Cisco Acquires HCI Company Skyport Systems
It sounds as if Cisco won't be using Skyport's hardware.
Datanauts 118: The Whitebox & Enterprise Networks
Whitebox networking hardware and open source software are challenging incumbent vendors and demonstrating new operational models for network engineers. The Datanauts and guest Peyton Maynard-Koran discuss the implications. The post Datanauts 118: The Whitebox & Enterprise Networks appeared first on Packet Pushers.Big Switch Networks Q&A: Work Smarter, Not Harder – How to Use a Next-Gen NPB for greater ROI from your APM/NPM Tools
Thanks to all who joined us for the Big Switch Networks APM/NPM Report Webinar: Work Smarter, Not Harder – How to Use a Next-Gen NPB for greater ROI from your APM/NPM Tools. During the webinar, Big Switch Networks discussed how Big Mon integrates with leading APM/NPM tools, and how to integrate an SDN-based NPB solution into... Read more →
CenturyLink Secures Public WiFi Through Security Gateways
The company has 31 security gateways around the globe.
SD-WAN Paves Way to SD-Branch
IDC discusses how software-defined WAN will evolve.
Big Switch Brags About HCI Integrations with Nutanix, Dell EMC, and VMware
Tianjin Broadcast and TV Network and the Incheon “smart city” in South Korea are customers.
Deutsche Telekom Pushes NB-IoT in Europe and U.S.
NB-IoT is live in eight European markets and in the U.S.
Packet Pushers Outline SD-WAN as a Tool for Mergers and Acquisitions
SD-WAN allows for segment isolation and the ability to add branches with ease.
Tech Mahindra Resells AT&T’s FlexWare VNF Platform
FlexWare is available in more than 200 countries.
Episode 20 – Cloud Connectivity
The flexibility of cloud infrastructure has had a significant impact on the way that organizations build out their infrastructure, but the industry is continuing to learn just how complicated connecting to cloud resources can be. In this episode of Network Collective we take a look at the challenges around cloud connectivity and talk about some ways to do it well.
Miguel Villareal
Guest
Scott Wheeler
Guest
Jordan Martin
Co-Host
Eyvonne Sharp
Co-Host
Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Energy Giant Eni Starts Investing In Supercomputers Again
Energy is not free, not even to energy companies, and so they are just as concerned with being efficient with their supercomputers as the most penny pinching hyperscaler or cloud builder where the computing is the product.
Like the other major oil and gas producers on Earth, the last few years have not been easy ones for Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi, the Italian energy major that employs 33,000 people and operates in 76 countries worldwide and now has the distinction of having the most powerful supercomputer in the energy sector – and indeed, among all kinds of commercial entities in the …
Energy Giant Eni Starts Investing In Supercomputers Again was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Responding to Readers: How are these thing discovered?
A while back I posted on section 10 routing loops; Daniel responded to the post with this comment:
I am curious how these things are discovered. You said that this is a contrived example, but I assume researchers have some sort of methodology to discover issues like this. I am sure some things have been found through operational mishap, but is there some “standardized” way of testing graph logic for the possibility of loops? I trust this is much easier to do today than even a decade ago.
You would think there would be some organized way to discover these kinds of routing loops, something every researcher and/or protocol designer might follow. The reality is far different—there is no systematic way that I know of to find this sort of problem. What happens, in real life, is that people with a lot of experience at the intersection of protocol design, the bounds of different ways of finding loop free paths (solving the loop free path problem), and a lot of experience in deploying and operating a network using these protocols, will figure these things out because they know enough about the solution space to look for them in the first Continue reading
2018 Next-Gen Data Center Networking Report Survey is Here!
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Call for Nominations now open for Rob Blokzijl Award
In remembrance of Internet Pioneer, founder and Chair of RIPE for 25 years, Postel Award recipient, and friend, Rob Blokzijl the RIPE NCC set up the “Rob Blokzijl Foundation”. The foundation recognises those who made substantial and sustained technical and operational contributions to the development of the Internet in the RIPE NCC service region, or supported or enabled others with the development of the Internet in the RIPE NCC service region.
The Rob Blokzijl Award will be awarded for the first time during RIPE 76 in May 2018. This is a Good Thing on so many levels.
The call for nominations is now open. The deadline is 16 March 2018 23:59 UTC.
Image credit: Olaf Kolkman
The post Call for Nominations now open for Rob Blokzijl Award appeared first on Internet Society.
Amazon Web Services Scoops Up Security Startup Sqrrl
The startup spun out of the U.S. National Security Agency.
Fallout from Rushed Patching for Meltdown, Spectre
Not all systems require full patching for the flaws right now, anyway, experts say.