Ideas this bad could kill the Internet of Things

What’s the silliest, dumbest, most ridiculous Internet of Things (IoT) application you can think of? Smart toothbrushes? Internet-connected toilets? Digital notepads in the shower?Well, forget all that. Heck, you can even forget the "smart" Air Dresser wardrobe that Samsung announced earlier this month. (If you’re wondering, this digital closet is said to automatically "air" — whatever that means — steam, dry, and purify clothes so they don’t, you know, stink.)IBM has just patented an IoT device concept so incredibly inane that it makes all those earlier attempts to trivialize the IoT seem like cures for cancer. What could possibly be so ill-conceived as to make a smart hairbrush look, well, smart?To read this article in full, please click here

It Is a Challenging Time for the Internet: We Must Not Let It Be Undermined

On 1 September I start work as CEO of the Internet Society. I have a lot to do to live up to the example set by Kathy Brown with all that she achieved during her leadership. It is a great honour, and I appreciate the trust the Board of Trustees has placed in me. I will work daily to earn the same trust from the rest of the Internet community, in part by being transparent about what drives me to do this.

It is a challenging time for the Internet Society, because it is a challenging time for the Internet. For most of the Internet Society’s history, the expansion and development of the Internet could be regarded as an obvious good. There were always those who simply opposed technological development. There were always those who wanted their own interests protected from the Internet. But Internet users historically benefited so much, so obviously, that skepticism about the value of the Internet itself was rare.

Things have changed. Every technology can be used for negative ends. The Internet still, plainly, brings gains in efficiency, convenience, and communications. Yet in the recent past, some of the negative uses have become apparent, which leads Continue reading

Cisco Meraki amps up throughput, Wi-Fi to SD-WAN family

Getting wide-area network links up and securely running quickly with minimal IT irritation has always been Cisco Meraki’s strong suite.Equipping customers tasked with securely supporting more cloud applications and mobile devices with ever more throughput and the latest connectivity options are the chief goals behind a raft of new model additions to Cisco Meraki’s MX and Z branch-office security appliances. [ Related: MPLS explained -- What you need to know about multi-protocol label switching Meraki’s MX family supports everything from SD-WAN and Wi-Fi features to next-generation firewall and intrusion prevention in a single package.   To read this article in full, please click here

Cisco Meraki amps up throughput, Wi-Fi to SD-WAN family

Getting wide-area network links up and securely running quickly with minimal IT irritation has always been Cisco Meraki’s strong suite.Equipping customers tasked with securely supporting more cloud applications and mobile devices with ever more throughput and the latest connectivity options are the chief goals behind a raft of new model additions to Cisco Meraki’s MX and Z branch-office security appliances. [ Related: MPLS explained -- What you need to know about multi-protocol label switching Meraki’s MX family supports everything from SD-WAN and Wi-Fi features to next-generation firewall and intrusion prevention in a single package.   To read this article in full, please click here

Cisco Meraki amps-up throughput, Wi-Fi to SD-WAN family

Getting wide area network links up and securely running quickly with minimal IT irritation has always been Cisco Meraki’s strong suite.Equipping customers tasked with securely supporting more cloud applications and mobile devices with ever more throughput and the latest connectivity options are the chief goals behind a raft of new model additions to Cisco Meraki’s MX and Z branch-office security appliances. [ Related: MPLS explained -- What you need to know about multi-protocol label switching Meraki’s MX family supports everything from SD-WAN and WiFi features to next-generation firewall and intrusion prevention in a single package.   To read this article in full, please click here

Ansible Integrations at AnsibleFest

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AnsibleFest is fast approaching! We couldn’t be more excited to be holding our 13th AnsibleFest in Austin, TX. This year's AnsibleFest is on track to be the biggest one ever. Ansible is the proverbial Swiss Army knife in the office desk drawer. The Ansible Integrations track will highlight the combined power of Ansible when used with other technologies. Combining Ansible with other technologies enables organizations to reach new heights with their automation.

As someone who has worked in the DevOps space for years, I'm looking forward to this track. It's filled with talks from speakers that have improved their existing tooling with Ansible. There are a few sessions you might find me standing in the back of (time permitting, of course) that I’d like to highlight here:

1. Ansible and HashiCorp: Better together from Sean Carolan, HashiCorp and Dylan Silva, Red Hat

Automation tools don’t have to be competitive. Great things can be achieved when you combine great tools together and collaborate. Come along and learn how Ansible users can leverage HashiCorp tools/products to achieve their goals of an automated enterprise through complimentary security, image management, post provisioning configuration and integrated end-to-end automation solutions. Read more here.

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Hot products at VMworld 2018

VMworld 2018Image by Getty ImagesVMworld 2018 kicked off this week in Las Vegas, where VMware and its partners are digging into virtualization, SDN, hyperconvergence, AI, containers and more. Here are some of the new products being announced and displayed at the show.To read this article in full, please click here

Hot products at VMworld 2018

VMworld 2018Image by Getty ImagesVMworld 2018 kicks off this week in Las Vegas, where VMware and its partners are digging into virtualization, SDN, hyperconvergence, AI, containers, and more. As the show gets underway, here are some of the new products being announced and displayed at VMworld 2018.To read this article in full, please click here

Openswitch OPX in GNS3

The previous article discusses an installation of Openswitch OPX on VirtualBox using lvm tool. We have extracted Openswitch OPX VDI disk from VirtualBoxVM and run the disk with Qemu. The image has been subsequently customized using the after install script in order to run it inside GNS3. Finally, we have tested the image within a simple GNS3 lab that proves its functionality. This article goes further and we are going to test VLANs bridging using Linux native commands.

Picture 1 - Network Topology

The lab consists of three Openswitch OPX 2.3.2 instances powered by Qemu hypervisor. The device OPX-Distrib1 is multilayer switch that is responsible for routing between VLANs 10,20,30,40 and 50. The VLANs 10-40 are end-users VLANs and the VLAN50 is used for management. The switches OPX-Access1 and OPX-Access2 are L2 switches with the port e101-001-0 configured as the trunk ports. End users are connected to the access ports e101-002-0 and e101-003-0 on both access switches.

Note: Customized Openswitch OPX 2.3.3 vdi disk can be downloaded in Download section. Login name is opxUser and the password is not set.

1. End User Computers and Management PC Configuration

In order to save memory of host, Continue reading

Using Edge-Side Includes with Workers for High Availability

Using Edge-Side Includes with Workers for High Availability

Using Edge-Side Includes with Workers for High Availability

Last week, we wrote about implementing ESI with Cloudflare Workers. This is a guest post by Lukas Reider on how to use ESI not only for better performance, but to optimize availability while migrating backends.

In this post, you will learn about how my client Titel Media was able to use Cloudflare Workers to implement simple edge side includes.

The idea is to partially replace the parts of the online magazine highsnobiety.com with a new, and much more refined frontend implementation. In this article, you will get to know the use case, and how I found a powerful application for Cloudflare Workers.

Backstory

My current project, highsnobiety.com is in the process of replacing Wordpress with a dedicated content pipeline and a custom frontend. It is a huge magazine, with tons of contents, hundreds of daily updates and an international team of more than 60 editors, researching and writing exciting stories.

The company behind it, Titel Media GmbH, a publishing house with offices in Berlin, and New York, surely has grown out of Wordpress for hosting their content.

The show must go on

One does not simply rewrite a sophisticated web publishing pipeline like WordPress. Nor does one, simply Continue reading

IDG Contributor Network: The future of devops for network engineers

If you still live in a world of the script-driven approach for both service provider and enterprise networks, you are going to reach limits. There is only so far you can go alone. It creates a gap that lacks modeling and database at a higher layer. Production-grade service provider and enterprise networks require a production-grade automation framework. In today's environment, the network infrastructure acts as the core centerpiece, providing critical connection points. Over time, the role of infrastructure has expanded substantially. In the present day, it largely influences the critical business functions for both the service provider and enterprise environments. To read this article in full, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: The future of devops for network engineers

If you still live in a world of the script-driven approach for both service provider and enterprise networks, you are going to reach limits. There is only so far you can go alone. It creates a gap that lacks modeling and database at a higher layer. Production-grade service provider and enterprise networks require a production-grade automation framework. In today's environment, the network infrastructure acts as the core centerpiece, providing critical connection points. Over time, the role of infrastructure has expanded substantially. In the present day, it largely influences the critical business functions for both the service provider and enterprise environments. To read this article in full, please click here

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