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Response: The Five Stages of Cloud Grief | Postmodern Security
Five stages of cloud grief
Is This is What Happens When You Hire Inexperienced, Unskilled Executives
Advice for entrepreneurs is school level learning
Meet and Greet in Silicon Valley from 15 Jan – 3 Feb 2018
I’ve reduced the travel and conferences I’m attending in 2018 to focus on content – writing, podcasting and video is my future. The negative impact is that I’ll miss meeting many people in the industry. So I am spending 3 weeks in San Jose 15 Jan – 3 Feb 2018 and hoping to meet as many […]
Don’t Delete PCAP Files – Trim Them! – NETRESEC Blog
Nice tool for people who are crafting an artisanal logging system
Response: HP, Asus announce first Windows 10 ARM PCs: 20 hour battery life, gigabit LTE | Ars Technica
Hey look, Microsoft just arrived in 2010.
Response: media.ccc.de – 1-day exploit development for Cisco IOS
How to crack Cisco IOS with SNMP RCE examples.
BiB 20: Broadcom Tomahawk 3 Announced With 32x400G ports
Holy cow. Broadcom Tomahawk 3 is a 32 x 400G ASIC at lower power, latency and reduced cost/100G speed. Built for the cloud it signals the next generation of 200G/400G Ethernet is on its way.
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Internet Giants Should Be Broken Up
This is a 30 minute presentation that highlights the lack of societal value that Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon deliver. Galloway examines their market dominance and how the market is failing to regulate or control the tech companies. I recommend watching this and considering the ideas proposed here. Galloway is well known and worth listening […]
Starboard Value discloses 10.7% stake in Mellanox
Too Much R&D Makes a Vulnerable Tech Company ? Really ?
Nutanix: We don’t need a traditional channel program | Channelnomics
Interesting piece on Nutanix and resellers: Nutanix’s senior director of EMEA channels Jan Ursi has defended against a claim the firm has no clear channel strategy, suggesting that the hyperconverged vendor does not rely on conventional methods, such as reward programs, in order to foster partner relationships. Some thoughts Building a reseller channel is expensive […]
Research: CrystalNet: Faithfully Emulating Large Production Networks
Microsoft research paper on network emulation at scale
Turn Network Engineers into Software Engineers
Peyton Koran, Director of Technical Engagement at Electronic Arts, delivered a great session on why network vendors are losing to open source and whitebox. His view is that network engineers need to embrace software engineering, be flexible. Vendors and VARs are no longer working to benefit of the customer but to benefit themselves with increased […]
WISP Design: Using eBGP and OSPF transit fabric for traffic engineering – YouTube
Kevin Myers talks at the Mikrotik conference about the use of BGP & OSPF in WISP design.
Battle Scars from OpenStack Are Just Cloud Problems
Cloud scars are the same everywhere, not just OpenStack.
Facebook exec: ‘Just not true’ that we listen to your phone’s mic | The Outline
Because Facebook makes billions exploiting the personal surveillance business data it collects, stores and analyses. More data means more revenue from better targeted advertising (in theory): “I run ads product at Facebook. We don’t – and have never – used your microphone for ads. Just not true,” tweeted Rob Goldman, vice president of ads products […]
How to be an infosec thought leader – YouTube
Funny because its true. Security professionals are a weird bunch of people. Becoming a thought leader is the epitome of professional success. But a thought leader isn’t a title that one attains by going to Harvard, or Cambridge. No, it’s a title bestowed by your peers. How to be an infosec thought leader – YouTube […]
Musing: Apple Pulls Off Marketing Trick Unbelievably Well With iPhone X
Increase the price by 30% and customers love it
We Broke IT Purchasing
Top notch rant on over-selling by vendors