Time to say goodbye to Barcelona

As im sitting here in the hotel, waiting to leave for the airport, the only thing on my mind is: Wow.. what an amazing week this has been.

I have met so many old friends and made a bunch of new ones. All of the Tech Field Day delegates and staff are so bright and friendly that its hard to put into words. We have debated, discussed, thought out loud, shrugged our shoulders and laughed hard.

If you are not already following these guys on twitter, you really should go ahead and push that follow button. Here they are: @al_rasheed @TechFieldDay @ioshints @networkautobahn @darkkavenger @bockcay @OrhanErgunCCDE

In the coming weeks I will put together my final impressions of both the Cisco Live event and the entire Tech Field Day Extra event. Also to come is an analysis of some of the presentations we were fortunate enough to receive.

A big shoutout to Ben Gage (@BenTGage) and Tom Hollingsworth (@NetworkingNerd) for inviting me to this amazing event! Thank you guys!

Time to leave for the airport. Take care!

/Kim

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SRv6: One Tool to Rule Them All

I got some interesting feedback from one of my readers on Segment Routing with IPv6 extension headers:

Some people position SRv6 as the universal underlay and overlay due to its capabilities for network programming by means of feature+locator SRH separation.

Stupid me replied “SRv6 is NOT an overlay solution but a source routing solution.”

Acquisition Rumors Abound As Mellanox Rings Up Record Sales

There hardly seems to be a month that doesn’t go by without a different IT supplier being rumored to want to acquire network chip and system provider Mellanox Technologies, which has an intense focus on the high end, scale out, low latency segment of the datacenter switching market. …

Acquisition Rumors Abound As Mellanox Rings Up Record Sales was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .

How I lost my data trying to back it up

My data, my precious data… is gone.

Overview

This is a story about how I lost my data when trying to prevent it by backing it up.

Even though there were numerous other factors in play, I take full responsibility for what happened.

I have written this article hoping that it could save someone else from the same situation. No one should ever experience the loss of his/her data.

7 days and 10 hours ago:

Alrighty, It’s time for the offline backup routine again.

When it comes to backing up the full OS, I don’t believe in online backup solutions. This is specially true when I’m dealing with Windows servers. These kinda backups should serve as a disaster recovery solution and I’m not taking any chances.

So I always take them offline, outside of the OS, using a third party program to boot up the servers.

For years I have been using Paragon Software. Their products are great, reliable and I have nothing bad to say about them.

This time however, I thought maybe it’s time to ditch commercial softwares and use the solid ntfs-3g suite instead. Back when I started using Paragon, I didn’t even know what Linux was, Continue reading

A Reality Check on the Future of GANs

Generative adversarial neural networks are the next step in deep learning evolution and while they hold great promise across several application domains, there are major challenges in both hardware and frameworks. …

A Reality Check on the Future of GANs was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .

Go Beyond your CCIE or VCP6-NV

Free VCAP6-NV Certification Exam Prep

Have your CCIE or VCP6-NV? Keep advancing your career by signing up for our free online (on-demand) VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Networking Virtualization (VCAP6-NV) certification exam prep and earn your certification.

Changing your Mindset

Why should you even care about a VCAP6-NV certification? Well, just like how achieving your CCIE was about challenging yourself to be a leader in the industry, earning a VCAP6-NV is about the next evolution of leadership as the enterprise moves to a software-driven multi-cloud infrastructure.

The transition from hardware-centric CCIE to software-defined VCAP6-NV is about a change in mindset and tooling. You need to think beyond the boundaries of a physical device and learn to use new tools and technologies to expand the scope of your current expertise and experience.

As the IT industry goes through massive shifts every decade or so, being able to not only embrace but also lead a paradigm shift is a key indicator of your ability to maintain a position of success and progress.

VMware NSX

The VCAP6-NV certification is the industry standard that validates your knowledge of VMware NSX. The test prep material takes you through real world case studies that mimic the process of problem Continue reading

SGI tech lives on in the form of a French AI-focused supercomputer

France's GENCI supercomputing center announced it will deploy a new HPE SGI 8600 supercomputer in June that is capable of reaching 14 petaflops at peak performance, which would put the system in the top 15 of supercomputers in the world, going off the November 2018 list.Named Jean Zay, after a French politician, the system will be designed specifically for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a national AI strategy. The system will sport 1,528 Intel Xeon Scalable nodes and 261 GPU nodes, each with four Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs.To read this article in full, please click here

SGI tech lives on in the form of a French AI-focused supercomputer

France's IDRIS supercomputing center announced it will deploy a new HPE SGI 8600 supercomputer in June that is capable of reaching 14 petaflops at peak performance, which would put the system in the top 15 of supercomputers in the world, going off the November 2018 list.Named Jean Zay, after a French politician, the system will be designed specifically for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a national AI strategy. The system will sport 1,528 Intel Xeon Scalable nodes and 261 GPU nodes, each with four Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs.To read this article in full, please click here

SGI tech lives on in the form of a French AI-focused supercomputer

France's IDRIS supercomputing center announced it will deploy a new HPE SGI 8600 supercomputer in June that is capable of reaching 14 petaflops at peak performance, which would put the system in the top 15 of supercomputers in the world, going off the November 2018 list.Named Jean Zay, after a French politician, the system will be designed specifically for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a national AI strategy. The system will sport 1,528 Intel Xeon Scalable nodes and 261 GPU nodes, each with four Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs.To read this article in full, please click here

SGI lives on in the form of a French AI-focused supercomputer

France's IDRIS supercomputing center announced it will deploy a new HPE SGI 8600 supercomputer in June that is capable of reaching 14 petaflops at peak performance, which would put the system in the top 15 of supercomputers in the world, going off the November 2018 list.Named Jean Zay, after a French politician, the system will be designed specifically for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a national AI strategy. The system will sport 1,528 Intel Xeon Scalable nodes and 261 GPU nodes, each with four Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs.To read this article in full, please click here

SGI lives on in the form of a French AI-focused supercomputer

France's IDRIS supercomputing center announced it will deploy a new HPE SGI 8600 supercomputer in June that is capable of reaching 14 petaflops at peak performance, which would put the system in the top 15 of supercomputers in the world, going off the November 2018 list.Named Jean Zay, after a French politician, the system will be designed specifically for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a national AI strategy. The system will sport 1,528 Intel Xeon Scalable nodes and 261 GPU nodes, each with four Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs.To read this article in full, please click here

Stealthwatch Video Series Live on Cisco.com! Woot!

Ever wanted to sit down and talk with a major Stealthwatch expert… just ask questions and get a “reader’s digest version” of what it is all about? If so you are going to love this video Walk-Through series. A little... Read More ›

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Verizon Keeps 5G Expansion Plans Close to the Vest

Rival AT&T recently said it would have nationwide mobile 5G coverage by the middle of next year.

Intel Reportedly Bids $5.5B for Mellanox

If true, Intel joins Xilinx and Microsoft in a bidding war for the Israel-based chip and hardware manufacturer.

Fortanix Raises $23M Series B Led by Intel

“We joke that our goal is to have the CIA run sensitive applications in China on Ali Cloud,” using Fortanix security software, CEO Ambuj Kumar says.

Duplicate BGP Updates

Datanauts 157: Balancing Compliance And Security With PCI-DSS

On today's Datanauts podcast we assess the current state of the PCI-DSS compliance standard and its impact on your infrastructure and security operations. Our guest is Paul Snyder, an IT Risk Consultant for a large insurance agency.

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Cisco goes after industrial IoT

Cisco has rolled out a new family of switches, software, developer tools and blueprints to meld IoT and industrial networking with intent-based networking and classic IT security, monitoring and application-development support.To take on the daunting task the company unveiled a new family of industrial-networking Catalyst switches, IoT developer tools and support for Cisco’s DevNet developer program, and it validated IoT network design blueprints customers can work with to build solid IoT environments.  To read this article in full, please click here

Cisco goes after industrial IoT

Cisco has rolled out a new family of switches, software, developer tools and blueprints to meld IoT and industrial networking with intent-based networking and classic IT security, monitoring and application-development support.To take on the daunting task the company unveiled a new family of industrial-networking Catalyst switches, IoT developer tools and support for Cisco’s DevNet developer program, and it validated IoT network design blueprints customers can work with to build solid IoT environments.  To read this article in full, please click here

Symantec Taps Acquisitions to Bolster Endpoint Security

The products are focused on managed endpoint detection and response, enhanced EDR 4.0, endpoint protection, and hardening capabilities.