HPE and Cumulus Networks partner for open storage

Cumulus Networks has announced a partnership with HPE that will see its NetQ management software run on HPE's network storage products.Under the deal, HPE's StoreFabric M-Series Ethernet switches will run Cumulus's Linux operating system and NetQ, a move that Cumulus said in a statement will deliver “a flexible networking fabric that is predictable, scalable, and reliable."[Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.] Combining the M-Series switches with Linux and NetQ will offer enterprises a high-bandwidth, low-latency way to connect primary, secondary, hyperconverged, NAS, or object-storage systems, and is an ideal way to build an Ethernet Storage Fabric (ESF), the company added.To read this article in full, please click here

HPE and Cumulus Networks partner for open storage

Cumulus Networks has announced a partnership with HPE that will see its NetQ management software run on HPE's network storage products.Under the deal, HPE's StoreFabric M-Series Ethernet switches will run Cumulus's Linux operating system and NetQ, a move that Cumulus said in a statement will deliver “a flexible networking fabric that is predictable, scalable, and reliable."[Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.] Combining the M-Series switches with Linux and NetQ will offer enterprises a high-bandwidth, low-latency way to connect primary, secondary, hyperconverged, NAS, or object-storage systems, and is an ideal way to build an Ethernet Storage Fabric (ESF), the company added.To read this article in full, please click here

Heavy Networking 497: Good Reasons To Start Your Tech Blog

If one of your New Year's resolutions is to blog more, or start a blog, this episode is for you. We discuss the benefits of technical blogging including raising your profile, improving your own understanding, contributing to the community, and creating new opportunities in your professional life. Our guests are John Mark Troyer and Stephen Foskett.

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‘Major Initiatives in Cybersecurity’ Shows Everyone Can Contribute to Trust

How do we work toward a more secure Internet?

In the Cyber Security discussions that take place in the various policy fora around the world, there is often little appreciation that the security of the Internet is a distributed responsibility, where many stakeholders take action.

By design, the Internet is a distributed system with no central core or point of control. Instead, Internet security is achieved by collaboration where multiple companies, organizations, governments, and individuals take action to improve the security and trustworthiness of the Internet – so that it is open, secure, and available to all.

Today we’ve published Major Initiatives in Cybersecurity: Public & Private Contributions Towards Increasing Internet Security to illustrate, via a handful of examples regarding Internet Infrastructure, there are a great number initiatives working, sometimes together and sometimes independently, in improving the Internet’s security. An approach we call collaborative security.

Major Initiatives in Cybersecurity describes Internet security as the part of cybersecurity that, broadly speaking, relates to the security of Internet infrastructure, the devices connected to it, and the technical building blocks from which applications and platforms are built.

We make no claim to completeness, but we do hope that the paper illustrates the complexity, breath, Continue reading

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For January 10th, 2020

 Wake up! It's HighScalability time:

Forrest Brazeal warns you not to spend your limited innovation credits building bespoke, complex systems that provide no direct value to your business, instead position yourself at the top of what heI calls the Wisdom/Cleverness Curve

Number Stuff:

Cisco NX-OS Graceful Insertion and Removal (GIR)

If you operate a data-center network with Cisco Nexus, you’ve probably already faced the problem of how to perform a maintenance on one of the two switches of a vPC pair, with minimum impact and risks for the production network. Cisco NX-OS contains a feature called “Graceful Insertion and Removal” or GIR to help you for that. Here is how it works. Scenario Let’s take the example below: (click on the image to see a larger version) We have two Nexus (in nx-os mode) in vPC. Doing layer-2 aggregation and …

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4 tech startup predictions for 2020

Capital markets are in transition, unicorns are falling and geopolitical instability abounds. That adds up to an 'interesting' climate for tech startups.

Doing The Math On Fractal HPC

At every key leap in processing capacity in high performance computing – and just rattling off more than two decades from teraflops through petaflops, and now on the verge of exaflops in two years or so – there has been this tension between custom-built systems that break through performance barriers and more general purpose machines based on more off of the shelf components that cost less and tend to be fast followers. …

Doing The Math On Fractal HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The Art of Saying “No”

No.

It’s the shortest sentence in the English language. It requires no other parts of speech. It’s an answer, a statement, and a command all at once. It’s a phrase that some people have zero issues saying over and over again. And yet, some others have an extremely difficult time answering anything in the negative.

I had a fun discussion on twitter yesterday with some friends about the idea behind saying “no” to people. It started with this tweet:

Coincidentally, I tweeted something very similar to what Bob Plankers had tweeted just hours before:

The gist is the same though. Crazy features and other things that have been included in software and hardware because someone couldn’t tell another person “no”. Sadly, it’s something Continue reading

Equinix CEO Talks Edge: Friend or Foe?

Money Moves: December 2019

NetDev 0x13 on Software Gone Wild

The last Software Gone Wild podcast recorded in 2019 focused on advances in Linux networking - in particular on interesting stuff presented at NetDev 0x13 conference in Prague. The guests (in alphabetical first name order) Jamal Hadi Salim, Shrijeet Mukherjee, Sowmini Varadhan, and Tom Herbert shared their favorite topics, and commented on the future of Linux networking.

Ten challenges for making automation a ‘team player’ in joint human-agent activity

Ten challenges for making automation a ‘team player’ in joint human-agent activity, Klein et al., IEEE Computer Nov/Dec 2004

With thanks to Thomas Depierre for the paper suggestion.

Last time out we looked at some of the difficulties inherit in automating control systems. However much we automate, we’re always ultimately dealing with some kind of human/machine collaboraton. Today’s choice looks at what it takes for machines to participate productively in collaborations with humans. Written in 2004, the ideas remind me very much of Mark Burgess’ promise theory, which was also initially developed around the same time.

Let’s work together

If a group of people (or people and machines) are going to coordinate with each other to achieve a set of shared ends then there are four basic requirements that must be met to underpin their joint activity:

1. They must agree to work together (the authors call this agreement a Basic Compact).
2. They must be mutually predictable in their actions
3. They must be mutually directable.
4. They must maintain common ground.

A basic compact is…

… an agreement (often tacit) to facilitate coordination, work toward shared goals, and prevent breakdowns in team coordination. This Compact involves a commitment Continue reading

Gen-Z Memory Servers Loom On The Horizon

We have been waiting for a long, long time for the ionic bond between compute and main memory to be softened to something a little more covalent and therefore allow for more complex storage structures to be formed within systems and across them. …

Gen-Z Memory Servers Loom On The Horizon was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

DIY communications networks to trend in 2020, says major telco

Communications networks without a centralized infrastructure will become more popular this year as folks become increasingly aware of data collection from governments and tech companies, says telecommunications provider Telenor Group.The company refers to fully encrypted mesh and peer-to-peer apps as the technology that will enable these consumer-level “off-the-grid, build-it-yourself” links. Mesh apps will also be useful in disasters where traditional networks fail.[Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.] “Communicating without a central coordinating network is appealing to people for many reasons, and in 2020, we expect to see more go that route, especially in conflict situations, to mobilize for protests, and simply to stay below the radar,” the company says on its website.To read this article in full, please click here

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

Aruba SD-Branch Update Targets Retail

Veeam Snatched Up by Insight for $5B

AT&T Clarifies Perplexing, Ambiguous Network Virtualization Goal

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.