To meet the needs of the emerging applications and networks, the clouds are descending toward the ground and even dispersed among the client devices – forming fog computing and networking or fog. Learn more about fog computing at Fog World Congress 2018.
Do you want to obtain your CCNP Collaboration or perhaps enhance your Cisco Collaboration skills for the real world? The CCNP Advanced Technologies v1 course from INE is targeted at network and voice professionals who want to take their Cisco Collaboration knowledge to the next level.
This course is intended for network and voice professionals looking to further improve their knowledge or prepare themselves for the CIPTV1 exam. In this course we will be looking at CUCM and VCS Dial Plan, Voice + Video Calling, IOS Gateway, Conferencing, QoS, On Cluster Calling with CUCM and Media Resources. This course will be delivered in lecture based format with plenty of hands on practical demonstrations.
CIPTV1 – Implementing Cisco IP Telephony & Video’ will cover professional to advanced level concepts and demonstrations around a large portion of the Cisco Unified Communications portfolio, including some of the below products and topics:
Dean Babbage is a Voice and Network Professional actively working in the Cisco Partner community. He carries Continue reading
It’s no surprise that Twitter’s developers are messing around with the platform. Again. This time, it’s the implementation of changes announced back in May. Twitter is finally cutting off access to their API that third party clients have been using for the past few years. They’re forcing these clients to use their new API structure for things like notifications and removing support for streaming. This new API structure also has a hefty price tag. For 250 users it’s almost $3,000/month.
You can imagine the feedback that Twitter has gotten. Users of popular programs like Tweetbot and Twitterific were forced to degrade client functionality thanks to the implementation of these changes. Twitter power users have been voicing their opinions with the hashtag #BreakingMyTwitter. I’m among the people that are frustrated that Twitter is chasing the dollar instead of the users.
Twitter is beholden to a harsh mistress. Wall Street doesn’t care about user interface or API accessibility. They care about money. They care are results and profit. And if you aren’t turning a profit you’re a loser that people will abandon. So Twitter has to make money somehow. And how is Twitter supposed to make money in today’s Continue reading
On International Youth Day, the Internet Society and Global Scribes partnered to connect youth around the world to let their voices be heard, allowing them to become empowered and engaged global citizens, striving toward a more united and sustainable digital future.
As local and international actors innovate to solve the most pressing issues that we face in the world today, young people are often left out of the equation with little or no participation in important discussions and decision-making processes.
Youth across the world are often overlooked as a potential resource to solving global challenges, such as climate change, migration, health, and unemployment, despite being directly impacted by these issues and having opinions on how to solve them.
This also happens in the Internet ecosystem, where young people often do not have a place at the table when it comes to decisions that shape the Internet’s future.
While youth are recognized as “the future generation” and perceived as key to a more sustainable tomorrow, they are seldom given adequate platforms to let their voices be heard or allow them to contribute to their societies in a meaningful way, in their own right as youth.
Young people are often deprived of the opportunity to serve as catalysts for a more united and sustainable world Continue reading
By embracing a different mindset and changing their language, IT teams can better communicate with the business and finally overcome a long-standing division.
The growth of cloud infrastructure in Africa has been credited with the growth of local content in many regions, and it holds the key for Africa’s ability to attract content carriers and distribution networks.
The first panel of day three at the Africa Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) was dedicated to discussing the current scenario of cloud infrastructure and what it will take to grow the sector further, get the market interested, and eventually grow the level of content hosted locally.
South Africa has the most extensive cloud market, compared to other African countries, and it took concerted efforts from the different players, under the ISP Association, for the market to be deregulated and the laws to be put in place. The laws can take time, but industry players agree the laws are vital to investments in the market.
Although the industry may be small in Africa, cybersecurity is key, as businesses are susceptible to cybercrime, just like other global operators. That means the enactment of cyber security laws in the different countries, and continued training and awareness by industry players.
Power and cooling is another vital part, with many countries enjoying monopoly of power distribution. Liquid Telecom said Continue reading
We migrated the self-study materials for the network infrastructure and services module of the Building Next-Generation Data Centers online course into the new format, and split the largest module of the course into manageable chunks: data center fabrics 101, designing leaf-and-spine fabrics, overlay virtual networking, IPv6 and network services.
Feedback on the new format is obviously highly welcome. Thank you!
Training classifiers with natural language explanations Hancock et al., ACL’18
We looked at Snorkel earlier this week, which demonstrates that maybe AI isn’t going to take over all of our programming jobs. Instead, we’ll be writing labelling functions to feed the machine! Perhaps we could call this task label engineering. To me, it feels a bit like programming a quick-and-dirty expert system, where the downstream generative model deals with all the inaccuracies and inconsistencies so that we don’t have to be perfect, just useful. Given the success of the approach, a natural question to ask is how we can enable end users to more easily create useful labelling functions in their domain. This is where BabbleLabble comes in!
In this work, we propose BabbleLabble, a framework for training classifiers in which an annotator provides a natural language explanation for each labeling decision. A semantic parser converts these explanations into programmatic labeling functions that generate noisy labels for an arbitrary amount of unlabeled data, which is used to train a classifier.
So much for those programming jobs ! 
Working with BabbleLabble, it takes users about twice as long per example to provide a label plus an explanation as it does just Continue reading
VMware’s NSX networking license bookings grew 40 percent year over year during the second quarter of fiscal 2019.
Another Hot Chips conference has ended with yet another deep learning architecture to consider. …
A Mythic Approach to Deep Learning Inference was written by Nicole Hemsoth at .
Alibaba Cloud’s continued growth puts it in direct competition with Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
This post acts as the introduction for two other posts, which cover Junos data collection tools for Kafka and InfluxDB. The code is open-sourced and licensed under MIT. Both applications are ready for release and I’ve spent considerable spare time building and testing both pieces of software.
Back in yesteryear, I used to be a C developer and enthusiast. Thanks to the infamous K&R C book, it made perfect sense when I needed a language that provided syntax what I thought of at the time as one level higher than assembly.
Roll the clock forwards a decade and Go has become my ‘go to’ (multi-pun intended) language. It’s powerful from its simplicity, easy to debug and super easy to observe when things aren’t going as you planned. The concurrency capabilities seem to make perfect sense and development cycles are short thanks to the powerful “batteries included” tool-chain. Building binaries couldn’t be easier and building containers for the likes of Docker is a piece of cake. Thanks also to the language’s popularity, tools like Travis-CI are easy to work with. Powerful enough to do almost anything, easy enough to learn in days and offers Continue reading
We have done a series of blogs on NSX Cloud in the last couple of weeks and the response has been great! We have customers who have purchased licenses already and are on-route to deployment, customers with whom we have completed POCs successfully, and a pipeline that looks promising. Meanwhile, recognitions continue to flow from all sides, CRN rated NSX Cloud as one of the 10 best SDN solutions for 2018 and NSX Cloud was judged as Best of Show runners-up in the cloud computing category at Interop Tokyo. With all this excitement and VMworld around the corner, we couldn’t help but write again to provide more updates. So, here we go!
Before reading on, if you would like to quickly go over past blogs, here is your single pane of glass to past blogs *wink*. You can find a high-level overview of VMware’s vision for Virtual Cloud Network and how NSX Cloud fits into the broader vision over here. If you are like, duh! I know that, can you just give me an overview about NSX Cloud… we hear you and this is where you could go to refresh your memory on NSX Cloud. If you are Continue reading
This blog was co-authored by Jared Ruckle and Jonathan Morin.
VMworld is one of the seminal weeks in enterprise IT. You gather with your peers to learn and discuss the challenges of the day. And what are those challenges? Three stand out:
Sound familiar? It should if you’re an IT leader. No matter where you are on your journey to get better at software, it’s always fun to learn from others. We want to highlight a few sessions Continue reading
The vendor would have been No. 3 behind Huawei and Ciena in worldwide optical networking hardware sales. Instead, Nokia snared that spot.