It’s Not The Size of Your Conference Community
Where do you get the most enjoyment from your conference attendance? Do you like going to sessions and learning about new things? Do you enjoy more of the social aspect of meeting friends and networking with your peers? Maybe it’s something else entirely?
It’s The Big Show
When you look at shows like Cisco Live, VMworld, or Interop ITX, there’s a lot going on. There are diverse education tracks attended by thousands of people. You could go to Interop and bounce from a big data session into a security session, followed by a cloud panel. You could attend Cisco Live and never talk about networking. You could go to VMworld and only talk about networking. There are lots of opportunities to talk about a variety of things.
But these conferences are huge. Cisco and VMware both take up the entire Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. When in San Francisco, both of these events dwarf the Moscone Center and have to spread out into the surrounding hotels. That means it’s easy to get lost or be overlooked. I’ve been to Cisco Live before and never bumped into people I know from my area that said they Continue reading
SDxCentral Weekly News Roundup — May 26, 2017
Red Hat acquires cloud-native tool provider; Ericsson demonstrates 5G network slicing.
Tanium Raises $100M: ‘Vote of Confidence’ or ‘Liquidity Event’ After Bad Press?
CEO Orion Hindawi says bullying reports are untrue.
Nexius Software-Focused Subsidiary Targets Cisco and Ericsson
Nexius will target telecom operators trying to tackle webscale plans.
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For May 26th, 2017
Hey, it's HighScalability time:
- 42%: increase US wireless traffic since 2015; 44: age of Ethernet; I $18.5m: low cost of Target data breach; 25 million: record set from Library of Congress; 98%: WannaCry infections on Windows 7; 100 terabytes: daily Pinterest logging; 2020: when Microsoft will have DNA storage in the cloud; 220 μm: size of microbots; 2 billion: lines of code in Google repository; 40%+: esports industry growth;
- Quotable Quotes:
- @Werner: There is no compression algorithm for experience.
- @colinmckerrache: We just crossed over 2m EVs on the road. So yeah, second million took just under 18 months. Next million in about 10 months.
- @swardley: When discussing China, stop thinking cheap labour, communism & copying ... to understand changes, start thinking World's largest VC.
- @JOTB17: "Cars generate more than 4Tb of data a day, humans are becoming irrelevant in data collection" ? @saleiva #JOTB17
- Wojciech Kudla: that's why blacklisting workqueues from critical Continue reading
Dell EMC and The Amazing Internet Of Things
While at Dell EMC World 2017 I had a very interesting chat with Jason Shepherd, Dell EMC’s Director of IoT Strategy & Partnerships. To be clear, I’m not an expert on the Internet of Things (IOT), and our discussion was a useful reminder how much difference perspective makes when evaluating a technology.
Internet Of Things: Use Cases
When I think about IOT the first thing that comes to mind — naturally enough — are the items most applicable to me, like a smart thermostat, smart door locks, smart light bulbs, and so forth. I work in an enterprise, so I also think about building management in the enterprise, to include things like smart lighting, HVAC, presence sensors, temperature monitoring and more. Both of these environments are ripe for IOT functionality, and are the ones that most of us are likely to encounter on a daily basis.
However, it’s probably obvious that there are many more use cases for IOT devices, including for example:
- industrial (monitoring critical equipment like motors, valves, temperatures, flow meters)
- metropolitan (city-wide automotive/pedestrian traffic monitoring, traffic flows)
- agricultural (monitoring water levels, animal health, production volumes, environmental)
- automotive (monitoring the car’s engine, location, mechanical and electronic Continue reading
Juniper Data Center Cohesion Wrap Up
Finally getting caught up with work since my time in Cali and although this post is a little late, I wanted to take a moment to capture my thoughts on Juniper Network’s Data Center Cohesion event which took place in Sunnyvale at Juniper’s Aspiration Dome last week. I had an awesome time and the sessions …Securing Your Enterprise’s Expansion into the Cloud
Security needs to be elastic enough to scale with the cloud infrastructure itself.
Cisco working to regain control of the network edge in containers
Gets into the future of container networking via CNCF.
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Getting Started: Tower Projects and Inventories
Welcome to another post in our Getting Started series. In our previous post, we discussed how you can equip your Ansible Tower instance with users and credentials.
In this post, we will discuss how to set up projects and inventories in your Ansible Tower instance.
What Is A Tower Project?
Tower projects are a logical collection of Ansible Playbooks that are set up with each other based on what they might be doing or which hosts they might interact with.
Playbooks can be managed within Tower projects by either adding them manually to the project base path on your Tower server, (/var/lib/awx/projects) or by importing them from a source control management system (SCM) that is supported by Tower. Examples of SCMs supported by Tower are Git, Subversion and Mercurial. Managing your projects with an SCM is recommended to ensure that only users with assigned access to the repository can change the Playbook before execution, and for the extra layer of accountability and change control it provides. If your Playbooks are managed by an SCM, update options can be selected to “update on launch”, “delete on update” and “clean”.
If you select “update on launch", Tower will sync each Continue reading
LPWAN: The Linchpin for IIoT
The industrial internet of things requires Low Power Wide Area Network technology.
Start Using OpenConfig with NAPALM on Software Gone Wild
OpenConfig sounds like a great idea, but unfortunately only a few vendors support it, and it doesn’t run on all their platforms, and you need the latest-and-greatest software release. Not exactly a set of conditions that would encourage widespread adoption.
Things might change with the OpenConfig data models supported in NAPALM. Imagine you could parse router configurations or show printouts into OpenConfig data structures, or use OpenConfig to configure Cisco IOS routers running a decade old software.
Read more ...Progressive Dutch Municipality Protects Citizen Data and Meets Compliance with VMware NSX
Summary: Municipality of Zoetermeer implements Zero-Trust model with VMware NSX-enabled micro-segmentation for advanced security inside data centers. Zoetermeer follows the Dutch BIG (Baseline Information Security Dutch Municipalities) regulations Zoetermeer is a modern, fast-growing municipality in the province of South Holland. It provides local services such as water supply, sewage and garbage disposal to around 125,000... Read more →