January 2010
41 posts
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“MashSSL allows web applications to mutually authenticate and establish a secure...”
– MashSSL Alliance (via Hoff)
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“1. Most of the virtual network appliances, especially those “ported” from the...”
– Rational Survivability - Where Are the Network Virtual Appliances? Hobbled By the Virtual Network, That’s Where…
And here’s Hoff’s response to the last post. These are our struggles.
1 is a problem the appliance makers are working on; it’ll change.
I worry about 2.
I...
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“Allan’s also making this very important point: the providers are making a...”
– Where ARE the Network Virtual Appliances? - Telematique, water and fire.
Good ideas. This is a topic of some interest to one of my teams at ibm.. and I’ve been going along the same line of thinking.
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“Craig Balding, Rich Mogull and I are working on a book due out later this year....”
– Hacking Exposed: Virtualization & Cloud Computing…Feedback Please | Rational Survivability
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“By March 2010, the first set of components, which are part of the research...”
– Morfeo Claudia » Blog Archive » Claudia is coming: first release March 2010
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“Our proposed DNS protocol extension lets recursive DNS resolvers include part of...”
– Google Code Blog: A proposal to extend the DNS protocol
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“On the networking front, this session highlighted a new Cisco solution as a way...”
– Networkers at CiscoLive 2010 - Barcelona - Daily Blogger Techminute Day 1 - Data Center Networks
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virtual identity singularity
[There’s a line in my “web in twenty” post about having a single virtual federated identity for anyone who wants one. It reminded me about this bit of postage that I wrote in 2005 and reproduced here with some minor edits.]
There’s nothing (afaik) that actually does what I am pining for–a consolidated representation of my virtual identity.
Having a standard (extensible)...
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After SpringSource and Zimbra, VMware now looks... →
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“This workbook is intended to help you get up to speed on cloud computing,...”
– CSC: Leading Edge Forum Executive Programme
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the web in twenty
Stu tagged me to answer these questions:
* How has the Web changed your life?
* How has the Web changed business and society?
* What do you think the Web will look like in 20 years?
Ok, but 1. I don’t think I have anything interesting/unique to say and 2. we’re all wrong about what it’ll look like in 20 years.
How has the Web changed my life?
It’s strange to talk...
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“2. And a “Power of 2”. All applications that move to this internal...”
– Anant Jhingran’s Musings: The power of “2” to set everything on the cloud
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“VMware would like to announce the availability of a public draft for the vSphere...”
– VMware: VMware Security Blog: Announcing vSphere 4.0 Hardening Guide Public Draft Release
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“Even if you think my ideas and thoughts on this topic is complete BS, I would...”
– Private Clouds – Not just a Cost and Technology issue, Its all about trust, the family jewels, corporate value, and identity « LooseBolts
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IBM may increase competition with VMware in near... →
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“So, this week, one of our customers called me about a test of the Nexus 5000 he...”
– The Perils of Equipment Testing - Data Center Networks
Funny thing, I pretty much agree with Omar here on the relevance of synthetic testing. It tells you something. But, what that something is and how relevant it is to you is totally up for grabs. This sort of what does and does not apply to a...
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wdm net virt nonexistance
After my last post on the topic - net virt wtf - someone asked me whether wdm vendors do net virt..
IMO, because DWDM is a L1 tech, it’s agnostic to the whole concept. Insofar as WDM vendors get into other layers (MPLS, Carrier E, etc), they may have something to talk about re net virt. Or, insofar as WDM vendors can talk about some kind of automation/management interaction with data...
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Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator Standards Body... →
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Embedding VNTag functionality into the SecTAG... →
• Show how the capability proposed by the VNTag can be included in the MACSec SecTAG.
• Demonstrate the advantages of using the SecTAG over creating an entirely new tag
• Discuss compatibility of SecTAG changes with current MACSec specification
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“VEPA does not modify the Ethernet frame format but only the forwarding behavior...”
– Emerging IEEE Ethernet standards could soothe data center headaches
- Network World
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net virt wtf
The various things people mean when say “network virtualization”:
creating multiple virtual networks overlaid onto a physical network within or across devices
creating a single virtual network overlaid onto multiple physical networks within or across locations, generally about inter-DC L2 continuity
presenting multiple physical network devices as a single virtual device
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IBM RD | Abstract | Applying Amdahl's Other Law to... →
“As computing system workloads become more distributed in nature, there is an increasing dependence on the networking interconnects between such systems. As stated by Amdahl’s Other Law, this dependence not only exists on the I/O (input/output) subsystem, but also on the memory subsystems. In particular, as processor utilization increases, there is a direct, corresponding increase in memory...
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“1. There is no such thing as infinite scale. There is no such thing as an...”
– Cloud: Over Subscription vs. Over Capacity – Two Different Things | Rational Survivability
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“Resource utilization is even a stronger argument to move to a high-scale, shared...”
– Perspectives - Private Clouds Are Not The Future
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“There is a growing gap between memory bandwidth and CPU power and this growing...”
– Perspectives - Very Lower Power Servers Progress
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“We are building the next generation of web-services that will further drive the...”
– https://us-amazon.icims.com/jobs/109825/job?in_iframe=1
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Clean Slate Design for the Internet →
“Our mission is to reinvent Internet infrastructure and services by creating ‘platforms for innovations’ in networking, computing, and storage and making them available to research and user communities with emphasis on mobile computing.”
These guys are doing great work with OpenFlow & GENI. They’re part of the driving force behind the eventual complete...
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Geographically dispersed cluster design | Arnim... →
“Implementing an active-active datacenter setup is also another step forward in the direction of true cloud computing, because IMHO a single datacenter can’t be a cloud by itself. As it comes to VMware in an active-active datacenter setup, there are several important things to keep in mind.”
Great post on distributed vmw clusters + associated issues with multi-site deployments.
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“So as you stare out the window, morning cup of coffee in hand, a tear rolling...”
– Top 10 Reasons Your Security Program Sucks and Why You Can’t Do Anything About It « Amrit Williams Blog
“I don’t want anyone to think that I’m not grateful because I am. I...”
– The ugliest laptop in the world? ~ Brand Mix
I just, unfortunately, got one of these too. Same opinion.
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“In the X86 world, the combination of the X86 ISA, hardware platform, and the...”
– Perspectives - Networking: The Last Bastion of Mainframe Computing