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BrandPost: Performance Lies at the Heart of all Business Innovation

The Universal Quest for Speed Business innovation has always been key to the success of organizations, especially for those willing to adopt new solutions. From the first abacus and the invention of double entry bookkeeping to the introduction of the ticker tape to copy machine, technology has one thing in common – it has always enabled business to function faster and more efficiently, saving money and increasing productivity.Today’s digital innovation is no different. Applications and device functionality continue to accelerate business. And underlying those functions is the need for performance. Organizations literally spend trillions of dollars upgrading their networks and devices to generate more computing capacity to accommodate evolving business solutions. As a result, a single end user device today has more processing power, generates more data, and requires access to more digital resources than existed in the entire world just a handful of decades ago.To read this article in full, please click here

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AWS to Open Cloud Data Centers in Spain

This will be AWS’s seventh region in Europe and brings its total to 22 worldwide.

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D-Wave Takes Quantum Leap in Europe

The Forschungszentrum Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC) in Germany will soon be home to Europe’s first D-Wave quantum computer.  …

D-Wave Takes Quantum Leap in Europe was written by Michael Feldman at The Next Platform.

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Weekly Wrap: Cisco Trends Report Says Intent-Based Networking Is Coming

SDxCentral Weekly Wrap for Nov. 1, 2019: Cisco Warns IBN Is Coming; HPE Takes On VMware; Verizon,...

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Learn About Modern Apps on Azure with Docker at Microsoft Ignite

The Docker team will be on the show floor at Microsoft Ignite the week of November 4. We’ll be talking about the state of modern application development, how to accelerate innovation efforts, and the role containerization, Docker, and Microsoft Azure play in powering these initiatives.

Come by booth #2414 at Microsoft Ignite to check out the latest developments in the Docker platform. Learn why over 1.8 million developers build modern applications on Docker, and over 800 enterprises rely on Docker Enterprise for production workloads. 

At Microsoft Ignite, we will be talking about:

How to Develop and Deliver Modern Applications for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Docker Enterprise 3.0 shipped back in April 2019, making it the first and only desktop-to-cloud container platform in the market that lets you build and share any application and securely run them anywhere – from hybrid cloud to the edge. At Microsoft Ignite, we’ll have demos that shows how Docker Enterprise 3.0 simplifies Kubernetes for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and enables companies to more easily build modern applications with Docker Desktop Enterprise and Docker Application. 

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In Defense of Support

We’re all in IT. We’ve done our time in the trenches. We’ve…seen things, as Roy Batty might say. Things you wouldn’t believe. But in the end we all know the pain of trying to get support for something that we’re working on. And we know how painful that whole process can be. Yet, how is it that support is universally “bad” in our eyes?

One Of Us

Before we launch into this discussion, I’ll give you a bit of background on me. I did inbound tech support for Gateway Computers for about six months at the start of my career. So I wasn’t supporting enterprises to start with but I’ve been about as far down in the trenches as you can go. And that taught me a lot about the landscape of support.

The first thing you have to realize is that most Tier 1 support people are, in fact, not IT nerds. They don’t have a degree in troubleshooting OSPF or are signatories to the fibre channel standards. They are generally regular people. They get a week or two of training and off they go. In general the people on the other end of the support phone number are Continue reading

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Micron finally delivers its answer to Optane

Micron Technology partnered with Intel back in 2015 to develop 3D XPoint, a new type of memory that has the storage capability of NAND flash but speed almost equal to DRAM. However, the two companies parted ways in 2018 before either of them could bring a product to market. They had completed the first generation, agreed to work on the second generation together, and decided to part after that and do their own thing for the third generation.Intel released its product under the Optane brand name. Now Micron is hitting the market with its own product under the QuantX brand. At its Insight 2019 show in San Francisco, Micron unveiled the X100, a new solid-state drive the company claims is the fastest in the world.To read this article in full, please click here

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Learn how to earn a CompTIA IT certification with this $69 training bundle

There’s no shortage of IT jobs out there, especially since new tech-companies launch each year. That means that a career in IT can be stable and even lucrative. However, you’ll need to earn an IT certification before you can enter the field, and vendor-neutral CompTIA certifications are some of the most sought-after because they’re so versatile. If a career in IT sounds interesting to you, you can prepare for the CompTIA certification exams with this $69 training bundle.To read this article in full, please click here

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Fortinet Fortifies Firewall, SD-WAN Capabilities

At the heart of the new firewall is the company's fourth-gen security processor, which it claims...

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Going Keyless Everywhere

Time flies. The Heartbleed vulnerability was discovered just over five and a half years ago. Heartbleed became a household name not only because it was one of the first bugs with its own web page and logo, but because of what it revealed about the fragility of the Internet as a whole. With Heartbleed, one tiny bug in a cryptography library exposed the personal data of the users of almost every website online.

Heartbleed is an example of an underappreciated class of bugs: remote memory disclosure vulnerabilities. High profile examples other than Heartbleed include Cloudbleed and most recently NetSpectre. These vulnerabilities allow attackers to extract secrets from servers by simply sending them specially-crafted packets. Cloudflare recently completed a multi-year project to make our platform more resilient against this category of bug.

For the last five years, the industry has been dealing with the consequences of the design that led to Heartbleed being so impactful. In this blog post we’ll dig into memory safety, and how we re-designed Cloudflare’s main product to protect private keys from the next Heartbleed.

Memory Disclosure

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Delegated Credentials for TLS

Today we’re happy to announce support for a new cryptographic protocol that helps make it possible to deploy encrypted services in a global network while still maintaining fast performance and tight control of private keys: Delegated Credentials for TLS. We have been working with partners from Facebook, Mozilla, and the broader IETF community to define this emerging standard. We’re excited to share the gory details today in this blog post.

Also, be sure to check out the blog posts on the topic by our friends at Facebook and Mozilla!

Deploying TLS globally

Many of the technical problems we face at Cloudflare are widely shared problems across the Internet industry. As gratifying as it can be to solve a problem for ourselves and our customers, it can be even more gratifying to solve a problem for the entire Internet. For the past three years, we have been working with peers in the industry to solve a specific shared problem in the TLS infrastructure space: How do you terminate TLS connections while storing keys remotely and maintaining performance and availability? Today we’re announcing that Cloudflare now supports Delegated Credentials, the result of this work.

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What women want in the IT workplace: 6 key factors for hiring and retention

Women are exiting IT in droves, as companies struggle to hire and engage these valuable employees. The first step to change? Listening to what women want.(Insider Story)

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Why Are You Always so Negative?

During the last Tech Field Day Extra @ CLEUR, one of the fellow delegates asked me about my opinion on technology X (don’t remember the details, it was probably one of those over-hyped four-letter technologies). As usual, I started explaining the drawbacks, and he quickly stopped me with a totally unexpected question: “Why do you always tend to be so negative?”

That question has been haunting me for months… and here are a few potential answers I came up with.

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Optimized risk scores

Optimized risk scores Ustun & Rudin, KDD’17

On Monday we looked at the case for interpretable models, and in Wednesday’s edition of The Morning Paper we looked at CORELS which produces provably optimal rule lists for categorical assessments. Today we’ll be looking at RiskSLIM, which produces risk score models together with a proof of optimality.

A risk score model is a a very simple points-based system designed to be used (and understood by!) humans. Such models are widely used in e.g. medicine and criminal justice. Traditionally they have been built by panels of experts or by combining multiple heuristics . Here’s an example model for the CHADS₂ score assessing stroke risk.

Even when you don’t consider interpretability as a goal (which you really should!), “doing the simplest thing which could possibly work” is always a good place to start. The fact that CORELS and RiskSLIM come with an optimality guarantee given the constraints fed to them on model size etc. also means you can make informed decisions about model complexity vs performance trade-offs if a more complex model looks like it may perform better. It’s a refreshing change of mindset to shift from “finding an Continue reading

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Big Four carriers want to rule IoT by simplifying it

The Internet of Things promises a transformative impact on a wide range of industries, but along with that promise comes an enormous new level of complexity for the network and those in charge of maintaining it. For the major mobile data carriers in the U.S., that fact suggests an opportunity.The core of the carriers’ appeal for IoT users is simplicity. Opting for Verizon or AT&T instead of in-house connectivity removes a huge amount of the work involved in pulling an IoT implementation together.[Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.] Operationally, it’s the same story. The carrier is handling the network management and security functionality, and everything involved in the connectivity piece is available through a centralized management console.To read this article in full, please click here

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JNCIS-SP

I recently passed the JNCIS Service Provider (JN0-361) certification exam on my second attempt. This post will cover the materials and methods I used to tackle this exam. First Attempt Juniper had a free cert day on the 17th of September 2019 here in Australia. From the time it was...

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JNCIS-SP

How to play the JNCIS-SP game and win!

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Dell Technologies and VMware Deliver the Roadmap to 5G Network Architecture

Dell Technologies and VMware deliver an adaptable edge architecture tailored to the challenges...

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Career roadmap: Network architect

With the growing use of mobile devices and apps, edge computing,and IoT, the network architect role has become more complex and more important to the success of the enterprise.

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IPv6 Buzz 038: IPv6 In The Federal Government

Today's episode explores how the US federal government views IPv6 adoption. We also explore the use of IPv6 by the U.S. Department of Defense, including innovations, and how the DoD's use affects its work with civilian entities. Our guest is Jeremy Duncan, founder and leading partner of the consultancy Tachyon Dynamics.