New Report: Major Online Retailers Increase Email Marketing Trustworthiness and Follow Unsubscribe Best Practices
Today, the Internet Society’s Online Trust Alliance released its fifth annual Email Marketing & Unsubscribe Audit. OTA researchers analyzed the email marketing practices of 200 of North America’s top online retailers and, based on this analysis, offer prescriptive advice to help marketers provide consumers with choice and control over when and what messages they receive. The Audit assesses the end-to-end user experience from signing up for emails, to receiving emails, to the unsubscribe process and its results.
In the 2018 Audit, seventy-four percent of the top online retailers received “Best of Class” designation, meaning they scored eighty percent or higher in OTA’s analysis of their email marketing. In addition, ten retailers received perfect scores, meaning they adopted all twelve of OTA’s best practices. They are: Dick’s Sporting Goods, Home Depot, Lands’ End, Musician’s Friend, Office Depot, OpticsPlanet, Sierra Trading Post, Staples, Talbots, and Walgreens.
In the subscribe process there were several positive findings. The percentage of sites that had subscribe forms that were easy for the user to find was 94% in 2018, up from 85% in 2017. In addition, one-quarter of sites offered incentives such as free shipping to entice users to subscribe, down slightly from 28% in 2018.
BiB 061: Understanding DriveScale Composer Architecture
DriveScale is all about the software. And what is the software? Much of the magic happens in DriveScale Composer. The chief value of DriveScale Composer is to compose any compute to any disk or flash, in a scalable way.
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Episode 40 – MPLS Part 4 – Fast Reroute
In this Network Collective community roundtable episode, Nick Russo and Jeff Tantsura join us to close out our MPLS series with an episode on Fast Reroute.
We would like to thank VIAVI Solutions for sponsoring this episode of Network Collective. VIAVI Solutions is an application and network management industry leader focusing on end-user experience by providing products that optimize performance and speed problem resolution. Helping to ensure delivery of critical applications for businesses worldwide, Viavi offers an integrated line of precision-engineered software and hardware systems for effective network monitoring and analysis. Learn more at www.viavisolutions.com/networkcollective.
Nick Russo
Guest
Jeff Tantsura
Guest
Jordan Martin
Host
Russ White
Host
Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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The Third India School on Internet Governance
The third edition of the India School on Internet Governance (inSIG) took place from 13–15 October 2018 at the India International Centre in New Delhi in partnership with the Internet Society Indian Chapters: Delhi, Trivandrum, Mumbai, and Kolkata. It was supported by the Beyond the Net Funding Programme with the participation of Olaf Kolkman, the Internet Society’s Chief Internet Technology Officer.
Ninety participants joined a three day activity event which included workshops, role play exercises and discussions. The event focused on educating emerging leaders from India and other South Asian countries, such as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka on their role in the global Internet Governance ecosystem.
On 12 October 2018, two events were co-hosted: Firstly, The Internet Infrastructure Security Day, a workshop to learn more on pen Internet standards and sharing good practices as part of the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) – and secondly, India’s first Youth Internet Governance Forum (YIGF), which conducted multiple sessions on topics of relevance to young Internet users, particularly those in secondary school, college, and early employment. Both events were live streamed and viewed by over 1,500 participants.
A range of several industry experts offered insight into India’s Continue reading
Encrypted Traffic Reaches A New Threshold
Over 72% of all network traffic is encrypted, and that figure is expected to grow. Unfortunately, very few security devices can inspect encrypted data without severely impacting network performance.
Upcoming Webinars and Events: December 2018
December will start with three on-site events:
- We’ll run Using VXLAN and EVPN to Build Active-Active Data Centers workshop in Zurich on December 5th;
- I’ll talk about making SDN better with IPv6 on December 6th;
- Next day (December 7th) I’ll talk about Real-life SDN in Rapperswil (a lovely medieval town at the tip of Lake Zurich).
On the webinar front, December will be a storage month:
Read more ...AWS Gets Involved With the Satellite Biz, While Keeping Its Feet on the Ground
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AWS Firecracker Further Blurs Container, Serverless Management
The open source platform acts as a next-generation hypervisor targeted at modern architectures and already powers AWS' Lambda and Fargate services.
Python Pandas – Reading text files got a lot better.
Problem Statement – Have a list of VMWare Instances and wanted to quickly iterate and see what VMs are powered on, this has nothing to do with Vmware or ESXI, look at the below image, programmatically I want to pick two specific rows and perform dictionary operations on them.
Git – https://github.com/yukthr/auts/blob/master/random_programs/pandas_vmware_esxi.py
for someone like me who is partly into programming and mostly into networking, anything effective is easy, I could have gone with the other way of doing this but since Pandas are effective i would text parsing with them.
I only want two sections which are of interest to me, in a normal way maybe I should have pasted this in excel and Do a text to the column and do a manual data extraction, but wanted to do it with Pandas and they are powerful.
First things first
- Read with Pandas
- Read the text
- If possible convert into CSV (as I have some experience with csv file operations)
- Then split the Columns and make the dictionary for further use
Let’s see how this proceeds
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BiB 060: Focus On Your Data & Not Where It’s Stored With HammerSpace
The simplest way to describe HammerSpace is that they are an abstraction layer between data and metadata. David Flynn, CEO described it like this. “We have introduced an abstraction which separates the data consumer side and the storage infrastructure side. And that’s really what’s necessary before we can manage data in the cloud.”
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HPE Buys AI, Big Data Software Vendor BlueData
Also today HPE rolled out four new edge products as well as storage advances with machine learning built in.