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

Five new Cloudflare data centers across the United States

Five new Cloudflare data centers across the United States

Five new Cloudflare data centers across the United States

When Cloudflare launched, three of the original five cities in our network - Chicago, Ashburn and San Jose - were located in the United States. Since then, we have grown the breadth of the global network considerably to span 66 countries, and even added expanded the US footprint to twenty five locations. Even as a highly international business, the United States continues to be home to a number of our customers and the majority of Cloudflare employees.

Today, we expand our network in the United States even further by adding five new locations: Houston (Texas), Indianapolis (Indiana), Montgomery (Alabama), Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) and Sacramento (California) as our 129th, 130th, 131st, 132nd and 133rd data centers respectively. They represent states that collectively span nearly 100 million people. In North America alone, the Cloudflare network now spans 37 cities, including thirty in the US.

In each of these new locations, we connect with at least one major local Internet service provider and also openly peer using at least one major Internet exchange. We are participants at CyrusOne IX Houston, Midwest IX Indianapolis, Montgomery IX, Pittsburgh IX, and the upcoming Sacramento IX.

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IDG Contributor Network: Software-defined everything

Digital transformation is ushering in what the organizers of this year’s Pacific Telecommunications Council’s (PTC) 2018 global conference called “a new decade of connections.” The global trends driving digital include greater technology use, urbanization, data sovereignty, cybersecurity and global trade of digital services, as reported in the Global Interconnection Index, a market study published by Equinix. These macro trends are behind the creation of increasing amounts of data coming from new sources, such as digital media, artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), big data and security analytics, augmented/virtual reality and the Internet of Things (IoT).To read this article in full, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: Software-defined everything

Digital transformation is ushering in what the organizers of this year’s Pacific Telecommunications Council’s (PTC) 2018 global conference called “a new decade of connections.” The global trends driving digital include greater technology use, urbanization, data sovereignty, cybersecurity and global trade of digital services, as reported in the Global Interconnection Index, a market study published by Equinix. These macro trends are behind the creation of increasing amounts of data coming from new sources, such as digital media, artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), big data and security analytics, augmented/virtual reality and the Internet of Things (IoT).To read this article in full, please click here

What do ogres, onions and SD-WAN security have in common? Layers!

Remember this scene from the movie Shrek? The big ogre was explaining to Donkey that ogres are very complicated, and like onions, they have layers. Donkey, of course, didn’t like the analogy because not everyone likes onions and would have preferred cake as everyone likes cake, but he did seem to understand that ogres did indeed have layers after it was explained to him. Orges and onions have layers, but what else does? Or at least should? Security for SD-WANs — but that may not seem obvious to everyone.Also read: The case for securing the SD-WAN | Sign up: Get the latest tech news sent directly to your in-box This week SD-WAN provider, Aryaka, which is now neck and neck with VeloCloud/VMware in market share, according to IHS Markit, announced Passport, a multi-layered security platform and ecosystem that provides best-of-breed security at every level of a software-defined WAN (SD-WAN).To read this article in full, please click here

What do ogres, onions and SD-WAN security have in common? Layers!

Remember this scene from the movie Shrek? The big ogre was explaining to Donkey that ogres are very complicated, and like onions, they have layers. Donkey, of course, didn’t like the analogy because not everyone likes onions and would have preferred cake as everyone likes cake, but he did seem to understand that ogres did indeed have layers after it was explained to him. Orges and onions have layers, but what else does? Or at least should? Security for SD-WANs — but that may not seem obvious to everyone.Also read: The case for securing the SD-WAN | Sign up: Get the latest tech news sent directly to your in-box This week SD-WAN provider, Aryaka, which is now neck and neck with VeloCloud/VMware in market share, according to IHS Markit, announced Passport, a multi-layered security platform and ecosystem that provides best-of-breed security at every level of a software-defined WAN (SD-WAN).To read this article in full, please click here

What do ogres, onions and SD-WAN security have in common? Layers!

Remember this scene from the movie Shrek? The big ogre was explaining to Donkey that ogres are very complicated, and like onions, they have layers. Donkey, of course, didn’t like the analogy because not everyone likes onions and would have preferred cake as everyone likes cake, but he did seem to understand that ogres did indeed have layers after it was explained to him. Orges and onions have layers, but what else does? Or at least should? Security for SD-WANs — but that may not seem obvious to everyone.Also read: The case for securing the SD-WAN | Sign up: Get the latest tech news sent directly to your in-box This week SD-WAN provider, Aryaka, which is now neck and neck with VeloCloud/VMware in market share, according to IHS Markit, announced Passport, a multi-layered security platform and ecosystem that provides best-of-breed security at every level of a software-defined WAN (SD-WAN).To read this article in full, please click here

Baghdad, Iraq: Cloudflare’s 128th Data Center

Baghdad, Iraq: Cloudflare's 128th Data Center

Baghdad, Iraq: Cloudflare's 128th Data Center

Cloudflare's newest data center is located in Baghdad, Iraq, in the region often known as the cradle of civilization. This expands our growing Middle East presence, while serving as our 45th data center in Asia, and 128th data center globally.

Even while accelerating over 7 million Internet properties, this deployment helps our effort to be closer to every Internet user. Previous, ISPs such as Earthlink were served from our Frankfurt data center. Nearly 40 million people live in Iraq.

Rich Cuisine

One of the world's largest producers of the sweet date palm, Iraq's cuisine dates back over 10,000 years and includes favorites such as,

  • Kleicha: Date-filled cookies flavored with cardamom, saffron and rose water
  • Mezza: a selection of appetizers to begin the meal
  • Iraqi Dolma: stuffed vegetables with a tangy sauce
  • Iraqi Biryani: cooked rice with spices, beans, grilled nuts and meat / vegetables
  • Masgouf: whole baked fish marinated in oil, salt, pepper, turmeric and tamarind

New data centers

Baghdad is the first of eight deployments joining the Cloudflare global network just this week. Stay tuned!

The Cloudflare Global Anycast Network

Baghdad, Iraq: Cloudflare's 128th Data Center
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Tune Into Our Introduction to Networking Technologies March 2018 Live Session

Tomorrow, March 15th, we will air our March 2018 Networking Technologies Live Session with Keith Bogart. This course is designed for those with absolutely no knowledge of computer networks, but who would like to learn more and possibly head down a career path working on computer networks.

 

    When:
    March 15, 2018 10 am PST/ 1 pm EST

    Instructor Info:
    This Course is taught by Keith Bogart, CCIE #4923. Keith started his networking career as customer service representative at Cisco Systems in 1996. His desire to learn more soon led him to a position as a Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) engineer on the “Dial-Access” team, and within six months he had obtained his Dial-ISP CCIE. He later became a network consulting engineer and obtained his CCNA certification while teaching the technologies to Cisco employees during his lunch breaks. Keith was the first instructor on Cisco’s TAC Training team, where he taught a wide range of internetworking topics and later developed and taught other courses such as routing protocols, LAN switching, MPLS, 802.1x, and CCNA. After almost 17 years with Cisco, Keith joined a small startup and focused on 802.11 Wi-Fi technologies, during which time he obtained his Continue reading

Volkswagen Refining Machine Learning on D-Wave System

Researchers at Volkswagen have been at the cutting edge of implementing D-Wave quantum computers for a number of complex optimization problems, including traffic flow optimization, among other potential use cases.

These efforts are generally focused on developing algorithms suitable for the company’s recently purchased 2000-qubit quantum system and have expanded to a range of new machine learning possibilities, including what a research team at the company’s U.S. R&D office and the Volkswagen Data:Lab in Munich are calling quantum-assisted cluster analysis.

The art and science of clustering is well known for machine learning on classical computing architectures, but the VW approach …

Volkswagen Refining Machine Learning on D-Wave System was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Open Source Data Management for All

On today’s episode of “The Interview” with The Next Platform, we talk about an open source data management platform (and related standards group) called iRODS, which many in scientific computing already know—but that also has applicability in enterprise.

We found that several of our readers had heard of iRODS and knew it was associated with a scientific computing base, but few understood what the technology was and were not aware that there was a consortium. To dispel any confusion, we spoke with Jason Coposky, executive director of the iRODS Consortium about both the technology itself and the group’s role …

Open Source Data Management for All was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

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