Ruckus Combines WiFi & Bluetooth for IoT & Security
The partnership marks Ruckus’ first step towards IoT.
5G Network Slicing Could Make New Business Models Possible
20th Century Fox envisions storing movies at the network edge for immediate download.
Bitglass Raises $45M Series C to Pursue Cloud Security
The money could help in a crowded CASB market.
SDxCentral Weekly News Roundup — January 6, 2017
T-Mobile accelerates IoT; Viptela partners with Inbox Business to deploy SD-WAN in Pakistan.
Cisco Retains Enterprise Infrastructure Market Dominance
Synergy report shows networking giant continues to lead nearly every infrastructure segment.
2017: the Internet Society’s 25th Anniversary Year
Happy New Year! Along with the excitement and expectations each new year brings, 2017 marks a significant milestone for the Internet Society. This year, we celebrate 25 years of dedication to an open, secure Internet that benefits all people throughout the world.
We all know how far the Internet has come since the early 1990’s, but today our work has never been more important. As the Internet ecosystem becomes increasingly complex, so too do the issues it faces. We have an important role to play in highlighting the challenges that need attention and in mapping out a path forward to safeguard and protect the Internet we believe in.
Ms. Kathryn Brown
Docker Storage and Infinit FAQ
Last December, Docker acquired a company called Infinit. Using their technology, we will provide secure distributed storage out of the box, making it much easier to deploy stateful services and legacy enterprise applications on Docker.
During the last Docker Online Meetup, Julien Quintard, member of Docker’s technical staff and former CEO at Infinit, went through the design principles behind their product and demonstrated how the platform can be used to deploy a storage infrastructure through Docker containers in a few command lines.
Providing state to applications in Docker requires a backend storage component that is both scalable and resilient in order to cope with a variety of use cases and failure scenarios. The Infinit Storage Platform has been designed to provide Docker applications with a set of interfaces (block, file and object) allowing for different tradeoffs.
Check out the following slidedeck to learn more about the internals of their platform:
Unfortunately, the video recording from the meetup is not available this time around but you can watch the following presentation and demo of Infinit from its CTO Quentin Hocquet at the Docker Distributed Systems Summit:
Docker and Infinit FAQ
1. Do you consider NFS/GPFS and other HPC cluster Continue reading
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For January 6th, 2017
Hey, it's HighScalability time:
Hot rods in space. The Smith Cloud plummets towards our galaxy at nearly 700,000 mph. Vroom!
- 3 of top 5: Stackoverflow questions are about Git; 3,000: four-passenger cars could serve 98 percent of NYC taxi demand; 44%: US population lives within 20 miles of Amazon fulfillment center; 72%: Amazon customers shopped using mobile device; 110%: increase in industrial control system attacks; 455: Number of scripted television series aired this year; $28.5 billion/yr: App downloads on iOS;
- Quotable Quotes:
- @ValaAfshar: Number of robots working in Amazon warehouses: 2016: 45,000 / 2015: 30,000 2014: 15,000 / 2013: 1,000 — @JonErlichman
- @jason_kint: updated duopoly #s. new IAB data came out yesterday. easy to run vs earnings for goog and fb, it's evident everyone else is zero sum game.
- rb2k_: I also haven't seen one [company in Germany] that isn't riddled with MBA grads that mainly push Jira tickets around.
- Joe McCann: The best software developers I know are always hacking over the holidays. True story.
- @kaffeecoder: Sigh. Async vs blocking protocol is irrelevant. What matters is communicating Continue reading
Posit: Private Cloud Has Less Lock-In
Posit: A private cloud has less lock-in than a public cloud because realistic, practical alternatives exist and migration is possible
- Moving between public cloud services is practically impossible.
- It may never be possible.
- Your business process is hostage to a third party and completely outside of your control from a timeline, cost and change view
- Consider, your business is under threat and cutting costs is imperative. Your cloud provider is forcing a migration to a updated service and you have fixed time period to complete the upgrade process. You must spend to maintain service. Control is lost
- Loss of control is a lock in
In private cloud, you have some greater degree of control over these issues. Its a tradeoff.
Addendum: 20170106-17:30
- Take for examples, the collapse of public clouds by VMware, Cisco, HPE, Verizon etc. All of these are forcing your business to undertake an activity outside of your control.
- Amazon is quite ruthless about forcing customers to fit its technology. Machines are force rebooted, products are deprecated and discontinued reguarly.
- Azure if forcing upgrades on its SQL products as a rapid pace, often beyond what customers are able to handle (they don’t have the resources to change their systems).
Worth Reading: DRM versus civil liberties
Imagine a world where your Internet-connected car locks you in at the behest of its manufacturer—or the police. Where your media devices only let you consume mass media, not remix it to publish a counter-narrative or viral meme. Where your phone is designed to report on your movements and communications. Where your kid’s toy tells them it’s their friend, then talks about how much it loves sponsored products and transmits everything it hears in your home back to its manufacturer. Where your phone stops working if the police or the manufacturer ask it to. Where these backdoors are vulnerable to hacking, so anyone with the right resources can take advantage of them. —CircleID
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Boosting Operational Efficiency in Cloud NFV Infrastructures
The server is the core building block of the NFV infrastructure.