Today's Network Break explores why VMware spent billions on Carbon Black, looks at new cloud networking products from Big Switch Networks, discusses why Google stopped sharing Android data with mobile carriers, and gawks at VMware's jaw-dropping tax break.
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VMware kicked off VMworld with more proof that it’s all in on containers in the form of Tanzu,...
This is the liveblog from the day 1 general session at VMworld 2019. This year the event is back at Moscone Center in San Francisco, and VMware has already released some juicy news (see here, here, and here) in advance of the keynote this morning, foreshadowing what Pat is expected to talk about.
The keynote kicks off with the usual inspirational video, this one incorporating themes and references from a number of high-tech movies, including “The Matrix” and “Inception,” among others. As the video concludes, Pat Gelsinger takes the stage promptly at 9am.
Gelsingers speaks briefly of his 7 years at VMware (this is his 8th VMworld), then jumps into the content of his presentation with the theme of this morning’s session: “Tech in the Age of Any”. Along those lines, Gelsinger talks about the diversity of the VMworld audience, welcomes the attendees in Klingon, and speaks very quickly to the Pivotal and Carbon Black acquisitions that were announced only a few days ago.
Shifting gears, Gelsinger talks about “digital life” and how that translates into millions of applications and billions of devices and billions of users. He talks about how 5G, Edge, and AI are going Continue reading
Snuba: automating weak supervision to label training data Varma & Ré, VLDB 2019
This week we’re moving on from ICML to start looking at some of the papers from VLDB 2019. VLDB is a huge conference, and once again I have a problem because my shortlist of “that looks really interesting, I’d love to read it” papers runs to 54 long at the moment! As a special bonus for me, I’m actually going to be at VLDB this year, where no doubt I’ll learn about even more interesting things! By the time you get to read this, it should be the first (workshop) day of the conference…
The conference may have changed, but to bridge from ICML to VLDB I’m going to start with a paper on very much the same theme as we’ve been dipping into over the past couple of weeks: how to combine and learn from multiple noisy sources of data and labels. Snuba is from the same Stanford line as Snorkel which we looked at last year. It’s tackling the same fundamental problem: how to gather enough labeled data to train a model, and how to effectively use it in a weak supervision setting (supervised learning Continue reading
Remember my rant about the glacial speed of Azure orchestration system? I decided I won’t allow it to derail yet another event and recorded the demos in advance of the first live session. The final videos are just over an hour long; it probably took me at least three hours to record them.
If you plan to attend the live webinar session on September 12th, you might want to watch at least the first few videos before the live session - I will not waste everyone’s time repeating the demos during the live session.
IBM predicts that due to the rate of progress in quantum computing data protected by current...
On today's Heavy Networking we look at one organization's journey to SDN, including pitfalls, triumphs, and lessons learned. Guest Sal Rannazzisi, principal network architect at a global pharmaceuticals company, shares details on dealing with vendors, finding and training engineers, developing internal processes, and more.
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Open Compute Project (OCP) certified storage equipment is set to take a bigger bite of the market,...
Encryption protects us every day. It helps secure web browsing, online banking, and critical public services like electricity, elections, hospitals, transportation, and more.
If the G7 countries are truly committed to building a safer and equal world, then it is crucial to recognize the important role that end-to-end encryption plays in securing the Internet, their economies and their citizens.
The Internet Society and more than 30 organizations have signed an open letter calling on the G7 leaders to do just that – prioritize digital security – and not to require, coerce, or persuade device manufacturers, application, and service providers to:
Digital security is the foundation of our connected economies and societies. And digital security is underpinned by strong encryption! It ensures that data – whether that of law enforcement, banks, or everyday citizens – can only be accessed by its intended recipient. Any attempt to insert “exceptional” or “lawful” access to encrypted content provides a way for others, including criminals, to gain access. This weakens Continue reading
SDxCentral Weekly Wrap for Aug. 26, 2019: Microsoft, Intel, and Red Hat back a confidential...
The company is using the funds to support its MicroPlug optical line terminal (OLT), which is a...
Verizon today launched 5G service in Phoenix, rounding out the operator's first 10 cities to gain...
An open Internet is the foundation of access and innovation, where users can go where they want, when they want without discrimination. But how do we know if the Internet is truly open? As individuals, our Internet performance experience is mediated by our physical location, infrastructure, government, and Internet service providers. Yet we are largely blind to how our Internet is impacted by these systems. Without that knowledge, innovation stalls, disparity of access grows, and people become isolated from this critical piece of global infrastructure.
Measurement Lab (M-Lab), a fiscally sponsored project of Code for Science & Society, is a consortium of research, industry, and public interest partners focused on fostering, collecting, and publishing open Internet performance data. M-Lab was founded in 2008 to build a global platform designed to enable anyone to measure their Internet service using open source tools. Over ten years later, M-Lab collects over 2 million measurements per day worldwide and has become a trusted source of open data and tools to gather and understand Internet infrastructure from the consumer perspective. Cities and municipal governments; national regulators and government agencies; academics and researchers; ISPs, network operators, and companies; civil society and advocacy organizations; and the Continue reading
In addition to spending billions of dollars buying companies in the lead up to VMworld next week,...
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On Wednesday we took a closer look at the Networking Automation track. Soon you will be able to start building out your schedule for AnsibleFest, so we want to help you figure out what tracks and sessions will be best for you! We talked with Track Lead Jake Jackson to learn more about the Getting Started track and the sessions within it.
Who is this track best for?
This track is best for people who are new to Ansible, whether that is in application or in concept. Many of these breakout sessions are introductory in nature for people who want to learn more about Ansible and how it works.
What topics will this track cover?
This track will cover several topics. It includes introductions to Ansible and Ansible Tower, and a deeper dive into Ansible inventories. It also discusses bite-size ways to automate and manage Windows the same way you would linux. There will also be a session that introduces using Ansible in CI and analyzing roles.
What should attendees expect to learn from this track?
Attendees can expect to learn the basics of Ansible and Ansible Tower from this track. They Continue reading