Is There a Future for Blockchain-Enabled SD-WAN?
The combination could mitigate the audit and regulatory risk involved in each transaction.
Dell EMC’s Jeffrey Baher on the Past, Present and Future for Open Networking
Dell EMC recently expanded its Open Networking initiative, which focuses on abstracting and decoupling hardware and software networking elements, beyond the data center core. The goal is to enable an end-to-end, software-defined architecture, where mix-and-match software from innovative third-parties can run on agnostic hardware to help service provider and enterprise customers accelerate their digital transformation initiatives,... Read more →
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Versa Optimizes SD-WAN Voice and Video from User’s Perspective
Versa wants to bring SD-WAN value up the stack.
D-Wave Makes Quantum Leap with Reverse Annealing
The art and science of quantum annealing to arrive at a best of all worlds answer to difficult questions has been well understood for years (even if implementing it as a computational device took time). But that area is now being turned on its head—all for the sake of achieving more nuanced results that balance the best of quantum and classical algorithms.
This new approach to quantum computing is called reverse annealing, something that has been on the research wish-list at Google and elsewhere, but is now a reality on the newest D-Wave 2000Q (2048 qubit) hardware. The company described …
D-Wave Makes Quantum Leap with Reverse Annealing was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Red Hat Throws Its Full Support Behind Arm Server Chips
The gatekeeper to Arm in the datacenter has finally swung that gate wide open.
Red Hat has always been a vocal support of Arm’s efforts to migrate its low-power architecture into the datacenter. The largest distributer of commercial Linux has spent years working with other tech vendors and industry groups like Linaro to build an ecosystem of hardware and software makers to support Arm systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) in servers and to build standards and policies for products that are powered by the chips. The company was a key player in the development of the Arm Server Base System Architecture (SBSA) specification …
Red Hat Throws Its Full Support Behind Arm Server Chips was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
How To Access Devices with Unsupported SSL Ciphers
With the HeartBleed bug effectively killing off SSLv3 and vulnerabilities in cipher block chaining ruling out another whole swathe of SSL ciphers, network engineers may have found themselves trying to connect to a device and either getting no response (Safari), or getting a response like this (Chrome):
Or this (Firefox):
Once upon a time, it was possible to go into settings and enable the old, insecure ciphers again, but in more recent updates, those ciphers no longer exist within the code and are thus inaccessible. So what to do? My answer was to try a proxy.
Charles Proxy
The first proxy I looked at seemed promising. Although not free, Charles Proxy offers a 30 day free trial, and that seemed like a good thing to try. It’s limited additionally by only running for 30 minutes at a time before it has to be reloaded, but for my testing purposes that was not a problem.
During installation I declined to give Charles Proxy permission to configure the system proxy settings. Instead, I manually updated just my Firefox browser to use the proxy which was now listening on port 127.0.0.1:8888. Since I was making an SSL connection, I also Continue reading
Samsung Invests in Cray Supercomputer for Deep Learning Initiatives
One of the reasons this year’s Supercomputing Conference (SC) is nearing attendance records has far less to do with traditional scientific HPC and much more to do with growing interest in deep learning and machine learning.
Since the supercomputing set has pioneered many of the hardware advances required for AI (and some software and programming techniques as well), it is no surprise new interest from outside HPC is filtering in.
On the subject of pioneering HPC efforts, one of the industry’s longest-standing companies, supercomputer maker Cray, is slowly but surely beginning to reap the benefits of the need for this …
Samsung Invests in Cray Supercomputer for Deep Learning Initiatives was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
The Super Secret Cloudflare Master Plan, or why we acquired Neumob
We announced today that Cloudflare has acquired Neumob. Neumob’s team built exceptional technology to speed up mobile apps, reduce errors on challenging mobile networks, and increase conversions. Cloudflare will integrate the Neumob technology with our global network to give Neumob truly global reach.
It’s tempting to think of the Neumob acquisition as a point product added to the Cloudflare portfolio. But it actually represents a key part of a long term “Super Secret Cloudflare Master Plan”.
CC BY 2.0 image by Neil Rickards
Over the last few years Cloudflare has been building a large network of data centers across the world to help fulfill our mission of helping to build a better Internet. These data centers all run an identical software stack that implements Cloudflare’s cache, DNS, DDoS, WAF, load balancing, rate limiting, etc.
We’re now at 118 data centers in 58 countries and are continuing to expand with a goal of being as close to end users as possible worldwide.
The data centers are tied together by secure connections which are optimized using our Argo smart routing capability. Our Quicksilver technology enables us to update and modify the settings and software running across this vast network in seconds.
Integrating Docker EE Into Société Générale’s Existing Enterprise IT Systems
Société Générale is a 153-year old French multinational bank that believes technology and innovation are key to enriching the customer experience and advancing economic development. A few years ago, the bank started a project to define their next generation application platform that would help them get 80% of their applications running in the cloud by 2020. Société Générale chose Docker Enterprise Edition (Docker EE) to be the foundation of their application platform and began working with it 15 months ago. This year at DockerCon Europe, Stephan Dechoux, DevOps architect, and Thomas Boussardon, Middleware Specialist, shared their journey over this time integrating Docker Enterprise Edition [Docker EE] into Société Générale IT systems.
You can watch their breakout session here:
A New Platform For Today and Tomorrow
Société Générale has a diverse application portfolio that includes many different types of applications, including legacy monolithic apps, SOA, distributed apps and REST APIs. The bank is also a global organization with teams and data centers around the world. A primary goal was to deliver a new application platform to improve time-to-market and lower costs, while accelerating innovation. Initially Société Générale considered off-the-shelf PaaS solutions, but realized that these were better suited for greenfield applications Continue reading