The Technology Evangelist

Tonight Bob Van Valzah dropped in for a long session on Bitcoin & Digital Currencies which turned into the second half of a six-part series on Digital Currencies.

This episode covers:

More to come in part 5…

Interested in evaluating Solarflare’s ServerLock Firewall in the NIC technology?

Tonight we had a discussion with Steve Pope, Solarflare’s CTO and Founder, on Solarflare’s new “Firewall in the NIC” capability called ServerLock that goes into Beta the end of December.

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During our time together we reviewed the following:

Interested in evaluating Solarflare’s ServerLock Firewall in the NIC technology?

Tonight we had a discussion with Vahan Sardaryan, CEO & Founder of LDA Technologies, to talk about their new STAC-T0 Benchmark which set the bar surprisingly low, 98 nanoseconds, for network tick to trade latency.

During that call, we reviewed the following:

Scott would like to apologize for the quality of this podcast as both him and Vahan had to dial into the recording system due to, you guessed it, networking issues.

Interested in evaluating Solarflare’s ServerLock Firewall in the NIC technology?

Tonight Bob Van Valzah dropped in for a long session on Digital Currencies which turned into a three-part series on Blockchains. The second half of the series, on Bitcoin will be published shortly.

In this the third part of our six-part series on Digital Currencies we’ll address the following questions around Blockchains:

We hope you enjoyed this series on Blockchains now on to the currencies and applications that use them.

Interested in evaluating Solarflare’s ServerLock Firewall in the NIC technology?

On September 14, Bob Van Valzah dropped in for a long session on Digital Currencies which turned into a three-part series on Blockchains. One or more series will follow covering all the issues surrounding digital currencies. To the left is a shot of Bob’s power bill for his Bitcoin Mining Rig that we discussed tonight, and also a video of that Mining Rig in production.

In the second part of our six-part series on Digital Currencies we’ll address the following questions around Blockchains:

In part three we’ll finish describing what is a Blockchain. While this has already been recorded and it should be released a few days following part 2.

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Last night, September 14, Bob Van Valzah dropped in for a long session on Digital Currencies which turned into a three-part series on Blockchains. One or more series will follow covering all the issues surrounding digital currencies. To the left is a shot of Bob’s Bitcoin Mining Rig that we discussed tonight, and also a video of that Mining Rig in production.

In the first part of our six-part series on Digital Currencies we’ll address the following questions around Blockchains:

In part two we’ll cover mining itself. This has already been recorded and it should be released a few days after part 1.

On August 8th, 2017 Luca Deri the founder of ntop was kind enough to call in and discuss Network Performance Monitoring (NPM). Luca is a well-recognized leader in the field of NPM having started at IBM Research back in 1993. He then went on to launch ntop in 1997 and has never looked back. In this specific market PF_Ring, n2Disk and several other tools by Luca and his team have become the de facto standard by which all others are compared. Today we discussed NPM then and now, touching on the abuse of port 80 for a wide range of wrapped traffic. We then moved on to packet capture, and the need for smart NICs moving forward if we wish to keep pace with faster networks like 50 and 100GbE.

On June 30th, 2017 Bob DiPietro of Solarflare was kind enough to call in and discuss the differences between Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) chips and general purpose x86 class CPUs. We chatted about their application in electronic trading, and how FPGAs offer the ultimate in network latency reduction, in some cases delivering over six times the performance of the fastest Intel Xeon processors. We also touched on toolchains, as well as Delegated TCP Send and A.N.T.S. for latency reduction.