Case study: IoT lighting system cuts energy costs, improves productivity

You’d think that with a 3-year-old building, its fixtures and systems would be among the best on the market. Not necessarily so. As Atlas Global Solutions found out after conducting an energy audit of a relatively new manufacturing facility, the light fixtures were costing them more than aging manufacturing equipment—the focus of the energy audit. + Also on Network World: How the IoT keeps Ben & Jerry’s ice cream safe +Atlas, a global protective packaging company based in Sutton, Mass., knew its 200,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing facility was not as energy efficient as it could be, said Frank Tavares, the global process engineer for the company. He never thought the biggest waste would be from the lights in the building, though.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Intel Broadwell Rollout Complete With Xeon E5 Quads

Just because Intel doesn’t make a lot of noise about a product does not mean that it is not important for the company. Rather, it is a gauge of relative importance, and with such a broad and deep portfolio of chips, not everything can be cause for rolling out the red carpet.

So it is, as usual, with the Xeon E5-4600 processors, the variant of Intel’s server chips that has some of the scalability attributes of the high-end Xeon E7 family while being based on the workhorse Xeon E5 chip that is used in the vast majority of the servers …

Intel Broadwell Rollout Complete With Xeon E5 Quads was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Identifying Infrastructure Security Breaches

A security breach is a serious matter, but most IT leaders aren't even aware when it has happened. In this episode of Network Matters with Ethan Banks, learn about the likelihood of something malicious lurking in your infrastructure, and how you can find it. Ethan explains the dangers and recommends several security tools that can help IT pros ferret out the bad stuff.

Apple’s electric car plans just got serious

For months now, reports of Apple secretly developing an electric car have been making their way through the rumor mill. And in a move that perhaps signals that Apple's electric car plans are much more than a run-of-the-mill research project, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the company has brought in esteemed hardware executive Bob Mansfield to oversee the entire development process.A longtime Apple employee, Mansfield was highly regarded as both an engineer and executive who helped bring important Apple products and hardware innovations (such as the Retina Display on the iPhone 4) to market. But in recent years, Mansfield quietly stepped away from his day-to-day duties at Apple and instead enjoyed what can accurately be categorized as a pseudo-retirement.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Ransomware protection guarantee is offered by SentinelOne

SentinelOne is offering a to pay customers $1,000 per endpoint for customers’ machines that get infected by ransomware if its products don’t either block or remediate the problem.The deal is for customers who use the company’s Endpoint Protection Platform in a mandatory configuration running on computers with fully patched operating systems and applications, and that have volume shadow copy service enabled, the Microsoft service that backs up files in use.Customers must also be quick to respond to alerts about infections by adding threats to a blacklist and to remediate and rollback within an hour.The $1,000 per machine offer only applies to payment of ransom, not for costs related to the disruptions ransomware causes. SentinelOne also won’t pay if the ransom doesn’t lead to successful recovery of the encrypted data.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Ransomware protection guarantee is offered by SentinelOne

SentinelOne is offering a to pay customers $1,000 per endpoint for customers’ machines that get infected by ransomware if its products don’t either block or remediate the problem.The deal is for customers who use the company’s Endpoint Protection Platform in a mandatory configuration running on computers with fully patched operating systems and applications, and that have volume shadow copy service enabled, the Microsoft service that backs up files in use.Customers must also be quick to respond to alerts about infections by adding threats to a blacklist and to remediate and rollback within an hour.The $1,000 per machine offer only applies to payment of ransom, not for costs related to the disruptions ransomware causes. SentinelOne also won’t pay if the ransom doesn’t lead to successful recovery of the encrypted data.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

FBI probes DNC hack as suspicions of Russian involvement widen

The FBI has launched an investigation into the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s computers, even as more evidence surfaced of possible Russian involvement in the attack.The data breach was first disclosed last month, when hackers published confidential DNC files, including opposition research on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.Then on Friday, Wikileaks published over 19,000 emails that were stolen from the DNC, some of which now threaten to damage the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

FBI probes DNC hack as suspicions of Russian involvement widen

The FBI has launched an investigation into the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s computers, even as more evidence surfaced of possible Russian involvement in the attack.The data breach was first disclosed last month, when hackers published confidential DNC files, including opposition research on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.Then on Friday, Wikileaks published over 19,000 emails that were stolen from the DNC, some of which now threaten to damage the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

One Second Warning

The Earth Orientation Centre is the bureau that looks after Universal Coordinated Time, and each six months they release a bulletin about their intentions for the next Universal Time correction window. This month they announced a leap second to be scheduled for midnight UTC 31 December 2016.

Hosts vs Networks

There are a number of ways to view the relationship between hosts and the network in the Internet. One view is that this is an example of two sets of cooperating entities that share a common goal: hosts and the network both want content to be delivered. Another view is that hosts and networks have conflicting objectives. This was apparent in a couple of sessions at the recent IETF 96 Meeting.

Here are the key security features coming to Windows 10 next week

While there's a lot of talk about Windows 10's new features for consumers, the forthcoming Anniversary Update also adds a pair of advanced security capabilities aimed at helping IT managers better lock down the computers in their organization.Windows Information Protection aims to make it possible for organizations to compartmentalize business and personal data on the same device. It comes alongside the general release of Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection, a system that uses machine learning and Microsoft's cloud to better protect businesses after their security has been breached.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Here are the key security features coming to Windows 10 next week

While there's a lot of talk about Windows 10's new features for consumers, the forthcoming Anniversary Update also adds a pair of advanced security capabilities aimed at helping IT managers better lock down the computers in their organization.Windows Information Protection aims to make it possible for organizations to compartmentalize business and personal data on the same device. It comes alongside the general release of Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection, a system that uses machine learning and Microsoft's cloud to better protect businesses after their security has been breached.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

MIT Research Pushes Latency Limits with Distributed Flash

We are hitting the limits of what can be crammed into DRAM in a number of application areas. As data volumes continue to mount, this limitation will be more keenly felt.

Accordingly, there has been a great deal of work recently to look to flash to create more efficient and capable system that can accelerate deeply data-intensive problems, but few things have gotten enough traction to filter their way into big news items. With that said, there are some potential breakthroughs on this front coming out of MIT where some rather impressive performance improvements have been snagged by taking a …

MIT Research Pushes Latency Limits with Distributed Flash was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

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