Engineering at Meta

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We’re sharing more about the role that reinforcement learning plays in helping us optimize our data centers’ environmental controls. Meta is revamping its new data center design to optimize for artificial intelligence and the same methodology will be applicable for future data center optimizations as well.

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Kentik

JUNE 14, 2021

Understanding network performance in your cloud environment is essential for maintaining cloud application performance and reliability. However, most organizations find that they lose network visibility when they move to the cloud. That’s why network observability is critical in the cloud. Business Metadata is Key.

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Cisco Wireless

JANUARY 30, 2025

With Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric, scale data center fabrics to anywhere and any size with this cloud-managed solution. Teams of all skill levels can use it to simplify complex tasks and boost efficiency.

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Kentik

JANUARY 6, 2021

In part 1 of this series , I talked about the importance of network observability as our customers define it — using advances in data platforms and machine learning to supply answers to critical questions and enable teams to take critical action to keep application traffic flowing.

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Rule 11

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

What are the requirements for running AI workloads over a data center fabric? Why is InfiniBand so popular for building AI networks? Jeff Tantsura joins Tom Ammon and Russ White to discuss networks for AI workloads. link] download What are the requirements for running AI workloads over a data center fabric?

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DoorDash Engineering

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As DoorDash’s business grows, engineers strive for a better network infrastructure to ensure more third-party services could be integrated into our system while keeping data securely transmitted. For other vendors hosting services in on-premise data centers, there was no existing solution to connect.

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Kentik

JANUARY 31, 2023

Network observability is critical. You need the ability to answer any question about your network—across clouds, on-prem, edge locations, and user devices—quickly and easily. But network observability is not always easy. And once you have that raw telemetry data, you need to interpret it. are not always easy to answer.

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In recent years, the rapid development of cloud-based networking, network abstractions such as SD-WAN, and controller-based campus networking has meant that basic, day-to-day network operations have become easier for non-network engineers. The new role of the network expert So, what’s left?

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Engineering at Meta

APRIL 17, 2023

What the research is: Millisampler is one of Meta’s latest characterization tools and allows us to observe, characterize, and debug network performance at high-granularity timescales efficiently. This lightweight network traffic characterization tool for continual monitoring operates at fine, configurable timescales.

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Cisco Wireless

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Generative AI will be central to that and only AI ready compute, networking, and data centers will be able to handle this new level of workloads. The future of AI will change the way people work and how business gets done.

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Kentik

AUGUST 20, 2020

As Kentik’s product manager for hybrid cloud, I am always talking to infrastructure and network teams around the world to understand a day-in-their-life. This provides me with an invaluable understanding of the challenges, goals, and priorities that they face today, and also a vision into their future network monitoring needs.

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Kentik

AUGUST 3, 2021

Below is a hypothetical company with its data center in the center of the building. Outlined in light blue is the hybrid cloud which includes the on-premises network, as well as the virtual public cloud (VPC) in the AWS public cloud. Application developers can easily change network configurations.

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Kentik

JANUARY 13, 2021

The Network is the Key. The network is down!” — I’m sure you heard that before. Despite your best efforts as a network engineer, network failures happen, and you have to fix them. Network troubleshooting becomes easier if your network is observable. Network Troubleshooting Defined.

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Kentik

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Needless to say, the world’s network engineers deserve a load of #HugOps in 2021. In early June, content delivery network Fastly experienced a major outage because of a faulty configuration push causing thousands of high-profile websites to become unreachable. In this post, I run through 10 of the top outages that we covered in 2021.

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Kentik

JANUARY 29, 2021

In the following blog post, I summarize what I presented in my PTC panel entitled Strategies to Meet Network Needs. New Normals of Network Operations in the Year Ahead. However, Zero Trust takes on new meaning during a pandemic when much of the workforce is working from home using untrusted networks.

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Juniper

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Official Juniper Networks Blogs The year in review: Delivering simplicity, productivity, reliability, and security with AI-Native Networking The past year at Juniper has been exciting to say the least. Junipers AIOps simplifies network management, empowering IT teams to shift from reactive to proactive management.

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

What is cloud networking? Cloud networking is the IT infrastructure necessary to host or interact with applications and services in public or private clouds, typically via the internet. Why is cloud networking important? Cloud networking vs. cloud computing Cloud networking can be thought of as a subset of cloud computing.

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Kentik

APRIL 16, 2020

Last month we saw the publication of the Gartner Market Guide for Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics 1 (NPMD). We believe the reason for the shift is particularly because buyers are still purchasing traditional network monitoring tools. Cloud Migration and the Loss of Network Visibility.

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Global Data

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Summary Bullets: Colt will expand its network in Sydney connecting approximately 250 commercial buildings and over 20 data centers with services to commence in March 2025. Colt must continue to highlight its network capabilities and global reach to rival other global carriers and NaaS providers. CAGR to 2027.

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Kentik

MARCH 3, 2020

The most complex point of today’s networks is the edge, where there are more protocols, diverse traffic, and security exposure. The network edge is where Kentik provides the highest value. The bulk of Kentik’s customers use our differentiated platform to help them drive decision making on the edge of the network. Stay tuned!

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Cisco Wireless

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Generative AI applications are driving the demand for high-performance networking with AI/ML clusters in cloud provider environments. Cisco is introducing new 800G innovations to address these demands and improve outcomes.

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Kentik

AUGUST 10, 2021

Network operations teams that are struggling to align with a DevOps-centric, multi-cloud future should investigate how the concept of network observability can help them. Defining Network Observability. What is network observability? What is network observability? This convergence isn’t necessarily new.

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Kentik

APRIL 4, 2023

When evaluating solutions, whether to internal problems or those of our customers, I like to keep the core metrics fairly simple: will this reduce costs, increase performance, or improve the network’s reliability? It’s often taken for granted by network specialists that there is a trade-off among these three facets. Durability.

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

A cornerstone of network observability is the ability to ask any question of your network. That means having an unbound capacity to explore the tremendous amount and variety of network telemetry you collect. So how can we faster process the data in such a massive database?

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Kentik

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The Network is the Key. As we end 2020, networking infrastructure has become even more critical to connect people, applications, and the economy and distributed workforce that make the world go. At the same time, networks and IT infrastructure overall are becoming more diverse, dynamic, and interdependent.

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Kentik

JUNE 23, 2020

Today we published a report on “ The New Normals of Network Operations in 2020.” Do network teams feel more pressure than ever before to keep the world connected? Network budgets remain intact. Work/life balance is a top networking challenge. There’s no mistaking that the cloud is in high demand.

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Vertiv

JANUARY 8, 2025

Vertiv, formerly Emerson Network Power, today released six data center infrastructure trends to watch in 2017. This years trends follow the 2016 data center trends published by Emerson Network Power last year.

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Vertiv

JANUARY 8, 2025

Emerson Network Power and communications technology systems announced that the California Energy Commission (CEC) has approved the use in California data centers of the Liebert DSE thermal management system with the Liebert Econophase Pum.

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DCNN Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2025

Tract Capital, an alternative asset manager focused on creating businesses that enable rapid scaling of digital infrastructure, has introduced Fleet Data Centers to programmatically meet the next phase of hyperscale data centre growth. Chris states, Our team has direct insight into the challenges hyperscalers face as they scale.

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Rule 11

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

What impact do local regulations have on our ability to build and operate new data centers in the United States? Juan Londoo, from the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, joins Ned Bellavance and Russ White to discuss yet another part of the network engineering world. What impact do these regulations have on local economies?

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Dataversity

AUGUST 8, 2024

As networks and systems grow ever more complex, observability is becoming increasingly essential. Cloud computing has moved network operations outside the traditional data center, and the addition of mobile networks, edge computing, and hybrid work has added to the breadth and complexity of today’s enterprises.

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Engineering at Meta

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In our own tests, SPTP boasts comparable performance to PTP, but with significant improvements in CPU, memory, and network utilization. As we deployed PTP into one of our data centers, we were also evaluating and testing alternative PTP clients. The number of network exchanges is drastically reduced.

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Packet Pushers

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Todays Heavy Networking, sponsored by Nokia, dives into Nokia's fabric-based approach to data center automation and operations. Todays Heavy Networking, sponsored by Nokia, dives into Nokia's fabric-based approach to data center automation and operations.

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Global Data

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Rogers Summary Bullets: Critical Digital Shift: Hyperscalers and data center providers have started competing for cloud networking services, competing for enterprise dollars in space previously dominated by telcos. SD-WAN and SASE has transformed how enterprises architect their networks.

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NW Kings

JANUARY 4, 2025

Are you looking to kickstart your career as a (network engineer)? In this comprehensive guide, we will (1) explore essential steps and courses you need to take to thrive in networking field by 2025. For freshers without network experience, enrolling in live courses is highly recommended. Many candidates linger on CCNA for years.

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Vertiv

JANUARY 8, 2025

The next-generation data center will exist beyond walls, seamlessly integrating core facilities with a more intelligent, mission-critical edge of network. These Gen 4 data centers are emerging and will become the model for IT networks of.

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Vertiv

JANUARY 8, 2025

Significant, industry-wide investment in edge computing will change the profile of the data center ecosystem over the next five years, increasing the edge component of total compute by 29% over that time. The magnitude of the industrys o.

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