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IDG Contributor Network: The case for WAN acceleration as NFV

Previously, I discussed the benefits of using regional performance hubs to support new data patterns associated with the increasing use of cloud applications such as Salesforce.com and Office365.Just as business applications have transitioned to an “as a service” model, so will many network-based functions such as firewalls, IPS, IDS, etc. using network function virtualization (NFV). Although there hasn’t much been public discourse yet on WAN Optimization as a service, it is ideally suited for being “NFV-ed.”+ Also on Network World: Reinventing the WAN +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: Mirantis throws another hand grenade: Services are cool again

I'm a big fan of Mirantis, the pure-play OpenStack vendor. It is one company that has no problem at all being contentious. Where other vendors tend to think deeply about the impacts of what they say and process their messages through multiple levels of communication staffers, Mirantis has an "ask forgiveness, not permission" approach. This must cause serious headaches for its long-suffering press staff, but it certainly provides serious fodder for the commentators out there.Looking back over the years, Mirantis has been the source of many high-profile cloud stories. Of course, high-profile is a relative term, and it is, admittedly, a small number of people who watch the space that Mirantis plays in.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

AT&T moves Wi-Fi calling needle forward for users of some Android devices

Having provided the option for iPhone users looking to make such international calls back in March, AT&T today announced that owners of certain Android devices will now also have access to Wi-Fi calling.So if you’re stuck in a spot with lousy to non-existent cell coverage – my kids’ school, for example – you’ll be able to call and text without stepping outside.The Android option is limited for starters to LG G4 but AT&T indicated that others will follow “soon.”From an AT&T blog post:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

LinkedIn: Microsoft’s acquisition could open a box of trouble

A Pandora’s box (pardon the pun) will open when Microsoft closes on its recently announced acquisition of LinkedIn. Make no mistake; this is about a huge resource pool of both data and client prospects. It’s also many eggs in one basket.LinkedIn is underdeveloped. It has not been mined, nor has it been very creative. Yes, there are many vanity things one can do: list accomplishments, rally the troops, promote business and prospect—actual B2B can start there. But there’s no mechanism for fulfillment at LinkedIn that doesn’t include LinkedIn in terms of promotion.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Linked-Out: Microsoft’s acquisition could open a box of trouble

A Pandora’s box (pardon the pun) will open when Microsoft closes on its recently announced acquisition of LinkedIn. Make no mistake; this is about a huge resource pool of both data and client prospects. It’s also many eggs in one basket. LinkedIn is underdeveloped. It has not been mined, nor has it been very creative. Yes, there are many vanity things one can do: list accomplishments, rally the troops, promote business and prospect—actual B2B can start there. But there’s no mechanism for fulfillment at LinkedIn that doesn’t include LinkedIn in terms of promotion.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Chef’s open source tool lets applications automate infrastructure provisioning

Chef, a company that has made a name for itself developing infrastructure automation software products, released a new open source project named Habitat this week that it says is defining a new category: Application automation. Habitat is a way of packaging an application in a way that lets the app provision the infrastructure it needs to run. This process gives Habitat the ability to run on any type of infrastructure, from physical to virtualized servers, in data centers or in the cloud. +MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: Cisco unearths its inner startup culture via companywide innovation contest | This startup may have the world’s fastest networking switch chip +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Top 25 companies where millennials want to work; Google slips to No. 2

Where do millennials most want to work? 3M, according to a survey of 13,000 high school students, college students and young professionals. Last year’s top-ranked company, Google, is second on the 2016 list of most desirable employers.This year’s Millennial Career Survey is the ninth annual report from the National Society of High School Scholars (NSHSS), an international honors organization that aims to advance the goals of high achieving students. The full report digs into employment preferences, career planning, educational goals and life choices of the millennial generation.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Top 25 companies where millennials want to work; Google slips to No. 2

Google slips to No. 2 in places Millennials want to work

Where do millennials most want to work? 3M, according to a survey of 13,000 high school students, college students and young professionals. Last year’s top-ranked company, Google, is second on the 2016 list of most desirable employers. This year’s Millennial Career Survey is the ninth annual report from the National Society of High School Scholars (NSHSS), an international honors organization that aims to advance the goals of high achieving students. The full report digs into employment preferences, career planning, educational goals and life choices of the millennial generation.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worth Reading: Leaving fixed function switches behind

There are two competing trends in platform designs that architects always have to contend with. They can build a platform that performs a specific function and does it well, or create a more generic platform that sacrifices some efficiency but does a lot of jobs well. Sometimes you try to shoot the gap between these two poles. -The Next Platform

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128 Technology aims to fix the internet

After two years of being in stealth mode, 128 Technology came out of hiding this week and is making a bold claim—that they can fix the way the internet works.128 Technology is led by Andy Ory, former CEO of Acme Packet, another Massachusetts-based company that was headquartered only a few miles from where 128 Technology is located. Also, many of the current employees of 128 Technology are former Acme Packet employees.Other than physical location, there are a couple of other similarities between 128 Technology and Acme Packet. First, the names of the companies are equally non-descriptive of what they do. Second, and more important, Acme was one a pioneer in the session border control (SBC) market, which redefined how multimedia traffic moved across networks. 128 Technology is trying to do something similar with all network traffic.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Beginner’s guide to virtual reality

When you see a virtual reality game being advertised on a box of Froot Loops, you know the VR trend has hit the mainstream. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)

The Next Level: An IT Army Of One

Today on the Next Level we talk to three tech pros from smaller organizations about what it means to be an IT army of one.

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Hello, Colorado! CloudFlare’s 82nd Data Center is Live in Denver

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Hello from the Mile High City! Denver is our twelfth data center in the United States, and our 82nd data center globally, improving regional web performance.

Denver Tech Scene

Near the iconic Rocky Mountains, Denver brews more beer than any other American city, and is home to a thriving technology and entrepreneurship community. The Colorado community brought us companies such as Chipotle, HomeAdvisor, and LogRhythm - and is helping build the next great Colorado company.

Mile High, Twice as Fast

Despite having a unique place on the map of the United States, and it's significant distance from other cities (900 miles to Dallas; 1,000 miles to Chicago, 1,000 miles to Los Angeles), Denver has not always been a major point of regional interconnection. Through the efforts of the community, and greater localized peering of traffic, this is changing for the better.

Visitors to millions of websites using ISPs, big or small, such as Aerux, Blackfoot, Comcast and CenturyLink, should see a 2x increase in performance, as they are now served from our Denver data center.

CloudFlare participates at two major internet exchanges: Any2 Denver and IX-Denver.

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Latency in milliseconds halves for end user (Denver) to CloudFlare. Source: Cedexis

Global Expansion

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As I wrap up another week of meetings with customers and partners throughout the US, I look down at my...

SugarCRM is planning a Siri-like agent named Candace

SugarCRM has put AI at the core of its product plans and is working on a new intelligence service along with a Siri-like agent named Candace.Tapping the company's recent acquisitions of Stitch and Contastic, the new technology will be designed to help businesses spend less time entering data into their customer relationship management software and more time learning from and acting upon it.SugarCRM is scheduled to demonstrate the new capabilities Wednesday at its SugarCon conference in San Francisco.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Bluetooth 5 to be introduced on Thursday

The Bluetooth SIG will formally introduce Bluetooth 5 on Thursday, offering a significant upgrade in speed and range, and hopefully security as well.Bluetooth 5 will have double the speed and four times the range of the current version, 4.2, which was more focused on power savings than performance. Technical improvements in Bluetooth 5 include new functionality for connectionless services, such as navigation and location-based services, and possibly set up beacons around the world to transmit information.All of these details are spelled out in an update from Mark Powell, executive director of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Featured White Paper: High-Performance SDN & NFV to Revolutionize the Telecom Network

The Radisys FlowEngine and DCEngine platform improves service availability, flow analytics, and service acceleration for SDN and NFV deployments.

Two reports reveal details about Russian and Chinese government-backed hackers

Two different reports reveal details about three government-backed hacker groups, two from Russia and one from China.Russian government hacker groups Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear Not one, but two groups of Russian government hackers broke into the computer network of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), spying on internal communications and stealing opposition research on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.CrowdStrike said it kicked out the adversary groups “Cozy Bear” and “Fancy Bear” over the weekend.Cozy Bear, which had successfully penetrated the unclassified networks of the White House, State Department and Joint Chiefs of Staff in 2014, infiltrated the DNC last summer and had been monitoring email and chat communications. CrowdStrike believes Cozy Bear may work for Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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