Heavy Networking 585: From Help Desk To Network Automation Engineer In 5 Years
Curt Norris started his career as an IT support specialist. Five years later he's an automation engineer. On today's Heavy Networking we discuss his career journey including milestones, ongoing learning, the pros and cons of mentorship, whether a degree makes a difference, and more.
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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For June 25th, 2021
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Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading)...The Many Other High Costs Cloud Users Pay
Isn’t it funny how the same hyperscalers who are maniacal about building everything themselves – and who are making a fortune selling access to their infrastructure as cloud services – want you to use their Seriously Hard Information Technology and stop using your own? …
The Many Other High Costs Cloud Users Pay was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
Why Infrastructure’s More Important than Ever
As we’ve seen with WFH, so much of the employee and customer experience is determined by those lower layers of the old OSI model.A Look at Baidu’s Industrial-Scale GPU Training Architecture
Like its U.S. counterpart, Google, Baidu has made significant investments to build robust, large-scale systems to support global advertising programs. …
A Look at Baidu’s Industrial-Scale GPU Training Architecture was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Video: Typical Large-Scale Bridging Use Cases
In the previous video in the Switching, Routing and Bridging section of How Networks Really Work webinar we compared transparent bridging with IP routing. Not surprisingly (given my well-known bias toward stable solutions) I recommended using IP routing as much as possible, but there are still people out there pushing large-scale transparent bridging solutions.
In today’s video we’ll look at some of the supposed use cases and stable solutions you could use instead of stretching a virtual thick yellow cable halfway across a continent.
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Video: Typical Large-Scale Bridging Use Cases
In the previous video in the Switching, Routing and Bridging section of How Networks Really Work webinar we compared transparent bridging with IP routing. Not surprisingly (given my well-known bias toward stable solutions) I recommended using IP routing as much as possible, but there are still people out there pushing large-scale transparent bridging solutions.
In today’s video we’ll look at some of the supposed use cases and stable solutions you could use instead of stretching a virtual thick yellow cable halfway across a continent.
The video is available with Free ipSpace.net Subscription.
CEO Gelsinger shakes up Intel
A new CEO invariably means a reorganization around his/her vision of things and an attempt to address perceived problems in the company’s organizational structure. In hindsight, that’s another clue that Bob Swan wasn’t long for the CEO’s job at Intel, since he never did a reorg.
Pat Gelsinger, who has been Intel’s CEO for just over four months, on the other hand, completely flipped the table with a major reorganization that creates two new business units, promoted several senior technologists to leadership roles, and saw the departure of a major Intel veteran.
The two new units: one for software and the other on high performance computing and graphics. Greg Lavender will serve as Intel’s chief technology officer and lead the new Software and Advanced Technology Group. As CTO, he will head up research programs, including Intel Labs. Lavender comes to Intel from VMware, where he was also CTO, and has held positions Citigroup, Cisco, and Sun Microsystems.
Enterprise Use Case: Active-Active Data Centers for Private Cloud
In earlier blogs in this series, we covered data center architecture trends, network virtualization and overlays, traditional network automation, advanced...
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Hedge 89: Dana Iskoldski and A House Divided
Bluecat, in cooperation with an outside research consultant, jut finished a survey and study on the lack of communication and divisions between the cloud and networking teams in deployments to support business operations. Dana Iskoldski joins Tom Ammon and Russ White to discuss the findings of their study, and make some suggestions about how we can improve communication between the two teams.
Please find a copy of the study at http://bluecatnetworks.com/hedge.
Enfabrica Takes On Hyperdistributed I/O Bottlenecks
Not so very long ago, distributed computing meant clustering together a bunch of cheap X86 servers and equipping them with some form of middleware that allowed for work to be distributed across hundreds to thousands to sometimes tens of thousands of nodes. …
Enfabrica Takes On Hyperdistributed I/O Bottlenecks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
What Happens When Multipliers No Longer Define AI Accelerators?
Current custom AI hardware devices are built around super-efficient, high performance matrix multiplication. …
What Happens When Multipliers No Longer Define AI Accelerators? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Integrating MISP with NSX Advanced Threat Analyzer
Contributors: Stefano Ortolani (NSBU TAU)
MISP (originally Malware Information Sharing Platform) is a platform to share, store, and correlate Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) from targeted attacks, threat intelligence, or even financial fraud information. One of the reasons underlying MISP’s success is its extensibility via third-party modules. However, as the number of contributors increases, coordination and distribution can quickly become a challenge. To solve this issue, MISP’s authors created a satellite project called MISP modules.
Before joining the NSX family, we at Lastline contributed three different modules to the MISP project in order to better integrate MISP with the sandbox that is now part of the NSX Advanced Threat Analyzer (ATA) product offering. The main idea was to enrich the file indicators referencing an artifact with behavioral information extracted by detonating the artifact in the sandbox, or by retrieving the analysis result of previous detonations. We accomplished this by relying on three different modules:
- lastline_submit: An enrichment module used to submit new files to the sandbox; as dynamic analysis requires some time to terminate, the output of this module is an external analysis link represented by a new MISP attribute.
- lastline_query: An enrichment module to expand a Continue reading
Steps to Building a Successful App Modernization Strategy
Migration of Java applications to a cloud-native architecture allows for faster product release cycles and major improvements in time to market.Browser VNC with Zero Trust Rules
Starting today, we’re excited to share that you can now shift another traditional client-driven use case to a browser. Teams can now provide their users with a Virtual Network Computing (VNC) client fully rendered in the browser with built-in Zero Trust controls.
Like the SSH flow, this allows users to connect from any browser on any device, with no client software needed. The feature runs in every one of our data centers in over 200 cities around the world, bringing the experience closer to your end users. We also built the experience using Cloudflare Workers, to offer nearly instant start times. In the future we will support full auditability of user actions in their VNC and SSH sessions.
A quick refresher on VNC
VNC is a desktop sharing platform built on top of the Remote Frame Buffer protocol that allows for a GUI on any server. It is built to be platform-independent and provides an easy way for administrators to make interfaces available to users that are less comfortable with a command-line to work with a remote machine. Or to complete work better suited for a visual interface.
In my case, the most frequent reason I use VNC is Continue reading