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Data centers are shrinking but not going away

The cloud will not kill the data center, but it will transform it. That's one of the takeaways from the 2020 State of the Data Center report from AFCOM, the industry association for data center professionals.In the near term, construction will slow way down, which aligns with what IDC analyst Rick Villars told me about data center construction slowing after a big buildout. More than 60% of respondents to the AFCOM report said they have no plans to build a new facility in the next 12 months, although 53% said they'll have at least one data center in the works over the next 36 months. READ MORE: Supply-chain woes put the brakes on hyperscale data centersTo read this article in full, please click here

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AWS Redirect URL with Route 53 and S3

How to redirect a URL using AWS Route 53 and S3.

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AWS Redirect URL with Route 53 and S3

I previously hosted my domains with GoDaddy. In their service it was pretty trivial to redirect a URL from one domain to another. I own the domain bradleysearle.com and I redirect it to https://codingpackets.com/about. The process to do this is not as simple with AWS so in this post I...

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NVIDIA’s aggressive purchases could signal the era of open networking

NVIDIA’s plans to acquire Cumulus Networks, a pioneer of using open source for networking, is a sign that open networking is finally ready for a big leap forward.Open networking has been tightly coupled with software-defined networking (SDN) because the combination promises to make networks significantly more agile, open and easier to customize to specific needs. Cumulus has been working on it for years, and NVIDIA started pushing into it when it acquired Mellanox last week.[Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.] The question the Cumulus acquisition raises is “why now”? The concept of open networking has been hotly debated since SDN came into prominence. The concept is sound, and open systems will disrupt the network industry much as it did the compute space. Yet while Linux and open source are wildly successful in the compute industry, open source has yet to take off in networking outside of webscale networks and a handful of large organizations.To read this article in full, please click here

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Nvidia, Digital Realty Team Up on Enterprise AI

The new Data Hub product gives enterprises access to Nvidia’s AI infrastructure inside Digital...

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Daily Roundup: Nutanix Furloughs CA Workforce

Nutanix furloughed 25% of its workforce; IBM targeted 5G and edge deployments; and Microsoft Azure...

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Oracle Claims It Will Beat Salesforce at Cloud CRM

Much of that poise relies on the success of Oracle’s Gen 2 Cloud, a bare metal framework that it...

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NVIDIA, Mellanox, and Cumulus

Recent press releases, Riding a Cloud: NVIDIA Acquires Network-Software Trailblazer Cumulus and NVIDIA Completes Acquisition of Mellanox, Creating Major Force Driving Next-Gen Data Centers, describe NVIDIA's moves to provide high speed data center networks to connect compute clusters that use of their GPUs to accelerate big data workloads, including: deep learning, climate modeling, animation, data visualization, physics, molecular dynamics etc.

Real-time visibility into compute, network, and GPU infrastructure is required manage and optimize the unified infrastructure. This article explores how the industry standard sFlow technology supported by all three vendors can deliver comprehensive visibility.

Cumulus Linux simplifies operations, providing the same operating system, Linux, that runs on the servers. Cumulus Networks and Mellanox have a long history of working with the Linux community to integrate support for switches. The latest Linux kernels now include native support for network ASICs, seamlessly integrating with standard Linux routing (FRR, Quagga, Bird, etc), configuration (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc) and monitoring (collectd, netstat, top, etc) tools.

Linux 4.11 kernel extends packet sampling support describes enhancements to the Linux kernel to support industry standard sFlow instrumentation in network ASICs. Cumulus Linux and Mellanox both support the new Linux APIs. Cumulus Linux uses the open source Continue reading

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Midrange All-Flash Storage Market, Meet Dell EMC PowerStore

The new storage systems come with built-in vSphere integration enabling VMware virtualized...

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How the Network Effect Levels the Cybersecurity War Zone

Ian Baxter Ian Baxter is the Vice President of Pre-Sales Engineering at IRONSCALES and has more than 20 years of extensive industry experience in the information security, technology and communications fields, having held various positions including both individual contributor and systems engineering management roles. During his career, Ian has regularly presented at various industry events on security topics such as threat prevention, ransomware, and best practices. Prior to IRONSCALES, Ian served as Americas' Director of Data Center Sales for NetApp covering Canada, Latin America and the US. He's also worked for large multinational technology companies such as Palo Alto Networks, Foundry Networks/Brocade, Alcatel Lucent, and Fore Systems/Marconi. Ian is originally from South Africa, and now resides in the United States. Robert Metcalfe, co-inventor of Ethernet, is renowned for many things, but perhaps none more so than his namesake law: 

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New 6 GHz Wi-Fi could add $153 billion to U.S. economy: report

Opening the 6 GHz band to Wi-Fi could add $153.75 billion to the U.S. economy over the next five years, according to a new study.In late April, the Federal Communications Commission adopted rules that make 1,200 megahertz of spectrum in the 6 GHz band available for unlicensed use. Freeing up the chunk of 6 GHz spectrum for Wi-Fi is the biggest frequency allocation upgrade to the now aging wireless protocol in 10 years. Wi-Fi using 5 GHz spectrum – the last major touch-up – was introduced in 2009. The original 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi was introduced in 1997.To read this article in full, please click here

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Nvidia, after $7B Mellanox hardware deal, grabs Cumulus for big network software play

NVIDIA, a company known for developing advanced chips for artificial intelligence and high-speed gaming applications has is making a concerted effort to go after cloud-based data-center customers by acquiring Cumulus Networks for an undisclosed amount.Cumulus offers a Linux-based network operating system aimed at white box network gear users that supports large data-center, cloud and enterprise environments.  Its Cumulus Linux offering supports over 130 different types of networking hardware.To read this article in full, please click here

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Coalition Forms to Address Open RAN Policies

The Open RAN Policy Coalition has support from seven operators and 24 vendors, though it's...

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Microsoft Azure Sentinel Powers Open Systems’ Threat Detection

Open Systems’ customers liked the Sentinel technology, but wanted the threat detection and...

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Cinco de Mayo – What are we celebrating anyway?

Greetings from Latinflare, Cloudflare’s LatinX Employee Resource Group, with members all over the US, the UK, and Portugal. Today is Cinco de Mayo! Americans everywhere will be drinking margaritas and eating chips and salsa. But what is this Mexican holiday really about and what exactly are we celebrating?

About Cinco de Mayo

Cinco de Mayo, Spanish for "Fifth of May", is an annual celebration held in Mexico on May 5th. The date is observed to commemorate the Mexican Army's victory over the French Empire at the Battle of Puebla, on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza. The victory of the smaller Mexican force against a larger French force was a boost to morale for the Mexicans. Zaragoza died months after the battle due to illness. A year after the battle, a larger French force defeated the Mexican army at the Second Battle of Puebla, and Mexico City soon fell to the invaders.

In the United States, Cinco de Mayo has taken on a significance beyond that in Mexico. More popularly celebrated in the United States than Mexico, the date has become associated with the celebration of Continue reading

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Automate file uploads to your Cisco Nexus switches

If you have more than three Cisco Nexus switches in nx-os mode, and you are not using Cisco DCNM or any other similar tool, you probably already have encountered this question: How to automate file uploads to your Cisco Nexus switches? Here is a turnkey Python script using Netmiko’s SCP function to do this. This script is very simple, it relies only on Netmiko functions and SCP. But it does its job very well and I share it here because it can certainly help you to save time.   What…

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Former Check Point Execs Score $20M for Orca Security

With the Series A round, in addition to $6.5 million in seed funding, Orca plans to double its team...

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Setting up Cloudflare for Teams as a Start-Up Business

Earlier this year, Cloudflare acquired S2 Systems. We were a start-up in Kirkland, Washington and now we are home to Cloudflare’s Seattle-area office.

Our team developed a new approach to remote browser isolation (RBI), a technology that runs your web browser in a cloud data center, stopping threats on the Internet from executing any code on your machine. The closer we can bring that data center to the user, the faster we can make that experience. Since the acquisition, we have been focused on running our RBI platform in every one of Cloudflare’s data centers in 200 cities around the world.

The RBI solution will join a product suite that we call Cloudflare for Teams, which consists of two products: Access and Gateway.

Those two products solve a number of problems that companies have with securing users, devices, and data. As a start-up, we struggled with a few of these challenges in really painful ways:

• How do we let prospects securely trial our RBI platform?
• How do we keep our small office secure without an IT staff?
• How can we connect to the powerful, but physically clunky and heavy development machines, when we are not in that office?

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Dictionary: fauxpology

Define fauxpology

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HS. Part 5. Automation at high-scale: Bringing network up (Docker SONIC-P4 and Linux bridges) based on the network graph.

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Finally we approached the point where we start dealing with the network functions again, now at a high scale. After we have successfully generated the configuration files for our Microsoft Azure SONiC network functions, it is a time to boot them, span them and get the emulated data centre up and running.

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Network automation training – now as a self-paced course as well

Following your asks we open a new format for the network automation training – self-paced format:

• It doesn’t matter what your timezone is.
• It doesn’t matter how much hours weekly do you have to study.
• It doesn’t matter how solid is your current background in automation, scripting and software development.

Because you decide on your own when, how often and how quickly you can learn.

At this training we teach you all the necessary concepts such as YANG data modelling, working with JSON/YAML/XML data formats, Linux administration basics, programming in Continue reading