Data storage archive options: Batch, real-time and hierarchical storage management

When it comes to archiving data, there are three different approaches, generally speaking. Selecting the right system hinges on technical capabilities as well as external factors such as budget constraints. Enterprise storage pros need to balance data- preservation, accessibility, and resource-optimization requirements as they weigh the various archive systems available in the market. Let's take a deeper look into the different types of archive systems.Traditional batch archive With a traditional batch archive, data serves its purpose for a certain period before being tucked away in a safe repository, awaiting the possibility of being of some use in the future. The main idea behind this type of archive is to preserve data over an extended timeframe, while keeping costs at a minimum and ensuring that retrieval remains a breeze even years down the line. In this kind of archive system, each collection of data selected for archiving is given one or more identities, stored as metadata alongside the archived data. This metadata plays a pivotal role in locating and retrieving the archived information, with details such as project names, tools used for to create the data, the creator’s name, and the creation timeframe all forming part of this digital fingerprint. Continue reading

Data storage archive options: Batch, real-time and hierarchical storage management

When it comes to archiving data, there are three different approaches, generally speaking. Selecting the right system hinges on technical capabilities as well as external factors such as budget constraints. Enterprise storage pros need to balance data- preservation, accessibility, and resource-optimization requirements as they weigh the various archive systems available in the market. Let's take a deeper look into the different types of archive systems.Traditional batch archive With a traditional batch archive, data serves its purpose for a certain period before being tucked away in a safe repository, awaiting the possibility of being of some use in the future. The main idea behind this type of archive is to preserve data over an extended timeframe, while keeping costs at a minimum and ensuring that retrieval remains a breeze even years down the line. In this kind of archive system, each collection of data selected for archiving is given one or more identities, stored as metadata alongside the archived data. This metadata plays a pivotal role in locating and retrieving the archived information, with details such as project names, tools used for to create the data, the creator’s name, and the creation timeframe all forming part of this digital fingerprint. Continue reading

What IT needs to know about energy-efficiency directives for data centers

Creating energy-efficient and sustainable data centers makes a lot of sense from a business standpoint. Aside from the obvious environmental impact of lower carbon emissions, the potential business benefits include lower operating costs, reduced space requirements and a positive brand image.There’s another good reason for building more sustainable and energy-efficient data centers: Regulations and standards are emerging around the world that will require or recommend such actions.IT and networking executives and their teams need to get up to speed on a host of sustainability regulations and standards that are going to require a response on their part. Energy efficiency and sustainability are not just issues for facilities teams anymore. They are a concern for IT teams that will be asked to provide metrics, so the need for reporting will become more urgent. They will also need to select more energy-efficient hardware.To read this article in full, please click here

What IT needs to know about energy-efficiency directives for data centers

Creating energy-efficient and sustainable data centers makes a lot of sense from a business standpoint. Aside from the obvious environmental impact of lower carbon emissions, the potential business benefits include lower operating costs, reduced space requirements and a positive brand image.There’s another good reason for building more sustainable and energy-efficient data centers: Regulations and standards are emerging around the world that will require or recommend such actions.IT and networking executives and their teams need to get up to speed on a host of sustainability regulations and standards that are going to require a response on their part. Energy efficiency and sustainability are not just issues for facilities teams anymore. They are a concern for IT teams that will be asked to provide metrics, so the need for reporting will become more urgent. They will also need to select more energy-efficient hardware.To read this article in full, please click here

Birthday Week recap: everything we announced — plus an AI-powered opportunity for startups

This year, Cloudflare officially became a teenager, turning 13 years old. We celebrated this milestone with a series of announcements that benefit both our customers and the Internet community.

From developing applications in the age of AI to securing against the most advanced attacks that are yet to come, Cloudflare is proud to provide the tools that help our customers stay one step ahead.

We hope you’ve had a great time following along and for anyone looking for a recap of everything we launched this week, here it is:

Monday

生日周回顾：我们宣布的所有内容，以及为初创企业提供的 AI 驱动机会

今年，Cloudflare 正式成为踏入青春阶段，迎来了 13 岁生日。为了庆祝这个里程碑，我们发布了一系列公告，我们的客户和互联网社区都会从中受益。

从在人工智能时代开发应用，到防御尚未出现的最先进攻击，Cloudflare 很高兴能提供帮助我们的客户保持领先一步的工具。

我们希望您跟随我们度过了一段美好的时光，如果想要回顾我们本周发布的所有内容，请查看下文：

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Die Birthday Week im Rückblick: alle unsere Ankündigungen und eine KI-gestützte Chance für Start-ups

Dieses Jahr ist Cloudflare offiziell ins Teenager-Alter eingetreten, denn wir feiern unser 13-jähriges Firmenjubiläum. Anlässlich dieses Meilensteins haben wir eine Reihe von neuen Produkten vorgestellt, von denen sowohl unseren Kunden als auch die Internet-Community im Allgemeinen profitieren werden.

Von der Anwendungsentwicklung im Zeitalter der KI bis hin zum Schutz vor den ausgefeiltesten Angriffen, die noch erdacht werden müssen: Mit den Werkzeugen von Cloudflare sind unsere Kunden dem Geschehen immer einen Schritt voraus.

Wir hoffen, dass unsere Ankündigungen für Sie von Interesse waren. Sollten Sie befürchten, etwas verpasst zu haben, finden Sie hier noch einmal ein Überblick über alles, was wir während der Birthday Week eingeführt haben:

Montag

Resumen de la Semana aniversario – consulta todos nuestros anuncios y descubre una oportunidad para empresas emergentes de IA

Este año, Cloudflare ha alcanzado oficialmente la adolescencia ¡cumplimos 13 años! Celebramos este hito con una serie de anuncios que benefician tanto a nuestros clientes como a la comunidad de Internet.

Desde el desarrollo de aplicaciones en la era de la IA hasta la protección contra los ataques más avanzados que están por llegar, Cloudflare se enorgullece de facilitar herramientas que ayudan a nuestros clientes a mantener una posición de ventaja.

Esperamos que te lo hayas pasado muy bien en este viaje. Si te interesa conocer un resumen de todos nuestros anuncios en esta semana, sigue leyendo:

LUNES

Récapitulatif de la Semaine anniversaire : tout ce que nous avons annoncé, ainsi qu'une opportunité fondée sur l'IA et dédiée aux start-ups

Cette année, Cloudflare est officiellement entrée dans l'adolescence, puisque l'entreprise a fêté ses 13 ans. Nous avons fêté cet événement avec une série d'annonces qui profitent à la fois à nos clients et à la communauté Internet.

Du développement d'applications à l'ère de l'IA à la sécurisation contre des attaques extrêmement avancées et encore inconnues, Cloudflare est fière de fournir des outils qui aident nos clients à garder une longueur d'avance.

Nous espérons que vous avez passé un excellent moment à suivre notre actualité, et pour tous ceux qui souhaiteraient pouvoir consulter un récapitulatif de toutes les innovations que nous avons inaugurées cette semaine, le voici :

Lundi

バースデーウィークの総括：当社のすべての発表、そしておよびスタートアップ企業にとってのAI活用の機会

今年、Cloudflareは正式にティーンエイジャーとなり、13歳を迎えました。当社ではこの節目を、お客様とインターネットコミュニティの双方に有益な一連の発表で祝いました。

AI時代のアプリケーション開発から、これから起こる最先端の攻撃に対するセキュリティまで、Cloudflareはお客様が一歩先を行くためのツールを提供できることを誇りに思っています。

当社が今週発表したすべてのニュースをまとめてご紹介します：

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Cloudflareが昨年12周年を迎えた折、Workers Launchpad Funding Programを発表しました。クラウドレアのデベロッパー・プラットフォーム上に構築する企業のためのスタートアップ加速プログラムのようなもので、企業の規模、ステージ、地域に制限はありません。

Launchpadの仕組みについての振り返り：四半期ごとに、私たちはスタートアップのグループを選出し、幅広い技術的アドバイス、指導、資金調達の機会を提供しています。これには、ファウンダーズ・ブートキャンプ、ソリューション・アーキテクトによるオープン・オフィス・アワー、デモ・デーなどが含まれます。また、資金調達の準備が整ったスタートアップは、40社以上のグローバルな大手ベンチャーキャピタルのコミュニティに参加することができます。

その代わり、率直な感想の提供を依頼しています。当社では、何がうまくいき、何がうまくいかず、何が必要なのかを知りたいのです。当社は、貴企業への出資者となることを求めることはなく、プログラムに参加するために費用を負担することも求めていません。

ここまで、60か国近くからの応募を受けてきました。当社は、最初の2つのコホートに参加した50の見事な初期および成長段階の新興企業と緊密に協力する機会を得、当社のVCパートナー・コミュニティを40社以上に拡大し、Cloudflareを基盤とする新興企業への潜在的な投資額は20億ドルを超えました。

次は、コホート#3となります。 先日、第2コホートが終了し（デモ・デーをぜひご覧ください）、Launchpadの1歳の誕生日を祝い、そして先週行ったたくさんの発表の間に、皆様にすべてのニュースにキャッチアップしていただくために十分な時間をとることが必要だと考えました。そのため、第3コホートの締め切りを数週間延長し、2023年10月13日とします。また、先週水曜日に発表されたAIのいずれかをすでに利用している方のために、5名分の枠を確保しています。応募時には、現在お使いいただいているものを明記していただけるよう、お願いいたします。

お知らせをチェックし、コーヒーを飲んで休んだら、Workers Launchpadをチェックしてみてください。応募は簡単です。コーヒーが冷めないうちに、応募は完了するでしょう。

次回まで

2023年のバースデーウィークは、以上です。また次回のイノベーション・ウィークでお会いしましょう！

창립기념일 주간 요약: Cloudflare에서 발표한 모든 내용 및 스타트업을 위한 AI를 기반으로 한 기회

올해 Cloudflare에서는 공식적으로 13주년을 맞습니다. 우리는 이 이정표를 고객과 인터넷 커뮤니티 모두에 이점을 선사하는 다양한 발표로 기념했습니다.

AI 시대에 애플리케이션을 개발하는 것부터 아직 등장하지도 않은 최신 위협으로부터 보호하는 것까지 Cloudflare에서는 고객이 한 발자국 앞서 있을 수 있도록 도구를 제공한다는 사실을 자랑스럽게 여깁니다.

이러한 발표를 지켜보며 즐거운 시간이 되셨기를 바랍니다. 이번 주에 출시한 제품의 요약은 다음과 같습니다.

월요일

Now serving: Event-Driven Ansible with a dash of durability

In the realm of automation, the ability to respond to events in real-time is a game-changer. At Red Hat, we've been pioneering in this space with Event-Driven Ansible, which can consume messages from various sources like AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS), Azure Service Bus, and Kafka to trigger automated actions. Today, we're excited to delve into a powerful integration pattern involving AWS Lambda, AWS SQS, and Event-Driven Ansible.

Imagine this: A SaaS application sends a webhook POST request. This request triggers a Lambda function, which validates an API key or other payload data, filters the payload, and sends a message to SQS. Event-Driven Ansible subscribes to the queue, consumes the message and triggers an automated action. Let's explore this workflow in detail.

The Workflow

Here's a visual representation of the workflow with AWS Lambda and AWS SQS:

Ideally, in this model, webhook POSTs should selectively  be sent to the SQS queue. Rulebooks within Event-Driven Ansible have the ability to validate that a key within the header contains the specified value – but that means the message is already on my queue. I want to stop that from happening. In this case, my Lambda function should be able to validate Continue reading

BGP Session Security: Be Very Skeptical

A while ago I explained how Generalized TTL Security Mechanism could be used to prevent denial-of-service attacks on routers running EBGP. Considering the results published in Analyzing the Security of BGP Message Parsing presentation from DEFCON 31 I started wondering how well GTSM implementations work.

TL&DR summary:

BGP Session Security: Be Very Skeptical

A while ago I explained how Generalized TTL Security Mechanism could be used to prevent denial-of-service attacks on routers running EBGP. Considering the results published in Analyzing the Security of BGP Message Parsing presentation from DEFCON 31 I started wondering how well GTSM implementations work.

TL&DR summary:

WPA2 Cracking On NVIDIA with CUDA

In the previous tutorial "Cracking WPA/WPA2 Pre-shared Key Using GPU", we showed how to crack […]

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Worth Reading: Flow Distribution Across ECMP Paths

Dip Singh wrote another interesting article describing how ECMP load balancing implementations work behind the scenes. Absolutely worth reading.

Worth Reading: Flow Distribution Across ECMP Paths

Dip Singh wrote another interesting article describing how ECMP load balancing implementations work behind the scenes. Absolutely worth reading.

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Since its discovery in 2019, cyber espionage group RedHotel has successfully stolen secret information from at least 17 target nations worldwide.

The vast majority of Internet users won’t notice any difference, but the update will support enhanced security for several Verisign-operated TLDs and pave the way for broader adoption and the next era of Domain Name System (DNS) security measures.

New research has found that close to 12,000 internet-exposed Juniper firewall devices are vulnerable to a recently disclosed remote code execution flaw.

At the birth of the registry model, Internet engineers could already foresee that the supply of IPv4 addresses would not sustain the predicted rate of consumption.

Attacks related to Domain Name System infrastructure – such as DNS hijacking, DNS tunneling and DNS amplification attacks – are on the rise, and many IT organizations are questioning the security of their DNS infrastructure.

An old Chinese state-linked threat actor has been quietly manipulating Cisco routers to breach multinational organizations in the US and Japan.

Can open source software be regulated? Should it be regulated? And if so, will it lead to enhanced security?

There are currently no restrictions on .AI registrations and it doesn’t help that the domain market is Continue reading

Worth Reading: Single-Port LAGs

Lindsay Hill described an excellent idea: all ports on your switches routers should be in link aggregation groups even when you have a single port in a group. That approach allows you to:

• Upgrade the link speed without changing any layer-3 configuration
• Do link maintenance without causing a routing protocol flap

It also proves RFC 1925 rule 6a, but then I guess we’re already used to that ;)

Worth Reading: Single-Port LAGs

Lindsay Hill described an excellent idea: all ports on your switches routers should be in link aggregation groups even when you have a single port in a group. That approach allows you to:

• Upgrade the link speed without changing any layer-3 configuration
• Do link maintenance without causing a routing protocol flap

It also proves RFC 1925 rule 6a, but then I guess we’re already used to that ;)