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The Myth of Lossless vMotion

As a response to my Live vMotion into VMware-on-AWS Cloud blog post Nico Vilbert pointed me to his blog post explaining the details of cross-Atlantic vMotion into AWS.

Today I will not go into yet another rant pointing out all the things that can go wrong, but focus on a minor detail: “no ping was dropped in the process.”

The vMotion is instantaneous and lossless myth has been propagated since the early days of vMotion when sysadmins proudly demonstrated what seemed to be pure magic to amazed audiences… including the now-traditional terminal window running ping and not losing a single packet.

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The Myth of Lossless vMotion

As a response to my Live vMotion into VMware-on-AWS Cloud blog post Nico Vilbert pointed me to his blog post explaining the details of cross-Atlantic vMotion into AWS.

Today I will not go into yet another rant pointing out all the things that can go wrong, but focus on a minor detail: “no ping was dropped in the process.”

The vMotion is instantaneous and lossless myth has been propagated since the early days of vMotion when sysadmins proudly demonstrated what seemed to be pure magic to amazed audiences… including the now-traditional terminal window running ping and not losing a single packet.

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Virtual Conferences – Nice In Theory

As COVID-19 (Corona) has spread around the world, and while we can argue how serious that is, a lot of tech conferences have been cancelled, and rightfully so. Safety always comes first.

People have suggested that virtual conferences could be a replacement, but as I’ll explain in this blog, they can never really replace a standard conference, rather just be a complement.

First, let me just clear a couple of things:

• Safety comes first, if the prize of safety is to cancel a tech conference, that’s a small prize to pay
• We should generally try to travel less and replace some of the travel with the use of collaboration apps such as Webex, Zoom etc
• There are virtual conferences, such as the PacketPushers VDC, that do work in a virtual format

The first challenge is that we are all in different time zones. When I go to Cisco Live in the US, I adjust to the US time. If I’m staying here in Sweden, I’m not going to stay up late to watch a stream coming from the US.

When you travel to a conference, you are away from work and family, you have dedicated that time to make the Continue reading

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The First Ethiopia Internet Development Conference: Meeting Challenge and Opportunity Head On

When it comes to Ethiopia’s future online, there are many reasons to feel optimistic.

The country has one of the fastest-growing economies in the region, is strategically placed, and has a population of over 105 million, 60% of whom are under the age of 30. All of these are assets to make it a regional digital giant.

But this won’t happen unless Ethiopia takes some strategic moves. Internet penetration is still very low compared to its peers in Africa.  The rural areas are still largely unconnected to the Internet. Only cities enjoy 3G access and 4G is only available in the capital. In spite of successive price cuts by Ethio telecom in the last year, the Internet is not affordable for the majority of Ethiopians.

It’s not that the government has not wanted to connect the rural areas. In fact, the rationale that the Ethiopian government had to keep the monopoly was to use the money generated from cities to invest in the rural areas. However, this strategy has clearly not worked since Ethiopia’s rural areas are not better connected than those in countries that have not had a government monopoly on the sector, such as Kenya.

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Daily Roundup: Nokia CEO Walks the Plank

Nokia CEO walked the plank; VMware's winning streak came to a screeching halt; and Marvell injected...

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Next Platform Radio: 3/2/20 Edition

Supply Chain Impacts, HPC Investments, Event Disruptions

It is difficult to ignore the mounting impacts of supply chain disruption worldwide with the coronavirus crisis. …

Next Platform Radio: 3/2/20 Edition was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

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Internet Society Ethiopia Chapter Launched Today!

We are excited about the momentum behind Ethiopia.

It is a rare moment in any country’s history to undergo such a positive transformation. It’s a time of immense optimism and investment potential. It’s not a surprise as the country also has one of the fastest-growing economies in the region, is strategically placed, and has a young population of over 105 million – half of whom are under the age of 18.

While we’ve been active in the Internet world for many years, the time to start a Chapter in Ethiopia is absolutely now. With that, let me share our “why” and introduce ourselves.

We are the Internet Society Ethiopia Chapter.

The idea of starting an Internet Society Chapter came to us during a workshop in the city of Bahir Dar, where we became conscious of the fact that more than 85% of the Ethiopia population is losing countless opportunities every day because they don’t have access to the Internet. We believe the Internet is for everyone and we are here to work with all people – from communities to businesses to governments and ordinary people to connect the unconnected and create a bigger and stronger Internet in Ethiopia. What drives Continue reading

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Infor, Snowflake Unite to Birst Open BI Analytics

Joint customers will be able utilize Birst's integrated end-to-end platform for building automated...

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Network Break 273: Fortinet Pits Deep Learning Appliance Against Malware; Nokia ‘Reviews Options’ As Earnings Struggle

Take a Network Break. This week's IT news analysis covers a new anti-malware appliance from Fortinet, VMware security software for data centers and clouds, Nokia's efforts to buy time as it gets its 5G house in order, and financial results from multiple vendors.

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Network Break 273: Fortinet Pits Deep Learning Appliance Against Malware; Nokia ‘Reviews Options’ As Earnings Struggle

Take a Network Break. This week's IT news analysis covers a new anti-malware appliance from Fortinet, VMware security software for data centers and clouds, Nokia's efforts to buy time as it gets its 5G house in order, and financial results from multiple vendors.

The post Network Break 273: Fortinet Pits Deep Learning Appliance Against Malware; Nokia ‘Reviews Options’ As Earnings Struggle appeared first on Packet Pushers.

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Similarities Between AWS VPC and Cisco SDA – Intra-Subnet Communication

Update March 6, 2020: This post will be obsolete soon by a new  version

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Cisco’s Wendy Nather: Never Say This to a CISO

When Cisco acquired Duo Security, Nather’s was the only CISO advisory team. Cisco quickly saw the...

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Marvell Injects New Life Into Infrastructure Chips

The chips are designed to power networking equipment like switches, routers, secure gateways,...

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Nokia Taps New Captain After Missing 5G Boat

Pekka Lundmark, who currently serves as president and CEO of Fortum, an energy company also...

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Heavy Networking 504: The State Of Optical Networking In 2020

If you're new to DWDM and optical networking, this Heavy Networking episode aims to peel back some of the layers of these technologies to help you understand how they work, and whether you have business applications that could use DWDM. My guest is Chris Tracy, a network and systems engineer at ESnet.

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Heavy Networking 504: The State Of Optical Networking In 2020

If you're new to DWDM and optical networking, this Heavy Networking episode aims to peel back some of the layers of these technologies to help you understand how they work, and whether you have business applications that could use DWDM. My guest is Chris Tracy, a network and systems engineer at ESnet.

The post Heavy Networking 504: The State Of Optical Networking In 2020 appeared first on Packet Pushers.

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Tech Bytes: Is SDN A Revolution Or An Evolution Of Traditional Networks? (Sponsored)

On today's Tech Bytes podast we talk with sponsor CodiLime about the benefits of SDN, how SDN works, and CodiLime's network engineering services that help organizations of all sizes migrate to SDN. Our guest Monika Antoniak, head of R&D at CodiLime.

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Tech Bytes: Is SDN A Revolution Or An Evolution Of Traditional Networks? (Sponsored)

On today's Tech Bytes podast we talk with sponsor CodiLime about the benefits of SDN, how SDN works, and CodiLime's network engineering services that help organizations of all sizes migrate to SDN. Our guest Monika Antoniak, head of R&D at CodiLime.

The post Tech Bytes: Is SDN A Revolution Or An Evolution Of Traditional Networks? (Sponsored) appeared first on Packet Pushers.

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The Week in Internet News: Let’s Encrypt Hits One Billion Certificates

Encryption wave: Let’s Encrypt, the website encryption project supported by the Internet Society, has issued 1 billion web security certificate, ZDNet reports. About 81 percent of the world’s websites now are secured with Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption, and Let’s Encrypt, which offers free TLS certificates, now serves nearly 200 million websites.

Even more encryption: In other encryption news, the Firefox browser has begun turning on DNS over HTTPS (DoH) by default for users in the U.S., The Verge says. The encryption tool secures Internet traffic, including browsing histories.

No more WiFi: Google is shutting down a free Wi-Fi service called Station that has served parts of India, Indonesia, South Africa, Mexico, Thailand, Nigeria, Philippines, Brazil and Vietnam. TechCrunch reports. Google says the service is no longer needed because of falling prices for mobile broadband service. Google also struggled to find a business model.

Keep your hands off the network: Employees are increasingly connecting their personal Internet of Things devices, like smart watches and fitness trackers, to corporate networks, according to research by Zscaler, detailed at ZDNet. These unauthorized connections undermine network security. The most connected personal devices included digital home assistants, TV set-top boxes, video cameras, smart-home Continue reading

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Technology Short Take 124

Welcome to Technology Short Take #124! It seems like the natural progression of the Tech Short Takes is moving toward monthly articles, since it’s been about a month since my last one. In any case, here’s hoping that I’ve found something useful for you. Enjoy! (And yes, normally I’d publish this on a Friday, but I messed up and forgot. So, I decided to publish on Monday instead of waiting for Friday.)

Networking

• Said van de Klundert has a post on screen scraping basics for network engineers. For network engineers just getting started with network automation, I suspect that the information shared here may prove quite useful.
• Ronald de Jong takes readers through using the migration coordinator to migrate from NSX-v (NSX for vSphere) to NSX-T. Ronald’s post is fairly detailed, and worth a read if this is a migration you’re going to have to undertake.
• For readers who may be new to networking, Daniel Wray has a write-up on network cabling.
• Redpill Linpro talks to readers about their new routers running Cumulus Linux. That’s cool.

Servers/Hardware

• This article is about hardware, just not the hardware I’d typically talk about in this section—instead, it’s about Philips Hue light bulbs. Continue reading