Validation vibes: How we’ve won the praise of customers and employees alike
The success of a company is often defined by two key factors: how your customers feel about you and how your employees feel about you. We’re excited to share that recently we’ve had some great validation by both!
Customer validation
We’re very honored to work with a variety of innovative companies that are breaking the status quo with open networking principles in data centers designed to scale. All of our customers have realized the need for an open, modern data center and are looking to build infrastructure with purpose. From web-scale giants to visionary enterprises, we give them all the ability to build something “EPIC.”
This was recently highlighted when for the second year in a row, our customers have rallied around our vision for the future of data center networking and recognized us as “The Best Data Center Networking 2019” with their reviews through Gartner Peer Insights.
As Gartner puts it, “The Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice is a recognition of vendors in this market by verified end-user professionals, taking into account both the number of reviews and the overall user ratings.” To ensure fair evaluation, Gartner maintains rigorous criteria for recognizing vendors with Continue reading
HPE Puts AI Into HCI, Expands Composable Cloud
The vendor also introduced a new high-end, mission-critical storage platform called Primera. It...
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5G Comes to Anchorage Before Many US Mainland Cities
GCI and Ericsson plan to bring 5G service to Alaska in the first half of 2020.
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Nokia Appoints Two Execs to Replace One
Musical chairs continue at the Finnish vendor as Maria Varsellona’s role will now be split...
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The Un Glamour of Business Travel
Originally Published in the Human Infrastructure Magazine Issue 113 in May 2019 I’m in New York, USA. I should be taking photos of myself in front of landmarks, having amazing food and laughing as I walk down the the street. In reality, I’m sitting in front of a mirror that is screwed to the wall […]
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History Of ATM (Part 2) – Daniel Grossman
In this episode we talk with Daniel Grossman about his role in the development of Asynchronous Transfer Mode, or ATM. This is part 2 of a 2 part series. If you haven’t listened to the first episode, you can find it here.
Daniel Grossman
Guest
Russ White
Host
Donald Sharp
Host
Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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2019 Hackathon@AIS: Testimonials from the Trainers
What is Hackathon@AIS?
The Internet, with its endless supply of knowledge and information, has become a strategic element in nearly all economic endeavors in Africa. To build tactical awareness among primary stakeholders as well as resiliency and robustness into Internet-enabled grids, the Internet Society and AFRINIC have organized the third Hackathon@AIS event, which is taking place in Kampala, Uganda, from 19-20 June 2019.
Network engineers, software developers, and computer science students from across Africa are gearing up for another round of collaborative computer programming aimed at introducing participants to existing and evolving Internet standards development that can help further their careers through shared skillsets.
The first Hackathon@AIS was held in 2017 in Nairobi and attracted 39 participants from 12 countries. The second event, held in 2018 in Dakar, attracted 75 participants from 15 countries. Both events consisted of three different tracks led by expert facilitators from across the globe. This year, the event consists of five tracks spanning different fields, and again we’ve called on expert facilitators from around the world to share their expertise and guidance.
The Hackathon is a breeding ground for talent that can change the world through innovation and create productivity and efficiency in business. Continue reading
Cloudflare’s Ethereum Gateway
Today, we are excited to announce Cloudflare's Ethereum Gateway, where you can interact with the Ethereum network without installing any additional software on your computer.
This is another tool in Cloudflare’s Distributed Web Gateway tool set. Currently, Cloudflare lets you host content on the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) and access it through your own custom domain. Similarly, the new Ethereum Gateway allows access to the Ethereum network, which you can provision through your custom hostname.
This setup makes it possible to add interactive elements to sites powered by Ethereum smart contracts, a decentralized computing platform. And, in conjunction with the IPFS gateway, this allows hosting websites and resources in a decentralized manner, and has the extra bonus of the added speed, security, and reliability provided by the Cloudflare edge network. You can access our Ethereum gateway directly at https://cloudflare-eth.com.
This brief primer on how Ethereum and smart contracts work has examples of the many possibilities of using the Cloudflare Distributed Web Gateway.
Primer on Ethereum
You may have heard of Ethereum as a cryptocurrency. What you may not know is that Ethereum is so much more. Ethereum is a distributed virtual computing network that stores and enforces smart Continue reading
Cloudflare’s Ethereum Gateway
Today, as part of Crypto Week 2019, we are excited to announce Cloudflare's Ethereum Gateway, where you can interact with the Ethereum network without installing any additional software on your computer.
This is another tool in Cloudflare’s Distributed Web Gateway tool set. Currently, Cloudflare lets you host content on the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) and access it through your own custom domain. Similarly, the new Ethereum Gateway allows access to the Ethereum network, which you can provision through your custom hostname.
This setup makes it possible to add interactive elements to sites powered by Ethereum smart contracts, a decentralized computing platform. And, in conjunction with the IPFS gateway, this allows hosting websites and resources in a decentralized manner, and has the extra bonus of the added speed, security, and reliability provided by the Cloudflare edge network. You can access our Ethereum gateway directly at https://cloudflare-eth.com.
This brief primer on how Ethereum and smart contracts work has examples of the many possibilities of using the Cloudflare Distributed Web Gateway.
Primer on Ethereum
You may have heard of Ethereum as a cryptocurrency. What you may not know is that Ethereum is so much more. Ethereum is a distributed virtual Continue reading
Continuing to Improve our IPFS Gateway
When we launched our InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) gateway last year we were blown away by the positive reception. Countless people gave us valuable suggestions for improvement and made open-source contributions to make serving content through our gateway easy (many captured in our developer docs). Since then, our gateway has grown to regularly handle over a thousand requests per second, and has become the primary access point for several IPFS websites.
We’re committed to helping grow IPFS and have taken what we have learned since our initial release to improve our gateway. So far, we’ve done the following:
Automatic Cache Purge
One of the ways we tried to improve the performance of our gateway when we initially set it up was by setting really high cache TTLs. After all, content on IPFS is largely meant to be static. The complaint we heard though, was that site owners were frustrated at wait times upwards of several hours for changes to their website to propagate.
The way an IPFS gateway knows what content to serve when it receives a request for a given domain is by looking up the value of a TXT record associated with the domain – the DNSLink Continue reading
Real-Life SD-WAN Experience
SD-WAN is the best thing that could have happened to networking according to some industry “thought leaders” and $vendor marketers… but it seems there might be a tiny little gap between their rosy picture and reality.
This is what I got from someone blessed with hands-on SD-WAN experience:
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vlog. Episode 3. Discussion about technical roles in vendors
Hello my friend,
Many times when I visited various conferences or had meetings with vendors, I was confused by the naming conventions of the roles they have. System engineer, pre-sales, account manager, etc… If you feel the same, watch this video!
In this episode, together with Ahmed Elbornou from Juniper we discuss the typicall journey of the product within the company (like router, or SW product) and how various technical roles contribute to its creation
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Major Updates to Cisco Certifications Part II (CCNA)
Let’s go more into depth what the new updates really mean. We will start by analyzing the CCNA. As I described in the previous post, gone are the days of having 11 different tracks, instead there is 1 exam. Why?
Take a second to think about what you expect from a Junior Network Engineer, that is after all what a CCNA is expected to be. I, probably Russ White, and many other with me, would argue that what is important at any level, but certainly as a junior, is to understand the fundamentals well. That is to know binary, subnetting, supernetting, basic TCP/IP, basic routing and switching, a little about wireless, a little about security. You don’t need to specialize at a junior level. Many athletes do several sports until they have to pick one and studies have shown that this is often has a positive effect compared to focusing on a single one too soon.
The change in the CCNA is therefore to better align with the expected job role of a CCNA. What domains are being tested? The domains being tested are:
- Network Fundamentals
- Network Access
- IP Connectivity
- IP Services
- Security Fundamentals
- Automation and Programmability
The blueprint can Continue reading
Aqua Security Boosts Container, Serverless Posture With Latest Update
The latest update comes on the heels of Aqua's rival Twistlock being acquired by Palo Alto Networks...
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Cloudian Taps Into VMware vCloud Director for S3-Based Object Storage
Cloudian is expanding S3-based object storage for VMware shops that want to offer services for...
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SK Telecom Signs ‘6G’ MoUs with Ericsson, Nokia, and Samsung
The South Korean operator is looking ahead to further 5G advancements as well as the next “G”...
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NetApp Expands Hybrid Cloud Services, Makes HCI ‘Fourth Cloud’
The vendor also announced it’s moving into consumption-based pricing to further make on-premises...
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Full Stack Journey 032: Lyra Vs. Terraform – Meet The New Kid In Cloud Native Infrastructure Provisioning
Lyra is the latest infrastructure-as-code project to tackle the provisioning of cloud resources. On today's Full Stack Journey, guest and Lyra contributor Eric Sorenson explains how Lyra works, how it competes with and complements Terraform, and what it does differently from other open-source options.
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