China Unicom Will Test 5G Using Cavium Silicon and M-CORD Racks
The two companies are demonstrating multi-access edge computing in Shanghai this week.
Silver Peak Touts Service Provider Strategy with China Telecom Deal
This isn’t China Telecom’s first SD-WAN deal.
Google, Nutanix Partnership Boosts Hybrid Cloud Strategy
Nutanix kicks off its .NEXT 2017 conference today.
VMware Evolve Transform Security is Coming to A City Near You!
Modern IT professionals face significant security challenges. As digital transformation continues to connect applications, users, and data in the cloud, perimeter security models that once offered businesses protection are no longer sufficient.
VMware Evolve Transform Security is Coming to A City Near You!
Modern IT professionals face significant security challenges. As digital transformation continues to connect applications, users, and data in the cloud, perimeter security models that once offered businesses protection are no longer sufficient. Critical visibility into users and endpoints is missing, enforcing policies is difficult, and, in the meantime, cyberattacks are more sophisticated and costly than ever.
What do IT teams need to defend today’s applications, users, and data from potentially brand-damaging attacks?
That’s the question VMware experts will be tackling during our VMware EVOLVE Transform Security events, coming to a city near you. During these half-day, in-person events, you will learn how a ubiquitous software layer can help support the security challenges of the modern business.
VMware experts will guide you through how to:
- Secure application infrastructure and better align security controls to apps
- Secure identity and endpoints to control access and enforce data loss prevention
- Streamline governance, risk management and compliance to limit cyber-attack vectors
Reserve your spot at an upcoming Transform Security-focused VMware EVOLVE event in your city:
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Announcing Docker 17.06 Community Edition (CE)
Today we released Docker CE 17.06 with new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Docker CE 17.06 is the first Docker version built entirely on the Moby Project, which we announced in April at DockerCon. You can see the complete list of changes in the changelog, but let’s take a look at some of the new features.
We also created a video version of this post here:
Multi-stage builds
The biggest feature in 17.06 CE is that multi-stage builds, announced in April at DockerCon, have come to the stable release. Multi-stage builds allow you to build cleaner, smaller Docker images using a single Dockerfile.
Multi-stage builds work by building intermediate images that produce an output. That way you can compile code in an intermediate image and use only the output in the final image. So for instance, Java developers commonly use Apache Maven to compile their apps, but Maven isn’t required to run their app. Multi-stage builds can result in a substantial image size savings:
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE maven Continue reading
Let’s Think Differently to Shape Tomorrow
In 2015 the world made one of the biggest promises to itself in the form of 17 Global Goals set out by the United Nations. These goals – the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – are aimed at achieving extraordinary things in the next 15 years. They are dedicated to fighting injustice and inequalities, ending climate change, beating discrimination, bringing in sustainable energy, and making sure no one goes hungry.
Ms. Kathryn Brown
Docker at Nutanix .NEXT Conference – Visit us at Booth #S11
Today marks the start of Nutanix .NEXT Conference in Washington, D.C., the annual conference for Nutanix customers and partners. One of the major themes of the conference is hybrid cloud, and Docker will be there to demonstrate how Docker Enterprise Edition delivers application portability across different infrastructure platforms through a complete enterprise-ready Container as a Service (CaaS) solution for IT.
Docker and Nutanix will also be highlighting the Nutanix Docker Volume Plug-in (DVP), a Docker Certified Plugin available in the Docker Store. This plugin connects Docker containers to enterprise-grade persistent storage from Nutanix even as the container is powered on, powered off, or moved to a new host. As part of the certification process, Docker and Nutanix validate that the plugin is built with Docker recommended best practices and passes an additional suite of API compliance testing and vulnerability scanning. Docker EE customers also have access to support from both Docker and Nutanix.
Watch a Demo of Docker EE at Nutanix .NEXT
For those heading to Nutanix .NEXT, be sure to swing by booth #S11 to learn more about this plugin as well as other IT use cases for EE. Watch a demo and Continue reading
Stupidly Simple DDoS Protocol (SSDP) generates 100 Gbps DDoS
Last month we shared statistics on some popular reflection attacks. Back then the average SSDP attack size was ~12 Gbps and largest SSDP reflection we recorded was:
- 30 Mpps (millions of packets per second)
- 80 Gbps (billions of bits per second)
- using 940k reflector IPs
This changed a couple of days ago when we noticed an unusually large SSDP amplification. It's worth deeper investigation since it crossed the symbolic threshold of 100 Gbps.
The packets per second chart during the attack looked like this:
The bandwidth usage:
This packet flood lasted 38 minutes. According to our sampled netflow data it utilized 930k reflector servers. We estimate that the during 38 minutes of the attack each reflector sent 112k packets to Cloudflare.
The reflector servers are across the globe, with a large presence in Argentina, Russia and China. Here are the unique IPs per country:
$ cat ips-nf-ct.txt|uniq|cut -f 2|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr|head
439126 CN
135783 RU
74825 AR
51222 US
41353 TW
32850 CA
19558 MY
18962 CO
14234 BR
10824 KR
10334 UA
9103 IT
...
The reflector IP distribution across ASNs is typical. It pretty much follows the world’s largest residential ISPs:
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As 5G Looms, Service Providers Need to Consider CGNAT
The 5G buzz is building and along with it are projections that some 5G networks will launch in 2018, with more widespread deployment in 2019. The launch of 5G networks will contribute to the large-scale proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
Datanauts 090: AWS Networking Deep Dive
AWS and public cloud networking is not just VLANs. The Datanauts and guest Anthony Miloslavsky explore essential network constructs and architectural choices The post Datanauts 090: AWS Networking Deep Dive appeared first on Packet Pushers.
Cisco Vs Ruckus Wireless Systems
There is always a great tussle between Cisco and Ruckus on the wireless upfront where both the vendors are working hard to grip the market with the features they are providing in their wireless domain. Today I am going to talk about the head to head discussion of Cisco and Ruckus, Although there are lot of point which i am not going to cover here in this discussion.
Ruckus Wireless:
Ruckus wireless controllers address deployments of any size i.e. from a very small Field Sales Office to a Managed Service Provider solution. Clustered SCG 200s offer one of the highest scalability levels and are available in an appliance form factor as well as a virtual controller. EMS functions are built-in and integration via REST API is supported.
Full range of wireless controllers scaling from the entry level ZoneDirector 1200 which supports up to 75 AP’s, all the way up to the SmartCellTM Gateway controller which, with available clustering support, is capable of managing tens of thousands of AP’s and providing access for hundreds of thousands of mobile devices
Virtual SmartZone
High Scale (vSZ-H) - up to10,000 APs, up to 100,000 clients
vSZ-H cluster of 4 - up to 30,000 Continue reading
High Scale (vSZ-H) - up to10,000 APs, up to 100,000 clients
vSZ-H cluster of 4 - up to 30,000 Continue reading
Programming a Cisco Network Using Python
David Bombal demonstrates how to configure multiple Cisco switches using Python and GNS3.