Oracle says it didn’t ask employee to cook cloud accounts

Oracle has denied in a California federal court charges leveled by a former manager that she was sacked after she refused to cook accounts in the company’s cloud business and threatened to blow the whistle on the accounting practices.The software and cloud computing giant appears to be fleshing out its original stand that the employee had been terminated for poor performance and not as a whistleblower, which would give her a number of protections under securities laws.In a filing in June in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Svetlana Blackburn, a senior finance manager for North America SaaS/Cloud Revenue, alleged that her superiors had instructed her to “to add millions of dollars in accruals to financial reports, with no concrete or foreseeable billing to support the numbers," an act that she had warned was improper and suspect accounting.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Datanauts 046: Business Critical Applications with Michael Webster

Designing for business critical applications takes some special consideration. On todays Datanauts, we define what a business critical application is, and then sort out how, exactly, to deal with them from an infrastructure perspective. Insert your earbuds to hear Michael Webster from Nutanix chat through this discussion with co-hosts Chris Wahl and Ethan Banks. The post Datanauts 046: Business Critical Applications with Michael Webster appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Juniper vMX Lab Setup on VMware

How does Internet work - We know what is networking

This is a description on how to deploy a Juniper LAB of 8 vMX routers and making a simple topology in VMware vSphere environment. vMX is Juniper’s virtual production router so this could be the same procedure for deploying vMX device in production except different number of routers and their interconnection with vSwitch setup. As you might have seen from my previous post, I’m trying to get into Juniper configuration lately. One of the things that I needed is to set up a simple lab running Juniper vMX machines with multicast forwarding enabled. It was a simple lab experiment with few commands on each device.

Juniper vMX Lab Setup on VMware

Delta Datacenter Crash: Do the Math on Disaster Recovery ROI

How on earth could a company the size and scope of Delta—a company whose very business relies on its ability to process, store, and manage fast-changing data—fall prey to a systems-wide outage that brought its business to a grinding halt?

We can look to the official answer, which boils down to a cascading power outage and its far-reaching impacts. But the point here is not about this particular outage; it’s not about Delta either since other major airlines have suffered equally horrendous interruptions to their operations. The real question here is how companies whose mission-critical data can be frozen following …

Delta Datacenter Crash: Do the Math on Disaster Recovery ROI was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

Label Switched Multicast — Ethernet Header

I got an interesting email from Ying Lu who had read my posts on LSM: I am curious about the Ethernet DA and codepoint used for multicast MPLS. Previously, I understand that: Ethernet DA is unicast MAC of nexthop of each replication leg. codepoint is 0x8847 However, looking at RFC5332, I am not so sure… Quote: “Ethernet is an example of a multipoint-to-multipoint data link. Ethertype 0x8847 is used whenever a unicast ethernet frame carries an MPLS packet.

Intel snaps up Nervana for a crash course on deep learning

Intel is buying deep-learning startup Nervana Systems in a deal that could help it make up for lost ground in the increasingly hot area of artificial intelligence.Founded in 2014, California-based Nervana offers a hosted platform for deep learning that's optimized "from algorithms down to silicon" to solve machine-learning problems, the startup says.Businesses can use its Nervana cloud service to build and deploy applications that make use of deep learning, a branch of AI used for tasks like image recognition and uncovering patterns in large amounts of data.Also of interest to Intel, Nervana is developing a specialty processor, known as an ASIC, that's custom built for deep learning. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Intel snaps up Nervana for a crash course on deep learning

Intel is buying deep-learning startup Nervana Systems in a deal that could help it make up for lost ground in the increasingly hot area of artificial intelligence.Founded in 2014, California-based Nervana offers a hosted platform for deep learning that's optimized "from algorithms down to silicon" to solve machine-learning problems, the startup says.Businesses can use its Nervana cloud service to build and deploy applications that make use of deep learning, a branch of AI used for tasks like image recognition and uncovering patterns in large amounts of data.Also of interest to Intel, Nervana is developing a specialty processor, known as an ASIC, that's custom built for deep learning. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

50% off Inateck 3 Port USB 3.0 Hub with 2.5 Inch USB 3.0 Hard Drive Disk External Enclosure Case for 9.5mm 7mm 2.5 Inch SATA HDD SSD – Deal Alert

This 3 port USB 3.0 hub converts any 9.5mm & 7mm 2.5-Inch SATA HDD/SSD into an external hard drive for ultimate mobility and convenience.  setup is tool free and easy to install and disassemble.  The built-in foam pad protect hard disk effectively.  This device features automatic sleep and spin-down and goes into sleep mode automatically after 10 minutes in idle state.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

High Sticking With Flash Memory

Making the transition from disk storage to flash and other non-volatile media is perhaps more difficult for the makers of storage than it is for customers.

All things being equal, storage suppliers would have preferred for disks to continue selling and flash to be incremental revenue, but IT shops have long been buying at least some of their disk spindles for performance, not for capacity, so it is not surprising that a chunk of storage in the datacenter has moved to flash and that more will migrate as flash gets denser and cheaper and the electronics and software to deal …

High Sticking With Flash Memory was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Worth reading: The making of algorithm markets

Algorithmia’s approach is to containerize algorithms, packaging them as microservices and hosting on their scalable and serverless cloud infrastructure, and which are called up through their API, via a few lines of code. … Since the company’s launch in 2013, it has amassed over 2,200 algorithms from 19,000 authors — some of them hailing from the finest research universities in the world — in its online libraries. —New Stack

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Intel paves way for 3D XPoint SSDs and memory to work on AMD PCs

Intel's lightning-fast Optane SSDs and memory won't be limited to PCs featuring the company's own chips, but could work with PCs based on AMD processors as well.Intel wants to make adoption of Optane easy for makers of PCs and servers regardless of the chips they use, said Rob Crooke, senior vice president and general manager of the company's Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group, in an interview. Optane is a brand name for a new class of storage and memory that could make PCs significantly faster. It is based on a technology called 3D XPoint, which Intel claims can be 10 times faster than flash storage and DRAM.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Branch office links, big bandwidth needs drive SD-WAN evolution

The hype over the deployment of Software Defined-WAN technology and services is quickly becoming something more so far this year.Just this week EarthLink announced a partnership with SD-WAN vendor VeloCloud to offer a managed WAN-SD service. And recently Verizon teamed with SD-WAN purveyors at Viptela to offer SD-WAN services. Also this month another SD-WAN player -- CloudGenix -- announced a partner program to build out its SD-WAN offering to the masses. AT&T and other players are in on the managed SD-WAN service world as well.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Branch office links, big bandwidth needs drive SD-WAN evolution

The hype over the deployment of Software Defined-WAN technology and services is quickly becoming something more so far this year.Just this week EarthLink announced a partnership with SD-WAN vendor VeloCloud to offer a managed WAN-SD service. And recently Verizon teamed with SD-WAN purveyors at Viptela to offer SD-WAN services. Also this month another SD-WAN player -- CloudGenix -- announced a partner program to build out its SD-WAN offering to the masses. AT&T and other players are in on the managed SD-WAN service world as well.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Nicholas Carr says tech ‘utopia is creepy’

Fully automated, self-driving cars are likely decades away from being a reality, says Nicholas Carr, the author whose books about technology and culture seek to curb the heady enthusiasm regarding the digitalization of everything. Nicholas Carr. “I think a lot of the visions of total automation assume that every vehicle will be automated and the entire driving infrastructure will not only be mapped in minute detail but will also be outfitted with the kind of sensors and transmitters and all of the networking infrastructure that we're going to need,” Carr tells CIO.com. Autonomous car proponents and technology enthusiasts in general will certainly disagree with Carr.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Microsoft pledges two Windows 10 upgrades in 2017

Microsoft has committed to delivering two Windows 10 feature upgrades to customers next year after issuing only one in 2016.The company released the one Windows 10 upgrade for this year last week when it shipped 1607, the version identified by its year and month, but also dubbed "Anniversary Update."Windows 10 1607 is it for the year, Microsoft said. "Based on feedback from organizations moving to Windows 10, this will be our last feature update for 2016," wrote Nathan Mercer, a senior product marketing manager, on a company blog.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

The stereotypical IT guy is now a psycho loner. Progress?

Hey kids, let’s check out the official trailer for a new movie called “I.T.” Looks awesome, right? Waitasecond! The IT guy in question is now a handsome, brooding young guy with some mental problems? Wait, he’s the bad guy? Noooooooooooooo!For years, the depiction of the stereotypical IT guy has been one of the “nerdy guy that nobody wants to talk with”, or the obnoxious, know-it-all, “let me do this, you clearly don’t know tech” kind of person. See the following examples:Saturday Night Live: Nick Burns, your company's IT Guy:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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