When It Comes to IoT, We Must Work Together to #SecureIt
My first ever rendezvous with the word “IoT” was during my final year at a college conference, when a prominent regional start-up figure dispensed an oblique reference to it. I learned that IoT was the next big thing veering towards the mass market, which would eventually change the course of everyday human existence by making our way of life more convenient. What caught my attention was the term “things” in IoT – an unbounded category which could be anything from the the bed you sleep on, the clothes you drape, or even the personal toiletries you use.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a class of devices that “can monitor their environment, report their status, receive instructions, and even take action based on the information they receive.” IoT connotes not just the device but also the complex network connected to the device. Multiple studies have revealed that there are more connected devices than people on the planet. Although, combining computers and networks to devices has existed for long, they were previously not integrated to consumer devices and durable goods, used in ordinary day to day life. Furthermore, IoT being an evolving concept, exhibiting a range of ever-changing features, Continue reading
Weekly Show 412: What Managers Want From Their Teams
What does your manager want? On today's Weekly Show we talk to two managers to find out how they work with their teams, what they see as their roles, how they hire, and much more. Our guests are Michael Bushong and Omar Sultan.
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Cumulus, Facebook Push Open Data Center Interconnect
Cumulus Networks launched a transponder abstraction interface, which is a vendor-agnostic way to manage transponders. This makes data center interconnect technology more open.
Twilio Created a NB-IoT Developer Platform for T-Mobile
The platform includes NB-IoT modules, programmable SIM cards, and a software development kit.
Huawei Shakes Up the AI Status Quo
Google, nVidia, IBM face a new formidable AI challenger in Huawei.
SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — October 19, 2018
Samsung buys an AI firm; AWS publishes an SLA for serverless computing; Oracle boosts Health Sciences Cloud with acquisition.
10 Security Startups that Investors Are Funding
These 10 security companies raised more than $499 million in just the last month as security remains a top priority for many enterprises.
Diving into the DNS
DNS OARC organizes two meetings a year. They are two-day meetings with a concentrated dose of DNS esoterica. Here’s what I took away from the recent 29th meeting of OARC, held in Amsterdam in mid-October 2018.Short Take – Problems And Solutions
In this Network Collective Short Take, Russ shares his thoughts on the value of really understanding the problem at hand before settling on a specific solution.
Russ White
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IXPs: Why Is the Middle East Lagging Behind?
On October 2nd, the Internet Society was happy to support the ITU in organizing the IXP Workshop on Peering and Interconnection in the Arab World “Towards unlocking regional interconnection opportunities” It was held in Manama-Bahrain, and kindly hosted by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) of Bahrain. This workshop was held on the eve of the Annual Meeting of the Arab ICT Regulators Network (AREGNET), and 30 regulators and 10 operators attended from all over the Arab region.
The workshop started with an overview of the Arab peering landscape given by Christine Arida, Director for Telecom Services and Planning at National Telecom Regulatory Authority of Egypt. Christine showed that the region is well served by undersea cables, with the oldest IXP established 20 years ago. However, all countries have either an underperforming IXP or do not have one at all. Regionally, cross-border interconnection is almost non-existent – with very few exceptions and most of the traffic is exchanged in London and Marseilles.
The debate started with an acknowledgement that strong and vibrant IXPs are needed in the Arab region. IXPs are a means and not the end… They are the enablers of digital transformation and a means to attract investment. Cheaper Continue reading
Automating UCS Manager Configuration with Ansible
Cisco UCS Manager is the management plane service for Cisco UCS solutions. Using a policy-based management approach, server configurations are decoupled from the physical hardware.
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Read more ...Ericsson Fired 50 People in Corruption Scandal Fallout
CEO Borje Ekholm said an investigation of the company by the SEC and DOJ started in 2013. The scandal put a damper on otherwise positive third quarter results.