surgery because he knows how to use a knife. I was reminded of this when my Comcast connection failed. —Bob Frankston @CircleID

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BrandPost: A Prefabricated Data Center Upgrade Enables SMB Digital Transformation

The concept of digital transformation is rather simple, but the process to actually transform the organization is quite complex and far-reaching. Small and midsize businesses (SMBs) are not exempt from this transformation and must meet many of the same challenges that far larger enterprises face. The reality is that SMBs need the same level of IT capabilities and services as their large competitors.One of the most elemental changes impacting the IT environment is the need to ensure that the physical infrastructure supporting servers, storage, and network equipment is up to the job of enabling digital transformation. A digital business is truly reliant on its systems, and any outages, downtime, or service interruptions have major consequences on both the business and the business’s customers. Given that substantial downtime is caused by power, wiring, or cooling problems that impact key hardware systems, investing in digital systems that have circa 2005 physical infrastructure supporting them is a losing proposition.To read this article in full, please click here

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AT&T Makes Big Whitebox Bet

Bunch of announcements from ATT are harbingers ?

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Istio Keeps Digging Toward 1.0 GA Release

The platform is increasingly popping up in conversations tied to the orchestration and management of containers in a production environment.

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Data Center Report Finds Cost Is Not the Big Driver for New Technology

A big driver for using next-generation technologies was improved capabilities to configure, troubleshoot, and measure data center networks.

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On the ‘net: GPU’s and Composable Systems

Advances in computing often come from odd angles; routing and switching came out of the need to connect multiple proprietary systems in some way, locally and over long distances (hence the long standard emphasis on open standards and interoperability in the network engineering world). Another interesting development of this type is the boom in Graphic Processing Units (GPUs). @GestaltIT

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Mosaic NetworX Shortens Its SD-WAN Sales Process With Connected2Fiber

Mosaic NetworX integrated Connected2Fiber’s connected world platform with its Salesforce instance to more effectively design and sell its SD-WAN service.

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Juniper Networks’ Security Strategy: Unify Everything, Keep it Open

Juniper Networks security team wants to unify threat detection, automated enforcement, and mitigation in a unified platform and integrate with other technology vendors to support non-Juniper gear.

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Extend your security view from the data center to the edge

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Red Hat Rides Containers, Kubernetes, Hybrid Cloud Into the Future

OpenShift, OpenStack, and Ansible were key drivers for 2018 results, with the impending acquisition of CoreOS set to bolster its container and Kubernetes position moving forward.

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Real-time baseline anomaly detection

The screen capture demonstrates the real-time baseline and anomaly detection based on industry standard sFlow streaming telemetry. The chart was generated using sFlow-RT analytics software. The blue line is an up to the second measure of traffic (measured in Bits per Second). The red and gold lines represent dynamic upper and lower limits calculated by the baseline function. The baseline function flags "high" and "low" value anomalies when values move outside the limits. In this case, a "low" value anomaly was flagged for the drop in traffic shown in the chart.

Writing Applications provides a general introduction to sFlow-RT programming. The baseline functionality is exposed through through the JavaScript API.

Create new baseline

baselineCreate(name,window,sensitivity,repeat);

Where:

• name, name used to reference baseline.
• window, the number of previous intervals to consider in calculating the limits.
• sensitivity, the number of standard deviations used to calculate the limits.
• repeat, the number of successive data points outside the limits before flagging anomaly 

In this example, baseline parameter values were window=180 (seconds), sensitivity=2, and repeat=3.

Update baseline

var status = baselineCheck(name,value);

Where:

• status, "learning" while baseline is warming up (takes window intervals),  "normal" if value is in expected range, "low" Continue reading

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We’ve Added a New VMWare Course to Our Video Library!

VMware Cloud on AWS is an on-demand service that enables you to run applications across vSphere-based cloud environments with access to a broad range of AWS services. Powered by VMware Cloud Foundation, this service integrates vSphere, vSAN and NSX along with VMware vCenter management, and is optimized to run on dedicated, elastic, bare-metal AWS infrastructure. With this service, IT teams can manage their cloud-based resources with familiar VMware tools. This course is 2 hours and 25 minutes long and taught by Joseph Holbrook.

 

Why You Should Watch:

VMWare Cloud on AWS allows you take advantage of what you already know and have in your existing infrastructure. Your existing skills, investment in training, operational practices, and investment in software licenses remain relevant and applicable when you move to the public cloud. As part of that move you can forget about building & running data centers, modernizing hardware, and scaling to meet transient or short-term demand. You can also take advantage of a long list of AWS compute, database, analytics, IoT, AI, security, mobile, deployment and application services.

What You’ll Learn:

This course covers the VMware Cloud on AWS service overview, Prereqs, Licensing, SDDC, Hybrid Linked Mode, NSX, Compute Options, Connectivity Continue reading

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Worth Reading: Latency wags the dog

The expression, the tail wags the dog, is used when a seemingly unimportant factor or infrequent event actually dominates the situation. It turns out that in modern datacenters, this is precisely the case – with relatively rare events determining overall performance. —Kevin Deierling @The Next Platform

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Team ISOC @ APRICOT 2018

Last month in Kathmandu, Nepal, 750 delegates participated in APRICOT 2018 – Asia-Pacific’s largest Internet conference. It was led by Internet Exchange Nepal (npIX) with support from several organizations including the Internet Society (ISOC) Nepal Chapter.

The Internet Society, through its Asia-Pacific Bureau, is a long-term partner of the APRICOT conferences, sponsoring a competitive fellowship programme, as part of the Internet Society’s mission to support capacity building in developing countries. Read more about our fellows at APRICOT 2018:

Meet the APRICOT 2018 Fellows

Team ISOC @ APRICOT 2018 comprised of staff from Regional Bureaus and Internet Technology. This included Andrei Robachevsky, Aftab Siddiqui, Rajnesh Singh, Salam Yamout, and myself.

In line with the Internet Society’s 2018 Action Plan, our core message at APRICOT 2018 was to strengthen the global Internet routing system and mitigate many of the risks facing the Internet’s core today. This includes route hijacking, traffic detouring, and address spoofing – which is a root cause of Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks. We promoted the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS), a set of recommendations addressing these risks, already adopted by some network operators.

Team ISOC took on a wide variety of roles Continue reading

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Arista Announces 25G/100G Hardware for ECMP DC LANs

These should last you a decade or more.

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Cumulus content roundup: April

It’s the beginning of a brand new month, and you know what that means… it’s time for the Cumulus content roundup! This month, we can’t stop talking about leveraging Linux and disaggregation — and it looks like we’re not the only ones who have white-box fever (congrats on joining the movement, Cisco)! All the webinars, videos and white papers you could ask for are included in this roundup, so grab a comfy seat and check out everything that piques your interest.

The latest from Cumulus

The S.O.U.L revolution: The era of oppressive traditional networking ends today! It’s time to add some S.O.U.L to your data center network. What does S.O.U.L stand for? Watch this video to find out and get into the movement that’s revolutionizing the way we think about networking.

Web-scale networking for telco: Cumulus Networks commissioned Heavy Reading to conduct a survey of 70+ IT leaders in the Telco and CSP space to understand what is top of mind in terms of IT priorities. Download this white paper to see what we discovered about their top concerns.

Why Linux in the data center: a fireside chat: Continue reading