2017 Internet Intelligence Roundup

With 2017 drawing to a close, year-end lookbacks litter media and the blogosphere like so many leaves on the ground. (Or piles of snow, depending on where you are.) Many tend to focus on pop culture, product/movie/music releases, or professional sports. However, given the focus of Oracle Dyn’s Internet Intelligence team on monitoring and measuring the Internet, we’re going to take a look back at significant Internet “events” of the past year, and how they have impacted connectivity for Internet users around the world.

Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria Cause Internet Disruptions

In late August, and through September, an active Atlantic hurricane season spawned a number of destructive storms that wreaked havoc across the Caribbean, as well as Florida and Texas in the United States. On the Caribbean islands that were hardest hit by the storms, the resulting physical damage was immense, severely impacting last-mile Internet infrastructure across the whole country. This was also the case in Florida and Texas, though on a much more localized basis. On September 25, we looked at the impacts of these hurricanes on Internet connectivity in the affected areas, noting that while some “core” Internet components remained available during these storms thanks to Continue reading

Our Most Popular Blog Posts of 2017

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2017 was such a great year for the Ansible team at Red Hat. From launching Ansible Engine to open sourcing Ansible Tower, we’ve had a year to remember. And just in case you missed them, here are our 10 most viewed blog posts of the year to showcase all the fun we’ve had.

1. How to Extend Ansible Through Plugins

Did you know a large portion of Ansible’s functionality comes from the Ansible plugin system? These important pieces of code augment Ansible’s core functionality such as parsing and loading inventory and Playbooks, running Playbooks and reading the results. In this blog, we review each of these plugins and offer a high-level overview on how to write your own plugin to extend Ansible functionality. Read more.

2. Exploring New Networking Features in Ansible 2.3

In 2016, we added the first networking modules to Ansible, since then we’ve added hundreds of modules and many networking vendor platforms have been enabled. This year, our focus on networking enablement turned to increasing performance and adding connection methods that provide compatibility and flexibility. You were eager to learn all about it and made this our second most read blog of the year! Read more.

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Worth Reading: Asynchronous Decision Making

Asynchronous decision-making is a strategy that enables geographically and culturally distributed software teams to make decisions more efficiently. In this article, I’ll discuss some of the principles and tools that make this approach possible. Synchronous decision-making, in which participants interact with each other in real time, can be expensive for people who work on a Maker’s Schedule, and they are often impractical for remote teams. We’ve all seen how such meetings can devolve into inefficient time wasters that we all dread and avoid. —Bertrand Delacretaz @ Open Source

Docker Enterprise Edition Fuels Channel Success in 2017

The past year has proven to be one of rapid customer growth and traction in the enterprise. The channel is a fundamental part of our achievements to date and we are grateful for all of the dedicated partners involved in taking container technology mainstream. We now have hundreds of the largest enterprises as customers and we look forward to driving even greater adoption in the coming year alongside our partners.

With 2017 coming to an end, here’s a quick look back at channel achievements from this past year:

  • Driving partner enablement and success: Our partners have built highly-successful and profitable business models around Docker Enterprise Edition and accelerated their customers’ digital transformation initiatives in doing so. The Docker Partner Program and our recently updated Partner Portal provide partners with the resources, training and the joint selling success stories needed to identify, fulfill and capitalize on strategic enterprise opportunities to build a Docker Practice.
  • Setting our partners up to demonstrate immediate ROI: The Modernize Traditional Applications (MTA) program represents a fast and easy way for partners to get customers up and running with Docker. The value for partners: MTA engagements are yielding 10X in Services and 7X in Continue reading

IDG Contributor Network: Roast chestnuts, not your data center

With the happiest of holidays soon upon us and New Year’s right around the corner, now is an appropriate time to reflect on data center managers around the world so that all their days may be merry and bright. But wait, is that an IT staff member attempting to forecast capacity with his head buried in an MS Excel spreadsheet? And another, tiredly walking the data center with a Stanley tape measure hooked on his belt while daydreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones he used to know?Our hearts go out to them, knowing that without accurate intel these data center managers won’t be able to take timely and appropriate actions, to say nothing about missing out on their CFOs’ figgy pudding. But they are not alone.To read this article in full, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: Roast chestnuts, not your data center

With the happiest of holidays soon upon us and New Year’s right around the corner, now is an appropriate time to reflect on data center managers around the world so that all their days may be merry and bright. But wait, is that an IT staff member attempting to forecast capacity with his head buried in an MS Excel spreadsheet? And another, tiredly walking the data center with a Stanley tape measure hooked on his belt while daydreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones he used to know?Our hearts go out to them, knowing that without accurate intel these data center managers won’t be able to take timely and appropriate actions, to say nothing about missing out on their CFOs’ figgy pudding. But they are not alone.To read this article in full, please click here

It’s not to late! See Amazon’s Last Minute Gift Ideas, On Your Doorstep By Christmas – Deal Alert

If you still need to buy, don't worry -- there's still time. Amazon still has deals running every day, in every category imaginable, and with Prime shipping you'll have it by Christmas.  Discounted USB cords, chargers, phone accessories, BlueTooth speakers, splitters, and other gadgets. Jump over to Amazon's "Last Minute Deals" page. If you're not a Prime member, sign up for a free trial and you'll instantly get access to free 2-day shipping, which will be critical at this point. To read this article in full, please click here

2018 and the Internet: our predictions

At the end of 2016, I wrote a blog post with seven predictions for 2017. Let’s start by reviewing how I did.

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I’ll score myself with two points for being correct, one point for mostly right and zero for wrong. That’ll give me a maximum possible score of fourteen. Here goes...

2017-1: 1Tbps DDoS attacks will become the baseline for ‘massive attacks’

This turned out to be true but mostly because massive attacks went away as Layer 3 and Layer 4 DDoS mitigation services got good at filtering out high bandwidth and high packet rates. Over the year we saw many DDoS attacks in the 100s of Gbps (up to 0.5Tbps) and then in September announced Unmetered Mitigation. Almost immediately we saw attackers stop bothering to attack Cloudflare-protected sites with large DDoS.

So, I’ll be generous and give myself one point.

2017-2: The Internet will get faster yet again as protocols like QUIC become more prevalent

Well, yes and no. QUIC has become more prevalent as Google has widely deployed it in the Chrome browser and it accounts for about 7% of Internet traffic. At the same time the protocol is working its Continue reading

2018 and the Internet: our predictions

At the end of 2016, I wrote a blog post with seven predictions for 2017. Let’s start by reviewing how I did.

Didn’t he do well Public Domain image by Michael Sharpe

I’ll score myself with two points for being correct, one point for mostly right and zero for wrong. That’ll give me a maximum possible score of fourteen. Here goes...

2017-1: 1Tbps DDoS attacks will become the baseline for ‘massive attacks’

This turned out to be true but mostly because massive attacks went away as Layer 3 and Layer 4 DDoS mitigation services got good at filtering out high bandwidth and high packet rates. Over the year we saw many DDoS attacks in the 100s of Gbps (up to 0.5Tbps) and then in September announced Unmetered Mitigation. Almost immediately we saw attackers stop bothering to attack Cloudflare-protected sites with large DDoS.

So, I’ll be generous and give myself one point.

2017-2: The Internet will get faster yet again as protocols like QUIC become more prevalent

Well, yes and no. QUIC has become more prevalent as Google has widely deployed it in the Chrome browser and it accounts for about 7% of Internet traffic. At the same time the protocol is working its Continue reading

Wow, another Year Swooshed By…

Could you believe it? Another year swooshed by… and it’s high time to stop being snarky and cynical, disconnect from the Internet, and spend a few days with people who really matter – our families.

For me, there’s another large group of people that matter: my users.

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Top 5 Docker Customer Success Stories of 2017

The holidays are a time of joy, gratitude and reflection. As we look back on the year, we’re celebrating you, our amazing customers! You are the ones that make the Docker community special and inspire us to innovate. We appreciate the business and are grateful for the opportunity! With that we’d like to put the spotlight on the top 5 Docker Enterprise Edition (Docker EE) customer stories of 2017.

Docker Enterprise Edition Lights a New Spark of Innovation within MetLife

MetLife, the global provider of insurance, annuities, and employee benefit programs, will be celebrating it’s 150th birthday next year. To stay ahead of the competition, MetLife realizes it must be agile to more rapidly respond to changing market requirements. During the Day 2 General Session at DockerCon 2017, MetLife shared how they’re inspiring new innovation in their organization with Docker EE. MetLife also took part in the Docker MTA program designed to help customers bring portability, security, and efficiency to their traditional applications while saving on their total cost of ownership (TCO). Learn more about the Docker MTA program at Metlife in this video.

Visa Inc. Gains Speed and Operational Efficiency with Docker Enterprise Edition

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VXLAN designs: 3 ways to consider routing and gateway design (part 2)

In my previous post, I focused on the concepts of what is called off box routing and centralized routing. They were two different yet similar solutions. The first one being the simplest solution leveraging an external gateway to route between VXLANs. The second solution integrated the edge device to be both an external gateway and VXLAN end point (VTEP).

To expand on my previous post, the next logical place to put a gateway in VXLAN designs is to distribute them all on the top of rack (TOR), also known as the leaf. This TOR acts as a VTEP in the VXLAN solution. Its primary purpose is to encapsulate and decapsulate traffic. This solution is also colloquially known as Anycast Gateway VXLAN Routing. Anycast Gateway VXLAN Routing can only be performed on ASICs that support routing in and out of tunnels (RIOT), as discussed in the previous post. For the rest of this post, when I refer to VXLAN Routing, I specifically mean Anycast Gateway VXLAN Routing unless otherwise noted.

In the simplest form, VXLAN Routing allows the TOR to perform a route lookup on the inbound packet before encapsulating the traffic into a VXLAN tunnel. There are two ways that Continue reading

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