Tel Aviv, Israel: Cloudflare’s 135th Data Center Now Live!

Our newest data center is now live in Tel Aviv, Israel! This expands our global network even further to span 135 cities across 68 countries.

High-Tech in Israel

Although Israel will only be turning 70 this year, it has a history so rich we’ll leave it to the textbooks. Despite its small size, and young age, Israel is home to one of the largest tech scenes, often referred to as Start-up Nation.

Haifa’s Matam technology park houses a few tech giants’ offices including Intel, Apple, Elbit, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo, Philips and more. Meanwhile, Tel Aviv serves a true hipster capital, with a high concentration of great coffee shops to serve its many startup employees and founders.

Some brag-worthy Israeli inventions include flash drives, Waze and cherry tomatoes. This is due to Israel’s excellent education. Israel is home of the top universities in the world, bringing Israel to be one of the top five nations in scientific publication per capita output. Israel also has one of the highest PhD and MD degrees per capita, and among of the highest nobel laureates per capita as well. Israeli mothers, your nagging has paid off.

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Quitting My CCIE Status

Univa Taps Open Source Community to Bolster Enterprise HPC

The open source efforts will operate as Project Tortuga.

Worth Reading: Do IP transfers impact network operations?

Last year, a record number of IPv4 addresses were transferred into the APNIC region — over 10.6 million — thanks to the reciprocal inter-RIR transfer policies between APNIC, ARIN and RIPE NCC. —Sanjaya @APNIC

Future wireless networks will have no capacity limits

In what may turn out to be a precursor to the demise of wired connections, a scientist claims that ultimately, wireless networks won’t have a capacity ceiling.Researchers have generally thought there was a maximum to the amount of data that could be sent within certain bandwidths, spaces and over a period, even using the best antennas. However, massive multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) antennas will provide for unlimited and thus vast streams of data to be communicated over the airwaves, says Emil Björnson and his fellow researchers at Swedish Linköping University. He says his group has discovered that capacity limit calculations used for the new antennas, expected to be used widely in 5G, are wrong.To read this article in full, please click here

NetScout Extends Service Assurance to VMware, WiFi Infrastructures

The new version will help users identify performance issues more quickly.

PQ 143: The Strange Dynamics Of Buying & Selling Enterprise IT

Enhancing Application Performance with NSX

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Data Protection in the Public Cloud: 6 Steps

Data Protection in the Public Cloud: 6 Steps

Cloudian Acquires SD-Storage Pioneer Infinity Storage

HPE, a mutual partner, played matchmaker.

Predictive maintenance: One of the industrial IoT’s big draws

One subset of the internet of things – the industrial IoT – adds new capabilities to operational technology including remote management and operational analytics, but the number-one value-add so far has been predictive maintenance.Combining machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) with the deep pool of data generated by the flood of newly connected devices offers the opportunity to more deeply understand the way complex systems work and interact with each other.RELATED: Tips for security IoT on your network Most powerful IoT companies The internet of useful things - in pictures And that can promote predictive maintenance - with the ability to pinoint when components of industrial equipment are likely to fail so they can be replaced or repaired before they do, thereby avoiding more costly damage and downtime.To read this article in full, please click here

Speakers in the Spring 2018 Building Next-Generation Data Center Online Course

We managed to get another awesome lineup of speakers for the Spring 2018 Building Next-Generation Data Center online course.

Russ White, one of the authors of CCDE and CCAr programs and highly respected book author will start the course with a topic everyone should always consider when designing new infrastructure: how do you identify tradeoffs and manage complexity, making sure you meet the customer requirements while at the same time having an easy-to-operate infrastructure.

From Chocolate to Fitness Trackers: Recognizing My Consumer Rights and Responsibilities

Two months ago, I read something that made me furious. A chocolate company had gradually reduced the size of my favorite chocolate bar by 30%. The greedy chocolate company – no, they were “Big Chocolate” now – were cutting corners in an attempt to trick everyday people like me. I vowed I would boycott them.

A week later I found myself in the checkout lane at the grocery store, eyeing my favorite chocolate bar. Five minutes later, I was eating it. I didn’t even have the decency to feel guilty.

I enjoy being justifiably outraged, I don’t enjoy taking the time to help fix the problem. Fixing things is a pain.

There’s no area I do this more with than cybersecurity and online privacy. I’m always infuriated by the latest data breach. I’m angry when a website forces me to download an app and make an account instead of allowing me to use my mobile browser.

Yet, I still download the app. In fact, I’ll continue to do business with a company after they’ve had a data breach, sold insecure Internet-connected devices, or even been caught spying on their customers through their TVs. And then I’m infuriated all over again six months later when the Continue reading

Japan Invests in Fusion Energy Future with New Cray Supercomputer

There are a number of key areas where exascale computing power will be required to turn simulations into real-world good. One of these is fusion energy research with the ultimate goal of building efficient plants that can safely deliver hundreds of megawatts of clean, renewable fusion energy.

Japan has announced that it will install its top-end XC50 supercomputer at the at the Rokkasho Fusion Institute.

The new system will achieve four petaflops, which is over double the capability of the current machine for international collaborations in fusion energy, Helios, which was built by European supercomputer maker, Bull. The Helios system …

Japan Invests in Fusion Energy Future with New Cray Supercomputer was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Mexico City, Mexico: Cloudflare Data Center #134

¡Mexicanos! ¡Viva México! ¡Viva México! ¡Viva México! No, no es el 16 de septiembre (Día de la Independencia de México). Sin embargo aquí en Cloudflare celebramos la introducción de nuestro Datacenter #134 en la Ciudad De México. Este Datacenter marca nuestra entrada en la nación Azteca. Anteriormente el tráfico de México era servido desde algunos de nuestros otros Datacenters (principalmente McAllen, TX, Dallas, TX y Los Angeles, CA).

Mexicans! Long Live Mexico! Long Live Mexico! Long Live Mexico! No, its not the 16th of September (Mexico Independence Day). However at Cloudflare we are proud to introduce our Datacenter #134 located in Mexico City Mexico. This data center marks our entrance into the Aztec Nation. Prior to this, traffic to Mexico was served from some of our other datacenters (Primarily Mcallen, TX, Dallas, TX and Los Angeles, CA).

El área metropolitana de México cuenta con mas de 21 millones de habitantes quienes desde hoy podrán difrutar más rápido acesso a más de 7 millones de Sitios y aplicaciones en Internet servidos por Cloudflare. Este sera nuestro décimo centro de datos en la region de América Latina y El Caribe.

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13 flaws found in AMD processors, AMD given little warning

It’s probably a good thing AMD didn’t rub Intel’s nose in the Meltdown and Spectre flaws too much because boy, would it have a doosy of a payback coming to it. A security firm in Israel has found 13 critical vulnerabilities spread across four separate classes that affect AMD’s hot new Ryzen desktop and Epyc server processors.However, the handling of the disclosure is getting a lot of attention, and none of it good. The company, CTS-Labs of Israel, gave AMD just 24 hours notice of its plans to disclose the vulnerabilities. Typically companies get 90 days to get their arms around a problem, and Google, which unearthed Meltdown, gave Intel six months.To read this article in full, please click here

13 flaws found in AMD processors, AMD given little warning

It’s probably a good thing AMD didn’t rub Intel’s nose in the Meltdown and Spectre flaws too much because boy, would it have a doosy of a payback coming to it. A security firm in Israel has found 13 critical vulnerabilities spread across four separate classes that affect AMD’s hot new Ryzen desktop and Epyc server processors.However, the handling of the disclosure is getting a lot of attention, and none of it good. The company, CTS-Labs of Israel, gave AMD just 24 hours notice of its plans to disclose the vulnerabilities. Typically companies get 90 days to get their arms around a problem, and Google, which unearthed Meltdown, gave Intel six months.To read this article in full, please click here