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A Look Inside Modern Design Principles for Secure Boot in CPU Hardware

Secure boot features are typically customizable and capable of being turned on or off by the OEM. The question then arises of which mode should be the default.

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Boost your cloud-native deployments with Red Hat OpenShift

Cloud-native deployments are becoming the new normal. Being able to keep full control of the application lifecycle (deployment, updates, and integrations) is a strategic advantage. This article will explain how the latest release of the Ansible Content Collection for Red Hat OpenShift takes the redhat.openshift Collection to the next level, improving the performance of large automation tasks. 

 

Red Hat OpenShift collection at a glance

The latest release of the redhat.openshift Collection  introduces Ansible Turbo mode. Ansible Turbo mode enhances the performance of Ansible Playbooks when manipulating many Red Hat OpenShift objects. This is done by reusing existing API connections to handle new incoming requests, removing the overhead of creating a new connection for each request. 

 

A real-world scenario

Red Hat OpenShift has become a leading platform that can handle many workloads in large enterprises dealing with multi-tenancy clusters. These are great candidates when different users, teams, and/or organizations are looking to run and operate in a shared environment.  

One of the best features of Red Hat OpenShift is the capability to quickly and easily create and destroy resources (e.g., namespace, ConfigMaps, Pod). Even with relatively light usage, deploying each one Continue reading

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NetApp overhauls cloud storage lineup

NetApp used its virtual NetApp Insight 2021 conference as the launchpad for several new technologies and enhancements to existing products, as well as to announce an acquisition. All are meant to bolster the on-prem storage supplier’s cloud offerings.First up, NetApp introduced ONTAP 9.10 Enterprise Data Management software, which includes upgrades that protect against ransomware and enhanced detection and recovery capabilities. The new software also features expanded data management capabilities and NVMe/TCP support.NVMe traditionally works over a network fabric, but there are bottlenecks – namely, you have to build the fabric. NVMe/TCP allows the same storage devices to be shared among data centers through the Internet protocol over the existing network.To read this article in full, please click here

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Big Picture: BFD, Non-Stop Forwarding, and Graceful Restart

We have school holidays this week, so I’m reposting wonderful comments that would otherwise be lost somewhere in the page margins. Today: Erik Auerswald’s excellent summary of BFD, NSF, and GR.

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I’d suggest to step back a bit and consider the bigger picture: What is BFD good for? What is GR/NSF/NSR/SSO good for?

BFD and GR/NSF/NSR/SSO have different goals: one enables quick fail over, the other prevents fail over. Combining both promises to be interesting.

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Big Picture: BFD, Non-Stop Forwarding, and Graceful Restart

We have school holidays this week, so I’m reposting wonderful comments that would otherwise be lost somewhere in the page margins. Today: Erik Auerswald’s excellent summary of BFD, NSF, and GR.

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I’d suggest to step back a bit and consider the bigger picture: What is BFD good for? What is GR/NSF/NSR/SSO good for?

BFD and GR/NSF/NSR/SSO have different goals: one enables quick fail over, the other prevents fail over. Combining both promises to be interesting.

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Intel Aims For Zettaflops By 2027, Pushes Aurora Above 2 Exaflops

Just because Intel is no longer interested in being a prime contractor on the largest supercomputing deals in the United States and Europe – China and Japan are drawing their own roadmaps and building their own architectures – does not mean that Intel does not have aspirations in HPC and AI supercomputing. …

Intel Aims For Zettaflops By 2027, Pushes Aurora Above 2 Exaflops was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Startup gives IT control of GPU pools to maximize their use

Among the greatest component shortages bedeviling everyone is that of GPUs, both from Nvidia and AMD. GPUs are used in Bitcoin farming, and with massive farms around the world gobbling up every GPU card, getting one is nigh impossible or prohibitively expense.So customers need to squeeze every last cycle out of the GPUs they have in service. An Israeli company called Run:AI claims it has a fix with a pair of technologies that pool GPU resources and maximize their use.The technologies are called Thin GPU Provisioning and Job Swapping. Not the most creative of names but they describe what the two do in tandem to automate the allocation and utilization of GPUs.To read this article in full, please click here

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Startup gives IT control of GPU pools to maximize their use

Among the greatest component shortages bedeviling everyone is that of GPUs, both from Nvidia and AMD. GPUs are used in Bitcoin farming, and with massive farms around the world gobbling up every GPU card, getting one is nigh impossible or prohibitively expense.So customers need to squeeze every last cycle out of the GPUs they have in service. An Israeli company called Run:AI claims it has a fix with a pair of technologies that pool GPU resources and maximize their use.The technologies are called Thin GPU Provisioning and Job Swapping. Not the most creative of names but they describe what the two do in tandem to automate the allocation and utilization of GPUs.To read this article in full, please click here

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The New Normal is Insecure by Default

Organizations are tacitly agreeing to accept greater risk by moving quickly without equal attention to security. The new normal we heard so much about throughout the pandemic is apparently “insecure by default.”

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Day Two Cloud 121: Building Cool Things With GraphQL And AWS AppSync

Today's Day Two Cloud is a nerdy show on GraphQL and AWS AppSync and what you can do with these tools. Our guest is Amrut Patil, a senior software engineer using these tools.

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Day Two Cloud 121: Building Cool Things With GraphQL And AWS AppSync

Today's Day Two Cloud is a nerdy show on GraphQL and AWS AppSync and what you can do with these tools. Our guest is Amrut Patil, a senior software engineer using these tools.

The post Day Two Cloud 121: Building Cool Things With GraphQL And AWS AppSync appeared first on Packet Pushers.

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The VMworld Aftermath: Continue Cutting Edge Learning with VMware’s Solution Spotlight 2021 Webcast Series

If you attended VMworld 2021 and you’re already itching for more learning, we have just the thing for you. Join our new upcoming VMware Solution Spotlight 2021 webcast series. You will be able to extend your learning and get answers to your burning questions by taking a technical deep dive into the innovations that are driving the Virtual Cloud Network.  

The series experts will be hosting a live Q&A session and will be covering: 

• The next step delivering converged network and security services with SASE – secure access service edge 
• How cyberthreats and vulnerability exploits are accelerating the transformation of application security 
• Advancements to the VMware security portfolio, including segmentation, distributed IDS/IPS, and advanced threat protection (ATP) inside the data center at scale 

The three-part Cloud Networking Thursday series will take place on November 11th, November 18th, and wrap up on December 2nd.  

Check out a brief synopsis of each session to see the right fit for you: 

Learn How Your Enterprise Gets the Edge with SASE (11/11): 

• Secure access service edge (SASE) is the next step in the evolution of SD-WAN, and VMware has a unique approach to Continue reading

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Master Class: Resilience in Large-Scale Fabrics

In the aftermath of a major network outage, the natural reaction of most network engineers is to find some way to avoid all future outages—regardless of the cost. The first line of defense against is future outages is redundancy, whether in the form of additional parallel links, new routers, new firewalls, new … whatever, so long as there is more of it so packets have more paths to make it from source to destination.

Please join me for this live webinar.

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Hedge 106: Compositional Network Modeling and Zen

One topic of constant discussion among network engineers is the basic problems surrounding network modeling, which leads to configuration, telemetry, and troubleshooting. In this episode of the Hedge, Ryan Beckett, Tom Ammon, and Russ White discuss Zen, a general framework for compositional network modelling.

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