New ARM Architecture Offers A DynamIQ Response To Compute
ARM has rearchitected its multi-core chips to they can better compete in a world where computing needs are becoming more specialized.
The new DynamIQ architecture will provide flexible compute, with up to eight different cores in a single cluster on a system on a chip. Each core can run at a different clock speed so a company making an ARM SoC can tailor the silicon to handle multiple workloads at varying power efficiencies. The DynamIQ architecture also adds faster access to accelerators for artificial intelligence or networking jobs, and a resiliency that allows it to be used in robotics, autonomous …
New ARM Architecture Offers A DynamIQ Response To Compute was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
5 Container Deployment Challenges
It’s easy to get Docker up and running in a development environment, but moving containers into production can be difficult.
Save the Date- Africans @ IETF 98- 28 March, 8-9 am (US CDT)
Africans at the IETF Meeting
Background
Two Switches Saga: Now in Text Format
Remember the All You Need Are Two Switches saga? Several readers told me they’d like to have in text (article) format, so I found a transcription service, and started editing what they produced and publishing it. The first two installments are already online.
On a related topic: we’ll discuss the viability of this approach in April DIGS event in Zurich, Switzerland.
Nutanix
This article is based on a single hardware node running Nutanix Community Edition (CE), built following the instruction in Part I: How to setup a three-node NUC Nutanix CE cluster. If you don't have hardware readily available, the article, 6 Nested Virtualization Resources To Get You Started With Community Edition, describes how to run Nutanix CE as a virtual machine.The sFlow standard is widely supported by network equipment vendors, which combined with sFlow from each Nutanix appliance, delivers end to end visibility in the Nutanix cluster. The following screen captures from the free sFlowTrend tool are representative examples of the data available from the Nutanix appliance.
The Linux Migration: Corporate Collaboration, Part 1
One major aspect of my migration to Linux as my primary desktop OS is how well it integrates with corporate communication and collaboration systems. Based on the feedback I’ve gotten from others on Twitter, this is a major concern for a lot of folks out there. In fact, a number of folks have indicated that this is the only thing keeping them from migrating to Linux. There are a number of different aspects to “corporate communication and collaboration,” so I’m breaking this down into multiple posts (each post will discuss one particular aspect). In this post, I’ll discuss integration with corporate e-mail.
Because corporate e-mail is such an important part of how people communicate these days, it’s a fairly significant concern when thinking of migrating to Linux. Fortunately, it’s actually pretty easy to solve.
My employer, like many companies out there, uses Office 365 for corporate e-mail. Many people think that this locks them into Outlook on the desktop side, but that’s not accurate. (Now, you may be locked into Outlook for other reasons, like calendaring—a topic I’ll touch on in part 2 of this series.) For Office 365 users, there are three paths open for accessing corporate e-mail:
VMware NSX and vRNI Enabling Customer Operations
Recently, we had a customer challenge our team to prove to them the operational gains and demonstrate the cross-functional tooling VMware provides to assist them in scaling from zero to hundreds of VMs on the platform. Our goal was simple – exhibit a complete lifecycle for any customer to go from evaluation to production operation thereby enabling customer operations. The result was a video summary demoing our enhanced tooling that complements our simple three-step workflow: environmental assessment, plan and enforcement, and then continuous monitoring.
Step 1 – Environmental Assessment:
Understanding your environment is crucial in today’s modern world of IT – and is especially key at the early stages of identifying an easy to implement micro-segmentation plan. We’ve made this process very easy (even if you don’t have NSX in your environment yet!). VMware offers the free VMware Virtual Network Assessment that will take that identified traffic and start to make suggested firewall and security recommendations. Additionally, we provide correlated data and analysis to highlight useful metrics that are top-of-mind for network operators – such as the amount of East-West/North-South traffic present in your network, or how much data is seen on Continue reading