HPE Inks Deal For SimpliVity
Hewlett-Packard boosts hyperconvergence portfolio with purchase of a market pioneer.
HPE to Acquire Hyperconverged Player SimpliVity for $650M
Not quite the price that was rumored.
The Open Baton MANO Group Pre-Dates OSM and Open-O
Open Baton may eventually contribute to other open source MANO groups.
Oracle Barnstorms NYC to Reassert Its Cloud Message
All of Oracle's applications have been rewritten for cloud readiness.
Worth Reading: We’re all responsible for fake news
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The Great Domain Debacle
For those who are interested—this weekend I got into a “discussion” with my old/current DNS provider, Network Solutions. I’ve been using them for years, but there have apparently been recent changes at the company. Part of their “new” terms of service say—
We may, at any time, activate the auto-renew service for eligible services in your account. Further, we may provide you with an opportunity to “opt in” to our automatic renewal process in accordance with the instructions (and subject to your agreement to the terms and conditions pertaining to that process) on our Website. You agree that if you are enrolled in or otherwise utilizing our auto-renew service, we will attempt to renew your service at some point less than ninety (90) days prior to its expiration. Such automatic renewal for your service(s), if successful, may be for a shorter term than the term for which you originally purchased your service(s), but in no event shall such term be longer than the term then-currently in place for the service(s). Such automatic renewal for your service(s), if successful, shall be at the then-current price for the service(s). You further agree that, to turn off the auto-renew service for any of Continue reading
Docker for Windows Server and Image2Docker
In December we had a live webinar focused on Windows Server Docker containers. We covered a lot of ground and we had some great feedback – thanks to all the folks who joined us. This is a brief recap of the session, which also gives answers to the questions we didn’t get round to.
Webinar Recording
You can view the webinar on YouTube:
The recording clocks in at just under an hour. Here’s what we covered:
- 00:00 Introduction
- 02:00 Docker on Windows Server 2016
- 05:30 Windows Server 2016 technical details
- 10:30 Hyper-V and Windows Server Containers
- 13:00 Docker for Windows Demo – ASP.NET Core app with SQL Server
- 25:30 Additional Partnerships between Docker, Inc. and Microsoft
- 27:30 Introduction to Image2Docker
- 30:00 Demo – Extracting ASP.NET Apps from a VM using Image2Docker
- 52:00 Next steps and resources for learning Docker on Windows
Q&A
Can these [Windows] containers be hosted on a Linux host?
No. Docker containers use the underlying operating system kernel to run processes, so you can’t mix and match kernels. You can only run Windows Docker images on Windows, and Linux Docker images on Linux.
However, with an upcoming release to the Windows network stack, you will be Continue reading
The Essence Of Multi-Threaded Applications
In the prior two articles in this series, we have gone through the theory behind programming multi-threaded applications, with the management of shared memory being accessed by multiple threads, and of even creating those threads in the first place. Now, we need to put one such multi-threaded application together and see how it works. You will find that the pieces fall together remarkably easily.
If we wanted to build a parallel application using multiple threads, we would likely first think of one where we split up a loop amongst the threads. We will be looking at such later in a …
The Essence Of Multi-Threaded Applications was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
SDxE: Engineer Focused
As an engineer, you’ve probably asked yourself a thousand times—what does all this software defined stuff mean for me? Answers are out there, of course; it seems like everyone is writing about it. Some of the answers out there are even useful, of course, but some of them are not. Most folks writing about the software defined craze are either unrealistic, or they’re focused on the large scale network you probably aren’t working on. Which leaves the question lingering: how does software defined apply to me?
SDxE—Software Defined Enterprise—is a new show designed to answer those questions for the engineer. I’ll be there; the full schedule isn’t in place, but I am currently pulling together a panel about the end of the (appliance) router. I plan to have folks from Cumulus, 6Wind, and at least one independent expert (Jeff Tantsura), sitting down to chat with me about disaggregation and the future of the router market. Specifically, are the tools in place that will allow you, the average engineer, running the “average” “enterprise” network, to take advantage of disaggregation?
Shawn Zandi will be there discussing the LinkedIn data center, and Pete Lumbis will be there talking about network automation. Continue reading