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BrandPost: What Is Programmable infrastructure?

In an increasingly mobile world, network providers are grappling with a data explosion. Millions of mobile users are running video and other applications that require significant bandwidth.At the same time, those providers are saddled with legacy systems and protocols that leave them bloated and slow. Even to add simple services, they have to contend with hundreds of manual processes for set up, revisions, and tear down of even the simplest services.With challenges like that, anticipating and responding to dynamic traffic levels and service requests is nearly impossible. These legacy networks simply cannot handle the growing and unpredictable demands on providers, and the problem is only going to worsen.To read this article in full, please click here

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Worth Reading: Meeting blur

Problem is, I’ve had this conversation five times today, and suddenly I can not remember what was said by whom, when, and where. Welcome to Meeting Blur. @randinrepose

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Vapor IO and Packet Goose 5G and MEC with On-Demand Pricing

The service will integrate with Vapor IO's Kinetic Edge platform.

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Dell Technologies Storage Revenue Dropped 11% in Q4 Fiscal 2018

Execs would not discuss a potential merger with VMware.

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Administravia 030818: Added Navigation

I was asked by a reader to add categories and links for videos; I actually added three new categories, one for short videos, another for long videos, and a third for written posts. You can find these under the bottom menu item on the left. I am having a problem with the menu not showing up correctly, so I move the resources under the third menu item, as well.

Finally, I added a new archive page, which shows you all the posts in the “left” category across the three years this blog has been “in production.” I couldn’t figure out how to narrow things down so pictures and other stuff are not included, so there is more on the page than needed right now, but it’s a start.

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Cloud Connectivity on the Network Collective

On this episode of the Network Collective, we’re chatting with Miguel Villareal and Scott Wheeler about cloud connectivity.

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Netsparker Closes $40M Series A for its App Scanning Software

San Francisco private equity fund Turn/River Capital led the round.

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Mesosphere Tightly Integrates Kubernetes in DC/OS Update

The DC/OS platform slashes the steps required for production-ready Kubernetes.

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Pushing Greater Stream Processing Platform Evolution

Today’s episode of “The Interview” with The Next Platform is focused on the evolution of stream processing—from the early days to more recent times with vast volumes of social, financial, and other data challenging data analysts and systems designers alike.

Our guest is Nathan Trueblood, a veteran of several companies like Mirantis, Western Digital, EMC, and current VP of product management at DataTorrent—a company comprised of many ex-Yahoo employees who worked with the Hadoop platform and have pushed the evolution of that framework to include more real-time requirements with Apache Apex.

Trueblood’s career has roots in high performance computing …

Pushing Greater Stream Processing Platform Evolution was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

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Dell EMC Overtakes HPE in Data Center Server Revenue

White box server revenue is steadily taking revenue from the name brands.

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Kate Ekanem: Promoting the Education, Literacy, and Empowerment of Girls in Nigeria

While the personal is almost always political, sometimes the person affected takes action that changes the course of history. That’s what Kate Ekanem has done. The founder of Kate Tales Foundation has spent her entire adult life promoting education, literacy, and empowerment of girls in her home country of Nigeria. And it started with herself.

“I was born into a family stuck with intense adversity, and a rural community with no access to quality education, basic health facility, reliable or no Internet facility, or social and educational opportunities,” Ekanem said. “There was no public library, no clean water, poor power supply, and streets filled with littered debris. Girls were resolving to getting pregnant [by] older men to escape the sting of poverty they were born into.”

After losing her mother at the age of two, Ekanem struggled as the only girl in a family of half-brothers. Her education took a backseat to the boys—something that she never fully accepted.

“I know what it feels like to rise in the morning and have nothing to eat. I know what it feels like to have an unending burning question, but dare not ask, because girls were not supposed to talk when Continue reading

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Worth Reading: Airline web sites and privacy

I asked my wife if it is alright if her Date of Birth is known to a stranger. Only if they send me a birthday gift, she joked. What about your passport number? She lowered the book she was reading. I now had her attention. —Konark Modi @FreeCodeCamp

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PQ 142: TCP Latency Monitoring With Ruru

Today's Priority Queue peers into the Ruru project, which is open source software for TCP monitoring. Our guest is Ruru developer Richard Cziva. The post PQ 142: TCP Latency Monitoring With Ruru appeared first on Packet Pushers.

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Donot Team Leverages New Modular Malware Framework in South Asia

Authors: Dennis Schwarz and Jill Sopko Special thanks to Richard Hummel and Hardik Modi for their contributions on this post. Key Findings ASERT discovered a new modular malware framework, we call yty, that focuses on file collection, screenshots, and keylogging. We believe the threat actors, Donot […]

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Donot Team Leverages New Modular Malware Framework in South Asia

Authors: Dennis Schwarz and Jill Sopko Special thanks to Richard Hummel and Hardik Modi for their contributions on this post. Key Findings ASERT discovered a new modular malware framework, we call yty, that focuses on file collection, screenshots, and keylogging. We believe the threat actors, Donot […]

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Crypto Zealots

Is the IETF is behaving irresponsibly in attempting to place as much of the Internet’s protocols behind session level encryption as it possibly can?

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Announcing The Packet Pushers Virtual Design Clinic Series

Many of you tell us that traveling to tech conferences is not going to happen. You can’t get the time out of the office. You can’t get the expense approved. Your boss thinks you’ll be rolling down the boulevard in a limo drunk five minutes after the plane lands. Whatever your reasons, you’re not going […]

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Makkiya Jawed: At The Intersection of Technology and Medicine

The intersection between technology and medicine is perhaps one of the most important junctions of our time, and, in a world where access is king, many people—in fact, entire countries—can be left behind in the dust. That’s where Makkiya Jawed comes in as the director of social enterprise for Sehat Kahani in Pakistan.

The tech wiz joined forces with two doctors who launched the health tech enterprise, which circumvents Pakistan’s tradition of women having to choose family or career. It also caters to populations often overlooked by established medical communities.

“Sehat Kahani is a tele-health platform that aims to democratize healthcare via nurse-assisted video consultations by ensuring quick access, prevention and efficiency for healthcare,” Jawed explained.

Dr. Sara Saeed Khurram and Dr. Iffat Zafar, the co-founders of Sehat Kahani, both encountered the socio-cultural barriers to healthcare, but instead of giving up, they used their medical background to “democratize healthcare by building an all-female health provider network to deliver quality healthcare,” Jawed said. “They are the people who have taught me the power of team work and the importance of patience and dedication…In all honesty, whatever I have learned, they have had a major role to play in it. And the best thing is, they Continue reading

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Some notes on memcached DDoS

I thought I'd write up some notes on the memcached DDoS. Specifically, I describe how many I found scanning the Internet with masscan, and how to use masscan as a killswitch to neuter the worst of the attacks.

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Easing Network Migration with Cisco VRF-Lite