Intel’s Data Center Group Has Its Head In The Clouds

The cloud gives, and it takes away.

The big hyperscalers, public cloud builders, and telecom, wireless, and cable service providers who are all collectively called “cloud” when it comes to the infrastructure they build, and they are increasingly driving shipments and revenues of all manner of components. But they command, by virtue of their huge volumes, discounts that are much deeper than the typical enterprise customer can get when they buy through an OEM or, if they are large enough, an ODM.

The fact that Intel’s Data Center Group is managing to profit pretty handsomely and reasonably predictably despite this …

Intel’s Data Center Group Has Its Head In The Clouds was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Nominations Now Open for 2018 ISOC Board of Trustees Election

The ISOC Nominations Committee is now inviting nominations for candidates to serve on the ISOC Board of Trustees.

In this years election cycle one Trustee will be elected by ISOC Organizational Members, one trustee by ISOC Chapters, and two will be selected by the Internet Engineering Task Force.

The Trustee positions are 3-year terms that will begin mid-year 2018 and expire mid-year 2021.

The Board of Trustees provides strategic direction, inspiration, and oversight to advance the Internet Society’s mission of preserving the open, global Internet.

If you or someone you know is interested in serving on the Board, please see the official Call for Nominations, additional information, and links to online nomination forms at www.internetsociety.org/trustees

Nominations close at 15:00 UTC on 15 December 2017.

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One Step Closer to Easier Quantum Programming

For quantum computing to make the leap from theory and slim early use cases to broader adoption, a programmability jump is required. Some of the first hurdles have been knocked over in the last few weeks with new compiler and API-based development efforts that abstract some of the complex physics required for both qubit and gate-based approaches to quantum devices.

The more public recent effort was the open source publication of OpenFermion, a quantum compiler based on work at Google and quantum startup, Rigetti Computing, that is focused on applications in quantum chemistry and materials science. OpenFermion is …

One Step Closer to Easier Quantum Programming was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Automation Field Guide: Quick AWS NextCloud Instance

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This is a practical use story utilizing Ansible to solve a small hurdle in an everyday workflow. 

Code for this can be found here. 

In this post, I’ll be sharing a practical situation where Ansible makes tasks easier. The Getting Started team works with organizations who may be putting together a proof-of-concept to evaluate Red Hat® Ansible® Tower. If troubleshooting gets into the weeds, it can include sharing documentation, instructions for common setup scenarios, or going through system settings to make sure everything’s in order.

Sometimes there's no other way: we need to get a full environment report from the system to troubleshoot, mostly in the form of a sosreport. We found that getting the report to us can be challenging, so we had to find a reliable way for people to send us their log files. A file drop web app that could be spun up on demand fit the need nicely. A Nextcloud install with a CentOS LAMP stack turned out to be a great tool, using Ansible to automate the provisioning and installation for us. Because this little trick proved so helpful, I wanted to share how I put the short playbook together, Continue reading

5 Strategies to Promote Your App

5 Strategies to Promote Your App

5 Strategies to Promote Your App

Brady Gentile from Cloudflare's product team wrote an App Developer Playbook, embedded within the developer documentation page. He decided to write it after he and his team conducted several app developer interviews, finding that many developers wanted to learn how to better promote their apps.

They wanted to help app authors out in the areas outside of developer core expertise. Social media posting, community outreach, email deployment, SEO, blog posting and syndication, etc. can be daunting.

I wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the tips from the App Developer Playbook because I think Brady did a great job of providing clear ways to approach promotional strategies.

5 Promotional Strategies

1. Share with online communities

Your app’s potential audience likely reads community-aggregated news sites such as HackerNews, Product Hunt, or reddit. Sharing your app across these websites is a great way for users to find your app.

5 Strategies to Promote Your App

For apps that are interesting to developers, designers, scientists, entrepreneurs, etc., be sure to share your work with the Hacker News community. Be sure to follow the official guidelines when posting and when engaging with the community. It may be tempting to ask your friends to upvote Continue reading

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 27th, 2017

Hey, it's HighScalability time: 


Perfect! Now, imagine a little dog snuck under Big Dog's cone of shame and covered the food with its own cone of shame, and it won't leave. That's deadlock. Imagine a stream of little dogs sneaking under Big Dog's cone so Big Dog nevers gets a bite. That's livelock.

 

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  • $100 billion: projected 2021 combined app store spend; 11 TB: SSD; 16: billion dollar disasters in the US this year; 8: meter long 3D printed bridge; 43%: employees who worry about losing their job due to their age; 125 TFLOPS: new AWS EC2 P3 instances; 7%: global Internet traffic flowing over QUIC; 50%: improvement in new in-package DRAM cache-management scheme; 43%: CockroachDB speed improvement executing parallel SQL statements; 325 billion: hours spent in Android apps in Q3; 4.5 million: C++ programmers; 3 trillion: ops per second in Pixel's Image Processing Unit; 80%: drop in Facebook referrals; 1,300 years: longest running business in the world; 40: age when tech Continue reading

IDG Contributor Network: How IoT is shaping the smart office of the future

The Internet of Things (IoT) has already firmly embedded itself into America’s homes, industries, and infrastructure, and now it’s tackling that final frontier of the market, the office. Increasingly, America’s savviest businesses are adopting IoT tech into their office environments to ease their employees’ workloads, save serious money on overhead and by reducing fraud, and to gather valuable data which can be used to optimize their operations.So how exactly are IoT solutions being applied to office dilemmas, and is the increasingly trendy “smart office” anything more than a temporary fad? A quick look at the union between smart tech and America’s workspaces shows that this phenomenon is anything but temporary, and will fundamentally reshape how we work and run our businesses well into the future.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Cisco adds telemetry to storage networks

Fiber Channel (FC) storage networks have always been somewhat of a black box. Servers and storage devices are plugged in, and things magically seem to work.For the most part, storage-area networks (SANs) are reliable and perform well – and they better because the applications that rely of FC-SANs are typically the most important ones in the company. But what happens when things aren’t working? A poorly performing SAN might mean that the database with critical customer information isn’t available or financial records can’t be pulled up. Also on Network World: 10 Most important open source networking projects Historically, troubleshooting SANs has been difficult because the FC switches give off little data that can be used to identify the source of a problem. Typically, engineers would need to deploy a physical test access port (TAP) or packet broker in front of the product to capture the data. This may seem like a reasonable strategy until one prices out TAPs and learns the price per port is about 5-10x a FC port. Companies that go down this route often buy a few and deploy them only when there is a problem. This causes the engineering team to always be in Continue reading

Can We Expand the Multistakeholder Model for Internet Governance? A Feasibility Report

What can be done to expand the usage of the multistakeholder model for Internet governance?

Collaborative decision making has been at the heart of how the Internet has grown and developed since its earliest days. Multistakeholder approaches are used across the Internet ecosystem and have helped create the opportunities made possible by the Internet today. But as we outlined in our Global Internet Report 2017, more work is needed to expand the use of multistakeholder processes in order to tackle some of the most pressing challenges facing the future of the Internet.

As I wrote last summer, the Internet Society commissioned a feasibility study on expanding the use of the multistakeholder model for Internet governance , including three focus areas:

  • Demonstrating the efficacy of the model
  • Capacity building
  • Research

I would like to thank Larry Strickling and Grace Abuhamad, who have led this work. Their report is based on interviews with a wide range ICT experts from academia, industry, the technical community, civil society and governments.  It details a possible framework for such an initiative, as well as the resources required. It also makes clear that any new initiative should support and complement existing initiatives such as the Internet Governance Forum Continue reading

Scary Linux commands for Halloween

With Halloween so fast approaching, it’s time for a little focus on the spookier side of Linux. What commands might bring up images of ghosts, witches and zombies? Which might encourage the spirit of trick or treat?crypt Well, we’ve always got crypt. Despite its name, crypt is not an underground vault or a burial pit for trashed files, but a command that encrypts file content. These days “crypt” is generally implemented as a script that emulates the older crypt command by calling a binary called mcrypt to do its work. Using the mycrypt command directly is an even better option. $ mcrypt x Enter the passphrase (maximum of 512 characters) Please use a combination of upper and lower case letters and numbers. Enter passphrase: Enter passphrase: File x was encrypted. Note that the mcrypt command creates a second file with an added ".nc" extension. It doesn't overwrite the file you are encrypting.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worth Reading: Raw sockets in IPv6

As part of a measurement experiment, we wanted an implementation of an IPv6 UDP server and a TCP server that generated fragmented IPv6 packets. However, as an added condition, we wanted the application to directly control the packet fragmentation function. The conventional standard socket interface masks any visibility to the underlying packet transactions, and therefore cannot be used for this experiment. —Geoff Huston @Potaroo

MetLife Uses Docker Enterprise Edition to Self Fund Containerization

MetLife is a 150 year old company in the business of securing promises and the information management of over 100M customers and their insurance policies. As a global company, MetLife delivers promises into every corner of the world – some of them built to last a lifetime. With this rich legacy comes a diverse portfolio of IT infrastructure to maintain those promises.

In April, Aaron Aedes from MetLife spoke about their first foray into Docker containerization with a new application, GSSP, delivered through Azure. Six months later, MetLife returns to the DockerCon stage to share their journey since this initial deployment motivated them to find other ways to leverage Docker Enterprise Edition [EE] within MetLife.

Jeff Murr, Director of Engineering for Containers and Open Source at MetLife spoke in the Day 1 DockerCon keynote session about how they are looking to scale containerization with Docker as they scale . He states that new technology typically adds more cost and overhead to an already taxed IT budget. But the Docker Modernize Traditional Apps [MTA] Program presented an opportunity to reduce the costs of their existing applications.

The MTA project at MetLife started with a single Linux Java-based application that handled the “Do Not Continue reading

IDG Contributor Network: How consumer demand is driving development of the Internet of Things

Few industries are as impacted by consumer demand as the Internet of Things (IoT) and the plethora of sectors reliant on in; when consumers demand a new gadget or a new service, an innovative startup springs up seemingly overnight to meet those demands. Similarly, few consumer goods are as customizable or responsive to changing user preferences as the gadgets and software that make up the commercial IoT. So how can savvy IoT enthusiast rely on consumer demand to better the IoT businesses?One can’t find success in the field of IT or within the IoT in general without understanding how crucial consumer demand is to the industry as a whole. More than anything else, this demand is driving the extraordinarily rapid development of the IoT, which could reach a dizzying 50 billion connections by 2020, according to Brookings.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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