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End User Involvement, Governance, and Expert Help Drive Success in the 10 Best Intranets of 2017

January doesn’t just mean the start of a new year for me – it also means an opportunity to review the Nielsen Norman Group’s Intranet Design Annual. The 10 Best Intranets of 2017 were officially announced on January 7, 2017. Even though it’s a little weird to call these the best intranets of 2017 – especially because the submissions were completed in June of 2016 – the report has a lot of interesting and helpful information and design trends that intranet design teams should consider. A word of caution as you review the full report, just because a feature was used in an “award winning” intranet doesn’t mean it needs to show up on your intranet! Megamenus continue to be a popular method for intranet navigation – and about half of the award winners use megamenus for global navigation. But that doesn’t mean your intranet must have a megamenu! You do, on the other hand, need to make sure that your users can find what they need easily. But, that doesn’t mean you must choose a megamenu as your navigational approach. On the other hand, if you don’t have a plan for ongoing governance, you can pretty much be Continue reading

Longshot Arris-Brocade Theory Still Lives

Reuters reports that the deal could be worth as much as $1B.

Blogging Workflow

A lot of folks start out to blog, and then quit soon after. Since I started blogging mainly as a way to build some discipline in my writing, I was determined not to let my blog become a cob web, a page that was not updated on a regular basis, I started blogging determined to build a process, or a blogging workflow. I should emphasize at this point that blogging, as all writing, is a habit and a discipline. It’s not just “something that happens on its own.” If you are going to blog, start with the same mindset—focus on the habits and discipline first, the blog second.

I (mostly) build all the content for ‘net Work on Saturday mornings. Sometimes it slips to Sunday or Monday, depending on what is going on, but I normally spend no more than about 2 to 3 hours a week on keeping this blog up and running, including normal maintenance. There are times when I spend much more—for instance, if I’m switching platforms, or switching themes. There are other times when I need to spend time in code, or researching something specific, for a blog post (or a set of posts), but Continue reading

Managing and Securing the WAN is a Struggle for Companies

The branch network and WAN remain a challenge for most enterprise IT teams.

Cisco Throws Yet Another Punch at Arista

At Cisco's request, the US Customs agency revoked its own prior ruling in favor of Arista.

Critical flaw lets hackers take control of Samsung SmartCam cameras

The popular Samsung SmartCam security cameras contain a critical remote code execution vulnerability that could allow hackers to gain root access and take full control of them.The vulnerability was discovered by researchers from the hacking collective the Exploiteers (formerly GTVHacker), who have found vulnerabilities in the Samsung SmartCam devices in the past.The flaw allows for command injection through a web script, even though the vendor has disabled the local web-based management interface in these devices.The Samsung SmartCam is a series of cloud-enabled network security cameras that were originally developed by Samsung Techwin. Samsung sold this division to South Korean business conglomerate Hanwha Group in 2015 and the company was renamed Hanwha Techwin.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Critical flaw lets hackers take control of Samsung SmartCam cameras

The popular Samsung SmartCam security cameras contain a critical remote code execution vulnerability that could allow hackers to gain root access and take full control of them. The vulnerability was discovered by researchers from the hacking collective the Exploiteers (formerly GTVHacker), who have found vulnerabilities in the Samsung SmartCam devices in the past. The flaw allows for command injection through a web script, even though the vendor has disabled the local web-based management interface in these devices. The Samsung SmartCam is a series of cloud-enabled network security cameras that were originally developed by Samsung Techwin. Samsung sold this division to South Korean business conglomerate Hanwha Group in 2015 and the company was renamed Hanwha Techwin.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Ekholm Takes Helm of Ericsson, Frykhammer Will Serve as an Advisor

The Cisco-Ericsson partnership is one bright spot for Ekholm.

Worth Reading: how to wade through 100’s of articles

Know why you read. Ignore content that doesn’t align with your personal consumption goals. Ignore content with clickbait titles. These articles are purposely designed to drive traffic, generating salable ad impressions. Most of the time, they are content-free and safely ignored. Have no fear of declaring amnesty. Missing out doesn’t matter. Read it now; you probably won’t read it later. Don’t let articles pile up for when you have a better time. Use tools effectively. You can get through content more quickly and share or save the best stuff easily. —Ethan Banks

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FPGA Frontiers: New Applications in Reconfigurable Computing

There is little doubt that this is a new era for FPGAs.

While it is not news that FPGAs have been deployed in many different environments, particularly on the storage and networking side, there are fresh use cases emerging in part due to much larger datacenter trends. Energy efficiency, scalability, and the ability to handle vast volumes of streaming data are more important now than ever before. At a time when traditional CPUs are facing a future where Moore’s Law is less certain and other accelerators and custom ASICs are potential solutions with their own sets of expenses and hurdles, …

FPGA Frontiers: New Applications in Reconfigurable Computing was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Cisco calls on Arista to stop selling products in US after agency reverses patent finding

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency has revoked its November 2016 finding that Arista’s redesigned products don’t infringe a key Cisco patent -- as a result Cisco called on Arista to stop importing those products and recall others sold with redesigned software.The finding is the latest round in a high-stakes battle between Cisco and Arista over patents and copyrights that has been going on since 2014. In the summer of 2016 the US Trade Representative began an import ban as well as a cease and desist order covering Arista products imposed by the International Trade Commission in June where it ruled that Arista had infringed on a number of Cisco’s technology patents.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Cisco calls on Arista to stop selling products in US after agency reverses patent finding

Surfed to a 404 or page not found? Here’s how to automatically view archived page

If you hate hitting a digital dead end, such as by surfing to a 404 or “page not found” error, then Chrome and Firefox users should consider doing away with them altogether…that is, as long as there is an archived copy available.When you surf to a dead link, both browsers have an extension/add-on which will automatically offer to serve up a preserved copy of the page via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. It’s one way to push back against “link rot,” meaning all those URLs that return nothing of value since sites are redesigned and undergo structural changes that result in broken links.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Shopping goes high tech and hassle-free with new Intel technology

Shopping can be fun but also harrowing, especially in electronics or shoe stores. You can't find help or can't figure out if a specific product is in stock.In the future, the shopping experience should be much better thanks to technology. The store will recognize you, dig into your shopping habits, and guide you in the right direction. If your favorite product is in the store, retailers will make sure you know through messaging.That Minority Report-type technology is still many years away but will be possible with the magic of sensors, cameras, and data analytics. But some retailers have an early start: Some furniture stores are already using virtual reality so buyers can preview how furniture will look in a room.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Network Break 118: Cisco Meraki Targets MSPs; A VMUG Spat

The latest Network Break looks at Cisco Merakis efforts to court MSPs, gives an update on the Ericsson-Cisco partnership, tracks container growth & more. The post Network Break 118: Cisco Meraki Targets MSPs; A VMUG Spat appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Happy New Documentation!

The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the availability of all-new principal documentation for the oVirt 4.0 branch.

There are many people out there who are content to use software without documentation, preferring to muddle through the software based on past experience with similar software or just the desire to put the software through its paces.

We all do this; I could not tell you the last time I looked at documentation for Firefox or Chrome, because I've been using browsers for over 20 years and seriously, what else is there to learn? Until I learn about a cool new feature from a friend or a web site.

In a software community project, one of the biggest things a community must do is to provide proper onboarding to the project's result. This means:

Explaining what the software is
Providing a clear path to getting the software
Demonstrating how to use the software

All three of these onboarding requirements must be done right in order for onboarding to work successfully. Documenation, then, fulfills the third requirement: showing how software can be used. Not every one will need it, but for those users who do need it, it is very nice Continue reading

How I Relearned the Consequences of Improper Monitoring

I had just lost the RAID array that hosts my ESXi data store. I didn’t yet know that’s what had happened, but with some investigation, some embarrassment, and a bit of swearing, I would find out that an oversight on my part three years ago would lead to this happening.

I first realized there was trouble when every VM on the host became unresponsive. Most notably, the Plex Media Server fell off the network which caused the episode of Modern Family that we were watching to immediately freeze. What was odd to me is that while the VMs were unreachable, the ESXi host itself was fine. I could ping it, ssh to it and load it up with the vSphere client. The first wave of panic hit me when I found messages like this in the host’s event log:

This was quickly confirmed from the ssh shell by looking for the data store and finding that a) the symlink for the volume (RAID1) pointed to a non-existent directory and b) the reported size of the volume was a paltry 450MB compared to the 930GB I expected.

RAID1 Volume isn't Mounted — RAID1 Volume isn’t Mounted

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4 reasons Microsoft Teams will kill Slack… and 4 reasons it won’t

Microsoft Teams is nearing its official debut. Designed as a hub for teamwork, the cloud-based Teams gives employees access to content, tools, people and conversations within the Office 365 environment. Groups and subgroups can communicate and collaborate using text-based chat, file sharing, and video and voice chats.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)

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