Russian hackers allegedly target the World Anti-Doping Agency

The same Russian state-sponsored hackers that allegedly breached the Democratic National Committee may have also targeted the World Anti-Doping Agency.On Tuesday, the sports drug-testing agency blamed a recent breach of its network on a Russian hacking group known as APT 28 or Fancy Bear.The hackers gained access to the agency’s database and stole information about  athletes including confidential medical data. Some of that data has already been publicly released, and the hackers have threatened to release more, the agency said in a statement.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Intel will be at 10nm for many years

For more than a decade, Intel was driven by a "tick/tock" development model. The "tick" took place one year and was a manufacturing process shrink, from 45nm to 32nm, for example. The "tock," which took place one year later, was a whole new microarchitecture, such as Penryn to Nehalem.For about a decade, tick/tock worked well. Intel choked the life out of the insurgent AMD and dominated the x86 market for a long time—and still does. But the limitations of physics have caught up with the company, and ticks are becoming much harder to come by. As it is, Intel delayed the move to 10nm by adding a third generation of 14nm chips called Kaby Lake. The shrink to 10nm was planned for next year's Cannonlake processor. Now word is that might be delayed another year, with 10nm coming in 2018. And the next shrink, down to 7nm, won't take place until after 2020.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

When Will Containers Be the Total Package for HPC?

While containers are old news in enterprise circles, by and large, high performance computing centers have just recently begun to consider packaging up their complex applications. A few centers are known for their rapid progress in this area, but for smaller sites, especially those that serve users from a diverse domain base via medium-sized HPC clusters, progress has been slower—even though containers could zap some serious deployment woes and make collaboration simpler.

When it comes to containers in HPC, there are a couple of noteworthy efforts that go beyond the more enterprise-geared Docker and CoreOS options. These include Shifter out …

When Will Containers Be the Total Package for HPC? was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Mergers create greater security risk

Corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&A) can be fraught with risks related to financial matters, company culture, personnel, IT systems integration and other areas.Security risks, both cyber and physical, certainly belong on the list of concerns. And with the ongoing shortage of professionals who are expert in various aspects of data protection—coupled with the seemingly endless stream of reports about data breaches and other security threats—this has become an even bigger concern for companies that are considering or in the midst of M&A deals.“Any M&A activity involves an assumption of risk,” says Ariel Silverstone, vice president of security strategy, privacy and trust at GoDaddy, a provider of domain name registrations.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Mergers create greater security risk

Corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&A) can be fraught with risks related to financial matters, company culture, personnel, IT systems integration and other areas.Security risks, both cyber and physical, certainly belong on the list of concerns. And with the ongoing shortage of professionals who are expert in various aspects of data protection—coupled with the seemingly endless stream of reports about data breaches and other security threats—this has become an even bigger concern for companies that are considering or in the midst of M&A deals.“Any M&A activity involves an assumption of risk,” says Ariel Silverstone, vice president of security strategy, privacy and trust at GoDaddy, a provider of domain name registrations.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worth Reading: Ditch the pitfalls of layer 2 in the data center

If you’re operating on the IT side, you’re likely all too familiar with troubleshooting an unexpected outage caused by what should be a simple upgrade to a switch, or bringing a new server onto the network. While modern data center design for private and public clouds has been rapidly evolving from traditional Layer 2 networks to Layer 3 centric leaf-spine architecture, too many of us are still dealing with the headaches that come from L2 technologies such as Multichassis Link Aggregation (MLAG), First Hop Redundancy Protocol (FHRP), and Spanning Tree Protocol (STP). —The New Stack

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Watch out: iOS 10 install is reportedly bricking some iPhones

iOS 10 is now available, and if you’re like us, you’re champing at the bit to start playing around with all of its fab new features. However, you may want to hold off just a bit, if you haven’t installed it already: Numerous users are reporting that installing iOS 10 over Wi-Fi is bricking their iPhones and iPads, rendering them useless and stuck in Recovery Mode until they are wiped with a factory reset.  The iOS 10 update just did this to ten of my @wsj colleagues' iPhones. Definitely stand by before upgrading. pic.twitter.com/Mv87cFkHSMTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Could machine learning help Google’s cloud catch up to AWS and Azure?

Google has been offering public cloud services for several years now, but the company has continued to lag behind Amazon and Microsoft in customer growth. Under the leadership of VMware co-founder Diane Greene, who serves as the executive vice president of Google Cloud Enterprise, the tech titan has focused harder on forging partnerships and developing products to appeal to large customers. It has added a number of key customers under Greene's tenure, including Spotify.  One such win is Evernote, which announced Tuesday it would be migrating its service away from its private data centers and to Google's public cloud. When Evernote was looking for a public cloud provider, the company was interested in not only the base level infrastructure available, but also high-level machine learning services and services for building machine learning-driven systems, said Anirban Kundu, Evernote's CTO.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Who knew Edward Snowden would become such a musical inspiration?

Many would like to see famed whistleblower Edward Snowden face the music for releasing classified information from the NSA a few years back, but who knew his actions would wind up having an impact on the music world itself?A slew of Snowden-inspired songs emerged from the DIY set in the immediate wake of the leaks back in 2013. But 2016 is shaping up to be another big year with fresh material.The latest Snowden song comes courtesy of Peter Gabriel for the new Oliver Stone biopic featuring Joseph Gordon-Leveitt called "Snowden." Gabriel's song, "The Veil," plays during the end credits of the film, and basically tells the Snowden story, as the former Genesis band member sings about Snowden being a hero to some and a traitor to others.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Who knew Edward Snowden would become such a musical inspiration?

Many would like to see famed whistleblower Edward Snowden face the music for releasing classified information from the NSA a few years back, but who knew his actions would wind up having an impact on the music world itself?A slew of Snowden-inspired songs emerged from the DIY set in the immediate wake of the leaks back in 2013. But 2016 is shaping up to be another big year with fresh material.The latest Snowden song comes courtesy of Peter Gabriel for the new Oliver Stone biopic featuring Joseph Gordon-Leveitt called "Snowden." Gabriel's song, "The Veil," plays during the end credits of the film, and basically tells the Snowden story, as the former Genesis band member sings about Snowden being a hero to some and a traitor to others.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Sept 2016 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft released 14 security bulletins, rated 7 as critical

Microsoft released 14 security bulletins for September, seven of which are rated critical due to remote code execution flaws. Microsoft in all its wisdom didn’t regard all RCEs as critical. There’s also an “important rated” patch for a publicly disclosed flaw which Microsoft claims isn’t a zero-day being exploited. But at least a 10-year-old hole is finally being plugged.Next month marks a significant change as Microsoft says it intends roll out "servicing changes" that include bundled patches. Unless things change, not all Windows users will be able to pick and choose specific security updates starting in October.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Sept 2016 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft released 14 security bulletins, rated 7 as critical

Microsoft released 14 security bulletins for September, seven of which are rated critical due to remote code execution flaws. Microsoft in all its wisdom didn’t regard all RCEs as critical. There’s also an “important rated” patch for a publicly disclosed flaw which Microsoft claims isn’t a zero-day being exploited. But at least a 10-year-old hole is finally being plugged.Next month marks a significant change as Microsoft says it intends roll out "servicing changes" that include bundled patches. Unless things change, not all Windows users will be able to pick and choose specific security updates starting in October.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

iPhone 7 Review Roundup

If you’re on the fence about whether or not you want to dive in and get Apple’s new iPhone 7, a number of iPhone 7 reviews went live early this morning and should help you make a decision in either direction.By and large, the vast majority of iPhone 7 reviews we’ve come across thus far have been overwhelmingly positive. From endless praise about the camera and overall system-wide performance, it appears that Apple has another blockbuster product on its hands. Notably, most reviewers found the device’s missing 3.5mm headphone jack to be a minor inconvenience at worst and completely a non-issue at best.So to help get you rolling, we’ve compiled a list of some of the more informative iPhone 7 reviews for your reading pleasure. One item to keep an eye on as you read the following reviews and excerpts is how reviewers took to Apple’s new static home button. While some reviewers praised the design, others were less than impressed.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Dan Pitt Steps Down From the ONF

Pitt championed SDN back when few had heard of it.

Welcoming Sir Tim Berners-Lee to the CloudFlare Internet Summit

This Thursday, September 15, we are holding our second Internet Summit at our offices in San Francisco. We have a fascinating lineup of speakers covering policy, technology, privacy, and business.

We are very pleased to announce that Sir Tim Berners-Lee will be our special guest in a fireside chat session.

Twenty-five years ago, Sir Tim laid the foundations of our modern web-connected society; first, in 1989, with his proposal outlining his idea for the Web and then by developing HTML, the first web pages, browser, and server.

He has continued this work through the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)  and World Wide Web Foundation and we are delighted that he will be on stage with us to talk about the web's history, expanding the web to truly reach everyone on Earth, and privacy and freedom of expression online.

If you would like to attend the Summit and hear Sir Tim and the other great speakers, sign up here.

Riverbed upgrades set sights on the SD-WAN edge, cloud integration

At Riverbed’s Disrupt event in New York’s upscale Conrad Hotel today, the company announced new products designed to help customers move their enterprise network more fully into the cloud arena.At the heart of the announcements, Version 2.0 of Riverbed’s SteelConnect software-defined WAN product which adds router capabilities to the gateway hardware for the first time, letting users replace legacy routers.Version 2.0 also integrates SteelCentral – the company’s application performance management system - features into the SteelConnect front end, and introduces two new gateway models, which feature up to 10Gbps of throughput capability.SteelConnect, which was initially launched earlier this year, is Riverbed’s ambitious attempt to broaden its presence in the network management arena. In addition to its SD-WAN management capabilities, SteelConnect lets IT departments manage cloud and LAN deployments from the same interface.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Riverbed upgrades set sights on the SD-WAN edge, cloud integration

At Riverbed’s Disrupt event in New York’s upscale Conrad Hotel today, the company announced new products designed to help customers move their enterprise network more fully into the cloud arena.At the heart of the announcements, Version 2.0 of Riverbed’s SteelConnect software-defined WAN product which adds router capabilities to the gateway hardware for the first time, letting users replace legacy routers.Version 2.0 also integrates SteelCentral – the company’s application performance management system - features into the SteelConnect front end, and introduces two new gateway models, which feature up to 10Gbps of throughput capability.SteelConnect, which was initially launched earlier this year, is Riverbed’s ambitious attempt to broaden its presence in the network management arena. In addition to its SD-WAN management capabilities, SteelConnect lets IT departments manage cloud and LAN deployments from the same interface.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Microsoft Dynamics 365 won’t come cheap, leaked details suggest

Microsoft's upcoming Dynamics 365 cloud software promises a one-stop shop for ERP and CRM, but its modular convenience could come at a considerable cost, with strong incentives to sign up for bundle pricing.So suggests a blog post published Monday but since taken down by Microsoft partner Encore Business Solutions. The blog post outlined how pricing and licensing will work for the new enterprise software. (A cached version of the post is still online.)To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

If Traffic is an Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Game Can Smart Cars Evolve Co-operative Behavior?

Can small tribes of cooperating smart cars improve overall traffic even if they are not in the majority? Sure, if every car was a self-driving car maybe traffic jams could dissolve like blood clots on anticoagulants, but what about that messy in-between period? It will be some time before smart cars rule the road. Until then can smart cars make traffic better?

Adoption is hard. This is a general problem in tech. You want people to join your social network yet people won't join until enough people have already joined. What you really want is that virtuous circle to develop, where as more people adopt a technology it causes even more people to adopt it. So startups spend their VC money fast and furiously in hopes of acquiring new customers betting the lifetime value of a customer will be worth the investment. VC money is the dead corpse that feeds the rest of the ecosystem.

Traffic is already an example of a vicious cycle. Horrendous traffic jams are now the norm and "good" traffic windows are just tall tales texted to children. And it keeps on getting worse and not in a worse is better sort of way. Yet the incentives are still not Continue reading

Introducing the Docker Authorized Partner Program

Today the Docker team is excited to announce a new tiered Docker Partner Program to address the growing demand by companies to adopt Containers as a Service environments with Docker Datacenter.  This enhanced program provides end-to end support for a community of Resellers, Regional Consulting partners, Global Systems Integrators and Federal Systems Integrators.

Since the launch of Docker over three years ago, there has been tremendous adoption from the developer community of Docker container technology to accelerate their development and CI workflows. Companies of all sizes, from startups to Fortune 500 in healthcare, financial services, mobile apps and more are leaning on Docker to transform their application pipeline by containerizing legacy and new microservices applications.  As companies embark on their Docker journey, they are looking to their business partners to assist them in developing a business case, understand the functionality, architect use cases and deploy the environments.

New Program, Training and Resources

Containerization is the next catalyst for transformation in application infrastructure. The Docker Partner Program is designed to help partners build a successful “Docker practice” rooted in best practices, technical expertise and as extension of their expertise in cloud technologies, Software Defined Datacenter and converged infrastructure.

The new tiered Continue reading