Worth Reading: Photographing the Internet
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IHS Report: Most NFV Deployments Start with vCPE
81% of service providers will deploy NFV by 2017.
How Virtualization Will Transform Security Architectures: Spotlight at #VMworld U.S. 2016
It’s clear today that security is at a crossroads, and we are losing the cybersecurity war. VMware’s SVP of Security Products Tom Corn explained to me recently, “There are no objective measures we can credibly point to which suggest we are – in any way – succeeding as we battle to protect systems and data.”
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One of the biggest problems, he points out, is that Cyberwarfare is an asymmetric battle: an attacker fires a thousand bullets and only one needs to get thru. Defenders need to stop all 1,000. So what are we doing to address this challenge?
We don’t appear to have an issue with how much we spend, or that there is a lack of security innovation. We are spending at record levels, and security innovation is at an all time high.
At the heart of the issue is an architectural gap – between the applications and data we are trying to protect, and the infrastructure from which we are trying to protect them. Virtualization could be the key to solving this problem — enabling security to be architected-in, rather than bolted on. Continue reading
5G Fragmentation Likely as Operators Pursue Different Timetables
About 690 million mobile connections will be on 5G networks by 2025.
Do what you love?
How many times have you heard this? Or this?
Two of the most oft repeated, and driven home, ideas in modern times are be true to yourself and do what you love. But just because they’re oft repeated and driven home doesn’t mean they are actually true. The problem with both statements is they have just enough truth to sound really plausible—and yet they are both simplistic enough to be dangerous when taken raw.
Or maybe it’s just that I’m a grumpy old man who’s been in a bad mood for the last couple of weeks, and misery likes company. 
Let’s try to put some reality into the do what you love statement.
Sometimes you’re just not very good at what you love to do. When I was a kid, I wanted to be an artist. And then a musician. Apparently there are no real jobs for artists or musicians with my somewhat mediocre skills in these two areas. I just have to face it—I’m never going to be a professional basketball player, either. Sometimes it doesn’t matter how much you love something, you just don’t have the skills to master it.
Sometimes there’s just no market for what you Continue reading
Microsoft to Acquire Genee, Adding AI Magic to Azure
It's not really magic, but it's also not in AWS.
Arista Rolls Out Real-Time Streaming of State Data
The streaming capability is already on EOS devices.
Brocade Enhances Its Analytics Monitoring Platform
Enhancements will enable customers to reduce up to 70% of storage network latency
For Your Ears: Citizens of Tech Podcast 40
In this show, we get into what expiration dates on packaged food and drugs really mean. How should you react when the date expires? If you assume, “Throw it out to be safe,” you’d be wrong.
We also chat about dealing with password expiration policies. They must be super complex and changed frequently, right? Maybe not. Super complex and frequently changed means hard to remember, which studies show can lead to less security, not more.
IBM has manufactured an artificial neuron, which isn’t so interesting by itself. We’ve been here before. The interesting bit is the material used to behave like a neuronal membrane. A genuine advance.
Microsoft has announced a smaller XBoxOne S, now with 4K capabilities. Just not gaming 4K capabilities.
Blackberry is on permanent deathwatch now, as they have begun the, “All else has failed, so let’s litigate,” phase of operations.
All that, plus our regular “Content I Like” and “Today I Learned” features.