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Netflix is (not
really) all in on
Amazons cloud
5 questions to consider
as you shift more
business-critical applications to the cloud
Many traditional
networks are still
manual, static and
complex, which isnt
ideal for IoT.
tech primer
opinion
column
My website is up,
but is my content
reachable?
The internet
isnt ready for
really big news
A worldwide, globally
gripping news event
would likely crash the
major media providers, sending us back
to our TVs and radios.
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But the problem is, many traditional networks are still manual,
static and complex, which isnt ideal for IoT. To realize the prom-
residents. The White House stepped into this arena last Sep-
1. Fiber
The bandwidth needed for the onslaught of IoT connected
devices should be enough to make anyone think about the
its same report that more than 99% of things in the physical
2. IPv6
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Getting citiesand
consumershardwired
with fiber will be a
necessity of the future.
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ers. The Grey Hat took these actions to show the company
that require it, the pressure to migrate to IPv6 will not fully
materialize.
This wasnt the first time a childs toy was in the spotlight
for having security vulnerabilities, and probably only illustrated the tip of the iceberg.
It goes without saying that IoT developers should do
speed and ease, and expect that the internet will continue
controls built into IoT devices and services they wish to use.
the implementation of proper governance structures. A riskbased approach is the best way to balance the risk of using
3. Security
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of all of its users, their preferences, what they watch, what they
Amazons cloud.
there hours, days or even weeks later. It seems like magic. And a
even open sources tools it has built for Amazons cloud. Com-
Netflix up until the play button is on AWS; the actual video is deliv-
Joris Evers
managing data centers and relying more and more each year
Netflix Spokesperson
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year, and half of enterprises said they will use cloud for at least
eration services may claim to be always up, that does not mean
If you have end users accessing your internet assets at all hours
of the day from points around the globe, you need to ensure your
A 2015 Google cloud outage that lasted for almost two hours
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a Google cloud client and you were not monitoring for network-
added bonus, having multiple CSPs can help protect against prob-
lems before they even occur by allowing you to deploy apps and
services to two (or more) cloud instances so they can back each
other up using a global load balancing or failover architecture.
region halfway around the world? Distributing hosting on mulsingle regional outages. It is also recommended that you monitor
happens. Errors can occur within the network, at the CDN or ISP
While not all cloud providers are created equal, using multiple ser-
website can be slow for many reasons as well, and most consum-
working with the right tools you can manage this from one place.
ibility and value, allowing you to scale and deliver an always-on
Outages are game changing for your business and they happen
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Distributing hosting
on multiple cloud
vendor sites protects
customers from single
site or single regional
outages. It is also recommended that you
monitor your global
network to determine
load levels.
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the risk in a loss of sales, revenue and brand confidence and loyalty. Working with the right partner with true visibility into your
only true way to ensure you will not be affected by outages for
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jaundiced eye toward how clouds are bringing us rain, and how
take much computing power to use, and its users are gener-
junct to HPs old ally Microsoft and its Azure Cloud. Microsoft,
do things with Flickr, but now seems poised to sell much of its
in the game, but Facebook, the worlds greatest time suck, chal-
lenges all.
As cloud app savvy increases, the need for huge notebook stor-
age will grow slowly, but steadily, (see No. 3) because as we all
apps, simplicity and generally less stuff to worry about being sto-
know, nobody erases anything, and data will grow to fill the space
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holiday gift of digital ears in the living room. Yes, that cute
at the API levels. Glue apps and components will do their best to
of analysis.
At Best Buys or the Big Box, youll need to carefully read the
climbs, and more cooks get into the OpenStack kitchens, poten-
Great piles of data grub might be something youve actumyriad new verbal assistants that not only are incredibly handy,
but which know your location and are dutifully listening for your
next command.
ally enabled yourself via Amazons Echo, Siri, Cortana and the
analyze everything you do commence? How are you sure its not
happening right now? Plenty of people put black tape over the
that the cloud is like a sieve for your personal information. And
sometimes need to obtain all of their kit from just one contact
So you wanted to cook in the cloud, eh? Youre not alone. Now
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the same old smoke and dance will fail to enchant all but their
or 32GB NextBook are simply too small for their storage needs,
In some ways, the cloud is like computational crack: Once addicted, walking away might be murderous.
but the primitives are starting to emerge that allow large cloud cli-
Data must now have provenance, kind of like fish and wine, so
that we know varying rules and regulationslargely meeting the
needs of privacyarent violated. Many cloud hosting organizations are opening multinational hosting sites for nexus, so as to
comply with privacy regulations. How does a German traveling
trip to Barcelona? Can I email home? What about those ads Ill
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The devil of the details of what Safe Harbor and data sequestering mean must become the crux of policynot easily negoti-
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and soon, great walls of data will become the norm until
luck, OEMs them to each other. Once automotive cloud sites are
data has been around for a while, virtually all cars today have a
gesting the nearest Starbucks, cars will talk to the cloud, each
usual, its money first, and not security and safety. This fact will
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But hey, its the cloud. Damn the security; full profits ahead!
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said, the times they are a-changin, and the way internet con-
tive because most of the content flowing across the internet was
content as its cached and served from the edge of the network.
Over the past few years, the industry has seen an explosion
be on the prowl for great ski resorts. The travel sites ability
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content to everyone.
Ive discussed this topic with a number of marketing professionals, and almost all of those I interviewed agreed that content
recovery services.
At first glance, these use cases may seem quite different, but
the one point of commonality is that these are all highly person-
personalized content.
So, if CDNs arent the answer here, what can improve the
the low-hanging fruit for companies like Teridion that can solve
coming back.
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metrics:
stand the baseline and detect deviations, and there are different
where you instrument your web pages to send code to run in the
an entire JavaScript API for this purpose). You can also infer user
cloud will give you valuable insight to help keep your applications
up and running, but the most important point is not whether your
suffer. You can set up and run your own RUM or synthetic mea-
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patterns in the data, what can you do? There are multiple ways
where your content and applications live, you can explore to find
Having worked for a long time with and around DNS, I need to
the same changes every day). For example, the end of the busi-
best-performing path.
ness day on the U.S. East Coast is evening in Europe and early
morning when people are waking up in Asia, and this busy time
network path starting with the users. Once you have the data,
you know. And once you know, you can take action.
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unicast and not shared. Also, the content provider must accom-
amplifiers, it will serve every client that connects. Thats not the
Clearly, this isnt usually a problem. With a suitable broadband connection on a normal day, accessing content around the
internet is a relatively stable and consistent experience, depend-
the source itself. Thus, this functions much like an analog broad-
cast: You have a single source that a client can connect to at any
and how far south they might possibly go, I dont think we
fine, but the content providers would get crushed, which could
I clearly recall the events of Sept. 11, 2001. I had a huge net-
any, were turning to news websites for 911 updates, and certainly
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extremely well when the world is normal, but when the world
tilts, that model may collapse under the weight, especially when
only a few large companies provide most of these services.
the site at any one time. Never would all 10 million attempt to
large sites can spin resources up and down to handle the peaks
and valleys.
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