QCT, Intel, and Red Hat Target Telco Central Offices
The vendors collaborated with ONF on a CORD-ready platform.
‘Pain Points’ Haunt Kubernetes Adoption
Large-scale enterprises need to feel more comfortable before adoption can boom.
Help Make the Internet a Safer Place for Everyone
Ash Ball, a young person in Australia, is working to end cyberbullying as part of the Project Rockit team. Ball, one of the Internet Society’s 25 Under 25 awardees, says he believes that it’s important to empower the younger generation to step in when they see someone being harassed online.
That message is especially important today, which is Safer Internet Day, a call to action to make the Internet safer for everyone.
Linda Patiño is another 25 Under 25 awardee leading the charge. “I was a victim of online harassment, receiving kidnapping and rape threats,” she says. Patiño’s work with the Colombia-based organization Colnodo uses ICTs to promote Internet safety and gender equality. “A tool can be so harmful. I enter this world [of activism] so other girls know they are not alone, that we are creating things to help them get through this. Even though these tools have serious impacts, we are doing good change” in the world.
We all have the power to help make the Internet a more welcoming and accessible place, but Ash Ball and Linda Patiño show that it’s a Continue reading
History of Networking: Paul Vixie on the Origins of DNS
Paul Vixie joins us on the History of Networking to talk about the spread of the DNS system—like a virus through the body network. All those radios in the background at a bit of history; Paul is an Amateur Radio Operator of many years, though, like me, he is not as active as he used to be in this realm.
Response: 99% of all ads permitted by Google ‘ad blocker’
The Google ad-blocker is that isn’t an ad blocker. Unsurprisingly.
OPNFV Certifies NFV Infrastructure Via Verification Program
It's not standards work so much as it is end-to-end testing.
Gartner: Don’t Rely on Network Vendors for Innovation
Enterprise network teams are "unwilling co-conspirators" in holding back network transformation, research firm says.
ANSIBLE COMMUNITY – 2017 YEAR IN REVIEW
It's time again for the annual Ansible community review. Let's start again, as we do every year, with a quick look at the numbers.
Debian Popcon
Debian’s Popularity Contest is an opt-in way for Debian users to share information about the software they’re running on their systems.
As with every year, caveats abound with this graph -- but even though it represents only a small sample of the Linux distro world, it’s useful because it’s one of the few places where we can see an apples-to-apples comparison of install bases of various automation tools. Because Ansible is agentless, we compare the Ansible package to the server packages of other configuration management tools. (Chef does not make a Debian package available for Chef server.)
We see that Ansible has continued its steady growth in 2017, increasing its user base here by approximately 50% in the past year.
GitHub Metrics
2017 was a busy year for Ansible on the GitHub front, and in 2017 we caught the notice of GitHub itself. Ansible now has its own top level topic for GitHub searches, and that search reveals over 5000 repositories of Ansible content. We also made the 2017 GitHub Octoverse report, placing Continue reading
Exclusive: U.S. consumer protection official puts Equifax probe on ice – sources | Article [AMP] | Reuters
Once again, why bother implementing IT Security when there is no downside.
Short Take – Intent Based Networking
In this Network Collective Short Take, Jordan shares his thoughts on the biggest current industry buzzword – Intent Based Networking. Is it real? Is it innovative? Should you be paying attention or rolling your eyes?
Jordan Martin
Host
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Private Equity Amps Up Arm Servers With Applied X86 Techies
The Carlyle Group, the publicly traded investment firm that has invested in nearly 300 companies that have a net worth of $170 billion and which itself could make around $4 billion in management fees and income from those investments for 2017, does not invest in any technology lightly.
So the fact that it has acquired the X Gene server processor assets that were created over many years by Applied Micro and briefly owned last year by Chinese IT supplier MACOM means that Carlyle believes Arm servers have a shot in the datacenter and that its investors want to get a …
Private Equity Amps Up Arm Servers With Applied X86 Techies was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Full-Stack Engineer: 3 Key Skills
Interop ITX expert Scott Lowe explains the growing demand for infrastructure generalists.
Ubuntu 16.04 git lfs broken install
When something simple goes wrong, frustration is never proportionate to the anticipated ease.
On Ubuntu 16.04 on a Fresh install, I came across this cracker.
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:git-core/ppa Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:~git-core/ubuntu/ppa'. ERROR: '~git-core' user or team does not exist.
Ok. Must be a typo. After spending twenty seconds or so on this, which is still way too long to be looking for typos on something so simple, it isn’t a typo.
This information comes straight out of the
gitcommunity. Pun intended; what a git.
After cracking some knuckles and blowing warm air on my finger tips, I went on the hunt for a fix.
Most of the Google results for this issue gravitates around proxy devices interfering with the traffic. Being on corporate wifi, this is entirely possible.
After tethering to my cell phone, rebooting the OS and clearing out some caches, the issue persisted. Adding the sources to
aptmanually also failed.
There is always more than one way to skin a cat and in my case, installing via package cloud worked.
curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.deb.sh | sudo bash sudo apt-get install git-lfs
In this world of virtualisation and micro-services, things like this are Continue reading