Baghdad, Iraq: Cloudflare’s 128th Data Center

Baghdad, Iraq: Cloudflare's 128th Data Center

Baghdad, Iraq: Cloudflare's 128th Data Center

Cloudflare's newest data center is located in Baghdad, Iraq, in the region often known as the cradle of civilization. This expands our growing Middle East presence, while serving as our 45th data center in Asia, and 128th data center globally.

Even while accelerating over 7 million Internet properties, this deployment helps our effort to be closer to every Internet user. Previous, ISPs such as Earthlink were served from our Frankfurt data center. Nearly 40 million people live in Iraq.

Rich Cuisine

One of the world's largest producers of the sweet date palm, Iraq's cuisine dates back over 10,000 years and includes favorites such as,

  • Kleicha: Date-filled cookies flavored with cardamom, saffron and rose water
  • Mezza: a selection of appetizers to begin the meal
  • Iraqi Dolma: stuffed vegetables with a tangy sauce
  • Iraqi Biryani: cooked rice with spices, beans, grilled nuts and meat / vegetables
  • Masgouf: whole baked fish marinated in oil, salt, pepper, turmeric and tamarind

New data centers

Baghdad is the first of eight deployments joining the Cloudflare global network just this week. Stay tuned!

The Cloudflare Global Anycast Network

Baghdad, Iraq: Cloudflare's 128th Data Center
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Tune Into Our Introduction to Networking Technologies March 2018 Live Session

Tomorrow, March 15th, we will air our March 2018 Networking Technologies Live Session with Keith Bogart. This course is designed for those with absolutely no knowledge of computer networks, but who would like to learn more and possibly head down a career path working on computer networks.

 

    When:
    March 15, 2018 10 am PST/ 1 pm EST

    Instructor Info:
    This Course is taught by Keith Bogart, CCIE #4923. Keith started his networking career as customer service representative at Cisco Systems in 1996. His desire to learn more soon led him to a position as a Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) engineer on the “Dial-Access” team, and within six months he had obtained his Dial-ISP CCIE. He later became a network consulting engineer and obtained his CCNA certification while teaching the technologies to Cisco employees during his lunch breaks. Keith was the first instructor on Cisco’s TAC Training team, where he taught a wide range of internetworking topics and later developed and taught other courses such as routing protocols, LAN switching, MPLS, 802.1x, and CCNA. After almost 17 years with Cisco, Keith joined a small startup and focused on 802.11 Wi-Fi technologies, during which time he obtained his Continue reading

Volkswagen Refining Machine Learning on D-Wave System

Researchers at Volkswagen have been at the cutting edge of implementing D-Wave quantum computers for a number of complex optimization problems, including traffic flow optimization, among other potential use cases.

These efforts are generally focused on developing algorithms suitable for the company’s recently purchased 2000-qubit quantum system and have expanded to a range of new machine learning possibilities, including what a research team at the company’s U.S. R&D office and the Volkswagen Data:Lab in Munich are calling quantum-assisted cluster analysis.

The art and science of clustering is well known for machine learning on classical computing architectures, but the VW approach …

Volkswagen Refining Machine Learning on D-Wave System was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Open Source Data Management for All

On today’s episode of “The Interview” with The Next Platform, we talk about an open source data management platform (and related standards group) called iRODS, which many in scientific computing already know—but that also has applicability in enterprise.

We found that several of our readers had heard of iRODS and knew it was associated with a scientific computing base, but few understood what the technology was and were not aware that there was a consortium. To dispel any confusion, we spoke with Jason Coposky, executive director of the iRODS Consortium about both the technology itself and the group’s role …

Open Source Data Management for All was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

History Of Networking – Tony Li – SSE and Hardware Switching

From processors, to FPGAs, to ASICs, and back again, Tony Li joins Network Collective’s History of Networking to talk through the impact that the Cisco SSE and hardware switching has had on the networking industry.

Tony Li
Guest
Russ White
Host
Donald Sharp
Host
Jordan Martin
Host

Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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The post History Of Networking – Tony Li – SSE and Hardware Switching appeared first on Network Collective.

BrandPost: From Autonomous to Adaptive: The Next Evolution in Networking

There have been many discussions about how to eliminate manual, labor-intensive network operations and the industry is using a wide set of terminology to describe the future lean and automated network operations, such as ‘intelligent’, ‘cognitive’ or ‘self-driving.’ Network providers are now able to rethink their operations with artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced analytics to achieve their long-desired goal of end-to-end automation, but most of them don’t want to cede control to networks that decide their own direction and remove humans from the equation altogether. They want their networks and operations to become more ‘adaptive’ to thrive in an ever-changing competitive landscape and to meet consumer demands, which requires a coherent combination of human-controlled-and-supervised, analytics-driven intelligence, software controlled and automated operational processes and an underlying programmable infrastructure (see Figure 1).To read this article in full, please click here

IBM Cloud, Now Powered by Cloudflare

IBM Cloud, Now Powered by Cloudflare

IBM Cloud, Now Powered by Cloudflare

A Tale of Two New Relationships

Late last spring, we were seeking to expand our connections inside of IBM. IBM had first become a direct Cloudflare customer in 2016, when its X-force Exchange business selected Cloudflare, instead of traditional scrubbing center solutions, for DDoS protection, WAF, and Load Balancing. We had friendly relationships with several people inside of IBM’s Softlayer business. We learned that the IBM “Networking Tribe” was evaluating various solutions to fill product gaps that their cloud customers were experiencing for DDoS, DNS, WAF, and load balancing.

In trying to engage with the people leading the effort, I made a casual phone call late on a Friday afternoon to one of the IBMers based in Raleigh, NC. When he understood that I was from Cloudflare, he replied, “Oh, I know Cloudflare. You guys do DDoS protection, right?” I replied, “Well, yes, we do offer DDoS protection, but we also offer a number of other security and performance services.” He indicated that he would be in the Bay Area two weeks later, and that he would bring his team to our office if we could make the time.

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Rough Guide to IETF 101: IPv6

In this post for the Internet Society Rough Guide to IETF 101, I’m reviewing what’ll be happening at the IETF in London next week.
IPv6 global adoption rates continue to rise (to approximately 22% according to Google), although at a slightly slower overall rate since the last IETF. Nevertheless, there’s still substantial growth in IPv6 capability in large markets such as the United States, India and Germany, with Belgium still leading the world. There has also been significant progress in Greece, Brazil, Malaysia, Finland, Switzerland and Uruguay recently, whilst Japan, the UK and France continue to show consistent growth. The amounts of native IPv6 traffic seen on the Internet still does not entirely reflect global IPv6 capabilities, but with most major content and cloud providers now supporting IPv6, and mobile networks increasingly preferring IPv6, this gap will continue to close.
IPv6 is an important focus for the IETF, particularly with respect to the standardisation work related to the Internet-of-Things. And it’s straight into the IPv6 work on Monday, with both the IPv6 Operations (v6ops) and IPv6 Maintenance (6man) Working Groups being held that day, along with three other IoT-related Working Groups.
The IPv6 Operations (v6ops) Working Group is Continue reading

The internet of useful things

The industrial internet of things is growingImage by Peter Sayer/IDGWhen we talk about the internet of things, consumer applications too often get the lion’s share of the attention. But there are also a growing number of industrial applications for IoT technologies, from building better mousetraps to preventing theft of manhole covers.To read this article in full, please click here

The internet of useful things

The industrial internet of things is growingImage by Peter Sayer/IDGWhen we talk about the internet of things, consumer applications too often get the lion’s share of the attention. But there are also a growing number of industrial applications for IoT technologies, from building better mousetraps to preventing theft of manhole covers.To read this article in full, please click here

I Can’t Choose the Gear for You

One of my readers sent me a question along these lines after reading the anti-automation blog post:

Your blog post has me worried as we're currently reviewing offers for NGFW solution... I understand the need to keep the lid on the details rather than name and shame, but is it possible to get the details off the record?

I always believed in giving my readers enough information to solve their challenges on their own (you know, the Teach a man to fish idea).

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