Noction is pleased to announce the launch of the Intelligent Routing Platform 3.9. The most recent version is packed with new features
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Here’s another idea from the Building Network Automation Solutions online course: Ruben Tripiana decided to implement a latency measurement tool. His playbook takes a list of managed devices from Ansible inventory, generates a set of unique device pairs, measures latency between them, and produces a summary report (see also his description of the project).
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Our Red Hat colleagues over on the OpenShift Container Platform team have announced the general availability of OpenShift Ansible Broker, which is a new way to easily orchestrate things external to an OpenShift-deployed containerized application by using Ansible automation. But just what is the OpenShift Ansible Broker, and how does it fit into the wider Ansible ecosystem?
At the simplest level, the Red Hat OpenShift team has given users a way to expose Ansible workloads in the OpenShift Container Platform Service Catalog via the Open Service Broker API.
If you haven’t already, we’d recommend you read What’s new in OpenShift 3.7 as this has a good explanation of the concepts and motivation behind the work.
This is a fantastic development that places Ansible in a prime position within the OpenShift Container Platform Service Broker and great news for the continued journey for Ansible as Red Hat’s language of automation. It extends the current capabilities of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with Ansible’s simple, powerful, and agentless capability, making the journey to hybrid cloud easier. There are some best practices about how you can use this new capability to achieve maximum benefit, and we’d like to discuss that here.
Dell EMC to deliver hyper-converged infrastructure appliances on PowerEdge 14th generation servers Offers customers improved performance and reliability with the world’s most configurable hyper-converged infrastructure appliances as fully engineered systems with single source support1 Dell EMC VxRail customers to expect more powerful and predictable performance across millions of customized configurations to best optimize VMware vSAN... Read more →
Tech vendors often like to boast about being first movers in a particular market, saying that leading the charge puts them at a great advantage over their competitors. It doesn’t always work that way, but sometimes it does.
A case in point is Amazon Web Services (AWS), which officially launched in 2006 with the release of the Simple Storage Service (S3) after several years of development and with it kicked off what is now the fast-growing and increasingly crowded public cloud space. Eleven years later, AWS owns just over 44 percent of the market, according to CEO Andy Jassy, pointing …
AWS Flexes Cloud Muscles with Host of New Additions was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Its new service aims to make machine learning "accessible for everyday developers."
Sunday, February 18, 2018
REGISTRATION FOR THE NANOG 72 HACKATHON IS OPEN
Welcome to the NANOG 72 Hackathon brought to you by NANOG
The NANOG 72 Hackathon will bring network operators together in a room to develop new ideas and hacks for internet networks. Tools and software beyond those provided by vendors and existing open-source projects are needed to keep networks up and running. By gathering together at NANOG 72 to collaboratively hack on code or hardware, develop ideas, and documentation we can open up the possibilities. And we will have fun while doing it!
Registration for the Hackathon is open on a space-available basis to all interested attendees of NANOG 72. All skill levels are welcome and participants are expected to actively participate in the hacks. Hackathon participants will be automatically added to an email list after registration is complete in order to receive information and updates. At the end of the hack participating teams will be given the opportunity to briefly present their ideas and determine the top 3 teams. Lightning talks may be submitted to summarize the Hackathon experience and results for the larger NANOG 72 attendee base.
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When it comes to HPC, compute is like the singers in a rock band, making all of the noise and soaking up most of the attention. But the network that lashes the compute together is literally the beat of the drums and the thump of the bass that keeps everything in synch and allows for the harmonies of the singers to come together at all.
In this analogy, it is not clear what HPC storage is. It might be the van that moves the instruments from town to town, plus the roadies who live in the van that set up …
The Battle Of The InfiniBands was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
5G-PON could become part of the 5G standard.
AWS announced Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS).
Updates focused on attacks against security and compliance processes.
The Internet Society has come far in its 25 years, and as its CEO for just some of that time I feel immense privilege in having been part of the organization’s continued growth and evolution.
Now, more than ever, I feel that the work we all do is the most consequential any of us will do in this challenging time. I continue to be inspired by the Internet Society, its staff and its loyal community every day.
So, it was with very mixed emotions that at the recent Internet Society Board of Trustees meeting in Singapore, I informed the Board that I will not be seeking an extension of my contract as CEO when it is due for renewal at the end of 2018.
With so many accomplishments behind us and at a time when the Internet itself is in the midst of rapid change, I firmly believe that the Internet Society is primed and ready to take on a stronger, more influential role in shaping the future of the Internet for the next generation of users. Knowing this, it also feels like the right time to pass on the CEO baton to the next generation of Internet Continue reading
This Network Collective show was recorded live at the SDxE conference in Austin, Texas. Pete Lumbis, Jeff Tantsura, and I talk about disaggregation with Eyvonne and Jordan.
Microsoft is also transforming some of its internal systems with SAP.
New research from CompTIA shows IT pros are happier at work.
For the last seven years, Cloudflare has taken the entire company off site for a few days at the end of the year for a company retreat. Back in 2010, this meant five people from the San Francisco office. This November, we had 453 employees from our San Francisco, Singapore, London, Champaign (Illinois), New York City, Washington (DC), and Austin (Texas) offices spend time together in Monterey, California.
Knowing that so many teammates would be coming in from all over the world, we used the days leading up to the retreat to hold global team meetings, conduct a session of our home-grown Making Great Managers workshop, and brought in Valerie Aurora from Frame Shift Consulting to lead Ally Skills workshops for the entire company.
On Thursday, buses departed from Cloudflare headquarters and took us all down to Monterey. Our CEO, Matthew Prince, delivered opening remarks over lunch. During his talk, we learned about the imminent acquisition of Neumob, his thoughts about growing pains and how to successfully scale, and were reminded that we are at our best when we are inclusive of everyone. We reflected on how far we’ve come and got an inspiring glimpse of where we are Continue reading