Hyperconvergence’s Missing Piece
Hyperconverged systems don't do much when it comes to networking.
HashiConf 2017 Day 1 Keynote
This is a liveblog from the day 1 keynote (general session) at HashiConf 2017 in Austin, TX. I’m attending HashiConf this year as an “ordinary attendee” (not working or speaking), and so I’m looking forward to being able to actually sit in on sessions for a change.
At 9:43am, the keynote kicks off with someone (I don’t know who, he doesn’t identify himself) who provides some logistics about the event, the Wi-Fi, asking attendees to tweet, etc. After a couple minutes, he brings out Mitchell Hashimoto, Founder and co-CTO of HashiCorp, onto the stage.
Hashimoto starts out his talk by reviewing a bit of the history and growth of both HashiConf (and, indirectly, HashiCorp). Last year, HashiCorp has grown from about 50 employees to now over 130 employees. HashiCorp has also seen significant community growth, Hashimoto says, and he reviews the growth in in the use of HashiCorp’s products (Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, Vault, Consul, and Nomad). Hashimoto also reviews the growth in their commercial products (Consul Enterprise, Vault Enterprise, and Terraform Enterprise). Hashimoto also discusses HashiCorp’s commitment to open source software and the desire to properly balance commercial (paid) products versus free (open source) projects.
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New Website Features
One of the reasons I migrated this site to Hugo a little over a month ago was that Hugo offered the ability to do things with the site that I couldn’t (easily) do with Jekyll (via GitHub Pages). Over the last few days, I’ve taken advantage of Hugo’s flexibility to add a couple new features to the site.
New functionality that I’ve added includes:
Category- and tag-specific RSS feeds: Hugo can easily generate category- and tag-specific RSS feeds, enabling readers to subscribe to the RSS feed for a particular category or tag. On the taxonomy list pages—these are the pages that list all the posts found in a particular category or tag—there’s now a small link to the RSS feed for that specific category or tag. (As an example, checkout the list of posts in the “General” category.)
(Truly) Related posts: The “Related Posts” section at the bottom of posts has returned, thanks to new functionality found in Hugo 0.27 (functionality that was, apparently, inspired in part by my experiences—see the docs page). This section lists 3 posts that are considered by Hugo to be related, based on the category and tags assigned to the posts.
It’s Continue reading
Improving BGP Convergence without Tweaking BGP Timers
One of the perks of my online courses is the lifetime access to course Slack team, and you’d amazed by the variety of questions asked there. Not so long ago I got one on BGP timers:
The BGP timers I’m using in my network are 5 and 15 seconds, and I am not sure if it's a good practice to reduce them even more.
You should always ask yourself this set of questions before tweaking a nerd knob:
Read more ...Network Access Control- NAC (Aruba Vs Cisco)
Today I am going to talk about the Network Access Control- NAC and the vendors of the NAC services providers basically Cisco and Aruba. I will talk Aruba's ClearPass and then I will go with the Cisco NAC solution named as Cisco ISE.
As per the market and the Gartner's Magic Quadrant, Cisco ISE is leading the space followed by Fore scout and Aruba Networks. Before we start with the NAC solution, First question you guys expecting is that what is NAC- Network Access Control.
What is NAC- Network Access Control ?
Network access control (NAC) and is also called network admission control, is a method of
strengthen the security of a proprietary network by restricting the availability of network resources to endpoint devices that comply with a defined security policy.
So as per the NAC, the end devices are being authenticated to access the network. Hope you understand the use of the NAC- Network Access Control. While the computer is being checked by a installed software agent, it can only access resources that can remediate any issues. Once the policy is met, the computer is able to access network resources and the Internet, within the policies defined within the Continue reading
So as per the NAC, the end devices are being authenticated to access the network. Hope you understand the use of the NAC- Network Access Control. While the computer is being checked by a installed software agent, it can only access resources that can remediate any issues. Once the policy is met, the computer is able to access network resources and the Internet, within the policies defined within the Continue reading
Watch the Internet Hall of Fame (IHOF) Awards Tonight From L.A.
Who will be inducted into the 2017 Internet Hall of Fame? Who will be recognized for their contributions to the Internet? Find out today at 5:30pm PDT (00:30 UTC) through live video streams. There are multiple options to watch:
The IHOF award ceremony will be recorded and available for later viewing on Livestream, YouTube and Facebook.
Additionally, there is a live transcription service:
You can also follow IHOF activity on Twitter via the @Internet_HOF account and #IHOF2017 hashtag.
The IHOF awards ceremony begins 24 hours of our InterCommunity 2017 event. View the ICOMM 2017 schedule to see what will be happening over the time.
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Is M8 The Last Hurrah For Oracle Sparc?
Intel is not the only system maker that is looking to converge its processor lines to make life a bit simpler for itself and for its customers as well as to save some money on engineering work. Oracle has just announced its Sparc M8 processor, and while this is an interesting chip, what is also interesting is that a Sparc T8 companion processor aimed at entry and midrange systems was not already introduced and does not appear to be in the works.
There is plenty a little weird here. The new Sparc T8 systems are, in fact, going to be …
Is M8 The Last Hurrah For Oracle Sparc? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Pivotal Greenplum Analytic Database Adds Multicloud Support
Alibaba and Tencent have integrated the open source technology into their clouds.
Ericsson’s Rima Qureshi Will Become Verizon’s Chief Strategy Officer
She joins former Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg who also moved to Verizon.
Worth Reading: Signposts on the roadmap to 10TB/sec
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Nokia Says Software, Virtualization Will Shift Telecom Spending
The infrastructure vendor knows it needs to expand its customer base outside of CSPs.
What does the future hold for the Internet?
This is the fundamental question that we are posing through the report just launched today, our 2017 Global Internet Report: Paths to Our Digital Future.
The report is a window into the diverse views and perspectives of a global community that cares deeply about how the Internet will evolve and impact humanity over the next 5-7 years. We couldn’t know what we would find when we embarked on the journey to map what stakeholders believe could shape the future of the Internet, nor can we truly know what will happen to the Internet, but we do now have a sense of what we need to think about today to help shape the Internet of tomorrow. The report reflects the views and aspirations of our community as well as some of the most pressing challenges facing the future of this great innovation.
What have we learned? We’ve learned that our community remains confident that the core Internet values that gave rise to the Internet remain valid. We also heard very strong worries that the user-centric model of the Internet is under extraordinary pressure from governments, from technology giants, and even from the technology itself. There is a sense that there Continue reading
Equinix Opens New ‘Cloud Dense’ Data Center in Silicon Valley
The new facility offers direct connection between customers in seven other data centers via dark fiber links.
Chuck Robbins to Replace John Chambers on Cisco’s Board
This marks the end of Chambers’ era at Cisco.
On-Prem IT Infrastructure Endures, Talent Needed
451 Research finds companies maintaining data center capacity in the cloud era, but facing skills shortage.
China Telecom, Huawei Demo 5G Network Slicing for Power Grids
As 5G moves closer to reality, vendors are shifting their focus to network slicing.
What Kind of Design?
In this short video I work through two kinds of design, or two different ways of designing a network. Which kind of designer are you? Do you see one as better than the other? Which would you prefer to do, are you right now?
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