IDG Contributor Network: Data-driven resource management and the future of cloud

Cloud adoption is undoubtedly the cornerstone of digital transformation, and for many, it is the foundation for rapid, scalable application development and delivery. Companies of all sizes and from across all industries are racing to achieve the many benefits afforded by public, private or hybrid cloud infrastructure. According to a recent study, 20 percent of enterprises plan to more than double public cloud spending in 2018, and 71 percent will grow public cloud spending more than 20 percent.Enterprises moving to the cloud are often seeking to improve employee collaboration, ensure redundancy, boost security and increase agility in application development. One of the top advantages afforded by the cloud is the ability to auto-scale in response to demand — a feature that has transformed what was once capacity planning into a more continuous cycle of capacity and resource management.To read this article in full, please click here

Indigenous Access: “We Haven’t Reached Our Full Potential”

In November 2017, the Internet Society hosted the inaugural Indigenous Connectivity Summit in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The event brought together community network operators, Internet service providers, community members, researchers, policy makers, and Indigenous leadership to work together to bridge the connectivity gap in indigenous communities in North America. One of the participants shared his story.

“We haven’t reached our full potential,” says Gilbert Martinez, of the Pueblo of Laguna’s Kawaika Hanu Internet. “Community Internet access is good, but it can get better.”

The Laguna Utility Authority was awarded a $3.3M grant through USDA Community Connect, which will enable a number of projects provided the community is an Internet Service Provider, among other stipulations. The benefits of Internet access – and the grant’s impact – are already evident, which Martinez shared in a presentation at the Indigenous Connectivity Summit: one community member was able to apply for an internship with the Laguna Tribal Courts and is now working to complete her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice; one family uses the Internet for school work, to pay bills, and to do online research; an unemployed computer center volunteer obtained a job at a media company; and silversmiths are able to Continue reading

IDG Contributor Network: Why RF is a perfect job field for millennials

Millennials have now captured the crown as the largest generation in the U.S. workforce, according to Pew Research Center. This shift has left many organizations scrambling to reinvent themselves to be more attractive to this generation’s top talent.Perhaps businesses will adopt “tiny offices” to mirror the tiny house movement…For those who are looking to enter an industry that makes a difference, is fast-paced and constantly innovating, look no further than the radio frequency (RF) industry. It’s at the core of consumers’ favorite technologies, such as smartphones and tablets, and is truly all around us with the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT).To read this article in full, please click here

Wi-Fi analytics get real

A number of Wi-Fi analytics tools have been brought to market over the past few years, and while most organizations have yet to dip their toes in the Wi-Fi analytics waters, our research shows that those who have are realizing significant benefits.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)

Wi-Fi analytics get real

A number of Wi-Fi analytics tools have been brought to market over the past few years, and while most organizations have yet to dip their toes in the Wi-Fi analytics waters, our research shows that those who have are realizing significant benefits.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)

Worth Reading: Intent-Based Networking Taxonomy

This blog post was initially sent to the subscribers of my SDN and Network Automation mailing list. Subscribe here.

Saša Ratković (Apstra) published a must-read Intent-Based Networking Taxonomy which (not surprisingly) isn’t too far from what I had to say about the topic in a blog post and related webinar.

It’s also interesting to note that the first three levels of intent-based networking he described match closely what we’re discussing in Building Network Automation Solutions online course and what David Barroso described in Network Automation Use Cases webinar:

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Nvidia Takes On The Inference Hordes With Turing GPUs

When it comes to machine learning, a lot of the attention in the past six years has focused on the training of neural networks and how the GPU accelerator radically improved the accuracy of networks, thanks to its large memory bandwidth and parallel compute capacity relative to CPUs. …

Nvidia Takes On The Inference Hordes With Turing GPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at .

Step-by-step instructions for DHCP configuration on Windows

 

Here at Cumulus, we try to offer a lot of different tutorials for engineers to learn basic open networking commands and configurations, all the way up to advanced configurations (our how-to videos are a great example). But sometimes I find that there are some critical configurations where your desktop OS is a major player in how you configure. So for that reason, this blog post we will configure ONIE and Cumulus ZTP (Zero-Touch Provisioning) IPv4 DHCP Options on a Windows 2016 Server (this should also work with Windows 2012). I’ve broken this up into simple step-by-step instructions so it’s easy to follow. 

The first thing we will do is create the options needed for Cumulus Linux.

1. To begin, right click on IPv4 and select “Set Predefined Options…” 

2. Next, click the “Add” button:

Fill in the Option Type dialog box with the following:

Name: “default-url”

Data type: String

Code: “114”

Description: “Cumulus Binary Install”

Next, click “OK”

3. Clicking on the “OK” button will present you with the following dialog box that will require a String Value:

The “String Value” is the URL towards a binary image of Cumulus Linux.

4. Repeat “Step #2” in order to Continue reading

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