Palo Alto Networks Stretches Security Posture Across Big 3 Public Clouds
The new features and additional cloud support aim to provide stronger security and simplified management.
IBM’s 2018 Rollout Plan For Power9 Systems
In a way, the processor market started moving in slow motion through 2017 as server makers and their customers were awaiting a veritable cornucopia of processor options, something the industry has not seen in many a year. We have been predicting that there would be a Cambrian Explosion of compute, first in 2017, but it has taken a bit longer for many of these processors to come to market and it looks like 2018 might be the year.
This might be, in fact, the year when IBM’s Power RISC processors see a long-awaited resurgence, and frankly, if it doesn’t happen …
IBM’s 2018 Rollout Plan For Power9 Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Network Architect
What’s the difference between a network architect and a network designer? What is network architecture and what is network design? These are questions I asked myself a couple of years ago and that I get asked frequently from others. The reason I wanted to write this post is to help people that want to be network architects understand what it is about. I also wanted to help people that are studying for the CCDE to get into the right mindset. If you go in to the practical with the mindset of a designer, you will fail. You need to think like an architect.
This post is not about if an architect is more advanced than a designer. They are both needed and often they are the same person. I work as both but my title is network architect. Some people use the title to indicate it’s a senior role although the role might not be heavily geared towards design.
So what does a network architect do? And how is that different from the network designer?
The network architect is the one that is fronting the business. What does this mean? The network architect is the one that is meeting stakeholders Continue reading
New Memory Challenges Legacy Approaches to HPC Code
From DRAM to NUMA to memory non-volatile, stacked, remote, or even phase change, the coming years will bring big changes to code developers on the world’s largest parallel supercomputers.
While these memory advancements can translate to major performance leaps, the code complexity these devices will create pose big challenges in terms of performance portability for legacy and newer codes alike.
While the programming side of the emerging memory story may not be as widely appealing as the hardware, work that people like Ron Brightwell, R&D manager at Sandia National Lab and head of numerous exascale programming efforts do to expose …
New Memory Challenges Legacy Approaches to HPC Code was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Top 5 From The Last 3 Months
In today’s day and age, content is king. It’s nearly impossible to keep up with the deluge of information, especially in the tech space where change is constant. We’re aware that the struggle is real. To keep you up-to-date on the latest and greatest in networking, we’ve compiled a round-up blog of the top posts from the past few months.
VMware Closes Acquisition of VeloCloud Networks
In December, VMware NSX completed its acquisition of VeloCloud Networks, bringing their industry-leading, cloud-delivered SD-WAN solution to our own growing software-based networking portfolio. The acquisition of VeloCloud significantly advances our strategy of enabling customers to run, manage, connect and secure any application on any cloud to any device. Learn all about the acquisition from SVP and GM, Networking and Security Business Unit Jeff Jennings.
VMware SDDC with NSX Expands to AWS
With VMware Cloud on AWS, customers can now leverage the best of both worlds – the leading compute, storage and network virtualization stack enabling enterprises for SDDC can now all be enabled with a click of a button on dedicated, elastic, bare-metal and highly available AWS infrastructure. Bonus: because it’s a managed service by VMware, customers can focus on the Continue reading
CallTower Deploys Bigleaf SD-WAN For Internal and Customer Benefit
It solved issues from connecting CallTower's services to the public Internet.
Orange Business Services Taps Cisco-Viptela for SD-WAN
It provides three ways for enterprises to use Cisco-Viptela.
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.