In this Community Roundtable episode, returning guests Russ White and Nick Russo continue our three part deep dive into the Border Gateway Protocol, or BGP, with a look at the mechanisms within the protocol to perform traffic engineering.
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Influence Ingress
Hyperscalers have billions of users who get access to their services for free, but the funny thing is that these users act like they are paying for it and expect for these services to be always available, no excuses.
Organizations and consumers also rely on Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent for services that they pay for, too, and they reasonably expect that their data will always be immediately accessible and secure, the services always available, their search returns always popping up milliseconds after their queries are entered, and the recommendations that come to them …
Machine Learning Drives Changing Disaster Recovery At Facebook was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The technology can detect malware in encrypted traffic without decryption.
Hyperconverged infrastructure vendors always tout the technology's cost efficiency, arguing that HCI reduces costs because it requires less administrative burden. In this video, Keith Townsend, principal at The CTO Advisor and Interop ITX infrastructure chair, examines whether hyperconvergence really costs less than traditional three-tier IT infrastructure.
Get up to speed on the rapidly evolving world of containers.
Level3 had a pretty bad bad-hair-day just a day before Pete Lumbis talked about Continuous Integration on the Building Network Automation Solutions online course (yes, it was a great lead-in for Pete).
According to messages circulating on mailing lists it was all caused by a fumbled configuration attempt. My wild guess: someone deleting the wrong route map, causing routes that should have been tagged with no-export escape into the wider Internet.
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Some existing licensing models include perpetual, pre-pay, post-pay, pay-per-use, and pay-per-GByte.
Would you be interested in helping guide the future of the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the non-profit operator of the .ORG, .NGO and .ONG domains? If so, the Internet Society is seeking nominations for three positions on the PIR Board of Directors. The nominations deadline is 23:00 UTC on Thursday, February 1, 2018.
More information about the positions and the required qualifications can be found at: https://www.internetsociety.org/pir/call-for-nominations/
As noted on that page:
The Internet Society is now accepting nominations for the Board of Directors of the Public Interest Registry (PIR). PIR’s business is to manage the international registry of .org, .ngo, and .ong domain names, as well as associated Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs).
In 2018 there are three positions opening on the PIR Board. Two directors will serve a 3-year term that begins mid-year 2018 and expires mid-year 2021. One director will fill a vacant seat as soon as practical and serve until mid-year 2020.
If you are interested in being considered as a candidate, please see the form to submit toward the bottom of the call for nominations page.
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You heard about it at DockerCon Europe and now it is here: we are proud to announce that Docker for Mac with beta Kubernetes support is now publicly available as part of the Edge release channel. We hope you are as excited as we are!
With this release you can now run a single node Kubernetes cluster right on your Mac and use both kubectl commands and docker commands to control your containers.
First, a few things to keep in mind:
One of the major networking features in Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.4 was the addition of aggregate resources to the networking modules. The Ansible networking team recently talked about this at the Ask an Expert webinar in November.
Simply put, aggregate resources are a better way to iterate (or loop) without the need to execute each task one by one. That is, you can now “aggregate” a collection as a single task instead of a collection of discrete loops.
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Based on feedback from customers, partners and community members, this post provides more examples and more detail of this important new feature. The simplest way to showcase this is to compare the old way and the new way, and highlight the differences Continue reading
The bugs could have allowed hackers to attack enterprise servers.
Got a New Year’s resolution for a data center revolution? We’ve got your back! The Cumulus content roundup is here to make sure you start out 2018 on the right foot. With a variety of blog posts, videos and networking resources at your disposal, you’ll find that upgrading your networking knowledge is an easily achievable goal (and much easier than starting a diet or going to the gym). Don’t worry, we won’t tell anyone if you’ve already broken your resolution! It’s a time for new beginnings and looking to the future; let’s check out what’s in store.
Cumulus in the Cloud overview: What is Cumulus in the Cloud, and what can it do for you? In this video overview, let CTO JR Rivers walk you through the pre-built virtual data center and teach you all about the great Cumulus tech you can play with.
NCLU: Network Command Line Utility overview: There’s a new chapter in our how-to video series. This time, our highly qualified instructors will teach you the ins and outs of Cumulus Networks CLI, the Network Command Line Utility. Watch the tutorial to learn more.
Open networking drives forward with Cumulus Linux Continue reading
DCI is set to be significant driver of the optical networking space.
