Information could be half the world’s mass by 2245, says researcher

Digital content should be considered a fifth state of matter, along with gas, liquid, plasma and solid, suggests one university scholar.Because of the energy and resources used to create, store and distribute data physically and digitally, data has evolved and should now be considered as mass, according to Melvin Vopson, a senior lecturer at the U.K.'s University of Portsmouth and author of an article, "The information catastrophe," published in the journal AIP Advances.Vopson also claims digital bits are on a course to overwhelm the planet and will eventually outnumber atoms.To read this article in full, please click here

Review Questions: Switching, Bridging and Routing

One of the most annoying part in every training content development project was the ubiquitous question somewhere at the end of the process: “and now we’d need a few review questions”. I’m positive anyone ever involved in a similar project can feel the pain that question causes…

Writing good review questions requires a particularly devious state of mind, sometimes combined with “I would really like to get the answer to this one” (obviously you’d mark such questions as “needs further research”, and if you’re Donald Knuth the question would be “prove that P != NP").

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Security Policy Self-Service for Developers and DevOps Teams

In today’s economy, digital assets (applications, data, and processes) determine business success. Cloud-native applications are designed to iterate rapidly, creating rapid time-to-value for businesses. Organizations that are able to rapidly build and deploy their applications have significant competitive advantage. To this end, more and more developers are creating and leading DevOps teams that not only drive application development, but also take on operational responsibilities formerly owned by platform and security teams.

What’s the Value of a Self-Service Approach?

Cloud-native applications are often designed and deployed as microservices. The development team that owns the microservice understands the behavior of the service, and is in the best position to define and manage the network security of their microservice. A self-service model enables developers to follow a simple workflow and generate network policies with minimal effort. When problems occur with. application connectivity, developers should be able to diagnose connectivity issues and resolve them quickly without having to depend on resources outside of the team.

Developers and DevOps teams can also take a leading role in managing security, which is an integral part of cloud-native applications. There are two aspects to security in the context of Kubernetes.

CBRS wireless yields $4.5B+ for licenses to support 5G

The Federal Communicatins Commission’s auction of priority access licenses (PAL) on Citizen’s Broadband Radio Service  (CBRS) spectrum came to an end this week, raising more than $4.58 billion from bandwidth that could be used to support 5G wireless. 5G resources What is 5G? Fast wireless technology for enterprises and phones How 5G frequency affects range and speed Private 5G can solve some problems that Wi-Fi can’t Private 5G keeps Whirlpool driverless vehicles rolling 5G can make for cost-effective private backhaul CBRS can bring private 5G to enterprises The 271 qualified bidders chased 22,631 individual licenses – seven for each county in the U.S., each license representing a 10MHz-wide piece of spectrum in the 3.5GHz band.To read this article in full, please click here

CBRS wireless yields more than $4.5 billion for licenses that could support 5G

The Federal Communicatins Commission’s auction of priority access licenses (PAL) on Citizen’s Broadband Radio Service  (CBRS) spectrum came to an end this week, raising more than $4.58 billion from bandwidth that could be used to support 5G wireless. 5G resources What is 5G? Fast wireless technology for enterprises and phones How 5G frequency affects range and speed Private 5G can solve some problems that Wi-Fi can’t Private 5G keeps Whirlpool driverless vehicles rolling 5G can make for cost-effective private backhaul CBRS can bring private 5G to enterprises The 271 qualified bidders chased 22,631 individual licenses – seven for each county in the U.S., each license representing a 10MHz-wide piece of spectrum in the 3.5GHz band.To read this article in full, please click here

Ansible Certified Content Collection for Chocolatey

It’s a constant battle to keep your Windows estate updated and secure. Using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Chocolatey, you can easily keep your software up-to-date and react quickly to bug fixes, security issues and 0-days on dozens, hundreds or thousands of nodes.

We’re going to take you through three simple steps to show you how simple it is to deploy and update software using Chocolatey and Ansible.

 

Before We Start: Windows Prerequisites

Ansible  uses Winrm by default to communicate with Windows machines. Therefore, we need to ensure we have that enabled by running `Enable-PSRemoting` on the remote Windows computer.

For production use, we recommend enabling HTTPS for WinRM . 

The code examples shown below are all using the user ‘ansible’ as the default. If you are using a different username, make sure you change it!

 

Step 1: Configure Ansible to use Chocolatey.

We need to install the Chocolatey module so that Ansible can use. The  Chocolatey Ansible Content Collection is called chocolatey:chocolatey and is maintained by the Chocolatey Team. To install the Collection, and therefore the win_chocolatey modules, on your Ansible server, run:

ansible-galaxy collection install chocolatey.chocolatey

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What is DNS and how does it work?

The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the foundations of the internet, working in the background to match the names of web sites that people type into a search box with the corresponding IP address, a long string of numbers that no one could be expected to remember.It's still possible for someone to type an IP address into a browser to reach a website, but most people want an internet address to consist of easy-to-remember words, called domain names. (For example, Network World.)To read this article in full, please click here

Reflecting on Three Years of Board Service and a Commitment to Quality Improvement

Departing Trustee Glenn McKnight looks back at his three years of service as a member of the Internet Society Board of Trustees.

During the past three years we have seen a tremendous amount of productive work by a functional and focused Internet Society Board of Trustees. This included not only the normal board and committee work, but also the extra efforts associated with the selection of a new CEO, creation of the Internet Society Foundation, and meeting the challenges of the proposed PIR/Ethos transaction.

It’s important to learn from these experiences, but it’s also important to focus on achievements and to reassert the core values of the Internet Society as a force of good in the Internet ecosystem. We see the Internet Society focusing its efforts with purposeful strategic direction lead by CEO Andrew Sullivan and his team. As a departing Trustee, I would like to see the Internet Society explore more opportunities for members to learn from one other, including “Meet the Board” to foster improved communication and a means to help teach the community about the role of the Board of Trustees.

During these three years, my work beyond the normal board work has also involved committee Continue reading

Day Two Cloud 063: The How And Why Of Migrating Databases To The Cloud

Planning a database migration to the cloud? If you're going to do it right, prepare to dig in because you have many options and trade offs to consider, including whether to go with IaaS or PaaS, security and monitoring issues, and much, much more. Day Two Cloud dives into the inner workings of database migration with expert Joey D’Antoni, Principal Consultant at Denny Cherry & Associates.

Day Two Cloud 063: The How And Why Of Migrating Databases To The Cloud

Planning a database migration to the cloud? If you're going to do it right, prepare to dig in because you have many options and trade offs to consider, including whether to go with IaaS or PaaS, security and monitoring issues, and much, much more. Day Two Cloud dives into the inner workings of database migration with expert Joey D’Antoni, Principal Consultant at Denny Cherry & Associates.

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What is IPv6, and why aren’t we there yet?

For the most part the dire warnings about running out of internet addresses have ceased because, slowly but surely, migration from the world of Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) to IPv6 has begun, and software is in place to prevent the address apocalypse that many were predicting.But before we see where are and where we’re going with IPv6, let’s go back to the early days of internet addressing.[ Related: IPv6 deployment guide + How to plan your migration to IPv6 ] What is IPv6 and why is it important? IPv6 is the latest version of the Internet Protocol, which identifies devices across the internet so they can be located. Every device that uses the internet is identified through its own IP address in order for internet communication to work. In that respect, it’s just like the street addresses and zip codes you need to know in order to mail a letter.To read this article in full, please click here

Cloudflare and Human Rights: Joining the Global Network Initiative (GNI)

Cloudflare and Human Rights: Joining the Global Network Initiative (GNI)

Consistent with our mission to help build a better Internet, Cloudflare has long recognized the importance of conducting our business in a way that respects the rights of Internet users around the world. We provide free services to important voices online - from human rights activists to independent journalists to the entities that help maintain our democracies - who would otherwise be vulnerable to cyberattack. We work hard to develop internal mechanisms and build products that empower user privacy. And we believe that being transparent about the types of requests we receive from government entities and how we respond is critical to maintaining customer trust.

As Cloudflare continues to expand our global network, we think there is more we can do to formalize our commitment to help respect human rights online. To that end, we are excited to announce that we have joined the Global Network Initiative (GNI), one of the world's leading human rights organizations in the information and communications Technology (ICT) sector, as observers.

Business + Human Rights

Understanding Cloudflare’s new partnership with GNI requires some additional background on how human rights concepts apply to businesses.

In 1945, following the end of World War II, 850 delegates Continue reading

Announcing wrangler dev — the Edge on localhost

Announcing wrangler dev — the Edge on localhost

Cloudflare Workers — our serverless platform — allows developers around the world to run their applications from our network of 200 datacenters, as close as possible to their users.

A few weeks ago we announced a release candidate for wrangler dev — today, we're excited to take wrangler dev, the world’s first edge-based development environment, to GA with the release of wrangler 1.11.

Think locally, develop globally

It was once assumed that to successfully run an application on the web, one had to go and acquire a server, set it up (in a data center that hopefully you had access to), and then maintain it on an ongoing basis. Luckily for most of us, that assumption was challenged with the emergence of the cloud. The cloud was always assumed to be centralized — large data centers in a single region (“us-east-1”), reserved for compute. The edge? That was for caching static content.

Again, assumptions are being challenged.

Cloudflare Workers is about moving compute from a centralized location to the edge. And it makes sense: if users are distributed all over the globe, why should all of them be routed to us-east-1, on the opposite side of the world, Continue reading

Docker Swarm Services behind the Scenes

Remember the claim that networking is becoming obsolete and that everyone else will simply bypass the networking teams (source)?

Good news for you – there are many fast growing overlay solutions that are adopted by apps and security teams and bypass the networking teams altogether.

That sounds awesome in a VC pitch deck. Let’s see how well that concept works out in reality using Docker Swarm as an example (Kubernetes is probably even worse).

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Developing and Testing Ansible Roles with Molecule and Podman – Part 1

One of the beauties of the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is that the language to describe automation is readable not only by a few dedicated experts, but by almost anyone across the IT ecosystem. That means all IT professionals can take part in the automation, enabling cross team collaboration and really drive automation as a culture inside an organization. With so many people contributing to the automation, it is crucial to test the automation content in-depth. So when you’re developing new Ansible Content like playbooks, roles and collections, it’s a good idea to test the content in a test environment before using it to automate production infrastructure. Testing ensures the automation works as designed and avoids unpleasant surprises down the road. 

Testing automation content is often a challenge, since it requires the deployment of specific testing infrastructure as well as setting up the testing conditions to ensure the tests are relevant. Molecule is a complete testing framework that helps you develop and test Ansible roles, which allows you to focus on the content instead of focusing on managing testing infrastructure.

According to its official documentation, Molecule is a project:

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Technologies that Didn’t: The Fiber Distributed Data Interface

Token Ring, in its original form, was—on paper—a very capable physical transport. For instance, because of the token passing capabilities, it could make use of more than 90% of the available bandwidth. In contrast, Ethernet systems, particularly early Ethernet systems using a true “single wire” broadcast domain, cannot achieve nearly that kind of utilization—hence “every device on its own switch port.” The Fiber Distributed Data Interface, or FDDI, is like Token Ring in many ways. For instance, FDDI uses a token to determine when a station connected to the ring can transmit, enabling efficient use of bandwidth.

And yet, Ethernet is the common carrier of almost all wired networks today, and even wireless standards mimic Ethernet’s characteristics. What happened to FDDI?

FDDI is a 100Mbit/second optical standard based on token bus, which used an improved timed token version of the token passing scheme developed for token ring networks. This physical layer protocol standard had a number of fairly unique features. It was a 100Mbit/second standard at a time when Ethernet offered a top speed of 10Mbits/second. Since FDDI could operate over a single mode fiber, it could support distances of 200 kilometers, or around 120 miles. Because it was Continue reading

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