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IDG Contributor Network: Is the IT help desk model broken?

There’s no doubt about it – today’s workers have fully embraced the trend toward remote working. In fact, according to last year’s Gallup “State of the American Workplace” survey, roughly 43 percent of employees report they have worked remotely.  It would seem that the genie is out of the bottle, and it’s not likely to go back in without a fight.This mass migration off premises changes the dynamic between users and IT help desk teams. An operator can no longer run down the hall to ask a user “Can you show me what the problem is with your computer?” More importantly, without having total visibility in the cloud, the operator may be completely unable to ‘see’ any problems that users are experiencing as they work remotely.To read this article in full, please click here

Short Take: Practical Career Advice

One problem I’ve heard in the past is that much of the career advice given in the networking world is not practical. In this short take, I take this problem on, explaining why it might be more practical than it initially seems.

Worth Reading: The old switcharoo

The cost of servers keeps going up and up, thanks in large part to memory, flash, and GPU prices rising as too much demand chases too little supply and also due in part to the rising cost of processors. So the server market is booming. And guess who is actually paying for it? Network vendors, who are being ground down like sacks of wheat in the massive granite grist mill of intense competition. —Timothy Prickett Morgan @The Next Platform

Data freshness, not speed, most important for IoT

The age of sensor data is more important than how fast it takes that information to travel around Internet- and Location-of-Things environments, say some experts. Scientists are, in fact, rethinking the network because of it.“It’s not enough to transmit data quickly. That data also needs to be fresh,” says MIT in a news release.The university has been working on better ways to ensure that sensors, which distribute readings for analysis, provide the most salient stuff. It’s not easy because you can’t just send everything at the same time (an obvious solution) — there isn't enough bandwidth.To read this article in full, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: Enterprises evaluate the costs of building versus buying an IoT platform

Almost every week we speak with an enterprise that is curious about building its own IoT application enablement platform (AEP) or IoT device management (DM) platform. The idea is straight-forward – an enterprise wants total control over the technology it deploys, so it chooses to hire developers to build the perfect, inexpensive platform.Then what happens? Sometimes everything goes exceedingly well and the IoT platform delivers as anticipated. Other times, the enterprise determines it takes more time and money to build a platform that anticipated it takes more staff to support the platform on-going than anticipated it is very hard to keep the platform features up-to-date compared to the features offered from best-in-class vendors’ IoT platforms the initial in-house platform was great, but scaling and modifying the platform to meet future requirements is exceedingly difficult due to the chosen platform architecture So, what are the total enterprise costs of building an enterprise-grade IoT platform versus buying IoT platform services from a third-party AEP or DM vendor? It really depends on the IoT solution that the enterprise wants to deploy.To read this article in full, please click here

We’ve Added Another Blockchain Course To Our Video Library!

 

This Course is By Joseph Holbrook and is 4 hours and 34 minutes long. You can view the full course on our streaming Site, or buy the course at ine.com.

A blockchain is a tamper-evident, shared digital ledger that records transactions in a public or private peer-to-peer network. Distributed to all member nodes in the network, the ledger permanently records, in a sequential chain of cryptographic hash-linked blocks, the history of asset exchanges that take place between the peers in the network. This course has been designed for technical architects, pre sales architects, developers and project managers who must make technical decisions about distributed architectures and development platforms.

Cisco developer push yields 500,000 DevNet members working on programmable networks

ORLANDO – Cisco’s developer program, DevNet, is on a hot streak.Speaking at Cisco Live 2018, DevNet CTO Susie Wee said the group, which was founded in 2014, now has 500,000 registered members."That’s a pretty cool milestone, but what does it mean? It means that we've hit critical mass with a developer community who can program the network," Wee said. "Our 500,000 strong community is writing code that can be leveraged and shared by others. DevNet is creating a network innovation ecosystem that will be the hub of the next generation of applications and the next generation of business."At Cisco Live the company also announced it has expanded the DevNet world to include:To read this article in full, please click here

Cisco developer push yields 500,000 DevNet members working on programmable networks

ORLANDO – Cisco’s developer program, DevNet, is on a hot streak.Speaking at Cisco Live 2018, DevNet CTO Susie Wee said the group, which was founded in 2014, now has 500,000 registered members."That’s a pretty cool milestone, but what does it mean? It means that we've hit critical mass with a developer community who can program the network," Wee said. "Our 500,000 strong community is writing code that can be leveraged and shared by others. DevNet is creating a network innovation ecosystem that will be the hub of the next generation of applications and the next generation of business."At Cisco Live the company also announced it has expanded the DevNet world to include:To read this article in full, please click here

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