Cisco Previews Managed HyperFlex Application Platform for Kubernetes

AppDynamics Customer Journey Map, HyperFlex Application Platform for Kubernetes, and it has said that all three are expected to be generally available sometime within the next few months. The first two products are meant to provide insight into and optimization of application performance, and even target business metrics such as cost. The HyperFlex Application Platform for Kubernetes, meanwhile, is Cisco’s new managed Kubernetes product, which will not only provide a “turnkey” Kubernetes platform, but also a number of other managed services, including container networking, container storage, ingress and L7 load balancer, logging, monitoring, a container registry, and service mesh. Gerd Altmann from 

Do We Need Complex Data Center Switches for VMware NSX Underlay

Got this question from one of ipSpace.net subscribers:

Do we really need those intelligent datacenter switches for underlay now that we have NSX in our datacenter? Now that we have taken a lot of the intelligence out of our underlying network, what must the underlying network really provide?

Reading the marketing white papers the answer would be IP connectivity… but keep in mind that building your infrastructure based on information from vendor white papers usually gives you the results your gullibility deserves.

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Let’s Encrypt: an automated certificate authority to encrypt the entire web

Let’s encrypt: an automated certificate authority to encrypt the entire web, Aas et al., CCS’19

This paper tells the story of Let’s Encrypt, from it’s early beginnings in 2012/13 all the way to becoming the world’s largest HTTPS Certificate Authority (CA) today – accounting for more currently valid certificates than all other browser-trusted CAs combined. Beyond the functionality that Let’s Encrypt provides, the story stands out to me for two key ingredients. Firstly, whereas normally we trade-off between security and ease-of-use, Let’s Encrypt made the web more secure through ease-of-use. Secondly, Let’s Encrypt managed to find a sustainable funding model for a combination of an open source project and free online service, as compared to the more normal pattern which sadly seems to involve running a small number of beneficent maintainers into the ground.

Since it’s launch in December 2015, Let’s Encrypt has steadily grown to become the largest CA in the Web PKI by certificates issued and the fourth largest known CA by Firefox Beta TLS full handshakes. As of January 21, 2019, the CA had issued a total of 538M certificates for 223M unique FQDNs… Let’s Encrypt has been responsible for significant growth in HTTPS deployment.

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Network Field Day #NFD22

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NSX: Networking and Security

Join us for #NFD22. The agenda is locked down and our in-house VMware experts are ready to go! They will be sharing their NSX know-how on the following:

Here is a snapshot of the agenda and demo times:

VMware Networking Field Day Agenda

 

 

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Istio Security Bug Found, Quickly Squashed

The bug was in its authentication policy and allowed an attacker unauthorized access to information...

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The NFL knows a lot about deploying high-capacity WiFi networks

Everyone watching Super Bowl 2020 witnessed the excitement that filled Hard Rock Stadium, as the Kansas City Chiefs became this year’s champions. (I was cheering hard for the 49ers but want to offer hearty congratulations to the new champs.) What wasn’t visible to the public—yet was omnipresent throughout the venue—was Wi-Fi connectivity that gave fans an enhanced experience during the game.Whether it’s in a hospital, an office building, a university auditorium or a stadium, Wi-Fi scale matters. In hospitals, gameday is every day, and healthcare wireless networks play a vital role. Stadiums don’t always have gameday, but when they do, the WiFi has to work without a glitch.To read this article in full, please click here

Daily Roundup: Judge OKs T-Mobile, Sprint Merger

Judge gave T-Mobile a thumbs up on Sprint merger: IBM found billions of cloud misconfigs; and...

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Fortinet, Amdocs Team Up to Woo SD-WAN Providers

The firewall and SD-WAN vendor claims by adding support for Amdoc's orchestration layer, it can...

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BrandPost: A SASE Crash Course

2020! What could better motivate you to push ahead with your resolutions and organization’s digital transformation than a new year AND a new decade. As you put together your digital strategy, check out a new transformation-empowering (and transformational) technology category Gartner coined the Secure Access Service Edge or SASE (pronounced “Sassy”). SASE converges wide area networking and identity-based security into a cloud service targeted directly to your branch offices, mobile users, cloud services, and even IoT devices, wherever they happen to be. The result: consistently high WAN performance, security, productivity, agility, and flexibility across the global, mobile, cloud-enabled enterprise.To read this article in full, please click here

The Serverlist: Globally Distributed Websites, $16M Series A, and more

The Serverlist: Globally Distributed Websites, $16M Series A, and more

Check out our twelfth edition of The Serverlist below. Get the latest scoop on the serverless space, get your hands dirty with new developer tutorials, engage in conversations with other serverless developers, and find upcoming meetups and conferences to attend.

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SD-WAN Explained: MPLS Alternative

The WAN is evolving and SD-WAN is all the rage. It promises to remove the constraints of legacy...

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SDxCentral Will Not Attend MWC Barcelona

Ongoing coronavirus concerns are just too much to overlook at this point.

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Equinix Taps Oracle Exadata for Interconnection Services

The colocation giant already partnered with Oracle and offered direct, private connections to...

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Time For A Compute Rematch Between The FPGA And The GPU

For any given compute engine, there is the vendor who makes the chip and therefore a lot of the money and then there are the downstream system architects, system integrators, original design manufacturers, and original equipment manufacturers who add further value to that compute engine in one form or another and make their own revenue stream from that innovation.

Time For A Compute Rematch Between The FPGA And The GPU was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

T-Mobile Scores Court OK to Buy Sprint

The operators’ quest to merge, which began almost 22 months ago, has been held up by a group of...

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Get Microsoft Azure-savvy & supercharge your resume with this training.

People skilled in the use of cloud based platforms are in demand. If you want to transition your career path into this specialized field, then The Complete 2020 Microsoft Azure Certification Prep Bundle, discounted by over 90 percent, may be the most convenient route.This package is ideal for anyone who wants to work in the growing cloud computing sector. It includes eleven beginner-friendly courses that introduce students to the popular Microsoft Azure platform as well as advanced topics in data analysis, security, and integration. And, since it’s all delivered via the web, it’s far more affordable when compared with other forms of education.To read this article in full, please click here