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In tech recruiting, playing it safe is risky business

The Silicon Valley version of the American Dream goes something like this: a dishwasher, a bike messenger, an actor, a waiter (insert totally-unrelated-to-technology job title here) leverages his or her hobbyist-level coding skills to land a hot programming job and becomes a "rockstar developer."And nearly everyone who works in tech, from CEOs, venture capitalists, startup founders, and programmers themselves will tell you they don't care what a candidate's background is; where they went to school; what gender, race, ethnicity they are. All that matters is their tech chops and whether they can do the job. That's terrific, in the hypothetical.In practice, however, is where this dream breaks down; the HR professionals, hiring managers and tech recruiters who are on the front lines of hiring do care about those qualifications, to the detriment of both candidates and companies, says Harj Taggar, co-founder and CEO of technical hiring platform Triplebyte.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Apple is reportedly done with routers.While the company hasn’t said anything publicly, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman (who has an excellent track record with Apple rumors) reports that Apple’s wireless router division has been disbanded. The engineers who were working on products like the AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and AirPort Time Capsule have been moved to work on other projects over the past year, according to Gurman.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

RIP AirPort? Apple may abandon wireless routers and Time Capsule

Apple is reportedly done with routers.While the company hasn’t said anything publicly, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman (who has an excellent track record with Apple rumors) reports that Apple’s wireless router division has been disbanded. The engineers who were working on products like the AirPort Express, AirPort Extreme, and AirPort Time Capsule have been moved to work on other projects over the past year, according to Gurman.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

46% off Foval 150PSI Car Digital Tire Pressure Air Gauge – Deal Alert

This tire pressure guage from Fovsal features a lighted nozzle and display screen for ultimate visibility in low light, and doubles as a vehicle emergency tool with LED flashlight, car window breaker, seat belt cutter, and red safety light.  It averages 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon, where its typical list price of $20 has been reduced 46% to just $10.87. See it now on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

USB Consoling Myself With Opengear’s ACM7004-5

Have you ever tried using the USB Console port on your network hardware? Me neither, and that’s mainly because the instructions typically begin with Download and install the USB console driver for your operating system, at which point I exhale deeply and get out my USB serial adapter instead. I think Opengear must have heard me sighing because the ACM7004-5 Remote Site Gateway device they’ve sent me to look at has four USB console ports built in.

Opengear ACM7004-5 Front

Opengear ACM7004-5

The compact ACM7004-5 packs more power than its diminutive stature might at first suggest. Taking a look at the back panel reveals a densely-packed set of ports offering a total of four switched GigabitEthernet ports, four serial console ports (RJ-45) and four USB ports:

og7004-back

As with the other small Opengear devices I’ve tested, this model comes with a single rackmount bracket so it can be attached within a rack with relative ease. It’s only about five inches wide, so it’s not too hard to find a free space to locate it. If you aren’t blessed with a rack, there are small rubber feet that can be stuck on the underside. The power port is interesting; I find myself shouting for Continue reading

PowerNSX: PowerShell cmdlets to automate NSX

Looking to automate NSX for vSphere? Unsure where to start? Look no further than PowerNSX.

NSX, PowerShell, PowerNSX

PowerNSX is a PowerShell module that abstracts the VMware NSX for vSphere API to a set of easily used PowerShell functions. It aims to focus on exposing New, Update, Remove and Get operations for all key NSX functions as well as adding additional functionality to extend the capabilities of NSX for vSphere management beyond the native UI or API.

PowerNSX works closely with VMware PowerCLI, and PowerCLI users will feel quickly at home using PowerNSX. Together these tools provide a comprehensive command line environment to manage your VMware NSX for vSphere environments.

PowerNSX continues to be updated and feature requests are welcome via the issues tracker on the projects GitHub page. Remember that VMware does not support this module, and PowerNSX comes with no warranties express or implied. Please test and validate PowerNSXs functionality before using in a production environment.

What’s in the box?

So what does your free download of PowerNSX give you?

At a glance:

  • Over 210 cmdlets providing CRUD operations for a majority of NSX for vSphere’s capability. This command-line environment (programmatic language) allows for projects and applications of all sizes!

Worth Reading: High Speed Optical Networking

The alchemists of our age, scientists and engineers, have transformed chemical compounds like gallium-arsenide, indium-phosphide, and silicon into miniaturized lasers, light detectors, and thin tubes of glass that combine to communicate information over long distances at unimaginably fast speeds. The raw power and extraordinarily efficient cost performance of high-speed optical networking underlies our global internet economy. We are surrounded by countless consumer, industrial, financial, and social applications that depend on reliable and inexpensive communications – spanning interactions among people, between people and machines, and increasingly, among the machines themselves. —ECI

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Microsoft is replacing the CMD prompt with PowerShell

One of the last vestiges of the old MS-DOS days, the Command Prompt, is looking like an endangered species. The latest Windows 10 preview build puts the Windows PowerShell, first introduced on Windows Server, front and center. Build 14791, believed to be the basis for the Redstone 2 upgrade coming early next year, replaces the Command Prompt window in many key areas of the operating system. Command Prompt is still there, just not as accessible. Microsoft is putting the emphasis on PowerShell as the main command shell going forward.Dona Sarkar, head of the Windows Insider Program, mentioned this change in her blog post discussing Build 14791. She notes that it is still possible to stick with Command Prompt if you wish: To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

FlokiBot: A Flock of Bots?

In early October, Flashpoint released an analysis of an underground forum advertisement for a new malware family known as FlokiBot. It took some time before a sample was found in the wild, but a researcher known as hasherezade flagged one on VirusTotal in early November. […]

FlokiBot: A Flock of Bots?

In early October, Flashpoint released an analysis of an underground forum advertisement for a new malware family known as FlokiBot. It took some time before a sample was found in the wild, but a researcher known as hasherezade flagged one on VirusTotal in early November. She also wrote an analysis of its dropper here. This […]

In wearables, IDC says the little things are going to be very big

There’s no denying it: Despite years of hype, wearable computing technology has yet to make a big impact on enterprise IT. But if you believe the last IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Wearables and AR/VR predictions, that’s finally about to change. And ironically, two of the smallest categories of wearables seem poised to make the biggest difference.Smartwatches and ear-worn wearables Among the 10 predictions in the report, IDC predicts smartwatches—yes, those things that strap on your wrist to monitor your fitness activities, and not much else—will find favor among enterprises in pilot programs designed to “augment or replace enterprise-use smartphones in 2017 to communicate time-sensitive data.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: Vendors push the ‘private instance on a public cloud’ proposition

A decade or so ago, a few visionaries decided that a new way of delivering technology was valuable. Pioneers at both the software end of the spectrum (Salesforce and NetSuite) and the infrastructure end (Amazon Web Services) came up with solutions that, rather than being delivered on premises, could be consumed on-demand and via the internet. While it seems natural enough now, back in the day this was a revolutionary concept.And unsurprisingly, the way people have reacted to this “cloud thing” has changed over time. I have sat in many conference keynote sessions where industry leaders told of the risks, the utter devastation, that would occur should cloud actually reach an adoption tipping point. Much doubt was cast on the model, and customers were advised to keep with the status quo.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Oracle to buy DNS, cloud infrastructure provider Dyn

Oracle plans to acquire internet performance and DNS provider Dyn in an effort to pump up its cloud-based offerings and challenge infrastructure and platform service leaders like Amazon and Microsoft.Dyn, in the news last month when it was targeted in a massive distributed denial-of-service attack, operates a global network that makes 40 billion traffic optimization decisions each day for more than 3,500 enterprise customers, including Netflix and Twitter.Dyn monitors and optimizes internet applications and cloud services with the goal of delivering deliver faster access and reduced page-load times. Dyn's services will give Oracle a one-stop shop for enterprise customers looking for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS), Oracle said in a press release Monday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Which Job-Related Factors Alienate Cybersecurity Pros?

When it comes to cybersecurity jobs, it is truly a seller’s market.  According to ESG research published early this year, 46% of organizations report a problematic shortage of cybersecurity skills (note: I am an ESG employee).  Additionally, a more recent research report from ESG and the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) indicates that 46% of cybersecurity professionals are solicited by recruiters to consider another job at least once each week!The data indicates that there aren’t enough cybersecurity professionals around and those that are employed are in high demand.  This puts a lot of pressure on CISOs and human resources people to make sure to keep their existing cybersecurity staff happy so they don’t walk out the door when they are barraged by headhunters’ calls. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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