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.
Nvidia Sees Massive Potential in Data Center AI
Deep learning isn't just for supercomputers any more.
Docker at Tech Field Day 12
Docker will be presenting at Tech Field Day 12, and you can sit in on the sessions – at least virtually.
Tech Field Day is an opportunity for IT practitioners to hear from some of the leading technology companies, and Docker is excited to be participating again. Many thanks to Stephen Foskett and Tom Hollingsworth for cultivating a vibrant community of technical leaders and evangelists and inviting us to participate. Looking forward to meeting more of the delegates.
Our session will be Wednesday, November 16th, from 4:30 to 6:30pm Pacific. We have a full slate of topics including:
- Docker Datacenter: What is Docker Datacenter and how can it help organizations implement their own Container as a Service platform.
- Docker for Windows Server: An overview of the integration of Docker containers and Windows Server 2016.
- Docker for AWS and Docker for Azure: Learn about the easiest way to deploy and manage clusters of Docker hosts on both Azure and AWS.
- Docker Security: We’ll discuss how to implement a secure software supply chain with Docker.
- Docker Networking: A conversation on how Docker allows developers to define container centric networks that run on top of your existing infrastructure.
Show 314: ThousandEyes Endpoint Agent & Network Intelligence (Sponsored)
Today on Packet Pushers, we talk to our sponsor ThousandEyes about their new product, Endpoint Agent, which resides on employee desktops and laptops and provides detailed insight into network and application performance, including SaaS apps. The post Show 314: ThousandEyes Endpoint Agent & Network Intelligence (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.
Packet Blast: Top Tech Blogs, Nov. 11
We collect the top expert content in the infrastructure community and fire it along the priority queue.