Nokia Stumbles Out of the Blocks, But Is Upbeat on 5G, Rival Woes
CEO Rajeev Suri noted that "longer term, there might be opportunities." Nokia could potentially benefit from the woes of its competitors Huawei and ZTE.
Your Data Center Needs a Network Time Machine
Big Switch’s data center monitoring fabric will add support for public cloud environments including AWS and Azure later this year.
The Cybersecurity Tech Accord Fits Squarely in the Collaborative Security Approach
Last week at RSA, more than 30 global companies came together to sign the Cybersecurity Tech Accord “to protect and empower civilians online and to improve the security, stability and resilience of cyberspace.” It is an example of collaboration, which demonstrates the commitment and focus of the signatory companies to take action in order to tackle the significant security threats we are currently facing. It is this type of collective action we have promoted as part of our collaborative security
The Tech Accord is a positive step by large corporations across the globe involved in security to come together in the name of collaboration and make security commitments that resonate with the demands of Internet users everywhere. Per the Accord’s website, there are four main tenets of the Tech Accord:
- Stronger defense
The companies will mount a stronger defense against cyberattacks. As part of this, recognizing that everyone deserves protection, the companies pledged to protect all customers globally regardless of the motivation for attacks online. - No offense
The companies will not help governments launch cyberattacks against innocent citizens and enterprises, and will protect against tampering or exploitation of their products and services through every stage of technology development, design Continue reading
PQ 147: Connecting Security And GDPR Compliance (Sponsored)
On this episode of Priority Queue, which is sponsored today by Cisco, we tackle the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR.
This new regulation lays out data privacy and protection obligations for organizations that handle data of EU citizens, including loss prevention, breach notification requirements, and serious fines and penalties for violations.
We delve into GDPR requirements with Equilibrium Security and ePlus/IGX Global, two Cisco partners who share practical insight and advice for dealing with GDPR.
Our guests are Anish Chauhan, Director at Equilibrium Security; and Alex Goldstein, Security Architect at ePlus/IGX Global.
We’ll discuss how to break down and understand requirements, the importance of a risk assessment and gap analysis, and how to use security and management tools to comply with the regulations.
Show Links:
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – Cisco
Equilibrium Cyber Security Services
Equilibrium Cyber Security Podcasts – Equilibrium
2017 DBIR: Understand Your Cybersecurity Threats – Verizon Enterprise Solutions
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Learn Docker Plaform best practices with Free Hands-On Labs and Workshops at DockerCon 2018
According to a recent stackoverflow report, the Docker Platform is in the top 10 skills to learn if you want to advance in a career in tech. So where do I go to start learning Docker you may ask? Well the good news is that we now have free workshops and hands-on Labs included as part of your DockerCon 2018 ticket.
The conference workshops will focus on a range of subjects from migrating .NET or Java apps to the Docker platform to deep dives on container monitoring and logging, networking, storage and security. Each workshop is designed to give you hands-on instructions and guidance on key container notions and mentoring by Docker Engineers and Docker Captains. The workshops are a great opportunity to zoom in a specific aspects on the Docker platform. Here is the list of free workshops available (click on the links to see the full abstracts):
- Migrating a .Net App to Docker EE by Elton Stoneman and Steven Follis (Docker)
- Migrating a Java App to Docker EE by Sophia Parafina and Eric Smalls (Docker)
- Introduction to Istio by Lee Calcote (SolarWinds) and Girish Ranganathan
- Monitoring and Logging by Brian Christner and John Harris (Docker)
- Docker Storage Concepts Derrick Miller Continue reading
AI Software Writing AI Software For Healthcare?
At the World Medical Innovation Forum this week, participants were polled with a loaded question: “Do you think healthcare will become better or worse from the use of AI?”
Across the respondents, 98 percent said it would be either “Better” or “Much Better” and not a single one thought it would become “Much Worse.” This is an interesting statistic, and the results were not entirely surprising, especially given that artificial intelligence was the theme for the meeting.
This continual stream of adoption of new technologies in both clinical and post clinical settings is remarkable. Today, healthcare is a technology operation. …
AI Software Writing AI Software For Healthcare? was written by James Cuff at The Next Platform.
Using Ansible and Ansible Tower with shared roles
Roles are an essential part of Ansible, and help in structuring your automation content. The idea is to have clearly defined roles for dedicated tasks. During your automation code, the roles will be called by the Ansible Playbooks.
Since roles usually have a well defined purpose, they make it easy to reuse your code for yourself, but also in your team. And you can even share roles with the global community. In fact, the Ansible community created Ansible Galaxy as a central place to display, search and view Ansible roles from thousands of people.
So what does a role look like? Basically it is a predefined structure of folders and files to hold your automation code. There is a folder for your templates, a folder to keep files with tasks, one for handlers, another one for your default variables, and so on:
tasks/
handlers/
files/
templates/
vars/
defaults/
meta/
In folders which contain Ansible code - like tasks, handlers, vars, defaults - there are main.yml files. Those contain the relevant Ansible bits. In case of the tasks directory, they often include other yaml files within the same directory. Roles even provide ways to test your automation code - in Continue reading
EQUALS in Tech Awards: Recognizing Women’s Empowerment Initiatives
Celebrating the work of women who are making a difference in their communities by using the Internet is something that at the Internet Society we care about. Women are building businesses, learning new professions, sharing, and collaborating online. Women are creating new opportunities for themselves and their families by taking advantage of what the Internet has to offer.
And it’s important to continue recognizing the work of these women.
EQUALS in Tech Awards is an opportunity to do so. By providing a platform for outstanding initiatives, the awards are a key piece in increasing the visibility of projects that use the power of technology to empower women and girls all across the globe.
This year’s EQUALS in Tech Awards is looking for initiatives from all stakeholders that improve women’s access to technology, promote female leadership in the tech sector, and build relevant digital skills for women and girls. Research that produces reliable evidence to tackle the digital gender divide will be also recognized.
The awards are organized annually by the EQUALS Global Partnership, an multistakeholder initiative which seeks to achieve gender equality in the digital age.
The Internet Society is proud to be vice-chair of this global movement. As such we work side by side with over 60 other organizations, companies Continue reading
Swim In Data At The Edge, Don’t Drown In It In the Datacenter
Analytics systems have been downing in data for years, and the edge is going to flood it unless the architecture changes. There is so much data that is going to be generated at the edge of the network that it can’t be practically moved back to the datacenter for processing in a timely enough fashion to be useful in a way that the gathering of the information was done in the first place.
That is the premise behind our expanding coverage of edge computing and what is evolving into a distributed, multi-tier data processing complex – you can’t really call …
Swim In Data At The Edge, Don’t Drown In It In the Datacenter was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Tackling Edge Computing Challenges
There's a lot of hype about edge computing, but processing data at the edge presents some tough problems. Some solutions are emerging.
Is OSPF Unpredictable or Just Unexpected?
I was listening to very interesting Future of Networking with Fred Baker a long while ago and enjoyed Fred’s perspectives and historical insight, until unfortunately Greg Ferro couldn’t possibly resist the usual bashing of traditional routing protocols and praising of intent-based (or flow-based or SDN or…) whatever.
Here’s what I understood he said around 35:17
Read more ...Copenhagen & London developers, join us for five events this May
Photo by Nick Karvounis / Unsplash
Are you based in Copenhagen or London? Drop by one or all of these five events.
Ross Guarino and Terin Stock, both Systems Engineers at Cloudflare are traveling to Europe to lead Go and Kubernetes talks in Copenhagen. They'll then join Junade Ali and lead talks on their use of Go, Kubernetes, and Cloudflare’s Mobile SDK at Cloudflare's London office.
My Developer Relations teammates and I are visiting these cities over the next two weeks to produce these events with Ross, Terin, and Junade. We’d love to meet you and invite you along.
Our trip will begin with two meetups and a conference talk in Copenhagen.
Event #1 (Copenhagen): 6 Cloud Native Talks, 1 Evening: Special KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU Meetup
Tuesday, 1 May: 17:00-21:00
Location: Trifork Copenhagen - Borgergade 24B, 1300 København K
How to extend your Kubernetes cluster
A brief introduction to controllers, webhooks and CRDs. Ross and Terin will talk about how Cloudflare’s internal platform builds on Kubernetes.
Speakers: Ross Guarino and Terin Stock
View Event Details & Register Here »
Event #2 (Copenhagen): Gopher Meetup At Falcon.io: Building Go With Bazel & Internationalization in Go
Skyway: connecting managed heaps in distributed big data systems
Skyway: connecting managed heaps in distributed big data systems Nguyen et al., ASPLOS’18
Yesterday we saw how to make Java objects persistent using NVM-backed heaps with Espresso. One of the drawbacks of using that as a persistence mechanism is that they’re only stored in the memory of a single node. If only there was some way to create a cluster of JVMs, and efficiently copy objects across remote heaps in the cluster… Meet Skyway!
Skyway is aimed at JVM-based big data systems (think Spark, Flink) that end up spending a lot of their time serializing and deserializing objects to move them around the cluster (e.g., to and from workers – see ‘Making sense of performance in data analytics frameworks’). Java comes with a default serialization mechanism, and there are also many third party libraries. Kyro is the recommended library for use with Spark.
Consider a small Spark cluster (3 worker nodes each with a 20 GB heap) running a triangle counting algorithm over the LiveJournal graph (about 1.2GB). With both the standard Java serializers and Kyro, serialization and deserialization combined account for a significant portion of the overall execution time (more than 30%).
Where Continue reading