Join us at OCP Summit 2018!
Like a kid waiting to open a birthday present, there’s a special kind of excitement buzzing around the Cumulus Networks office. As March 20th-21st draws closer and closer, you can feel the energy going up. Why is that you ask? It’s because that’s the date of OCP Summit 2018, of course! In just a few weeks, we’ll be on our way to the San Jose Convention Center to join up with the OCP community and discuss all the nerdy goodness we can about open networking. We’re looking forward to meeting as many great minds and innovators as we can (and fortunately, it’s not too late for you to sign up!) As members of the Open Compute Project, we cannot wait for this event.
Hold on, what’s OCP?
For those unfamiliar with this amazing project, Open Compute Project (OCP) was started by Facebook in 2009 with the goal to create the world’s most energy efficient data center — one that could scale at any level at the lowest possible cost. Their four core tenets focus on increasing efficiency, improving scalability, maintaining openness and making an impact. A small team of engineers remained dedicated to these tenets and, 2 Continue reading
Voting open for 2018 Internet Society Board of Trustees elections
The 2018 Internet Society Board of Trustees elections have begun!
Electronic ballots were emailed today to all voting representatives. They will have until Monday, 9 April at 15:00 UTC to cast their ballots.
In this year’s election cycle, Organization Members are asked to elect one Trustee to the Board. So voting representatives may vote for only one of the candidates on the Organization Members ballot.
Similarly, in this year’s election cycle, Chapters are asked to elect one Trustee to the Board. So voting representatives may vote for only one of the candidates on the Chapters ballot.
All new Trustees will serve three-year terms commencing in June.
Additional details on the elections, as well as information on all of the candidates can be found here:
https://www.internetsociety.org/board-of-trustees/elections/
To facilitate dialogue between OMAC members and candidates for the Organization Members election, and between Chapter leaders and candidates for the Chapters election, the Elections Committee has again launched an online Candidate Forum. In response to feedback from members, we moved the Forum from the Connect platform to a Mailman mailing list.
Everyone subscribed to the OMAC list was subscribed automatically to the ISOC Organization Members Candidate Forum list. Everyone subscribed to the Continue reading
Tenable’s Lumin Helps CISOs Measure and Quantify Cyber Risk
The company says the average customer detects upwards of 9,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities every month.
Vapor IO and Packet Goose 5G and MEC with On-Demand Pricing
The service will integrate with Vapor IO's Kinetic Edge platform.
Dell Technologies Storage Revenue Dropped 11% in Q4 Fiscal 2018
Execs would not discuss a potential merger with VMware.
Administravia 030818: Added Navigation
I was asked by a reader to add categories and links for videos; I actually added three new categories, one for short videos, another for long videos, and a third for written posts. You can find these under the bottom menu item on the left. I am having a problem with the menu not showing up correctly, so I move the resources under the third menu item, as well.
Finally, I added a new archive page, which shows you all the posts in the “left” category across the three years this blog has been “in production.” I couldn’t figure out how to narrow things down so pictures and other stuff are not included, so there is more on the page than needed right now, but it’s a start.
Cloud Connectivity on the Network Collective
On this episode of the Network Collective, we’re chatting with Miguel Villareal and Scott Wheeler about cloud connectivity.
Netsparker Closes $40M Series A for its App Scanning Software
San Francisco private equity fund Turn/River Capital led the round.
Mesosphere Tightly Integrates Kubernetes in DC/OS Update
The DC/OS platform slashes the steps required for production-ready Kubernetes.
Dell EMC Overtakes HPE in Data Center Server Revenue
White box server revenue is steadily taking revenue from the name brands.
Kate Ekanem: Promoting the Education, Literacy, and Empowerment of Girls in Nigeria
While the personal is almost always political, sometimes the person affected takes action that changes the course of history. That’s what Kate Ekanem has done. The founder of Kate Tales Foundation has spent her entire adult life promoting education, literacy, and empowerment of girls in her home country of Nigeria. And it started with herself.
“I was born into a family stuck with intense adversity, and a rural community with no access to quality education, basic health facility, reliable or no Internet facility, or social and educational opportunities,” Ekanem said. “There was no public library, no clean water, poor power supply, and streets filled with littered debris. Girls were resolving to getting pregnant [by] older men to escape the sting of poverty they were born into.”
After losing her mother at the age of two, Ekanem struggled as the only girl in a family of half-brothers. Her education took a backseat to the boys—something that she never fully accepted.
“I know what it feels like to rise in the morning and have nothing to eat. I know what it feels like to have an unending burning question, but dare not ask, because girls were not supposed to talk when Continue reading
PQ 142: TCP Latency Monitoring With Ruru
Today's Priority Queue peers into the Ruru project, which is open source software for TCP monitoring. Our guest is Ruru developer Richard Cziva. The post PQ 142: TCP Latency Monitoring With Ruru appeared first on Packet Pushers.
