This post provides an overview of SD-WAN and takes stock of key features, the market and the players.

Marine Traffic operates a database of Maritime data. The database is fed with AIS data. Every AIS-equipped ship periodically radio-broadcasts information abouts its position, its speed, and so on. Marine Traffic operates ground stations to collect AIS-information and put them in a big central database, and offers a paid API to query it.

Romain Jouin kindly asked me to give a talk to his students at Leonard de Vinci University about my opinion, as an IT practitioner, on the evolution of computer architecture.

Allied Telesis (AT) is a small and historical network equipment manufacturer, with headquarters in Japan and the United States. Its global turnover may be less than 1/100 of the turnover of the biggest global network equipment manufacturers.

An overview of technology

Full benefit of cloud services requires to establish a secure connexion between the local IT infrastructure and the cloud provider. VPN tunnels are precisely designed for this purpose.

An article published in Computer Weekly states that more than 50% of data analysts in the UK anticipate to quit their current job in 2020. The main difficulties they cite were:

• a lack of management support (29% of answers)
• bureaucracy that hinders data science projects (44%)
• a lack of data tools (28%)

In a previous post "Clustering: Kubernetes in a nutshell", we suggest three layers to understand Kubernetes:

1. Functional layer
2. Conceptual layer
3. System layer

As a system engineer, you have already heard about Kubernetes.

In a previous post " OpenStack on OVH Public Cloud, part 1", we gave you a short preview of OpenStack. In this post, we show how OpenStack fits in OVH cloud offer.