DNS: Valuable and Vulnerable
The domain name system is vital for operating in a digital economy, but a target for cybercriminals.
Good to Great: Hallmarks of High-Tech Leadership
You are probably expecting me to write another monthly blog on exciting innovative technology. Today I digress and reflect on recent awards and accolades Arista has received and how we got here. At Arista, we have worked very hard to become a great company. Building a good company takes constant hard work and heavy lifting. Making a great company is an even harder work-in-progress, demanding tenacity, especially in high technology, where disruptions are daunting and challenges are frequent.
Good to Great: Hallmarks of High-Tech Leadership
You are probably expecting me to write another monthly blog on exciting innovative technology. Today I digress and reflect on recent awards and accolades Arista has received and how we got here. At Arista, we have worked very hard to become a great company. Building a good company takes constant hard work and heavy lifting. Making a great company is an even harder work-in-progress, demanding tenacity, especially in high technology, where disruptions are daunting and challenges are frequent.
Some Yubikeys Affected by Infineon Security Weakness
As Robin Wilton discussed a few days ago in Roca: Encryption Vulnerability and What to do About It, yet another security vulnerability has been discovered. If you have one of the ISOC-branded Yubikey 4s that we have given out at some conferences, they were affected by the recently disclosed Infineon vulnerability. See these two links for details:
- https://www.yubico.com/2017/10/infineon-rsa-key-generation-issue/
- https://www.yubico.com/support/security-advisories/ysa-2017-01/
This issue impacts only some limited uses of the keys. For details, see
https://www.yubico.com/keycheck/functionality_assessment.
You can get your ISOC-branded Yubikey 4 replaced at no cost to you by going to this page and following the instructions.
If you have questions or concerns, please contact Steve Olshansky, Internet Technology Program Manager, at <[email protected]>.
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For Google Networks, Predictable Latency Trumps Everything
If you want to build infrastructure that scales larger than a single image of a server and an operating system, you have no choice but to network together multiple machines. And so, the network becomes a kind of hyper backplane between compute elements and, in many cases, also a kind of virtual peripheral bus for things like disk and flash storage. From the outside, a warehouse-scale computer, as Google has been calling them for nearly a decade, is meant to look and behave like one machine even if it most certainly is not.
It is hard to quantify how …
For Google Networks, Predictable Latency Trumps Everything was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Broadcom Trumpets Plans to Domicile to the US as Brocade Deal Lingers
President Trump touted the announcement during an Oval Office event.
A Sublime Text Keymap for Bracketeer
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I’m a fan of Sublime Text (ST). I’ve evaluated other editors, like Atom, but still find that ST offers the right blend of performance, functionality, customizability, and cross-platform support. One nice thing about ST (other editors have this too) is the ability to extend it via packages. Bracketeer is one of many packages that can be used to customize ST’s behavior; in this post, I’d like to share a keymap I’m using with Bracketeer that I’ve found very helpful.
Bracketeer is a package that modifies ST’s default bracketing behavior. I first started using Bracketeer to help with writing Markdown documents, as it makes adding brackets (or parentheses) around existing text easier (it automatically advances the insertion point after the closing bracket). After using Bracketeer for a little while, I realized I could extend the keymap for Bracketeer to have it also help me with “wrapping” text in backticks and a few other characters. I did this by adding this line to the default keymap:
{
"keys": [ "`" ],
"command": "bracketeer",
"args": {
"braces": "``",
"pressed": "`"
}
}
With this line in the keymap, I could select some text, press Continue reading
VMware Branches Out with VeloCloud Deal
Virtualization giant extends networking reach beyond the data center with purchase of SD-WAN supplier
Google Improves Latency 40% Within its Software-Defined Networking
New software delivers reductions in VM-to-VM latency.
CORD: The $300 Billion Opportunity at the Network Edge
ONF says 80 percent of the telco spending is at the edge of the network.
AT&T Expands AWS Partnership to Focus on Enterprise Security
Company claims new Threat Management platform can process 5 billion security threats in 10 minutes.
Fortinet Next Generation Firewalls : Fortinet 5000 Series Firewalls
Today I am going to talk about Fortinet Next Generation Firewalls. As i already wrote many articles on Next Generation firewalls. Below are some of the links of other vendors describing Next Generation Firewalls
Above are some of the articles i wrote about Firewalls on different vendors which includes Cisco, Sophos, Checkpoint, Symantec, Meraki and Palo-Alto.
Now I am going to talk about the Fortinet Next Generation Firewalls.
Fortinet Next Generation Firewalls
Now I am going to talk about the Fortinet Next Generation Firewalls.
Fortinet Next Generation Firewalls
The Fort iGATE High-end series of Data Center and Next-Gen Firewalls deliver all the top-rated security effectiveness you expect from Fortinet, in an ultra-low latency compact appliance and flexible chassis platform.
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| Fig 1.1- Fortigate Next Generation Firewalls |
Purpose built Forti-ASIC processors and FortiOS, delivers exceptional throughput and enables security, scalability, flexibility and manageability you demand for data center edge Continue reading
Reaction: Enabling Privacy is not Harmful
The argument for end-to-end encryption is apparently heating up with the work moving forward on TLSv1.3 currently in progress in the IETF. The naysayers, however, are also out in force, arguing that end-to-end encryption is a net negative. What is the line of argument? According to a recent article in CircleID, it seems to be something like this:
- Governments have a right to asymmetrical encryption capabilities in order to maintain order. In other words, governments have the right to ensure that all private communication is ultimately readable by the government for any lawful purpose.
- Standards bodies that enable end-to-end encryption that will prevent this absolute governmental good endanger society. The leaders of such standards bodies may, in fact, be prosecuted for their role in subverting government power.
The idea of end-to-end encryption is recast as a form of extremism, a radical idea that should not be supported by the network engineering community. Is end-to-end encryption really extremist? Is it really a threat to the social order?
Let me begin here: this is not just a technical issue. There are two opposing worldviews in play. Engineers don’t often study worldviews, or philosophy, so these questions tend to get buried in Continue reading
VMware Snaps Up SD-WAN Vendor VeloCloud
The deal gives VMware more networking clout to better compete with Cisco.
3 must-attend events at OpenStack Summit Sydney
OpenStack Summit Sydney is just around the corner, and Cumulus Networks wouldn’t miss it for the world! We’ll be there at our booth, doing daily contests and raffles, so make sure to stop by. If you’re lucky, you might walk away with a 6 pack of Linux Lager. But of course, you don’t need beer to have fun at OpenStack — there’s so much to keep you busy and fired up! With so many amazing panels and presentations, it’s hard to pick and choose which events to attend. Fortunately, we’ve done the research and picked out the top 3 must-attend activities. If you’re going to be at OpenStack in Sydney next week, make sure to check these out:
- 1-on-1 OpenStack demo: Eager to get hands-on with everything OpenStack has to offer? Then you should sign up for a live demo with Cumulus Networks! We will first be doing a theater session at 4:00 PM on Monday at the Marketplace Demo Theater Level 2, where CTO JR Rivers will give insight as to how production deployments are leveraging IP fabrics and OpenStack networking to simplify operations and deliver services at scale. But of course, nothing beats seeing the tech up-close and Continue reading