With few options, companies increasingly yield to ransomware demands

Faced with few options, companies are increasingly giving in to cybercriminals who hold their data hostage and demand payment for its return, while law enforcement officials struggle to catch the nearly invisible perpetrators.The risks to organizations have become so severe that many simply pay their attackers to make them go away -- a strategy that may only embolden the crooks.It's a case of asymmetric electronic warfare. Ransomware, which encrypts files until a victim pays to have them unlocked, can be devastating to an organization. Barring an up-to-date backup, little can be done aside from paying the attackers to provide the decryption keys.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Box goes international with AWS and IBM-powered Zones feature

Box is trying to make it easier for companies outside the U.S. to comply with regulatory requirements on where their data is stored with a new feature that lets them pick a variety of new countries in which they can house their data.Starting next month, companies will be able to pay for a new Box Zones feature that will let them store data in Germany, Ireland, Japan and Singapore, while using Box's content and management services as though they had kept that information in the company's U.S. datacenters.That's important for companies that have to meet data sovereignty requirements in order to comply with their country's laws. Depending on the specific requirement, they may be prevented from storing some or all of their data in another country, which would until now have precluded them from working with Box.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Enterprise Sticking With Private Cloud

This slide was posted on Twitter this morning rom Sam Charrington:   This matches with what I hear and see in the market. Most enterprises will build private clouds They have so much data in their existing DCs that migrating is impossible/impractical That OpenStack (not VMware SDDC) is the preferred platform Some key market points that I […]

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Host-to-Network Multihoming Kludges

Continuing our routing-on-hosts discussions, Enno Rey (of the Troopers and IPv6 security fame) made another interesting remark “years ago we were so happy when we finally got rid of gated on Solaris” and I countered with “there are still people who fondly remember the days of running gated on Solaris” because it’s a nice solution to host-to-network multihoming problem.

Quoting RFC1925, “It’s easier to move a problem around than to solve it” and people have been extremely good at moving this particular problem around for decades.

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IDG Contributor Network: Datera emerges from stealth to offer another take on cloud scale-out storage

Stealthy startup Datera is launching today with its promise to bring an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud-type of offering to large enterprises and service providers.If that sounds like an offering you might have heard before, it's probably because for the past six to eight years, a number of vendors, seeing the traction that AWS has gained, have jumped on the bandwagon and offered a value proposition in the same area. There have been broad cloud operating system offerings, including OpenStack, CloudStack and Eucalyptus, more specialist storage platforms such as Ceph, Gluster, SimpliVity and Nutanix and hyperconverged offerings form the likes of VMware, Dell and Hewlett Packard. It's a busy space and one that is hanging off incredible growth in awareness and adoption of cloud offerings.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Cisco Live 2016 – Everything Is Coming Together

It seems that Cisco Live is about the only thing I blog about in the last…well, few years.  At least I’m still writing, even if it is twice a year.  :)

Here’s a summary about Cisco Live for those who live in a dark hole.  It’s July 10 – 14, 2016, in Las Vegas.  If you do anything with Cisco, you should go.  If you do anything with technology that isn’t Cisco, you should go.  Bring your significant other.  There’s plenty to do for everyone.  Anyway, on to the details for this year’s show.

The Mandalay Bay’s South Convention Center will be our campgroun this year.  This is the same place from back in 2011, but with quite a few updates to the layout.  I can’t remember the numbers from the last time, but I imagine that number will be close to double this year.  I have all confidence that the convention center can handle us, though.  They did such a wonderful job last time.  I hope the food is as good as I remember; it’s been pretty poor going the last few years in Orlando, San Continue reading

My Current IWAN Analogies

I use analogies. Just how my brain works…. and how I sometimes learn and teach.  Token-ring source-route bridging analogy was “breadcrumbs thru the network”. Analogy for DLSw+ was a boat getting the breadcrumbs over water between 2 islands.

I think I like analogies cause…. to be superbly honest… when I came to work at Cisco back in 1996 I only knew SNA.  I did NOT know IP.  I was quickly immersed into learning IP. But I mean seriously… using acronyms to explain other acronyms you don’t understand? Don’t get me started!

Ready to play? Yea yea… my brain jumps around with varying analogies. If one doesn’t hit ya maybe the next will.  :)  Happy nerding!

 

Waze on Steroids

wazeImagine you own a rental car agency with 2 locations across town from each other. Your employees are constantly driving the cars back and forth between the two locations to balance out inventory.

If the employees hit issues during the drive (potholes, glass, mud, sand, dirt, major traffic, construction) this is going to cost your company.

So you can see how knowing what is going on via the varying paths between your locations is critical to your Continue reading

Microsoft’s ‘blue screen of death’ is getting more descriptive with QR codes

The Windows Blue Screen of Death isn't known for being particularly descriptive, but Microsoft may be looking to change that in a future version of Windows 10.  A Reddit user posted a picture last week that shows a new version of the dreaded blue screen, one with a QR code and a link where users can get more information about the error that caused their computer to crash.  Right now, the code and the link take users to a webpage that discusses generic fixes for errors that might cause a crash. In the future, though, Microsoft could provide a QR code that leads to more specific information about what caused the computer freeze up.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Microsoft endorses EU-US Privacy Shield data sharing pact

Microsoft is throwing its weight behind the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield agreement, which is intended to safeguard the privacy of European Union citizens when their personal information is exported to the U.S. for processing.But a document leaked late last week suggests the proposed agreement does not have the backing of EU data protection authorities, who are meeting this week to finalize their position on it.Microsoft will seek approval to conduct data transfers under the agreement, its Vice President for EU Government Affairs, John Frank, wrote in a blog post Monday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Microsoft endorses EU-US Privacy Shield data sharing pact

Microsoft is throwing its weight behind the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield agreement, which is intended to safeguard the privacy of European Union citizens when their personal information is exported to the U.S. for processing.But a document leaked late last week suggests the proposed agreement does not have the backing of EU data protection authorities, who are meeting this week to finalize their position on it.Microsoft will seek approval to conduct data transfers under the agreement, its Vice President for EU Government Affairs, John Frank, wrote in a blog post Monday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Adobe to issue emergency patch for Flash vulnerability

Adobe is working on an emergency patch for its Flash Player after attackers are reportedly exploiting a critical flaw. The vulnerability, CVE-2016-1019, affects Flash Player version 21.0.0.197 on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS, according to an advisory published on Tuesday. The flaw is being actively exploited on Windows XP and 7 systems running Flash Player versions 20.0.0.306 and earlier. "Successful exploitation could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system," it said. A patch could be released as soon as Thursday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Adobe to issue emergency patch for Flash vulnerability

Adobe is working on an emergency patch for its Flash Player after attackers are reportedly exploiting a critical flaw. The vulnerability, CVE-2016-1019, affects Flash Player version 21.0.0.197 on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS, according to an advisory published on Tuesday. The flaw is being actively exploited on Windows XP and 7 systems running Flash Player versions 20.0.0.306 and earlier. "Successful exploitation could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system," it said. A patch could be released as soon as Thursday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Taipei: CloudFlare’s 77th Data Center is Now Live

台北：CloudFlare的第七十七個數據中心已經上線喔！

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We are excited to announce the launch of our Taipei data center, which is our 28th data center in Asia, and our 77th data center globally. Millions of websites which were previously served from Hong Kong are now served locally from Taipei.

我們高興地宣布CloudFlare的的台北機房建置完成。這是我們在亞洲的第二十八個，在全球的第七十七個數據中心。從現在起台灣的網民可以直接從CloudFlare在台北的節點訪問數以百萬計的網站，不再繞道到香港。

Taipei today
今天的台北

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Taipei, home to many renowned tech companies, is famous not only for its vibrant night markets, but also for its warm and welcoming people. From soup dumplings to computer peripherals to Kangsi Coming, its contribution to the world is enormous.

科技重鎮台北，不單擁用充滿活力的夜市，台北人的熱情而友善的人情味也是舉世聞名的。從小籠包、電腦周邊零件到康熙來了，台北對世界的貢獻碩大無朋。

Improved availability and performance
更進一步的可用性和性能

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Taipei has one of the fastest Internet speeds. Yet, being located far away from other Internet interconnect centers makes for some unique challenges. When traffic is delivered to local eyeballs from Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore or worse-still Los Angeles, it is often subject to long latency and the constraints of limited capacity before arriving in Taipei. Additionally, traffic flowing on undersea cables around Taipei have been subject to cable cuts over the years, mainly because of the active fault lines around the island.

台北有世界上首屈一指的網路速度。可是，因為台北和其他互聯網交換中心的距離，來自香港，東京，甚至洛杉磯的流量往往要通過高延時和有限的頻寬才能傳送到台北。另外，台北位於板塊交界處，地震發生頻繁，海底電䌫中斷時有發生。

With the launch of our Taipei data center, visitors to millions of CloudFlare websites will experience a 4x improvement in performance and Continue reading

Spark On Superdome X Previews In-Memory On The Machine

As readers of The Next Platform are well aware, Hewlett Packard Enterprise is staking a lot of the future of its systems business on The Machine, which embodies the evolving concepts for disaggregated and composable systems that are heavy on persistent storage that sometimes functions like shared memory, on various kinds of compute, and on the interconnects between the two.

To get a sense of how The Machine might do on in-memory workloads that normally run on clusters that have their memory distributed, researchers at HPE Labs have fired up the Spark in-memory framework on a Superdome X shared …

Spark On Superdome X Previews In-Memory On The Machine was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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