Getting Started with Ansible Tower
If you’re considering evaluating Red Hat Ansible Tower, you might also be curious about what sort of support is included with a trial key. This post will explain what sort of help is available while you conduct a PoC, along with information to assist you with errors and more.
Ansible Experts Are Here to Help
After you download a trial of Ansible Tower and request a license key, there is more than just documentation and reading materials to help guide you through errors. Once you and your team are connected with Ansible and want to start working on an evaluation or proof of concept installation, there are a boatload of resources to help you on your automation journey:
Sales Representatives: Provide support from day one, helping you understand what Ansible Engine and Ansible Tower can do for you and your environment.
Getting Started Team: The product field engineering team (known colloquially as the "Getting Started" team) helps with the installation, configuration and integration of Ansible Engine and Ansible Tower.
Solution Architects: For cases that delve into deeper understanding of all things Ansible Automation, writing playbooks, or consultation/screenshared demos to ensure success of the project, a Solutions Architect can save Continue reading
JFK Medical Center Refreshes Dell EMC Storage With NetApp
The community hospital said Dell EMC's environment was a bit complicated.
U.S. SEC Targets Unregulated Cryptocurrency Exchanges
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission could soon crack down on unregulated cryptocurrency trading platforms after the agency sent a strongly worded warning to them this week.
The SEC warned that unregulated online trading platforms may be misleading investors by calling themselves “exchanges,” which implies federal oversight. An SEC-related securities exchange, among other safeguards, has rules designed to prevent fraud and other manipulative practices, the SEC said in an advisory issued Wednesday.
The SEC advisory served as much as a warning to investors using cryptocurrency trading platforms as to the platforms themselves.
“The SEC staff has concerns that many online trading platforms appear to investors as SEC-registered and regulated marketplaces when they are not,” the advisory said. “Many platforms refer to themselves as ‘exchanges,’ which can give the misimpression to investors that they are regulated or meet the regulatory standards of a national securities exchange.”
The SEC does not review the trading protocols used by unregulated trading platforms, it said. “Although some of these platforms claim to use strict standards to pick only high-quality digital assets to trade, the SEC does not review these standards or the digital assets that the platforms select, and the so-called standards should Continue reading
Security and Speed Remain Tradeoffs for Containers in HPC Environments
The National Center for Atmospheric Research developed its own container platform.
Show 380: Network Engineer Roundtable: What’s On Your Mind?
Today's Weekly Show gathers a group of network engineers to talk about what's on their minds. Our roundtable covers automation, vendor relationships, not knowing things (and how to change that) & more. The post Show 380: Network Engineer Roundtable: What’s On Your Mind? appeared first on Packet Pushers.
Internet Intelligence, Now Available In The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Console
The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team is proud of the data centers and network we are building for the next generation of cloud users and, in the spirit of transparency, we want to share with our users tools to better evaluate and measure the performance they will experience on our cloud. Today, we are pleased to announce two new network tools available in the Console to help you measure and analyze network performance.
OCI Market Performance is an interactive visualization tool that displays network performance metrics from OCI regions to cities around the globe. Performance is measured over time to a carefully curated set of endpoint IP addresses within the top providers in each market, providing the user with aggregated performance data for markets and providers over the last day, week, month or three months. This latency data from our Phoenix, Ashburn, and Frankfurt regions can help you predict and manage network performance. We will be adding metrics for more of our regions as they come online (including our twelve recently announced regional data centers).
OCI Market Performance can also assist in planning for growth, as you extend your footprint into new global markets. For FastConnect customers, this tool can help to predict performance between an OCI region and a specific Continue reading
SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — March 9, 2018
Telefónica and China Unicom enter IoT agreement; The Pentagon slashes deal with AWS partner; Dropbox leverages Equinix.
Network Refresh: Why You Need a Second Opinion
If you're upgrading your network, it's worthwhile asking others for input in order to avoid a poor or costly design that doesn't serve the needs of your business.
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Don’t forget to watch Keith Bogart’s live CCNA/CCNP Q&A session TODAY at 1pm!
During this live Q&A Keith bogart will answer all of your questions about the Cisco CCNA and CCNP Routing and Switching exams. Check back at 1 pm (EST) to get all of your questions answered by an industry expert.
Ansible for Extreme Devices
Here’s something I’ve been working on recently: Ansible modules for Extreme SLX switches & routers. Ansible is a popular automation framework, and with good reason: it has a low barrier to entry. Time to usefulness is short. But you need device-specific modules to work with networking devices. Finally we have some modules for SLX. Read on for how to use them.
This blog is not an intro to Ansible in general. There’s plenty of good intros out there. This is specifically about demonstrating Ansible with SLX switches.
Background
Ansible is an agent-less configuration management system. It uses “playbooks”, written in YAML, to define desired configuration state. “modules” written in Python translate this into whatever is needed to configure the system, application, database or network device.
Ansible has been making great strides in adding network automation capabilities. But we haven’t had any modules for working with ~Brocade~ Extreme devices. That is now changing.
PaulQuack has contributed MLXe (Ironware) modules, which will go GA in Ansible 2.5 (due for release in March 2018). And I’ve been working on modules for the SLX, with my colleagues. These have not yet been merged upstream, but it’s Open Source, so you can grab Continue reading
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 9th, 2018
Hey, it's HighScalability time:
The largest simulation of the cosmos ever run finally produces a universe similar to our own. All it required was 24,000 processors, more than two months, and it produced 500 terabytes of data.
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- 72 bits: Google's new quantum computer; 50,000: sites infected with cryptocurrency mining malware; $40 billion: purchases via talking tubes by 2022; $12,000: value of 1 million YouTube views a month; $15 billion: Netflix 2018 revenue;
- Quotable Quotes:
- @ValaAfshar: Jeff Bezos, CEO @amazon: I very frequently get the question: "what's going to change in he next 10 years?" I almost never get the question: "what's not going to change in the next 10 years?" I submit to you that the second question is actually the more important of the two.
- @svscarpino: Sharing and consuming fake news is highly concentrated. Continue reading