Introducing “Kernel of Truth” — a Cumulus Networks podcast!

There’s no doubt that we’re in the gilded age of podcasts. Anyone you ask has at least one or two podcasts that they love to listen to and won’t stop talking about! But you’re probably tired of hearing that one friend repeat every single episode of “This American Life.” You need a new, engaging show that focuses on thought leadership and the topics in data center networking that you care about. Something to liven up your commute and make a long work day fly by. Something to help you stay up to date and relevant in your networking  knowledge, hear about real examples of innovation in the data center and turn you into a super star employee that shoots up the career ladder. If that’s what you’ve been looking for, your search is finally over.

Seven years ago, Cumulus Networks took the world by storm and rocked the data center. Today, we’re giving the podcasting world a healthy dose of Cumulus goodness — introducing the official Cumulus Networks podcast, “Kernel of Truth!”

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Cisco Invests in Avi Networks Series D and Resells Avi’s Technology

Avi says Cisco provides Layer 2 to 4, and Avi provides Layer 4 to 7. The joint solution allows Cisco to offer a full networking stack from Layers 2 to 7 across any environment.

Cowen Says Red Hat, Microsoft Will Be Winners in Containers, VMware Not So Much

The report predicts strong growth for enterprises moving containers into production environments. But says it will be another couple of years before the Linux container ecosystem reaches maturity.

Fortinet Buys Bradford Networks, Adds Machine Learning to Its Web Application Firewall

Machine learning allows Fortinet’s WAF to provide almost 100 percent application threat detection accuracy without requiring additional fine tuning, the company claims.

Trilogy Networks Wants to End Operator Silos

The company’s service delivery platform connects small wireless operators so they can share resources and offer more sophisticated services.

On the ‘web: Two Kinds of Design

Information technology design often follows a common sort of process. First you gather the business requirements. While you do your best to gather all the requirements, you know you will miss some, so you assume the project in hand will change over time. As such, you build some “slop” into the schedule and scaling numbers to account for possible changes, based on prior experience. @ECI

Huawei is Number 2 Enterprise IT Network Vendor

Huawei has traction. A lot of it.

Riverbed Unifies End-User Monitoring and APM for Flexible Monitoring Structure

Riverbed's SteelCentral updates combined the licensing of its end-user monitoring and APM so enterprises can adapt with their monitoring needs over time.

CA Technologies Rolls Out Cloud Partnership With IBM, Application Security Update

VMware is a customer using the application security product, which allows companies to use open source libraries to speed software development without adding unmanaged risk.

IPv6 Makes Progress, but Much Work Remains

The Top 5 Fastest Growing Jobs In The IT Sector

There’s no easy path to success in the IT sector, but there are certainly ways to increase your chances of having a rewarding career. One of the ways is knowing which fields in IT have the most potential for future growth. There are a lot of great choices out there, but as technology changes, so does the demand for certain positions. That’s why it’s crucial to plan for your training in advance, and lock in on an area where forecasters expect rapid growth over the next few years. Choose from the following list of the fastest growing IT jobs to land a rewarding position that’s certain to last.

1. Data Scientist

Not surprisingly, data science is one of the fastest growing and most lucrative jobs in the IT sector. Data scientists wrestle with big data on a daily basis. They use their advanced skills in programming, mathematics, and statistics to organize enormous amounts of jumbled data into a more usable form.
The work of the data scientist doesn’t stop there. Once they make this data more manageable, they use their analytical skills to solve a variety of business and financial problems. These skills include industry specific knowledge, contextual awareness, and Continue reading

BrandPost: Using AI and Predictive Analytics to Improve the Data Center

Digital transformation requires companies to be nimbler, more proactive, and more responsive to customers. Our always-on culture has begotten the need for always-available data.Meanwhile, the tolerance for downtime continues to plummet. Whether it’s a bank customer conducting a financial transaction or a salesperson submitting an order, a processing delay is no longer acceptable. An interruption like this sets off an IT scramble to determine how to fix that “app-data gap” — i.e., what’s causing delays in data delivery to applications.To alleviate the app-data gap and improve data-center operations, many organizations have turned to flash storage, which speeds delivery and improves performance. And while it does provide much-improved efficiency and speed than traditional hard drive disk storage, flash alone doesn’t solve other problems like configuration and interoperability issues that cause the app-data gap.To read this article in full, please click here

Worth Reading: 5G is a delicate balance

How many of you have heard that 5G will change the world as we know it? While this statement may be a bit extreme, there is no doubt that this ‘G’ is a completely different beast than the previous mobile generations. —Hayim Porat @ECI

Intel launches Optane, the go-between for memory and storage

Intel formally introduced the Optane DC persistent memory modules late last week, an entirely new class of memory and storage technology designed to sit between storage and memory and provide expanded memory capacity and faster access to data.Unlike SSDs, which plug into a PCI Express slot, Optane DC is built like a thick memory DIMM and plugs into the DIMM slots. Many server motherboards offer as many as eight DIMM slots per CPU, so some can be allocated to Optane and some to traditional memory.That’s important because Optane serves as a cache of sorts, storing frequently accessed data in its memory rather than forcing the server to fetch it from a hard disk. So, server memory only has to access Optane memory, which is sitting right next to it, and not a storage array over Fibre Channel.To read this article in full, please click here

Intel launches Optane, the go-between for memory and storage

Intel formally introduced the Optane DC persistent memory modules late last week, an entirely new class of memory and storage technology designed to sit between storage and memory and provide expanded memory capacity and faster access to data.Unlike SSDs, which plug into a PCI Express slot, Optane DC is built like a thick memory DIMM and plugs into the DIMM slots. Many server motherboards offer as many as eight DIMM slots per CPU, so some can be allocated to Optane and some to traditional memory.That’s important because Optane serves as a cache of sorts, storing frequently accessed data in its memory rather than forcing the server to fetch it from a hard disk. So, server memory only has to access Optane memory, which is sitting right next to it, and not a storage array over Fibre Channel.To read this article in full, please click here

History Of Networking – Dave Crocker – Email – Part 1

Outro Music:
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Dell Technologies Claims Server King Status, Posts Surging Q1 2019 Revenue

IDC’s latest number put Dell at No. 1 in both server revenue and units shipped.

IDG Contributor Network: The 6 ways to make money in IoT

According to the McKinsey Global Institute, IoT will have a total potential impact of up to $11.1 trillion a year by 2025. With so much opportunity, it makes sense why so many companies are looking to connect their devices and enter the IoT arena.But simply adding an internet connection to your widget doesn’t mean your business will make immediate profits. IoT products come with significant ongoing costs – web infrastructure, networking, and other connectivity and data-related costs. If you can’t justify the additional value to your customers, those costs will eat away at your margins.To read this article in full, please click here

IPv6 Adoption Still Lags In Federal Agencies

Datanauts 137: Automating Infrastructure As Code With Terraform

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