Cloudflare Signs European Commission Declaration on Gender Balanced Company Culture
Last week Cloudflare attended a roundtable meeting in Brussels convened by the European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, Mariya Gabriel, with all signatories of the Tech Leaders’ Declaration on Gender Balanced Company Culture. Cloudflare joined this European Commission initiative late last year and, along with other companies, we are committed to taking a hands-on approach to close the digital gender divide in skills, inception of technologies, access and career opportunities.
In particular, we have all committed to implementing, promoting and spreading five specific actions to achieve equality of opportunities for women in our companies and in the digital sector at large:
- Instil an inclusive, open, female-friendly company culture
- Recruit and invest in diversity
- Give women in tech their voice and visibility
- Create the leaders of the future
- Become an advocate for change
The project, spearheaded by the Digital Commissioner as part of a range of actions to promote gender balance in the digital industry, allows for the exchange of ideas and best practices among companies, with opportunities to chart progress and also to discuss the challenges we face. Many companies around the table shared their inspiring stories of steps taken at company level to encourage diversity, push back against Continue reading
Building the Network Automation Source of Truth
This is one of the “thinking out loud” blog posts as I’m preparing my presentation for the Building Network Automation Solutions online course. I’m probably missing a gazillion details - your feedback would be highly appreciated
One of the toughest challenges you’ll face when building a network automation solution is “where is my source of truth” (or: what data should I trust). As someone way smarter than me said once: “You could either have a single source of truth of many sources of lies”, and knowing how your devices should be configured and what mistakes have to be fixed becomes crucial as soon as you move from gathering data and creating reports to provisioning new devices or services.
Read more ...The Global Internet Report: Consolidation in the Internet Economy
The 2017 Global Internet Report: Paths to Our Digital Future focused attention on the significant potential of the Internet for innovation and sustainable development, but without denying or shirking the challenges it also introduces. This forward-looking analysis is a powerful advocacy tool for anyone who wants to protect and build the open Internet.
Over the past year, we spent time working with our community on a new report. It takes a closer look at one of those forces and how it may impact the future: Consolidation in the Internet Economy. Understood as growing forces of concentration, vertical and horizontal integration, and fewer opportunities for market entry and competition, this topic includes the impact of consolidating forces on all stakeholders as well as on the Internet’s underlying and evolving technology.
We chose this theme because findings from the 2017 report, and what’s happened since, are showing increasing concerns about a growing concentration of power in the Internet economy. They point to market and technical forces that may be driving consolidation at different “layers” of the Internet, from network developments and hosting services to applications. Among these trends are processes that enable some companies to own our experience at almost every stage.
JNCIA Junos
The road to JNCIA Junos.JNCIA Junos
One of my goals for 2019 is the brush back up on networking theory/operation after the last couple of years focused on network automation. This is a bit of a brain dump about my adventure in pursuit of the JNCIA-Junos certification and the study materials I used. Preface I have worked as...IHS Markit Talks Pioneering Private Cloud, Containers, and VMware Cloud on AWS
Global information, analytics, and solutions company IHS Markit provides data-driven insight for its government and corporate customers. Using VMware vRealize Automation, the company has already rolled out a private cloud that helped developers cut a 6-month infrastructure provisioning process down to one week. They’ve also been using VMware NSX-T Data Center to secure their workloads at a granular level with micro-segmentation, and to fundamentally re-think network design.
At VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas, Andrew Hrycaj, Principal Network Engineer for IHS Markit, spoke about the company’s plans for software-defined networking and hybrid cloud. IHS Markit has deployed VMware NSX Data Center, including NSX-T Data Center and VMware NSX Data Center for vSphere, into five data centers. “The NSX Data Center advantage for us is the fact that it can interact with so many different environments; from containers, to the public cloud environment with AWS and Azure, to on-prem,” said Hrycaj. “We’ll be able to utilize micro-segmentation across all of them with a common security footprint. If NSX-T goes to all those different environments, we can apply the same security policy across all those different platforms. It makes operations’ life easier because the transparency is there.”
Innovating with Continue reading
Troubleshooting Webinar at Safari Books Online
I’m doing a live webinar on troubleshooting on Safari Books on the 19th of April—
Troubleshooting is a fundamental skill for all network engineers, from the least to most experienced. However, there is little material on correct and efficient troubleshooting techniques in a network engineering context, and no (apparent) live training in this area. Some chapters in books exist (such as the Computer Networking Problems and Solutions, published in December 2017), and some presentations in Cisco Live, but the level of coverage for this critical skill is far below what engineers working in the field to develop solid troubleshooting skills.
This course is grounded in the formal half split method of troubleshooting I learned back in electronic engineering applied to networks. It’s probably the most efficient and effective method of troubleshooting available.
Sprint Throws Shade at AT&T’s 5G ‘First’ Claim
The carrier touted the first four markets to see its 5G beams, but it could be under new ownership...
Cisco and Verizon Build a Mobile SD-WAN Offering With 5G
AT&T and VMware forged a similar integration of SD-WAN and 5G earlier this week.
Facebook-Backed TIP Adds New Project Groups, Demos Mobile Network
Three years after launching at MWC, TIP for the first time showed how its technologies work...
Why not OSPF for the Internet Core?
Every now and again (not often enough, if I’m to be honest), someone will write me with what might seem like an odd question that actually turns out to be really interesting. This one is from Surya Ahuja, a student at NC State, where I occasionally drop by to do a guest lecture.
We were recently working on an example design problem in one of our courses, and like a dedicated student I was preparing the State, optimisation, surface sheet
One of the design decisions was to explain the selection of the routing protocol. This got me thinking. When BGP was being created, were there modifications to OSPF itself considered? … it could have been made possible to just use OSPF across enterprise and the internet. Then why not use it?
A quick answer might go somethign like this: OSPF did not exist when BGP was invented. The IETF working group for OSPF was, in fact, started in 1988, while the original version of BGP, called EGP, was originally specified by Eric Rosen in 1982, some 6 years earlier. The short answer might be, then, that OSPF was not considered because OSPF had not been invented yet. 
But this quick Continue reading
Network Break 223: Google Launches Hybrid Cloud Beta; Palo Alto Acquires Demisto
Today's Network Break examines Google's new hybrid cloud beta release, Palo Alto's acquisition of security orchestrator Demisto, research by Duo Security on Chrome browser extensions, and more tech news.
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Logpush: the Easy Way to Get Your Logs to Your Cloud Storage
Introducing Logpush
Today, we’re excited to announce a new way to get your logs: Logpush, a tool for uploading your logs to your cloud storage provider, such as Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage. It’s now available in Early Access for Enterprise domains.
We first explained Cloudflare’s logging functionality almost six years ago. Since then, the number of domains on our network has grown by ten times. We’ve continued giving our Enterprise customers the ability to download logs using a REST API, which has gotten a large number of functional and technical updates. We’ve also been paying attention to how our customers’ needs have evolved, especially as we protect and accelerate increasingly larger domains. This led to the development of Logpush.
The Value of Logs
Cloudflare works by being an intermediary between our customers’ websites, applications, and devices, and their end-users or potential attackers. As part of providing our service, we create a record of each request that goes through our network. These records (or request logs) have detailed information regarding the connecting client, our actions—including whether the request was served by the cache or blocked by our firewall—and the response from the origin web server. For Enterprise customers Continue reading
Delivering on the Vision of Distributed Cloud with the Kinetic Edge Alliance
On Wednesday, February 13, VaporIO announced the Kinetic Edge Alliance with Pluribus Networks as a founding member. You may think...Short Take – CAA Records and Site Security
In this Short Take, Russ discusses what DNS CAA records are and theorizes how their more pervasive use could nearly mitigate MITM HTTPS interception in the wild.
Russ White
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ICANN Calls for Full DNSSEC Deployment, Promotes Community Collaboration to Protect the Internet – ICANN
DNSSEC is a partial fix but its time to get it done.
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