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Technology Short Take #69

Welcome to Technology Short Take #69! In this post, I’ve collected a variety of links related to major data center technology areas. This episode is a bit long; sorry about that!

Networking

Lindsay Hill recently noted that he’s been working to add support to netmiko for the Brocade ICX and MLXe, and is looking into support for VDX. Netmiko, if you haven’t heard, is a fantastic Python library that’s really useful when writing Python-based network automation scripts.
I mentioned a while back that I was taking a deeper look at MPLS (to which my colleague Bruce Davie—one of the creators of MPLS—jokingly quipped, “Why are you looking at legacy tech?”). Honestly, I haven’t had a great deal of time to make much progress, but I did come across this article by Sudeep Goyal which helped reinforce some of the basics I already knew. It may prove useful to others who are also seeking to improve their knowledge of MPLS.
Peter Phaal has been writing some really interesting stuff (interesting to me, at least). First up, there’s a great article on using IPVLAN with Docker and Cumulus Linux (with a tie back to sFlow, naturally!). I’m really eager to Continue reading

Focusing on Security in the SGiLAN

Virtualization of the SGiLAN in mobile networks through the use of converged platforms can improve security.

F5 CEO to Retire (Again) as New ADCs Emerge

The Shuttle series points to the future as John McAdam points toward the exit.

Intel Forecasts a Rebound Driven by Data Centers & IoT

The company reported revenues of $13.5 billion in 2Q.

Siemplify Helps Set Up Security Playbooks

Siemplify says it can find breaches. The question is what to do next.

Security Startup GuardiCore Raises $20M

A case where deception is on your side.

Ethernet-over-VPN: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

One of my readers sent me a link to SoftEther, a VPN solution that

[…] penetrates your network admin's troublesome firewall for overprotection. […] Any deep-packet inspection firewalls cannot detect SoftEther VPN's transport packets as a VPN tunnel, because SoftEther VPN uses Ethernet over HTTPS for camouflage.

What could possibly go wrong with such a great solution?

Network Break 96: News From Cisco Live; A Security Debate

The latest Network Break delves into news from Cisco Live US, including new security products, a potential ACI/NSX roadmap, a call for network engineers to move away from the CLI and more! The post Network Break 96: News From Cisco Live; A Security Debate appeared first on Packet Pushers.

AT&T’s Threat Intellect Combines Security & SDN

The new service is a brew of machine learning, big data, and network policy.

Juniper Finds Another Security Flaw

It's not as bad as the Netscreen back door thing.

Bay Dynamics Raises $23M in Series B Funding

The risk analytics market is expected to grow exponentially by 2021.

Black Hat Attendees Worry about IoT Security — Just Not Right Now

Only 9 percent of respondents consider IoT security a concern this year.

OpenFlow and Firewalls Don’t Mix Well

In one of my ExpertExpress engagements the customer expressed the desire to manage their firewall with OpenFlow (using OpenDaylight) and I said, “That doesn’t make much sense”. Here’s why:

Obviously if you can't imagine your life without OpenDaylight, or if your yearly objectives include "deploying OpenDaylight-based SDN solution", you can use it as a REST-to-NETCONF translator assuming your firewall supports NETCONF.

Docker Datacenter @ DockerCon 2016: Image security, Engine 1.12 and Burning Man…

Interested in learning more about our plans for Docker in the Enterprise and getting involved in an upcoming Docker Datacenter beta? Let’s take a deeper look. On the second day of DockerCon, the keynote used different situations to discuss enterprise use of Docker. Our CEO Ben Golub broke down several fallacies in IT, CTO Keith Fulton of ADP painted a delicious picture of microservices as chicken nuggets, and Lily and I… well, we averted a massive security disaster and got our costumes ready for Burning Man.

Aside from shiny sequined jackets (not my normal wardrobe, I promise) and Ben’s enthusiastic “business guy” cameo, we presented a prototype of the next version of Docker Datacenter, our commercial solution for running containers-as-a-service (CaaS) in an on-premises or public cloud enterprise environment. Docker Datacenter is an integrated CaaS platform to securely ship, orchestrate and manage Dockerized apps and system resources. The sneak peek during the keynote shows a prototype UI and features. Some of the things you saw may change as we get to launch but what’s important are the capabilities we are bringing to the enterprise platform.

In the keynote presentation we demonstrated these enterprise use cases: