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I wrote a post back in July 2012 on Urs Hoelzle’s presentation on OpenFlow at Google. I pieced together the presentation from snippets around the web.
People still look for the Google presentation, so I figured it is a good thing to send an update out.
here is the original slide deck which is much better.
Here is the Youtube video of the talk that you can look at the slides.
CNN reports on the latest Obamacare outage. A single point of failure in the Data Services Hub on Sunday caused the site to not be able to finish transactions.
I think the US Government is learning single points of failure are bad. They need redundancy. Verizon has the contract for the data hub, seems like AT&T should have been in there as well. Anyone who has run a 24x7 service would never single source their network connectivity.
A malfunction in key technology behind the Obamacare websiteleft users unable to apply for health coverage Sunday.
Joanne Peters, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, a vendor networking issue at Verizon subsidiary Terremark was to blame. Peters said the vendor had "experienced a failure in a networking component," and the attempted fix crashed the system.
To win people over, some people will say anything to get you on their side. It is interesting to see Barack Obama the anti-war president ready to launch a limited strike against Syria (sounds like war to me). Obama is shifting to win the public.
I've been researching advanced communication ideas and spent time on Linguistics which leads me to Noam Chomsky.
Avram Noam Chomsky (/ˈnoʊm ˈtʃɒmski/; born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher,[9][10] cognitive scientist, logician,[11][12] and political commentator and activist. Working for most of his life at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is currently Professor Emeritus, he has authored over 100 books on various subjects.
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He is credited as the creator or co-creator of the Chomsky hierarchy, the universal grammar theory, and the Chomsky–Schützenberger theorem. Chomsky is also well known as a political activist, and a leading critic of U.S. foreign policy, state capitalism, and the mainstream news media. Ideologically, he aligns himself withanarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism.
Noam sees US electoral politics as a marketing exercise.
“[It's] understood by the people who run the political system, that it’s no great secret that the U.S. electoral system is mainly a public relations extravaganza to keep away from issues,” he said. “It’s sort of a marketing affair. And the people who run it are the advertisers.”
Chomsky adds that this was self evident, because the Hope/Change message won a marketing award before the election was even over.
“If you go they were reporting how executives were really excited that they had this new model how to delude people. They used to use the Reagan-model now [they] can use the Obama-model.”
GigaOm's Barb Darrow writes on VMware's relationship with Cisco catching up with the reality of virtualization of the network initiative NSX.
Already complex, the VMware-Cisco relationship just got more, um, complicated
by Barb Darrow
AUG. 29, 2013 - 3:46 PM PDT2 Comments
SUMMARY:Will VMware’s NSX network virtualization effort finally push Cisco and VMware to divorce? Stay tuned.
The whole VMware-Cisco-EMC triumvirate — formally embodied in the VCE virtual computing environment effort — has been stressed by competitive pressures between the partners pretty much from the get-go a few years ago. But things got more tense this week with VMware’s launch of its NSX network virtualization lineup at VMworld 2013. Cisco, a huge networking hardware vendor, was conspicuously absent from the list of partners supporting NSX.
ZDNet's Larry Dignan writes on how VMware is rallying the Cisco competitors. Has VMware figured out the market is ready to switch off of Cisco?
VMware's NSX, partners aim to surround Cisco
Summary: VMware has partnered with Cisco's biggest rivals to spread its NSX virtualized networking platform around data centers.
By Larry Dignan for Between the Lines |August 26, 2013 -- 19:54 GMT (12:54 PDT)
VMware on Monday launched VMware NSX, its network virtualization platform via its Nicira purchase, and telegraphed how it is hoping to surround Cisco in the data center.
NSX aims to virtualize networking and be a cog in VMware's vision of a software-defined data center. As noted when VMware bought Nicira, the company is hoping to virtualize networking like it did servers. VMware NSX will be available in the fourth quarter and launched with 20 partners.
Sometimes the technology industry can look like politics. Cisco is the incumbent and there is enough momentum to push them out and people see the market they can win.
Disclosure: I work part time for GigaOm as a freelance analyst.
We all work from home. I work from home all the time as I have a home office. Having fast internet is something we all want whether working or for the family.
This morning I was downloading some iTune movies and was getting peak of 8.0MB/Sec = 64mbps downloads.
At the same time one kid is watching Netflix and another in watching Amazon Prime Video. The only one I wasn't streaming was Google content.
I am done with my video download. Running a speediest.comcast.net I get the following results. The kids are still streaming Netflix and Amazon prime so that is using of the the bandwidth too.
The folks at Open Compute Project are on a roll, driving open source ideas into servers, data centers, racks, etc.
And now their latest move is networking.
With that in mind, we are today announcing a new project within OCP that will focus on developing a specification and a reference box for an open, OS-agnostic top-of-rack switch. Najam Ahmad, who runs the network engineering team at Facebook, has volunteered to lead the project, and a wide variety of organizations — including Big Switch Networks, Broadcom, Cumulus Networks, Facebook, Intel, Netronome, OpenDaylight, the Open Networking Foundation, and VMware — are already planning to participate.
Facebook is a big sponsor of Open Compute Project which is non-profit organization, and a driving force.
Who competes against Open Compute Project? The visibility for Open Compute Project has increased and is referenced by almost all the tech media point with an article at some point. There isn't really much competition.
What Open Compute Project does threaten is the event conference vendors. When you have a non-profit focused on end user benefits and changing the industry, the for profit event staff who are driven to maximize revenue will maneuver to out market their event as the premier event in the industry. Note: watch for those words when someone claims they are the premier event.
BTW isn't it ironic that Interop has Frank keynote what a message that Open Compute Project is revolutionizing the industry.
Location: Mandalay Bay H
Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 8:30 AM-10:15 AMBillions of people and their many devices will be coming online in the next decade, and those who are already online are living ever-more connected lives. The industry is building out a huge physical infrastructure to support this growth, but we are doing so in a largely closed fashion, inhibiting the pace of innovation and preventing us from achieving the kinds of efficiencies that might otherwise be possible.
In this keynote, Frank Frankovsky will provide an overview of the Open Compute Project, a thriving consumer-led community dedicated to addressing this issue, promoting more openness and a greater focus on scale, efficiency, and sustainability in the development of infrastructure technologies. Frank will delve into the brief history of the project and describe its vision for the future.
Seems like Interop just gave Frank a chance to market to the audience they need to go to the next Open Compute Summit and attend for free. Or be a sponsor where there is more transparency in how their sponsorship is used.
We'll see what kind of networking guys show up to the next Open Compute Summit. In some data center IT environments the network gear can be 50% of the IT budget. Networks are important, but it is hard for most to accept a 50% spend.
