24% off Samsung Curved 55-Inch 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV – Prime Day Deal Alert

For Prime Day, today only, Amazon has reduced the price of the Samsung UN55KU6600 Curved 55-Inch 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV by 24%, bringing its already low price of $1,047.99 down to just $799.99. With the KU6600 Curved TV, enjoy 4K Ultra HD resolution and High Dynamic Range (HDR) content that delivers greater depth and clarity with Auto Depth Enhancer and a fuller spectrum of color with PurColor. Access your favorite content quicker and easier with the new Samsung Smart TV platform powered by a Quad-Core Processor. See the discounted Samsung UN55KU6600 Curved 55-Inch 4K Ultra HD Smart LED TV on Amazon now. And to see the seemingly endless list of deals Amazon is dishing up today, explore the full set of Prime Day deals here. As a reminder, Prime Day is for Amazon Prime members only, but a 30 day trial (if you sign up here) will work just the same and you can cancel before you get charged.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Amazon Dishing Up Dramatic Deals on PC’s and Accessories Right Now – Prime Day Deal Alert

As you read this, Amazon is discounting 100,000+ products for today only. It's Prime Day, their biggest day of the year. Here, we've rounded up some of the PC's and accessories currently on sale, but you can explore the full set of Prime Day deals here. As a reminder, Prime Day is for Amazon Prime members only, but a 30 day trial (if you sign up here) will work just the same and you can cancel before you get charged.  $250 off Lenovo Z70 17.3-Inch Laptop (Core i7, 16 GB RAM, 1 TB + 8 GB HDD, Windows 10) HP Pavilion 300-230 Mini Desktop (Intel Core i3, 4 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD) iBUYPOWER AM-AR960 Liquid Cooling Gaming Desktop - Intel Core i5-6500, NVIDIA GTX 960 2GB, 8GB DDR4, 1TB HDD, 128GB SSD, DVDRW, 802.11ac Wi-Fi USB Adapter, Windows 10 Save $120 on Toshiba Chromebook 2 - 2015 Edition (CB35-C3350) Full HD, Backlit Keyboard 20% off Lexar 512GB Portable SSD  27% off SanDisk iXpand 64GB USB 2.0 Mobile Flash Drive with Lightning connector For iPhones, iPads & Computers 40% off Wacom Bamboo Smart Stylus for Samsung Galaxy Note TP-LINK N300 Wi-Fi Range Extender 30% off Targus SafePort Case Rugged Max Continue reading

VPN provider cuts of service to Russia after servers seized

Private Internet Access, a provider of virtual private network services, has shut down its Russian gateways and won’t do business in the region any longer, as it believes that some of its Russian servers were seized by the government for not following new internet surveillance rules.The provider, which holds that it does not log traffic or session data, said it had likely fallen foul of new Russian rules that require that providers must log local traffic for up to a year.“We believe that due to the enforcement regime surrounding this new law, some of our Russian Servers (RU) were recently seized by Russian Authorities, without notice or any type of due process,” the provider’s team said in a blog post Monday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

VPN provider cuts of service to Russia after servers seized

Private Internet Access, a provider of virtual private network services, has shut down its Russian gateways and won’t do business in the region any longer, as it believes that some of its Russian servers were seized by the government for not following new internet surveillance rules.The provider, which holds that it does not log traffic or session data, said it had likely fallen foul of new Russian rules that require that providers must log local traffic for up to a year.“We believe that due to the enforcement regime surrounding this new law, some of our Russian Servers (RU) were recently seized by Russian Authorities, without notice or any type of due process,” the provider’s team said in a blog post Monday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

VPN provider cuts off service to Russia after servers seized

Private Internet Access, a provider of virtual private network services, has shut down its Russian gateways and won’t do business there any longer, as it believes some of its servers were seized by the government for not following new internet surveillance rules.The company said it had likely fallen foul of new rules that require providers to log local traffic for up to a year. Private Internet Access says it does not log traffic or session data.“We believe that due to the enforcement regime surrounding this new law, some of our Russian Servers (RU) were recently seized by Russian Authorities, without notice or any type of due process,” the provider said in a blog post Monday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

BRKEWN-2019 – 7 Ways to Fail as a Wireless Expert

Presenter: Steven Heinsius, Product Manager, Enterprise Networking Group

I’m hoping the title of this session could also be “7 Ways to not be a TOTAL Wireless Noob” since that’s more my level. ?

The Basics

  • WiFI has been a standard since 1997

Taking a 100 employee company….

  • 1999: 1-2 clients on the network
  • 2005: 5 or 10
  • 2007: 25+ (802.11n came around)
  • 2010: 150 (smartphones in the office; laptops becoming the norm in the office)
  • 2013: > 200
  • 2016: > 300 (3 devices per person)

In 2007-2009, networks were designed for coverage. Those networks are still around and are being asked to support (on average) 3 devices per person.

WiFi is

  • Half duplex
  • A shared medium (like a hub!)
  • AP talks to one client at a time; airtime is time sliced amongst all clients
  • AP asks a client to ack every packet (?) it sends to a client
  • Acks are retransmitted if not answered which means all other clients have to remain silent (and lowers performance)

Distance vs modulation

  • When a client is farther away from the AP, the modulation is stepped down to increase the likelihood that the signal will make it
  • The trade off is that Continue reading

BRKIOT-2109 – Connecting Oil and Gas Pipelines


Presenters:

  • Rick Irons-Mclean, Oil & Gas and Energy Architecture Lead
  • Jason Greengrass, IoT Solution Architect


Connected Pipelines Validated Design: coming this week! Cisco.com/go/cvd > Oil & Gas area

  • This CVD was built with customer input (from around the globe) and Cisco account team input (including yours truly)
  • Next iteration of the CVD will contain more security, including providing better visibility into  traffic and events in the control center network

For those that aren’t familiar with the oil/gas business, there’s three areas:

  • Upstream: discovery and extraction
  • Midstream: storage and transport
  • Downstream: refining (turning it into product) and marketing/selling

Cisco can work and play in all three areas. Eg:

  • Connected Pipeline
  • Connected Refinery
  • Secure Ops (managed security services from Cisco)
  • Connected Oilfield

ISA95/99 (aka Perdue Model) – describes an architecture for different security zones within the industrial environment.

  • Bottom is Level 0 – where the process actually happens (valves, pumps, etc)
  • Top is Level 5 – the business/enterprise network

Operational principles (compare this with a typical enterprise environment and principles):

  • Continuous operation: 24×7, 365 days a year
  • Continuous visibility and control: operators need constant communication to the pipeline
  • Safety and compliance: pipeline integrity, safety, security and reliability

With respect to 24×7 Continue reading

Cisco brings some (real) friends to the chat-bot party

The next time you chat with someone on Cisco Systems’ Spark messaging service, that someone may not be a co-worker -- or even a person. Welcome to the world of bots.On Monday at the Cisco Live conference, Cisco said it’s working with the messaging company Gupshup so more developers can bring their bots into Spark. It also introduced a partnership with Api.ai, a natural-language software company, in part to help developers build interfaces where users can just talk to bots.Bots aren’t brand-new to Spark, but Gupshup prides itself on its chat-bot development platform, which is designed to make it easy to build bots and make them available through popular communications channels. The list already includes Facebook, Skype, Twitter and Slack.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

China’s Triple Play For Pre-Exascale Systems

Before any country can deploy an exascale system, they have to get pre-exascale prototypes into the field to test out their underlying technologies and determine what approaches have the best chance of scaling up performance and being manufactured affordably. It looks like China is looking at three different pre-exascale systems, and none of them will deploy processors or accelerators made by US companies.

It is no secret that China has wanted to develop an indigenous capability to design chips and build supercomputer-class systems, and this was true even before the US government put the kibosh on selling Intel Xeon and …

China’s Triple Play For Pre-Exascale Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Cisco Live: Cisco bolsters, integrates security products and services

At Cisco Live today the company is rolling out a set of new services and cloud-based security features that better integrate existing Cisco gear with products it acquired through acquisition. These products essentially grow the features of some existing gear and expand security coverage to devices not connected to the corporate network. +More on Network World: Cisco will need to tackle these high-tech issues in 2016+ The Cisco mantra is that there are too many point security products for businesses to effectively manage and that generate too much unanalyzed data to be used effectively. The company contends that adding one more security product can add just a small percentage of new capabilities but a vast amount of complexity and work to integrate the new product.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Cisco Live: Cisco bolsters, integrates security products and services

At Cisco Live today the company is rolling out a set of new services and cloud-based security features that better integrate existing Cisco gear with products it acquired through acquisition. These products essentially grow the features of some existing gear and expand security coverage to devices not connected to the corporate network. +More on Network World: Cisco will need to tackle these high-tech issues in 2016+ The Cisco mantra is that there are too many point security products for businesses to effectively manage and that generate too much unanalyzed data to be used effectively. The company contends that adding one more security product can add just a small percentage of new capabilities but a vast amount of complexity and work to integrate the new product.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Beyond games and roller coasters: Next steps for virtual reality

In our recent beginner’s guide to virtual reality, we showcased various Google Cardboard VR headsets and apps to try out on a limited budget. A lot of those apps were either gaming-based apps or ones that gave you an experience, like a virtual roller coaster ride or a view of 360-degree photos of a particular location (like New York City).If you’re not interested in those types of experiences, you might say, “Is that it?” and miss out on the next steps with VR, which could expand the use of the technology in your own life or as part of your business.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

The end of free Windows 10 upgrades may prop up PC shipments

Microsoft will end its free Windows 10 upgrade program on July 29, possibly giving an unexpected boost to PC shipments in the second half this year, according to IDC.Buyers may opt to buy a new Windows 10 PCs instead of upgrading existing PCs with a paid version of the OS. Many businesses are evaluating Windows 10 and could also upgrade.Windows 10 hasn't helped boost PC shipments so far. Instead of buying new PCs, people have been taking advantage of the free program and upgrading PCs from older Windows versions.The PC market is still in a slump, and that didn't change in the second quarter. But shipments were better than expected, and that sets the stage for a mini-recovery in the second half.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Who’s right behind Amazon in IaaS cloud revenue? Not Microsoft

Research firm IDC is out with its latest semi-annual tracking of IaaS public cloud vendors and while the top provider in this market – Amazon Web Services – will not surprise you, numbers two and three just might. IDC estimates that IBM’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud revenues are larger than those of Microsoft in this still-emerging market. +MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: Gartner says cloud will be “default” software deployment option by 2020 | Top 5 Storage vendors shows massive shift to cloud +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New iPhone 7 leak provides our best look at Apple’s next-gen smartphone

With just about two months to go before Apple introduces the iPhone 7 to the world, recent product leaks have given us a pretty good idea of what to expect from Apple's next-gen smartphone—at least from a design point of view.Over the past few weeks, we've certainly seen no shortage of spy shots and blurry shots of iPhone casings. But a recent leak courtesy of Nowhereelse.fr has given us our clearest look yet at we can expect from the iPhone 7's design.As evidenced via the photo below, the antenna lines that we had to withstand on the iPhone 6 and 6s have thankfully been relegated to the sides of the device. In other words, the back of the iPhone 7 is incredibly smooth and sleek.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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