Microsoft declares summer’s Windows 10 upgrade fit for business

Microsoft today promoted its Windows 10 August upgrade to the Current Branch for Business release track, putting the "Anniversary Update" in the queue for automatic download and installation on enterprise PCs.The move will also set in motion a two-month countdown clock on support for the original mid-2015 version of Windows 10."Windows 10 1607, also known as the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, has been declared as Current Branch for Business (CBB) and is ready for deployment," Michael Niehaus, a director of product marketing, said in a post to a company blog that used similar wording to the first upgrade to the CBB. In April, Microsoft moved the November 2015 upgrade to the corporate delivery track.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Finland’s largest airline inks iOS deal with Apple and IBM

Apple this week signed on another large business customer through its partnership with IBM. The deal that will see Finland's largest airline use iOS apps for technical operations and customer experience. Finnair says it carries more than 10 million customers each year between 70 cities in Europe, 17 in Asia and three cities in North America. Finnair has a team in place at IBM's "MobileFirst for iOS Garage," which operates as a collaborative development hub for iOS enterprise apps. IBM says its MobileFirst for iOS customers have direct access to the world's largest concentration of developers that use Swift (Apple's programming language for iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS), designers, integration experts and enterprise iOS consultants. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worth Reading: When will SD-WAN be Adopted?

The survey respondents were given a wide range of options and asked to indicate which options described their company’s approach to implementing an SD-WAN. Their responses, which are shown in Figure 1, show that there is broad interest in SD-WANs. For example, only a quarter of the respondents (26%) work for companies that have not yet made any analysis of SD-WANs and only a tenth of the respondents work for companies that have looked at SD-WANs but decided to not take any additional steps over the next year. However, that broad interest has not yet translated into broad adoption as only 5% of the survey respondents indicated that they currently have SD-WAN functionality running in their production networks. —ECI

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16% off Nest Cam Indoor Security Camera – Deal Alert

Look after your home 24/7 in crisp 1080p HD. With Nest Cam Indoor, you can check in, even when you’re out, and even at night with its built-in high-quality night vision. Nest Cam features a versatile magnetic stand that lets you put it anywhere. See who’s there, listen in and speak up to get their attention. With Nest Aware, you can get a special alert if Nest Cam sees a person, and save 10 or 30 days of continuous video history in the cloud. Then speed through it in seconds and quickly find the moment you’re looking for in Sightline. Nest's indoor camera is a best-seller on Amazon with 4 out of 5 stars from over 4,300 people (read reviews). Its typical list price of $199 has been reduced 16% to $178 on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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Look after your home 24/7 in crisp 1080p HD. With Nest Cam Indoor, you can check in, even when you’re out, and even at night with its built-in high-quality night vision. Nest Cam features a versatile magnetic stand that lets you put it anywhere. See who’s there, listen in and speak up to get their attention. With Nest Aware, you can get a special alert if Nest Cam sees a person, and save 10 or 30 days of continuous video history in the cloud. Then speed through it in seconds and quickly find the moment you’re looking for in Sightline. Nest's indoor camera is a best-seller on Amazon with 4 out of 5 stars from over 4,300 people (read reviews). Its typical list price of $199 has been reduced 10% to $179.97 on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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Look after your home 24/7 in crisp 1080p HD. With Nest Cam Indoor, you can check in, even when you’re out, and even at night with its built-in high-quality night vision. Nest Cam features a versatile magnetic stand that lets you put it anywhere. See who’s there, listen in and speak up to get their attention. With Nest Aware, you can get a special alert if Nest Cam sees a person, and save 10 or 30 days of continuous video history in the cloud. Then speed through it in seconds and quickly find the moment you’re looking for in Sightline. Nest's indoor camera is a best-seller on Amazon with 4 out of 5 stars from over 4,300 people (read reviews). Its typical list price of $199 has been reduced 12% to $174.60 on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

12% off Nest Cam Indoor Security Camera – Deal Alert

Look after your home 24/7 in crisp 1080p HD. With Nest Cam Indoor, you can check in, even when you’re out, and even at night with its built-in high-quality night vision. Nest Cam features a versatile magnetic stand that lets you put it anywhere. See who’s there, listen in and speak up to get their attention. With Nest Aware, you can get a special alert if Nest Cam sees a person, and save 10 or 30 days of continuous video history in the cloud. Then speed through it in seconds and quickly find the moment you’re looking for in Sightline. Nest's indoor camera is a best-seller on Amazon with 4 out of 5 stars from over 4,300 people (read reviews). Its typical list price of $199 has been reduced 12% to $174.60 on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Putting Smart NICs in White Boxes

It’s becoming clear that a smarter NIC will be crucial to white boxes built for NFV and SDN applications.

AWS Offers Its Artificial Intelligence Expertise to Developers

The company uses AI for itself, and it will also sell its knowledge-base to others.

IDG Contributor Network: The return of the infrastructure engineer

Corporate digital strategy—whether it involves the cloud, the Internet of Things or other technologies—has presented new opportunities for infrastructure engineering. The infrastructure engineer, traditionally relegated to hardware provisioning and maintenance, is now an integral part of solution design and delivery. But this shift entails new expectations along with new demand.The shift towards cloud-based, software-defined infrastructure requires today’s infrastructure engineer to marry traditional, specialized depth in a technology tower (e.g., network) with architectural breadth across towers. That doesn’t mean a network engineer needs equivalent expertise in storage and hosting technologies, but it does mean engineers have to understand how network, storage and hosting technologies (as well as software) interact and integrate to deliver a business outcome. As more core engineering activities in each tower become automated, engineers will become more focused on the configuration and orchestration of technologies to deliver seamless service performance.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Is web-scale networking secure? This infographic breaks it down.

At Cumulus Networks, we take a lot of pride in the fact that web-scale networking using Cumulus Linux can have an immense impact on an organization’s ability to scale, automate and even reduce costs. However, we know that efficiency and growth are not the only things our customers care about.

In fact, many of our customers are interested first and foremost in the security of web-scale networking with Cumulus Linux. Many conclude that a web-scale, open environment can be even more secure than a closed proprietary one. Keep reading to learn more or scroll to the bottom to check out our infographic “The network security debate: Web-scale vs. traditional networking”

Here are some of the ways web-scale networking with Cumulus Linux keeps your data center switches secure:

• Cumulus Linux uses the same standard secure protocols and procedures as a proprietary vendor: For example, Openssh is used by both traditional closed vendors and Cumulus Linux. The standardized MD5 is used for router authentication, and Cumulus supports management VRF.

• Web-scale networking has more “eyes” on the code with community support: Linux has a large community of developers from different backgrounds and interests supporting the integrity of the code. Since an entire community of Continue reading

Headcount: The Latest in Hirings, Firings And Retirings for November 2016

Keep an eye out for next month's executive moves and changes.

IDC predicts the collapse of the Windows Phone by 2020

Microsoft’s mobile OS is tracking to eventually drop to 0.1 percent market share, and the proposed Surface Phone line expected next year won't do anything to stop that decline. That's the conclusion from IDC, which just released its latest Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. It puts global smartphone year-over-year growth in 2016 at a paltry 0.6 percent That's a major drop from the 10.4 percent year-over-year growth in 2015. + Also on Network World: When it comes to security, Android is the new Windows + However, that's the total market. For just 4G smartphones, IDC predicts a 21.3 percent year-over-year growth globally for 2016, reaching 1.17 billion units. Much of this growth is coming from emerging markets, such as Asia/Pacific—excluding Japan—Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, and the Middle East and Africa. Mature markets such as the U.S., Canada, Japan and Western Europe are further along the 4G adoption curve, so the growth is slower.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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Boost the range of your existing WiFi and create a stronger signal in hard-to-reach areas with a WiFi range extender like this one from Netgear, which is highly rated and currently discounted 43% on Amazon. . This compact AC750 wall-plug WiFi booster delivers AC dual band WiFi up to 750 Mbps, and is small and discreet, easily blending into your home decor. Well over 13,000 people have reviewed the AC750 on Amazon (read reviews) and have given it an average of 4 out of 5 stars. Right now its list price of $70 has been reduced to $36.93. See it now on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

47% off NETGEAR AC750 WiFi Range Extender – Deal Alert

Boost the range of your existing WiFi and create a stronger signal in hard-to-reach areas with a WiFi range extender like this one from Netgear, which is highly rated and currently discounted 43% on Amazon. . This compact AC750 wall-plug WiFi booster delivers AC dual band WiFi up to 750 Mbps, and is small and discreet, easily blending into your home decor. Well over 13,000 people have reviewed the AC750 on Amazon (read reviews) and have given it an average of 4 out of 5 stars. Right now its list price of $70 has been reduced to $36.93. See it now on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Amazon accelerates and simplifies its cloud infrastructure offering

Amazon Web Services continued to push its infrastructure offering forward on Wednesday with the launch of upgrades to its existing instance types and new tools for simplifying and accelerating computation tasks in its public cloud.AWS CEO Andy Jassy unveiled a new Elastic GPUs feature for the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) that will let developers add flexible acceleration using parallel processing for their applications.On top of that, Amazon launched a new Lightsail service that’s aimed at giving customers an easy way to spin up a straightforward virtual private server without having to orchestrate a fleet of different AWS services. Finally, the company also unveiled upgrades to its burstable, memory intensive, high I/O, and compute intensive instances.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Python Basics – Part 2 cont…

4.Tuples

A tuple is similar to a list. The difference between the two is that we cannot change the elements of a tuple once it is assigned whereas in a list, elements can be changed. A tuple is created by placing all the items (elements) inside a parentheses ()

• We generally use tuple for different datatypes and list for homogeneous similar datatypes.
• Since tuple are immutable, means value can not be changed.
• Tuples that contain immutable elements can be used as key for a dictionary. With list, this is not possible.
• If you have data that doesn’t change, implementing it as tuple will guarantee that it remains write-protected.

Empty tuples are constructed by an empty pair of parentheses; a tuple with one item is constructed by following a value with a comma (it is not sufficient to enclose a single value in parentheses)

CODE:

OUTPUT:

5 .Dictionary

Python dictionary is an unordered set of key:value pairs , with the requirement that the keys are unique (within one dictionary). A pair of braces creates an empty dictionary: {}.Dictionary have no concept of order among elements.

Keys are unique within a dictionary while values may not be.The values Continue reading

Android malware steals access to more than 1 million Google accounts

A new Android malware has managed to steal access to more than 1 million Google accounts, and it continues to infect new devices, according to security firm Checkpoint.“We believe that it is the largest Google account breach to date,” the security firm said in Wednesday blog post.The malware, called Gooligan, has been preying on devices running older versions of Android, from 4.1 to 5.1, which are still used widely, especially in Asia.Gooligan masquerades as legitimate-looking Android apps. Checkpoint has found 86 titles, many of which are offered on third-party app stores, that contain the malicious coding.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Android malware steals access to more than 1 million Google accounts

A new Android malware has managed to steal access to more than 1 million Google accounts, and it continues to infect new devices, according to security firm Checkpoint.“We believe that it is the largest Google account breach to date,” the security firm said in Wednesday blog post.The malware, called Gooligan, has been preying on devices running older versions of Android, from 4.1 to 5.1, which are still used widely, especially in Asia.Gooligan masquerades as legitimate-looking Android apps. Checkpoint has found 86 titles, many of which are offered on third-party app stores, that contain the malicious coding.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here