Top DRaaS companies to watch

Forrester Research recently released its report naming Sungard AS, Bluelock, IBM and iland as the top disaster recovery-as-a-service companies.With enterprises expecting their network up at all times, backup and recovery are key to keeping things running smoothly with no downtime. With ransomware waiting to pounce the minute a user clicks on a link, companies rely on network recovery in a matter of minutes not days.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

5 tips to uncover a company’s culture before accepting a job

You might think the perfect job is one that fits your skills, comes with the right salary and offers you the best benefits, but the evaluation doesn't end there. There's one more thing to consider, and that's whether or not you'll fit in with the company culture, which can differ greatly among companies.But you don't have to wait until you've gone through onboarding to parse out the company culture, according to Tom Gimbel, founder and CEO of LaSalle Network, a professional staffing and recruitment firm. If you ask the right questionas during the interview process and keep an eye out for certain signs, you'll be able to tell if you're a good cultural fit before you sign the offer. Here are a few things to consider if you're trying to determine company culture during the interview process.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Versa brings multiple functions to software-defined branch networks

Branch sites are ideal places to make networking simpler and less expensive. There's often little or no IT expertise there, and it's harder to justify costs because only a fraction of a company's business happens at a given branch.Yet the rise of software-defined WANs and branch offices, designed to scale back the expense and complexity of far-flung networks, has left some parts of the problem unsolved, according to SD-WAN startup Versa Networks.For one thing, replacing branch appliances for each function with applications running on one system may raise software compatibility issues that are even more complicated than wiring up several boxes. Also, swapping out private WAN links for lower-priced internet service can open branches up to some new security threats.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Versa brings multiple functions to software-defined branch networks

Branch sites are ideal places to make networking simpler and less expensive. There's often little or no IT expertise there, and it's harder to justify costs because only a fraction of a company's business happens at a given branch.Yet the rise of software-defined WANs and branch offices, designed to scale back the expense and complexity of far-flung networks, has left some parts of the problem unsolved, according to SD-WAN startup Versa Networks.For one thing, replacing branch appliances for each function with applications running on one system may raise software compatibility issues that are even more complicated than wiring up several boxes. Also, swapping out private WAN links for lower-priced internet service can open branches up to some new security threats.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Check Point boosts cloud-security education to help IT security pros stay relevant

Check Point is investing heavily in educating IT pros about the cloud, not only to promote their own cloud security products but to give potential customers the skills they’ll need to keep their jobs as their employers move more and more resources to public cloud providers. Check Point “We try to explain how to be relevant in the cloud,” says Itai Greenberg, head of cloud security for Check Point.A lot of old-school IT security workers need to learn about how cloud infrastructure works, the terminology used, the interconnections between cloud and corporate owned networks and the ins and outs of APIs, among other skills.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Check Point boosts cloud-security education to help IT security pros stay relevant

Check Point is investing heavily in educating IT pros about the cloud, not only to promote their own cloud security products but to give potential customers the skills they’ll need to keep their jobs as their employers move more and more resources to public cloud providers. Check Point “We try to explain how to be relevant in the cloud,” says Itai Greenberg, head of cloud security for Check Point.A lot of old-school IT security workers need to learn about how cloud infrastructure works, the terminology used, the interconnections between cloud and corporate owned networks and the ins and outs of APIs, among other skills.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Episode 3 – The Unique Challenges of Working in SMB

In this episode of Network Collective we dive in to the challenges of working as a technologist in a small or medium sized business (SMB).  We look at things like staffing, budgets, and small business mindsets that make working in this space very different than working in mid-market or enterprise organizations.  Matt Haedo, John Duprey, and Kevin Blackburn join the Network Collective hosts in talking about this common, but often under the radar topic.

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Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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John Duprey

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Kevin Blackburn

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Jordan Martin

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Eyvonne Sharp

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Phil Gervasi

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Episode 3 – The Unique Challenges of Working in SMB

In this episode of Network Collective we dive in to the challenges of working as a technologist in a small or medium sized business (SMB).  We look at things like staffing, budgets, and small business mindsets that make working in this space very different than working in mid-market or enterprise organizations.  Matt Haedo, John Duprey, and Kevin Blackburn join the Network Collective hosts in talking about this common, but often under the radar topic.

Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Matt Haedo

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John Duprey

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Kevin Blackburn

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Jordan Martin

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Eyvonne Sharp

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Phil Gervasi

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Backup and Recovery Software: IT Pros Weigh In

May CCDE Practical exam is cancelled worldwide,all the details !

May 11 2017, CCDE Practical exam has been cancelled worldwide on May 4, 2017.   People reacted differently for this cancellation.   I have 200+ CCDE candidates in my study groups, thus I think I am the person who can provide you the most accurate information about the reaction of the candidates.   Most, if […]

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A Warm Welcome to the Summer Internship Students

The oVirt project is glad to announce that five talented students will be joining the oVirt community over the summer period, as part of the 2017 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and Outreachy internship programs.

Both GSoC and Outreachy focus on getting more student developers interested in open source software development, as well as providing opportunities for talented people, underrepresented in the tech world, to gain valuable technology experience. The students will spend their summer break writing code, learning about open source development and documentation, and earning a stipend.

Joining us as part of GSoC are:

Tasdik Rahman will be working on adding Ansible roles for oVirt-utilities, for easier testing and automated redeployment. His mentor will be Lukas Svaty.

Shubham Dubey will be working on configuring backup storage for Ovirt. The idea is to replace the need for a dedicated storage domain for backup and disaster recovery. Shubham's mentor will be Maor Lipchuk.

Joining us as part of Outreachy, are:

Anastasia Antsiferova will be working on the oVirt log analyser. Her mentor will be Milan Zamazal.

Leni Kadali will be working on documetation. His mentor will be Jason Brooks.

Valentina Makarova will be working on implementing oVirt integration tests using Continue reading

Failure Is Inevitable – Deal with It!

Last week a large European financial institution had a bad hair day. My friend Christoph Jaggi asked for my opinion, and I decided not to focus on the specific problem (that’s what post-mortems are for) but to point out something that’s often forgotten: don’t believe your system won’t fail, be prepared to deal with the failure.

John Oliver is wrong about Net Neutrality

GOAI: Keeping Databases, Analytics, And Machine Learning All On The GPU

Moving data is the biggest problem in computing, and probably has been since there was data processing if we really want to be honest about it. Because of the cost of bandwidth, latency, energy, and iron to do multiple stages of processing on information in a modern application that might include a database as well as machine learning algorithms against stuff stored there as well as from other sources, you want to try to do all your computation from the memory of one set of devices.

That, in a nutshell, is what the GPU Open Analytics Initiative is laying the …

GOAI: Keeping Databases, Analytics, And Machine Learning All On The GPU was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Time to Overhaul Your Campus Network

Over the last few years cloud service providers have steadily adopted white-box Ethernet switches and modern, flexible Network Operating Systems into their ecosystems. Mega data center operators, such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, have replaced their proprietary gear with white boxes in their production environments. The major benefit of this paradigm shift is significantly reduced CapEx and OpEx, a more reliable environment, and customized traffic flows for efficiency.  According to IDC, the worldwide ODM direct Ethernet switch (white box) market was $677 million in 2016 and is expected to exceed $900 million in 2017. That’s a growth rate of 33%, and the trend is accelerating.

The shift in white-box adoption started as early as 2012, but has been limited to data centers for many reasons. Even though Enterprise IT executives are motivated to adopt white-boxes, the migration has been slow and challenging. Essentially, the Enterprise network is distinctly different from data center network in many ways.

• The data center network is usually homogeneous, while the Enterprise network is heterogeneous. Typically, Enterprises require a variety of speeds ranging from 100Mbps to 100Gbps, and run over different cables, including various types of copper and fiber. The increasingly deployed Power over Ethernet (PoE) Continue reading

Edward Snowden Wakes Up the Audience at OpenStack Summit 2017

It's better to own your cloud than to outsource it, Snowden says.

Open vSwitch Day at OpenStack Summit 2017

This is a “liveblog” (not quite live, but you get the idea) of the Open vSwitch Open Source Day happening at the OpenStack Summit in Boston. Summaries of each of the presentations are included below.

Kubernetes and OVN on Windows

The first session was led by Cloudbase Solutions, a company out of Italy that has been heavily involved in porting OVS to Windows with Hyper-V. The first part of the session focused on bringing attendees up to speed on the current state of OVS and OVN on Hyper-V. Feature parity and user interface parity between OVS/OVN on Hyper-V is really close to OVS/OVN on Linux, which should make it easier for Linux sysadmins to use OVS/OVN on Hyper-V as well.

The second part of the session showed using OVN under Kubernetes to provide networking between Windows containers on Windows hosts and Linux containers on Linux hosts, including networking across multiple cloud providers.

Lightning Talks

The lightning talks were all under 5 minutes, so a brief summary of these are provided below:

• Joe Stringer showed how to set up OVS with an OpenFlow controller (Faucet) to do networking between multiple hosts in 5 minutes or less.
• A gentleman (I didn’t catch Continue reading

Open vSwitch Day at OpenStack Summit 2017

This is a “liveblog” (not quite live, but you get the idea) of the Open vSwitch Open Source Day happening at the OpenStack Summit in Boston. Summaries of each of the presentations are included below.

Kubernetes and OVN on Windows

The first session was led by Cloudbase Solutions, a company out of Italy that has been heavily involved in porting OVS to Windows with Hyper-V. The first part of the session focused on bringing attendees up to speed on the current state of OVS and OVN on Hyper-V. Feature parity and user interface parity between OVS/OVN on Hyper-V is really close to OVS/OVN on Linux, which should make it easier for Linux sysadmins to use OVS/OVN on Hyper-V as well.

The second part of the session showed using OVN under Kubernetes to provide networking between Windows containers on Windows hosts and Linux containers on Linux hosts, including networking across multiple cloud providers.

Lightning Talks

The lightning talks were all under 5 minutes, so a brief summary of these are provided below:

• Joe Stringer showed how to set up OVS with an OpenFlow controller (Faucet) to do networking between multiple hosts in 5 minutes or less.
• A gentleman (I didn’t catch Continue reading

How to protect your Google and Facebook accounts with a security key

In late March when I got an unsettling message on my Gmail account: "Warning: Google may have detected government-backed attackers trying to steal your password."Google sends them out when it detects a "government-backed attacker" has attempted to hack an account through phishing or malware.Last time I saw one, I added two-factor authentication to many of my accounts. This time it prompted me to ask: Can I do even better? Martyn Williams/IDGNS A security warning message displayed by Google.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

How to protect your Google and Facebook accounts with a security key

In late March when I got an unsettling message on my Gmail account: "Warning: Google may have detected government-backed attackers trying to steal your password."Google sends them out when it detects a "government-backed attacker" has attempted to hack an account through phishing or malware.Last time I saw one, I added two-factor authentication to many of my accounts. This time it prompted me to ask: Can I do even better? Martyn Williams/IDGNS A security warning message displayed by Google.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here