Network Break 310: Kemp Acquires Flowmon; Networking Startup Isovalent Nabs $29 Million VC Bucks
This week's Network Break discusses a serious flaw in some Aruba switches, why Kemp acquired Flowmon, what makes a networking startup worth a $29 million investment, what Extreme Networks is up to with its AWS Outpost competitor, how Cisco is spinning a tough financial quarter, and more tech news.The Week in Internet News: A Change in U.S. Internet Policy?
Winds of change: U.S. President-elect Joe Biden will significantly change U.S. government policy focused on the Internet, Vox.com says. A Biden administration is likely to bring back net neutrality rules and push for policies that widen Internet access and make it more affordable. The Biden team may also provide more subsidies to lower-income people and open up more radio frequency bands for high-speed 5G networks.
Accessing growth: The growth of Indonesia’s digital economy depends on equal access to the Internet, but 12,000 villages across the country still lack access, Kompas.com reports. Indonesia’s Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati is pushing for digital infrastructure to be distributed throughout the country. The government has a 2021 budget of 30 trillion rupiahs ($2.1 billion USD) to develop information and communication technology infrastructure.
Lowering the Zoom: Video-conferencing service Zoom has settled a U.S. Federal Trade Commission complaint saying that it overstated its encryption protections for several years, TechCrunch says. “Zoom’s misleading claims gave users a false sense of security … especially for those who used the company’s platform to discuss sensitive topics such as health and financial information,” the agency said. Zoom has agreed to start a vulnerability management Continue reading
From Engineer to CEO – Rami Rahim, CEO @ Juniper Networks
In this episode Rick and Melchior ask Juniper Networks CEO Rami Rahim all about his career, his pathway to becoming CEO and what it takes, how his journey looked liked and what his future goals are.
Achieving 100Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server
Achieving 100 Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server, Zhao et al., OSDI’20
Papers-we-love is hosting a mini-event this Wednesday (18th) where I’ll be leading a panel discussion including one of the authors of today’s paper choice: Justine Sherry. Please do join us if you can.
We always want more! This stems from a combination of Jevon’s paradox and the interconnectedness of systems – doing more in one area often leads to a need for more elsewhere too. At the end of the day, there are three basic ways we can increase capacity:
- Increasing the number of units in a system (subject to Amdahl’s law).
- Improving the efficiency with which we can coordinate work across a collection of units (see the Universal Scalability Law)
- Increasing the amount of work we can do on a single unit
Options 1 and 2 are of course the ‘scale out’ options, whereas option 3 is ‘scale up’. With more nodes and more coordination comes more complexity, both in design and operation. So while scale out has seen the majority of attention in the cloud era, it’s good to remind ourselves periodically just what we really can do on a single Continue reading
New Content: Graph Algorithms – Flows and Connectivity
Last week we enjoyed the second half of Graph Algorithms lecture by Rachel Traylor, this time focusing on flow- and connectivity challenges.
After an easy start defining flows and walking us through various maximum flow algorithms, Rachel explained circulations and saturating flows, switched into high gear with (supposedly painless) intro to linear programming and minimum cost flow problems, and concluded with dynamic flows and using flows to explore graph connectivity.
You’ll need Standard or Expert ipSpace.net subscription to watch the videos.
New Content: Graph Algorithms – Flows and Connectivity
Last week we enjoyed the second half of Graph Algorithms lecture by Rachel Traylor, this time focusing on flow- and connectivity challenges.
After an easy start defining flows and walking us through various maximum flow algorithms, Rachel explained circulations and saturating flows, switched into high gear with (supposedly painless) intro to linear programming and minimum cost flow problems, and concluded with dynamic flows and using flows to explore graph connectivity.
You’ll need Standard or Expert ipSpace.net subscription to watch the videos.
Network, It’s Time to Modernize!
The network is a critical component of any IT environment. When it works, it’s “normal” and few notice it. But the smallest glitch can have devastating business impacts. For over a decade, networking has been adapting to become more programmable, closer to applications, and easier to use. At the same, the number of devices increased drastically while and applications exponentially. More than ever, there is a need to adapt the network to the new paradigm of multi-cloud environments, and to make it on-demand, easy to use, and simple. The network should be transparent to applications and users, yet allow the most complex environments to communicate reliably.
Let’s dig into the three pillars of a Modern Network framework.
Modern App Connectivity Services
User experience is paramount in today’s world. Applications and data are increasingly distributed across multiple on-premises data centers and public, private, and multi-cloud environments. At the same time, users and devices (including IoT) are spreading out from a centralized corporate headquarters to branch offices, remote worksites, and, increasingly, home offices. This new reality means that, more and more, machines are talking to machines and applications are talking to applications, creating network complexity that can only be mitigated by Continue reading
Tier 1 Carriers Performance Report: October, 2020
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Key Points:
- Customer Success Managers offer continual strategic and technical guidance by way of interactive workshops, account reviews, tuning sessions and regular product updates.
- Our product development and design teams constantly work on new features and product updates based on your input.
- It’s a team effort. As part of our Premium Success offering, we can introduce you to Product Managers for in-depth conversations about our solutions and how they can apply to your business goals.
- Cloudflare is always rapidly evolving and expanding our solutions! As technology advances, so does the sophistication of attacks. Through machine learning and behavioural analysis, we are able to ship new products to ensure you remain secure without impacting performance.
Reach out to your Customer Success Manager to gain more information on how they can accelerate your business.
The Success Story
Hi there. My name is Jake Jones and I’m a Customer Success Manager at Cloudflare covering the Middle East and Africa. When I look at what success means to me, it’s becoming a trusted advisor for my customers by taking a genuine interest in their priorities and helping them reach desired goals. I’ve learnt that successful partnerships are a byproduct of successful relationship building. Every Continue reading
Why You Should Cancel Your Social Media Accounts
Over the past ten years, the world generally has noticed serious social media websites like MySpace, Twitter, and Facebook which have all generated different ways for people to interact and connect with other people. Facebook is known as the biggest social website. Today we have more than a billion users that make use of Facebook. In the future, with kids growing up and joining the social media platform, the number of people will increase. Facebook has been used for both personal and business communication, and its usage has brought lots of advantages in terms of sharing ideas, increasing connectivity, and learning online.
But as time passes, some studies have merged networking online with different disorders that come from the minds of the users. These disorders include low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, and a lot of others. Because social media is a product of the 21st century, lots of questions relating to their impact on the health of its users mentally haven’t gotten desired answers yet. Because these online services are linked to the general population, any confirmed connection in the future between these diseases and these social media platforms could turn to a serious problem.
Reasons You Should Cancel Your Continue reading
Achieve Multi-Cloud Application Scalability for Modern Apps
The modern application is dynamic and highly adaptive to changes in demand. It lives across multiple clusters and clouds. And it is highly distributed with hundreds of microservices servicing the requirements of rapid feature releases, high resiliency, and on demand scalability. In such a world, we simply cannot afford to continue to rely solely on the network architectures of the last decade.
Modern applications need a Modern Network—one that simplifies operations, reduces IT overhead and prioritizes user needs—such that organizations can empower users with fast, reliable and secure application access wherever and whenever they do business, regardless of the underlying infrastructure or connectivity. This requires adopting the public cloud—or even multiple public clouds—as an extension of on-premises infrastructure. What enterprises need is a common, multi-dimensional framework that provides availability, resiliency, and security for modern applications, with the ability to abstract connectivity, identity, and policy via declarative intents. These dimensions of control are paramount for modern applications – improving the visibility and control of assets that are ephemeral in nature and not directly under the Continue reading