Worth Reading: Network monitoring

I encounter a lot of sites that ignore syslog. Yes, there’s a large noise-to-signal ratio there. There are free tools that summarize the syslog data, and there are golden needles in the haystack as well. A tool like Splunk or syslog-NG (free in most Linux distributions) can help you send alerts based on the items of interest. Splunk can also give you frequency count based reports to separate out repeated happenings that might be of concern from one-time blips that aren’t worth investigating. —Netcraftsmen

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28% off Moonrays Solar Weatherproof Outdoor LED Landscape Lights – Deal Alert

If you're looking for curb appeal after the sun goes down, or an added element of safety along pathways, you may want to consider this deal. This stylish set of 8 landscape lights is solar powered and designed for all-weather operation. Its internal batteries charge during the day, and is completely removeable and replaceable if needed (standard rechargeable AA's). They currently average 4 out of 5 stars on Amazon from over 1,100 customers (read reviews). The list price of $43.99 has been reduced by 28% to just $31.53 for a set of 8. See the discounted Moonrays solar landscape lights now on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Microsoft will bring holographic ‘mixed reality’ to every Windows 10 PC

Microsoft is bringing Windows Holographic to the masses with a forthcoming update to Windows 10, in a move to make it easier to blend physical and digital reality on any PC.  Windows Holographic will be made available through a software update sometime in 2017, Terry Myerson, executive vice president of the Windows and Devices Group, said at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Tuesday. Microsoft and Intel are working together to provide minimum hardware specifications for Windows Holographic PCs and headsets, he added.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Intel Helps Developers Blend Machine Learning & IoT

Off-cloud processing will be key to IoT.

Intel will provide early access to fast Optane SSDs via the cloud

Intel isn't yet shipping its Optane SSDs, but they soon will be available for testing over the cloud. This is good news for enterprise users, who are eagerly awaiting the new class of storage and memory shown to break SSD speed records. Optane is based on 3D Xpoint technology, which is 10 times faster than the technology in standard SSDs. It also can serve as a substitute to traditional DRAM, but software needs to be written so parts of Optane operate like memory tiers. Optane SSDs will be available at the end of the year to enterprises and gamers. Unfortunately for gamers, the cloud-based Optane test bed will be accessible for free only to enterprise users looking to test applications tied to financial transactions, machine learning, autonomous driving, and other uses, Intel said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Linux Foundation Picks Up a Big Data Platform

PNDA’s vision is to remove the complexity of combining multiple technologies into an end-to-end system.

Prize competitions for tough IT, high-tech problems all the rage

Prize competitions backed by the government continue to grow with great success, according to a report by the White House Office of Science and Technology.+More on Network World: DARPA $2M contest looks to bring AI to wireless spectrum provisioning+It has been over six years that the government set the America Competes Act which in combination with Challenge.gov has prompted more than 700 public-sector prize competitions that have doled out more than $80 million in prizes.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Prize competitions for tough IT, high-tech problems all the rage

Prize competitions backed by the government continue to grow with great success, according to a report by the White House Office of Science and Technology.+More on Network World: DARPA $2M contest looks to bring AI to wireless spectrum provisioning+It has been over six years that the government set the America Competes Act which in combination with Challenge.gov has prompted more than 700 public-sector prize competitions that have doled out more than $80 million in prizes.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Prize competitions for tough IT, high-tech problems all the rage

Prize competitions backed by the government continue to grow with great success, according to a report by the White House Office of Science and Technology.+More on Network World: DARPA $2M contest looks to bring AI to wireless spectrum provisioning+It has been over six years that the government set the America Competes Act which in combination with Challenge.gov has prompted more than 700 public-sector prize competitions that have doled out more than $80 million in prizes.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

On the ‘net: Crashes and Complexity

It’s a familiar story by now: on the 8th of August, 2016, Delta lost power to its Atlanta data center, causing the entire data center to fail. Thousands of flights were cancelled, many more delayed, and tens of thousands of travellers stranded. What’s so unusual about this event is in the larger scheme of network engineering, it’s not that unusual. If I think back to my time on the Escalation Team at a large vendor, I can think of hundreds of situations like this. And among all those events, there is one point in common: it takes longer to boot the system than it does to fix the initial problem. —CircleID

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Intel’s Kaby Lake chips will include integrated 4K graphics processors

Intel isn't known for its graphics processors, but the company is promising a big improvement with its 7th generation Core processors, code-named Kaby Lake.The Kaby Lake chips, which will succeed Skylake, will feature integrated 4K graphics processors, the company said at the Intel Developer Forum on Tuesday.Intel showed off Blizzard Entertainment's Overwatch shooter game running smoothly on a Dell XPS with a Kaby Lake chip during Intel CEO Brian Krzanich's keynote.Intel also showed off an HP 2-in-1 running 4K graphics.The chip will allow PCs to play premium 4K content smoothly, said an Intel representative demonstrating the PC. The chip will have hardware-accelerated 4K video decoding.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

NEC Builds an NFV Cloud Radio Access Network Product

Cloud-RAN will be important for 5G.

iPhone 7 release date may be a bit later than we thought

Apple's highly anticipated iPhone 7 may be coming to stores a little bit later than initially anticipated. If you recall, reputed leaker Evan Blass published a tweet last month indicating Apple's next-gen iPhone was slated to hit store shelves on Friday, Sept. 16. This rumor was seemingly bolstered when Bloomberg indicated that Apple was planning a special media event for Wednesday, Sept. 7. But now comes word via 9to5Mac that Apple's iPhone 7 might arrive a bit later in the month. According to a leaked memo purporting to come from an official AT&T retail document, AT&T has two days pinned down for special merchandising resets: Sept. 9 and Sept. 23. While certainly not conclusive and admittedly speculative, this tends to suggest that pre-orders for the iPhone 7 may in fact begin on Sept. 9, with shipments finally arriving two weeks later on Sept. 23.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

50% off TaoTronics LED Desk Lamp, (Dimmable, Touch Control, 5 Color Modes, USB Charging Port) – Deal Alert

The TaoTronics energy-saving LED Desk Lamp comes with vision-friendly, low power consumption LED light source, adjustable color modes, and dimmable brightness settings, making this ideal for your dorm room, home or office. With a slight touch from your finger tips, you can switch between a strong white light to soft yellow light. 5 different color temperatures and 7 brightness levels for you to fine tune your illumination. This new generation of eco-friendly LED lighting consumes 75% less power than traditional incandescent lights, while providing the same amount of light. No more fumbling to get a charger, the USB port tucked away behind the touch panel comes in handy for when your smartphone or tablet needs a quick charge. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

AT&T’s Fuetsch: ECOMP Platform Will Be a Game Changer

Other operators can still have their own ‘secret sauce.'

Hackers Hold an Auction for Alleged NSA Secrets

Snowden's guess is that it's the Russians.

Aussie cops reportedly hacked U.S. TOR users during child porn probe

Aussie cops hacked U.S. TOR users as part of a child porn investigation, according to a report by Motherboard. The IP addresses of at least 30 Americans were turned over to the FBI.The police knew the owner of the dark web child porn site called “The Love Zone” started all of his messages with “hiyas.” Search engine results turned up over 450,000 hits for hiyas, but police whittled away at it until they had identified the owner; the former childcare worker is currently serving 35 years for "evil, depraved" sex offenses.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Aussie cops reportedly hacked U.S. TOR users during child porn probe

Aussie cops hacked U.S. TOR users as part of a child porn investigation, according to a report by Motherboard. The IP addresses of at least 30 Americans were turned over to the FBI.The police knew the owner of the dark web child porn site called “The Love Zone” started all of his messages with “hiyas.” Search engine results turned up over 450,000 hits for hiyas, but police whittled away at it until they had identified the owner; the former childcare worker is currently serving 35 years for "evil, depraved" sex offenses.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Aussie cops reportedly hacked US TOR users’ during child porn probe

Aussie cops hacked US TOR users as part of a child porn investigation, according to a report by Motherboard. The IP addresses of at least 30 Americans were turned over to the FBI.The cops knew the owner of the dark web child porn site called “The Love Zone” started all of his messages with “hiyas.” Search engine results turned up over 450,000 hits for hiyas, but police whittled away at it until they had identified the owner; the former childcare worker is currently serving 35 years for ‘evil, depraved’ sex offenses.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Google says its databases are enterprise ready

Google is continuing its campaign to entice enterprises to its public cloud platform by rolling out database services stable enough to serve businesses' production workloads.  To that end, the company announced the general availability of three database-focused products: the second generation of Cloud SQL, its managed database service; Cloud Datastore, its NoSQL document database; and Cloud Bigtable, its NoSQL database service that powers products like Gmail. Each of those products has a service level agreement associated with it, guaranteeing a certain amount of availability. Dominic Preuss, Google's lead product manager for storage and databases, said in an interview that many companies wait until after cloud services have been declared generally available before adopting them. Tuesday's announcements are aimed at reaching those customers at a time when Google is trying to position its cloud as a competitor to Amazon, Microsoft and IBM for large business customers. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here