Veriflow Pioneers Mathematical Network Verification

Veriflow, a start-up based in San Jose, announced $8.2 million in Series A funding for its work in network breach and outage prevention. Veriflow said it uses formal mathematical network verification to eliminate change-induced network outages and breaches. The technique was created by a team of computer science professors and Ph.D. students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The funding round was led by Menlo Ventures and included...

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Latest Kubernetes Release Scales for 2,000-node Clusters

Newly released version 1.3 of Kubernetes brings supports 2000-node clusters.  The new release also adds better end-to-end pod startup time, with latency of API calls within one-second Service Level Objective (SLO). One new features is Kubemark, a performance testing tool to detect performance and scalability regressions. http://blog.kubernetes....

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Can Docker Become the Dominant Port Authority for Workloads Between Cloud?

Can Docker build on its early lead in Linux-based application containers, establish a dominant position as the “port authority” in moving workloads between clouds, build a profitable business model, and become “the next VMware”? If you think these little snippets of Linux source code might have limited revenue-bearing potential given the fact that anyone can activate them on an open source basis, then you might want to consider DockerCon 2016,...

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Rose Herrera - City of Innovation

San Jose is the city of innovation, says Rose Herrera, Vice Mayor, as it looks to technology to deliver better services with greater efficiency.  The opportunities for women in engineering are limitless, she says, as companies here struggle to fill vacant engineering positions. See video: https://youtu.be/HgpXo0fXwD4 ...

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Ixia Integrates ControlTower with Cisco Nexus Switches

Ixia announced integration of its ControlTower network visibility solution with Cisco’s Nexus 3000 switches. Ixia’s ControlTower solution, a key component of Ixia’s IxVision Architecture, provides visibility within physical, virtual, and software-defined networks (SDN). The distributed architecture provides network administrators access to monitoring and diagnostic tools from any point in the network. Cisco Nexus switches use a common programmatic...

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Skyport Interoperates with Cisco ACI

Skyport Systems, a start-up offering secure infrastructure solutions, announced interoperability between its SkySecure platform and Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) solution. The goal is to provide application-layer and system-level security and policy controls needed to extend the trust boundary from a system-level root-of-trust to the network edge. Skyport said its interoperability with Cisco ACI also mobilizes security policies,...

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Telia Carrier Deploys Coriant 400G

Telia Carrier has deployed Coriant's 400G-capable CloudWave Optics technology in its pan-European backbone network. The first implementation of Coriant CloudWave Optics in Telia Carrier's hiT 7300-based pan-European backbone network will include a 400G-enabled fiber route between the cities Copenhagen, Denmark and Frankfurt, Germany. "As our customers in Europe experience increased demand for capacity to support their business-critical applications,...

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Deutsche Telekom Recruits Bharti Airtel's Srini Gopalan

Deutsche Telekom has appointed Srini Gopalan as the new Board member for Europe. He will assume the duties of Claudia Nemat for the Europe segment, effective January 1st, 2017. Gopalan is currently Consumer Director India at Bharti Airtel Limited, where he is responsible for consumer business in 23 different regions of India, which covered broadband connections and satellite TV in addition to mobile communications. He previously worked in the...

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IP Infusion Revs its OcNOS Network Operating System

IP Infusion announced Release 1.2 of its OcNOS network operating system, which includes switching and routing protocol support for MPLS and SDN. The new Layer 2, Layer 3 and MPLS features in Release 1.2 include: Enhanced BGP support targeted for data centers, with multiple features like Add-path, peer-group configuration, BFD integration for fast failure detection Software patch upgrade with rollback facility for easier upgrades Complete NETCONF...

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