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COMS002: Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure with Data Plane Virtualization

Scott Lowe

” The speaker is Edwin Verplanke, a System Architect with Intel. Verplanke believes that DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) and virtualization are key to virtualizing workloads that move around lots and lots of packets, such as firewalls, routers, and other similar functions. Is the Linux bridge efficient enough?

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Join Architects, Planners, Program Managers, Data Scientists at 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum in DC 25 Feb

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Chief Technologist, Intel Federal LLC, Intel Corporation. Before entering the land of Big Data, Alex spent the better part of ten years wrangling Linux server farms and writing Perl as a contractor to the Department of Defense and Department of Justice. Steve Orrin Chief Technologist, Intel Federal LLC, Intel Corporation.

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25 Feb Cloudera Federal Forum in Tysons Corner: Amazing agenda filled with lessons learned and best practices

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Chief Technologist, Intel Federal LLC, Intel Corporation. Before entering the land of Big Data, Alex spent the better part of ten years wrangling Linux server farms and writing Perl as a contractor to the Department of Defense and Department of Justice. Steve Orrin Chief Technologist, Intel Federal LLC, Intel Corporation.

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Technology Short Take 139

Scott Lowe

In this post , Jakub Sitnicki digs way deep into the Linux kernel to uncover the answer to the question, “Why are there no entries in the conntrack table for SYN packets dropped by the firewall?” Linux malware is getting more sophisticated. ” Get ready to get nerdy! A browser-based side-channel attack ?

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Technology Short Take 132

Scott Lowe

” Ivan Pepelnjak attempts to answer the question, “How much do I need to know about Linux networking?” ” Speaking of Linux networking…Marek Majkowski of Cloudflare digs deep into conntrack , used for stateful firewalling functionality. Servers/Hardware.

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Technology Short Take #71

Scott Lowe

Intel has finally started shipping silicon photonics gear, according to this report from El Reg (news coming out of IDF16). The use of VMware NSX for microsegmentation is a really popular use case, and so the topic of scripting distributed firewall (DFW) rules often comes up. Servers/Hardware. Then again, what do I know?

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Technology Short Take #33

Scott Lowe

This post by Ranga Maddipudi shows you how to use App Firewall in conjunction with VXLAN logical networks. The servers (right now, at least) are running Intel Atom S1260 CPUs, which are x86-based and do offer features like Intel VT-x. App Firewall? Venky explains it in this post. “Best practices” for vCNS 5.1

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