Corsa’s DP2000 Brings Useful Programmability To WAN Switching

Corsa's DP2000 is a big-bandwidth WAN switch featuring a mix of merchant silicon, FPGAs, and a range of programmability options.

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Apple sends out invites for WWDC 2016

We already knew the dates for WWDC, but now it's 100% official. Apple yesterday began sending out invitations to select media outlets confirming that its annual developers conference will kick off at 10 am Pacific Time at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco on June 13.Per usual, Apple's WWDC event will primarily, if not exclusively, focus on updates to various pieces of Apple software. That being the case, we'll most definitely get a sneak peak at iOS 10 and there's a good chance we'll also get a glimpse at the next-gen version of OS X.Operating systems aside, rumblings from the rumor mill suggest that Apple this year will finally open up Siri to third-party developers by way of an SDK. What's more, there's also a slight chance that Apple will roll out a complete overhaul of Siri itself. Also rumored to be on the agenda is a revamp of Apple Music. Though Apple's streaming music service already has upwards of 13 million subscribers, the service has been riddled with UI and various functionality issues.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Password Recovery Cisco Catalyst 3850

If you are locked out of your 3850 switch and need to perform Password recovery on a Cisco Catalyst 3850 switch this short tutorial will guide you along the way. You will need One Cisco Catalyst 3850 switch or switch stack which you have forgotton or do not know the password for. A laptop with […]

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Apple’s enterprise partnerships, big and small, start to pay off

Apple has been the target of recent criticism for its current pace of innovation. However, though the company's slow-and-steady approach to the enterprise may not be winning over financial analysts, it is proving to be an effective strategy for expansion into the business market. Apple set the stage for a formal courtship of the enterprise nearly two years ago, when it inked an alliance with IBM. Since then, the company has struck deals with Cisco and SAP to tap the strengths of these stalwarts in enterprise services and mobility, in additional to a number of smaller players. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

How to embrace the benefits of shadow IT

The terms shadow IT conjures up negative images in the minds of most IT organizations. Yet non-IT enterprise functions and lines of business are buying more of their own IT systems than ever before, particularly product, operations and external customer-facing groups and highly dynamic services areas. “As business functions seek to realize the benefits from these non-traditional channels of IT enablement, the shadow IT organizations are growing aggressively in order to help orchestrate and aggregate services into business consumable offerings,” says Craig Wright, managing director of outsourcing and technology consultancy Pace Harmon.[ Related: 4 ways to apply SLAs to shadow IT ]To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

How to embrace the benefits of shadow IT

The terms shadow IT conjures up negative images in the minds of most IT organizations. Yet non-IT enterprise functions and lines of business are buying more of their own IT systems than ever before, particularly product, operations and external customer-facing groups and highly dynamic services areas. “As business functions seek to realize the benefits from these non-traditional channels of IT enablement, the shadow IT organizations are growing aggressively in order to help orchestrate and aggregate services into business consumable offerings,” says Craig Wright, managing director of outsourcing and technology consultancy Pace Harmon.[ Related: 4 ways to apply SLAs to shadow IT ]To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Data visualization firm Qlik sells for $3 billion

Qlik, a vendor of data visualization tools, has agreed to be acquired by private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo for US$3 billion.The sale will give Qlik "additional flexibility" to operate, Lars Björk, the company's CEO, said in a statement.Qlik is touted as a software package for business intelligence needs, with some customers saying it has strong data modeling features. Qlik offers what it calls "self-service" data visualization and discovery, with customer able to build custom charts based on their data needs.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

How millennial tech grads should tailor their resumes

You’ve recently graduated and now it’s time to start applying to jobs -- but what skills and experience should you highlight on your resume? To help you decide, CompTIA released the results of its 2016 IT Industry Outlook report, which surveyed 673 IT industry companies in the U.S., Canada and the U.K., and found that millennials have certain skills businesses are clamoring for in the coming year.“Recent grads have grown up in an age of evolving technologies, particularly the Internet Age. They’ve not only developed a unique way of problem solving and critical thinking, but they are also acutely aware of new technologies that may increase operational efficiency in a business,” says Gene Richardson, COO of Experts Exchanges.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

How millennial tech grads should tailor their resumes

You’ve recently graduated and now it’s time to start applying to jobs -- but what skills and experience should you highlight on your resume? To help you decide, CompTIA released the results of its 2016 IT Industry Outlook report, which surveyed 673 IT industry companies in the U.S., Canada and the U.K., and found that millennials have certain skills businesses are clamoring for in the coming year.“Recent grads have grown up in an age of evolving technologies, particularly the Internet Age. They’ve not only developed a unique way of problem solving and critical thinking, but they are also acutely aware of new technologies that may increase operational efficiency in a business,” says Gene Richardson, COO of Experts Exchanges.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

SS8 makes enterprise version of traffic-analysis platform designed for intelligence agencies

SS8 built its network traffic-inspection and analysis platform as a tool for intelligence agencies to discover communications among criminals and terrorists but now has scaled it back for enterprises to stop data breaches.Called BreachDetect, the business-sized software gathers highly detailed network traffic data that discovers application flows and the activity of individual machines and analyzes them to find anomalies that indicate foul play.The platform also stores the information it collects so it can be analyzed over and over as new threat indicators are identified. That way corporate security pros can discover threats that may have been lurking undetected for months and figure out when and how they got there, SS8 says.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

SS8 makes enterprise version of traffic-analysis platform designed for intelligence agencies

SS8 built its network traffic-inspection and analysis platform as a tool for intelligence agencies to discover communications among criminals and terrorists but now has scaled it back for enterprises to stop data breaches.Called BreachDetect, the business-sized software gathers highly detailed network traffic data that discovers application flows and the activity of individual machines and analyzes them to find anomalies that indicate foul play.The platform also stores the information it collects so it can be analyzed over and over as new threat indicators are identified. That way corporate security pros can discover threats that may have been lurking undetected for months and figure out when and how they got there, SS8 says.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

[minipost]Quick LAB/config example for IPv6 BGP between HP Networking Comware v5 andCisco

A small lab showing basic configuration of BGP between Cisco and HP (Comware v5). This is just something small we deploying recently, there is nothing grand here, only a minor configuration example to follow later when needed.

NOTE on HP Comware v5  vs newer Comware v7, I understand I am using older version of the operating system on HP devices, the point is that this article is using one of my real work projects where Comware v5 was used without possibility to upgrade. However ALL Ipv6 functions that we needed were provided already on this older Comware, and when I checked, Comware v7 variant of this LAB is only changing commands syntax (actually quite easy to convert from v5 to v7 only following the “?”), therefore this article will remain in Comware v5 and I believe many readers will take the principles and will have no problem to upgrade to Comware v7 on their own.

Lab Topology:

This is a simple topology that is trying to simulate a typical L3 Edge / Distribution / Access with several HP 5800 layer3 switches and Cisco 3750 is simulating a typical WAN provider with dual-homing access. Of course all with limits Continue reading

Texas goes big with 18-petaflop supercomputer

The Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC) has received $30 million in U.S. funding for a new supercomputer that will roughly double the performance of its existing 9-petaflop supercomputer.The new system, named Stampede 2 after its predecessor, is being funded by the National Science Foundation. It will be available for scientific research by June 1, 2017.The Texas supercomputing center occupies a unique niche. The U.S. government owns the nation's largest and most powerful supercomputers. The national leader is Titan, a Cray XK7 Opteron-based system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, running at a peak performance of about 27 petaflops.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Texas goes big with 18-petaflop supercomputer

The Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC) has received $30 million in U.S. funding for a new supercomputer that will roughly double the performance of its existing 9-petaflop supercomputer.The new system, named Stampede 2 after its predecessor, is being funded by the National Science Foundation. It will be available for scientific research by June 1, 2017.The Texas supercomputing center occupies a unique niche. The U.S. government owns the nation's largest and most powerful supercomputers. The national leader is Titan, a Cray XK7 Opteron-based system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, running at a peak performance of about 27 petaflops.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

More Changes at Cisco: Jiandani Up, Soderbery Bumped

It also looks as if the spin-in team has taken its last spin.

75% off Opolar LC06 Laptop Fan Cooler with Temperature Display – Deal Alert

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Mysterious malware targets industrial control systems, borrows Stuxnet techniques

Researchers have found a malware program that was designed to manipulate supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems in order to hide the real readings from industrial processes.The same technique was used by the Stuxnet sabotage malware allegedly created by the U.S. and Israel to disrupt Iran's nuclear program and credited with destroying a large number of the country's uranium enrichment centrifuges.The new malware was discovered in the second half of last year by researchers from security firm FireEye, not in an active attack, but in the VirusTotal database. VirusTotal is a Google-owned website where users can submit suspicious files to be scanned by antivirus engines.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Mysterious malware targets industrial control systems, borrows Stuxnet techniques

Researchers have found a malware program that was designed to manipulate supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems in order to hide the real readings from industrial processes.The same technique was used by the Stuxnet sabotage malware allegedly created by the U.S. and Israel to disrupt Iran's nuclear program and credited with destroying a large number of the country's uranium enrichment centrifuges.The new malware was discovered in the second half of last year by researchers from security firm FireEye, not in an active attack, but in the VirusTotal database. VirusTotal is a Google-owned website where users can submit suspicious files to be scanned by antivirus engines.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worth Reading: IP addresses are not telephone numbers

A blanket association between telephone numbers and IP numbers and domain names is simply not useful. Here’s the problem — IP numbers and domain names are not telephone numbers. By using this analogy as the starting point for their rationale to consider IP numbers as CPNI, the FCC is beginning from a fundamentally flawed starting point. Circle ID

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Microsoft’s drastic upgrade tactic pays off with boost to Windows 10 share

Windows 10 in May recorded its largest increase in user share since August 2015, the first full month after its launch last summer, data published Wednesday showed.The impressive increase came after Microsoft began what will likely be its last big push to put the free Windows 10 on customers' PCs, a campaign that started mid-May and featured a much-derided trick to get users to approve the upgrade from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.According to U.S.-based analytics vendor Net Applications, Windows 10 powered 19.4% of all Windows PCs in May, a 2.1-point increase from the month before. Net Applications measures user share -- an estimate of the percentage of the global PC population that runs a particular operating system -- by tallying unique visitors to clients' websites.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here