Pluribus Networks Debuts Open Data Center Interconnect (DCI)
Pluribus Networks has introduced the industry’s only software-defined and open Data Center Interconnect (DCI) solution.
Sprint CTO Says Network Virtualization Is Happening Soon
The operator will talk more about virtualization later this year.
Business Case for Serverless
You can’t pick a technical direction without considering the business implications. Mat Ellis, Founder/CEO of Cloudability, in a recent CloudCast episode, makes the business case for Serverless. The argument goes something like:
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Enterprises know they can’t run services cheaper than Amazon. Even if the cost is 2x the extra agility of the cloud is often worth the multiple.
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So enterprises are moving to the cloud.
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Moving to the cloud is a move to services. How do you build services now? Using Serverless.
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With services businesses use a familiar cost per unit billing model, they can think of paying for services as a cost per database query, cost per terabyte of data, and so on.
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Since employees are no longer managing boxes and infrastructure they can now focus entirely on business goals.
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There’s now an opportunity to change business models. Serverless will make new businesses economically viable because they can do things they could never do before based on price and capabilities.
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Serverless makes it faster to iterate and deploy new code which makes it faster to find a proper product/market fit.
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Smaller teams with smaller budgets with smaller revenues can do things now that only big companies could do Continue reading
Worth Reading: A fistful of bitcoins
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Iraq Downs Internet To Combat Cheating…Again!
Earlier this morning, the national fiber backbone of Iraq was taken offline in an effort to combat cheating on 6th grade placement exams. It was the fourth such outage in the past five days. 2017 marks the third year Iraq has used government-directed internet blackouts to combat cheating on student exams.
These recent outages are a continuation of a growing (and somewhat puzzling) trend by governments in many developing parts of the world to cut communications services in a desperate attempt to staunch rampant cheating on high-stakes student exams.
In the summer of 2015, we broke the story of periodic early-morning outages of the national backbone of Iraq’s internet. These were the first such government-directed national internet outages to combat cheating on exams and were subsequently covered by publications such as Ars Technica and The Daily Beast.
Python: Real World Hacking on StackStorm (Network Engineer Focussed)
It’s miserably cold, raining (the kind that gets you really wet) and a strange dark grey light covers the UK. Some would say a typical day on this island. That said, I have a coffee in hand and some thoughts to share!
For the last year working for Brocade, I’ve been heavily focussed on delivering talks, demonstrations and knowledge on the excellent StackStorm open-source project (referred to as ST2 from this point onwards for brevity). This post does not go in to what ST2 is, but for those who don’t know, it’s an event driven workflow engine. Input, decision/s, output. Simple! The ST2 website itself is a great resource for information as well as other well known blogs. ST2 is quite feature rich and under constant development. One would say it’s an agile tool for a growingly agile world.
So What Have You Been Making?
I can’t spoil what it is I’ve been building, but one of the challenges was to use the built in key-value (KV) store (currently built on Etcd with a ST2 specific abstraction layer) to use as a point of data convergence. What does this mean in real terms? I have multiple things happening and I Continue reading
Vapor IO Intros Micro Data Centers for Wireless Base Stations
Vapor IO answers the question: Where is the edge?
T-Mobile’s Neville Ray: 5G is About Capacity and New Capabilities
Let the 5G marketing wars begin!
oVirt Gamification–The oVirt Game You Didn’t Know you Were Playing
Gamification is the concept of applying game mechanics and game design techniques to engage and motivate people to achieve their goals.
It taps into the basic desires and needs of the users impulses which revolve around the idea of Status and Achievement.
To put it in other words, it is turning day-to-day tasks, the kind you might do at home or work, into a game which you can earn points, badges and compete with other people that are doing the same things.
oVirt & Gamification
You probably didn't know, but this isn't the first time oVirt gamification is being used. A few years ago there was an initiative to use oVirt UI plugins system to add Gamification to the project, there was even a "space invaders" game written and available to play inside oVirt!
So What is New?
The oVirt infra team recently reached out to 'GetBadges', a company which provides 'Gamification as a Service'. Luckily for us, open source projects get to have a free game! So oVirt was rewarded with its own oVirt Open Source Game.
The game works automagically every time you contribute to the project. Current integrations are only active on specific projects like 'ovirt-engine' and Continue reading
Scaling Compute to Meet Large-Scale CT Scan Demands
Computed tomography (CT) is a widely-used process in medicine and industry. Many X-ray images taken around a common axis of rotation are combined to create a three-dimensional view of an object, including the interior.
In medicine, this technique is commonly used for non-invasive diagnostic applications such as searching for cancerous masses. Industrial applications include examining metal components for stress fractures and comparing produced materials to the original computer-aided design (CAD) specifications. While this process provides invaluable insight, it also presents an analytical challenge.
State-of-the-art CT scanners use synchrotron light, which enables very fine resolution in four dimensions. For example, the …
Scaling Compute to Meet Large-Scale CT Scan Demands was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.