How IBM plans to compete in the cloud

IBM hopes to reduce the complexity of moving workloads to the cloud through Cloud Paks,’ its series of specialized packaged offerings that enterprise can implement relatively quickly. But is it enough?

How IBM plans to compete in the cloud

IBM hopes to reduce the complexity of moving workloads to the cloud through Cloud Paks,’ its series of specialized packaged offerings that enterprise can implement relatively quickly. But is it enough?

AWS, Verizon Launch 5G Partnership at re:Invent

Cisco SD-WAN, ACI Anywhere Gain AWS Links

Finally: AWS Gives Servers A Real Shot In The Arm

Finally, we get to test out how well or poorly a well-designed Arm server chip will do in the datacenter. …

Finally: AWS Gives Servers A Real Shot In The Arm was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Amazon joins the quantum computing crowd with Braket testbed

Amazon’s initial foray into the heavily hyped world of quantum computing is a virtual sandbox in which companies can test potential quantum-enabled applications and generally get to grips with the new technology, the company announced Monday.The product is named Braket, after a system of notation used in quantum physics. The idea, according to Amazon, is to democratize access to quantum computing in a small way. Most organizations aren’t going to own their own quantum computers for the foreseeable future; they’re impractically expensive and require a huge amount of infrastructure even for the limited proof-of-concept models at the current cutting-edge.To read this article in full, please click here

Amazon joins the quantum computing crowd with Braket testbed

Amazon’s initial foray into the heavily hyped world of quantum computing is a virtual sandbox in which companies can test potential quantum-enabled applications and generally get to grips with the new technology, the company announced Monday.The product is named Braket, after a system of notation used in quantum physics. The idea, according to Amazon, is to democratize access to quantum computing in a small way. Most organizations aren’t going to own their own quantum computers for the foreseeable future; they’re impractically expensive and require a huge amount of infrastructure even for the limited proof-of-concept models at the current cutting-edge.To read this article in full, please click here

The sale of PIR: The Internet Society Board Perspective

[Published on behalf of the Internet Society Board of Trustees.]

Last Friday we held a webinar with Internet Society members to answer questions about the sale of the Public Interest Registry (PIR). We were also able to unveil more details about the sale and its long-term contribution to the stability of the Internet Society (ISOC). On that call, we listened to our community members carefully. We heard the concerns regarding this decision from those who are worried about the future of the .ORG community, and who believe that we – as a non-profit and mission-driven organisation- are risking undermining our own legitimacy and responsibility to the public Internet.

First and foremost, we take the reaction from our community very seriously. Clearly, some members of the community believe that the decision to move forward with this transaction is harming our reputation. We fully understand the concerns expressed by our chapters and members, and we know that a lot of the criticism we have faced since announcing the transaction stems from the fact that we have not consulted openly, or been as clear as we should have been about what this sale would mean for both .ORG, and the Internet Society. It has always been the Board’s intention to be as open, transparent, and Continue reading

Juniper SD-WAN Now Handles SD-LAN

Heavy Networking 491: Real-Life Segment Routing & PCE

Heavy Networking revisits segment routing on today's episode. This time we look at segment routing as it's being use in an international science network. Our guest is Nick Buraglio. We discuss which flavor of segment routing in use, the problems the network was trying to solve and how segment routing addresses them, challenges of path computation, and more.

The post Heavy Networking 491: Real-Life Segment Routing & PCE appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Deutsche Telekom Embarks on Edge Computing for IoT

Best Practice for Creating Indexes on your MySQL Tables

By having appropriate indexes on your MySQL tables, you can greatly enhance the performance of SELECT queries. But, did you know that adding indexes to your tables in itself is an expensive operation, and may take a long time to complete depending on the size of your tables? During this time, you are also likely to experience a degraded performance of queries as your system resources are busy in index-creation work as well. In this blog post, we discuss an approach to optimize the MySQL index creation process in such a way that your regular workload is not impacted.

MySQL Rolling Index Creation

DPDK and Open vSwitch Installation on Debian 10

DPDK stands for Data Plane Development Kit. The DPDK project consists of libraries to accelerate packet processing workloads running on a wide variety of CPU architectures. Open vSwitch can use the DPDK library to operate entirely in userspace. Thanks to it, performance of Open vSwitch increases. The tutorial help you to build and install Open vSwitch using DPDK datapah on Debian 10 Buster. The second part discuses DPDK and Open vSwitch configuration and compare performance of Open vSwitch applicance with enabled/disabled DPDK.

Note: You can download my Debian 10 Buster VMDK image with installed DPDK 18.11.2 and Open vSwitch 2.11.1 for quick testiing of Open vSwitch/DPDK functionality. If you do so, you can skip the tutorial and continue with Part 2 - DPDK/Open vSwitch Configuration.

Login/password: debian/debian

Host
Software:
- x86_64 GNU/Linux Debian 10 Buster, 4.19.0-5-amd64
- QEMU emulator version 3.1.0
Hardware:
- RAM Memory 2x Kingston 8192 MB DDRIII
- CPU - Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3610QM CPU @ 2.30GHz, 4 cores

Qemu Guest
Software:
- x86_64 GNU/Linux Debian 10 Buster, 4.19.0-6-amd64
- Open vSwitch - 2.11.1
- DPDK - 18.11.2
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- 4 X Continue reading

Taking The PCI Express To Malleable Systems

It took decades for server virtualization to go mainstream, making their way from hardware and software partitions on mainframes three decades ago down to proprietary and Unix systems two decades ago to X86 servers with VMware, XenServer, Microsoft, and Red Hat all doing their part. …

Taking The PCI Express To Malleable Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Arm Aligns Its Server Ambitions To Those Of Its Partners

There are just two Arm-powered supercomputers on the latest TOP500 rankings: the “Astra” system at Sandia National Laboratories and Fujitsu’s new A64FX prototype. …

Arm Aligns Its Server Ambitions To Those Of Its Partners was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.

Edging Toward Distributed HPC

The confluence of big data, AI, and edge computing is reshaping the contours of high performance computing.  …

Edging Toward Distributed HPC was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.

Tweaked Math Libraries Exploit AI Hardware For Traditional HPC

At our HPC Day event ahead of the SC19 conference, supercomputing expert and Linpack creator Jack Dongarra talked about his new HPL-AI benchmark. …

Tweaked Math Libraries Exploit AI Hardware For Traditional HPC was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.

Ampere preps an 80-core Arm processor for the cloud

Ampere Computing, the semiconductor startup led by former Intel president Renee James that designs Arm-based server processors, is preparing to launch its next-generation CPU by mid-2020.The upcoming chip will have 80 cores, much more than the 32-core processor the company shipped last year and vastly more than x86 CPUs by Intel and AMD. Ampere’s design is different. Instead of multiple threads per core, each core is single threaded.[Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.] Jeff Wittich, Ampere’s senior vice president of products, said that was by design, to avoid some of the CPU vulnerabilities that crept into x86 chips but also to avoid the “noisy neighbor” problem in cloud service-provider networks.To read this article in full, please click here

Ampere preps an 80-core Arm processor for the cloud

Ampere Computing, the semiconductor startup led by former Intel president Renee James that designs Arm-based server processors, is preparing to launch its next-generation CPU by mid-2020.The upcoming chip will have 80 cores, much more than the 32-core processor the company shipped last year and vastly more than x86 CPUs by Intel and AMD. Ampere’s design is different. Instead of multiple threads per core, each core is single threaded.Jeff Wittich, Ampere’s senior vice president of products, said that was by design, to avoid some of the CPU vulnerabilities that crept into x86 chips but also to avoid the “noisy neighbor” problem in cloud service-provider networks.To read this article in full, please click here

Good tech talent is still hard to find (how to bridge the gap)

Companies have big plans for digital transformation, but the lack of skilled IT talent remains an obstacle. Here’s how to cope.