Voices from the Pacific at APrIGF

The Asia Pacific Regional Internet Governance Forum (APrIGF) was held on 16-19 July 2019 at the recently constructed Far Eastern Federal University on Russky Island in Vladivostok, Russia. The theme of this year’s event was “Enabling a Safe, Secure and Universal Internet for All in Asia Pacific,” with 22 sessions covering six sub-themes: safer Internet, cybersecurity and regulation; access and universality; emerging technologies and society; human rights online; the evolving role of Internet governance (IG) and multistakeholder participation; and digital economy.

The Board of the Pacific Islands Chapter of the Internet Society (PICISOC) was represented by Anju Mangal from Fiji, James Ahwai from Samoa, and myself from the Cook Islands. James Ahwai, a newcomer to the IG scene, participated as a panellist in the opening plenary on The State of Play and Outlook for IG in the Asia Pacific and contributed a Pacific perspective. Anju Mangal, a former member of the IGF Multistakeholder Advisory Group, moderated the closing plenary on APrIGF Multistakeholder Participation in the Global IGF.

I led a workshop, which was a follow-up to a session on “e-Government for Empowering Pacific Citizens,” introduced at the APrIGF in Vanuatu last year. This year, PICISOC Board member, Cherie Lagakali, Continue reading

Infrastructure As Code 101

As the networking world continues to embrace automation and orchestration, some of the terms used to explain this new way of doing things remain a little fuzzy. In today’s episode we’re going to look specifically at Infrastructure as Code and by the end we hope to define what it is as well as what it is not, provide some relevant examples of it in action, and clear up as much confusion as possible about what it means to network engineers.  

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Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Heavy Networking 470: Why Does Networking Evolve So Slowly?

Packet Pushers host Greg Ferro found slides from a presentation he gave in 1999, and many of the points he raised are still relevant 20 years on. Why does networking take so long to change? The Packet Pushers and guests Jeremy Filliben, a CCDE trainer; and Emma Cardinal-Richards, a senior network architect; share their insights and opinions.

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How to set up Microsoft Teams for security and compliance

These are the security and compliance decisions you need to make when deploying Microsoft Teams.

Updated: Impact of IP Fragmentation on Tunnels and Encryption

The last bits of updated Never-Ending Story of IP Fragmentation were published a few days ago: IP fragmentation and tunnels and summary and related blog posts, RFCs and other articles.

Procella: unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube

Procella: unifying serving and analytical data at YouTube Chattopadhyay et al., VLDB’19

Academic papers aren’t usually set to music, but if they were the chorus of Queen’s “I want it all (and I want it now…)” seems appropriate here. Anchored in the primary use case of supporting Google’s YouTube business, what we’re looking at here could well be the future of data processing at Google. Well, I say the future, but “Procella has now been in production for multiple years. Today, it is deployed in over a dozen data centers and serves hundreds of billions of queries per day over tens of petabytes of data…” So maybe what we’re looking at is the future of data processing for the rest of us!

Google already has Dremel, Mesa, Photon, F1, PowerDrill, and Spanner, so why did they need yet another data processing system? Because they had too many data processing systems! ;)

Large organizations… are dealing with exploding data volume and increasing demand for data driven applications. Broadly, these can be categorized as: reporting and dashboarding, embedded statistics in pages, time-series monitoring, and ad-hoc analysis. Typically, organizations build specialized infrastructure for each Continue reading

HashiCorp Consul Service on Azure: the First Fully Managed Service Mesh

HashiCorp has launched what it calls the first fully managed service mesh, Armon Dadgar, during the kickoff of the company’s annual Consul-based approach is to manage a mix of Kubernetes and non-Kubernetes assets, either on Azure or on other clouds or from private data centers, noted

BrandPost: 5 Must-have SD-WAN Security Capabilities

As interest in Software-Defined Wide-Area Networks (SD-WAN) picks up among companies of all sizes, it’s becoming clear that one of the key drivers for the technology is security. The reason? SD-WAN lets companies deploy strong security features at the network edge and easily apply security policies throughout the network.To read this article in full, please click here

Powering Docker App: Next Steps for Cloud Native Application Bundles (CNAB)

Last year at DockerCon and Microsoft Connect, we announced the Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB) specification in partnership with Microsoft, HashiCorp, and Bitnami. Since then the CNAB community has grown to include Pivotal, Intel, DataDog, and others, and we are all happy to announce that the CNAB core specification has reached 1.0.

We are also announcing the formation of the CNAB project under the Joint Development Foundation, a part of the Linux Foundation that’s chartered with driving adoption of open source and standards. The CNAB specification is available at cnab.io. Docker is working hard with our partners and friends in the open source community to improve software development and operations for everyone.

Docker’s Implementation of CNAB — Docker App

Docker was one of the first to implement the CNAB specification with Docker App, our reference implementation available on GitHub. Docker App can be used to both build CNAB bundles for Docker Compose (which can then be used with any other CNAB client), and also to install, upgrade, and uninstall any other CNAB bundle.

It also forms the underpinnings of application templates in Docker Desktop Enterprise. With Docker App, we are making CNAB-compliant applications as easy to use Continue reading

Dell EMC Revs Up PowerMax Storage With NVMe-oF

Kong’s Kuma Service Mesh Climbs the Kubernetes Wall

Masergy Debuts AIOps, Your Virtual Network Assistant

Is Pentagon JEDI Program a $10B Cloud Security Fiasco?

Microsoft Brings IBM Power Iron To Azure Cloud

Under most circumstances, the major public cloud builders would like to use their own iron in their datacenters. …

Microsoft Brings IBM Power Iron To Azure Cloud was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

AnsibleFest Atlanta – Ansible Automation

AnsibleFest is right around the corner and we are excited to go to Atlanta! We talked with Track Lead Colin McNaughton to learn more about the Ansible Automation track and the sessions within it. 

Who is this track best for? 

This track is best for existing users, story-tellers, curious adopters and enterprise architects. 

What topics will this track cover? 

This track will include conversations and presentations guided by existing Ansible Automation customers. Sessions in this track will expand on how the application of key components of Ansible change along the road to enterprise adoption of Ansible Automation. Attend sessions in this track to learn about how others manage inventories, create cloud infrastructure defined as code, and other lessons learned from real world deployments.

What should attendees expect to learn from this track? 

Attendees can expect to hear stories from real world experience in automating in diverse ecosystems and discussions around applying and scaling core tenets of Ansible Automation.

Where would you expect to find attendees to this track to hangout online?

If attendees are looking to learn more or have questions after AnsibleFest, online communities like message board style communities, Continue reading

Verizon Bolsters VCE With Cisco Partnership, SD-WAN Backbone

Network Operators in Mexico Strengthen Their Collaboration

Collaboration is a basic element for Internet development. Without it, connections among networks would be non-existent and the Internet wouldn’t have its global reach. Without it, the Internet wouldn’t exist as we know it. Fortunately, there are many groups that use collaboration and other elements of the Internet networking model.

On August 14, NIC Mexico convened the second meeting of network operators in the country. After a first successful meeting held in 2018, this year’s event exceeded the expectations of the organizers. Edmundo Cázarez, Internet Resource Manager at NIC Mexico, said the organization placed greater emphasis on promoting the meeting among network operators, which led to increased participation.

MEXNOG, as the group of operators is also known, has capitalized on the enthusiasm of the participants through their meetings, but also through a mailing list. In the style of other Internet development groups, the mailing list has served as a meeting point and as a space for exchanging information and best practices among participants.

Therefore, the next step for the group is to strengthen participation in this space, as Edmundo points out: “We want the mailing list to be the contact point of the group. It has been used to Continue reading

Heavy Networking 469: Actionable QoS Monitoring

QoS is hard to monitor. How do you know you’ve gotten it right? If it’s not working the way you want, how can you tell? To help us form a network design strategy to cope with these QoS gotchas is Peter Welcher, a network architect at NetCraftsmen.

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Best Magazines for an NYC Fashion Internship

New York City is considered one of the fashion capitals of the world; therefore, if you are interested in fashion and want to take an internship for a fashion magazine, finding an internship with one of the NYC fashion magazines is worth the effort. 

An NYC fashion internship at any New York fashion magazine can give you a ton of valuable experience both in the magazine and fashion industry. Not only do interns get to see the latest fashions, but they also learn how to accessorize clothing, how to set up a fashion shoot, how to work closely with fashion editors, and how to write for the magazine, review fashion shows and so much more. The experience you gain in the field of fashion at an NYC fashion internship is invaluable, whether you are a budding fashion designer or simply interested in working full time for a large fashion magazine. 

You do need to be aware that many NYC fashion internship programs are either unpaid or offer very low pay, so you will need to have some way of covering your living expenses while doing your internship. That’s why student interns usually get these jobs rather than adults. Continue reading

Recommended Networking Resources for September 2019 Second Week

There are so many good resources for Network Engineers out there. I started to share the ones I liked last week. Click here to see September 2019, First Week Networking Recommended Resources. As you know, I will share 5 resource every week. There are so many in my list already, I can’t wait for the …

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