IDG Contributor Network: The case for securing the SD-WAN

With everything from massive data breaches at global organizations to explosive ransomware attacks that infect hundreds of thousands of users within days, it’s well established that enterprises these days are dealing with more threats than ever before – all of which are increasing in abundance, frequency and complexity.Among other things, this rapidly evolving threat environment can be attributed to new and expanding threat vectors that have opened the door for external threats to reach critical business assets via non-corporate entities, whether through a consumer device, poorly secured partner network or branch office. The Internet of Things (IoT) and guest tenant services, for example, force a unique method of segmenting the traffic service/workloads and introduce a level of operational complexity.To read this article in full, please click here

BrandPost: Network Outages? Unacceptable. How to Ensure Availability

The rise of cloud applications has been well documented. The cloud era kicked off with a handful of SaaS applications, such as ERP, CRM and HR systems. Today, businesses are buying almost everything cloud-related — from compute services, contact center software, unified communications to anything else you can think of. These apps and services may look somewhat unrelated, but they all have one thing in common: They are highly dependent on the network to perform properly.Consider a consumer example. We pay Netflix a certain amount of money to watch a movie, but we are entirely dependent on our network connections to enjoy the experience. It doesn’t matter how much more money we pay Netflix; if our network connection performs poorly or is unavailable, the viewing experience suffers.To read this article in full, please click here

BGP Attribute : AIGP-BGP Accumulative IGP

Today I am going to talk about the BGP attribute called as BGP AIGP or so called Accumulated IGP which is now a days used to find the best path in the BGP protocol. 

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Now the question is why it is introduced in the BGP after so long ?
The Reason is facing day to day issues when enterprises or service providers come up with the multiple, contiguous BGP AS's in their network and want to handle by single administrator. The expectation is to have the best path from two different AS which is controlled by Single administrator domain. 

IEFT introduces the BGP attribute named as AIGP by which the BGP speakers can perform a best path-selection for a prefix based on IGP metric even if the nodes are in two different AS's.

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Switching Techniques: Root Guard Vs BPDU Guard

Today I am going to talk about the Root Guard and BPDU guard which is widely used in the switching LAN network with STP/RSTP protocol. Earlier i wrote about the RSTP in details which you can follow on the below mentioned link.

Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol and Configurations - RSTP

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Now let's talk about one by one in details, First let me talk about the Root Guard

Root guard
When we talk about the Root guard,If you have a port that is configured with root guard and it receives a superior BPDU it will move that specific vlan to a root inconsistent state which effectively means it will stop passing traffic to that vlan off that port.  Because of this you need to be very careful where you put the Continue reading

What is 802.11? Wi-Fi standards and speeds explained

In the world of wireless, the term Wi-Fi is synonymous with wireless access, even though the term Wi-Fi itself (and the Wi-Fi Alliance) is a group dedicated to interoperability between different wireless LAN products and technologies.The standards themselves are part of the 802.11 family of specifications written by the IEEE, eachwith its own letter code after the intial 80211, such as “802.11b” (pronounced “Eight-O-Two-Eleven-Bee”, ignore the “dot”) and “802.11ac”. This alphabet soup that began in the late 1990s continues evolve, with improvements in throughput and range as we race to the future to get faster network access.Along the way, improvements are being made by adopting new frequencies for wireless data delivery, as well as range improvements and reduced power consumption, to help support initiatives like “The Internet of Things” and virtual reality.To read this article in full, please click here

Wi-Fi standards and speeds explained, compared

In the world of wireless, the term Wi-Fi is synonymous with wireless access, even though the term Wi-Fi itself (and the Wi-Fi Alliance) is a group dedicated to interoperability between different wireless LAN products and technologies.The standards themselves are part of the 802.11 family of standards, courtesy of the IEEE. With terms such as “802.11b” (pronounced “Eight-O-Two-Eleven-Bee”, ignore the “dot”) and “802.11ac”, the alphabet soup of standards that began in the late 1990s continues to see improvements in throughput and range as we race to the future to get faster network access.Along the way, improvements are being made by adopting new frequencies for wireless data delivery, as well as range improvements and reduced power consumption, to help support initiatives like “The Internet of Things” and virtual reality.To read this article in full, please click here

Wi-Fi standards and speeds explained, compared

In the world of wireless, the term Wi-Fi is synonymous with wireless access, even though the term Wi-Fi itself (and the Wi-Fi Alliance) is a group dedicated to interoperability between different wireless LAN products and technologies.The standards themselves are part of the 802.11 family of standards, courtesy of the IEEE. With terms such as “802.11b” (pronounced “Eight-O-Two-Eleven-Bee”, ignore the “dot”) and “802.11ac”, the alphabet soup of standards that began in the late 1990s continues to see improvements in throughput and range as we race to the future to get faster network access.Along the way, improvements are being made by adopting new frequencies for wireless data delivery, as well as range improvements and reduced power consumption, to help support initiatives like “The Internet of Things” and virtual reality.To read this article in full, please click here

Intel Stacks Up Xeons Against AMD Epyc Systems

Apparently, it’s Rivalry Week in the compute section of the datacenter here at The Next Platform. There are a slew of vendors ramping up their processors and their ecosystems to do battle for 2018 budget dollars, and many of them are talking up the performance and bang for the buck of their architectures.

We have just discussed the “Vulcan” variant of the ThunderX2 processor from Cavium and how that company thinks it ranks against the new “Skylake” Xeon SP processors from Intel, which made their debut in July. AMD was talking up its Epyc processors at the recent SC17 …

Intel Stacks Up Xeons Against AMD Epyc Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

We Want to Hear from SD-WAN Customers

Sue Marek: Editor-in-Chief at SDxCentral We’ve all heard the tales of how software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) can dramatically change the ways taht enterprises connect their branch offices and save companies thousands of dollars. But who better to tell those stories than the IT executives at those enterprises that are working with the technology every day?  We’d love to be able... Read more →

Worth Reading: Assessing Cloud Vendors

When it comes to evaluating new vendors, it can be challenging to know how best to communicate the requirements of your vendor assessment process and ultimately select the right partner to help your business move forward — while at the same time avoiding the risk of a third-party security incident. After all, 63 percent of data breaches are linked to third parties in some way. In fact, we all recently learned about how an Equifax vendor was serving up malicious code on their website in a newly discovered security incident. —Nick Sorenson @ the Cloud Security Alliance

Assessing The Tradeoffs Of NVM-Express Storage At Scale

NVM-Express isn’t new. Development on the interface, which provides lean and mean access to non-volatile memory, first came to light a decade ago, with technical work starting two years later through a work group that comprised more than 90 tech vendors. The first NVM-Express specification came out in 2011, and now the technology is going mainstream.

How quickly and pervasively remains to be seen. NVM-Express promises significant boosts in performance to SSDs while driving down the latency, which would be a boon to HPC organizations and the wider world of enterprises as prices for SSDs continue to fall and adoption …

Assessing The Tradeoffs Of NVM-Express Storage At Scale was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

IDG Contributor Network: Resiliency in the age of cloud services

Resilient application architectures have evolved dramatically over the years. In the age of monolithic applications, with static application deployments in large datacenter setups, resiliency required depth and redundancy in individual deployments. It needed always-on scale to meet the maximum expected workload, along with redundant connectivity and power.Within a monolithic application environment, individual components – like servers – were expected to fail, and organizations built deployments with component-level redundancy as a result. For example, they created multiple database servers in a primary/secondary config or multiple application servers in an active/active config.To read this article in full, please click here

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