This post is going to be a little off the beaten path, but it might yet be useful for folks interested in the process of standardization through the IETF.
Last week, at the IETF in Buenos Aires, a proposal was put forward to move the IPv4 specifications to historic status. Geoff Huston, in his ISP column, points out the problem with this sort of thing—
The idea to push IPv4 to historic is, apparently, an attempt to move the market, in a sense. If it’s historic, then the market won’t use it, or will at least move away from it.
Right.
Another, similar, line of thinking came up at the mic during a discussion around whether Continue reading
If component suppliers want to win deals at hyperscalers and cloud builders, they have to be proactive. They can’t just sit around and wait for the OEMs and ODMs to pick their stuff like a popularity contest. They have to engineer great products with performance and then do what it takes on price, power, and packaging to win deals.
This is why memory maker Micron Technology is ramping up its efforts to get its DRAM and flash products into the systems that these companies buy, and why it is also creating a set of “architected solutions” focused on storage that …
Micron Enlists Allies For Datacenter Flash Assault was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
With the tax deadline looming in the US and the future of the gig economy as the engine of scaling startup workforces under fire, there's an important point to consider: In the gig economy the entire social contract is kaput. Here's why.
Everyone who works in the US pays into the Social Security system. The whole idea of Social Security is young people pay in and old people take out.
When you are an employee Social Security taxes are taken directly out of your paycheck. You don't even have to think about it.
When you work in the gig economy you get a 1099-MISC at the end of the year. A 1099 reports payments made by the hiring company during the year and it's sent by the hiring company both to the worker and the IRS.
It's up to the worker to identify their income on their tax return as self employment income, which is subject to a Social Security tax of 15.3%. Most gig workers probably won't declare this income because a lot of them don't even know they are supposed to. My wife, Linda Coleman, a respected Enrolled Agent, says from people she has talked to Continue reading
Docker provides similar network connection options as general virtualization solutions such as VMware products, Hyper-V, KVM, Xen, VirtualBox, etc. However, Docker takes a slightly different approach with its network drivers, confusing new users which are familiar with general terms used by other virtualization products. The following table matches general terms with Docker network drivers you can use to achieve the same type of connectivity for your container.
General Virtualization Term | Docker Network Driver |
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NAT Network | bridge |
Bridged | macvlan, ipvlan (experimental since Docker 1.11) |
Private / Host-only | bridge |
Overlay Network / VXLAN | overlay |
ADC appliances versus application-centric load balancing: Learn how software-defined ADCs better supports multi-cloud deployments and cloud-native applications, while freeing IT from repetitive tasks.
While the IS-IS book is still useful, it is getting on a little in age, and some people find learning through video to be more helpful. I’ve recorded seven hours of video on IS-IS in the form of a LiveLesson with Cisco Press. They should be available on the 18th of April (just a few days from now), and apparently they’re already available as a sneak peek.
Thanks to Brett (who runs, and has run, all my projects at Cisco Press and Addison-Wesley), Pete (who patiently recorded my many fumbles), and Chris Cleveland, who has been my steadfast editor for all things Cisco Press and Addison-Wesley for some fifteen years now), for making this happen. This is the first, I think, of a number of new video projects I have on tap, so watch this space.
And no, I’m not going to stop writing books (just a gentle reminder).
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