News Category: Enterprise
Dustin Spinhirne | September 30, 2016
A Primer on OVN
OVN is a virtual networking platform developed by the fine folks over at openvswitch.org. The project has been in the works for nearly two years now and is starting to mature to the point of being production ready. In this posting I’ll walk through the basics of configuring a simple layer-2 overlay...
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Datamation | September 30, 2016
Ubuntu's Shuttleworth Explains Why Not All Containers are the Same
As container use continues to grow, Mark Shuttleworth provides some definition on why he's backing Kubernetes but isn't a fan of OpenStack Magnum.
Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu Linux, was an early backer of OpenStack as well as containers. This week, Shuttleworth's company Canonical...
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Fortune | September 30, 2016 Why Deep Learning Is Suddenly Changing Your Life
Neural nets aren’t new. The concept dates back to the 1950s, and many of the key algorithmic breakthroughs occurred in the 1980s and 1990s. What’s changed is that today computer scientists have finally harnessed both the vast computational power and the enormous storehouses of data—images, video,...
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Tech Target | September 30, 2016
ICANN Grinds Forward on Crucial DNS Root Zone Signing Key Update
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is moving -- carefully -- to upgrade the DNS root zone key by which all domains can be authenticated under the DNS Security Extensions protocol.
ICANN is the organization responsible for managing the Domain Name System, and DNS Security...
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Greg Whelan | September 29, 2016 tom-bie-tencent.jpg
China telecom giant Tencent is looking to SDN to solve network challenges on a massive scale, said Tom Bie in his keynote at Open Daylight Summit.
Tencent: Transforming Networks with SDN
“SDN can really transform the way we do networks,” said Tom Bie, VP of Technology & Operation of Data Center, Networking and Server, Tencent, during his Wednesday keynote address at the Open Daylight Summit. The China telecom giant should know about the issues of massive scale networks: they...
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Anne Bertucio | September 29, 2016 openstack-marketplace.jpg
Looking for an OpenStack job? Here are the answers to some frequently asked questions about working on OpenStack professionally.
How to Find Your First OpenStack Job
We’ve covered the growth of OpenStack jobs and how you can become involved in the community. Maybe that even inspired you to search for OpenStack jobs and explore the professional opportunities for Stackers. You probably have questions, so we’re here to answer the frequent questions about working...
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Pam Baker | September 29, 2016 minijail.png
Minijail lets developers and admins safely run untrusted programs for debugging and security checks, said Google Software Engineer Jorge Lucangeli Obes at the Linux Security Summit.
Minijail: Google’s Tool To Safely Run Untrusted Programs
Google’s Minijail sandboxing tool could be used by developers and sysadmins to run untrusted programs safely for debugging and security checks, according to Google Software Engineer Jorge Lucangeli Obes, who spoke last month at the Linux Security Summit. Obes is the platform security lead for...
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ComputerWorld | September 29, 2016
Meet Apache Spot, a New Open-Source Project for Cybersecurity
Hard on the heels of the discovery of the largest known data breach in history, Cloudera and Intel on Wednesday announced that they've donated a new open-source project to the Apache Software Foundation with a focus on using big data analytics and machine learning for cybersecurity.
Originally...
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The New Stack | September 29, 2016
The Second Wave of Platforms, an Interview with Cloud Foundry’s Sam Ramji
In today’s world of platforms, services are increasingly connected. In the past, PaaS offerings were pretty much isolated. It’s that new connected infrastructure that is driving the growth of Cloud Foundry, the open source, service-oriented platform technology.
Sam Ramji is CEO of Cloud Foundry,...
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Greg Whelan | September 28, 2016 santiago-rodriguez-ericsson.jpg
The way we build our networks is transforming, said Ericsson's Santiago Rodriguez, in his Tuesday keynote at OpenDaylight Summit.
Ericsson: The Journey to a DevOps Future in SDN
There are big transformations going on in the world today that are driving rapid changes to the business of networks, said Santiago Rodriguez, VP of Engineering and head of the product development unit SDN & Policy Control at Ericsson, in his keynote Tuesday at OpenDaylight Summit.
“Society...
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