Variety is not only the spice of life, it is also the way to drive innovation and to mitigate risk. …
Broadcom Takes On InfiniBand With Jericho3-AI Switch Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Companies have been working for years to pull together block, file, and object storage under a single umbrella, giving enterprises that are at times dealing with petabytes of data spread across datacenters, the cloud, and the edge a simpler way to manage, organize, and access all that information. …
The Pure Unification Of Block And File Storage was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
The heady, exciting days of ChatGPT and other generative AI and large-language models (LLMs) is beginning to give way to the understanding that enterprises will need to get a tight grasp on how these models are being used in their operations or they will risk privacy, security, legal, and other problems down the road. …
Keeping Large Language Models From Running Off The Rails was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Kubernetes is a highly popular and widely used container orchestration platform designed to deploy and manage containerized applications at a scale, with strong horizontal scaling capabilities that can support up to 5,000 nodes; the only limit in adding nodes to your cluster is your budget. However, its vertical scaling is restricted by its default configurations, with a cap of 110 pods per node. To maximize the use of hardware resources and minimize the need for costly horizontal scaling, users can adjust the kubelet maximum pod configuration to increase this limit allowing more pods to run concurrently on a single node.
To avoid network performance issues and achieve efficient horizontal scaling in a Kubernetes cluster that is tasked to run a large number of pods, high-speed links and switches are essential. A reliable and flexible Software Defined Networking (SDN) solution, such as Calico, is also important for managing network traffic efficiently. Calico has been tested and proven by numerous companies for horizontal scaling, but in this post, we will discuss recent improvements made to help vertical scaling of containerized applications to just work.
For example, the following chart illustrates the efficiency achieved with the improvements of vertical scaling in Calico 3. Continue reading
OpenTelemetry is an open-source project that brings together tools, SDKs, and APIs for collecting telemetry--that is, logs, metrics, and traces---in a standardized way. The goal of the project is to help developers and operators instrument highly distributed applications and services to understand dependencies, monitor performance, and quickly troubleshoot problems. On today's Day Two Cloud podcast we explore OpenTelemetry and how it works. We also discuss the difference between visibility and observability, and why this matters. Our guest is Ben Hall.
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One of my readers worried about the control-plane-induced MAC learning lag in EVPN-based networks:
In all discussions about the advantages/disadvantages of VXLAN/EVPN, I can’t find any regarding the lag in learning new macs when you use the control plane for mac learning.
EVPN is definitely slower than data plane-based dynamic MAC learning (regardless of whether it’s done in hardware or software), but so is MLAG.
One of my readers worried about the control-plane-induced MAC learning lag in EVPN-based networks:
In all discussions about the advantages/disadvantages of VXLAN/EVPN, I can’t find any regarding the lag in learning new macs when you use the control plane for mac learning.
EVPN is definitely slower than data plane-based dynamic MAC learning (regardless of whether it’s done in hardware or software), but so is MLAG.
The annual Global InfoSec Awards from Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM) have been announced, and we are excited to unveil that Tigera has won the ‘Hot Company: Container Security’ category! This award recognizes the value of the work Tigera does as a security company, and we wouldn’t be where we are without the support of our teams, customers, and community.
“We are honored to be recognized as one of the best in container security by Cyber Defense Magazine. As this is one of the most esteemed awards in cybersecurity, we are so grateful to have been selected amongst a pool of qualified applicants and are eager to continue to innovate and provide better container security for organizations,” said Amit Gupta, Chief Product Officer, Tigera.
Tigera’s transformative approach to container security helps prevent, detect, and mitigate threats in containers and Kubernetes environments across build, deploy and runtime stages. Calico Cloud provides a unique solution that gives users a single container security solution to improve security posture, reduce the attack surface with fine-grained security controls, and provide threat defense from network and host based threats.
Cyber Defense Magazine is the Continue reading