Where is IoT headed?

A recent survey of IEEE engineers reveals some interesting insights into the Internet of Things (IoT)—both challenges and expectations. Commissioned by Northeastern University Silicon Valley, the survey asked the engineers to answer nine questions about IoT development and deployment. Some of the answers might surprise you.While still in its infancy, the IoT is poised to change our lives in very personal and meaningful ways. The visionaries are already asking if robots will someday replace soldiers, if guns will be traded for cyber-bots, and if artificial intelligence (AI) will change the way we live our daily lives.The audience for the survey was a group of 500 IEEE members—all in fields associated with IoT or working in IoT itself. Their areas of expertise varied from manufacturing (nearly 40% of the participants) to project management (only .19%).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Calling all networking leaders – future:net 2017 is coming

“I thought future:net was the smartest of the networking conferences I’ve attended this year. The speakers were excellent — especially the customer and end-user stories, which provided valuable insight…it reminded me a lot of the first years of the Open Network Summit — the brain trust of the industry would attend, and that made it a must-attend show.
Craig Matsumoto, Managing Editor, SDX Central
 “A note to say what a privilege it was to participate in the future:net event. Seriously, absolutely top notch event that was free of the embuggerances that make large conferences such hard work. Congratulations on pulling it together and we hope for another invitation when it comes around again.”
Greg Ferro and Ethan Banks, Co-founders of Packet Pushers

We live in a hyper connected world – everything of value, from the apps, to the cloud, to the devices, to the users, is all closely tethered to one another. The network has become the critical platform that connects everything reliably and securely. IT must also evolve to support this new ecosystem of engagement. Ultimately, a lot has to happen for the network to deliver what customers need: a seamless and secure experience.

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Worth Reading: The future is hardware

Since the advent of open source in telecoms, customers have increasingly fallen in love with the idea of getting all software for free. That keeps vendors scratching their heads when thinking about long term survival, let alone midterm profitability… and ways of differentiating. Hopefully the industry will find a way to keep on paying for software innovation rather than expecting it to happen ‘for free’, based on wishful thinking or long term relationships. It must be quite a shock for some vendors to realize that service providers are not buying from us for the fun of it. No they are buying solutions only because they a) need them and b) don’t get them for free. Our customers’ main business is serving their customers, not entertaining vendors. Rather, they would live without us and save a lot of money. Brutal, isn’t it? Well, why would they be different than us? —ECI

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Oil And Gas Upstart Has No Reserves About GPUs

The oil and gas industry has been on the cutting edge of many waves of computing over the several decades that supercomputers have been used to model oil reservoirs in both the planning of the development of an oil field and in quantifying the stored reserves of a field and therefore the future possible revenue stream of the company.

Oil companies can’t see through the earth’s crust to the domes where oil has been trapped, and it is the job of reservoir engineers to eliminate as much risk as possible from the field so the oil company can be prosperous …

Oil And Gas Upstart Has No Reserves About GPUs was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

IPv6 Standardization

The IETF published RFC8200 last week, which officially makes IPv6 an Internet Standard. While this move was a long time coming—IPv6 has now reached about 20% deployment—a more interesting question is: what has changed since RFC2460, which was a draft standard, was published in 2013? After all, the point of moving from the experimental to the draft standard to the internet standard states is to learn more about the protocol as it operates on the wire, and to make changes to improve deployability and performance.

Where would you look to determine what these changes might be? The IETF draft tracker tool, of course. If you look at the data tracker page for RFC8200, you will find a tab called history. From there, you have the option of looking at the revision differences, as shown below.

When you click on the wdiff button, you will see something like this—

In this case, I went back to the original version of the RFC2460bis draft (which just means the draft was designed to replace RFC2460). There are earlier versions of this draft from before it was accepted as a working group document, but even this comparison should give you some idea of the Continue reading

Worth Reading: BCP79bis and Patents in the IETF

Working on technical standards in the computing, communications and networking industries often involves dealing with patents. Like most standards-development organizations (SDOs), the IETF has policies that deal with patents covering IETF protocols, specifications and standards. The IETF’s first patent policy appeared in RFC 1310 (Mar, 1992), but the basis for today’s policy approach originated with RFC 2026 (October 1996), which still defines many aspects of the Internet Standards Process. The first major overhaul of this policy occurred a decade later in RFC 3979 (also designated as BCP 79). Though the IETF’s policies relating to copyrights, open source code and other forms of intellectual property (IPR) evolved, particularly after the formation of the IETF Trust in December 2005, the IETF’s patent policy remained relatively stable for more than 20 years. —IETF Blog

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The very real dangers of betting on hybrid cloud

Hybrid cloud architectures are currently very popular as a way for enterprises to move to the cloud without abandoning their existing data center investments. At first glance, the strategy makes sense, but there’s a very real danger that the hybrid cloud’s popularity will turn out to be little more than a transitional stage, potentially distracting companies from optimizing either their on-premise data centers or their migration to the cloud.The many meanings of ‘hybrid cloud’ Making things more complicated, the term “hybrid cloud” can have a number of meanings, but at the root it covers any combination of traditional and cloud architectures. That can mean anything from a traditional data center shop running a couple of non-strategic, standalone applications in the cloud to complex architectures with some core applications residing on-premise and others in various cloud implementations.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

The very real dangers of betting on hybrid cloud

Hybrid cloud architectures are currently very popular as a way for enterprises to move to the cloud without abandoning their existing data center investments. At first glance, the strategy makes sense, but there’s a very real danger that the hybrid cloud’s popularity will turn out to be little more than a transitional stage, potentially distracting companies from optimizing either their on-premise data centers or their migration to the cloud.The many meanings of ‘hybrid cloud’ Making things more complicated, the term “hybrid cloud” can have a number of meanings, but at the root it covers any combination of traditional and cloud architectures. That can mean anything from a traditional data center shop running a couple of non-strategic, standalone applications in the cloud to complex architectures with some core applications residing on-premise and others in various cloud implementations.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

70% Anker Quick Charge 3.0 63W 5-Port USB Wall Charger – Deal Alert

This premium wall-charger from Anker features 5 ports that pump out 63W of power — enough for the whole family to simultaneously charge multiple devices at the highest speed possible. Right now it’s discounted 70% to just $27 on Amazon, where it averages 4.5 out of 5 stars from over 500 customers. Right now when you buy this item you’ll also activate a 10% discount on other select Anker products including their power bank and bluetooth speaker. See this deal on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

How City Furniture built a better Wi-Fi network

Founded in 1971, City Furniture got its start when Kevin Koenig and his brothers constructed wood bed frames in a garage. They started with a single showroom, Waterbed City, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but have now grown to 27 locations across the state and operate under the brands of City Furniture and Ashley Furniture HomeStore brands. The company currently has an older Cisco 802.11g Wi-Fi network that it uses for bar code scanning and inventory management and was reaching the end of its life. City Furniture had big plans to digitize the company by moving its point-of-sale (POS) operations and capabilities to Wi-Fi-enabled tablets so the employees could transact business from anywhere in the store. Also, it wanted to use VoIP to take calls from iPads anywhere in the showroom, as well as access radio apps. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

How City Furniture built a better Wi-Fi network

Founded in 1971, City Furniture got its start when Kevin Koenig and his brothers constructed wood bed frames in a garage. They started with a single showroom, Waterbed City, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but have now grown to 27 locations across the state and operate under the brands of City Furniture and Ashley Furniture HomeStore brands. The company currently has an older Cisco 802.11g Wi-Fi network that it uses for bar code scanning and inventory management and was reaching the end of its life. City Furniture had big plans to digitize the company by moving its point-of-sale (POS) operations and capabilities to Wi-Fi-enabled tablets so the employees could transact business from anywhere in the store. Also, it wanted to use VoIP to take calls from iPads anywhere in the showroom, as well as access radio apps. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Administravia 20170703

Just a short note: I’ve updated the sixty book section of the site with a new plugin designed to keep track of book libraries. Along the way, I’ve added an Amazon affiliate code, so maybe I can buy a cup of hot chocolate and a piece of banana nut bread at some point in the future. ? The look should really be a bit nicer, though, and it is easier to add books to this system than manually adding them as I was doing before.

Remember that the idea of sixty books is not that there are actually 60 books on the list, but rather this is what I read in an average year—and hence what I am challenging you to work up to.

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43% off Pecham Vertical Stand for PS4 with Cooling Fan and Dual Controller Charging – Deal Alert

Keep your PS4 or PS4 Slim compact, organized and functioning properly with this vertical stand from Pecham. It features an integrated cooling fan, dual controller changing and a USB hub for powering & charging your phone or other devices as needed. Pecham's stand currently averages 4.6 out of 5 stars from over 185 people on Amazon (82% rate the full 5 stars: read reviews here), where its list price of $29.99 has been reduced 43% to just $16.99. See this deal now on Amazon. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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