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Facebook Debuts ‘Backpack’ Switch Platform
New open switch design accommodates high-speed networking requirements.
Juniper To Go: vMX & vSRX Become Available in AWS
Another step toward blending AWS and the enterprise network.
AT&T, Colt Test API-to-API Interface for SDN
They plan to share the network-to-network interface and open API code with standards bodies.
Orange Business Services Uses Ciena & Juniper for SDN
It’s virtualizing in its core network as a first step.
Brocade’s For-Sale IP Division Lands Fujitsu as a Customer
An SDN win for the part of Brocade that Broadcom can't keep.
The Internet is Hostile: Building a More Resilient Network
In a recent post we discussed how we have been adding resilience to our network.
The strength of the Internet is its ability to interconnect all sorts of networks — big data centers, e-commerce websites at small hosting companies, Internet Service Providers (ISP), and Content Delivery Networks (CDN) — just to name a few. These networks are either interconnected with each other directly using a dedicated physical fiber cable, through a common interconnection platform called an Internet Exchange (IXP), or they can even talk to each other by simply being on the Internet connected through intermediaries called transit providers.
The Internet is like the network of roads across a country and navigating roads means answering questions like “How do I get from Atlanta to Boise?” The Internet equivalent of that question is asking how to reach one network from another. For example, as you are reading this on the Cloudflare blog, your web browser is connected to your ISP and packets from your computer found their way across the Internet to Cloudflare’s blog server.
Figuring out the route between networks is accomplished through a protocol designed 25 years ago (on two napkins) called BGP.
BGP allows interconnections between Continue reading
Reaction: Issue a press release
Ladies and gentlemen, start your crystal balls—it is close to the end of the year, that favorite time of prognosticators and analysts everywhere to tell us what is going to be “hot” and “not” next year. But before you drop out of a good conversation with your family, or sitting around the dinner table eating one more piece of pie, let me ask—have you ever checked on last year’s predictions?
Here is a favorite of mine: “Books will soon be obsolete in schools.” So up to the minute, right? So in touch with the reality of today. Only it’s not. This is Thomas Edison in 1913. While I wasn’t alive back then to read the papers, I can assure you I’ve heard many other folks make the same prediction in the intervening years. The way these sorts of predictions normally work is this:
- Choose a technology that seems directly related to an existing way of doing things. The current way of doing things, or the current technology, needs to be widespread, recognizable, and somehow seen as “fundamental.” In the modern networking world, routers would be an equivalent.
- Choose a date that is just far enough ahead to seem Continue reading
Patel Gets $5.5M Payout to Leave Cisco
Patel was a 19-year veteran of Cisco.
Voting with Docker: A little break from the election
You may have heard, there’s an election for president (and many other posts) going on in the US today. For those who already voted, who want a break from voting, or just want to create a new quiz for their friends, we have the Docker Example Voting App. And we’ve even created a poll to help you figure out the best quiz to make.
Which #Docker voting app face off would you select? #TwitterPoll #ElectionDay
— Docker (@docker) November 8, 2016
The voting app was created to showcase a number of features of Docker:
- Polyglot development environments: The app has Python, Node.js, and .NET code, as well as Redis and Postgres services.
- Easy deployment of a multi-service app with Docker Compose.
- Easy Docker Networking.
All this using a simple $ docker-compose up.
The Example Voting App has been really popular at Docker events like the Docker 3rd birthday, and in our Docker Labs repository, which has a lot of example applications and tutorials. And recently, Docker Captain Alex Ellis ported the app to Windows Containers using:
- IIS
- ASP.NET
- .NET 4.5.1
- Microsoft SQL Server (2016)
So if you want a break from the election, check out our poll Continue reading
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- A note for .NET developers: You know the pain of troubleshooting errors with limited time, limited information, and limited tools. Log management, exception tracking, Continue reading
DDN Turns The Crank On “Wolfcreek” Storage
In the high performance computing arena, the stress is always on performance. Anything and everything that can be done to try to make data retrieval and processing faster ultimately adds up to better simulations and models that more accurately reflect the reality we are trying to recreate and often cast forward in time to figure out what will happen next.
Pushing performance is an interesting challenge here at the beginning of the 21st century, since a lot of server and storage components are commoditized and therefore available to others. The real engineering is coming up with innovative ways of putting …
DDN Turns The Crank On “Wolfcreek” Storage was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.