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Juniper also expands Lenovo partnership.
Identity-driven networking technology is intended to keep IoT networks secure.
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The first public cloud services went live in the late 1990s using a legacy construct called a multi-tenant architecture, and while features and capabilities have evolved, many cloud services are still based on this 20th century architecture. That raises serious questions about how legacy clouds prepare for calamity. While all architectures are susceptible to hardware failures and other issues that cause outages, the clouds that use a multi-instance architecture can better minimize the impact of an outage.
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The controversy over Microsoft forcing upgrades on users is in the news again, as the EFF has posted an article once again about the forced upgrades to Windows 10, and the various data collection schemes Microsoft has put in place. I understand the concern, but… A couple of points to consider, starting with forced upgrades—
When I worked in customer support I sometimes wished we had forced upgrades (rather than paid ones, in fact). There are so many times someone doesn’t upgrade past an obvious bug. We would spend hours working around the bug because they didn’t want to upgrade. It probably cost the company I worked for millions of dollars in support a year so we could refrain from saying, “take two upgrades and call me in the morning.”
As an operator, I see the other side of this story—if I don’t need the upgrade, or I’m not hitting the bug, I shouldn’t need to upgrade.
The world of IoT—in fact, the world in which we live, where millions of machines are used as botnets without the knowledge of their owners—is pretty frightening without forced upgrades. I wonder how many millions of dollars a year machines with Continue reading
In the short-term, many IoT connectivity options will exist.
Physical and virtual networks will have to mix, somehow.
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