The Hype About Converged Systems

Converged systems are a hot commodity in the IT sector these days. But it looks to us like the hype over various kinds of integrated systems that weld servers and storage together into preconfigured stacks  including hyperconverged stacks that literally merge the compute and storage layers on the same servers – is just a bit bigger than the appetite for such iron in the datacenters of the world.

According to the latest statistics from IDC, the market for converged systems, which is a broader definition of such machines that includes integrated systems, certified reference systems, and hyperconverged systems, the market …

The Hype About Converged Systems was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Qualcomm wants to bring LTE to more IoT devices

Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are common in battery-powered sensor devices, but Qualcomm wants to also make LTE a common feature in such devices.Qualcomm makes some of the most advanced modems for mobile devices, but the company is now tuning them for Internet of Things devices by lowering power consumption and improving performance.The latest MDM9207-1 modem chipset, announced last year, is now available from the chip-maker. It is part of the MDM9x07 chipset family, for which Qualcomm has secured 100 design wins, although some of those products may not ultimately ship. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worth Reading: Doing nothing on EMP

Imagine you’re driving down the interstate, and suddenly, your car comes to a halt. You pick up your cell phone to call a family member for help, but you don’t have service. Then, when you look up, you see that all vehicles are also stopped. It’s 96 degrees out so you decide to walk to the nearest gas station to grab a bottled water only to find that your debit card has been rendered useless. -Townhall

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HPE’s CTO is leaving amid more change at the company

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise can't seem to settle down. Nine months after it separated from HP's PC and printer group and a month after it said it would spin off its enterprise services division, CEO Meg Whitman has announced yet more changes that will see CTO Martin Fink leave at the end of the year.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

HPE’s CTO is leaving amid more change at the company

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise can't seem to settle down. Nine months after it separated from HP's PC and printer group and a month after it said it would spin off its enterprise services division, CEO Meg Whitman has announced yet more changes that will see CTO Martin Fink leave at the end of the year.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Windows 10 reinstallation tip: How to reset your PC and remove everything

There are two main reasons why you might want to reset Windows 10 and remove everything. One is if a program or setting really screwed up your PC—like that never happens—and you just need to start over. Another is if you plan to sell or recycle your PC, and you want to make sure the next person doesn’t get any of your stuff. Luckily, Windows 10 lets you start over with a few clicks.I’m going to show you how Windows 10 lets you reset your PC and remove everything—and I mean everything: all of your files, software, and settings.INSIDER Review: Enterprise guide to Windows 10 Just make sure you really want to burn the place down before you do it, because this is it. If you have any doubts, back up your PC or important files before you do this, or choose the milder reset option, which resets just Windows and keeps everything else.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

DockerCon General Session Day 1 and Day 2 videos

In case you missed DockerCon and the livestream last week, you can now watch the video recording of the general sessions packed with a lot of exciting announcements and live demos of Docker 1.12 and Docker Datacenter!

The rest of the video will be posted on the Docker Blog and Docker Youtube Channel over the next few days. You can already find most of the slides on the Docker Slideshare page. 

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Network Break 93: Cisco V. Arista Round 2; Network Startups Multiply

Network Break explores the latest round of the Cisco/Arista legal battle, examines new networking startups, checks in on a tech IPO and more. The post Network Break 93: Cisco V. Arista Round 2; Network Startups Multiply appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Red Hat polishes JBoss EAP for a cloud-native future

Red Hat on Monday rolled out a major new release to its JBoss Enterprise Application Platform that's designed to offer better support for containers and cloud-native applications.It's been 10 years since Red Hat acquired JBoss, but much has changed in the technology world since then. Now, JBoss EAP 7 is optimized for cloud environments, Red Hat says. The platform combines Java EE 7 APIs (application programming interfaces) with key DevOps tools including Red Hat’s JBoss Developer Studio integrated development environment (IDE). Also included are Jenkins, Arquillian, Maven, and support for several Web and JavaScript frameworks.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Microsoft pays $10,000 for forced Windows 10 upgrade

The tech press has documented for months the continued pushy and obnoxious behavior on the part of Microsoft to get people to upgrade their PC to Windows 10, including forced upgrades. Well, now the other shoe has dropped, and Microsoft may regret its decision. The Seattle Times reports that Teri Goldstein of Sausalito, California, sued Microsoft after an unwanted Windows 10 upgrade left her system unusable for days and prone to crashing. Other times, her computer, which she needed to run her travel agency, slowed to a crawl.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

DHS wants to predict how malware will morph

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants to be able to predict what form malware will morph to so it can plan how to block it when it becomes reality.DHS has granted Charles River Analytics in Cambridge, Mass., $500,000 to develop the technology, known as Predictive Malware Defense (PMD).Charles River will use machine learning and statistical models to predict attacks based on new malware as well as create defenses ahead of time. The models will look at features of families of malware and predict how they might evolve.Once it’s developed, PMD will be turned over to admins in private and public organizations – particularly financial organizations - so they can anticipate attacks before they happen, DHS says.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

DHS wants to predict how malware will morph

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants to be able to predict what form malware will morph to so it can plan how to block it when it becomes reality.DHS has granted Charles River Analytics in Cambridge, Mass., $500,000 to develop the technology, known as Predictive Malware Defense (PMD).Charles River will use machine learning and statistical models to predict attacks based on new malware as well as create defenses ahead of time. The models will look at features of families of malware and predict how they might evolve.Once it’s developed, PMD will be turned over to admins in private and public organizations – particularly financial organizations - so they can anticipate attacks before they happen, DHS says.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Google’s Sundar Pichai has been hacked – which CEO will be next?

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has become the latest tech executive to have a social media account hacked, and the group responsible says more targets will follow.On Sunday, a group of hackers calling themselves OurMine briefly took over Pichai’s  account on Quora, a question-and-answer site."We are just testing your security,” the hackers wrote, with the same message auto-posted via Quora to Pichai’s Twitter account. On Monday, the posts had been deleted.OurMine is the same group that hacked the social media accounts of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg earlier this month, and they've claimed other victims too, including the CEO of Spotify and a prominent Amazon executive.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Google’s Sundar Pichai has been hacked – which CEO will be next?

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has become the latest tech executive to have a social media account hacked, and the group responsible says more targets will follow.On Sunday, a group of hackers calling themselves OurMine briefly took over Pichai’s  account on Quora, a question-and-answer site."We are just testing your security,” the hackers wrote, with the same message auto-posted via Quora to Pichai’s Twitter account. On Monday, the posts had been deleted.OurMine is the same group that hacked the social media accounts of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg earlier this month, and they've claimed other victims too, including the CEO of Spotify and a prominent Amazon executive.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

​Understanding the Brexit impact on IT

The UK referendum vote to leave the European Union (EU) caught many within and outside the UK off guard.CIOs and IT leaders, in particular, may wonder how the pending changes in the financial and political landscapes will impact their organisations, vendors, and technology purchases over the coming months.Gartner research vice president, John-David Lovelock, noted that business discretionary IT investments, which struggled during the run up to the vote, will suffer in the short term and the effects will spread further than Western Europe.“In the wake of the UK’s exit from the EU, some new larger, long-term strategic projects will now be put on pause and likely not restarted until 2017 when the outlook with the UK outside the EU becomes clearer,” he said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: The untold security risk: Medical hijack attacks

Healthcare is now the most frequently attacked industry, beating out financial services, retail and other industries, according to a new report by TrapX. As a result, healthcare organizations are having trouble keeping pace with the number and sophistication of attacks they have to deal with.The report, entitled MEDJACK 2, details the sheer scale of attacks that hospitals and other medical establishments suffer on a regular basis. It is a follow-up to a similar report TrapX released last year.+ Also on Network World: Healthcare needs more IT security pros – stat +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: The untold security risk: Medical hijack attacks

Healthcare is now the most frequently attacked industry, beating out financial services, retail and other industries, according to a new report by TrapX. As a result, healthcare organizations are having trouble keeping pace with the number and sophistication of attacks they have to deal with.The report, entitled MEDJACK 2, details the sheer scale of attacks that hospitals and other medical establishments suffer on a regular basis. It is a follow-up to a similar report TrapX released last year.+ Also on Network World: Healthcare needs more IT security pros – stat +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

BGP Code Dive (1)

I often tell network engineers they need to learn to code—and they sometimes take my advice and run off to buy a book, or start an online program (which reminds me, I’m way, way behind in my own studies about right now). But learning to code, and being able to use that skill for anything are actually two different things. In fact, my major problem with my coding skills is finding projects I can undertake where I don’t feel like I’m wasting my time. Anyone want to write the world’s 25 millionth implementation of inserting the date and time into a document? No, I didn’t really think so.

So what can you do with coding skills? One thing you can do is <em?read the source. Thus, I’m starting an entirely new feature here at ‘net Work. Every now and again (which means I don’t know how often), I’m going to poke at some routing or control plane code or another, and try to figure out what it actually does. Why not just go through a single protocol line by line? Because—honestly—it’s not a useful way to approach a protocol in code. Rather—here is my first bit of advice—you want Continue reading

Chick-fil-A stays cool (and safe) with IoT sensors

Food safety was thrust into the public consciousness in 2015 after salmonella and E.coli outbreaks sickened people at Chipotle. Determined to avoid such public relations disasters, quick-service restaurants are taking extra precautions to keep customers healthy and ensure that their products comply with health inspection standards. Chick-fil-A, whose commercials feature chicken-shilling cattle, is using wireless sensors to monitor the temperature of walk-in coolers and freezers. Yes -- the Internet of Chicken has arrived.  Chick-fil-A franchisee Matthew Michaels, who equipped his two Texas stores with the sensors 18 months ago, notes that several prominent incidents have underscored the importance of adhering to food safety standards, both in stores and in the supply chain. "There are stories about food safety gone wrong all over the place,” Michaels tells CIO.com. "You've got to be really careful with that stuff.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Microsoft moves on open source .Net, ramps up multilanguage tools

Microsoft today will release the 1.0 versions of its open source .Net Core and ASP. Net Core technologies, which open up its .Net software development platform and extend it to Linux and popular mobile platforms. The company also is working on a protocol that enables multiple language support in any tool..Net Core provides a modular subset of the company's .Net Framework programming model and is intended to to promote code reuse and code-sharing. ASP.Net Core is for building cloud-based, internet-connected applications including web apps. These technologies have transformed .Net into a platform for building applications for Windows, Linux, and MacOS, said Joseph Sirosh, corporate vice president of the Microsoft Data Group.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here