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Private equity firms are gobbling up data centers

Merger and acquisition activity surrounding data-center facilities is starting to resemble the Oklahoma Land Rush, and private-equity firms are taking most of the action.New research from Synergy Research Group saw more than 100 deals in 2019, a 50% growth over 2018, and private-equity companies accounted for 80% of them.[Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.] M&A activity broke the 100 transaction mark for the first time in 2019, and that comes despite a 45% decline in public company activity, such as the massive Digital Reality Trust purchase of Interxion. At the same time, the size of the deals dropped in 2019, with fewer worth $1 billion or more vs. 2018, and the average deal value fell 24% vs. 2018.To read this article in full, please click here

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My Adventuring YouTube Channel

Over the past couple of months, I’ve been organizing my collection of media files. I discovered a bunch of video lurking in an archive folder I’d forgotten about, featuring hiking and other adventures. So, I uploaded several of these usually short videos to my personal YouTube channel featuring mostly the New Hampshire wilderness & mountains.

This kicked off a chain reaction to upload more current adventuring video. If this is your sort of thing, enjoy at https://www.youtube.com/user/nh48ecb/. If this is not your sort of thing, thanks for humoring me.

If you’re not sure what to think, here’s a short video I re-discovered that gives you an idea of the scenery I’ve collected over the years. Maybe that will help you decide if you care.

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Connecting my Dev VM to GCP: Test driving sshuttle

I have been working on a project which requires me to connect to my test environment deployed on GCP. We don’t have public IPs available for all the VMs in the test environment, but one of the VMs in the deployment is configured as a JumpHost i.e it has a public IP available. We need … Continue reading Connecting my Dev VM to GCP: Test driving sshuttle

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CEX (Code EXpress) 01. It starts with… the installation.

Hello my friend,

Time to time we are getting the messages from you that it is getting tougher to find a proper job in the pure networking world. Success of self-service models coming from the clouds and hyperscalers creates the push on the traditional networking business. In its turn, this transformation requires network engineers to gain new skills such as programming and data analytics.

Network automation training – boost your career

Don’t wait to be kicked out of IT business. Join our network automation training to secure your job in future. Come to NetDevOps side.

If you still don’t feel it is necessary, take a look at skills needed for network engineer role these days at open job positions.

Introduction to the Code EXpress (CEX) format

To avoid any confusions, we continue writing about multivendor network development and automation. However, we feel it is necessary to start talking also about the software development and programming at a basic level. The network engineers in a vast majority aren’t very familiar with the Python, Ansible and even Bash, so we want to cover this gap.

The best way to get comprehensive skills in this area is to get to our network automation Continue reading

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SDxCentral’s Top 10 Articles — January 2020

Arista Networks buys Big Switch; VMware loses $237M patent infringement lawsuit; and Nokia cuts 180...

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Worth Reading: SD-WAN Scalability Challenges

In January 2020 Doug Heckaman documented his experience with VeloCloud SD-WAN. He tried to be positive, but for whatever reason this particular bit caught my interest:

Edge Gateways have a limited number of tunnels they can support […]

WTF? Wasn’t x86-based software packet forwarding supposed to bring infinite resources and nirvana? How badly written must your solution be to have a limited number of IPsec tunnels on a decent x86 CPU?

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Nuage CEO: Successful SD-WAN Not a One-Trick Pony

SD-WAN's purpose is changing. It's no longer about just shifting traffic off of MPLS networks, said...

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NSA Ranks Cloud Security Risks — Is Your Company Safe?

Misconfiguration, a widespread threat that requires a low level of sophistication, tops the...

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Daily Roundup: Big Blue CEO Out, IBM C-Suite Turns Red

Big Blue CEO is out, and IBM's C-Suite has turned red; AWS sales hit $10B; and Orange tapped...

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IBM’s CEO Virginia Rometty to be replaced by its cloud, Red Hat chiefs

If anyone was still wondering how serious IBM is about being a major cloud player that question was resoundly answered this week when its current cloud and cognitive-software leader Arvind Krishna and Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst to be CEO and president, respectively, to replace long-time CEO Virginia Rometty.Krishna, 57, was a principal architect of IBM’s $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat last year and is currently IBM’s senior vice president of Cloud and Cognitive Software, which has become the company’s palpable future.   [Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.] The Red Hat acquisition not only made Big Blue a bigger open-source and enterprise-software player, but mostly it got IBM into the lucrative hybrid-cloud business, targeting huge cloud competitor Google, Amazon and Microsoft among others. Gartner says that market will be worth $240 billion by next year.To read this article in full, please click here

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IBM’s CEO Virginia Rometty to be replaced by its cloud, Red Hat chiefs

If anyone was still wondering how serious IBM is about being a major cloud player that question was resoundly answered this week when its current cloud and cognitive-software leader Arvind Krishna and Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst to be CEO and president, respectively, to replace long-time CEO Virginia Rometty.Krishna, 57, was a principal architect of IBM’s $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat last year and is currently IBM’s senior vice president of Cloud and Cognitive Software, which has become the company’s palpable future.   [Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.] The Red Hat acquisition not only made Big Blue a bigger open-source and enterprise-software player, but mostly it got IBM into the lucrative hybrid-cloud business, targeting huge cloud competitor Google, Amazon and Microsoft among others. Gartner says that market will be worth $240 billion by next year.To read this article in full, please click here

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Most Of HPC Happens Under The Radar

While supercomputers are arguably the most exciting segment of the high performance computing market, the majority of systems deployed in any given year do not fit into this elite category. …

Most Of HPC Happens Under The Radar was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.

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Making The Red Hat Platform Bet Pay Off For Big Blue

In the long run of the history of International Business Machines, a conglomerate established back in 1911 whose Electric Tabulating System was custom built by Herman Hollerith for the federal government in the United States for the 1890 census and then commercialized, the acquisition of Red Hat by Big Blue might, in hindsight many years from now, turn out to be the most significant of the many transitions that IBM has undergone. …

Making The Red Hat Platform Bet Pay Off For Big Blue was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Google Clears Windows Container Support for GKE

The update allows Windows Server containers to run alongside Linux containers in the same cluster...

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Introducing our Open Standards Everywhere project – securing web servers in 2020!

How do you make your web server as secure as possible – while using the latest open security standards? How do you ensure your web site is available to everyone  across all the global network of networks that is the Internet? 

For the Internet to remain open, globally-connected, trustworthy, and secure, we believe the networks and servers that make up the Internet need to be based on the latest and most secure standards coming out of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). 

Many web server administrators may want to support the latest standards and protocols, but they don’t know how, and don’t necessarily have the time to figure it out. It may be item #393 in a long list of to-dos. Web site administrators may not be aware of the latest open standards, or may not know why they should support these standards. 

As part of our Action Plan 2020, we are launching the Open Standards Everywhere project, with a focus in 2020 on the security and availability of web servers.

The project has four main components: 

1. Build four reference servers – Using apache and nginx, with and without a CDN, and using Continue reading

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WireGuard VPN Protocol Coming to a Linux Kernel Near You

The coming to the Linux kernel, much to the delight of Linux creator “Can I just once again state my love for it and hope it gets merged soon? Maybe the code isn’t perfect, but I’ve skimmed it, and compared to the horrors that are OpenVPN and IPSec, it’s a work of art,” Torvalds enthused, on the OpenVPN). Another reason WireGuard is special is how it functions. Unlike the more complex competition, WireGuard functions in a similar fashion to SSH — by exchanging public keys. Once the keys have been exchanged and the connection made, there’s no need to manage connections or daemons, or be concerned about state or what’s going on under the hood. For those that are interested in what’s going on under the hood, WireGuard makes use of the Curve25519, Poly1305, SipHash24, Jason Donenfeld’s prettysleepy1 from 

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Heavy Networking 500: The State Of SD-WAN In 2020 And Future Forecasts

Where will SD-WAN go in the coming years? Will it swallow up branch security? How about end point and mobile device management? Could it extend its reach from the branch to become the way you manage your campus network? The Packet Pushers examine those and other questions in today's Heavy Networking episode.

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Heavy Networking 500: The State Of SD-WAN In 2020 And Future Forecasts

Where will SD-WAN go in the coming years? Will it swallow up branch security? How about end point and mobile device management? Could it extend its reach from the branch to become the way you manage your campus network? The Packet Pushers examine those and other questions in today's Heavy Networking episode.

The post Heavy Networking 500: The State Of SD-WAN In 2020 And Future Forecasts appeared first on Packet Pushers.

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Orange Re-Ups With Ericsson, Nokia for 5G RAN

The Swedish and Finnish vendors have long-standing agreements with Orange, and the new 5G contracts...

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AWS Posts $10B in Q4 Sales, Dominates Public Cloud

Amazon’s public cloud grew 34% compared to last year. Analysts had expected about 30% growth from...

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