Why a bare-metal cloud provider might be just what you need

Cloud services, particularly infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service, are well established, but in some cases customers demand more – more control, more access to hardware, more performance, and the ability to pick their own operating environment.In those cases they are looking to bare-metal servcies, a niche that is growing fast.As the name implies, bare metal means no software just CPUs, memory, and storage. Customers provide all of the software from the operating system on up. That means a dedicated CPU, full access to the hardware, and freedom to run custom operating systems.According to a 2016 Markets and Markets report, the bare metal cloud market is expected to grow from $871.8 million in 2016 to $4.7 billion in 2021, at an estimated compound annual growth rate of 40.1%.To read this article in full, please click here

VMware tackles complexity of multi-cloud environments

VMware has expanded its portfolio of cloud tools to help enterprises improve the manageability of their public cloud and on-premises environments. At the same time, VMware announced the first global expansion of VMware Cloud on AWS, its joint hybrid cloud service with Amazon Web Services.Complexity is on the rise for enterprises as they expand their use of cloud computing – which often is not limited to a single cloud provider. VMware estimates that nearly two-thirds of companies will use two or more cloud service providers in addition to their on-premises data centers.To read this article in full, please click here

New tech harvests electricity out of thin air

Ambient temperature changes, which take place natively in the environment, could power Internet of Things (IoT) sensors indefinitely, say researchers.The remarkable concept, which the inventors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) call thermal resonating, is highly flexible — unlike previous scientific attempts at developing similar things.It essentially harvests electricity out of thin air, the group claims. No batteries or solar panel-requiring sunlight is needed.To read this article in full, please click here

Before Commenting on Someone Mentioning RFC1925 ;)

Some of my readers got annoyed when I mentioned Google’s BeyondCorp and RFC 1925 in the same sentence (to be perfectly clear, I had Rule#11 in mind). I totally understand that sentiment – reading the reactions from industry press it seems to be the best thing that happened to Enterprise IT in decades.

Let me explain in simple terms why I think it’s not such a big deal and definitely not something new, let alone revolutionary.

The Power of Women to Change the World: A message from our CEO on International Women’s Day

Today is International Women’s Day, with the goal to empower women in all settings. This year, the Internet Society is celebrating by shining a light on the women who are shaping the Internet, including our own CEO, Kathy Brown. She shared her thoughts how we can ensure that all women have a place at the table in our increasingly-connected world.

The Internet Society: Who are the women who have inspired you throughout your career? How have they inspired you?

Kathy Brown: It is sometimes seen as cliché to point to the women who raised you as your first inspiration — but for many of us, and for me, I believe it is nevertheless true that our mothers are the first fuel for our activism. My mother was a “community organizer” in the 1960’s War on Poverty in the U.S. She was an activist in rural, upstate New York — organizing communities to alleviate poverty. She was a mover and a doer; she was fearless and never yielding to powerful forces who either did not see or would not see the effects of poverty on individuals and families. Having grown up with a woman with that kind Continue reading

Announcing DockerCon Europe 2018

The Docker Team is excited to announce that the next DockerCon Europe 2018 will take place at the CCIB in Barcelona, Spain from December 3-5, 2018. With 3000 expected attendees, 7 tracks, 80+ speakers and sponsors, this upcoming edition should be the largest enterprise container conference for the IT industry in Europe.

From Docker basics and orchestration best practices to insights into how containers can enable edge computing, serverless and machine learning, DockerCon will include content for everyone. No matter your level of expertise with Docker or job title, attendees will have ample opportunities to learn and collaborate with their peers at other companies using the Docker platform as the cornerstone of their container strategy.

The CFP and official registration will open in the upcoming months but you can already pre-register to to get an additional 50 EUR off early bird price.

We can’t wait to welcome back many returning DockerCon alumni as well as open the DockerCon doors to so many new attendees and companies as we return to Barcelona.

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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Cloudflare Data Center #126

We are very excited to announce Cloudflare’s 126th data center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (only hours after launching in Reykjavík!). This joins our existing Middle East facilities to provide even stronger coverage and resilience for over 7 million Internet properties across the region.

Our newest deployment was made possible in partnership with Zain, which now experiences reduced latency for every Internet user accessing every Internet facing application using Cloudflare. At least four additional Middle East deployments are already in the works.

Saudi Arabia

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Over 30 million people live in Saudi Arabia, which is also the 13th largest country by area at over 830,000 square miles. In 2020, alongside the launch of entirely new “economic cities”, we might witness the opening of the world’s tallest skyscraper at a staggering 1,000m height, located in Jeddah. More modestly, but in much less than two years from now, we also expect to place a Cloudflare data center there.

Saudi Arabia has an incredibly young demographic, as over half of the population is less than 25. Additional 4G LTE deployments, while also paving the way for 5G, should drive increased Internet usage.

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Cisco Extends Intent-Based Networking from the LAN to the WAN

Two new products provide assurance in the WAN.

Spinning the Bottleneck for Data, AI, Analytics and Cloud

High performance computing experts came together recently at Stanford for their annual HPC Advisory Council Meeting to share strategies after what has been an interesting year in supercomputing thus far. 

As always, there was a vast amount of material covering everything from interconnects to containerized compute. In the midst of this, The Next Platform noted an obvious and critical thread over the two days–how to best map infrastructure to software in order to reduce “computational back pressure” associated with new “data heavy” AI workloads.

In the “real world” back pressure results from a bottleneck as opposed to desired …

Spinning the Bottleneck for Data, AI, Analytics and Cloud was written by James Cuff at The Next Platform.

Small Giants

Adopting Open Source Is About Integration, Not Programming

Worth Reading: Finding shared IP address

…we developed a project to identify IPv4 addresses shared simultaneously by many users — we call such addresses ‘gateway’ addresses— and understand the nature of the shared address, that is if they are being used as a company/campus proxy, a CGN, or public hotspot. —Ramakrishna Padmanabhan @APNIC

ThousandEyes Extends Visibility Coverage of Cloud Agents to Broadband ISPs, New Cities

The expansion is in response to growing market demand for network intelligence.

Epsagon Snares $4.1M to Tackle Serverless Monitoring Challenge

The company scored $4.1 million in seed funding.

Tensions Between U.S. and China Factor into Qualcomm-Broadcom Fight

Broadcom offers to sweeten the pot with $1.5B for engineer training.

History of Neworking: Alia Atlas on Fast Reroute

On this episode of the History of Networking, we talk to Alia Atlas about the history of fast reroute and Maximally Redundant Trees (MRTs). Remember to send in your suggestions for guests and technologies.

The “Case of the Broken MPLS L3VPN” – Time to Troubleshoot!

In the last blog – “MPLS L3VPN: Label Following Fun with Fish” and its corresponding YouTube show and tell we basically set the stage for this blog and YouTube.  ? Last we left our environment, we saw a successful ping... Read More ›

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Packaging an out-of-tree module for Debian with DKMS

DKMS is a framework designed to allow individual kernel modules to be upgraded without changing the whole kernel. It is also very easy to rebuild modules as you upgrade kernels.

On Debian-like systems,¹ DKMS enables the installation of various drivers, from ZFS on Linux to VirtualBox kernel modules or NVIDIA drivers. These out-of-tree modules are not distributed as binaries: once installed, they need to be compiled for your current kernel. Everything is done automatically:

# apt install zfs-dkms
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  binutils cpp cpp-6 dkms fakeroot gcc gcc-6 gcc-6-base libasan3 libatomic1 libc-dev-bin libc6-dev
  libcc1-0 libcilkrts5 libfakeroot libgcc-6-dev libgcc1 libgomp1 libisl15 libitm1 liblsan0 libmpc3
  libmpfr4 libmpx2 libnvpair1linux libquadmath0 libstdc++6 libtsan0 libubsan0 libuutil1linux libzfs2linux
  libzpool2linux linux-compiler-gcc-6-x86 linux-headers-4.9.0-6-amd64 linux-headers-4.9.0-6-common
  linux-headers-amd64 linux-kbuild-4.9 linux-libc-dev make manpages manpages-dev patch spl spl-dkms
  zfs-zed zfsutils-linux
[…]
3 upgraded, 44 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 42.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 187 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
[…]
# dkms status
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McAfee Adds Azure Cloud Security, Integrates Skyhigh’s CASB Tech

The firm plans to add container and serverless security later this year.

MapR Ladles Kubernetes Support onto its Data Fabric Platform

The move adds agility and management for developers.