SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — February 15, 2018
Qualcomm board meets Broadcom; Google releases Beta test of its Cloud TPUs; Tech Mahindra and VMware partner.
Making Alexa Tech Demos Useful
Technology always marches on. People want to see the latest gadgets doing amazing things, whether it be flying electric cars or telepathic eyeglasses. Our society is obsessed with the Jetsons and the look of the future. That’s why we’re developing so many devices to help us get there. But it’s time for IT to reconsider how they are using one of them for a purpose far from the original idea.
Speaking For The People
By all accounts, the Amazon Echo is a masterful device. It’s a smart speaker that connects to an Amazon service that offers you a wider variety of software programs, called skills, to enhance what you can do with it. I have several of these devices that were either given out as conference attendance gifts or obtained from other giveaways.
I find the Echo speaker a fascinating thing. It’s a good speaker. It can play music through my phone or other Bluetooth-connected devices. But, I don’t really use it for that purpose. Instead, I use the skills to do all kinds of other things. I play Jeopardy! frequently. I listen to news briefings and NPR on a regular basis. I get weather forecasts. My son uses Continue reading
Cisco Gives Cloud-Based Endpoint Security Products an MSSP Makeover
Cisco will “actively pursue” MSSP customers across its entire portfolio, SVP says.
Short Take – Broadcom SDKLT
In this Short Take from Network Collective, Russ White shares his thoughts on the recently released Broadcom SDKLT and the impact it will have on the networking industry.
Russ White
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Why IT Dashboards Fail
Most dashboards today don't tell the story behind the data.
[Video] Configure Data Center Devices with PowerShell
PowerShell started as a tool to automate Windows servers. It was picked up by VMware (and others) as a platform on which they built their own solutions (PowerCLI and PowerNSX)… but did you know you can use it to configure data center infrastructure, including NX-OS switches, SAN networks, and Cisco UCS?
In the Configuring Data Center Devices with PowerShell video, Mitja Robas described how to do that, and provided source code for all his examples.
You’ll need at least free ipSpace.net subscription to watch the video.
Loop: Plays in the future, items in the past
Welcome to another episode of Feature Spotlight. In today's post, we'll quickly cover the loop keyword being introduced in Ansible 2.5.
Everyone knows the with_* syntax in playbooks.
For example:
- name: Test that with_list works with a list
ping:
data: ''
with_list:
- 'Hello World'
- 'Olá Mundo'In Ansible 2.5, we're introducing loop as a shorter, simpler keyword for playbooks.
Example:
- name: Test that loop works with a manual list
ping:
data: ''
loop:
- 'Hello World'
- 'Olá Mundo'
It's a very minute change, and can easily be overlooked when skimming a playbook! However, when writing many lines of tasks in a playbook, why not save some potential muscle fatigue?
Let's be real, even if a playbook accomplishes a whole lot in 10 lines, that's still ten lines!
All joking aside, we wanted to make things simpler. It's much easier to remember loop than with_items or with_list.
The question after this very well may be, "What happens to with_first_found or with_dict or .... etc, etc, etc?
Well the idea here is to abstract out some of the magic that with_* really is.
Example:
- name: Test that loop works with a list via the list Continue readingMusical Chairs Playing Tetris
February 20, 2018: This blog has been amended since it was originally published on February 15, 2018. This version removes the association with the APT group responsible for the Night Dragon campaign that we had incorrectly made. We thank the research team at Palo Alto […]Musical Chairs Playing Tetris
Introduction ASERT has discovered new command-and-control infrastructure controlled by the APT actors behind the Musical Chairs campaign. The security research community has associated these actors with significant campaigns in the past, including the pivotal Night Dragon campaign reported on by McAfee in 2011. The actors […]BiB 035: ReSTNSX Makes NSX Easier To Operate
Ethan Banks had a briefing with ReSTNSX, and they demoed their VMware NSX-enhancing platform to him. Have a listen for Ethan's impressions of the demo.
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