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Aspects of Grey Market Products
“Grey Marketing” is a business arbitrage which a low cost source of products is used to extract profits. In short, buy the same product cheaper and sell it for the same price. It works best for branded products that are sold at different prices in different markets. There are four aspects of gray marketing of […]
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IPv6 Security for IPv4 Engineers | Internet Society
Good reference material from the Internet Society
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Gene Spafford – The RSA 2019 Conference
A take on the RSA conference
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Marriott data breach has cost the hotel chain only $3 million so far, after insurance
Cyber insurance actually does payout
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Analysis: F5 Networks Buys NGINX. Six Good Reasons and the rest.
F5 get service mesh, buys a competitor, get open source chops, but still behind on cloud'iness.
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Analysis: Why Nvidia is Buying Mellanox, Whats In It For Enterprise ?
Turns out that smart NICs are co-processors like GPUs
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Citrix investigating unauthorized access to internal network – Citrix
They didn't detect it themselves. 6TB of data exfiltrated. Weak passwords the cause.
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Virtual Design Clinic 4
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China Mobile closing down 3G system, complete switch-off expected by 2020
While Western telcos debate, China is moving to 5G.
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Heavy Networking 432: Analyzing SD-WAN So Far And So Future
On today's Heavy Networking, three SD-WAN analysts walk into a podcast. We talk deployment strategies, hear advice on how to build a vendor shortlist, get insights about the operational challenges and cost considerations, and more.
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Lobbying and Lying to Make Insecure HTTPS Protocols at ETSI
ETSI shows its coin-operated nature by working on insecure protocols
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ICANN Calls for Full DNSSEC Deployment, Promotes Community Collaboration to Protect the Internet – ICANN
DNSSEC is a partial fix but its time to get it done.
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Heavy Networking 431: Understanding Emerging Trends In Optics With InterOptic (Sponsored)
InterOptic returns in this sponsored podcast to explore emerging trends in optics, including the rise of 400G, the differences between OSFP and QSFP, and the state of silicon photonics. Our guests are Robert Coenen, VP of Business Development at InterOptic; and Tim Doiron, Principal Analyst, Intelligent Networking at ACG Research.
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Travel: Google Next 19, San Francisco, Community Event.
I really enjoyed Google Next last year which particularly highlighted that cloud networking will be focussed on overlays using Service Mesh and not so much on vendor proprietary features.
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Heavy Networking 430: The Future Of Networking With Guido Appenzeller
Today in our Future of Networking series I speak with Guido Appenzeller. He's been deeply involved in SDN and held key roles at Big Switch Networks and VMware, and now a new job at Yubico. We talk about the role of public cloud in IT, where the industry is with the adoption of "software-defined," the rise of whitebox, the P4 programming language, and more.
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Some Thoughts on Digital Transformation
It was my privilege to host a panel during ONUG London 2018 and my face was shoved in front of a camera as part of the package. I surprised myself here with ‘thought lording’ about digital transformation that seems to be intelligent and coherent. I extracted best and relevant bits into this video. Here are […]
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The perils of using Internet Explorer as your default browser – Microsoft Tech Community – 331732
IE isn't going to reliably work because no one is testing or writing for it anymore.
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DF Tube (Distraction Free for YouTube™) – Chrome Web Store
Sadly, Youtube is has a trash fetish to equal Facebook. This should help for a while.
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Cisco Calls for Privacy to be Considered a Human Right | The Network
What would be Cisco's motivation to call for social justice so publicly ?
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BiB 070: Cisco Calls for US Privacy Laws
What would be Cisco's motivation to call for social justice publicly. Logically there must be reasons.
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