IETF: Day 1
Note to readers: I’m currently at the IETF in Yokohama; each day I’m going to try to post something about the days events y’all might find interesting. Sunday night — arrived at Yokohama around one in the afternoon after 16+ hours in flight, plus layovers, a one and a half hour bus ride, and then […]
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IT Jobs 2016: Biggest Salary Increases
Find out which networking positions will be getting the biggest raises in the new year, and calculate your own target salary.As HP Prepares to Split, Some Obits for an Icon
HP's final working day as a single company is marked by a look at the split companies & memories of halcyon days.
SDxCentral Weekly News Roundup — October 30, 2015
Verizon gets serious about IOT while Ericsson launches a 5G exchange in Europe
WLPC 2015 @ Berlin
For the second year in a row I attended Wireless Lan Professionals Conference Europe, this time in Berlin. Location The choice of location this time was much better, last year I went to Maastrich through Brussels, most people didn’t liked…iPexpert’s Newest “CCIE Wall of Fame” Additions 10/30/2015
Please join us in congratulating the following iPexpert students who have passed their CCIE lab!
10 use cases where NoSQL will outperform SQL
This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach.
Once only used by the likes of Google, Amazon and Facebook, many industries are now adopting NoSQL database technology for crucial business applications, replacing their relational database deployments to gain flexibility and scalability. Here are 10 enterprise use cases best addressed by NoSQL:
* Personalization. A personalized experience requires data, and lots of it – demographic, contextual, behavioral and more. The more data available, the more personalized the experience. However, relational databases are overwhelmed by the volume of data required for personalization. In contrast, a distributed NoSQL database can scale elastically to meet the most demanding workloads and build and update visitor profiles on the fly, delivering the low latency required for real-time engagement with your customers.
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Xen Patches ‘Worst’-Ever Virtual Machine Escape Vulnerability
Bug remained undetected for seven years and enabled complete control of host system.Multivendor Throwdown on Tap at ONUG Fall 2015
Vendors aim to prove they're ready to support a new IT paradigm.
Worth Reading: Rebuilding with Docker
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PlexxiPulse—Don’t Let Scalability Spook You
Last week, our director of product marketing, Bob Noel, penned a blog post that identified the five new networking requirements being driven by IoT and Big Data. This week, we are shining the spotlight on one of the third era of IT requirements Bob highlighted – scalability. In today’s dynamic application environments, the ability to scale gracefully to be able to handle distributed applications is critical. The network must be scaled to match demand, but the challenge (and a pain point for many) is how. Traditional “scale up” techniques were about replacing outgrown processing and storage capacity with bigger boxes and migrating data onto the new platform. Now, as the environment grows, more physical devices will be connected to the network. Providers need to think beyond adding capacity through bigger pipes and consider how to support a rapidly growing number of storage and compute nodes. It can be spooky thing to consider, but at Plexxi we make scaling your network to meet Third Era demands a treat, not a trick.
Below please find a few of our top picks for our favorite news articles of the week. Happy Halloween!
Enterprise Networking Planet: Better Networking Through the API
By Arthur Cole
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Book Review: ‘The Peripheral’ By William Gibson
William Gibson is working at the height of his abilities in The Peripheral. Characters move back and forth between near present-day and an unusual post-apocalyptic future, and the book blends high-tech, visionary showpieces with themes of class, opportunity, and economic injustice.
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Good Open-Source Governance: Thoughts on ‘Focus & the Big Tent’ Panel at OpenDaylight Summit 2015
Five characteristics for good project governance.
Is DDoS Mitigation as-a-Service becoming a defacto offering for providers?
Republished from Corero DDoS Blog
It’s well known in the industry that DDoS attacks are becoming more frequent and increasingly debilitating, turning DDoS mitigation into a mission critical initiative. From the largest of carriers to small and mid-level enterprises, more and more Internet connected businesses are becoming a target of DDoS attacks. What was once a problem that only a select few dealt with is now becoming a regularly occurring burden faced by network operators.
In my daily engagements with various customers of all shapes and sizes, it’s truly interesting to see how the approach to DDoS mitigation is changing. Much of this is the result of DDoS mitigation services shifting from a “nice to have” technology to a “must-have”, essential in order to maintain business continuity and availability.
When I built DDoS mitigation and detection services for Verizon back in 2004, the intent was to offer value-add revenue producing services to offer subscribers, in an effort to build out our security offerings. For many years, this concept was one that pretty much every provider I worked with was looking into; build a service with the intent of generating new revenue opportunity from customers when traditional avenues such as Continue reading