Grace Hopper Awarded Honour

Grace Hopper is a towering figure in the computer history. Here she is being interviewed at 80 years of age. Today this is especially relevant since she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom today.   .@POTUS names #USNavy computer pioneer Rear Adm. Grace Hopper one of 21 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients – https://t.co/raxd3upel1 […]

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5 steps to ensure success when migrating unified communications to the cloud

5 steps to ensure success when migrating unified communications to the cloud

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach.Ready or not, unified communications is starting to move to the cloud. A recent survey by BroadSoft predicts that cloud UC market penetration will jump almost six times in the next four years, from 7% percent today to 41% of the overall UC space by 2020.According to Gartner, “the UC-as-a-Service market as a whole is transitioning from the ‘early adopter phase’ to the ‘early mainstream phase’ for enterprise delivery.” Even those enterprises once reluctant to move to the cloud are gazing upward and putting small groups of users into the cloud.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Comodo Certificate Manager relieves the burden of managing security certificates manually  

This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices.  Click here to subscribe.   Digital certificates provide the backbone of information security and trust on the Internet. Demand for certificates is exploding as companies use them to secure and build trust in web transactions, email messages, application code, and devices such as those on the Internet of Things. The use case for digital certificates continues to expand as more people and devices become connected. It’s not unusual for an enterprise organization to have 10,000 or more certificates in use. For example, a company might use certificates to digitally sign and encrypt email messages and attachments. Allowing for one certificate per email account, this can amount to tens of thousands of certificates for this use case alone.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Comodo Certificate Manager relieves the burden of managing security certificates manually  

This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices.  Click here to subscribe.   Digital certificates provide the backbone of information security and trust on the Internet. Demand for certificates is exploding as companies use them to secure and build trust in web transactions, email messages, application code, and devices such as those on the Internet of Things. The use case for digital certificates continues to expand as more people and devices become connected. It’s not unusual for an enterprise organization to have 10,000 or more certificates in use. For example, a company might use certificates to digitally sign and encrypt email messages and attachments. Allowing for one certificate per email account, this can amount to tens of thousands of certificates for this use case alone.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Comodo Certification Manager relieves the burden of managing security certificates manually  

This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices.  Click here to subscribe.   Digital certificates provide the backbone of information security and trust on the Internet. Demand for certificates is exploding as companies use them to secure and build trust in web transactions, email messages, application code, and devices such as those on the Internet of Things. The use case for digital certificates continues to expand as more people and devices become connected. It’s not unusual for an enterprise organization to have 10,000 or more certificates in use. For example, a company might use certificates to digitally sign and encrypt email messages and attachments. Allowing for one certificate per email account, this can amount to tens of thousands of certificates for this use case alone.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Comodo Certification Manager relieves the burden of managing security certificates manually  

This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices.  Click here to subscribe.   Digital certificates provide the backbone of information security and trust on the Internet. Demand for certificates is exploding as companies use them to secure and build trust in web transactions, email messages, application code, and devices such as those on the Internet of Things. The use case for digital certificates continues to expand as more people and devices become connected. It’s not unusual for an enterprise organization to have 10,000 or more certificates in use. For example, a company might use certificates to digitally sign and encrypt email messages and attachments. Allowing for one certificate per email account, this can amount to tens of thousands of certificates for this use case alone.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worth Reading: SAN and NAS Basics

You can learn about Storage Area Network and Network Attached Storage storage basics with the training videos on this page. I’ve also included full explanations with text and screenshots. The videos are mainly designed for systems or network engineers who want to understand the theory of how SAN and NAS works. I’ve included practical examples so you can also see how SAN and NAS are implemented in real-world deployments. —Flackbox

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Attacks to make Ask.com Toolbar a conduit for malware are nipped in the bud

Attackers who were trying to turn the Ask.com Toolbar into a malware dispensary got caught early on when their scheme was picked up by security services that were looking for anomalies.The malicious actors are unknown but they managed to get the legitimate Ask.com toolbar update feature to place a dropper/uploader into the browsers of several customers of security firm Red Canary.Once installed, the dropper would bring in secondary malware including banking Trojans and other online-fraud code, says Keith McCammon, CSO of Red Canary. The secondary payloads varied, and some of the dozen or so compromised machines his team found had downloaded more than one kind, he says.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Spirals

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Show 315: Future Of Networking – Pradeep Sindhu

The Future of Networking series continues with the Packet Pushers and Juniper Networks founder Pradeep Sindhu exploring the limits of Moores Law and its potential impact on the industry. The post Show 315: Future Of Networking – Pradeep Sindhu appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Virgin Galactic, start-up Boom tout supersonic passenger jet

Supersonic travel may indeed become a reality (again) if Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin group and start-up Boom Supersonic have their way.Boom this week showed off its XB-1 Supersonic Demonstrator, or Baby Boom, a subscale prototype of what is to be the Boom supersonic passenger airliner which Boom says will be “the world’s first independently developed supersonic jet and the fastest civil aircraft ever made.” The two-seat prototype aircraft is expected to make its first flight in late 2017 with a commercial passenger plane perhaps coming in few years, the company said.+More on Network World: TSA: Keep grandma’s gravy at home but the turducken can fly+To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Sigfox Raises $159M in Funding to Expand IoT Network

SigFox says there are 10 million objects registered on its network, spanning 26 countries.

SDxCentral Weekly News Roundup — November 18, 2016

AWS customers can now subscribe to SaaS applications directly through AWS Marketplace.

Visibility In Networking – Quick Thoughts from Networking Field Day

I’m at Networking Field Day 13 this week. You can imagine how much fun I’m having with my friends! I wanted to drop some quick thoughts on visibility for this week on you all about what we’re hearing and raise some interesting questions.

I Can See Clearly Now

Visibility is a huge issue for companies. Seeing what’s going on is hard for people. Companies like Ixia talk about the need to avoid dropping any packets to make sure we have complete knowledge of the network. But that requires a huge amount of hardware and design. You’re always going to need traditional monitoring even when everything is using telemetry and other data models. Make sure you size things right.

Forward Networks told us that there is an increasing call for finding a way to monitor both the underlay network and the overlay network. Most overlay companies give you a way to tie into their system via API or other telemetry. However, there is no visibility into the underlay because of the event horizon. Likewise, companies like Forward Networks are focusing on the underlay with mapping technologies and modeling software but they can’t pass back through the event horizon to see into Continue reading

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 18th, 2016

Hey, it's HighScalability time:

 

• 50%: drop in latency and CPU load after adopting PHP7 at Tumblr; 4,425: satellites for Skynet; 13%: brain connectome shared by identical twins; 20: weird & wonderful datasets for machine learning; 200 Gb/sec: InfiniBand data rate; 15 TB: data generated nightly by Large Synoptic Survey Telescope; 17.24%: top comments that were also first comments on reddit; $120 million: estimated cost of developing Kubernetes; 3-4k: proteins involved in the intracellular communication network;


• Quotable Quotes:
  • Westworld: Survival is just another loop.
  • Leo Laporte: All bits should be treated equally. 
  • Paul Horner: Honestly, people are definitely dumber. They just keep passing stuff around. Nobody fact-checks anything anymore
  • @WSJ: "A conscious effort by a nation-state to attempt to achieve a specific effect" NSA chief on WikiLeaks 
  • encoderer: For the saas business I run, Cronitor, aws costs have consistently stayed around 10% total MRR. I think there are a lot Continue reading

UK mobile operator loses phones following data breach

In a twist, thieves in the U.K. hacked personal data to steal high-end smartphones, rather than hacking phones to steal personal data.The thefts came to light after mobile network operator Three noticed a recent increase in levels of handset fraud, the company said Friday.By accessing the system Three uses to manage handset upgrades, the perpetrators were able to intercept new high-end handsets on the way to the operator's customers.Three, however, said only eight devices have been illegally obtained through the upgrade activity -- compared to 400 stolen from its retail stores over the past four weeks.The company sought to reassure customers concerned that their personal information may have been accessed in the attempt to steal the upgrade phones.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

UK mobile operator loses phones following data breach

In a twist, thieves in the U.K. hacked personal data to steal high-end smartphones, rather than hacking phones to steal personal data.The thefts came to light after mobile network operator Three noticed a recent increase in levels of handset fraud, the company said Friday.By accessing the system Three uses to manage handset upgrades, the perpetrators were able to intercept new high-end handsets on the way to the operator's customers.Three, however, said only eight devices have been illegally obtained through the upgrade activity -- compared to 400 stolen from its retail stores over the past four weeks.The company sought to reassure customers concerned that their personal information may have been accessed in the attempt to steal the upgrade phones.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Wringing Cost and Complexity Out of HPC

The race toward exascale supercomputing gets a lot of attention, as it should. Driving up top-end performance levels in high performance computing (HPC) is essential to generate new insights into the fundamental laws of physics, the origins of the universe, global climate systems, and more. The wow factor is huge.

There is another area of growth in HPC that is less glamorous, but arguably even more important. It is the increasing use of small to mid-sized clusters by individuals and small groups that have long been reliant on workstations to handle their most compute-intensive tasks. Instead of a small number …

Wringing Cost and Complexity Out of HPC was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

45% off Bestrix Universal Tablet Car Headrest Cradle – Deal Alert

Road trip this holiday season? The Bestrix universal headrest tablet mount provides an easy solution for using your tablet while mobile. It's designed for easy installation and removal, and instantly turn your car’s backseat into an entertainment center without blocking any of your tablet’s buttons or jacks. The mount can hold all tablets including all versions of Apple iPads, Samsung Tab and all tablets up to 11’’. Its 360 degree rotation feature allows all users to have a perfect view of the tablet from various or changing positions in the car. It currently averages 4.5 out of 5 stars from nearly 200 people on Amazon (see reviews) where its typical list price of $36 has been reduced 45% to $20. See the discounted Bestrix headrest tablet mount on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here