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Observability in Data Center Networks


Observability in Data Center Networks: In this session, you’ll learn how the sFlow protocol provides broad visibility in modern data center environments as they migrate to highly meshed topologies. Our data center workloads are shifting to take advantage of higher speeds and bandwidth, so visibility to east-west traffic within the data center is becoming more important. Join Peter Phaal—one of the inventors of sFlow—and Joe Reves from SolarWinds product management as they discuss how sFlow differs from other flow instrumentation to deliver visibility in the switching fabric.
THWACKcamp is SolarWinds’ free, annual, worldwide virtual IT learning event connecting thousands of skilled IT professionals with industry experts and SolarWinds technical staff. This video was one of the sessions.

Qualcomm-Backed Particle Banks $40M to Expand IoT Platform

“We have the largest developer community in the [IoT] industry. Almost 200,000 folks build their...

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Day Two Cloud 021: Nice Design; We Need To Change It – The Reality Of Building A Cloud Service

How does technical implementation and user feedback shape a cloud-based solution? When is it time to make a significant change in your design? And how do you know you’re headed in the right direction? This Day Two Cloud podcast episode tackles these questions with guest Michael Fraser, co-founder and CEO of Refactr.

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The TLS Post-Quantum Experiment

The TLS Post-Quantum Experiment
The TLS Post-Quantum Experiment

In June, we announced a wide-scale post-quantum experiment with Google. We implemented two post-quantum (i.e., not yet known to be broken by quantum computers) key exchanges, integrated them into our TLS stack and deployed the implementation on our edge servers and in Chrome Canary clients. The goal of the experiment was to evaluate the performance and feasibility of deployment in TLS of two post-quantum key agreement ciphers.

In our previous blog post on post-quantum cryptography, we described differences between those two ciphers in detail. In case you didn’t have a chance to read it, we include a quick recap here. One characteristic of post-quantum key exchange algorithms is that the public keys are much larger than those used by "classical" algorithms. This will have an impact on the duration of the TLS handshake. For our experiment, we chose two algorithms: isogeny-based SIKE and lattice-based HRSS. The former has short key sizes (~330 bytes) but has a high computational cost; the latter has larger key sizes (~1100 bytes), but is a few orders of magnitude faster.

During NIST’s Second PQC Standardization Conference, Nick Sullivan presented our approach to this experiment and some initial results. Quite accurately, Continue reading

The ease and importance of scaling in the enterprise

Networks are growing, and growing fast. As enterprises adopt IoT and mobile clients, VPN technologies, virtual machines (VMs), and massively distributed compute and storage, the number of devices—as well as the amount of data being transported over their networks—is rising at an explosive rate. It’s becoming apparent that traditional, manual ways of provisioning don’t scale. Something new needs to be used, and for that, we look toward hyperscalers; companies like Google, Amazon and Microsoft, who’ve been dealing with huge networks almost since the very beginning.

The traditional approach to IT operations has been focused on one server or container at a time. Any attempt at management at scale frequently comes with being locked into a single vendor’s infrastructure and technologies. Unfortunately, today’s enterprises are finding that even the expensive, proprietary management solutions provided by the vendors who have long supported traditional IT practices simply cannot scale, especially when you consider the rapid growth of containerization and VMs that enterprises are now dealing with.

In this blog post, I’ll take a look at how an organization can use open, scalable network technologies—those first created or adopted by the aforementioned hyperscalers—to reduce growing pains. These issues are increasingly relevant as new Continue reading

Watson IoT chief: AI can broaden IoT services

IBM thrives on the complicated, asset-intensive part of the enterprise IoT market, according to Kareem Yusuf, GM of the company’s Watson IoT business unit. From helping seaports manage shipping traffic to keeping technical knowledge flowing within an organization, Yusuf said that the idea is to teach artificial intelligence to provide insights from the reams of data generated by such complex systems.Predictive maintenance is probably the headliner in terms of use cases around asset-intensive IoT, and Yusuf said that it’s a much more complicated task than many people might think. It isn’t simply a matter of monitoring, say, pressure levels in a pipe somewhere and throwing an alert when they move outside of norms. It’s about aggregate information on failure rates and asset planning, that a company can have replacements and contingency plans ready for potential failures.To read this article in full, please click here

Getting the Unified Cloud Experience

Learn how Lenovo Open Cloud (LOC) provides cloud deployment and cloud management services, and...

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Adaptiv Delivers SD-WAN to SkySwitch uCaaS Customers

By leveraging Adaptiv Networks' SD-WAN, SkySwitch aims to capitalize on small-to-medium size...

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T-Mobile US Expects Sprint Merger to Close in Early 2020

“We now expect the merger will be permitted to close in early 2020,” CEO John Legere said on an...

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CloudEvents Hits 1.0 Release, Gains CNCF Promotion

The eventing project is backed by cloud heavyweights Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.

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Google Cloud ‘Strong’ Q3 Revenue Disappoints Wall Street

Company management did not provide any revenue details specific to its could platform, but...

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Viewing network bandwidth usage with bmon

Bmon is a monitoring and debugging tool that runs in a terminal window and captures network statistics, offering options on how and how much data will be displayed and displayed in a form that is easy to understand.To check if bmon is installed on your system, use the which command:$ which bmon /usr/bin/bmon [Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.] Getting bmon On Debian systems, use sudo apt-get install bmon to install the tool.To read this article in full, please click here