With DevOps, organizations can build scalable, automated infrastructure to facilitate IoT-driven transformation.
Running Linux containers on a single host is relatively easy. Building private multi-tenant networks across multiple hosts immediately creates the usual networking mess.
Fortunately the Socketplane team did a pretty good job; for more details watch the video from Docker Networking Fundamentals webinar or listen to the podcast I did with them a year ago.
Making ASICs is a tough task. We learned this last year at Cisco Live Berlin from this conversation with Dave Zacks:
Cisco spent 6 years building the UADP ASIC that powers their next generation switches. They solved a lot of the issues with ASIC design and re-spins by creating some programmability in the development process.
Now, watch this video from Nick McKeown at Barefoot Networks:
Nick says many of the same things that Dave said in his video. But Nick and Barefoot took a totally different approach from Cisco. Instead of creating programmable elements in the ASIC design, then abstracted the entire language of function definition from the ASIC. By using P4 as the high level language and making the system compile the instruction sets down to run in the ASIC, they reduced the complexity, increased the speed, and managed to make the system flexible and capable of implementing new technologies even after the ASIC design is set in stone.
Oh, and they managed to do it in 3 years.
Sometimes, you have to think outside the box in order to come up with some new ideas. Even if that means you have to pull everything out of the box. Continue reading
Today we’re releasing Docker 1.13 with lots of new features, improvements and fixes to help Docker users with New Year’s resolutions to build more and better container apps. Docker 1.13 builds on and improves Docker swarm mode introduced in Docker 1.12 and has lots of other fixes. Read on for Docker 1.13 highlights.
Docker 1.13 adds Compose-file support to the `docker stack deploy` command so that services can be deployed using a `docker-compose.yml` file directly. Powering this is a major effort to extend the swarm service API to make it more flexible and useful.
Benefits include:
Deploying a multi-host, multi-service stack is now as simple as:
docker stack deploy --compose-file=docker-compose.yml my_stack
Ever been bitten by the dreaded Error response from daemon: client is newer than server
problem because your Docker CLI was updated, but you still need to use it with older Docker engines?
Starting with 1.13, newer CLIs can talk to older daemons. We’re also adding feature negotiation so that proper errors are returned if a new Continue reading
The company needs to break from its hardware-centric past.
Rumors have been running around for months that Hewlett Packard Enterprise was shopping around for a way to be a bigger player in the hyperconverged storage arena, and the recent scuttlebutt was that HPE was considering paying close to $4 billion for one of the larger players in server-storage hybrids. This turns out to not be true. HPE is paying only $650 million to snap up what was, until now, thought to be one of Silicon Valley’s dozen or so unicorns with over a $1 billion valuation.
It is refreshing to see that HPE is not overpaying for an …
HPE Gets Serious About Hyperconverged Storage With SimpliVity Buy was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.