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The government of Narendra Modi has set out ambitious goals for the digitalization of India, through a program called Digital India. It is hard to see this program get fully realized when state or local governments keep turning the Internet off.
Since January 2016, we have tracked that state governments have switched off the Net more than 34 times across India.
Sixty-two incidents of Internet shutdowns across 12 Indian states have been recorded by SFLC.in from 2012 till date.
In the country's northeast, in Nagaland, there was no Internet service at all from January 30 until February 19 .2017
In Kashmir, there have been 27 shutdowns since 2012, in a region market by long-standing conflicts.
Imagine a Flatworld in which railways are the main means of transportation. They were using horses and pigeons in the past, and experimenting with underwater airplanes, but railways won because they were cheaper than anything else (for whatever reason, price always wins over quality or convenience in that world).
As always, there were multiple railroad tracks and trains manufacturers, and everyone tried to use all sorts of interesting tricks to force the customers to buy tracks and trains from the same vendor. Different track gauges and heptagonal wheels that worked best with grooved rails were the usual tricks.
Read more ...RightsCon 2017 is kicking off today (29-31 March, Brussels) so we wanted to give you an update and also ask for your help amplifying our message.
Restrictions to Internet access are on the rise globally. Data shows that between 2015 and 2016, the number of Internet shutdowns bumped up from 15 to 56 worldwide. Not only is this causing collateral damage to the Internet, but we’re also putting the society and economy at risk. If we don’t do anything, we are at serious risk of eroding the trust that people have in the Internet - to the point of no return.
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Organizations are moving away from static infrastructure to full automation on every aspect of IT. This major shift is not happening overnight. It is an evolutionary process, and people decide to evolve their IT at different speeds based on organizational needs.
When I decided to join the VMware Networking & Security Business Unit four years ago, the key deciding factor for me was that I felt that networking is adopting automation far too slowly. Do not get me wrong – we always automated network configurations in some form. I still remember vividly my time as a networking consultant at a major German airport. Back at the beginning of the new millennium, I used a combination of Perl, Telnet and Expect to migrate the configuration of a huge core network from a single-tenant configuration to a multi-tenant MPLS/VPN. Nevertheless, at some point, network operators stopped evolving, and even today largely, we continue to automate by manually setting up new configuration into Continue reading