Daily Roundup: Fortinet Weathers Pandemic

Fortinet Q1 earnings remained strong amidst pandemic; Microsoft eyed a $170M security buy; and...

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Global VPN use exploded in March

With millions of people working from home, the coronavirus outbreak has seen global VPN demand surge. Demand for commercial virtual private networks in the U.S. jumped by 41% between March 13 and March 23, according to research from Top10VPN.com, a VPN research and testing company in the U.K.VPNs were already a growth industry before the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent shutdown of workplaces. The global VPN market was forecast to grow 12% year-on-year and be worth $70 billion by 2026, according to a Global Market Insights 2020 survey. North America was forecast to remain the leader in VPN usage, with around 30% market share.To read this article in full, please click here

This Switcheroo Doesn’t Get Old

Any company that holds more than a quarter of a market – by money or shipments – is doing pretty well. …

This Switcheroo Doesn’t Get Old was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Calico Enterprise 3.0 – Global Network Security Center for Kubernetes

As our enterprise customers build out large, multi-cluster Kubernetes environments, they are encountering an entirely new set of security challenges, requiring solutions that operate at scale and can be deployed both on-premises and across multiple clouds.

Today we are thrilled to announce the release of Calico Enterprise 3.0 and the availability of our Global Network Security Center, a game-changing solution that provides a central management plane for network security across every Kubernetes cluster in your organization.

Global Network Security Center for Kubernetes

The Calico Enterprise Global Network Security Center for Kubernetes is a centralized management plane and single point of control for multi-cluster and multi-cloud environments. Calico Enterprise’s centralized control simplifies and speeds routine maintenance, leaving more time for your platform team to address other important tasks.

For example, instead of logging in to 50 clusters one-at-a-time to make a policy change, with a single log-in to Calico Enterprise you can apply policy changes consistently across all 50 clusters. You can also automatically apply existing network security controls to new clusters as they are added.

Calico Enterprise also includes centralized log management, troubleshooting with Flow Visualizer, and cluster-wide IDS (intrusion detection). GNSC provides compliance reporting, and alerts on non-compliance Continue reading

T-Mobile US Forecasts $667M COVID-19 Hit

T-Mobile US expanded its 5G network running on 600 MHz spectrum by activating 1,600 sites during...

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Fortinet Weathers Pandemic Storm, Posts Robust Q1 Earnings

“Our ability to directly manage our supply chain and shipping logistics allowed us to quickly...

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Dell EMC, Pure Storage upgrade storage offerings

While many functions have migrated to the cloud, data storage remains very firmly on premises due to the cost of cloud storage, regulations or simply the desire to retain control over a firm’s data. That’s reflected in two new announcements.Dell EMC launched PowerStore, a storage-array line that unifies its overlapping midrange products that Dell owned, along with products from EMC. PowerStore hardware and software has been redesigned from the ground up and comes with new consumption business models, a reflection of the growing popularity of pay-per-use hardware.[Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.] Much as HPE unified its multiple storage acquisitions under the Primera brand, PowerStore unifies multiple storage-hardware products over the years, including Dell’s EqualLogic and EMC’s Compellent and XtremIO, not to mention Dell’s own acquisition of EMC. And PowerStore comes with migration tools to help move the contents of old Dell EMC hardware to PowerStore.To read this article in full, please click here

Solve Container Networking Challenges with NSX Container Plugin

By Susan Wu, Senior Product Marketing Manager and Yasen Simeonov, Senior Technical Product Manager, Networking and Security Business Unit

Kubernetes has become mainstream in the enterprise. In the latest Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) survey [1], 78% of the companies surveyed use Kubernetes in production. Containers are not only the norm but are running at scale with 34% of the organizations using 1,000 containers or more.

Given the rise in deployment, challenges remain as organizations attempt to operationalize Kubernetes.

Address Top Challenges in Containers Networking

With the latest release of VMware NSX-T and the NSX Container Plugin (NCP) we continue to address our customers’ top challenges such as security, complexity, and networking.

NSX provides the full stack networking and security across container orchestration platforms including VMware vSphere 7 with Kubernetes, Tanzu, OpenShift and upstream Kubernetes. NSX-T automates network services (distributed switching, routing, firewalling, load balancing/ingress, IPAM), and applies associated firewall policies directly at the pod level as soon as the cluster is spun up using standard Kubernetes commands. This level of simplicity and automation helps manage Kubernetes and the underlying software-defined data center (SDDC) infrastructure providing a common framework for virtualization admins and developers.

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50% of Firefox Users Still Have Flash installed

Really, 50% ? Say its not true.

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A Look at the Landscape after Nvidia Acquires Cumulus Networks

Was DHCP the first Intent Networking feature ?

A key aspect of intent based networking is user transparency. That is, the network connects the user without any knowledge of why it works During a recent discussion on DHCP I realised that this process is a near perfect expression of intent. A workstation connects to the physical network and makes a configuration request An […]

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BGP peer groups, dynamic update peer groups and BGP templates

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Internet Society-Chatham House Collaboration: How Is Consolidation Changing the Internet?

For the past couple of years, here, at the Internet Society, we have been thinking about Internet consolidation. After releasing the 2019 Global Internet Report: Consolidation in the Internet Economy, we understood our limitations and the complexity of the issue. To this end, we decided to partner with Chatham House and reach out to the community of researchers and academics, seeking their input to learn more. This resulted in a long process to create a special issue of the Journal of Cyber Policy, including more than 40 proposals for articles, various peer-review cycles and many edits from the authors.

The selection process was tough. We had to weigh in a broad range of ideas and perspectives, which touched virtually all aspects of the Internet economy. And while hard choices had to be made, we are also confident we made the right ones. The level of quality, creativity, and interest that is incorporated in each and every research paper is truly outstanding. For this we are also grateful for the amazing support we have received from our community in spreading the word, for submitting proposals, and to the broad range of experts who have participated in the review of Continue reading

Example: Deploy a Web Server in AWS

The third hands-on exercise in our Networking in Public Cloud Deployments online course asks the students to deploy a web server in a public cloud of their choice using infrastructure-as-code principles.

Not surprisingly, Erik Auerswald created another fantastic writeup when solving that exercise, including exploring the problem space, detailed description of his Terraform-based solution, and testing procedures. Enjoy!

Cumulus content roundup: April 2020

April has come and gone but you know what hasn’t? New content and useful resources from us! If you missed out on it earlier, catch up with this month’s edition of the Cumulus Content Roundup. We’ve got all the details on recent announcements like our NetQ 3.0 product launch, new podcast episodes for you listen, and so much more.

From Cumulus Networks
Modernizing your network has never been easier with Cumulus NetQ Lifecycle Management: To help network operations, we’ve added new lifecycle management capabilities to Cumulus NetQ 3.0, offering a simple GUI-driven workflow for provisioning, operating, maintaining & retiring network switches running Cumulus Linux. Scott Ciccone explains more about the recent product release in his blog here.

Linux Network Observability: Building Blocks: As Linux reigns the “Open-Distributed-Virtualized-Software-Driven-Cloud-Era”— understanding what is available within Linux in terms of observability is essential to our jobs & careers. Linux expert Roopa Prabhu shares what you need to know in this blog.

Kernel of Truth season 3 episode 5: Routing protocols in the datacenter fabric: Special guest Russ White joins the Kernel of Truth podcast to discuss what we should think about when it comes to routing protocols in the datcenter. What are Continue reading

Daily Roundup: AT&T Recommits to SDN

AT&T recommitted to its SDN goal; Arista will be within striking distance of its $100M campus...

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Remote access needs strategic planning right now

The future of remote work has arrived.With the work-at-home mandates triggered by COVID-19 quarantines, businesses have adapted on-the-fly to create remote-networking environments that maintain corporate security. Largely, they have done so by expanding traditional remote access solutions including VPN infrastructure and services, virtual desktop infrastructure, secure Wi-Fi access points and even SD-WAN for home use.To read this article in full, please click here

IBM Launches Cloud Satellite to the Edge

The Cloud Satellite service allows users to run their IBM Cloud service in on-premises or edge...

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How HAProxy Streamlines Kubernetes Ingress Control

In 2016, when the digital media arm of the in increasingly large numbers. “I remember the fear that the huge event we were experiencing could bring our platform down,” said recalled at HAProxy 2019. They kept watching the Grafana dashboard, searching for potential anomalies. In the end, however, nothing bad happened. “We ended up drinking beers and eating pizzas,” he said. But Gallissot didn’t want to go through such a stressful experience again, and so started an initiative to move M6 to the cloud. Like many organizations dealing with surges of traffic, M6 decided on Kubernetes as the platform for a multicloud architecture, to ease the process of easily scaling up and down traffic. And one of the most crucial parts of the Kubernetes setup is routing the incoming traffic to the appropriate services. Kubernetes itself offers an option to capture the

Pandemic Demand Bolsters Server Market

Server shipments reached 3.3 million during the first quarter of 2020, driven by heightened demand...

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