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Irrelevance of Hardware to Network Service Provisioning Speed
September 10, 2014
Inarguably, the pressure is on "the network" to get in gear, so to speak, and address how fast its services can be up and running. Software-defined architectures like cloud and SDN have arisen in response to this pressure, attempting to provide the means by which critical network services can be provisioned in hours instead of days.
Much of the blame for the time it takes to provision network services winds up landed squarely on the fact that much of the network is comprised of hardware. Not just any hardware, mind you, but special hardware. Such devices take time to procure, time to unbox, time to rack and time to cable. It's a manually intensive process that, when not anticipated, can take weeks to acquire and get into place.
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Enter virtualization, cloud, containers and any other solution that holds, at its core, abstraction as a key characteristic. Abstraction all but eliminates the time it takes to procure hardware by enabling software to be deployed on any hardware, making the procurement process as simple as finding an empty server in the data center. After all, the majority of networking functions are just very specialized software running on very specific hardware. Decouple the two and voila! Virtualized, containerized or cloud(erized) networking. Instantaneous! No more waiting for the network. Just push a button and you're done.
Only you aren't.
See, that's not counting the time it takes to actually provision and configure the desired services.
Most of the lamentable time it takes to provision network services has absolutely nothing to do with the underlying hardware. Whether it's commoditized off the shelf hardware or custom designed silicon makes no difference whatsoever in the actual time required to provision network services. Both proprietary and commoditized hardware support a layer of abstraction - of virtualization - that enables them to be sliced and diced into discrete, consumable chunks of computing power. Within that "container" are the actual network services that need to be deployed to provide the breadth of network services required to keep today's applications scalable, secure and fast enough to satisfy both consumers and business constituents alike.
To point to "hardware" as the primary impediment in rapidly provisioning these services is ludicrous. The hardware has nothing to do with the configuration of the minute and complex details associated with any given network service today. The slowdown is in the configuration of the services and the complexity of the topologies into which such services must be deployed.
This is the nature of application-focused networking. Each service - in addition to the nuts and bolts of IP addresses and VLANs and DNS entries - requires specific settings to ensure the network is able to provide the services upon which business rely to deliver applications. An optimized TCP stack for one application can mean disastrous performance for another. The specific application security details that protect one application may result in gaping holes in yet another application and completely break the functionality of another. The route one application takes through the network may provide excellent performance for one application but introduce unacceptable latency for another.
It is this reality with which network service configuration is concerned and why services absolutely must be application-driven with respect to their particular configuration. One size does not fit all when it comes to applications.
And thus it is these configurations - not the underlying hardware model - that impede service provisioning in the network and slow down application deployments. Manually flipping a bit here and a byte there and writing rules that deny access to that device but allow it from another are time consuming, error prone and terribly inefficient.
Virtualization of network functions a la NFV is only a panacea when one is deploying services that can be configured exactly the same, every time. That happens to be a model which works for service providers, who are concerned with scaling out specific functions in the network and not necessarily supporting new application deployments. In the enterprise, where the focus is on delivering individual applications with their own unique performance, security and reliability profiles, virtualization is nothing more than a means of squeezing out a greater economy of scale across existing hardware resources - whether commoditized or not.
Enterprises whose continued success relies on the fickle and highly volatile demands of consumer-facing applications are not so fortunate. Each network service must not only support the basic needs of an application but provide value in terms of improving performance, ensuring security or maintaining availability. To do that, each service must be tailored to the application - and sometimes to each client device - in question.
That takes time, and whether that service is deployed on a piece of commodity or custom hardware is irrelevant. The configuration is accomplished in software, which is the same whether running in a container, a virtual machine, or in plain old software daemon form.
That's why operationalization of the network is so critical to improving the alacrity with which application deployments are concluded. Going "virtual" isn't going to change the requirement for provisioning and configuration of the services, it only addresses the underlying process of acquiring and provisioning the appropriate resources.
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But aside from that, I pretty much understood what was going on here, and it was all so bloody boring. Which Is Strange because there was so much action in this chapter.
Toshiro, Zaraki and Byakuya fight a giant Quincy.
Haven't we seen this before? Zaraki and Byakuya teaming up to fight a giant villain that suddenly turns out to be the most powerful member of his group? I couldn't tell you what they call this particular giant (Thor, maybe?) but he reminds me a lot of Espada Number 0, which means Kubo has begun recycling his ideas.
Or maybe he's been doing so for a while and I only recently took notice.
Let's look at some of the failures of this chapter, and there were a lot of them:
1). Zaraki Kenpachi
Remember when we first started speculating about Zaraki's Bankai? It was supposed to be a thing of legend, a power that would level entire cities and reduce whole armies to dust. Here we are, several years later.
Zaraki finally goes Bankai and the most he could do this chapter was tip the giant over? Really? This is what we've been waiting to read for nearly a decade? Really Kubo?
Does anyone remember a time when Bankai could end battles in an instant, or at least elevate them to levels of raw epicness? Because Zaraki's Bankai is somehow more of a disappointment that his Shikai.
Seriously, Kubo? Zaraki just went Bankai and you're telling me that he needs Byakuya and Toshiro's help to beat the giant quincy? Zaraki's bankai should have been powerful enough to bring the war to an end. But, No. We have to keep doing this annoying dance.
2). Toshiro
I was honestly confused by Toshiro's transformation. Maybe Bleach has simply been around for too long because I honestly couldn't make much sense of his explanation about the wilting flowers. That isn't to say that the transformation was a bad idea.
Rather, it wasn't the massive revelation it should have been. We haven't talked about Toshiro's wilting flowers since the days of the Arrancar.
And, actually, Yes, this transformation was a little idiotic. I mean, really, Kubo. You just gave us Zaraki's Bankai. Rather than giving him a chance to shine, an opportunity to show us his power in its unrestricted form, you throw another power-up at another character, essentially breaking Zaraki's momentum and forcing him out of the limelight.
This is just like the mess with Zaraki's Shikai. Kubo has made a habit of this, showing us Bankai for characters just to kill them off. Zaraki nearly bit the dust after achieving Shikai. And now that he has Bankai, Kubo felt it necessary to immediately sideline him.
Don't forget that every time Ichigo gets a new mode, he's immediately thrown into a multi-chapter battle that showcases his abilities to the fullest. So, I guess, if you're not Ichigo then Kubo doesn't really care about you.
Even if Kubo decides to pass the baton back to Zaraki in the next chapter, he would be sidelining Toshiro before we have a chance to appreciate his new transformation. Either way, this is a corner that Kubo has written himself into. One or both of these characters will see their screen time sacrificed for the sake of story progression.
In other words, we shall be talking about these transformations in years to come as modes we only caught glimpses of but whose true power Kubo couldn't be bothered to show us.
3). The Quincy
The Quincy are some of the dullest villains in Bleach history. There are simply too many of them for any single one of them to truly matter, this excluding one or two exceptions. The problem in this chapter isn't that the giant is so dull.
Rather he will not go down. And this has become a thorn in the side of Bleach. Kubo keeps giving us these badass fights between Quincy and shinigami that end on a high note, only for the mangaka to reverse all his successes by returning the Quincy to life.
The trend is already tired and you know Kubo is waiting to do just that here. This is at a time where the giant has already overstayed his welcome. Kubo's decision to keep this villain around for so long makes no sense. He should have died at the hands of Zaraki two chapters ago.
If not, then let him die at the hands of Toshiro. Why bring Byakuya into this? Really, Kubo? You just gave two of your most popular characters awesome looking transformations. Now you're telling us that even that isn't enough to bring the giant down?
Zaraki Kenpachi's Bankai isn't enough to defeat this giant? Really, Kubo? That's what you're telling us? And you think that makes sense. Really?
This fight needs to end. It's already three or four chapters longer than necessary. Kubo shouldn't be concentrating so many important players on one enemy.
This chapter actually felt like it was dragging. There was very little in the way of plot progression. What a waste. Bleach needs help.
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Hiilary will make a great President...she is the best person in the race as of right now......you can call her Madamn Presidents
Trump proves one thing.......Republicans are not very smart people
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We are going to have a very good looking 1st lady when Donald is in office, Some one beat that ugly Michell 1st lady with a ungy stick.
trumpo is a very bad joke. I still reckon he was a plant to kill the republicunnt party.
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Secretary of Defence Helene Quilter said the ministry had decided not to buy extended support from Microsoft which would entitle it to patches for any "critical" flaws because the employees would soon switch off XP and on to the Defence Force's information system.
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Microsoft trustworthy computing director Tim Rains said during a visit to Wellington last that using XP would become more dangerous from last , when Microsoft released a few patches for its more modern operating systems which it rated as "important".
Hackers would try to reverse engineer any patches Microsoft issued to see if the faults they addressed could also be used to target XP, he said.
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China has launched an international manhunt for the alleged mastermind behind an attack at a train station last month blamed on suspects from the Uighur ethnic group.
The official China Daily newspaper said on Monday that a request had been submitted to Interpol for the arrest of Ismail Yusup and an unspecified number of associates.
The report said that Yusup was a member of the East Turkistan Islamic Movement and organised the April 30 attack in the capital of Xinjiang region that killed three people and injured 79 others, the Associated Press news agency reported.
Beijing says an organised group with elements based overseas is behind a rising number of attacks in the country.
However, little evidence has been provided to back up the claim and many analysts doubt such an organisation exists in a form that would allow it to organise attacks.
China had previously said the attack, in which explosives and knives were used, was carried out by two separatists who were killed in the blast.
East Turkistan is the name used for Xinjiang, in China's north-west, by some members of the region's native Uighur ethnic group.
Some Uighurs have been fighting a low-intensity insurgency against Chinese rule.
The United Nations initially placed the East Turkistan Islamic Movement on a 'terrorist watch list' following the September 11 attacks but later quietly removed it amid doubts that it existed in any organised manner.
It is still listed as a terrorist group by the UN, over which China has considerable sway as one of five permanent veto-holding members of the Security Council.
The state-run news agency, Xinhua, said Yusup ordered 10 "partners" in Xinjiang to prepare for the attack in the city of Urumqi about a week before it happened. The 10 set off explosives and slashed people with knives at the station exit on the evening of April 30.
Two of the members were killed in the explosion and the remaining eight were captured by police, it said.
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While China faults separatists for raising ethnic tensions, government critics say restrictive and discriminatory religious, cultural and economic policies have alienated the Uighurs.
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Hi all,
I've seen a lot of discussion on PE FoF and PE secondaries on this forum these days.
I now have this opportunity to interview with a fairly large FoFs, but am having trouble prioritizing multiple opportunities on hand.
Here's 3 analyst positions (all in Asia) that are presented to me and I really need your view on which of these gives a more promising long-term career.
The first and the second are almost confirmed, the FoF is still in interview process.
1. Regional IB: The firm is not a global player, but has strong presence in the region (think CIMB, I am international student if you are wondering)
2. PE Secondaries: a fairly large PE secondaries investment firm with top-quartile AUM and global presence(think Adam Partners)
3. A Private Equity FoF: USD ~5B AUM, investment focus mainly in emerging markets
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P.S. I need to decided by this weekend. Thanks a lot! If you need more details on the firms, I can PM.
Hope this also provides helpful information for other job seekers this year. Job market is really tough these days.
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what's your reason for choosing 1? I am currently leaning 2, but would like to hear your idea?
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2 is probably best as you will likely get direct company analysis opportunities when diligencing the portfolios that you are looking to acquire. Typically at a pure FOF you will diligence the manager's performance but not the underlying companies. You want direct company analysis opportunities as it will provide you with greater latitude of options later on.
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