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Microsoft makes final, aggressive Windows 10 upgrade push

Microsoft has launched the final push in its nine-and-a-half-month upgrade offensive against consumers and businesses running Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.Last week, Microsoft switched the automatically-offered Windows 10 upgrade to a "Recommended" download that in turn scheduled the upgrade process unless the user interfered."As we shared in October, Windows 10 will be offered as a 'Recommended' update for Windows 7 and 8.1 customers whose Windows Update settings are configured to accept 'Recommended' updates," a Microsoft spokesman said Friday in an email reply to questions.INSIDER Review: Enterprise guide to Windows 10 Those questions were spurred by reports from Computerworld readers, who said that they'd again been offered an upgrade after months of either ignoring the campaign or dodging the transmutation of their PCs from Windows 7 or 8.1 to 10.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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Google I/O: Expect A.I., virtual reality

For a conference that has been used to advance Android and Chrome, and introduce Google Glass with users parachuting from a plane, people are expecting to hear about virtual reality and artificial intelligence at this week's Google I/O conference."This year's focus will be virtual reality, no doubt," said Jeff Kagan, an independent industry analyst. "I believe Google wants to be a leader in virtual reality and, in this marketplace where there are no leaders yet, I think they will try and secure their place in the front of the line."Kagan said Google may even roll out its own early- generation virtual reality device at I/O, the company's annual developer conference, which generally draws more than 6,000 attendees.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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IDG Contributor Network: Challenges for IoT: Connectivity, protocols, funding

Connectivity and protocols are the largest technical challenges business people face as they attempt to adopt Internet of Things (IoT) projects, according to a new report.Those connectivity and protocol issue apparently come up in both planning and deployment, and then again in the analysis of IoT data, the study says.The industry survey was performed in Europe recently by U.S.-based PLAT.ONE, a software and industrial solutions firm specializing in IoT development. The survey asked executives what kinds of trouble they experienced with IoT projects.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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Nyansa launches Voyance Live, a public networking statistics portal

IT analytics company Nyansa today rolled out a public web portal, offering anonymized data pulled from instances of its flagship Voyance product in operation around the world.The idea behind Voyance Live, according to CEO Abe Ankumah, is to provide insight into common enterprise network problems and suggest possible solutions to IT departments.+ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: Software audits: How high tech plays hardball + Washington nudges Verizon, striking unions back to bargaining tableTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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Worth Reading: Six Tips for Securing BGP

There are different initiatives working on the problem of authenticating incoming BGP routes. The key technology is to use certificates, but doing so leads to a lot of implications, such as more route churn, larger BGP tables, and the need to learn how to exchange certificates and handle unsigned routes. Considering the difficulties we have today to get ISPs to implement even basic protection mechanisms, I don’t expect authentication of BGP routes to reach widespread usage for a long time. So what are some of the things we can do today to improve BGP security? Here are six tips. -via Network Computing

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Here’s how one enterprise is using Google’s cloud, along with many other providers

Land O'Lakes picked Google to run the backend when it decided to launch a new application that connects a bunch of different cloud services to one another for the sake of improving farmers' decisions.It's something of a surprising choice for the decades-old company. Much of the company is built on Microsoft technology, said Teddy Bekele, the vice president of IT for Land O'Lakes's WinField division. While Microsoft's Azure cloud platform was in the running to host the new WinField Data Silo tool, Microsoft ended up losing out to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).It's a major win for Google, which has been trying to entice more large companies over to its cloud platform. And Land O'Lakes's decision is emblematic of the way that companies -- especially those with decades of technology history -- are approaching the public cloud. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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Docker and .NET Core CLR Release Candidate 2

When Microsoft open sourced the .NET Framework in 2014 and released runtimes for Linux in November last year, we knew interesting things were going to happen. Today, Microsoft announced the second Release Candidate for .NET Core CLR. To celebrate, we … Continued

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Why Google will not announce a VR headset at Google I/O 2016

Rumors are flying that Google will announce a virtual reality (VR) headset this week at the company’s annual software developer conference Google I/O. The rumors sound ridiculous to me. Here’s why.Today, the Verge and Android Police sparked more speculation based on a VR category showing up on the seller’s Google Play console and a year-old Wall Street Journal story that Google was working on a VR headset. Well, not exactly, but let’s take a minute, cut through the hype and think through this rationally.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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How to watch Google I/O 2016

Google I/O, the company’s annual developer conference that takes place May 18-20 in Mountain View, Calif., can be a tough ticket to get – there’s a lottery just to get the opportunity to buy one. Academic tickets are $300, and general admission is a weighty $900. So there are a lot of interested folks who might not have the time, money, or opportunity to get to Mountain View this year.Fortunately, Google’s got a number of ways to watch the events of I/O unfold, most notably live video streaming, which you ought to be able to stream it on their site here.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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IDG Contributor Network: How third-party tools can fill a need in complex cloud environments

Awhile ago I wrote a about Dome 9's security offering and was skeptical about its long-term opportunity. As I saw it, offering an add-on security product to a platform as voracious as Amazon Web Services (AWS) was a recipe for disruption. AWS has a history of intense innovation, and often ecosystem partners have been steamrolled by that process. As I saw it, Dome 9 filled a short-term opportunity that would soon be fulfilled by AWS.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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IDG Contributor Network: How third-party tools can fill a need in complex cloud environments

Awhile ago I wrote a about Dome 9's security offering and was skeptical about its long-term opportunity. As I saw it, offering an add-on security product to a platform as voracious as Amazon Web Services (AWS) was a recipe for disruption. AWS has a history of intense innovation, and often ecosystem partners have been steamrolled by that process. As I saw it, Dome 9 filled a short-term opportunity that would soon be fulfilled by AWS.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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Tesla Pushes Nvidia Deeper Into The Datacenter

If you are trying to figure out what impact the new “Pascal” family of GPUs is going to have on the business at Nvidia, just take a gander at the recent financial results for the datacenter division of the company. If Nvidia had not spent the better part of a decade building its Tesla compute business, it would be a little smaller and quite a bit less profitable.

In the company’s first quarter of fiscal 2017, which ended on May 1, Nvidia posted sales of $1.31 billion, up 13 percent from the year ago period, and net income hit $196 …

Tesla Pushes Nvidia Deeper Into The Datacenter was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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An HTTPS hijacking click-fraud botnet infects almost 1 million computers

Over the past two years, a group of cybercriminals has infected almost 1 million computers with malware that hijacks search results, even when they're served over encrypted HTTPS connections.The click-fraud botnet earns its creators money through Google's AdSense for Search program, according to researchers from security firm Bitdefender. The affiliate program, intended for website owners, allows them to place a Google-powered custom search engine on their websites to generate revenue when users click on ads displayed in the search results.Instead of doing that, this botnet's operators intercept Google, Bing, and Yahoo searches performed by users on their own computers and replace the legitimate results with those generated by their custom search engine. They do this using a malware program that Bitdefender products detect as Redirector.Paco.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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An HTTPS hijacking click-fraud botnet infects almost 1 million computers

Over the past two years, a group of cybercriminals has infected almost 1 million computers with malware that hijacks search results, even when they're served over encrypted HTTPS connections.The click-fraud botnet earns its creators money through Google's AdSense for Search program, according to researchers from security firm Bitdefender. The affiliate program, intended for website owners, allows them to place a Google-powered custom search engine on their websites to generate revenue when users click on ads displayed in the search results.Instead of doing that, this botnet's operators intercept Google, Bing, and Yahoo searches performed by users on their own computers and replace the legitimate results with those generated by their custom search engine. They do this using a malware program that Bitdefender products detect as Redirector.Paco.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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World’s first insured authentication provides $1M coverage per financial transaction

Cyber insurance doesn’t come cheap and it doesn’t always pay out after a company is hacked. But today the Scottsdale-based company Trusona announced that it has become the world’s first insured authentication platform. Trusona, using its own cyber insurance, will insure the identity and thereby the transactions of Trutoken users up to $1 million.Tim Greene previously wrote about Trusona’s “100% accurate authentication scheme” which uses the company’s Trutoken dongle. The product is primarily aimed at users such as bank customers moving thousands of dollars or corporate executives with access to critical data.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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World’s first insured authentication provides $1M coverage per financial transaction

Cyber insurance doesn’t come cheap and it doesn’t always pay out after a company is hacked. But today the Scottsdale-based company Trusona announced that it has become the world’s first insured authentication platform. Trusona, using its own cyber insurance, will insure the identity and thereby the transactions of Trutoken users up to $1 million.Tim Greene previously wrote about Trusona’s “100% accurate authentication scheme” which uses the company’s Trutoken dongle. The product is primarily aimed at users such as bank customers moving thousands of dollars or corporate executives with access to critical data.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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Why you need to learn to code

We’ve all heard it by now: you’d better learn to code, or your network engineering career is going to die a quick (and potentially painful) death. Maybe you could still act as a briefcase carrier, and call yourself a consultant, but without coding skills, you’re open ended job is going to become a dead end, and you’ll be a has been. While just about everyone has weighed in on this topic recently, I don’t know if anyone has, IMHO, really dug down to the bottom of the question. Permit me to give it a try (and feel free to disagree in the comments).

To get to the point, allow me to summarize both sides of the argument (hopefully without building and straw men along the way). On one side are folks who say that the Command Line Interface (CLI) is dead, and that we must learn to automate everything. Part of the argument here seems to be that without automation, we won’t be able to keep the operational costs (OPEX) down; as networks are primarily a cost center (rather than a strategic asset), driving costs down is one of the most important tasks a network engineer can take on. That, Continue reading

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Need e-commerce for your SMB? SAP has a cloud tool for you

Enabling e-commerce capabilities isn't a trivial matter for companies small or large, but SAP has a new cloud tool it thinks will help SMBs in particular. Called SAP Anywhere, it's designed specifically for companies with 10 to 200 employees.SAP Anywhere aims to help small and midsize businesses build a website or online store, create marketing campaigns, sell products and take payments, manage inventory, and analyze business performance, all from a mobile phone or tablet."More than 28 million small firms in the United States need to market goods online and satisfy customers' desire for a digital buying experience," said EJ Jackson, senior vice president and general manager for SAP Anywhere. "At the end of the day, company size is irrelevant to the consumer."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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Windows 10 post-upgrade cleanup tips

At the end of July 2016, the free upgrade from Windows 7 and 8.1 to Windows 10 will come to an end. In the meantime, lots of users and admins may find themselves electing to exercise their upgrade options, rather than let them go unused.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)