NSX-V 6.3: Cross-VC NSX Security Enhancements

NSX-V 6.2 introduced the Cross-NSX feature to allow for NSX logical networking and security across multiple vCenter domains. The ability to apply consistent networking and security across vCenter domains provides for mulitple use cases for Cross-VC NSX: workload mobility, resource pooling, multi-site security, ease of automation across sites, and disaster avoidance/recovery. With the recent release of NSX-V 6.3, several enhancements have been added to the Cross-VC NSX feature to provide for additional capabilities and overall robustness of the solution. In this blog post I’ll discuss the new Cross-VC NSX security enhancements in NSX-V 6.3. For additional information on Cross-VC NSX check-out my prior Cross-VC NSX blog posts.

The security enhancements for Cross-VC NSX can be grouped into two categories:

  1. General Enhancements (Apply Across both Active/Active and Active/Standby deployment models)
  2. Enhancements for Active/Standby Use Case

Active/Active and Active/Standby above refers to if the application is active at both sites or if it is active at one site and standby at another site (ex: disaster recovery). Enhancements for both of these respective categories are discussed in more detail below.

1.) General Enhancements (Apply Across both Active/Active and Active/Standby deployment models)

Figure 1: Cross-VC NSX Active/Standby and Active/Active Deployment Model

Figure 1: Cross-VC NSX Active/Standby and Continue reading

A real sweetheart deal for Microsoft Build tickets

Tickets for the Microsoft Build 2017, this year's edition of the annual developers' confab, will go on sale at noon EST/9am PST on Valentine's Day, Feb. 14.If you're interested in going, you should register for a shot at tickets at this Microsoft website. Tickets sold out in about a minute last year. It's not clear how much tickets will cost, but at last year's event in San Francisco, the face value was over $2,000.In a blog post about Build 2017, Microsoft EVP of the Cloud and Enterprise Group Scott Guthrie says this year's gathering in Seattle from May 10-12 is expected to attract more than 5,000 developers, plus millions more via live stream. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Privacy groups claim FBI hacking operation went too far

Privacy advocates are claiming in court that an FBI hacking operation to take down a child pornography site was unconstitutional and violated international law.That’s because the operation involved the FBI hacking 8,700 computers in 120 countries, based on a single warrant, they said.“How will other countries react to the FBI hacking in their jurisdictions without prior consent?” wrote Scarlet Kim, a legal officer with U.K.-based Privacy International.On Friday, that group, along with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, filed briefs in a lawsuit involving the FBI’s hacking operation against Playpen. The child pornography site was accessible through Tor, a browser designed for anonymous web surfing. But in 2014, the FBI managed to take it over.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Privacy groups claim FBI hacking operation went too far

Privacy advocates are claiming in court that an FBI hacking operation to take down a child pornography site was unconstitutional and violated international law.That’s because the operation involved the FBI hacking 8,700 computers in 120 countries, based on a single warrant, they said.“How will other countries react to the FBI hacking in their jurisdictions without prior consent?” wrote Scarlet Kim, a legal officer with U.K.-based Privacy International.On Friday, that group, along with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, filed briefs in a lawsuit involving the FBI’s hacking operation against Playpen. The child pornography site was accessible through Tor, a browser designed for anonymous web surfing. But in 2014, the FBI managed to take it over.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

On land and in space, IoT networks can now cover the planet

The whole idea of IoT is to connect more things, including devices far from a company’s data centers or maintenance crews. For enterprises that have things all over the world, vendors and service providers are starting to look at the big picture.At Mobile World Congress later this month, Nokia will show off what it calls WING (worldwide IoT network grid), a virtual global infrastructure that may include multiple private and carrier networks and satellite systems, depending on what an enterprise needs to connect and how it intends to use the data that’s collected.“A global enterprise can actually have what they think is their own virtual network of global connectivity for their IoT devices,” said Phil Twist, vice president of mobile networks marketing & communications, in a briefing this week. WING will be commercially available in the second half of this year.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

On land and in space, IoT networks can now cover the planet

The whole idea of IoT is to connect more things, including devices far from a company’s data centers or maintenance crews. For enterprises that have things all over the world, vendors and service providers are starting to look at the big picture.At Mobile World Congress later this month, Nokia will show off what it calls WING (worldwide IoT network grid), a virtual global infrastructure that may include multiple private and carrier networks and satellite systems, depending on what an enterprise needs to connect and how it intends to use the data that’s collected.“A global enterprise can actually have what they think is their own virtual network of global connectivity for their IoT devices,” said Phil Twist, vice president of mobile networks marketing & communications, in a briefing this week. WING will be commercially available in the second half of this year.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

25% off Kuna Smart Home Security Outdoor Light & Camera – Deal Alert

Kuna is a smart home security camera in a stylish outdoor light that detects and allows you to interact with people outside your door. The security device includes HD live and recorded video, two-way intercom, alarm, smart motion detection alerts to your phone, and more. Easy 15 minute installation with no batteries to replace so you have continuous protection around the clock. Be protected at all times - Access HD live video with its 720P wide angle camera, communicate via its two way intercom from your mobile device, or activate its 100 dB alarm siren. Smart light control lets you turn on or off your lights remotely, or program a schedule for when you're away. Access live video or review & download events for 2 hours free or up to 30-days on an optional subscription plan, starting as low as $4.99 per month. This Kuna security light averages 4 out of 5 stars from over 600 people (read reviews), and its typical list price of $199 has been reduced 25% to $149. See the discounted Kuna Smart Home Security Light and Camera on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

25% off Kuna Smart Home Security Outdoor Light & Camera – Deal Alert

Kuna is a smart home security camera in a stylish outdoor light that detects and allows you to interact with people outside your door. The security device includes HD live and recorded video, two-way intercom, alarm, smart motion detection alerts to your phone, and more. Easy 15 minute installation with no batteries to replace so you have continuous protection around the clock. Be protected at all times - Access HD live video with its 720P wide angle camera, communicate via its two way intercom from your mobile device, or activate its 100 dB alarm siren. Smart light control lets you turn on or off your lights remotely, or program a schedule for when you're away. Access live video or review & download events for 2 hours free or up to 30-days on an optional subscription plan, starting as low as $4.99 per month. This Kuna security light averages 4 out of 5 stars from over 600 people (read reviews), and its typical list price of $199 has been reduced 25% to $149. See the discounted Kuna Smart Home Security Light and Camera on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: Avaya’s Chapter 11 filing sends waves of disruption

The numbers involved in Avaya’s Chapter 11 filing are big.A company netting just under a $1 billion per year owes about seven years’ profits to repay the leverage heaped on the otherwise healthy company in an $8.2 billion private equity buyout in 2007.It also has over 5,500 patents and was named in 2012 one the 100 most innovative companies in Silicon Valley. That’s just the beginning of the saga. There are many more stories to tell.+ Also on Network World: Avaya says bankruptcy is a step toward software and services + All hope for a fair and speedy resolution to the Chapter 11 filing, and so far, so good, according to multiple observers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worth Reading: Dynamics on emerging spaces

The article (and the expectations set by the introduction to the paper itself) promise a little more than they deliver in my view – but what we do concretely get is a description of a generative process that can produce distributions like those seen in the real world, with new / novel items appearing at the observed rates and following observed distributions. Previous models have all fallen short in one way or another, so the model does indeed seem to teach us something about the process of generating the new. —The Morning Paper

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Ford to pump $1B into AI for driverless cars

Ford plans to spend US$1 billion over the next five years on the development of an artificial intelligence system for driverless cars.Ford will investment the money in Argo AI, a start-up founded by former leaders from Google and Uber's self-driving car research units, and they will work toward the goal of a system that's ready for deployment in 2021.The research will be focused on a virtual driver system capable of operating at what's called "SAE level 4." It's one of five levels defined for self-driving cars and specifically describes an autonomous car that's capable of completely controlling the vehicle in almost any condition. After it has been engaged, drivers do not need to pay attention to the driving.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Using oVirt and Vagrant

Introducing oVirt virtual machine management via Vagrant.

In this short tutorial I'm going to give a brief introduction on how to use vagrant to manage oVirt with the new community developed oVirt v4 Vagrant provider.

Background

Vagrant is a way to tool to create portable and reproducible environments. We can use it to provision and manage virtual machines in oVirt by managing a base box (small enough to fit in github as an artifact) and a Vagrantfile. The Vagrantfile is the piece of configuration that defines everything about the virtual machines: memory, cpu, base image, and any other configuration that is specific to the hosting environment.

Prerequisites

  • A fully working and configured oVirt cluster of any size
  • A system capable of compiling and running the oVirt ruby SDK gem
  • Vagrant 1.8 or later
  • The oVirt vagrant plugin installed via $ vagrant plugin install vagrant-ovirt4

The Vagrantfile

To start off, I'm going to use this Vagrantfile:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = 'ovirt4'
  config.vm.hostname = "test-vm"
  config.vm.box_url = 'https://github.com/myoung34/vagrant-ovirt4/blob/master/example_box/dummy.box?raw=true'

  config.vm.network :private_network,
    :ip => '192.168.56.100', :nictype => 'virtio', :netmask  Continue reading

IDG Contributor Network: How to automate your app dev process—and improve code quality

As your business grows, it’s increasingly important to understand how to scale engineering processes and methodologies. The amount of time spent on setup, deployment and manually testing code is often ignored by technology teams and managers. Manual server configuration and code quality tests are not only error prone, but they ultimately result wasted time and money.3 steps to automate software development Introducing automation into your Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and infrastructure scaling projects is the most effective way to improve code quality and deployment velocity. These three steps will help you do that:1. Implement a continuous integration strategy Continuous integration (CI) is a development practice where code is checked into a code repository, tested and verified in an automated process. By regularly integrating changes into a centralized repository that is automatically tested for code quality, syntax errors and unit/integration test issues, errors can be detected and located more easily.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

TechDemocracy aims to provide a holistic assessment of cyber risk  

This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices.  Click here to subscribe.  Gartner estimates that global spending on cybersecurity solutions exceeded $81 billion in 2016. The average enterprise with 1,000 or more employees spends about $15 million fighting cybercrime each year, according to the Ponemon Institute. Despite such heavy investments in all types of solutions, many CISOs still find it challenging to answer the questions, “How likely are we to have a breach, and if we do incur a breach, what will be the financial impact?”The main obstacle to answering those fundamental questions is that much of the information needed to reveal an organization’s state of cyber risk is trapped in product silos, and it’s seldom fully mapped to the organization’s compliance policies.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

TechDemocracy aims to provide a holistic assessment of cyber risk  

This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices.  Click here to subscribe.  Gartner estimates that global spending on cybersecurity solutions exceeded $81 billion in 2016. The average enterprise with 1,000 or more employees spends about $15 million fighting cybercrime each year, according to the Ponemon Institute. Despite such heavy investments in all types of solutions, many CISOs still find it challenging to answer the questions, “How likely are we to have a breach, and if we do incur a breach, what will be the financial impact?”The main obstacle to answering those fundamental questions is that much of the information needed to reveal an organization’s state of cyber risk is trapped in product silos, and it’s seldom fully mapped to the organization’s compliance policies.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

5 reasons to attend DockerCon 2017

DockerCon 2017 is for the hackers, the makers and those who want to build tools of mass innovation. In April, 5,000 of the best and brightest will come together to share and learn from different experiences, diverse backgrounds, and common interests. We know that part of what makes DockerCon so special is what happens in the hallways, not just the main stage. Those spontaneous connections between attendees, and the endless networking and learning opportunities, are where the most meaningful interactions occur.

DockerCon 2017

If you haven’t been to a DockerCon yet, you may not know what you are missing. To try to explain why DockerCon 2017 is a must attend conference, we took the liberty of putting together the Top 5 reasons to join us April 17-20 in Austin, Texas.

  1. The.Best.Content. From beginner to deep dive, DockerCon brings together the brightest minds to talk about their passion. Those passions range from tracing containers, building containers from scratch, monitoring and storage, to creating effective images. The list goes on.

  2. Experts Everywhere. Want to meet the maintainers and tech leads of the Docker project? DockerCon! The community members that put together the coolest IoT hack to make walking in between sessions Continue reading
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