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Aruba reinforces SD-Branch with security, management upgrades

Aruba has taken steps to bolster the security and manageability of its branch-office networking package for customers with lots of branch sites.The HPE company enhanced its SD-Branch software with identity-based attack detection and intrusion prevention, and improvements to its SD-WAN Orchestrator to make it easier to deploy security features on a large scale.See predictions about what's big in IT tech for the coming year. Aruba’s SD-Branch software runs on its branch gateways and includes a variety of integrated features like a firewall that support LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi networks, and segmentation as well integration with the company’s ClearPass policy-management software and its cloud-based package Aruba Central. The package can integrate its data with partner security platforms such as Check Point, Palo Alto Networks, and Z-Scaler.To read this article in full, please click here

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Aruba SD-Branch Update Targets Retail

The update includes new branch hardware with built-in cellular capabilities, improved security...

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Veeam Snatched Up by Insight for $5B

Strong growth, high customer retention, and expansion opportunities make Veeam "one of the most...

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AT&T Clarifies Perplexing, Ambiguous Network Virtualization Goal

AT&T’s ongoing network virtualization effort, specifically the amount of core network...

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HPC In 2020: AI Is No Longer An Experiment

If we could sum up the near-term future of high performance computing in a single phrase, it would be more of the same and then some. …

HPC In 2020: AI Is No Longer An Experiment was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.

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IPv6 Buzz 042: Why Wireless Is A Smart Place To Start With IPv6

If you're looking for a way to bring IPv6 into your environment, the WLAN may be your best bet. Find out why in the latest episode of IPv6 Buzz with guest Jeffry Handal. Jeffry cut his teeth with an early v6 deployment on the wireless network of Louisiana State University (LSU). This WLAN serves 40,000 users and over 100,000 devices. He shares his experiences and talks about how vendor adoption of v6 had advanced since that deployment.

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IPv6 Buzz 042: Why Wireless Is A Smart Place To Start With IPv6

If you're looking for a way to bring IPv6 into your environment, the WLAN may be your best bet. Find out why in the latest episode of IPv6 Buzz with guest Jeffry Handal. Jeffry cut his teeth with an early v6 deployment on the wireless network of Louisiana State University (LSU). This WLAN serves 40,000 users and over 100,000 devices. He shares his experiences and talks about how vendor adoption of v6 had advanced since that deployment.

The post IPv6 Buzz 042: Why Wireless Is A Smart Place To Start With IPv6 appeared first on Packet Pushers.

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Strong Encryption Is Central to Good Security – India’s Proposed Intermediary Rules Puts It at Risk

Security and encryption experts from around the world are calling on the Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTy) to reconsider proposed amendments to intermediary liability rules that could weaken security and limit the use of strong encryption on the Internet. Coordinated by the Internet Society, nearly thirty computer security and cryptography experts from around the world signed “Open Letter: Concerns with Amendments to India’s Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules under the Information Technology Act.”

MeiTy is revising proposed amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules. The proposed amendments would require intermediaries, like content platforms, Internet service providers, cybercafés, and others, to abide by strict, onerous requirements in order to not be held liable for the content sent or posted by their users. Freedom from intermediary liability is an important aspect of communications over the Internet. Without it, people cannot build and maintain platforms and services that have the ability to easily handle to billions of people.

The letter highlights concerns with these new rules, specifically requirements that intermediaries monitor and filter their users’ content. As these security experts state, “by tying intermediaries’ protection from liability to their ability to monitor communications being sent across their platforms or systems, the amendments would limit Continue reading

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How to Add Approval Steps to Ansible Tower Workflows

Suppose you have a workflow set up in Red Hat Ansible Tower with several steps and needed another user to view and approve some or all of the nodes in the workflow.  Or maybe a job is running inside of a workflow but it should be viewed and approved within a specific time limit, or else get canceled automatically?  Perhaps it would be useful to be able to see how a job failed before something like a cleanup task gets set off?  It is now possible to insert a step in between any job template or workflow within that workflow in order to achieve these objectives.

 

Table of Contents

A New Feature for Better Oversight and More User Input

How to Add Approval Nodes to Workflows

What Happens When Something Needs Approval?

Approval Notifications

Timeouts

Approval-Specific Role-Based Access Controls

Summary

Where to Go Next

 

A New Feature for Better Oversight and More User Input

The Workflow Approval Node feature has been available in Ansible Tower since the release of version 3.6.0 on November 13, 2019.  In order to visually compare the additional functionality, examine the before and after examples of a workflow Continue reading

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Worth Reading: Apple II Had the Lowest Input Latency Ever

It's amazing how heaping layers of complexity (see also: SDN or intent-based whatever) manages to destroy performance faster than Moore's law delivers it. The computer with lowest keyboard-to-screen latency was (supposedly) Apple II built in 1983, with modern Linux having keyboard-to-screen RTT matching the transatlantic links.

No surprise there: Linux has been getting slower with every kernel release and it takes an enormous effort to fine-tune it (assuming you know what to tune). Keep that in mind the next time someone with a hefty PPT slide deck will tell you to build a "provider cloud" with packet forwarding done on Linux VMs. You can make that work, and smart people made that work, but you might not have the resources to replicate their feat.

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MobiledgeX, NTT DoCoMo Trial MEC for 5G Applications

The proof-of-concept aims to test multi-access edge computing for the global distribution of...

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How SD-Branch Rises to the Next-Gen Demands of Financial Services Networks

Financial networks require high speeds and solid security. Here's how SD-branch meets the needs of...

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BrandPost: How to Deliver Affordable and Optimized Application Access Worldwide with SASE

Global expansion is a common goal for many enterprises. In some verticals, like manufacturing, running production lines globally is an established practice. However, deploying international sales, service, and engineering teams is becoming the norm for many other sectors including high tech, finance, retail, and more.A global enterprise footprint creates a unique set of challenges that do not occur in regional businesses. Users in a remote office will need to securely access data-center applications, cloud applications, or both. Depending on the distance between the remote location and the application—and the sensitivity of the application to high latency, packet loss, and jitter—an expensive set of technologies and capabilities will be needed to optimize the user experience.To read this article in full, please click here

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Falco Soars From CNCF Sandbox to Incubation

The Falco project joins 14 other Incubating projects as the first and, so far, only security...

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FTC Chair Calls for Modern Federal Privacy Law

“I think it really is time for Congress to think about whether we should do something more...

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Anana Taps Dell, Pluribus SDN for Data Center Project

Anana wanted to automated infrastructure to unify its two data centers and provide more agile...

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PostgreSQL Connection Pooling: Part 2 – PgBouncer

When it comes to connection pooling in the PostgreSQL world, PgBouncer is probably the most popular option. It’s a very simple utility that does exactly one thing – it sits between the database and the clients and speaks the PostgreSQL protocol, emulating a PostgreSQL server. A client connects to PgBouncer with the exact same syntax it would use when connecting directly to PostgreSQL – PgBouncer is essentially invisible.

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Accelerating UDP packet transmission for QUIC

This was originally published on Perf Planet's 2019 Web Performance Calendar.

QUIC, the new Internet transport protocol designed to accelerate HTTP traffic, is delivered on top of UDP datagrams, to ease deployment and avoid interference from network appliances that drop packets from unknown protocols. This also allows QUIC implementations to live in user-space, so that, for example, browsers will be able to implement new protocol features and ship them to their users without having to wait for operating systems updates.

But while a lot of work has gone into optimizing TCP implementations as much as possible over the years, including building offloading capabilities in both software (like in operating systems) and hardware (like in network interfaces), UDP hasn't received quite as much attention as TCP, which puts QUIC at a disadvantage. In this post we'll look at a few tricks that help mitigate this disadvantage for UDP, and by association QUIC.

For the purpose of this blog post we will only be concentrating on measuring throughput of QUIC connections, which, while necessary, is not enough to paint an accurate overall picture of the performance of the QUIC protocol (or its implementations) as a whole.

Test Environment

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Urgent HPC Can Burst Affordably To The Cloud

One of the benefits of the public cloud is that it allows HPC centers to experiment and push the limits of scalability in a way they could never do if they had to requisition, budget, and install machinery on premises. …

Urgent HPC Can Burst Affordably To The Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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T-Mobile Poland First to Deploy ONF Open Source EPC

The Open Mobile Evolved Core (OMEC) platform supports connections into the carrier’s existing...

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