KDDI Europe Settles on Silver Peak for SD-WAN Services to Its Enterprise Customers
The company had been white labeling an SD-WAN service from another vendor, but it found it to be too expensive and not versatile enough.
NSX-T Automation with Terraform
Do you want to maintain your network and security infrastructure as a code? Do you want to automate NSX-T? One more option has been just added for you! Following my previous post about NSX-T: OpenAPI and SDKs you might have figured out how easy it is to generate different language bindings for NSX-T. Thankfully to this, we... Read more →
NSX-T Automation with Terraform
Do you want to maintain your network and security infrastructure as a code? Do you want to automate NSX-T? One more option has been just added for you!
Following my previous post about NSX-T: OpenAPI and SDKs you might have figured out how easy it is to generate different language bindings for NSX-T. Thankfully to this, we have generated Go Lang NSX-T SDK that we use as a foundation of the new NSX-T Terraform provider.
Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as a code software by HashiCorp. It allows creation, modification, and deletion of an infrastructure using a high-level configuration files that can be shared between team members, treated as a code, edited, reviewed, and versioned. These configuration files are written in HCL(HashiCorp Configuration Language) which is actually JSON with some fine-tuning. Plain JSON can be also used.
There are several important components in Terraform:
1. Providers are responsible for managing the lifecycle of the resources: create, read, update, delete. The Providers usually require some sort of configuration to provide authentication, endpoint URLs, etc. By default, resources are matched with the provider with the start of the name. For example, a resource nsxt_logical_switch is associated with provider called nsxt.
Example of Continue reading
Microsoft will invest $5 billion in IoT. Thats pointless.
Amateur effort. MS wants someone else to do the work.
Will Chapel Mark Next Great Awakening for Parallel Programmers?
Just because supercomputers are engineered to be far more powerful over time does not necessarily mean programmer productivity will follow the same curve. Added performance means more complexity, which for parallel programmers means working harder, especially when accelerators are thrown into the mix.
It was with all of this in mind that DARPA’s High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) project rolled out in 2009 to support higher performance but more usable HPC systems. This is the era that spawned systems like Blue Waters, for instance, and various co-design efforts from IBM and Intel to make parallelism within broader reach to the …
Will Chapel Mark Next Great Awakening for Parallel Programmers? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Security Vendor Carbon Black Files for $100 Million IPO
The security vendor posted $116.2 million in revenue for fiscal 2017, up about 39 percent over 2016.
Fixing reachability to 1.1.1.1, GLOBALLY!
Recently we announced our fast, privacy-centric DNS resolver 1.1.1.1, supported by our global network. As you can see 1.1.1.1 is very easy to remember, which is both a blessing and a curse. In the time leading up to the announcement of the resolver service we began testing reachability to 1.1.1.1, primarily using the RIPE Atlas probes. The RIPE Atlas project is an extensive collection of small monitoring devices hosted by the public around the world. Currently there are over 10,000 active probes hosted in over 3,000 networks, giving great vantage points for testing. We found large numbers of probes unable to query 1.1.1.1, but successfully able to query 1.0.0.1 in almost all cases. 1.0.0.1 is the secondary address we have assigned for the resolver, to allow clients who are unable to reach 1.1.1.1 to be able to make DNS queries.
This blog focuses on IPv4. We provide four IPs (two for each IP address family) in order to provide a path toward the DNS resolver independent of IPv4 or IPv6 reachability.
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Google Cloud Platform Blog: Introducing VPC Flow Logs—network transparency in near real-time
Flow records are the latest must have ?
RSA Preview: Companies Are Still Wrestling With AI’s Role in Cybersecurity
Organizations are automating security incident investigations and making use of deception grids to identify breaches more quickly.
Attackers Exploit Cisco Switch Issue as Vendor Warns of Yet Another Critical Flaw
Cisco says companies fixing previously known protocol issue should also patch against critical remote-code execution issue.
Why Routers And Switches Don’t Matter Now
Individual routers and switches don't matter. It's time to think of the entire system.Fake News, Loss of Privacy are Hurting the Internet, Mozilla says
The Internet has a case of the sniffles, with several symptoms keeping it from being as robust as it could be, according to a new Internet Health Report from Mozilla.
Major challenges facing the Internet include a collapse of privacy protections, the unabated spread of fake news, and the consolidation of power at giant tech companies, said Mozilla, the nonprofit creator of the Firefox browser and other open-source software.
Many people “have started to argue that technology companies are becoming too dominant; social media has been weaponized as a tool of harassment; our personal information has been stolen; and democratic processes have been undermined by the manipulation of online media and ads,” the report says.
The software maker called on Internet users to take action by learning how to better protect their privacy and to identify misinformation. “We believe the only way to keep the Internet in the hands of all of us is to ask for it, build it, and demand it,” Mark Surman, executive director of the Mozilla Foundation, said by email. “Consumers, governments and technologists need to push for fair competition, open innovation, interoperability and standards so the Internet can evolve in more healthy and humane ways. Continue reading
SevOne SDN Monitoring Platform Eases Transition to Cisco ACI Environments
The 2.0 version of its SDN Monitoring package integrates capabilities from SevOne’s data insights platform to automate operational insight of Cisco ACI environments, during and after its rollout.
Riding the AI Cycle Instead of Building It
We all remember learning to ride a bike. Those early wobbly moments with “experts” holding on to your seat while you furiously peddled and tugged away at the handlebars trying to find your own balance.
Training wheels were the obvious hardware choice for those unattended and slightly dangerous practice sessions. Training wheel hardware was often installed by your then “expert” in an attempt to avoid your almost inevitable trip to the ER. Eventually one day, often without planning you no longer needed the support, and you could make it all happen on your own.
Today, AI and ML needs this …
Riding the AI Cycle Instead of Building It was written by James Cuff at The Next Platform.