The Accelerated Path To Petabyte-Scale Graph Databases
Database acceleration using specialized co-processors is nothing new. Just to give a few examples, data warehouses running on the Netezza platform, owned by IBM for more than a decade now, uses a custom and parallelized PostgreSQL database matched to FPGA acceleration for database and storage routines. …
The Accelerated Path To Petabyte-Scale Graph Databases was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Peek Under the Hood: SE Labs NDR Test
Earlier this month, SE Labs awarded VMware the first ever AAA rating for Network Detection and Response (NDR)–highlighted by our ability to provide 100 percent protection from four major advanced and persistent (APT) groups across multi-cloud environments. The NDR test, the first of its kind, signified the changing threat landscape where enterprises need to identify and stop attackers inside the network where they are able to move freely to discover valuable information they can exfiltrate. Given expanding threat surfaces due to modern applications, work from anywhere and cloud transformation, the assumption is that attackers are likely already inside your network, making legacy cybersecurity tests focused solely on the perimeter increasingly-unsuitable assessments for protecting today’s modern enterprise.
According to the results from SE Labs, VMware NSX NDR provides 100 percent protection across multi-cloud environments from four major advanced and persistent threats (APT) groups—including FIN7&Carbanak, OilRig, APT3 and APT29—while returning zero false positives. This ability allows security operations teams to rapidly detect malicious activity and stop the lateral movement of threats inside the network.
Given that this is the first test of its kind, we wanted to give you a look under the hood to see how SE Labs used VMware NDR to detect all malicious network traffic and payloads from a specific threat group—OilRig – APT 34. Check out the Continue reading
Real-World HPC Gets the Benchmark It Deserves
While nothing can beat the notoriety of the long-standing LINPACK benchmark, the metric by which supercomputer performance is gauged, there is ample room for a more practical measure. …
Real-World HPC Gets the Benchmark It Deserves was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Audience Q+A: Gluware LiveStream Video [8/8]
Michael Haugh of Gluware joins Greg Ferro + Drew Conry-Murray of the Packet Pushers to discuss several questions that came in during the event. Most of them were technical, nerdy details. If you’re a network engineer, this Q&A is especially for you. If Gluware might be a fit for your network automation needs, visit here. […]
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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.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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”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.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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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
