SD-WAN’s Future Will Rest on the Universal CPE
“The path forward is an open platform,” said Adva’s Prayson Pate, adding that an open platform will meet the full-potential of an agile and flexible SD-WAN.
Nutanix Bumps VMware Off Top HCI Software Ranking
VMware ranked No. 2 in the HCI software vendor list while Dell remained the market leader for branded hyperconverged products.
Vodafone Picks Juniper’s SD-WAN for Its Enterprise Services
Vodafone said Juniper’s Contrail Service Orchestrator is a key part of the platform because it provides customers with a self-service portal.
Deep Learning Infiltrating HPC Physics Domains
While deep learning models might not be able to simulate large-scale physical phenomena in the same way purpose-built supercomputers and their application stacks do, there is more research emerging that shows how traditional HPC simulations can be augmented, if not replaced in some parts, by neural networks. …
Deep Learning Infiltrating HPC Physics Domains was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Buyer’s Guide: Modern Web-Scale Backup and Recovery
The Buyer’s Guide to Modern Backup is the definitive resource to help you make the right choice for your next data protection solution. Download the buyer's guide today.
Docker Certified Storage Partners Review – Sept. 2018
The Docker Certified Technology Program is designed for ecosystem partners and customers to recognize containers and plugins that excel in quality, collaborative support and compliance. Docker Certification gives organizations an easy way to run trusted software and components in containers on the Docker Enterprise container platform with support from both Docker and the publisher.
In this review, we’re looking at Docker Volume Plugins. In any production Docker Enterprise deployment, it is important to have the ability to manage storage for persistent applications. While it is possible to use traditional SAN and NAS solutions directly with Docker Enterprise with Swarm orchestration, it is actually much easier and more convenient to manage volumes through the Docker CLI and management interfaces by specifying a Docker-native volume driver so users can manage volumes on demand.
Check out the latest certified Docker Volume Plugins that are now available from our partners on Docker Store:
- HPE Nimble Storage Docker Volume Plugin
- Nutanix DVP (Docker Volume Plug-in)
- Netapp Trident
- Hedvig Docker Volume Plugin
- Pure Storage Docker Volume Plugin
- NexentaEdge NFS Volume Plugin
Along with Docker Volume plugins, we also have partners with container-based storage solutions in Docker Store:
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History Of Networking – John Fraizer – BGP Route Servers
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Large Scale Deployments Using Ansible
This has been the Ansible messaging since the journey began. As time has gone on, the definition of simple we’re talking about may have been misunderstood...
The Ansible simplicity is about being easy to understand, learn and share. It’s about people. The often peddled notion that “Ansible doesn’t scale past 500 hosts” is shadowed by the customers we have with over 100,000 nodes under management. But the idea that scale is purely about the number of hosts isn’t recognising the greater relevance. Scale is so much more, scale is about the context in your business.
What is scale?
Technological Scale
When it comes to IT, conclusions about ‘scale’ usually equate to numbers of something technical. A frequent customer ask might go something like "We need Ansible to scale to 70,000 hosts".
Once we look into that number though, the reality is no technical operation will happen across them all at once. The jeopardy to a business of this size is too great to chance a failure of every system. Operations at large scale happen piecemeal for safety reasons – rolling updates are not only a safer way to operate, we see the results faster.
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The Best Practice Forum on Gender and Access: Empowering Women Online
A Need for More Gender-Disaggregated Data
While Internet access and use is rapidly growing all over the world, women still face several challenges that hinder them from benefiting meaningfully from it. The proportion of women able to access and use the Internet is 12% lower than the proportion of men accessing and using it worldwide. This gap is even bigger in developing countries where only one out of seven women use the Internet.
These numbers highlight some of the discrepancies that the digital gender gap is both producing and reproducing. However, understanding them and to what extent they affect women’s online lives requires more data. While many studies have been conducted in the last few years in order to gather evidence about the existing barriers, there are still many aspects of the phenomenon that need to be studied in-depth, particularly at grassroots levels.
Various recent efforts – including those of the W20, the UN Broadband Commission on Sustainable Development, the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), the World Wide Web Foundation, the GSMA and Association for Progressive Communications – have expressed concerns about the paucity of gender-disaggregated data and insights on Internet access and use masks the true extent of Continue reading
NFV’s Return on Investment Disappoints Some NFV Players
“We had inflated expectations” because the promise was vendors could easily obtain commodity hardware and “throw some VNFs on it and it would make money," said a Masergy executive.
Bandwidth Alliance: powered by smart routing on Cloudflare’s network
Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of the Bandwidth Alliance, a group of cloud providers that have agreed to reduce data transfer fees for mutual customers.
Three things were required to make the Bandwidth Alliance a reality:
- An ecosystem of like-minded companies who want to provide reduced data transfer fees to their customers.
- A large global and well-connected network (Cloudflare has 150+ points of presence around the world and multiple peered and paid links at each location). Our network is connected to thousands of partners through transit providers, Internet exchanges, peering interconnects, and private network interconnects. Having a large network footprint allows us to meet our partners where their infrastructure is and exchange traffic with them over low-cost or free connections, instead of expensive paid transit.
- Argo, our sophisticated traffic routing engine. Argo allows us to make decisions on how to carry traffic across our network in ways that optimize for a number of factors: latency, throughput, jitter, or in the case of the Bandwidth Alliance, cost to our partners to exchange traffic. This routing engine is the technical underpinning of the Bandwidth Alliance.
Typically, as traffic moves across the Internet, packets are exchanged between multiple networks as they Continue reading
Introducing the Bandwidth Alliance: sharing the benefits of interconnected networks
At Cloudflare, our mission is to help build a better Internet. That means making the Internet faster, safer and smarter, but also more efficient alongside our cloud partners. As such, wherever we can, we're on the lookout for ways to help save our common customers money. That got us looking into why and how much cloud customers pay for bandwidth.
If you're hosting on most cloud providers, data transfer charges, sometimes known as "bandwidth” or “egress” charges, can be an integral part of your bill. These fees cover the cost of delivering traffic from the cloud all the way to the consumer. However, if you’re using a CDN such as Cloudflare, the cost of data transfer comes in addition to the cost of content delivery.
In some cases, charging makes sense. If you're hosted in a facility in Ashburn, Virginia and someone visits your service from Sydney, Australia there are real costs to moving traffic between the two places. The cloud provider likely hands off traffic to a transit provider or uses its own global backbone to carry the traffic across the United States and then across the Pacific, potentially handing off to other transit providers along the way, until Continue reading
CNCF, Eclipse Foundation Push Kubernetes to the Edge
The Kubernetes IoT Edge Working Group is looking to see how far it can push the centralized Kubernetes platform out into the distributed edge and IoT ecosystem.
Test Web Page Load Time with a Free Chrome Extension
A walk-through shows you how to use a free Chrome extension to measure web page loading times.
Infrastructure-as-Code Tools
This is the fourth blog post in “thinking out loud while preparing Network Infrastructure as Code presentation for the network automation course” series. Previous posts: Network-Infrastructure-as-Code Is Nothing New, Adjusting System State and NETCONF versus REST API.
Dmitri Kalintsev sent me a nice description on how some popular Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools solve the challenges I described in The CRUD Hell section of Infrastructure-as-Code, NETCONF and REST API blog post:
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