SDxCentral Weekly News Roundup — August 14, 2015
Rift.io and CENX get additional funding, while F5 and Ciena have personnel changes.
NFV Insider #11: Collaboration (and More Collaboration)
ETSI NFV reaches out to the rest of the open networking community.
Dear Internet, Send Us Your Videos
CloudFlare turns 5 years old this September. It's been an amazing ride since our launch. Before we launched at TechCrunch Disrupt on September 27, 2010, we'd signed up about 1,000 beta customers. It took us nine months to get those first customers. (By comparison, today we typically sign up 1,000 customers every 3 hours.)
Those first beta customers were instrumental. They put up with us when we were had only one data center (in Chicago). They put up with us as we brought traffic online in our next facilities in Ashburn, Virginia and San Jose, California — and had the routing challenges that came along with running a distributed network for the first time. They sent us bug reports, provided us feature requests, and were instrumental to building the foundation that grew into what is CloudFlare today.
Archival Footage
When we launched, we wanted to feature their stories and experience about CloudFlare so we had them submit their stories by video. Here's the video we included as part of our launch presentation.
I'm proud of the fact that more than 80% of those original 1,000 customers are still using CloudFlare five years later.
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At what point do white hat hackers cross the ethical line?
In recent months the news of Chris Roberts alleged hacking of an inflight entertainment system and possibly other parts of the Boeing 737 have sparked a wave of controversy. Public opinion was originally on Roberts' side, but the recent publication of the FBI affidavit changed that drastically. According to the affidavit, Roberts admitted to doing a live "pen-test" of a plane network in mid-air.
Whether this is true or not, it raises some valid concerns over the ethical implications of white hat hacking. In the case of Roberts, who, according to the affidavit, was able to steer the airplane off the intended course, the consequences could have been dire. It is not believed that Roberts had any intention of hurting either himself or any of the passengers, but if the affidavit is in fact true, the possibility was real.
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Big Switch & Cumulus Play Hot Potato on Bare Metal Security
Who owns ONIE security?
Show 250 – How To Document A Network
A favorite topic among network engineers, documentation is a source of both wonder and horror. Network documentation is difficult to get right. How much detail is enough? How old is that diagram, really? Can't this be automated? Wait, the automated generator spit out *that*? In this show, the Packet Pushers along with former guest Dominik discuss their documentation experiences, good and bad. What have we gotten right? What have we gotten wrong? What's been worth the trouble? What was a waste of time? What did we wish we'd documented before we really needed it?
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The six pillars of Next Generation Endpoint Protection
This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach.
Advancements in attack evasion techniques are making new threats extremely difficult to detect. The recent Duqu 2.0 malware, which was used to hack the Iranian nuclear pact discussions, Kaspersky Lab, and an ICS/SCADA hardware vendor, is a prime example. To keep up, a new security model that uses a different approach to the traditional “evidence of compromise” process is needed.
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Could SNMP Please Just Die Already?
Original post by jgherbert (Solarwinds Thwack Blog) The Simple Network Management Protocol – SNMP – was3 Emerging Requirements for Monitoring Modern Networks
What's on your network monitoring agenda?
Network Break 48: Apple Smugness, ONIE Pwned
This episode of Network Break looks at ONIE security risks, a sensible car hack lawsuit, missing millions at Ubiquiti, EMC and VMware going all the way, a potential Apple win at IBM, and other tech news.
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Spousetivities at VMworld 2015
It’s that time of year again—time for VMworld! And along with VMworld comes another highly-anticipated event: Spousetivities! That’s right, Spousetivities is back again this year for another set of outstanding activities organized for spouses traveling with conference attendees. If your spouse is traveling with you to San Francisco for VMworld, this is a great opportunity for him (or her) to meet up with other spouses and attend some exclusive activities.
So what’s on tap for Spousetivities this year? Here’s a quick look at some of what’s planned:
- The week will start out with the ever-popular “Getting to Know You” breakfast, held again this year at Jillian’s (right next door to Moscone North). Meet some new folks, eat some great food, and win some great prizes. (Low-fat and gluten-free breakfast options will be available.)
- Following the breakfast is a cooking class at Sur La Table
- Not interested in a cooking class? No worries—Monday afternoon also offers a walking city tour that includes an exclusive opportunity to shop at the San Francisco Jewelry Mart and Gift Exchange (not open for regular retail customers!) as well as a stop at the Ferry Building.
- On Tuesday will the first of two wine Continue reading
Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 14th, 2015
Hey, it's HighScalability time:
- $7: WeChat's revenue per user and there are 549 million of them; 60%: Etsy users using mobile; 10: times per second a self-driving car makes a decision; 900: calories in a litre of blood, vampires have very efficient metabolisms; 5 billion: the largest feature in the universe in light years
- Quotable Quotes:
- @sbeam: they finally had the Enigma machine. They opened the case. A card fell out. Turing picked it up. "Damn. They included a EULA." #oraclefanfic
- kordless: compute and storage continue to track with Moore's Law but bandwidth doesn't. I keep wondering if this isn't some sort of universal limitation on this reality that will force high decentralization.
- @SciencePorn: If you were to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on earth, all humans would fit into an apple.
- @adrianco: Commodity server with 1.4TB of RAM running a mix of 16GB regular DRAM and 128GB Memory1 modules.
- @JudithNursalim: "One of the most scalable structure in history was the Roman army. Its unit: eight guys; the number of guys that Continue reading