Data Storage Terms You Should Know

The storage industry is rife with acronyms and jargon. Here's a cheat sheet.

WWDC 2016: What Apple plans to announce

What we expect Apple to announce at WWDC 2016In just a few hours, Tim Cook and other Apple executives will take the stage and officially kick off Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference 2016. Per usual, WWDC provides Apple with a forum to give us all an exciting glimpse into what the future of Apple software looks like. Hardware is, of course, important, but Apple's intuitive software has long been the driving force behind the company's success.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

5 free apps that add cool Windows 7 features to Windows 10

A new OS often retires features that were in its predecessor. If you’re still holding onto Windows 7 because a feature you’re fond of doesn’t appear in Windows 10, chances are there are alternative programs you can install to replace it. Here are five of them, and they’re all free.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)

WLAN Industry Consolidation Pros And Cons

A look at the ramifications of so much M&A activity in the wireless networking market.

IDG Contributor Network: Swatting and phone scams: Hazards of caller ID spoofing

When I was a kid in the 60s, 70s and arguably the 80s, the telephone provided me with a source of entertainment. I was able to make a free local call to anyone while maintaining full anonymity. I could pretend to be anyone I wanted to be, ask people if their refrigerator was running and then tell them that they should catch it, or play a multitude of pranks.Caller ID was not available, so each time you answered the phone there was a great level of anticipation and mystery finding out who was on the other end each time the phone rang.Today, almost everyone has caller ID with name display. Because of this, your number and name are shown to the person you're calling. And from their perspective, a certain level of confidence is assumed because we believe and trust what we see.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Malware Museum causes controversy among security pros

Ah, the edifying trip to the museum. Basking in the Dutch masters. Pondering Warhol’s soup cans. Watching a pixelated marijuana leaf unfold on your screen… Wait. What? The latter work (COFFSHOP.COM, artist unknown, if you’re keeping score) can be found at the Malware Museum, the brainchild of F-Secure Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen. The museum, part of the Internet Archive, houses DOS viruses from the 1980s and 1990s. Visitors can watch malware’s on-screen manifestations at the website and can even download emulations to their PCs. The viruses have long since been defanged.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Malware Museum’s 10 greatest hits

Big hitsSince the malware museum opened its virtual doors in February, its collection of de-fanged DOS-based malware from the 80s and 90s has attracted nearly 1 million views. (Read the full story.) Here are the museum’s most downloaded viruses:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 6.13.16

New products of the weekOur roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow.AppFolio Property ManagerKey features: offers enhanced functionality for mobile devices and is designed for the modern manager, enabling full access to the same features available through AppFolio’s cloud-based property management software. More info.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New products of the week 6.13.16

Who Needs an IPO? Blue Coat Gets a $4.65B Bid from Symantec

So much for going public.

Virtual Firewalls: Featured Webinar in June 2016

Virtual Firewalls is the featured webinar in June 2016, and the featured videos (marked with a star) explain the difference between virtual contexts and virtual appliances, and the virtual firewalls taxonomy.

To view the videos, log into my.ipspace.net (or enroll into the trial subscription if you don’t have an account yet), select the webinar from the first page, and watch the videos marked with star.

If you're a trial subscriber and would like to get access to the whole webinar, use this month's featured webinar discount (and keep in mind that every purchase brings you closer to the full subscription).

Brussels, Belgium: CloudFlare’s 81st Data Center is Live!

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Our week begins in Brussels, where we announce our newest data center. This is our 23rd data center in Europe alone, and our 81st data center globally - providing additional redundancy to nearby facilities in Amsterdam and Paris.

Millions of websites using CloudFlare are now faster in Brussels, and we are excited to exchange traffic at the Belgium National Internet Exchange (BNIX).

Strategic City

alt Brussels - which hosts several strategic European institutions such as the European Commission and the Council of the European Union - is home to over 40,000 EU employees. With the turn up of our Brussels data center, they join the rest of the country in experiencing a faster Internet. Impressively, close to 90% of Belgium's citizens are online.

Two more cities

We will be announcing two more data centers this week - each in one of the world’s most populous countries. Could you guess which ones?

The CloudFlare network today:

Symantec to acquire Blue Coat for $4.65 billion

Security company Symantec is to acquire Web security provider Blue Coat for US$4.65 billion in cash in a deal that will broaden the portfolio of security technologies the combined company can offer customers as they move to the cloud.The deal, which is expected to be closed by the third quarter, will also see Greg Clark, CEO of Blue Coat, taking over as CEO of Symantec and joining its board at the the closing of the transaction. Symantec, well-known for its anti-virus software, has been looking out for a new CEO since April after it was announced that its CEO Michael Brown was stepping down, following poor financial results. Ajei Gopal was appointed as interim president and chief operating officer.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Symantec to acquire Blue Coat for $4.65 billion

BGP As-path prepending – Use cases, Alternatives and Challenges

BGP As-path is a mandatory BGP attribute which has to be sent in every BGP message. BGP as-path prepending is one of the BGP traffic engineering methods which will be explained in detail throughout this post. Outline: What is BGP As-path attribute ? Why BGP as-path attribute is used ? What is BGP as-path prepending […]

The post BGP As-path prepending – Use cases, Alternatives and Challenges appeared first on Cisco Network Design and Architecture | CCDE Bootcamp | orhanergun.net.

iPhone 7 Rumor Rollup: beyond WWDC; Deep Blue; sharp-dressed thieves

The really shocking iPhone 7 news this week would be if anything related to Apple’s next big smartphone were announced at the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Yes, big improvements to iOS and Siri are expected to be unveiled, and they will be important for iPhone 7, but we’re talking iPhone developments beyond that that might hit the market in the fall.We’re talking about really crucial stuff, like phone color…Goodbye gray, hello blue iPhone 7? Speculation swirled late last week that Apple is plotting to ditch its Space Gray iPhone color for deep blue (undoubtedly with some grabby qualifier attached). To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Company wants full access to your social media accounts to spy for landlords, employers

If a UK startup has its way, then you will hand over full access to your social media accounts – “including entire conversation threads and private messages” – so it can be scraped and analyzed to help potential landlords and employers decide if you are a risk worth taking.Why in the world would you agree to such a thing? Score Assured co-founder Steve Thornhill told The Washington Post, “People will give up their privacy to get something they want.”The company launched “Tenant Assured” so landlords can decide if you would be a good tenant. It uses an algorithm to “deep dive” into your social media accounts and give landlords “insights into five main personality traits: extraversion, neuroticism, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Company wants full access to your social media accounts to spy for landlords, employers

The Case of the Failed IPv6 Ping – Part 1: The Facts and Clues

Put your detective hat on your head and your Network Detective badge on your lapel. It is time for the Case of the Failed IPv6 Ping.

Part #1 – We hit the crime scene together and we work methodically together to

Gather the Facts
Collect the Clues
Follow the Evidence
Interview the Witnesses
Question the Suspects

Part #2 – I give you what the problem ended up being.

Ready? Let’s PLAY!

It all started when I was going to do a post on IPv6 Multicasting. I grabbed 3 ASR1K and got them all prepped: cards, code, cables, configurations. Name the routers R1, R2, and R3. Add a couple Spirent TestCenter ports for traffic and sniffing , configure them, and we are good to go.

Time for “pre-flight check”, as it were.

PIM neighbors up and running between the routers – CHECK
Make sure that the R3 can ping 2001:db8:14:1::1 – Um……

Oh… crap… that didn’t work.

Let’s go to the active crime scene!

Make sure that the R3 can ping 2001:db8:14:1::

Well that didn’t work did it? Let’s check the routing table on R3.

From R3’s IPv6 routing table we see

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Tutorial for small Hadoop cloud cluster LAB using virtual machines and compiling/running first “Hello World” Map-Reduce example project

I had Hadoop experience now for more than a year, thanks to a great series of Cloud Computing courses on Coursera.org, now after ~6 months of running via several cloud systems, I finally have time to put down some of my more practical notes in a form of an article here. I will not go much into theory, my target here would be to help someone construct his first small Hadoop cluster at home and show some of my amateur “HelloWorld” code that will count all words in all works of W. Shakespeare using the MapReduce. This should leave with with both a small cluster and a working compilation project using Maven to expand on your own later …

What I have used for my cluster is a home PC with 32G of RAM to run everything inside using vmWare Workstation. But this guide is applicable even if you run this usingVirtualBox, physical machines, or using virtual machines on some Internet cloud (e.g. AWS/Azure). The point will simply be 4 independent OS linux boxes that are together one a shared LAN to communicate between each other.

Lab Topology

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