Unable to access Cisco ASA through AnyConnect VPN?
How Does Internet Work - We know what is networking
I stepped on this issue few weeks ago. I was implementing a new ASA Firewall solution, first time for me with software newer than version 8.4.2 It seems that all those stories about changes in the NAT logic after that version were true. This is what I found out about ASA packet processing. Configuration was really straightforward and everything worked fine except one thing. When connected remotely using Cisco AnyConnect I was able to access all devices inside the network (inside ASA firewall), but not the ASA itself. I wasn’t able to connect with SSH nor with ASDM. I, of course,
Pascal GPUs On All Fronts Push Nvidia To New Highs
Chip maker Nvidia was founded by people who loved gaming and who wanted to make better 3D graphics cards, and decades later, the company has become a force in computing, first in HPC and then in machine learning and now database acceleration. And it all works together, with gaming graphics providing the foundation on which Nvidia can build a considerable compute business, much as Intel’s PC business provided the foundation for its Xeon assault on the datacenter over the past two and a half decades.
At some point, Nvidia may not need an explicit link to PC graphics and gaming …
Pascal GPUs On All Fronts Push Nvidia To New Highs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Brocadecom
The news is public: Broadcom is acquiring Brocade, my employer. Official announcement here, and some (unofficial) commentary here. What’s happening, and what does it mean for me? There’s limits to what I can say - either because I don’t have the answers, or because it’s not public. But here’s a little bit of info for readers wondering what will happen to me.
Update: We now have news: It’s Extreme Networks
What’s Happening?
Broadcom has announced its intention to acquire Brocade for approximately $5.5 billion:
This morning we announced a definitive agreement under which Broadcom will acquire Brocade. Broadcom believes the SAN business is a strong complement to its portfolio of enterprise storage and networking solutions, and its intention is to continue to deliver the market-leading storage networking solutions and innovation for which Brocade is so well known.
When will this happen?
Closing of the transaction is presently expected in the second half of Broadcom’s fiscal year 2017, which ends in October 2017, and is subject to regulatory approvals in various jurisdictions, customary closing conditions as well as the approval of Brocade’s stockholders.
What about the IP business?
This is the tricky bit. Broadcom is well-known as a maker Continue reading
Brocadecom
The news is public: Broadcom is acquiring Brocade, my employer. Official announcement here, and some (unofficial) commentary here. What’s happening, and what does it mean for me? There’s limits to what I can say – either because I don’t have the answers, or because it’s not public. But here’s a little bit of info for readers wondering what will happen to me.
What’s Happening?
Broadcom has announced its intention to acquire Brocade for approximately $5.5 billion:
This morning we announced a definitive agreement under which Broadcom will acquire Brocade. Broadcom believes the SAN business is a strong complement to its portfolio of enterprise storage and networking solutions, and its intention is to continue to deliver the market-leading storage networking solutions and innovation for which Brocade is so well known.
When will this happen?
Closing of the transaction is presently expected in the second half of Broadcom’s fiscal year 2017, which ends in October 2017, and is subject to regulatory approvals in various jurisdictions, customary closing conditions as well as the approval of Brocade’s stockholders.
What about the IP business?
This is the tricky bit. Broadcom is well-known as a maker of “merchant silicon,” used by many networking Continue reading
Docker Online Meetup #46: Introduction to InfraKit
In case you missed it, Solomon Hykes (Docker Founder and CTO) open sourced InfraKit during his keynote address at LinuxCon Europe in Berlin last month. InfraKit is a declarative management toolkit for orchestrating infrastructure built by two Docker core team engineers, David Chung and Bill Farner. Read this blog post to learn more about InfraKit origins, internals and plugins including groups, instances and flavors.
There are many ways you can participate in the development of the project and influence the roadmap:
- Star the project on GitHub to follow issues and development
- Help define and implement new and interesting plugins
- Instance plugins to support different infrastructure providers
- Flavor plugins to support a variety of systems like etcd or mysql clusters
- Group controller plugins like metrics-driven auto scaling and more
- Help define interfaces and implement new infrastructure resource types for things like load balancers, networks and storage volume provisioners
Check out the InfraKit repository README for more info, a quick tutorial and to start experimenting — from plain files to Terraform integration to building a Zookeeper Continue reading
Worth Reading: IT is too expensive to operate
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SDxCentral Weekly News Roundup — November 11, 2016
Microsoft opens containers; Verizon closes Fleetmatics.
RiskIQ Rakes in $30.5M in Series C Funding
RiskIQ customers include Facebook and DocuSign.
Verizon’s IoT Business May Soon Top $1B
IoT only uses about 7 percent to 10 percent of the connection layer of the network.
China Unicom Picks Spirent to Test NFV Middleware
The tests help the industry understand the predictability of NFV infrastructure.
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 11th, 2016
Hey, it's HighScalability time:
- 9 teraflops: PC GPU performance for VR rendering; 1.75 million requests per second: DDoS attack from cameras; 5GB/mo: average data consumption in the US; ~59.2GB: size of Wikipedia corpus; 50%: slower LTE within the last year; 5.4 million: entries in Microsoft Concept Graph; 20 microseconds: average round-trip latencies between 250,000 machines using direct FPGA-to-FPGA messages (Microsoft); 1.09 billion: Facebook daily active mobile users; 300 minutes: soaring time for an AI controlled glider; 82ms: latency streaming game play on Azure;
- Quotable Quotes:
- AORTA: Apple’s service revenue is now consistently greater than iPad and Mac revenue streams making it the number two revenue stream behind the gargantuan iPhone bucket.
- @GeertHub: Apple R&D budget: $10 billion NASA science budget: $5 billion One explored Pluto, the other made a new keyboard.
- Steve Jobs: tie all of our products together, so we further lock customers into our ecosystem
- @moxie: I think these types of posts are also the inevitable result of people overestimating our organizational capacity based Continue reading
Worth Reading: Rough guide to IETF 97
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Accelerating the Journey to an Agile, Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
Rip and replace tactics almost always results in failure.
Ruckus Sails Into Another Smart City
By: Wendy Stanton, Marketing Manager Imagine being out on the ocean with the wind at your back, smelling the salty air and feeling the mist of water on your face, as you hang over the edge watching the bow of...What Sort of Burst Buffer Are You?
Burst buffer technology is closely associated with HPC applications and supercomputer sites as a means of ensuring that persistent storage, typically a parallel file system, does not become a bottleneck to overall performance, specifically where checkpoints and restarts are concerned. But attention is now turning to how burst buffers might find broader use cases beyond this niche, and how they could be used for accelerating performance in other areas where the ability to handle a substantial volume of data with high speed and low latency is key.
The term burst buffer is applied to this storage technology simply because this …
What Sort of Burst Buffer Are You? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.