VMware sees executive churn amid small layoffs

VMware is going through an annual ritual it calls “workforce rebalancing,” which has resulted in a few hundred employees being let go including with four senior executives, which might be concerning as executive churn is often a sign of trouble.On Jan. 25, the California Employment Development Department disclosed that VMware had cut 159 people in the Palo Alto office earlier in January. For a company of more than 22,000, that’s nothing, although there were likely cuts in other offices around the world as well.[Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.] “We can confirm that there have been a limited number of changes to our workforce this month,” a VMware spokesperson said via email. “This is a part of regular workforce rebalancing that ensures resources across VMware’s global businesses and geographies are aligned with strategic objectives and customer needs. We have an active employee support program to ensure, where possible, impacted employees will be redeployed to open roles within VMware. We continue to recruit in areas of strategic importance for the company.To read this article in full, please click here

Daily Roundup: Cisco Juices 400GbE Network

Accenture Separates Security Leaders From Laggards

Putting In-Memory Processing Through The Paces

From a conceptual standpoint, the idea of embedding processing within main memory makes logical sense since it would eliminate many layers of latency between compute and memory in modern systems and make the parallel processing inherent in many workloads overlay elegantly onto the distributed compute and storage components to speed up processing. …

Putting In-Memory Processing Through The Paces was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

7 best practices for managing a multi-cloud environment

Multi-cloud strategies and hybrid IT environments bring a set of challenges that technology leaders might not have expected.

7 best practices for managing a multi-cloud environment

Multi-cloud strategies and hybrid IT environments bring a set of challenges that technology leaders might not have expected.

7 best practices for managing a multi-cloud environment

Multi-cloud strategies and hybrid IT environments bring a set of challenges that technology leaders might not have expected.

BrandPost: Have it Your Way with Silver Peak

If Wendy’s, Burger King and McDonald’s can find a way to make it clear how they are different despite each offering hamburgers and french fries, why is it, five years into the hottest networking disruption in decades, companies are having so much trouble differentiating their SD-WAN products? (And, before anyone jumps in regarding their menu, yes, I realize the menu of these fast food giants has greatly evolved over the years, but the food with which they made their mark remains burgers and fries.) I understand that there are now 60+ vendors offering SD-WAN-like products, but even before the market exploded in terms of providers and adoption, even the top five vendors’ messages are the equivalent of a vanilla milkshake. When asked about some of our biggest challenges as a company and as an industry, I typically talk about the need to do some SD-WAN washing. In fact, I often share the story of how I attended a presentation at a conference and as I was sitting there, I closed my eyes and listened closely. My takeaway from the 60-minute discussion: “Wow, if I didn’t already know which vendor was presenting, I couldn’t tell who it was – everyone Continue reading

Silver Peak, Fortinet Score SD-WAN, WAF Deals

IBM CTO: Edge Will Implode Without Open Source

Who Won the Q4 Cloud Wars?

The problem with mobile and app voting

It's the day after the 2020 Iowa caucuses, and the Iowa Democratic Party has yet to announce the winner. The app that precinct leaders were supposed to use to report final tallies recorded inconsistent results. Party leaders blamed a "coding issue" within the app, not a hack or attack. Computerworld's Lucas Mearian joins Juliet to discuss the problem with mobile voting and how this snafu may affect the reputation of app voting in the future.

New ESG Study on Hybrid Cloud Adoption and Security

What Does the ESG Study Entail?

The Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) study is based on primary research and aims to effectively derive IT insights in the areas of hybrid cloud, data center as a service, and data center security.

ESG conducted a research survey of 200 IT decision-makers directly knowledgeable about their organizations’ cloud priorities and perceptions. They analyzed the results and have compiled key results in this paper.

You can use the findings provided in this paper to understand the latest trends and challenges in cloud adoption and inform your own hybrid/multi-cloud projects and data center security strategy.

What Areas of Research Are Covered in This Paper?

Through the IT-targeted survey, the ESG analysts look into the prevalence of hybrid applications and related challenges. The survey also seeks to determine the market demand for Data Center-as-a-Service (DCaaS) now and over the next 3 years. In addition, the paper investigates how important E-W security is considered and contrasts it with the current actual levels of East-West (E-W) security policy enforcement, discussing the potential reasons behind the gap.

Here is a sample chart showing respondents’ opinions on E-W security on a 5-point Likert scale.

Where Can I Access the Paper?

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Introducing the Docker Index: Insight from the World’s Most Popular Container Registry

8 billion pulls! Yes, that’s billion with a B! This number represents a little known level of activity and innovation happening across the community and ecosystem, all in just one average month. How do we know? From the number of pulls and most popular images to top architectures, data from Docker Hub and Docker Desktop provide a window into application development trends in the age of containers. 

Today, we are sharing these findings in something we call the Docker Index – a look at developers’ preferences and trends, as told by using anonymized data from five million Docker Hub and two million Docker Desktop users, as well as countless other developers engaging with content on Hub. 

At Docker, we’re always looking for ways to make life easier for developers. Understanding the what, why and how behind these projects is imperative. As these trends evolve, we will continue to share updates on the findings.

Whether containers will become mainstream is no longer a topic of debate. As the Docker Index data suggests, containers have become a mainstay to how modern, distributed apps are built and shared so they can run anywhere. 

Usage is showing no signs of slowing Continue reading

Using Bayesian Inference To Reverse Engineer Decades Of HPC

A collaboration including the University of Oxford, University of British Columbia, Intel, New York University, CERN, and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center is working to make it practical to incorporate of Bayesian inference into scientific simulators. …

Using Bayesian Inference To Reverse Engineer Decades Of HPC was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

You Asked and We Listened: New Features in the MANRS Observatory

Collaboration and shared responsibility are two pillars of the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative, which we support so that there is a baseline of routing security for network operators around the world.

The same values apply to running the MANRS Observatory, an online tool we launched in August that lets users track the state of Internet routing security and network operators their “MANRS-readiness.” Aggregating data from trusted sources, it relies on the community with a shared goal to protect the core of the Internet.

Since we rolled out the tool, many of you have shared that you would like to see updates to make it more informative, intuitive, and easy to use. We take your comments seriously, and we are delighted to introduce some of the new features to you.

We’ve made several improvements to the user interface, including:

• Improved Search. The search network now displays the name of a network as you type an ASN. This feature is only available to MANRS participants; public access does not provide data for individual networks.
• Report Sharing. Individual network reports that provide detailed information about potential incidents and cases of non-conformance can now be easily shared with Continue reading

Daftcloud – Native macOS Soundcloud player

Native apps are better than web browsers. This works brilliantly.

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Cisco Champion for 2020

I made it to the list of Cisco Champions for 2020 which is now the third year in a row! The primary reason I could again be selected between the first 100 Cisco champs for 2020 in the early acceptance process is the stuff that I shared through this blog and because of the contact with people that got to me directly via my blog comments or e-mail. Again, 2019 was another year full of great projects and big challenges with new technologies. We finally break the barrier of NFV and Automation and got some great stuff done using automation

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Upcoming Events and Webinars (February 2020)

If you’re an ipSpace.net subscriber, you might have noticed how busy the last month has been (more about that later). February won’t be much better:

• Later today we’ll have David Barroso talk about safely managing network automation secrets.
• On February 6th I’ll describe the tools you can use to automate Azure deployments, including simple CLI scripts, Ansible, Terraform, and Azure Resource Manager templates.
• We’re starting the Networking in Public Cloud Deployments online course on February 11th.
• David Peñaloza Seijas will talk about Cisco (Viptela) SD-WAN on February 13th;

Finally, I’ll run a day-long workshop in Zurich on March 10th describing containers and Docker.

Cisco Routers Power Telia Carrier 400GbE Network