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Let’s Improve Routing Security at APRICOT 2020

Internet builders in Asia-Pacific get together around this time every year at APRICOT to learn from each other and other leaders from around the world. Routing security will be a key theme, and we will be sharing in multiple sessions why the MANRS initiative is important to the global routing system.

Also called the Asia-Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies, the conference is the largest meeting of the technical community in the region. It draws many of the world’s best Internet engineers, operators, researchers, service providers, and policy enthusiasts from over 50 countries to learn, share, and network.

Held annually, the ten-day meeting consists of workshops, tutorials, and conference sessions, birds-of-a-feather (BoFs) sessions, and peering forums all with the goal of spreading the knowledge needed to run and expand the Internet.

Technical training workshops will run from Feb 12 to 16, and the conference itself from 17 to 21 in Melbourne, Australia.

Our team at the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative will speak at various sessions throughout the conference, including the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) Deployathon on 17 February that I will facilitate. I will also be chairing the inaugural APNIC Routing Security/RPKI SIG on 20 February.

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How Much Will App Services Like Service Mesh Grow?

Network management services for modern architectures, such as the service mesh and the API gateway, are increasingly on IT professionals’ roadmaps, especially within public cloud environments. Notably, 37% of IT professionals expect to start using service meshes in the public cloud in the next year, but actual adoption rates may be significantly lower if the technology’s hype bubble bursts. Those are two of our takeaways from F5 Networks’ “

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Kernel of Truth season 3 episode 1: FRRouting update

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Click here for our previous episode.

Season three jumps right into the deep end of the networking pool with a discussion on FRRouting. Kernel of Truth hosts Brian O’Sullivan and Roopa Prabhu are joined by a new guest to the podcast, Donald Sharp. With FRR being the hottest Open Routing protocol stack today, the group talks about the recent updates and features that are happening at such a high velocity now. What does that mean for the community? Listen to find out. You can also find more about FRRouting at their website here and Twitter here.

Guest Bios

Brian O’Sullivan: Brian currently heads Product Management for Cumulus Linux. For 15 or so years he’s held software Product Management positions at Juniper Networks as well as other smaller companies. Once he saw the change that was happening in the networking space, he decided to join Cumulus Networks to be a part of the open networking innovation. When not working, Brian is a voracious reader and has held a variety of jobs, including bartending in three countries and working as an extra in a German Continue reading

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Train to become a skilled AWS expert for less than $50

The popularity of Amazon’s cloud computing platform continues to grow. That means that opportunities for IT professionals in this sector are likely to be plentiful, but only those with the proper skills will be considered for jobs. So, if you're trying to climb above the competition, you'd be remiss to look over the AWS Solutions Architect Certification Bundle, currently discounted by over 90% today.To read this article in full, please click here

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Worth Reading: Why Must Systems Be Operated?

Every now and then I find an IT professional claiming we should not be worried about split-brain scenarios because you have redundant links.

I might understand that sentiment coming from software developers, but I also encountered it when discussing stretched clusters or even SDN controllers deployed across multiple data centers.

Finally I found a great analogy you might find useful. A reader of my blog pointed me to the awesome Why Must Systems Be Operated blog post explaining the same problem from the storage perspective, so the next time you might want to use this one: “so you’re saying you don’t need backup because you have RAID disks”. If someone agrees with that, don’t walk away… RUN!

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Worth Reading: Why Must Systems Be Operated?

Every now and then I find an IT professional claiming we should not be worried about split-brain scenarios because you have redundant links.

I might understand that sentiment coming from software developers, but I also encountered it when discussing stretched clusters or even SDN controllers deployed across multiple data centers.

Finally I found a great analogy you might find useful. A reader of my blog pointed me to the awesome Why Must Systems Be Operated blog post explaining the same problem from the storage perspective, so the next time you might want to use this one: “so you’re saying you don’t need backup because you have RAID disks”. If someone agrees with that, don’t walk away… RUN!

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Server sales projected to decline 10% due to coronavirus

Global server sales had been projected to grow by 1.2% compared to the most recent quarter, but the chaos wrought by the coronavirus in China will cause sales to decline 9.8% sequentially, according to DigiTimes Research.DigiTimes is an IT publication based in Taiwan. Its proximity to Taiwanese and Chinese vendors gives it some good sources, but it can also be way off target. However, the signs are piling up that coronavirus is causing some real mayhem.For example, DigiTimes also reported that less than 20% of Chinese factory employees would return to work after an extended Lunar New Year break due to the coronavirus outbreak, and that many components plants in China have decided not to restart production until February 25.To read this article in full, please click here

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Server sales projected to decline 10% due to coronavirus

Global server sales had been projected to grow by 1.2% compared to the most recent quarter, but the chaos wrought by the coronavirus in China will cause sales to decline 9.8% sequentially, according to DigiTimes Research.DigiTimes is an IT publication based in Taiwan. Its proximity to Taiwanese and Chinese vendors gives it some good sources, but it can also be way off target. However, the signs are piling up that coronavirus is causing some real mayhem.For example, DigiTimes also reported that less than 20% of Chinese factory employees would return to work after an extended Lunar New Year break due to the coronavirus outbreak, and that many components plants in China have decided not to restart production until February 25.To read this article in full, please click here

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Sometimes The Road To Petaflops Is Paved With Gold And Platinum

Supercomputing, with a few exceptions, is a shared resource that is allocated to users in a particular field or geography to run their simulations and models on systems that are much larger than they might otherwise be able to buy on their own. …

Sometimes The Road To Petaflops Is Paved With Gold And Platinum was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Cisco’s Robbins: US Should Not Invest in 5G Companies

Double-digit declines in service provider sales continue to plague Cisco earnings. The vendor...

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Data Center Network Automation. Simplified.

We live in a multi-cloud world where a majority of workloads still reside in either on-premises or hosted private clouds...

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BrandPost: Top 2020 SD-WAN Predictions

We've seen many transformative changes in the market over the past few years. In 2019, for example, we witnessed router-centric and basic SD-WAN offerings beginning to fall short of expectations as enterprises began shifting toward a business-first networking model. We also saw an emphasis on cloud security, along with a bond forming between SD-WAN and UCaaS. We began to see a new set of emerging requirements for multi-cloud deployments, and the promise of 5G beginning to materialize.So, what's in store for 2020? This is sure to mark another year of continued WAN transformation and a year in which enterprises can begin to realize a multiplier effect from their cloud investments. As the market continues to gain momentum, here are my annual predictions for SD-WAN and the future of the WAN edge infrastructure market.To read this article in full, please click here

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Daily Roundup: Mavenir Wins 5G Deals

Mavenir won 5G deals in Japan and Germany; the SASE space race is heating up; and Fortinet and...

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OPNFV Taps CNTT to Power Its Evolution

The Linux Foundation's Heather Kirksey likened OPNFV's current status to the Gartner Hype Cycle and...

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Oracle Supercharges Cloud Infrastructure With Data Science Platform

Oracle’s new data science platform marks a continued effort to integrate AI and ML into its cloud...

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BiB 087: NRE Labs Relaunches With New Automation Training Content

NRE Labs offers free automation training for network and infrastructure engineers. The site recently relaunched with new content, a new interface, and an easier way for the community to contribute lessons. Matt Oswalt, Tech Lead at NRE Labs, joins Briefings in Brief to tell us what's new.

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BiB 087: NRE Labs Relaunches With New Automation Training Content

NRE Labs offers free automation training for network and infrastructure engineers. The site recently relaunched with new content, a new interface, and an easier way for the community to contribute lessons. Matt Oswalt, Tech Lead at NRE Labs, joins Briefings in Brief to tell us what's new.

The post BiB 087: NRE Labs Relaunches With New Automation Training Content appeared first on Packet Pushers.

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Coronavirus Kills MWC Barcelona

The event was set to get underway on Feb. 24, but a wave of cancellations by network operators and...

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Benefits of Networking for Young Professionals

Networking for young professionals is often thought to be the way to get started in a career, and while networking can help young professionals find their first job,  there are also a number of different benefits of networking for young professionals other than just learning how to network for a job. Here is a look at some of those additional benefits of networking for young professionals.

5 Tips on Networking for Young Professionals

Helps Identify Best Practices In Field

Networking with other professionals in the same career can help you to identify the best practices in your given field. This can be extremely important to young professionals just starting out, because it can show them things to suggest to their employer that may increase production or safety. This will have the added benefit of putting you on your employer’s or manager’s radar as someone to watch when it comes to giving out future promotions.

Keeps You Informed of Changing Business Trends

Networking with other professionals in your field can keep you updated on changing trends in your particular business. In order to grow as a professional, you need to constantly keep up on the various trends in your business to Continue reading

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Supercharging Workload Security in Your K8s Cluster

Introduction

2019 was a big year for Kubernetes adoption, and 2020 is sure to exceed that pace. Already, we have seen a large number of organizations migrating their workloads to Kubernetes (k8s) both in public and private clouds as they embrace a hybrid cloud strategy. With so much at stake, what are you currently using for network security inside your k8s cluster?

 

Quick Retro

Let’s take a step back to a time when you were deploying applications to VMs in AWS, GCP or Azure (in the case of public clouds) or vSphere, etc. in private clouds. One of the most important tasks before provisioning infrastructure and deploying applications was to chalk out firewall considerations. These requirements were fulfilled using security group rules in the case of AWS or firewall rules in GCP. We all understand their importance. But doing the same involving Kubernetes was extremely challenging. Today, we can solve those problems for you with just a few clicks.

 

Present Scenario – What If?

Most recently with the increase in k8s adoption we have seen operations and platform teams hustling to implement a plethora of monitoring tools, logging backends and CI/CD tools. While all of this is Continue reading