Q&A: Dynatrace on COVID-19 Effects and ‘Super Bowl’-Like Traffic Surges

Software intelligence company Alois Reitbauer, vice president and chief technology strategist for Dynatrace, shared his observations about what the company is seeing. While Reitbauer usually splits his time between living and working in the United States and Europe, Reitbauer spoke with The New Stack from his remote-location home in Austria. What traffic changes are your customers seeing due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic? It’s definitely important to know we’re experiencing a perfect storm scenario right now. We all need to be on the same page for what’s going to happen. We have certainly ramped up our monitoring of networks recently. So the way you can describe the situation for many websites now is it’s just like Black Friday, where all people go really wild on a certain number of sites. The only difference with Black Friday- or Super Bowl-like surges in traffic compared to the saturation COVID-19 might cause is that nobody knows when it’s happening. We Continue reading

Daily Roundup: Palo Alto Pays $420M for Cisco Competitor

IT Spending Prognostication During The Great Infection

The Great Infection is unique among recessions in that it is essentially a self-imposed economic downturn, not the result of over-exuberance or excess optimism or greed, but by a spikey ball of fat that is not alive but is more like a self-replicating biological machine that only knows how to do one thing: Copy itself if it reaches the right sticky environment in time before it dries out and falls apart. …

IT Spending Prognostication During The Great Infection was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Microsoft Dives Into 5G With Azure Edge Zones

Palo Alto grows SD-WAN platform by snapping-up CloudGenix for $420M

With an eye towards significantly bolstering its edge networking offerings, Palo Alto has entered into an agreement to buy cloud-based SD-WAN vendor CloudGenix for $420 million in cash.Palo Alto said upon the completion of the acquisition it will integrate CloudGenix's cloud-managed SD-WAN products to accelerate the intelligent onboarding of remote branches and retail stores into its Prisma Access package. More about SD-WAN: How to buy SD-WAN technology: Key questions to consider when selecting a supplier • How to pick an off-site data-backup method •  SD-Branch: What it is and why you’ll need it • What are the options for security SD-WAN? Announced in May 2019, Palo Alto’s Prisma is a cloud-based security package that includes access control, advanced threat protection, user behavior monitoring and  other services that promise to protect enterprise applications and resources.To read this article in full, please click here

Palo Alto grows SD-WAN platform buy snapping-up CloudGenix for $420M

With an eye towards significantly bolstering its edge networking offerings, Palo Alto has entered into an agreement to buy cloud-based SD-WAN vendor CloudGenix for $420 million in cash.Palo Alto said upon the completion of the acquisition it will integrate CloudGenix's cloud-managed SD-WAN products to accelerate the intelligent onboarding of remote branches and retail stores into its Prisma Access package. More about SD-WAN: How to buy SD-WAN technology: Key questions to consider when selecting a supplier • How to pick an off-site data-backup method •  SD-Branch: What it is and why you’ll need it • What are the options for security SD-WAN? Announced in May 2019, Palo Alto’s Prisma is a cloud-based security package that includes access control, advanced threat protection, user behavior monitoring and  other services that promise to protect enterprise applications and resources.To read this article in full, please click here

FuzzyWuzzy was a Python Module

An example of using the fuzzywuzzy Python module to match data sets with similar but not exact data - fuzzy matches! I was recently given a list of locations that I had to analyze. For the analysis, I needed data that was not in the original list (lets call that the source list). Luckily I READ MORE

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Routing Security – Nathalie Trenaman, Routing Security Programme Manager @ RIPE NCC

Nathalie Trenaman is the Routing Security Programme Manager at RIPE NCC. Rick & Melchior ask her everything about what RIPE NCC does, why should we care about Routing Security, RPKI and of course we talk about if and how we can get IPv4 address space.

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How and why become CTO of Juniper Networks – Raj Yavatker, CTO @ Juniper Networks

In this first episode of The Routing Table Podcast Rick & Melchior ask the new Juniper Networks CTO Raj about his career, why he joined Juniper and what his 100 days plan looks like.

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Palo Alto Folds CloudGenix in $420M SASE Play

Cisco Scores SD-WAN Win With NTT East

HPE’s Roshan Thekkekunnel: For Full Network Automation, The Industry Must Collaborate

Microsoft Fumbles COVID-19 Cloud Stat

768K day: the importance of adaptable software in the growing Internet

The Internet is big. Moreover, the Internet is bigger now than when that first sentence was written, and keeps increasing in size. The growth of the Internet from its humble beginnings as a DARPA research project was unprecedented and almost entirely unexpected. This—as well as the widespread usage of older routers and switches as crucial connection points in the Internet—has resulted in real-world scaling issues.

One of these issues, known commonly as “512K day,” occurred on Aug. 12, 2014. On that day, Verizon, a large United States-based Internet provider and Internet exchange point (IXP), submitted an extra 15,000 routes to the global BGP routing table. As these routes propagated across the network, they were accepted by some routers—the ones that had new firmware, or were configured to only store a subset of the global routing table.

But in other routers, this additional route load overran the 512,000 route maximum expected by the firmware designers, causing widespread Internet outages and degradation of service. In many cases, the issue was resolved quickly, but not as quickly as it could have been. Proprietary vendors were required to push out firmware updates for hundreds of router and switch models—a process that can take months. Continue reading

Lenovo Teams With Microsoft Azure At The Edge

In the ever-evolving landscape that is the edge, applications are the driving force. …

Lenovo Teams With Microsoft Azure At The Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Encryption Helps America Work Safely – And That Goes for Congress, Too

This opinion piece was originally published in The Hill.

Over the past month, Americans across the country have adapted to a new reality of life, which includes social distancing to curb the spread of COVID-19. For those fortunate enough to be able to do so, that means learning to work, attend educational classes and socialize from afar using the Internet. For a huge number of Americans, social distancing means little to no work – and even greater uncertainty. Businesses, schools and government entities everywhere are asking the same question, “can we perform our work online and, just as importantly, can it be done securely?” 

As Congress acts to respond to COVID-19, it faces a similar challenge. With some Congressional members and staff testing positive for COVID-19, and others choosing to self-isolate, lawmakers are exploring whether they can perform the most critical aspects of their office remotely – deliberation and voting. For Congress to be able to vote remotely on legislation, measures to ensure the integrity of these communications is critical. If even one vote is changed or blocked by a criminal or foreign adversary, the legitimacy of congressional decisions, and thus Congress as a whole, will be called into question. Any digital voting solution would need to rely on strong encryption to be secure.

Encryption is a critical tool to provide confidentiality and integrity to digital communications. Encryption enables much of the flexibility needed for staff to work from Continue reading

Announcing the Results of the 1.1.1.1 Public DNS Resolver Privacy Examination

On April 1, 2018, we took a big step toward improving Internet privacy and security with the launch of the 1.1.1.1 public DNS resolver — the Internet's fastest, privacy-first public DNS resolver. And we really meant privacy first. We were not satisfied with the status quo and believed that secure DNS resolution with transparent privacy practices should be the new normal. So we committed to our public resolver users that we would not retain any personal data about requests made using our 1.1.1.1 resolver. We also built in technical measures to facilitate DNS over HTTPS to help keep your DNS queries secure. We’ve never wanted to know what individuals do on the Internet, and we took technical steps to ensure we can’t know.

We knew there would be skeptics. Many consumers believe that if they aren’t paying for a product, then they are the product. We don’t believe that has to be the case. So we committed to retaining a Big 4 accounting firm to perform an examination of our 1.1.1.1 resolver privacy commitments.

Today we’re excited to announce that the 1.1.1.1 resolver examination has been completed Continue reading

Lenovo, Microsoft Push HCI to the Edge

Splunk Dives Into Cloud Native Application Monitoring

Neural computing should be based on insect brains, not human ones

The bumble bee brain is a better model than the human brain for neural networks that might be used to run autonomous robots, an academic team believes.“It is pretty impressive that a bee can fly over five miles, then remember its way home, with a brain the size of a pinhead,” says Professor James Marshall, of the University of Sheffield, quoted by multiple newspapers that were reporting on a presentation Marshall made to the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in February.[Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.] “It makes sense to me that we should try and mimic a bee brain in [autonomous systems], drones and driverless cars.”To read this article in full, please click here