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BrandPost: The Silver Peak SD-WAN Edge Platform: It’s Way Better Than Fast Food

In my most recent blog post, I talked about the difficulty SD-WAN vendors have in finding their voice and clearly differentiating their value. My point was that if Wendy’s, Burger King, and McDonald’s could figure out how to differentiate their burgers and fries, we should be able articulate why customers choose our solutions over the 60+ vendors competing for their business. I started out talking about the business reasons why companies select Silver Peak. Now it’s time to talk about our differentiation at a product level.How is our SD-WAN edge platform, Unity EdgeConnect™, unique? I’ll frame the differentiation around what our customers are telling us. You’ll notice a significant emphasis on our ability to improve application performance for any type of application traversing any type of transport. We’re the only company that first tries to fix problems with the underlying network, allowing customers to fully leverage all of their circuits, even in instances of degraded performance. Unlike others, we don’t just re-route packets in the event of transport brownouts and blackouts.To read this article in full, please click here

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Intel Slashes Jobs Despite Record Quarter

The layoffs, which will affect between 128 and 1,100 Intel employees around the world, come after a...

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Daily Roundup: Google Gobbles Cornerstone

Google gobbled up Cornerstone; Blue Planet boosted Ciena's 5G routers; and SentinelOne scored $200M...

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Banks and the Digital Revolution: Can this arranged marriage lead to love?

Networks at financial branches like banks require high security, low latency and constant...

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How To Prevent Dry Throat Due To Public Speaking

Whether required to speak to the public occasionally, or more or less a regular basis, most people suffer from nerves, which ends up with their saliva drying up, and many speakers stating that they experience severe dry throat that “feels like a hairball in my throat.” 

Speaking around this hairball feeling can be difficult. In other cases, colds and allergies can result in sore dry throats that makes it difficult to talk, which can affect teachers and other professionals who need to do a lot of public speaking during the course of any day. This makes it essential that people who need to speak in public find something that will help to prevent that dry throat due to public speaking.

What to Do if It Feels Like a Hairball in My Throat

Learn Some Relaxation Techniques

If you are one of those people who gets nervous speaking in public and complains that it  “feels like a hairball in my throat,” then learning some relaxation techniques that you can use just minutes before getting up in public and speaking may help calm your nerves and ease or prevent that dry feeling in your throat.

Make Sure You Are Well Hydrated

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Nokia Buys Elenion to Tighten Optical Integration

Elenion designs system-on-chip silicon photonics technology targeted at telecom operators, data...

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SONiC

SONiC is part of the Open Compute Project (OCP), creating "an open source network operating system based on Linux that runs on switches from multiple vendors and ASICs." The latest SONiC.201911 release of the open source SONiC network operating system adds sFlow support.

SONiC: sFlow High Level Design

The diagram shows the elements of the implementation.

1. The open source Host sFlow agent running in the sFlow container monitors the Redis database (in the Database container) for sFlow related configuration changes.
2. The syncd container monitors the configuration database and pushes hardware settings (packet sampling) to the ASIC using the SAI (Switch Abstraction Inteface) driver (see SAI 1.5).
3. The ASIC driver hands sampled packet headers and associated metadata captured by the ASIC to user space via the Linux PSAMPLE netlink channel (see Linux 4.11 kernel extends packet sampling support).
4. The Host sFlow agent receives the PSAMPLE messages and forwards them to configured sFlow collector(s) as standard sFlow packet samples.
5. In addition, the Host sFlow agent streams telemetry (interface counters and host metrics gathered from the Redis database and Linux kernel) to the collector(s) as standard sFlow counter records.

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Day Two Cloud 036: The Container Contrarian

Are containers a fad? Or maybe just the wrong answer to a problem you're trying to solve. On today's Day Two Cloud podcast, container contrarian Dave Tucker discusses the problems containers solve, the new ones they create, and why you might want to think twice before you immediately adopt containers as your next application platform.

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Day Two Cloud 036: The Container Contrarian

Are containers a fad? Or maybe just the wrong answer to a problem you're trying to solve. On today's Day Two Cloud podcast, container contrarian Dave Tucker discusses the problems containers solve, the new ones they create, and why you might want to think twice before you immediately adopt containers as your next application platform.

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Huawei Fails to Reverse Federal Ban

"Contracting with the federal government is a privilege, not a constitutionally guaranteed right,"...

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BrandPost: The Silver Peak SD-WAN Edge Platform – It’s subtle but we enable people to build an SD-WAN, we don’t offer an SD-WAN

In my most recent blog post, I talked about the difficulty SD-WAN vendors have in finding their voice and clearly differentiating their value. My point was that if Wendy’s, Burger King, and McDonald’s could figure out how to differentiate their burgers and fries, we should be able articulate why customers choose our solutions over the 60+ vendors competing for their business. I started out talking about the business reasons why companies select Silver Peak. Now it’s time to talk about our differentiation at a product level.How is our SD-WAN edge platform, Unity EdgeConnect™, unique? I’ll frame the differentiation around what our customers are telling us. You’ll notice a significant emphasis on our ability to improve application performance for any type of application traversing any type of transport. We’re the only company that first tries to fix problems with the underlying network, allowing customers to fully leverage all of their circuits, even in instances of degraded performance. Unlike others, we don’t just re-route packets in the event of transport brownouts and blackouts.To read this article in full, please click here

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Ciena Unveils Blue Planet-Enhanced 5G Router Haul

The optical giant says the routers will help network operators achieve the low-latency,...

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Cohesity Goes ROBO on Data Management

Customers can manage hundreds of ROBO locations through Cohesity Helios similar to how they manage...

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How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet

How 1500 bytes became the MTU of the internet

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How to prevent data loss on your network

Use these tools and techniques to protect important data from being exfiltrated from your Windows network.

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Fruit Drops and Packet Drops

Urban legends claim that Sir Isaac Newton started thinking about gravity when an apple dropped on his head. Regardless of its origins, his theory successfully predicted planetary motions and helped us get people to the moon… there was just this slight problem with Mercury’s precession.

Likewise, his laws of motion worked wonderfully until someone started crashing very small objects together at very high speeds, or decided to see what happens when you give electrons two slits to go through.

Then there was the tiny problem of light traveling at the same speed in all directions… even on objects moving in different directions.

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Fruit Drops and Packet Drops

Urban legends claim that Sir Isaac Newton started thinking about gravity when an apple dropped on his head. Regardless of its origins, his theory successfully predicted planetary motions and helped us get people to the moon… there was just this slight problem with Mercury’s precession.

Likewise, his laws of motion worked wonderfully until someone started crashing very small objects together at very high speeds, or decided to see what happens when you give electrons two slits to go through.

Then there was the tiny problem of light traveling at the same speed in all directions… even on objects moving in different directions.

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How to find what you’re looking for on Linux with find

There are a number of commands for finding files on Linux systems, but there are also a huge number of options that you can deploy when looking for them.For example, you can find files not just by their names, but by their owners and/or groups, their age, their size, the assigned permissions, the last time they were accessed, the associated inodes and even whether the files belong to an account or group that no longer exists on the system and so on.[Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.] You can also specify where a search should start, how deeply into the file system the search should reach and how much the search result will tell you about the files it finds.To read this article in full, please click here

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A $399 device that translates brain signals into digital commands

Scientists have long envisioned brain-sensing technology that can translate thoughts into digital commands, eliminating the need for computer-input devices like a keyboard and mouse. One company is preparing to ship its latest contribution to the effort: a $399 development package for a noninvasive, AI-based, brain-computer interface.The kit will let "users control anything in their digital world by using just their thoughts," NextMind, a commercial spinoff of a cognitive neuroscience lab claims in a press release.To read this article in full, please click here

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Multicloud, security integration drive massive SD-WAN adoption

Increasing cloud adoption as well as improved network security, visibility and manageability are driving enterprise software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) deployments at a breakneck pace.According to research from IDC, software- and infrastructure-as-a-service (SaaS and IaaS) offerings in particular have been driving SD-WAN implementations in the past year, said Rohit Mehra, vice president, network infrastructure at  IDC. Read about edge networking How edge networking and IoT will reshape data centers Edge computing best practices How edge computing can help secure the IoT For example, IDC says that its recent surveys of customers show that 95% will be using SD-WAN technology within two years, and that 42% have already deployed it. IDC also says the SD-WAN infrastructure market will hit $4.5 billion by 2022, growing at a more than 40% yearly clip between now and then.To read this article in full, please click here