What to expect at Microsoft Build 2017

Today marks the start of this year’s Microsoft Build developers conference in Seattle, not far from Microsoft HQ. It seems like yesterday that the show was launched at the Anaheim Convention Center, which I attended for a briefing on Windows Server 2012, among other things. The show has grown tremendously and played a part in the launches of Windows 8 and 10, among many other products.So, news will roll out out throughout the day by people there to cover the show, but in advance of that, let’s take a look at what will likely be the big news in different categories, and what we hope to see. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

African Regional Internet Development Dialogue (RIDD) Explores Opportunities for Improving the Internet Economy in Africa

Excel 2016 cheat sheet

Share this story: IT folks, we hope you'll pass this guide on to your users to help them learn the Excel 2016 ropes.Simple Sharing with the desktop version of ExcelTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)

Business chat review: Slack vs. Teams vs. HipChat vs. Yammer

Business chat has come into its own, with Microsoft debuting its Teams system for Office 365 in March and Google promising to deliver Hangouts Chat for G Suite later this year. What had been a market owned by niche technology companies—Slack for its Slack for Teams and Atlassian for its HipChat—suddenly became an arena for the 800-pound gorillas of office software, Microsoft and Google, as they each seek to own the whole collaboration and communications experience within an enterprise.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)

Top DRaaS companies to watch

Forrester Research recently released its report naming Sungard AS, Bluelock, IBM and iland as the top disaster recovery-as-a-service companies.With enterprises expecting their network up at all times, backup and recovery are key to keeping things running smoothly with no downtime. With ransomware waiting to pounce the minute a user clicks on a link, companies rely on network recovery in a matter of minutes not days.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Top DRaaS companies to watch

Forrester Research recently released its report naming Sungard AS, Bluelock, IBM and iland as the top disaster recovery-as-a-service companies.With enterprises expecting their network up at all times, backup and recovery are key to keeping things running smoothly with no downtime. With ransomware waiting to pounce the minute a user clicks on a link, companies rely on network recovery in a matter of minutes not days.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

5 tips to uncover a company’s culture before accepting a job

You might think the perfect job is one that fits your skills, comes with the right salary and offers you the best benefits, but the evaluation doesn't end there. There's one more thing to consider, and that's whether or not you'll fit in with the company culture, which can differ greatly among companies.But you don't have to wait until you've gone through onboarding to parse out the company culture, according to Tom Gimbel, founder and CEO of LaSalle Network, a professional staffing and recruitment firm. If you ask the right questionas during the interview process and keep an eye out for certain signs, you'll be able to tell if you're a good cultural fit before you sign the offer. Here are a few things to consider if you're trying to determine company culture during the interview process.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Versa brings multiple functions to software-defined branch networks

Branch sites are ideal places to make networking simpler and less expensive. There's often little or no IT expertise there, and it's harder to justify costs because only a fraction of a company's business happens at a given branch.Yet the rise of software-defined WANs and branch offices, designed to scale back the expense and complexity of far-flung networks, has left some parts of the problem unsolved, according to SD-WAN startup Versa Networks.For one thing, replacing branch appliances for each function with applications running on one system may raise software compatibility issues that are even more complicated than wiring up several boxes. Also, swapping out private WAN links for lower-priced internet service can open branches up to some new security threats.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Versa brings multiple functions to software-defined branch networks

Branch sites are ideal places to make networking simpler and less expensive. There's often little or no IT expertise there, and it's harder to justify costs because only a fraction of a company's business happens at a given branch.Yet the rise of software-defined WANs and branch offices, designed to scale back the expense and complexity of far-flung networks, has left some parts of the problem unsolved, according to SD-WAN startup Versa Networks.For one thing, replacing branch appliances for each function with applications running on one system may raise software compatibility issues that are even more complicated than wiring up several boxes. Also, swapping out private WAN links for lower-priced internet service can open branches up to some new security threats.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Check Point boosts cloud-security education to help IT security pros stay relevant

Check Point is investing heavily in educating IT pros about the cloud, not only to promote their own cloud security products but to give potential customers the skills they’ll need to keep their jobs as their employers move more and more resources to public cloud providers. Check Point “We try to explain how to be relevant in the cloud,” says Itai Greenberg, head of cloud security for Check Point.A lot of old-school IT security workers need to learn about how cloud infrastructure works, the terminology used, the interconnections between cloud and corporate owned networks and the ins and outs of APIs, among other skills.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Check Point boosts cloud-security education to help IT security pros stay relevant

Check Point is investing heavily in educating IT pros about the cloud, not only to promote their own cloud security products but to give potential customers the skills they’ll need to keep their jobs as their employers move more and more resources to public cloud providers. Check Point “We try to explain how to be relevant in the cloud,” says Itai Greenberg, head of cloud security for Check Point.A lot of old-school IT security workers need to learn about how cloud infrastructure works, the terminology used, the interconnections between cloud and corporate owned networks and the ins and outs of APIs, among other skills.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Episode 3 – The Unique Challenges of Working in SMB

In this episode of Network Collective we dive in to the challenges of working as a technologist in a small or medium sized business (SMB).  We look at things like staffing, budgets, and small business mindsets that make working in this space very different than working in mid-market or enterprise organizations.  Matt Haedo, John Duprey, and Kevin Blackburn join the Network Collective hosts in talking about this common, but often under the radar topic.

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Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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John Duprey

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Kevin Blackburn

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Jordan Martin

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Eyvonne Sharp

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Phil Gervasi

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Episode 3 – The Unique Challenges of Working in SMB

In this episode of Network Collective we dive in to the challenges of working as a technologist in a small or medium sized business (SMB).  We look at things like staffing, budgets, and small business mindsets that make working in this space very different than working in mid-market or enterprise organizations.  Matt Haedo, John Duprey, and Kevin Blackburn join the Network Collective hosts in talking about this common, but often under the radar topic.

Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Matt Haedo

Guest

John Duprey

Guest

Kevin Blackburn

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Jordan Martin

Co-Host

Eyvonne Sharp

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Phil Gervasi

Co-Host

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Backup and Recovery Software: IT Pros Weigh In

May CCDE Practical exam is cancelled worldwide,all the details !

May 11 2017, CCDE Practical exam has been cancelled worldwide on May 4, 2017.   People reacted differently for this cancellation.   I have 200+ CCDE candidates in my study groups, thus I think I am the person who can provide you the most accurate information about the reaction of the candidates.   Most, if […]

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A Warm Welcome to the Summer Internship Students

The oVirt project is glad to announce that five talented students will be joining the oVirt community over the summer period, as part of the 2017 Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and Outreachy internship programs.

Both GSoC and Outreachy focus on getting more student developers interested in open source software development, as well as providing opportunities for talented people, underrepresented in the tech world, to gain valuable technology experience. The students will spend their summer break writing code, learning about open source development and documentation, and earning a stipend.

Joining us as part of GSoC are:

Tasdik Rahman will be working on adding Ansible roles for oVirt-utilities, for easier testing and automated redeployment. His mentor will be Lukas Svaty.

Shubham Dubey will be working on configuring backup storage for Ovirt. The idea is to replace the need for a dedicated storage domain for backup and disaster recovery. Shubham's mentor will be Maor Lipchuk.

Joining us as part of Outreachy, are:

Anastasia Antsiferova will be working on the oVirt log analyser. Her mentor will be Milan Zamazal.

Leni Kadali will be working on documetation. His mentor will be Jason Brooks.

Valentina Makarova will be working on implementing oVirt integration tests using Continue reading

Failure Is Inevitable – Deal with It!

Last week a large European financial institution had a bad hair day. My friend Christoph Jaggi asked for my opinion, and I decided not to focus on the specific problem (that’s what post-mortems are for) but to point out something that’s often forgotten: don’t believe your system won’t fail, be prepared to deal with the failure.

John Oliver is wrong about Net Neutrality

GOAI: Keeping Databases, Analytics, And Machine Learning All On The GPU

Moving data is the biggest problem in computing, and probably has been since there was data processing if we really want to be honest about it. Because of the cost of bandwidth, latency, energy, and iron to do multiple stages of processing on information in a modern application that might include a database as well as machine learning algorithms against stuff stored there as well as from other sources, you want to try to do all your computation from the memory of one set of devices.

That, in a nutshell, is what the GPU Open Analytics Initiative is laying the …

GOAI: Keeping Databases, Analytics, And Machine Learning All On The GPU was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Time to Overhaul Your Campus Network

Over the last few years cloud service providers have steadily adopted white-box Ethernet switches and modern, flexible Network Operating Systems into their ecosystems. Mega data center operators, such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, have replaced their proprietary gear with white boxes in their production environments. The major benefit of this paradigm shift is significantly reduced CapEx and OpEx, a more reliable environment, and customized traffic flows for efficiency.  According to IDC, the worldwide ODM direct Ethernet switch (white box) market was $677 million in 2016 and is expected to exceed $900 million in 2017. That’s a growth rate of 33%, and the trend is accelerating.

The shift in white-box adoption started as early as 2012, but has been limited to data centers for many reasons. Even though Enterprise IT executives are motivated to adopt white-boxes, the migration has been slow and challenging. Essentially, the Enterprise network is distinctly different from data center network in many ways.

• The data center network is usually homogeneous, while the Enterprise network is heterogeneous. Typically, Enterprises require a variety of speeds ranging from 100Mbps to 100Gbps, and run over different cables, including various types of copper and fiber. The increasingly deployed Power over Ethernet (PoE) Continue reading