Salesforce also bid for LinkedIn, but lost out to Microsoft

Microsoft surprised everyone Monday when it announced plans to acquire LinkedIn for more than $26 billion. But it wasn't the only suitor: Salesforce wanted in, too. The San Francisco-based software-as-a-service vendor was interested in LinkedIn primarily for its recruiting business, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff told Recode on Thursday. The company gave LinkedIn a "solid look" but was unable to match Microsoft's huge offer.Salesforce's interest makes sense: information from the business-focused social network could have proved useful to people working with Salesforce products. Microsoft has similar ambitions for LinkedIn, which it sees as a potential boon to its Dynamics CRM and Office offerings in particular. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Samsung’s Joyent buy is a swipe at AWS and Microsoft Azure

The Internet of Things is as much about computing as it is about the "things" themselves, and that's why Samsung Electronics is buying Joyent.At first glance, a maker of smartphones, home appliances and wearables doesn’t seem like it would need a cloud computing company. But so-called smart objects rely on a lot of number-crunching behind the scenes. A connected security camera can't handle all its video storage and image analysis by itself, for example, and that's where cloud services come in.The real money in IoT will be in the services more than the devices themselves, research firm Gartner says. It’s not entirely up to Samsung to deliver services its devices, but the company sees an opportunity there.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Pro-ISIS hacker pleads guilty to stealing data on US military personnel

A 20-year-old Estonia man has pleaded guilty to stealing data on more than 1,300 U.S. military and government personnel and providing it to the Islamic State.Ferizi’s goal was to “incite terrorist attacks,” the U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday.Ferizi once led a hacking group called Kosova Hacker’s Security, or KHS, which claims to have defaced over 20,000 websites.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Pro-ISIS hacker pleads guilty to stealing data on US military personnel

A 20-year-old Estonia man has pleaded guilty to stealing data on more than 1,300 U.S. military and government personnel and providing it to the Islamic State.Ferizi’s goal was to “incite terrorist attacks,” the U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday.Ferizi once led a hacking group called Kosova Hacker’s Security, or KHS, which claims to have defaced over 20,000 websites.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Webinar – Challenges Delivering Apps The Modern Way

I'm hosting a webinar with Citrix about application deployment in the context of a modern data center -- containers, NFV, etc. They are bringing nerds, and I am going to ask them questions. There's a live demo at the end, so they've promised me. You should register and attend via http://bit.ly/1XSHvgU. The event is soon - Wednesday, June 22, 2016.

Five signs an attacker is already in your network

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach.

According to some estimates, attackers have infiltrated 96% of all networks, so you need to detect and stop them before they have time to escalate privileges, find valuable assets and steal data. 

The good news is an attack doesn’t end with an infection or a take-over of an endpoint; that is where it begins. From there an attack is highly active, and the attacker can be identified and stopped if you know how to find them. These five strategies will help.

* Search for the telltale signs of a breach.  Look for port scans, excessive failed log-ins and other types of reconnaissance as an attacker tries to map out your network.

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Five signs an attacker is already in your network

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach.According to some estimates, attackers have infiltrated 96% of all networks, so you need to detect and stop them before they have time to escalate privileges, find valuable assets and steal data. The good news is an attack doesn’t end with an infection or a take-over of an endpoint; that is where it begins. From there an attack is highly active, and the attacker can be identified and stopped if you know how to find them. These five strategies will help.* Search for the telltale signs of a breach.  Look for port scans, excessive failed log-ins and other types of reconnaissance as an attacker tries to map out your network.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Five signs an attacker is already in your network

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach.According to some estimates, attackers have infiltrated 96% of all networks, so you need to detect and stop them before they have time to escalate privileges, find valuable assets and steal data. The good news is an attack doesn’t end with an infection or a take-over of an endpoint; that is where it begins. From there an attack is highly active, and the attacker can be identified and stopped if you know how to find them. These five strategies will help.* Search for the telltale signs of a breach.  Look for port scans, excessive failed log-ins and other types of reconnaissance as an attacker tries to map out your network.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Fed watchdog raises questions about FBI facial recognition accuracy, privacy

The FBI needs to get a better handle on accuracy and privacy issues its facial recognition technology has brought to the law enforcement community. Congressional watchdogs at the Government Accountability Office this week said the current FBI use of face recognition technology “raises potential concerns regarding both the effectiveness of the technology in aiding law enforcement investigations and the protection of privacy and individual civil liberties.” + More on Network World: Quick look: Cisco Tetration Analytics | Cisco platform lets IT rein-in disruptive data center operations, security, applications +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Fed watchdog raises questions about FBI facial recognition accuracy, privacy

The FBI needs to get a better handle on accuracy and privacy issues its facial recognition technology has brought to the law enforcement community. Congressional watchdogs at the Government Accountability Office this week said the current FBI use of face recognition technology “raises potential concerns regarding both the effectiveness of the technology in aiding law enforcement investigations and the protection of privacy and individual civil liberties.” + More on Network World: Quick look: Cisco Tetration Analytics | Cisco platform lets IT rein-in disruptive data center operations, security, applications +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

30 days in a terminal: Day 1 — The essentials

Day 1 of my "I'm a ridiculous person who is going to use nothing but a Linux terminal for 30 days" experiment is complete. And it was not an easy day. Not bad. Just... challenging.The day started as I expected it to. I fired up a terminal window and made it full screen and launched tmux—a terminal multiplexer. (I'm keeping a traditional desktop environment running in the background for a few days as a safety net while I get things working just right.)For those new to the concept of a terminal multiplexer, think of it like a tiled window manager (multiple windows arranged in a non-overlapping fashion)—only just for terminals. That way you can have multiple shell sessions (and multiple applications) running at the same time within the same terminal.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

ContainerX steps into the limelight with a new container platform for enterprises

Enterprises interested in tapping container technology now have a brand-new option for managing it: ContainerX, a multitenant container-as-a-service platform for both Linux and Windows.Launched into beta last November by a team of engineers from Microsoft, VMware and Citrix, the service became generally available in both free and paid versions on Thursday. Promising an all-in-one platform for orchestration, compute, network, and storage management, it provides a single "pane of glass" for all of an enterprise's containers, whether they're running on Linux or Windows, bare metal or virtual machine, public or private cloud.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Moscow, Russia: CloudFlare’s 83rd data center

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Здравствуйте! ))) CloudFlare is excited to announce the newest addition to our network in the largest country in the world (by footprint), increasing both our data center and city count to 83. Moscow is not only the capital and largest city in Russia, it is also home to several Internet exchanges which CloudFlare now participates at: the Moscow Internet Exchange (MSK-IX), Data IX and Global IX (Eurasia Peering coming soon). This raises the number of exchanges that CloudFlare is a participant of to over 120, making us one of the top interconnected networks globally.

Здравствуйте! ))) Мы рады объявить о новом пополнении в нашей сети network в самой большой стране мира (по занимаемой площади), увеличивая как количество наших датацентров, так и количество городов на 83. Москва является не только столицей и самым крупным городом в России, но она также является домом для нескольких точек обмена интернет-трафиком. CloudFlare в настоящее время принимает участие в следующих: Moscow Internet Exchange (MSK-IX), Data IX и Global IX (Eurasia Peering на подходе). Это увеличивает количество точек обмена интернет-трафиком, в которых участвует CloudFlare до 120, тем самым продвигая нас на одну из лидирующих позиций наиболее взаимосвязаных сетей в мире.

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Worth Reading: Public cloud versus private data center

Few companies can afford to spend $20 billion a year on global data centers, have the cachet to employ some of the best and brightest engineers and thought leaders of the computing world, the ability to build and deploy their own custom microchips, access to training datasets comprising the web itself or the hardware and personnel capacity to iterate their infrastructure in realtime. Whether you’re talking about Google, Amazon, Microsoft or any of the other cloud vendors, this is the power of the commercial cloud today – trading hardware management for solving problems in realtime at nearly limitless scale. -Forbes

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Verizon blames ‘routing’ error for Baltimore 911 outage

Residents of Baltimore who dialed 911 were unable to reach emergency dispatchers for more than two hours Tuesday evening and Verizon is laying the blame on a call-routing error.From the Baltimore Sun: Officials at Verizon — the service provider for the city's 911 system — said the phone company received an automated alert at 7:48 p.m. reporting that 911 calls were failing. Verizon spokesman John O'Malley said the company eventually determined that emergency calls were mistakenly routed to an empty back-up call center in the city.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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