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Who Pays The Price of Redundancy?

No doubt by now you’ve seen the big fire that took out a portion of the OVHcloud data center earlier this week. These kinds of things are difficult to deal with on a good day. This is why data centers have reductant power feeds, fire suppression systems, and the ability to get back up to full capacity. Modern data centers are getting very good at ensuring they can stay up through most events that could impact an on-premises private data center.

One of the issues I saw that was ancillary to the OVHcloud outage was the small group of people that were frustrated that their systems went down when the fire knocked out the racks where their instances lived. More than a couple of comments mentioned that clouds should not go down like this or asked about credit for time spent being offline or some form of complaints about unavailability. By and large, most of those complaining were running non-critical systems or were using the cheapest possible instances for their hosts.

Aside from the myopia that “cloud shouldn’t go down”, how do we deal with this idea that cloud redundancy doesn’t always translate to single instance availability? I think we Continue reading

Weekend Reads 031221


The vast majority of consumers have a poor understanding of data privacy issues yet think they are proactive in protecting themselves, according to a survey of US and UK residents.


Google’s impending takedown of third-party cookies in Chrome is a big win for privacy. And Google


Your employer is nominally based in New York City, but thanks to the pandemic, you didn’t even cross the Hudson River last year. So how is it that New York claims you owe it a pile of cash for state taxes?


In risk-based test management, you find the greatest market threats (that would have a detrimental effect on the enterprise as defined by the consumer) early in the development cycle and then you can counter them by taking preventive steps.


A new DNSSEC signature must be issued before the existing signature expires. The process of keeping the DNSSEC signature up to date is automatic DNSSEC zone signing.


More than 6,700 VMware vCenter Server systems are publicly accessible and vulnerable to a newly reported critical remote code execution (RCE) flaw that attackers are looking to exploit.


Frustrated by the software limitations of your router? Replacing it with the Linux-powered DD-WRT firmware can be a big Continue reading

Heavy Networking 566: Inside Intel’s Strategy To Unlock Data Center Performance (Sponsored)

On today's Heavy Networking we dive into Intel's portfolio---including Tofino, SmartNICs, P4, and more---to understand how it unlocks the compute power of your data center. Our guest is Mike Zeile, Data Center Group Vice President and General Manager of End-to-End Network Applications at Intel. Intel is our sponsor.

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In Macedonia, Strengthening IXP.mk’s Peering Infrastructure

The Internet Society has been supporting the development of the Internet in Macedonia by collaborating with the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering (FCSE) of the Saints Cyril and Methodius University in Macedonia on its IXP.mk project. IXPs play a critical role in bringing faster and more affordable Internet, and the Macedonian IXP (IXP.mk) had been established in June 2018 with technical support from a number of stakeholders.

Switch and MUX to Strengthen Infrastructure

As traffic grew, IXP.mk needed to increase its peering capacity with improved switching capabilities and space for data racks that would allow it to attract new participants to the exchange. In 2020, the Internet Society provided IXP.mk with a switch and two Fiber Optic Multiplexers (Fiber Mux) that enabled an additional peering location to be established in the Telesmart Telekom data center, thereby making it easier for other major networks and Content Distribution Networks to peer with each other. The Fiber Muxes support the transmission of multiple data channels over a single fiber that has been donated by an existing member of IXP.mk.

Critical Service Provider

With a strong peering infrastructure, IXP.mk is now a critical service provider to Continue reading

Lessons Learned from Scaling Up Cloudflare’s Anomaly Detection Platform

Introduction to Anomaly Detection for Bot Management

Lessons Learned from Scaling Up Cloudflare’s Anomaly Detection Platform

Cloudflare’s Bot Management platform follows a “defense in depth” model. Although each layer of Bot Management has its own strengths and weaknesses, the combination of many different detection systems — including Machine Learning, rule-based heuristics, JavaScript challenges, and more — makes for a robust platform in which different detection systems compensate for each other’s weaknesses.

One of these systems is Anomaly Detection, a platform motivated by a simple idea: because bots are made to accomplish specific goals, such as credential stuffing or content scraping, they interact with websites in distinct and difficult-to-disguise ways. Over time, the actions of a bot are likely to differ from those of a real user. Anomaly detection aims to model the characteristics of legitimate user traffic as a healthy baseline. Then, when automated bot traffic is set against this baseline, the bots appear as outlying anomalies that can be targeted for mitigation.

An anomaly detection approach is:

  • Resilient against bots that try to circumvent protections by spoofing request metadata (e.g., user agents)
  • Able to catch previously unseen bots without being explicitly trained against them.

So, how well does this work?

Today, Anomaly Detection processes more than Continue reading

Cisco bumps up its silicon speed to 25.6Tbps

Cisco continues to crank up the speed of its webscaler-class Silicon One devices, this week adding three new devices—including 25.6Tbps switching silicon it says delivers  1.7 times higher bandwidth and three times higher packets-per-second than other silicon on the market.Cisco unveiled the Silicon One family of unified switches and routers in 2019 as part of what it called its “Internet for the Future”  strategy.  The Silicon One family is important as Cisco has designs on being a leading provider of the network underpinnings of large webscale and service provider networks. The family can also help Cisco compete effectively with others such as Intel, Broadcom, Juniper, Arista.To read this article in full, please click here

Cisco bumps up its silicon speed to 25.6Tbps

Cisco continues to crank up the speed of its webscaler-class Silicon One devices, this week adding three new devices—including 25.6Tbps switching silicon it says delivers  1.7 times higher bandwidth and three times higher packets-per-second than other silicon on the market.Cisco unveiled the Silicon One family of unified switches and routers in 2019 as part of what it called its “Internet for the Future”  strategy.  The Silicon One family is important as Cisco has designs on being a leading provider of the network underpinnings of large webscale and service provider networks. The family can also help Cisco compete effectively with others such as Intel, Broadcom, Juniper, Arista.To read this article in full, please click here

Video: Cisco SD-WAN Routing Design

After reviewing Cisco SD-WAN policies, it’s time to dig into the routing design. In this section, David Penaloza enumerated several possible topologies, types of transport, their advantages and drawbacks, considerations for tunnel count and regional presence, and what you should consider beforehand when designing the solution from the control plane’s perspective.

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Video: Cisco SD-WAN Routing Design

After reviewing Cisco SD-WAN policies, it’s time to dig into the routing design. In this section, David Penaloza enumerated several possible topologies, types of transport, their advantages and drawbacks, considerations for tunnel count and regional presence, and what you should consider beforehand when designing the solution from the control plane’s perspective.

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Top enterprise data center trends you need to know

Data-center networking was already changing prior to the technology challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, and few areas of the enterprise will continue to be affected more than data centers by those modifications in the future.That’s because myriad technologies are driving changes in the data center—everything from heavy demand for higher-speed networking, support for a remote workforce, increased security, tighter management and perhaps the biggest alteration—the prolific growth of cloud services.To read this article in full, please click here

Top enterprise data center trends you need to know

Data-center networking was already changing prior to the technology challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, and few areas of the enterprise will continue to be affected more than data centers by those modifications in the future.That’s because myriad technologies are driving changes in the data center—everything from heavy demand for higher-speed networking, support for a remote workforce, increased security, tighter management and perhaps the biggest alteration—the prolific growth of cloud services.To read this article in full, please click here

Top enterprise data center trends you need to know

Data-center networking was already changing prior to the technology challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, and few areas of the enterprise will continue to be affected more than data centers by those modifications in the future.That’s because myriad technologies are driving changes in the data center—everything from heavy demand for higher-speed networking, support for a remote workforce, increased security, tighter management and perhaps the biggest alteration—the prolific growth of cloud services.To read this article in full, please click here

How to Improve Employee Morale

We are going through a situation that is unprecedented and heart-breaking. There are so many emotions attached to the situation right now that if you started naming them one by one, it would take you a significant amount of time. The world is crumbling apart, and the worst part is that most people have to work to provide for their families. It doesn’t matter if they are working from home or the office, anxieties and stress are increasing and you can do nothing about it.

The work is increasing, the health situation is deteriorating, and there is too much uncertainty. Which is why companies, like ours, are working to promote ways in which you can help boost your employee’s morale.

When you ask the question, “How to Improve Employee Morale”, we make sure that we provide you with the exact results which can help you. You can also visit our website to see the many products available to you.

Here are just a couple of ways in which you can boost your employee’s morale.

Be Transparent

What your employees need more than anything in the world right now is transparency. They need to know what is going on and what Continue reading

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