AWS IoT Greengrass 1.10 Now Supports Docker Containers

On November 25, 2019, AWS announced the release of AWS IoT Greengrass 1.10 allowing developers to package applications into Docker container images and deploy these to edge devices. Deploying and running Docker containers on AWS IoT Greengrass devices enables application portability across development environments, edge locations, and the cloud. Docker images can easily be stored in Docker Hub, private container registries, or with Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR).

Docker is committed to working with cloud service provider partners such as AWS who offer Docker-compatible on-demand container infrastructure services for both individual containers as well as multi-container apps. To make it even easier for developers to benefit from the speed of these services but without giving up app portability and infrastructure choice, Docker Hub will seamlessly integrate developers’ “build” and “share” workflows with the cloud “run” services of their choosing.

“Docker and AWS are collaborating on our shared vision of how workloads can be more easily deployed to edge devices. Docker’s industry-leading container technology including Docker Desktop and Docker Hub are integral to advancing developer workflows for modern apps and IoT solutions. Our customers can now deploy and run Docker containers seamlessly on AWS IoT Greengrass devices, enabling development Continue reading

Juniper broadens SD-Branch management, switch options

Juniper has taken the wraps off new software and switches that are designed to broaden user options in deploying software-defined branch offices and enterprise networks.The company bolstered its Contrail SD-WAN cloud package to include support for SD-LAN-specific operations, such as provisioning of new devices and managing branch office LANs.  READ MORE: SD-WAN creates new security challengesTo read this article in full, please click here

Snow Software Adds Embotics to Boost Hybrid Cloud Management

Verizon, Amazon team to offer 5G edge cloud computing via AWS Wavelength

Amazon and Verizon will offer the ability to run AWS-based applications with ultra-low latency via the former’s new Wavelength edge service, the companies announced this week at AWS re:Invent, letting organizations realize the benefits of edge computing without having to roll their own edge devices.The idea is a pretty simple one: Place small data centers running AWS’ software next to Verizon’s 5G points of presence. What this means is that applications running in that 5G coverage area can send their data to those remote edge data centers for rapid processing, as opposed to traveling across Verizon’s network, to the Internet at large, to AWS, and all the way back down the chain.To read this article in full, please click here

Silver Peak, Versa, Citrix, Aruba Bolster SD-WAN With AWS

OpenACC Cozies Up To C, C++, and Fortran Standards

Not so long ago, there was a question whether exascale supercomputers would be built from a very large number of thin nodes containing only modest amounts of parallelism or a smaller number of fat nodes powered by specialized accelerators and powerful manycore processors. …

OpenACC Cozies Up To C, C++, and Fortran Standards was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.

Day Two Cloud 026: Build Cloud-Native Networks With Aviatrix (Sponsored)

Day Two Cloud 026: Build Cloud-Native Networks With Aviatrix (Sponsored)

Today on Day Two Cloud, we talk about multi-cloud networking with sponsor Aviatrix. Aviatrix has built a networking solution that’s multi-cloud capable and leverages cloud-native constructs wherever possible. And they do it in a way designed to make the life of IT engineers better. Our guests are Rod Stuhlmuller, VP Marketing; and Nauman Mustafa, VP Solutions Engineering.

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VMware at Gartner IOCS

The speed and agility delivered by fast-moving cloud technologies and modern application architectures have become central to digital business transformation efforts.  There is an emerging realization that IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams cannot continue to rely on proprietary, bespoke, and expensive hardware to perform data center functions like networking, security, and load balancing.  These functions can be performed more efficiently at scale with distributed software running on x86 hardware while also achieving reduced complexity and cost.

VMware is excited to present this public cloud approach to infrastructure and operations at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference next week, 9–12 December in Las Vegas.

Attend our Speaking Session

Tom Gillis, GM and SVP of VMware Networking and Security Business Unit, will deliver a session on Wednesday titled “A Public Cloud Experience Requires a Different Datacenter and WAN Design”.

Tom will talk about how you can bring the public cloud experience to your Data Center and WAN using a software-based, scale out architecture running on general purpose hardware.  Purpose-built hardware designed for homogeneous environments simply cannot handle the fast-moving realities of today’s business priorities.  Businesses shouldn’t have to carry the burden of exorbitant CapEx Continue reading

AWS rolls out Outposts for on-premises hybrid cloud

Looking to further nudge the data-center crowd into the cloud world, Amazon Web Services announced the availability of its long-awaited Outposts hybrid-cloud service this week.Outposts delivers on-premises hardware and services that enables AWS cloud services inside enterprise data centers. That on-premises market is huge according to Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy who told the AWS re:Invent 2019 conference audience 97% of the $3.7T IT market is still on-prem and that the industry is still at the very early stages of a shift from on premises to the cloud.To read this article in full, please click here

AWS rolls out Outposts for on-premises hybrid cloud

Looking to further nudge the data-center crowd into the cloud world, Amazon Web Services announced the availability of its long-awaited Outposts hybrid-cloud service this week.Outposts delivers on-premises hardware and services that enables AWS cloud services inside enterprise data centers. That on-premises market is huge according to Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy who told the AWS re:Invent 2019 conference audience 97% of the $3.7T IT market is still on-prem and that the industry is still at the very early stages of a shift from on premises to the cloud.To read this article in full, please click here

AWS Works Hard To Keep Ahead Of The Public Cloud Herd

Amazon Web Services is at the top of an expanding mountain, the dominant player in a public cloud services space that is expected to push past $200 billion in revenue this year and make its way well beyond $300 billion by 2022. …

AWS Works Hard To Keep Ahead Of The Public Cloud Herd was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

SD-WAN sector report: Growing with no end in sight

With the WAN in transition, incumbents make their move through acquisitions, while startups continue to innovate at the edge. Insider Pro looks at why SD-WAN is so hot.

Online Trust Audit for 2020 Presidential Campaigns Update

On 7 October 2019, the Internet Society’s Online Trust Alliance (OTA) released the Online Trust Audit for 2020 U.S. Presidential Campaigns. Overall, 30% of the campaigns made the Honor Roll, and 70% had a failure, mainly related to scores for their privacy statements. As part of this process, OTA reached out to the campaigns, offering to explain their specific Audit scores and ways to improve them. The campaigns were also told that they would be rescored in mid-November and the updated results would be published in early December. As a result, several campaigns contacted us to understand the methodology and scoring, and several of them made improvements.

Rescoring of all elements of the Audit was completed on 25 November, and the table below shows the updated results since release of the original Audit. Several campaigns have been suspended since early October (Messam, O’Rourke, Ryan, and Sanford, as well as Bullock and Sestak in early December). Campaigns shown in bold in the Honor Roll column made enough improvements to earn passing scores for their privacy statements and thereby achieve Honor Roll status. Campaigns shown in italics at the bottom of the table are new entrants since the Audit was released. Continue reading

Self-hosted videos with HLS: subtitles

In a previous article, I have described a solution to self-host videos while offering a delivery adapted to each user’s bandwith, thanks to HLS and hls.js. Subtitles¹ were not part of the game. While they can be declared inside the HLS manifest or embedded into the video, it is easier to include them directly in the <video> element, using the WebVTT format:

<video poster="poster.jpg"
       controls preload="none">
  <source src="index.m3u8"
          type="application/vnd.apple.mpegurl">
  <source src="progressive.mp4"
          type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.4d401f, mp4a.40.2"'>
  <track src="de.vtt"
         kind="subtitles" srclang="de" label="Deutsch">
  <track src="en.vtt"
         kind="subtitles" srclang="en" label="English">
</video>

Watch the following demonstration, featuring Agent 327: Operation Barbershop, a video created by Blender Animation Studio and currently released under the Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives 2.0 license:

You may want to jump to 0:12 for the first subtitle. Most browsers should display a widget to toggle subtitles. This works just fine with Chromium but Firefox will not show the menu Continue reading

Tuning BGP Convergence in High-Availability Firewall Cluster Design

Two weeks ago Nicola Modena explained how to design BGP routing to implement resilient high-availability network services architecture. The next step to tackle was obvious: how do you fine-tune convergence times, and how does BGP convergence compare to the more traditional FHRP-based design.

Declarative assembly of web applications from pre-defined concepts

Declarative assembly of web applications from predefined concepts De Rosso et al., Onward! 2019

I chose this paper to challenge my own thinking. I’m not really a fan of low-code / no-code / just drag-and-drop-from-our-catalogue forms of application development. My fear is that all too often it’s like jumping on a motorbike and tearing off at great speed (rapid initial progress), only to ride around a bend and find a brick wall across the road in front of you. That doesn’t normally end well. I’ve seen enough generations of CASE (remember that acronym?), component-based software development, reusable software catalogues etc. to develop a healthy scepticism: lowest-common denominators, awkward or missing round-tripping behaviour, terrible debugging experiences, catalogues full of junk components, inability to accommodate custom behaviours not foreseen by the framework/component developers, limited reuse opportunities in practice compared to theory, and so on.

The thing is, on one level I know that I’m wrong. To start with, there’s Grady Booch’s observation that “the whole history of computer science is one of ever rising levels of abstraction” ¹. Then there’s the changing demographic of software building. Heather Miller recently gave a great presentation on this topic, ‘The Continue reading

Fortinet Extends Cloud Security Into AWS CloudFormation

Cisco goes deep into AWS hybrid cloud with SD-WAN, security, Outposts data center support

Cisco is taking its integration with Amazon Web Services to a new level, announcing plans to integrate its SD-WAN, network services and security wares with the cloud giant's hybrid cloud environment, including its new Outposts offering. Outposts offers AWS-designed hardware that lets customers run compute and storage on premises, while connecting to AWS’s cloud services. Each Outpost has a pair of networking devices, each with 400 Gbps of connectivity and support for 1 GigE, 10 GigE, 40 GigE, and 100 Gigabit fiber connections. AWS announced the general availability of Outposts at its annual AWS re:Invent symposium, held this week in Las Vegas. To read this article in full, please click here

AWS Outposts Lands, Pushes to the Edge