Inside Industrial IoT: The promises and the challenges

Way before IoT became a buzzword, industrial verticals had connected systems – now, networking industrial devices to enterprise IT is unlocking great potential, and big challenges.

Get ready for the convergence of IT and OT networking and security

Most IT networking professionals are so busy with their day-to-day responsibilities that they don’t have time to consider taking on more work. But for companies with an industrial component, there’s an elephant in the room that is clamoring for attention. I’m talking about the increasingly common convergence of IT and operational technology (OT) networking and security.Traditionally, IT and OT have had very separate roles in an organization. IT is typically tasked with moving data between computers and humans, whereas OT is tasked with moving data between “things,” such as sensors, actuators, smart machines, and other devices to enhance manufacturing and industrial processes. Not only were the roles for IT and OT completely separate, but their technologies and networks were, too.To read this article in full, please click here

Get ready for the convergence of IT and OT networking and security

Most IT networking professionals are so busy with their day-to-day responsibilities that they don’t have time to consider taking on more work. But for companies with an industrial component, there’s an elephant in the room that is clamoring for attention. I’m talking about the increasingly common convergence of IT and operational technology (OT) networking and security.Traditionally, IT and OT have had very separate roles in an organization. IT is typically tasked with moving data between computers and humans, whereas OT is tasked with moving data between “things,” such as sensors, actuators, smart machines, and other devices to enhance manufacturing and industrial processes. Not only were the roles for IT and OT completely separate, but their technologies and networks were, too.To read this article in full, please click here

Powering edge data centers: Blue energy might be the perfect solution

About a cubic yard of freshwater mixed with seawater provides almost two-thirds of a kilowatt-hour of energy. And scientists say a revolutionary new battery chemistry based on that theme could power edge data centers.The idea is to harness power from wastewater treatment plants located along coasts, which happen to be ideal locations for edge data centers and are heavy electricity users.“Places where salty ocean water and freshwater mingle could provide a massive source of renewable power,” writes Rob Jordan in a Stanford University article.To read this article in full, please click here

Powering edge data centers: Blue energy might be the perfect solution

About a cubic yard of freshwater mixed with seawater provides almost two-thirds of a kilowatt-hour of energy. And scientists say a revolutionary new battery chemistry based on that theme could power edge data centers.The idea is to harness power from wastewater treatment plants located along coasts, which happen to be ideal locations for edge data centers and are heavy electricity users.“Places where salty ocean water and freshwater mingle could provide a massive source of renewable power,” writes Rob Jordan in a Stanford University article.To read this article in full, please click here

Heavy Networking 466: Securing The Network That’s Everywhere With Open Systems (Sponsored)

Open Systems offers an integrated solution that combines a secure cloud access security broker with cloud integrated SD-WAN and a DevOps mentality that gives you a new way to design your increasingly complex perimeter security. Moritz Mann, Head of Product Management, joins us from Open Systems for our security chat.

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Extreme’s acquisitions have prepped it to better battle Cisco, Arista, HPE, others

Extreme Networks has in recent months restyled the company with data-center networking technology acquisitions and upgrades, but now comes the hard part – executing with enterprise customers and effectively competing with the likes of Cisco, VMware, Arista, Juniper, HPE and others.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)

Extreme’s acquisitions have prepped it to better battle Cisco, Arista, HPE, others

Extreme Networks has in recent months restyled the company with data-center networking technology acquisitions and upgrades, but now comes the hard part – executing with enterprise customers and effectively competing with the likes of Cisco, VMware, Arista, Juniper, HPE and others.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)

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Nvidia rises to the need for natural language processing

Nvidia is boasting of a breakthrough in conversation natural language processing (NLP) training and inference, enabling more complex interchanges between customers and chatbots with immediate responses.The need for such technology is expected to grow, as digital voice assistants alone are expected to climb from 2.5 billion to 8 billion within the next four years, according to Juniper Research, while Gartner predicts that by 2021, 15% of all customer service interactions will be completely handled by AI, an increase of 400% from 2017.The company said its DGX-2 AI platform trained the BERT-Large AI language model in less than an hour and performed AI inference in 2+ milliseconds, making it possible “for developers to use state-of-the-art language understanding for large-scale applications.”To read this article in full, please click here

Nvidia rises to the need for natural language processing

Nvidia is boasting of a breakthrough in conversation natural language processing (NLP) training and inference, enabling more complex interchanges between customers and chatbots with immediate responses.The need for such technology is expected to grow, as digital voice assistants alone are expected to climb from 2.5 billion to 8 billion within the next four years, according to Juniper Research, while Gartner predicts that by 2021, 15% of all customer service interactions will be completely handled by AI, an increase of 400% from 2017.The company said its DGX-2 AI platform trained the BERT-Large AI language model in less than an hour and performed AI inference in 2+ milliseconds, making it possible “for developers to use state-of-the-art language understanding for large-scale applications.”To read this article in full, please click here

Cloud-Native Startup Kasten Locks In $14M Series A

Keeping track of Linux users: When do they log in and for how long?

The Linux command line provides some excellent tools for determining how frequently users log in and how much time they spend on a system. Pulling information from the /var/log/wtmp file that maintains details on user logins can be time-consuming, but with a couple easy commands, you can extract a lot of useful information on user logins.One of the commands that helps with this is the last command. It provides a list of user logins that can go quite far back. The output looks like this:$ last | head -5 | tr -s " " shs pts/0 192.168.0.14 Wed Aug 14 09:44 still logged in shs pts/0 192.168.0.14 Wed Aug 14 09:41 - 09:41 (00:00) shs pts/0 192.168.0.14 Wed Aug 14 09:40 - 09:41 (00:00) nemo pts/1 192.168.0.18 Wed Aug 14 09:38 still logged in shs pts/0 192.168.0.14 Tue Aug 13 06:15 - 18:18 (00:24) Note that the tr -s " " portion of the command above reduces strings of blanks to single blanks, and in this case, it keeps the output shown from being so wide that it would be wrapped around on Continue reading

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How Useful Is Social Media Networking for Job Searches

Looking for a job these days is no easy task, which is why many job seekers are using social media networking to help them find jobs that they want to be based on their education, interests, and which companies looking to hire.

According to recent findings by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 70% of all jobs are found through social media with 92% of companies using social media sometime during the hiring process to find eligible candidates that fit in with their company mission and goals, or to weed out candidates whose personal views or actions will reflect badly on the company should they be hired.

How Various Social Media Sites Can Help Job Seekers

There are a variety of social media sites that can help job seekers step up in the career of their choice. Here is a look at how some of the various social media sites can help job seekers.

LinkedIn: Recruiters use LinkedIn to look for candidates to fill positions in their company. If you don’t have a LinkedIn account, you won’t come up in searches. In addition, LinkedIn allows job seekers an opportunity to research companies, recruiters, and interviewers before they send in their Continue reading