From Heartbeat to Holistic Implementation — Secure Cloud Native Deployments with FIPS 140-2 and DISA STIG
Cybersecurity has become national security as parties both foreign and domestic increasingly try to hack into government information systems. It is no wonder then that U.S. federal requirements...
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Preventing Cyber Attacks with Trusted Image Registries
Recently, Bryan Langston, Senior Solutions Engineer at Mirantis, presented at MediaOps’ virtual event Cloud Native Days, highlighting the latest cyber attacks and explaining best practices for...
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Why your software developers can’t keep you secure on their own — and how to help them
There are two types of companies in the world: those that are afraid of becoming the next Colonial Pipeline poster child for security issues, and those that are at risk of doing just that.
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Mirantis OpenStack 21.3 solves Edge footprint challenges and enhances networking for Telco workloads
The latest release of Mirantis OpenStack for K8s builds upon our solid IaaS foundation to enable new advanced features for use case-specific deployment profiles. Specifically, we have introduced a...
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Edge Computing Challenges
Blog covering the challenges with understanding Edge Computing & how, if used correctly, it can modernize your enterprise apps. Includes an introductory overview & common use cases in the Edge space.
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Democratizing Connectivity with a Containerized Network Function Running on a K8s-Based Edge Platform — Q&A
Follow-up responses to questions posed in a live webinar featuring Boris Renski & Meghana Sahasrabudhe, Product Lead at Facebook Connectivity detailing the Magma project.
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Unified Edge Cloud Infrastructure for PNFs, VNFs, Mobile Edge — Webinar Q&A
Read the Q&A from a webinar by Mirantis and Cloudify about how you can use available open source tools to create a single management environment for PNFs, VNFs, and mobile edge cloud applications.
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Will Edge Computing Reverse Network Virtualization Momentum?
With edge, we have closed vendor solutions and open reference architectures, but nothing for VNF and software vendors to build on top of. Changing that is the first step towards virtualized edge.
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How to Increase the Probability of a VNF Working with Your Cloud – Q&A
There's a lot involved in making sure a VNF will work in your cloud, and we discussed a lot of it, including the obscurities.
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Admit it. VNF Certification is Marketing.
Generic VNF "certification" programs sound great and are terrific for marketing. Unfortunately they don't add value for customers.
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Virtlet: run VMs as Kubernetes pods
Virtlet makes it possible to run VMs on Kubernetes clusters as if they were plain pods, enabling you to use standard kubectl commands to manage them.
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Is ONAP Required for NFV Transformation?
If you are a CSP you are probably thinking, do I really need to deal with ONAP? It’s actually a good question, and the answer is yes, but the timing could vary depending on your situation.
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Introducing Virtlet: VMs and Containers on one OpenContrail network in Kubernetes — a new direction for NFV?
Virtlet is a Kubernetes CRI (Container Runtime Interface) implementation for running VM-based pods on Kubernetes clusters.
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What can NFV do for a business?
Telcos, multiple-system operators (MSOs i.e. cable & satellite providers), and network providers are under pressure on several fronts.
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Network slicing and 5G and wireless, oh my!
If you're not in the telecom business, you probably haven't given much thought to the upcoming 5G standard, except perhaps to wonder when your phone will have faster data.
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