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Show 384: The Packet Pushers Unleashed

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Now Open: DockerCon US Diversity Scholarship!

DockerCon is a hub for the IT industry , bringing together members from all parts of our growing ecosystem and  global community. By actively promoting inclusivity, our goal is to make DockerCon a safe place for everyone to learn, belong and collaborate. With the support of Docker and our DockerCon scholarship sponsor, the Open Container Initiative (OCI), we are excited to announce the launch of this year’s DockerCon Diversity Scholarship Program to provide members of the Docker community, who are traditionally underrepresented, a financial scholarship to attend DockerCon US 2018. This year, we are increasing the number of scholarships we are granting to ensure attending DockerCon is an option for all.

Apply Now!

Deadline to Apply:

Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at 5:00PM PST

Selection Process

A committee of Docker community members will review and select the scholarship recipients. Recipients will be notified by the week of May 7, 2018

What’s included:

Full Access DockerCon Conference Pass

Requirements

Must be able to attend DockerCon US 2018

Must be 18 years old or older to apply

Learn more about the DockerCon Diversity Scholarship here. 

Have questions or concerns? Reach us at [email protected]

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OpenContrail Becomes Tungsten Fabric, Plans Next Release in May

Juniper Networks will be one of the biggest consumers of Tungsten Fabric, but the name change helps distinguish it from Contrail.

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Huawei Is Second largest Ethernet Switch Vendor Globally

5% growth in Ethernet Switches.

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SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — April 6, 2018

Telefónica collaborates with Microsoft Azure on IoT; B.Yond joins the Linux Foundation Deep Learning Foundation; Openwave Mobility launched a 5G telco cloud database.

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Apcela Gets to the Root of Problems With Enhanced Analytics Platform, SD-WAN API

The SD-WAN API leverages and extends Cisco's SD-WAN and its network monitoring platform by isolating problems using underlay and overlay network data.

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Muhammad Shabbbir Awan: Reflections on the WTDC17

It’s been 5 months since WTDC17 concluded and I had time to reflect on the outcomes of the conference and the experience itself. WTDC sets the ITU’s development agenda and in Argentina last October over 1000 government delegates from close to 135 countries gathered during the two-week period. They were there to discuss a range of issues and shape the development sector’s priorities for the next four years. For me, it was a trip of many firsts: my first experience as an observer participating in a multilateral conference; my first trip to South America; and, as a visually impaired person, the eighteen hours flight duration was my first such experience.

To recall, I was a member of the Internet Society delegation as a Fellow. For me, the two motivators to apply for the fellowship opportunity were: first, the theme for WTDC17 (“ICTs for Sustainable Development Goals”) and possibility to make a difference. Second, my quest to learn even more about Internet Governance processes and to participate in the discussions.

WTDC17 had a packed agenda that included ceremonial events marking the 25^th Anniversary of the Development Sector and side events on a range of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) topics.

My Continue reading

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Aella Data Emerges From Stealth, Launches AI-Based Threat Detection

The security startup, founded by former Juniper, Fortinet, Barracuda, and Aerohive executives, exited stealth mode with its AI-based breach detection platform.

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IoTium Plugs Kubernetes Into IoT to Boost Edge Management

The platform allows companies to better manage data that must remain on premises due to compliance, security, or latency reasons.

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Huawei Shoots Back at FCC Proposal That Threatens Its Rural Biz

The FCC wants to ban any spending from the Universal Service Fund on networking equipment that could pose a security threat.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For April 6th, 2018

Hey, it's HighScalability time:

• $1: AI turning MacBook into a touchscreen; $2000/month: BMW goes subscription; 20MPH: 15′ Tall, 8000 Pound Mech Suit; 1,511,484 terawatt hours: energy use if bitcoin becomes world currency; $1 billion: Fin7 hacking group; 1.5 million: ethereum TPS, sort of; 235x: AWK faster than Hadoop cluster; 37%: websites use a vulnerable Javascript library; $0.01: S3, 1 Gig, 1 AZ; 


• Quotable Quotes:
  • Huang’s Law~ GPU technology advances 5x per year because the whole stack can be optimized. 
  • caseysoftware: Metcalfe lives here in Austin and is involved in the local startup community in a variety of ways.  One time I asked him how he came up with the law and he said something close Continue reading

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sFlow available on Juniper MX series routers

sFlow support on MX Series devices—Starting in Junos OS Release 18.1R1, you can configure sFlow technology (as a sFlow agent) on a MX Series device, to continuously monitor traffic at wire speed on all interfaces simultaneously. The sFlow technology is a monitoring technology for high-speed switched or routed networks.  - New and Changed Features

Understanding How to Use sFlow Technology for Network Monitoring on a MX Series Router lists the following benefits of sFlow Technology on a MX Series Router:

• sFlow can be used by software tools like a network analyzer to continuously monitor tens of thousands of switch or router ports simultaneously.
• Since sFlow uses network sampling (forwarding one packet from ‘n’ number of total packets) for analysis, it is not resource intensive (for example processing, memory and more). The sampling is done at the hardware application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and hence it is simple and more accurate.

With the addition of the MX series routers, Juniper now supports sFlow across its entire product range:

• ACX5000 Universal Access Router
• EX Series Ethernet Switches
• MX Series 3D Universal Edge Routers
• NFX Series Network Services Platform
• OCX1100 Open networking, cloud-optimized switch
• QFX Series High-performance, high-density data center switches

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Introducing “Cooking with Cumulus” – Episode one

Alright, we know you’re hungry for more Cumulus goodness, so we’ve cooked up something new that we think will satiate your appetite for awesome technical content. It’s the perfect mix of one part technical deep-dive, one part fun and just a pinch of silliness. The wait is over — our latest project is hot, fresh and ready to serve!

Okay, enough teasing. Today we’re introducing the new Cumulus Networks video series “Cooking with Cumulus!”

“Wait, what does cooking have to do with networking??” you may think to yourself. Glad you asked. You may already know JR Rivers as the CTO and co-founder of Cumulus Networks, but did you know he’s also a master of the culinary arts? Here at the Mountain View office, we know it’s the start of a good day when JR brings in his homemade food to share. From chocolate chip cookies to paella, we’ve approved (and enjoyed) his many recipes. So, we decided that we wanted to share that gift with the rest of the Cumulus community by combining two of JR’s greatest passions — networking and cooking. The resulting brain child was a video series where we put two networking nerds in a Continue reading

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Weekend Reads 040618: Kernel Programming, Secure Messaging, and Icebergs

Programming in user space is safer for a very small number of reasons, not the least of which is the virtual memory system, which tricks programs into believing they have full control over system memory and catches a small number of common C-language programming errors, such as touching a piece of memory that the program has no right to touch. Other reasons include the tried-and-true programming APIs that operating systems have now provided to programs for the past 30 years. All of which means programmers can possibly catch more errors before their code ships, which is great news—old news, but great news. What building code in user space does not do is solve the age-old problems of isolation, composition, and efficiency. —George V. Neville-Neil @ACM

There is no such thing as a perfect or one-size-fits-all messaging app. For users, a messenger that is reasonable for one person could be dangerous for another. And for developers, there is no single correct way to balance security features, usability, and the countless other variables that go into making a high-quality, secure communications tool. @EFF

Breaches of private information in hospital records are serious and expensive security events but remediating them can be deadly. Continue reading

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New distributed database adds international and GDPR controls

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will force very strict new privacy compliance rules on firms doing business in the EU, but a startup that has an atrocious company and product name has what it says is the solution to maintaining compliance.Cockroach Labs has introduced version 2.0 of its CockroachDB distributed database, which can be run in a data center or cloud. The company bills the product as “the SQL database for global cloud services.” It automatically scales, rebalances, and repairs databases spread over multiple locations.To read this article in full, please click here

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New distributed database adds international and GDPR controls

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will force very strict new privacy compliance rules on firms doing business in the EU, but a startup that has an atrocious company and product name has what it says is the solution to maintaining compliance.Cockroach Labs has introduced version 2.0 of its CockroachDB distributed database, which can be run in a data center or cloud. The company bills the product as “the SQL database for global cloud services.” It automatically scales, rebalances, and repairs databases spread over multiple locations.To read this article in full, please click here

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New RFC 8360 – RPKI Validation Reconsidered – Offers Alternative Validation Procedures to Improve Routing Security

RFC 8360, Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) Validation Reconsidered, is now published in the RFC libraries.

What is RPKI?

Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) aims to improve the security of the Internet routing system, specifically the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), by establishing a hierarchy of trust for BGP routes. Today, most organizations simply trust that routing updates they get are sent by authorized senders. This is how bad actors and misconfigurations can cause massive routing issues. With RPKI, the receiving organization can verify that the sending organization is authorized to send the routing update.

RPKI works by issuing X.509-based resource certificates to holders of IP addresses and AS numbers to prove assignment of these resources. These certificates are issued to Local Internet Registries (LIRs) by one of the five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) who allocate and assign these resources in their service regions.

What Does This RFC Do?

In the IETF, participants have been discussing issues that may arise when resources move across registries. The problem happens when a subordinate certificate “over-claims” resources compared to its parent. According to the standard validation procedure specified in RFC 6487, the whole branch beneath would be invalidated. The closer to Continue reading

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Short Take – In Defense of Sales Engineers

In this Network Collective short take, Eyvonne discusses the role of a sales engineer.  She highlights the value sales engineers can bring to enterprises and outlines some ways you can get the most out of your relationship with your vendor or VAR sales engineer.

The post Short Take – In Defense of Sales Engineers appeared first on Network Collective.

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Cloudflare Argo Tunnel with Rust+Raspberry Pi

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5 Ways WiGig Differs from Today’s WiFi