5 Key Questions To Ask Before Moving To the Cloud
Enterprise IT pros should consider these factors before a cloud migration.
Video: Using REST API with PowerShell
PowerShell is a great scripting environment if your vendor provided PowerShell libraries to control their software or devices… but what if all you got is REST API (example: Nexus switches)?
We’ll conveniently ignore the challenges of managing devices that use 30-year-old non-scriptable CLI.
Read more ...Welcome to the new Internet Society website!
It’s my enormous pleasure to welcome you to the new Internet Society website.
The completely new-look, new-feel website is a far cry from our old site. Many months in the making, it’s been designed and built with some key attributes in mind. We’ve simplified and improved the structure to make things easier to find. It highlights the issues we work on and shows the news and resources you need in those areas. We’ve made the site mobile friendly and accessible to accepted standards. We’ve also introduced a cleaner design containing more graphics and more visual components to bring our content to life.
We’ve consolidated pages where it makes sense to do so to provide a sleeker, more streamlined experience. We’ve made it easier to find information about what we do regionally and around the world. Importantly, “Take Action” is now prominent throughout the site to help you understand what you can do to support our work and shape the future of the Internet.
What’s more, we’re doing all this in three languages – English, French and Spanish!
Everything about the site is different, and – I hope you agree – refreshing. It delivers an engaging experience and draws attention Continue reading
Install Python 2.7.13 and 3.6.2 on Centos 7 Minimal
Centos 7 minimal ships with python 2.7.5 and using such an old python version can cause problems when using some python packages for network automation. This post describes how to install python 2.7.13 and python 3.6.2 on a Centos 7 minimal server. Install Python Install required YUM...Install Python 2.7.13 and 3.6.2 on Centos 7 Minimal
Install python 2.7.13 and 3.6.2 on Centos 7 minimal server.Dell EMC Rack Scale Infrastructure Targets Service Providers’ SDDCs
CenturyLink, Sprint, and Telefonica are customers for the “hyperscale-inspired” infrastructure.
VeloCloud Partner Program Aims to Onboard Service Providers ASAP
The vendor now has 50 service provider customers.
Worth Reading: Retrieval and relevance
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Comcast Business Rolls Out an SDN Platform Named ActiveCore
SD-WAN is the first service offered on the platform.
Oracle Bets Big on Kubernetes, Joins CNCF as Platinum Member
CNCF continues to roll up large cloud providers.
Ericsson Makes Heuveldop’s North America Post Permanent
Ericsson also inked a content delivery network deal with Equinix.
Reaction: Networking Vendors are Only Good for the Free Lunch
I ran into an article over at the Register this week which painted the entire networking industry, from vendors to standards bodies, with a rather broad brush. While there are true bits and pieces in the piece, some balance seems to be in order. The article recaps a presentation by Peyton Koran at Electronic Arts (I suspect the Register spiced things up a little for effect); the line of argument seems to run something like this—
- Vendors are only paying attention to larger customers, and/or a large group of customers asking for the same thing; if you are not in either group, then you get no service from any vendor
- Vendors further bake secret sauce into their hardware, making it impossible to get what you want from your network without buying from them
- Standards bodies are too slow, and hence useless
- People are working around this, and getting to the inter-operable networks they really want, by moving to the cloud
- There is another way: just treat your networking gear like servers, and write your own protocols—after all you probably already have programmers on staff who know how to do this
Let’s think about these a little more deeply.
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Have you noticed there’s a lot more collaboration going on these days? Why?
Thanks to zero marginal cost digital production methods, we're seeing content markets—for the first time—develop in conditions free from supply and price constraints.
In the process we've learned something: consumers have an unquenchable thirst for new content; content creators are willing to oblige with an equally prodigious stream of new content; platforms that best control access to the customer are the biggest winners; the reward for content creators varies drastically by medium and platform.
For consumers, life is now a streaming fixed priced buffet of unending variety and diversion.
For producers, the changes have been terrifying. Old modes have crumbled, leaving everyone scrambling to figure out what, if anything, comes next.
To adapt, content creators are learning to exploit capture loops, bundling, and collaboration to extract money from a digital economy that has collectively decided it rarely wants to pay artists directly for their content anymore.
The most highly evolved form of digital content platform strategies can be found in the book market. Why? Because Amazon.
Kindle Unlimited is the Clear Platform Winner
Veriflow Brings Intent-Based Networking Verification to the Cloud
The updated platform can infer business goals with no input from the user.