Nvidia Pulls All Of The AI Pieces Together
More than five years ago, Nvidia, driven by its co-founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, turned its considerable focus to developing technologies for the revitalized and burgeoning artificial intelligence space. …
Nvidia Pulls All Of The AI Pieces Together was written by Jeffrey Burt at .
Disastrous Cloud Transformation? Change Management Could Be the Answer
To be successful in the cloud world, there needs to be an organizational shift within companies to encompass both change management and skills management.
Cisco Combines SD-WAN and Security, Extends Intent-Based Networking to Wireless
The new Cisco SD-WAN Security product combines Viptela’s technology with Meraki, Cisco’s cloud-managed IT service and wireless LAN product, plus Cisco security software.
Android does not support DHCPv6 and Google ‘Won’t Fix’ that
Since 2012 there has been a ticket open on Google's public 'Issue Tracker' requesting Android support DHCPv6. On 6th November the status of the issue was changed to 'Won't Fix (Intended Behavior)'.
The fact that Android does not support DHCPv6 may come as something of a surprise to those network engineers more familiar with IPv4. DHCP is a keystone of IP networks, one piece of network automation that has been widely adopted for years, and an important source of auditing by storing the IP and MAC address combination at the server.
Autoconfig baked-in
But hang on you 32-bit wranglers, we are talking v6 here and that protocol has host address generation baked in, in the form of Stateless Address Autoconfiguration, or SLAAC. In the v6 world, the local gateway acts as vital source of information for the attached end clients, issuing periodic Router Advertisements, or RAs. These advertisements can contain the local prefix, and if that is a /64 with the 'A' flag set, the end client can generate its own address; using the /64 as the network portion and making up the other 64 bits itself. Moreover, it allows clients to generate multiple, temporary prefixes to help prevent attacks Continue reading
We Won’t Save the Internet by Breaking It
On the anniversary of the armistice ending the First World War, more than 40 countries stood together for security online by signing the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace. The call, which sets out a list of challenges the world needs to tackle, seems to be promising on paper. From hacking to harming the public core – all of this needs to be addressed. And it needs to be addressed urgently.
Others signed the call too. The Internet Society signed because we believe it is a continuation of calls we have made before. It maintains that solutions to Internet issues must be developed together with other Internet stakeholders – each performing its role, and all working collaboratively.
This approach is what allows the Internet to thrive and is key to the ultimate success of this call. Open, decentralized, and distributed. It’s not the traditional multilateral way of doing things, but it is the Internet way – the only one that can work.
There are real and pressing Internet security concerns. It’s critical that signatories to the call do not imagine they can address the concerns alone. The Internet depends, as a technical fact, on cooperative voluntary action, so Continue reading
5 Tips to Harden Network Security in a Connected Enterprise
As security efforts evolve from the fixed edge to the elastic edge, organizations need to combine traditional and new best practices to keep their networks safe from today’s evolving cyber threats.
Sunset of VXLAN. Really?
A lightning talk at the recent RIPE77 conference focused on shortcomings of VXLAN and rise of Geneve.
So what are those perceived shortcomings?
No protocol identifier – a single VXLAN VNI cannot carry more than one payload type. Let me point out that MPLS has the same shortcoming, as does IPsec.
Read more ...Troubleshooting NGINX Ingress Rewrites in Kubernetes
When deploying an application to Kubernetes, you almost certainly will want to create a Service to represent that application. Rather than relying on direct connectivity to Pods, which may be ephemeral, Services by contrast are long-living resources that sit on top of one or more Pods. They are also the bare minimum for allowing those pods to communicate outside the cluster. While Services are a nice abstraction so we don’t have to worry about individual Pods, they are also fairly dumb.What is Network Observability?
If you have ambitions to improve reliability through experimention you MUST have observability. You cannot know if you’re getting better without thi. https://twitter.com/tammybutow/status/1067135822204329984 If you don’t set the SLOs for your network, someone else will, and you probably won’t like it. Basically, if we don’t go up the stack and quantify success using application-specific metrics, someone else will do it for us, and we’ll be left out of the loop.Troubleshooting NGINX Ingress Rewrites in Kubernetes
When deploying an application to Kubernetes, you almost certainly will want to create a Service to represent that application. Rather than relying on direct connectivity to Pods, which may be ephemeral, Services by contrast are long-living resources that sit on top of one or more Pods. They are also the bare minimum for allowing those pods to communicate outside the cluster. While Services are a nice abstraction so we don’t have to worry about individual Pods, they are also fairly dumb.OpenACC: Things Are Getting Simpler More Quickly
OpenACC is one of the prongs in a multi-prong strategy to get people to port the parallel portions of HPC applications to accelerators. …
OpenACC: Things Are Getting Simpler More Quickly was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .
VMware’s Heptio Deal Shows the Open Source Water Is Warm and Inviting
Some expect the open source M&A wave to hit its apex next year. I say "why wait?"
IoT Offers Opportunity, But We Must Also Advocate for Privacy
Our world is evolving exceedingly fast these days. Within the last few years in what has been coined the fourth industrial revolution we have witnessed evolutionary developments. One of those fascinating advancements concerns the everyday things and devices now connected to the Internet, also known as the Internet of Things (IoT). However, while every invention brings brand new exciting opportunities, it also entails disadvantages and may result in possible adverse consequences, if the disadvantages are not taken notice of.
Certainly IoT first and foremost provides an opportunity for a more comfortable and organized life. People may enjoy the chance to not preoccupy themselves with, for instance, managing their morning routines that may include waking up at a specific time, preparing the breakfast, and so on. Nowadays when your alarm clock can be connected to the thermostat and the latter has the information about the heavy snowfall of the night, the alarm can automatically readjust itself to wake you up an hour earlier than planned so that you manage to get to work on time.
Other examples may include smart scheduling programs or fitness tracking watches. As a runner, I personally am at ease realizing that I do not have to Continue reading
Huawei Completes a 5G Deployment in China With Zhejiang Mobile
The 5G network can provide a single user peak data rate speeds of 2.7 Gb/s, which could support services such as 8K live broadcasts.
Intel Accelerates Multi-mode 5G Chip Launch
The chip design is unique in the market because it supports legacy 2G, 3G, 4G LTE, and the various 5G specifications on one module.