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Who’s developing quantum computers?

There are two main camps in the quantum computing development, says Ashish Nadkarni, Program Vice President of Computing Platforms, Worldwide Infrastructure at IDC. In the first camp are entrenched players from the world of classical computing. And in the second are quantum computing startups.“It’s a highly fragmented landscape,” Nadkarni says. “Each company has its own approach to building a universal quantum computer and delivering it as a service.”[ Now see What is quantum computing [and why enterprises should care.] Classic-computing vendors pioneer quantum computing Along with IBM, other classical computing companies staking a claim in the emerging field of quantum computing include:To read this article in full, please click here

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Multi-tier load-balancing with Linux

A common solution to provide a highly-available and scalable service is to insert a load-balancing layer to spread requests from users to backend servers.¹ We usually have several expectations for such a layer:

scalability

It allows a service to scale by pushing traffic to newly provisioned backend servers. It should also be able to scale itself when it becomes the bottleneck.

availability

It provides high availability to the service. If one server becomes unavailable, the traffic should be quickly steered to another server. The load-balancing layer itself should also be highly available.

flexibility

It handles both short and long connections. It is flexible enough to offer all the features backends generally expect from a load-balancer like TLS or HTTP routing.

operability

With some cooperation, any expected change should be seamless: rolling out a new software on the backends, adding or removing backends, or scaling up or down the load-balancing layer itself.

The problem and its solutions are well known. From recently published articles on the topic, “Introduction to modern network load-balancing and proxying” provides an overview of the state of the art. Google released “Maglev: A Fast and Reliable Software Network Load Balancer” describing their Continue reading

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Why is Network Automation So Hard?

This blog post was initially sent to the subscribers of my SDN and Network Automation mailing list. Subscribe here.

Every now and then someone asks me “Why are we making so little progress on network automation? Why does it seem so hard?”

There are some obvious reasons:

• Tightly-coupled components and humongous blast radius;
• Lack of good tools and programming interfaces;
• Lack of transactional consistency (in some cases even simple commits);

However, there’s a bigger elephant in the room: every network is a unique snowflake.

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Pixie: a system for recommending 3+ billion items to 200+ million users in real-time

Pixie: a system for recommending 3+ billion items to 200+ million users in real-time Eksombatchai et al., WWW’18

(If you don’t have ACM Digital Library access, the paper can be accessed either by following the link above directly from The Morning Paper blog site, or from the WWW 2018 proceedings page).

Pinterest is a visual catalog with several billion pins, which are visual bookmarks containing a description, a link, and an image or a video. A major problem faced at Pinterest is to provide personalized, engaging, and timely recommendations from a pool of 3+ billion items to 200+ million monthly active users.

Stating the obvious, 3 billion or so items is a lot to draw recommendations from. This paper describes how Pinterest do it. One of the requirements is that recommendations need to be calculated in real-time on-demand. I’m used to thinking about the shift from batch to real-time in terms of improved business responsiveness, more up-to-date information, continuous processing, and so on. Pinterest give another really good reason which is obvious with hindsight, but hadn’t struck me before: when you compute recommendations using a batch process, you have to calculate the recommendations for every user Continue reading

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Facebook Unveils Network Load Balancer, Provisioning Tool

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Securing the Multi-Cloud: It Takes a Village

Even enterprises not in a multi-cloud environment must begin making their security decisions with it in mind. If they don’t, they risk some of their decisions quickly becoming obsolete.

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Pivot3 Adds Live Migration Across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud

The hyperconverged infrastructure vendor partnered with CloudEndure, whose software provides disaster recovery and live migration technology, for the new services.

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Regular Expression for Network Engineer Part-1

A regular expression is set of pattern used to define certain amount of text. An powerful  tool in any scripting language to match any pattern.

Lets have a look , how regular expression can be used in Python to solves the problem. Module “re’ is imported in python to support regular expression .

<< import re >>

[  ] – its for specifying character class, individual char or range of character can be mached .

 

• [123] will match any of the character ‘1’,’2′,’3′
• [1-3] will match any of the character  ‘1’,’2′,’3′
• [a-d] will match any of the character a,b,c,d
• [a-z] will match lowercase
• [A-Z] will match uppercase
• [^6] will match any character except 6
• [a-zA-Z0-9] will match any alphanumeric character
• [^a-zA-Z0-9] will not match any alphanumeric character
•  [a-zA-Z0-9] is equivalent to \w
•  [^a-zA-Z0-9] is equivalent to \W
• [0-9] is equivalent to \d
• [^0-9] is equivalent to \D
• [  \t\n\r\f\v] is equivalent to \s
• [ ^ \t\n\r\f\v] is equivalent to \S

 

. – Period character ,use for matching any single charcter

• EXAMPLE :

 

[code language=”python”]

In [225]: ip =’10.20.30.40′
In [226]: re.search(r”.”,ip)
Out[226]:&lt;_sre.SRE_Match object; span=(0, 1), match=’1’_>
In [227]: re.search(r”.”,ip).group(0)
Out[227]: ‘1’

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Regular Expression for Network Engineer Part-1

A regular expression is set of pattern used to define certain amount of text. An powerful  tool in any scripting language to match any pattern. Lets have a look , how regular expression can be used in Python to solves the problem. Module “re’ is imported in python to support regular expression . << import […]

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OpenStack Makes its Open Source CI/CD Platform Available to the Wider World

OpenStack has been decoupling Zuul from OpenStack-specific systems to make the software available to more developers.

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Introducing: The Cloudflare All-Stars Fantasy League

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Worth Reading: Boosting Security with Adjuvants

In medical treatment there is a concept of an “adjuvant” — an agent that enhances the effect of other agents. It’s not the cure, but it helps the cure be more effective. Adjuvants are added to medicines to enhance their responses and lengthen their effect. We can use this same concept for security work —Raymond Pompon @Dark Reading

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Spectre and Meltdown Chip Flaws Back From the Dead as ‘Variant 4’

Microsoft and Google security researchers disclosed the new bugs, which affect Intel, AMD, and ARM processors.

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Juniper, Red Hat Tighten Integration to Fend Off VMware

The goal is to help enterprises more easily take advantage of open cloud systems.

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Masergy Makes Its SD-WAN More Agile With Bandwidth On-Demand

Customers can now scale their broadband connections up and down on a schedule or in real-time.

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Imperiled ZTE May Get a Reprieve as China, U.S. Work on Deal to Remove Ban

The Trump administration is considering lifting the ban in exchange for a removal of tariffs on products from the U.S. farm belt and reduced tariffs on imported U.S. automobiles.

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Weather Forecasting Gets A Big Lift In Japan

It has been a long time since the Japan Meteorological Agency has deployed the kind of supercomputing oomph for weather forecasting that the island nation would seem to need to improve its forecasts. But JMA, like its peers in the United States, Europe, and India, is investing heavily in new supercomputers to get caught up, and specifically, has just done a deal with Cray to get a pair of XC50 systems that will have 18.2 petaflops of aggregate performance.

This is a lot more compute capacity than JMA has had available to do generic weather forecasting as well as do …

Weather Forecasting Gets A Big Lift In Japan was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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The Network Collective: State of the Podcast

In this edition of the Network Collective, Eyvonne, Jordan, and I talk about where the ‘cast has been, and share some thoughts on where it is going. While we like technology as much as anyone else, the NC is really all about community.

In particular, we discuss the upcoming subscription service. We have a lot of new, exciting, material being recorded around the skills needed to be a better engineer exclusively for the subscription service. For instance, we’ve started a series on communication that does not take the standard line, but looks at how to communicate from the perspective of our experience in living on every possible side of the network engineering world, and developing and delivering every possible kind of content. And we have our first Q&A guest lined up, as well as a lot of fantastic material from Rachel Traylor already being recorded. This is going to be fantastic material, designed to push your career forward in a way that includes technology, but goes beyond technical skills, as well.

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Plan Your DockerCon 2018 Conference Experience: Everything an Enterprise Architect Needs to Know

DockerConSan Francisco 2018 is just around the corner and we’re here to help Enterprise Architects learn what Docker can do for them. DockerCon isn’t just for developers and we want to help you find the sessions and experiences that we’ve created that are developed with this role in mind:

In 2015, I attended DockerCon for the first time. I was sitting in a chair and listening to the amazing stories and ideas presented by speakers at the conference, which set off a chain of events that led to today. I feel privileged, and am really looking forward to being on stage and sharing our transformational journey to inspire the people who would sit in that chair. 
Alex Iankoulski, Principal Software Architect, Baker Hughes GE

The first thing to notice is that as you build your DockerCon agenda this year, we have a “Journey” theme that will help guide you during the conference. Whether you’re just “Getting Started” in your learning about containerization or you want to hear about “Innovation” using the Docker container platform for data sciences, AI, machine learning, and IoT, we have sessions that will be just right for you.

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Red Hat OpenStack HCI Targets Telco Hybrid Cloud, 5G Deployments

The hyperconverged platform combines Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 and Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 into one product.