Whether or not the coronavirus pandemic causes the Great Recession II or the Great Depression II, we are without a doubt entering an era when IT industry is going to need lower prices, better performance, and better thermal profiles for their compute engines than they have ever required before. …
Betting On Extreme Co-Design For Compute Chips was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
IDC predicts server market revenues will decline 3.4% year over year to $88.6 billion in 2020 while...
As more employees work from home, organizations are struggling with the rollout and support of remote work forces. On today's Tech Bytes podcast we walk through the four phases of scaling up remote workers with our sponsor, Viavi Solutions. Viavi provides network performance monitoring and visibility products. Our guest is Bill Proctor, Customer Success Manager at Viavi.
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The company said the increase was in areas operating under enforced social distancing or...
The operator plans to build 5G mobile edge computing centers in 12 locations across South Korea to...
The cloud giant is also working with Magid Glove & Safety to ramp up production of 2 million...
In a previous blog post I introduced Automation Webhooks and their uses with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) workflows and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. In this blog post, I’ll cover how those features can be applied to creating GitOps pipelines, a particular workflow gaining popularity in the cloud-native space, using Ansible and the unique benefits utilizing Ansible provides.
Like so many terms that evolve and emerge from the insights and practices of what came before it, finding a definitive meaning to the term “GitOps” is a bit elusive.
GitOps is a workflow whose conceptual roots started with Martin Fowler’s comprehensive Continuous Integration overview in 2006 and descends from Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps culture and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns. What makes it unique is that GitOps is a prescriptive style of Infrastructure as Code based on the experience and wisdom of what works in deploying and managing large, sophisticated, distributed and cloud-native systems. So you can implement git-centric workflows where you treat infrastructure like it is code, but it doesn’t mean it’s GitOps.
The term GitOps was coined by Alexis Richardson, CEO and Founder of Weaveworks, so a lot of how I’m going to define Continue reading
NYC Mesh connects people to “critical Internet lifeline” during COVID-19 pandemic
As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, cities are slowing to a halt and millions of people are self-isolating to help slow the spread of the virus.
The Internet has never been more important. It is a critical for up-to-date health information, a necessity for students to continue their education while at home and for their parent to continue working, enables access to government programs and supports like unemployment insurance, and can help alleviate the effects of social isolation.
Yet, in New York City alone, 1.5 million people don’t have access from their homes or mobile devices, largely due to high costs of connectivity.
A group of volunteers is working around the clock to change that, one antenna at a time.
NYC Mesh, a community network supported by the Internet Society, kicked into high gear earlier this month in advance of the pandemic, getting as many people connected as possible while it was still safe to do so, prioritizing those with no other Internet access. The ramp up –going from a couple of installs a week to one or more a day – was “a mad rush of Continue reading
Networked virus: U.S. Senator Mark Warner has raised concerns about cyberattacks targeting Internet connectivity while many people are working from home due to the COVID-19 outbreak, The Hill reports. Warner, vice chairman on the Senate Intelligence Committee, wrote letters to network device vendors asking that they pump up the security of their products.
Sharing the WiFi: The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will allow schools and libraries to share their WiFi connections with the surrounding communities during the coronavirus pandemic, a change in the normal FCC policy about their WiFi networks, KRCRTV.com reports. Schools and libraries can set their own WiFi-sharing policies, the FCC said. Meanwhile, some libraries want to extend their WiFi networks using bookmobiles, Vice.com says. It’s unclear if FCC rules allow this expansion of service, however.
Tracking you and the virus: Some countries are tracking the coronavirus outbreak by tracking residents’ mobile phones, Science Magazine says. However, tracking phones also raises privacy concerns. “We don’t live in a culture of public trust when it comes to data,” says David Leslie, an ethicist at the Alan Turing Institute. “We live in this age that has been called the age of surveillance capitalism, where … our Continue reading
This is a guest post from Docker Captain Adrian Mouat who is Chief Scientist at Container Solutions, a cloud-native consultancy and Kubernetes Certified Service Provider. Adrian is the author of “Using Docker,” published by O’Reilly Media. He is currently developing Trow, a container image registry designed to securely manage the flow of images in a Kubernetes cluster. Adrian is a regular conference speaker and trainer and he has spoken at several events including KubeCon EU, DockerCon, CraftConf, TuringFest and GOTO Amsterdam.
Docker images have become a standard tool for testing and deploying new and third-party software. I’m the main developer of the open source Trow registry and Docker images are the primary way people install the tool. If I didn’t provide images, others would end up rolling their own which would duplicate work and create maintenance issues.
By default, the Docker images we create run on the linux/amd64 platform. This works for the majority of development machines and cloud providers but leaves users of other platforms out in the cold. This is a substantial audience – think of home-labs built from Raspberry Pis, companies producing IoT devices, organisations running on IBM mainframes and clouds utilising low-power arm64 chips. Users of Continue reading
Comcast's Jeffery Lewis sat down to share his thoughts on ActiveCore and how it is improving the...
Today's Network Break podcast examines a new analytics service from Juniper's Mist Systems for engineers and lines of business, a new clientless remote access service from Cato Networks, the impact of increased traffic on Facebook and cloud services, how co-lo sites are restricting physical access, and more.
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Public-private partnerships are common when responding to national or international crises and the current coronavirus pandemic that is expanding around the globe is no different. …
A Hackathon To Battle The Coronavirus Pandemic was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.
Today's Heavy Networking explores what it's like to get deeply into programming while still being attached to the world of networking. We discuss the transition from day-to-day networking tasks to spending more time with code, the role of programming in automation, and more. Our guests are Matt Stone, Brent Salisbury, Dave Tucker, and Daryn Johnson.
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Cloudflare’s network processes more than fourteen million HTTP requests per second at peak for Internet users around the world. We spend a lot of time thinking about the tools we use to make those requests faster and more secure, but a secret-sauce which makes all of this possible is how we distribute configuration globally. Every time a user makes a change to their DNS, adds a Worker, or makes any of hundreds of other changes to their configuration, we distribute that change to 200 cities in 90 countries where we operate hardware. And we do that within seconds. The system that does this needs to not only be fast, but also impeccably reliable: more than 26 million Internet properties are depending on it. It also has had to scale dramatically as Cloudflare has grown over the past decade.
Historically, we built this system on top of the Kyoto Tycoon (KT) datastore. In the early days, it served us incredibly well. We contributed support for encrypted replication and wrote a foreign data wrapper for PostgreSQL. However, what worked for the first 25 cities was starting to show its age as we passed 100. In the summer of 2015 we decided to Continue reading