As the world makes progress towards Software Defined Everything, Bare Metal is becoming the center...
I know we haven’t gotten to the point of actually discussing inter-as option B or option C but we did cover all of the mechanics required for them to work (at least briefly). Before we go there though – I did want to cover a different technology that can also help solve our end to end LSP problems. Carrier Supporting Carrier – or more commonly just referred to as CsC (or in Cisco parlance Carrier of Carriers or CoC (or maybe I have that backwards?)) is a means to nest MPLS VPN sessions. Think of it this way. If you’re a huge backbone provider (we’ll call you the “uber provider”) selling transport to customers (we’ll call them customer carriers) – there’s a good chance that those customer carriers will need a way to isolate their customer on their backbone. How do we do that? Well MPLS VPNs of course! However you, the uber provider, also need a means to keep the customer carriers isolated as they traverse your backbone. So what do we do? Sounds a lot like a carrier supporting a carrier huh? CsC to the rescue!
At this point you might be wondering how we got here. Continue reading
We had the chance recently to sit down with the Liberty Mutual Insurance team at their Portsmouth, New Hampshire offices and talk about how they deliver better business outcomes with the cloud and containerization.
At this point, Liberty Mutual has moved about 30 percent of their applications to the cloud. One of big improvements the team has seen with the cloud and Docker is the speed at which developers can develop and deploy their applications. That means better business outcomes for Liberty Mutual and its customers.
Here’s what they told us. You can also catch the highlights in this two-minute video:
Mark Cressey, SVP and GM, IT Hosting Services: Tech and the digitization it’s allowed has really enabled Liberty Mutual to get deeply ingrained in our customers’ lives and support them through their major life journeys. We’re able to be more predictive of what our customer’s needs and get in front of them as a proactive step. How can we help? How can we assist you? Is this the right coverage? And even to the point where using real time information, we can warn them about approaching windstorms or warn our Continue reading
People suffering from severe neck pain who want to reduce their reliance on pain medications often turn to TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) treatments to relieve the pain, reducing their dependence on prescription medications to get the pain relief they so badly need. TENS uses electrodes for neck pain or back pain, and while some people swear by such treatments, others find themselves wondering whether or not TENS really work to relieve pain. Keep reading to learn more about these electrodes for neck pain.
A TENS treatment consists of electrodes for neck pain and other bodily pains through electrical stimulation therapy. Found in physical therapy and pain clinics, TENS uses electrodes placed on the skin around a painful or injured area with a small electrical charge running through the device to temporarily reduce pain.
The use of electrodes for pain is believed to reduce pain by using electrical impulses to flood the nervous system and reduce the nerves’ ability to transmit pain signals to the brain, while at the same time producing the body’s natural pain relievers called endorphins. While some studies suggest that this type of therapy does work, other studies are not Continue reading
Ever wonder if your next doctor’s appointment will result in jail time? Luckily most of us never have to think about that. But LGBT Tech Executive Director Chris Wood says for people in countries where their truth is outlawed, the prospect of finding a trusted healthcare provider without encrypted messaging apps is worse than grim. It could be deadly.
Efforts to weaken encryption threaten our ability to keep our most vulnerable communities safe online. As the best tool available to protect our digital security, encryption helps ensure that data and messages are kept private and make it much more difficult for outside parties to get access to sensitive information. Encryption helps ensure that your digital bank transactions are secure, your passwords are kept safe, and your stored data can’t be accessed by any unintended parties.
This security tool protects all Internet users, but it is critical for vulnerable communities. For example, there is an alarming and growing threat of abusive partners using Internet-connected devices and other online tools to surveil and control their partners. This can make it even more difficult for victims to seek help. However, by using devices and services that encrypt web traffic, communications, and location info, Continue reading
Right around the same time I joined Arista in 2009, Amazon Web Services developed the concept of the Virtual Private Cloud, one of the seminal technologies that became a core construct deployed throughout public clouds enabling enterprise customers to corral and protect resources and provision them into logical groups, align security policies, and simplify their management. Following this, Google developed a model for Virtual Private Clouds that spanned regions allocating one subnet per region by default - creating the first multi-region VPC within a single cloud provider.
Blending the needs of DevOps and NetOps best positions companies to deliver the business outcomes...
Imagine you want to create a Jinja2 report that includes only a select subset of elements of a data structure… and want to have header, footer, and element count in that report.
Traditionally we’d solve that challenge with an extra variable, but as Jinja2 variables don’t survive loop termination, the code to do that in Jinja2 gets exceedingly convoluted.
Fortunately, Jinja2 provides a better way: using a conditional expression to select the elements you want to iterate over.
Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are trying to sell SD-WAN services by convincing you that you don't have the staff, training, or competence to operate an SD-WAN. On today's Heavy Networking, Greg Ferro and Ethan Banks pick this argument apart to see if there's anything to it.
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When talking about Nornir and Ansible, speed is one of the topics that come up from time to time. A common argument for Nornir is that it performs better when working with either many hosts or lots of data. For some who hear this, it isn’t entirely clear what we mean. This article will look at some numbers. Recently I came across a quote by Kelsey Hightower that stuck with me.
“You haven’t mastered a tool until you understand when it should not be used.”
Let’s see if any of that can be applied here. Continue reading
The Docker team is gearing up for another great KubeCon this year in San Diego, November 17-21. As a Platinum sponsor of this year’s event, we are excited to bring Docker employees, community members and Docker captains together to demonstrate and celebrate the combined impact of Docker and Kubernetes.
Stop by Booth P37 to learn how to leverage the Docker platform to securely build, share and run modern applications for any Kubernetes environment. We will demonstrate Docker Desktop Enterprise and how it accelerates container application development while supporting developer choice. Experts will be on hand to answer questions about Docker Kubernetes Services (DKS), a secure and production-ready Kubernetes environment. Or come to learn more about Docker’s contributions to Kubernetes while picking up some great Docker swag.
KubeCon will also provide a great opportunity to learn from industry experts and hear from people who run production applications on Kubernetes. Here’s a helpful guide from the Docker team of our recommended talks:
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