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SAP Girds for COVID-19 Related Uncertainty

The vendor said the update assumes the demand environment continues to deteriorate through Q2...

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BiB093: Declare A K8s Stack With Spectro Cloud

Spectro Cloud is Kubernetes management. But...that's really oversimplifying it, especially with the hundreds of offerings that have something to with Kubernetes management or KaaS. If I'm being more precise, Spectro Cloud is about managing an entire infrastructure stack that's built around Kubernetes.

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BiB093: Declare A K8s Stack With Spectro Cloud

Spectro Cloud is Kubernetes management. But...that's really oversimplifying it, especially with the hundreds of offerings that have something to with Kubernetes management or KaaS. If I'm being more precise, Spectro Cloud is about managing an entire infrastructure stack that's built around Kubernetes.

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Dragonfly Brings Peer-to-Peer Image Sharing to Kubernetes

Dragonfly, a peer-to-peer image and file-sharing technology developed by Cloud Native Computing Foundation. The software provides a way to quickly distribute images across large cloud native deployments, eliminating the dependency on a single registry to distribute all the copies of an image. “Dragonfly is one of the backbone technologies for container platforms within Alibaba’s ecosystem, supporting billions of application deliveries each year, and in use by many enterprise customers around the world,” said Dragonfly in 2015, originally to ease file distribution. By 2017, when it was adopted to share containers within Kubernetes environments, it was being used by the Chinese cloud service to share 3.4PB each month. It was originally accepted into the OCI (Open Container Initiative). It can work with CNCF’s Prometheus and display them on a Helm can be used to install Dragonfly within a Kubernetes cluster. Project maintainers come from Alibaba, ByteDance, eBay, and Meitu. Overall it has 67 contributors from 21 organizations. It has been downloaded over 100,000 times from Docker Hub and has massed 6,000 GitHub stars. Learn more about Dragonfly, visit liggraphy from 

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Daily Roundup: Cisco Swipes Back at VMware SD-WAN Claim

Cisco swiped back at VMware's SD-WAN claim; McAfee beefed up its SASE with browser isolation; and...

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The Greatest Asset to Open Source is Community

"Closed limited resources and ideas can never compete with something that is open to the world –...

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Load balancer with BGP and UCMP

Uniform load distribution to anycast servers using BGP bandwidth community and unequal cost multipath forwarding

Scalable modern applications are deployed as clusters of server instances and load balancers are needed to distribute client requests across server instances. In order to ensure positive user experience an application needs to be always responsive and no instance should get bogged down with overload.

Sophisticated load balancing solutions help but often involve expensive and proprietary components. These also are additional point of failure requiring maintenance and are often overkill for most use cases.

Here is one solution to this complex problem that can achieve spreading client requests evenly across application servers with network switches running Cumulus Linux. All this is achieved without adding any additional device or component.

The case in point is that the user has a large number of anycast services running in a multipod Clos network. The number of service endpoints can dynamically change and user expectation is that service endpoints get uniformly loaded.

This solution works well for both cases, one where Clos fabric is Layer-3 only network and another where we have Evpn vxlan overlay network. Care must be taken though to select switch hardware that can support overlay Continue reading

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Why Is So Much Internet Traffic Leaving Pakistan?

This article appeared first on the APNIC website.

At the recent SANOG meeting held in my homeland, Pakistan, I wanted to provide the local community with some insights into the importance of Internet exchanges (IXs), specifically the need to host content locally.

Knowing that data is king among network operators, I set up a virtual machine as soon as I arrived to collect information on several key metrics, including latency and the hosting location of .pk domains. Needless to say, the results were surprising.

How long does it take to connect to public Domain Name System (DNS) services?

First, I tested for latency, specifically the time it takes to PING three of the most popular public DNS services: Cloudflare DNS (1.1.1.1), Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8), and Quad9 (9.9.9.9). PING is not the best way to test DNS but this is for reachability purpose only.

Before leaving my home in Sydney, Australia, I did the same to offer a comparison. As you can see from the results in Figure 1, all were below 1ms.

The results for Pakistan were Continue reading

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Nokia Expands RAN Portfolio, Releases DSS

All of the new RAN gear is running on chipsets from Nokia’s ReefShark portfolio, including new...

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IBM Touts AI Cure to Secure Supply Woes

“No company can afford not to have a multi-dimensional, dynamic supply strategy that is capable...

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SaltStack’s CTO on Pandemics, the End of Empires and Software’s Future

It is too early to determine to what extent our lives will change in the future once the Coronavirus pandemic has run its full course. However, in the software industry, some possible outcomes are beginning to emerge, including consolidation and the potential for great changes to take place — both good and bad. As a harbinger of what may come, SaltStack, a leading automation network infrastructure provider, evoked historical examples of pandemics and plagues in the past. He discussed what changes they wrought on ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire and the Renaissance era, while drawing parallels with the software industry. Patch also shared with The New Stack in this Q&A how software engineers’ lives have hardly changed, the folly of forcing workers to come to the office when they really do not need to and his observations of network infrastructure saturation in the wake of the

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Cloning Remote Linux Machines

I would like to share the second version (1.1) of the Bash script backup_images-1.1.sh which you can use for cloning disks of remote Linux machines. The script reads IP addresses of the hosts from a file and copy the disks with dd command over SSH connection. The disks are stored on a local machine, compressed […]
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Internship Experience: Cryptography Engineer

Back in the summer of 2017 I was an intern at Cloudflare. During the scholastic year I was a graduate student working on automorphic forms and computational Langlands at Berkeley: a part of number theory with deep connections to representation theory, aimed at uncovering some of the deepest facts about number fields. I had also gotten involved in Internet standardization and security research, but much more on the applied side.

While I had published papers in computer security and had coded for my dissertation, building and deploying new protocols to production systems was going to be new. Going from the academic environment of little day to day supervision to the industrial one of more direction; from greenfield code that would only ever be run by one person to large projects that had to be understandable by a team; from goals measured in years or even decades, to goals measured in days, weeks, or quarters; these transitions would present some challenges.

Cloudflare at that stage was a very different company from what it is now. Entire products and offices simply did not exist. Argo, now a mainstay of our offering for sophisticated companies, was slowly emerging. Access, which Continue reading

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NetDevOps Automation with REST API

Andrea Dainese added REST (Web) API to his Automation for Cisco NetDevOps article. You might love his explanation of the screen scraping methods used by legacy implementations. He was too polite to throw around any names, but I could immediately think of NETCONF or RESTCONF implementation on Cisco IOS.

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Schneider Electric launches cooling for edge devices

Schneider Electric has introduced a system for cooling individual server racks in remote and edge locations that aren’t well suited for traditional data-center cooling schemes.Uniflair Rack Mounted Cooling is a split system consisting of the air conditioning unit that goes in the cabinet and a fan that vents hot air from the cabinet to the outside. The external unit can be up to 20 meters away and up to five meters above or below the cooling unit.[Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.] The 5U, Freon-based air-conditioner unit blows cool air up the front of the cabinet where it is sucked into the servers by their front fans and absorbs heat generated by the servers. The hot air is expelled out the back and drawn down, cooled, and recirculated upwards.To read this article in full, please click here

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Why McAfee’s Beefing Up Its SASE With Browser Isolation

Browser isolation is like social distancing. But instead of protecting people from pandemics,...

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Microsoft-Led KEDA Project Served Into CNCF

KEDA was designed to allow developers to run serverless functions within a Kubernetes environment...

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Daily Roundup: VMware Claims SD-WAN Win Over Cisco

VMware claimed SD-WAN victory over Cisco; HPE readied $2 billion COVID-19 relief for enterprises;...

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How 5G and Retail SD-Branch Enhance the Customer Experience

As retail customers demand constant connectivity, 5G and SD-branch can work together to bring them...

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NacXwan Taps Lanner for SD-WAN Hardware

The agreement pairs Lanner's universal CPE hardware with nacXwan’s SD-WAN software stack to...

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