We’ve all seen the VMware PKS announcement at VMworld 2017, and we are all excited about it. The idea of provisioning Kubernetes clusters in an easy way, with day-2 operations, inside your datacenters, has been a request from most of the VMware customers who are starting their journeys into the brave new cloud-native world. As... Read more →
We’ve all seen the VMware PKS announcement at VMworld 2017, and we are all excited about it. The idea of provisioning Kubernetes clusters in an easy way, with day-2 operations, inside your datacenters, has been a request from most of the VMware customers who are starting their journeys into the brave new cloud-native world. As we saw also from the announcement, PKS is currently under development by VMware, Google and Pivotal and is targeted for GA Q4 this year.
Until then, what if we have a solution today that you can start piloting right away without waiting? And what if it is based on the VMware solutions that you’ve grown to use and love. Better yet, what if we can add to that mix a solid networking and security capabilities to run your Kubernetes clusters in a self-service and IT governance to maintain your existing operational models?
Figure 1: Solution Overview
I’ve just started a new blog series that I named “Kubernetes in the Enterprise” which answers all those questions in a form of an enterprise-grade solution. This solution is very grounded to the real-world and business challenges, and driven by many discussions that I have been having with my Continue reading
For those of you unable to attend future:net 2017 in Las Vegas, NV last month, fear not—what happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas!
That’s right, thanks to the wonder that is YouTube, there are video recordings available of the amazing keynote speakers and presentations that took place at this year’s future:net conference, which brought together the technical and networking leaders shaping new network strategies, solutions and innovations for the future of digital transformation.
To cure you of any FOMO you may have, check out a recap of future:net presentations below, including links to their videos and a brief description of the speakers and topics discussed during each.
The potent combination of powerful CPUs, floating point laden GPU accelerators, and fast InfiniBand networking are coming to market and reshaping the upper echelons of supercomputing. While Intel is having issues with its future Knights massively parallel X86 processors, which it has not really explained, the two capability class supercomputers that are being built for the US Department of Energy by IBM with the help of Nvidia and Mellanox Technologies, named “Summit” and ‘Sierra” and installed at Oak Ridge National Lab and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, are beginning to be assembled.
We have previously profiled the nodes in …
The Clever Machinations Of Livermore’s Sierra Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
I wrote this post prior on my personal blog at HumairAhmed.com. You can also see many of my prior blogs on multisite and Cross-vCenter NSX here on the VMware Network Virtualization blog site. This post expands on my prior post, Multi-site Active-Active Solutions with NSX-V and F5 BIG-IP DNS. Specifically, in this post, deploying applications in an Active-Active model across data centers is demonstrated where ingress/egress is always at the data center local to the client, or in other words localized ingress/egress. Continue reading
Red Hat has been aggressive in building out its capabilities around containers. The company last month unveiled its OpenShift Container Platform 3.6, its enterprise-grade Kubernetes container platform for cloud native applications that added enhanced security features and greater consistency across hybrid and multi-cloud deployments.
A couple of weeks later, Red Hat and Microsoft expanded their alliance to make it easier for organizations to adopt containers. Red Hat last year debuted OpenShift 3.0, which was based on the open source Kubernetes orchestration system and Docker containers, and the company has since continued to roll out enhancements to the platform.
The …
Red Hat Stretches Gluster Clustered Storage Under Containers was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
DockerCon Europe 2017 is just around the corner and the whole European Docker community is getting ready for four days of incredible learning, networking and collaboration!
If you’re a registered attendee, login on to the DockerCon Europe Agenda Builder using the information you set up during the registration process. You can use the keyword search bar or filter by topics, days, tracks, experience level or target audience to get recommended sessions and build you schedule.
Every DockerCon Europe Attendee should have received an invitation to join the Docker Community Slack (dockercommunity.slack.com). If that’s not the case, please reach out to [email protected] and we’ll make sure to resend the invitation.
Attendees who have signed up for Paid-Workshops or want to check in and pick up their badge and backpacks early should plan to be in Copenhagen by Monday morning.
Registration
Registration will be open from 12:00 – 19:30.
Workshops
Interested in attending a DockerCon EU Workshops on Monday? Here is the list of the workshops that are still available:
If you’ve already registered for a workshop, Continue reading
IDC’s tracker unleashed a maelstrom of headlines, online comments, and alternate statistics.
Chinese insurance company virtualizes data centers with Nuage's SDN.
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We are currently living a special moment in time, a sort of paradox.
Today, almost half of the world’s population already has Internet access. This figure is much higher than anything we could have anticipated 10 years ago, an achievement we should be happily celebrating.
But a recent report by the Internet Society, Paths To Our Digital Future, shows there are no guarantees when it comes to the Internet’s future. To achieve a digital future where people come first will require new thinking, new approaches, and new tools for this rapidly changing world around us.
And with this we find ourselves facing an even greater challenge. This is no longer the Internet of 10% of the world’s population. It is the Internet of 50% of the people around the world; in some countries, Internet penetration is now close to 100%.
The Internet has become essential, and the opportunity gap between those who are connected and those who are not grows each day. We cannot afford to remain indifferent to this Internet revolution.
If we don’t connect the remaining 50%, this gap could have long-term consequences for the opportunities that present themselves later in life.
After the United Nations adopted Continue reading
Welcome back to the Cumulus content roundup! This month, we think it’s time to get our hands dirty and play around with the latest technology. From video tutorials to how-to blogs to thought-provoking articles, this issue brings together all the resources you need to start experimenting with new configurations, networking practices and more. So, what are you waiting for? Let’s get off of the couch (or stay on the couch, if that’s where you work) and start upgrading that datacenter!
Web-scale networking how-to videos: This month, we launched a series of how-to videos to show you the ropes of web-scale networking. What’s the difference between configuring an IP address with Cisco or Cumulus Linux? How do I automate my datacenter? Watch our tutorials to answer these questions!
Cumulus Express — proof that our customers’ success is our success: Announcing Cumulus Express has done great things for Cumulus Networks, but the greatest asset we have is listening to our customers. Read on to see how paying attention to what people want returns the best rewards.
Contain yourself! Best practices for container networking: This webinar covers everything that you need to know about container architecture, the challenges they Continue reading
Eventually the carrier plans to merge all access platforms under a single SDN control.
Why securing the Domain Name System remains an afterthought at many organizations.
Why securing the Domain Name System remains an afterthought at many organizations.