Today's Day Two Cloud podcast storms into your podcast player with product news from VMware, SolarWinds, and startup Pensando. Ethan Banks attended a virtual Cloud Field Day event where vendors with cloudy products showcased their wares. Ethan and Ned share highlights from those presentations, discuss pros and cons of the products, and tease out a theme: solving problems related to distributing computing.
I always enjoy an opportunity to talk about the ins and outs of what it’s like to do networking in industries that don’t follow the typical enterprise models. In today’s episode we’re doing just that. Brian Martin, from the Twitch network engineering team, is joining us to talk about what it’s like to run a network where the primary product is real-time streaming video. If you, like me, are interested in hearing what it takes to make a service like Twitch run, this episode is for you.
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Deeply assimilating its Red Hat technology, IBM this week rolled out a set of new platforms and services designed to help customers manage edge-based application workloads and exploit artificial intelligence for infrastructure resiliency.The announcements came at IBM’s virtualized Think! 2020 event that also featured the first Big Blue keynote by the company's new CEO Arvind Krishna, during which he told the online audience about challenges of COVID-19: "History will look back on this as the moment when the digital transformation of business and society suddenly accelerated,” but also that hybrid cloud and AI are the two dominant forces driving digital transformation.To read this article in full, please click here
The medical field is one of the fastest growing fields for jobs in the U.S. If you are interested in working in this field, then you may want to consider becoming a lab support tech, also simply referred to as a lab tech.
Lab support techs have very important jobs, since these techs often perform tests that help physicians diagnose various illnesses in patients. To be a lab tech, you need to be able to pay attention to details and keep impeccable records. You also need to be highly organized and able to work at a fast pace.
Criteria for Becoming a Lab Support Tech
Here is what you need to do in order to become a lab support tech.
Get a high school diploma: You need to have a high school diploma in order to study to become a lab support technician. You need to concentrate on math and science subjects, as you will need to be good in these subjects in order to become a lab support tech.
Attend an accredited program: Once you graduate high school, you need to enroll in a lab tech program through an accredited college. The program is a 2-year program Continue reading
A crucial piece of automation is ensuring that it runs flawlessly. Automation Analytics can help by providing insight into health state and organizational statistics. However, there is often the need to monitor the current state of Ansible Tower. Luckily, Ansible Tower does provide metrics via the API, and they can easily be fed into Grafana.
This blog post will outline how to monitor Ansible Tower environments by feeding Ansible Tower and operating system metrics into Grafana by using node_exporter & Prometheus.
To reach that goal we configure Ansible Tower metrics for Prometheus to be viewed via Grafana and we will use node_exporter to export the operating system metrics to an operating system (OS) dashboard in Grafana. Note that we use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 as the OS running Ansible Tower here. The data flow is outlined below:
As you see, Grafana looks for data in Prometheus. Prometheus itself collects the data in its database by importing them from node_exporters and from the Ansible Tower APIs.
In this blog post we assume a cluster of three Ansible Tower instances and an external database. Also please note that this blog post assumes an already installed instance of Prometheus and Grafana.
Building Cloudflare Bot Management platform is an exhilarating experience. It blends Distributed Systems, Web Development, Machine Learning, Security and Research (and every discipline in between) while fighting ever-adaptive and motivated adversaries at the same time.
This is the ongoing story of Bot Management at Cloudflare and also an introduction to a series of blog posts about the detection mechanisms powering it. I’ll start with several definitions from the Bot Management world, then introduce the product and technical requirements, leading to an overview of the platform we’ve built. Finally, I’ll share details about the detection mechanisms powering our platform.
Let’s start with Bot Management’s nomenclature.
Some Definitions
Bot - an autonomous program on a network that can interact with computer systems or users, imitating or replacing a human user's behavior, performing repetitive tasks much faster than human users could.
Good bots - bots which are useful to businesses they interact with, e.g. search engine bots like Googlebot, Bingbot or bots that operate on social media platforms like Facebook Bot.
Bad bots - bots which are designed to perform malicious actions, ultimately hurting businesses, e.g. credential stuffing bots, third-party scraping bots, spam bots and sneakerbots.
Although you REALLY SHOULD watch my AWS Networking webinar (or something equivalent) to understand what problems vendors like VMWare or Pensando are facing or solving, I’m pretty sure a lot of people think they can get away with CliffsNotes version of it, so here they are ;)
The cloud will not kill the data center, but it will transform it. That's one of the takeaways from the 2020 State of the Data Center report from AFCOM, the industry association for data center professionals.In the near term, construction will slow way down, which aligns with what IDC analyst Rick Villars told me about data center construction slowing after a big buildout. More than 60% of respondents to the AFCOM report said they have no plans to build a new facility in the next 12 months, although 53% said they'll have at least one data center in the works over the next 36 months.
READ MORE: Supply-chain woes put the brakes on hyperscale data centersTo read this article in full, please click here
I previously hosted my domains with GoDaddy. In their service it was
pretty trivial to redirect a URL from one domain to another.
I own the domain bradleysearle.com
and I redirect it to https://codingpackets.com/about.
The process to do this is not as simple with AWS so in this post
I...
NVIDIA’s plans to acquire Cumulus Networks, a pioneer of using open source for networking, is a sign that open networking is finally ready for a big leap forward.Open networking has been tightly coupled with software-defined networking (SDN) because the combination promises to make networks significantly more agile, open and easier to customize to specific needs. Cumulus has been working on it for years, and NVIDIA started pushing into it when it acquired Mellanox last week.[Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.]
The question the Cumulus acquisition raises is “why now”? The concept of open networking has been hotly debated since SDN came into prominence. The concept is sound, and open systems will disrupt the network industry much as it did the compute space. Yet while Linux and open source are wildly successful in the compute industry, open source has yet to take off in networking outside of webscale networks and a handful of large organizations.To read this article in full, please click here
Real-time visibility into compute, network, and GPU infrastructure is required manage and optimize the unified infrastructure. This article explores how the industry standard sFlow technology supported by all three vendors can deliver comprehensive visibility.
Cumulus Linux simplifies operations, providing the same operating system, Linux, that runs on the servers. Cumulus Networks and Mellanox have a long history of working with the Linux community to integrate support for switches. The latest Linux kernels now include native support for network ASICs, seamlessly integrating with standard Linux routing (FRR, Quagga, Bird, etc), configuration (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc) and monitoring (collectd, netstat, top, etc) tools.
Linux 4.11 kernel extends packet sampling support describes enhancements to the Linux kernel to support industry standard sFlow instrumentation in network ASICs. Cumulus Linux and Mellanox both support the new Linux APIs. Cumulus Linux uses the open source Continue reading
Ian Baxter
Ian Baxter is the Vice President of Pre-Sales Engineering at IRONSCALES and has more than 20 years of extensive industry experience in the information security, technology and communications fields, having held various positions including both individual contributor and systems engineering management roles. During his career, Ian has regularly presented at various industry events on security topics such as threat prevention, ransomware, and best practices. Prior to IRONSCALES, Ian served as Americas' Director of Data Center Sales for NetApp covering Canada, Latin America and the US. He's also worked for large multinational technology companies such as Palo Alto Networks, Foundry Networks/Brocade, Alcatel Lucent, and Fore Systems/Marconi. Ian is originally from South Africa, and now resides in the United States.
Robert Metcalfe, co-inventor of Ethernet, is renowned for many things, but perhaps none more so than his namesake law:
Opening the 6 GHz band to Wi-Fi could add $153.75 billion to the U.S. economy over the next five years, according to a new study.In late April, the Federal Communications Commission adopted rules that make 1,200 megahertz of spectrum in the 6 GHz band available for unlicensed use. Freeing up the chunk of 6 GHz spectrum for Wi-Fi is the biggest frequency allocation upgrade to the now aging wireless protocol in 10 years. Wi-Fi using 5 GHz spectrum – the last major touch-up – was introduced in 2009. The original 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi was introduced in 1997.To read this article in full, please click here
