There are times when Cisco Systems, which has a strong presence in datacenter switching, routing, and serving as well as a representative showing in storage and software, is a bellwether for IT market spending and transitions going on in the IT space. …
The Supply Chain Boa Constrictor Still Tight Around Cisco was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Learning Kubernetes isn't easy. In fact, there are so many places to start that people literally don’t know where to begin. Do they learn Kubernetes security? Networking? Infrastructure? Development? Michael Levan catches up with Kevin Evans and Robin Smorenburg to talk about their journeys into Kubernetes, how each of them started, links to learning resources, and where they’re at now.
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Forty years ago there was an implied loyalty between companies and employees—but that world is long gone. As much as companies would like their employees to be loyal, layoff culture has crept into every corner of the modern world, especially as we move into an economic downturn. Giovanni Messina joins Russ White and Tom Ammon to talk about being prepared to be laid off, including such topics as being financially prepared, building skills for the long term, and finding community.
On today’s Tech Bytes podcast, we talk Data Processing Units (DPUs) with sponsor NVIDIA. The context is VMware’s Project Monterey. Wes Kennedy, TME for BlueField at NVIDIA, is here to discuss how NVIDIA is partnering with VMware to enable offloads of applications such as NSX and VSAN.
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We have been talking about silicon photonics so long that we are, probably like many of you, frustrated that it already is not ubiquitous. …
Nvidia Shows What Optically Linked GPU Systems Might Look Like was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Reproducibility and consistency are two key traits that are the driving forces behind the popularity of containers. Consistency is also a principle found within Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. With only a few lines of YAML-formatted manifests, thousands of instances can be set up and configured uniformly. While the management of target instances is simple, it is the control node, or where the Ansible execution is initiated, that can be the most challenging aspect. As Ansible is written in Python, does the machine have the correct version of Python installed? Are the necessary Python modules installed? Are there any operating system dependencies needed? The list goes on and on.
These concerns, along with many others, led to a desire to leverage the benefits of containers to perform the control node’s role and eventually ushered in the concept of automation execution environments in Ansible Automation Platform 2. Running Ansible within containers is not a new concept and has been used quite successfully for some time now. However, there was no consistent process for building the container or executing Ansible from within the container. It seemed like everyone and anyone had their own version of running Ansible in a container. Ansible Continue reading