Apple rewards CEO Tim Cook with $58M for bang-up job on Wall Street

Apple CEO Tim Cook earlier this week was awarded 560,000 shares, worth approximately $57.7 million, receiving the full amount of a grant due him because of Apple's performance on Wall Street over the last two years. As it did in 2014, Apple withheld just over half of the total shares -- 290,836, worth about $30 million on Monday -- for tax purposes. The half-million shares were this year's allotment under a revised schedule designed at Cook's request in 2013. Then, Apple's board modified the executive's vesting plan, which had set two large stock handouts for a massive 1 million-share grant -- after last year's stock split, equal to 7 million -- when Cook assumed the lead role at the Cupertino, Calif. company just weeks before co-founder Steve Jobs' death.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

PlexxiPulse—What are your VMworld Predictions?

If you caught our webinar on Thursday, you know that we believe the success of future networks will be a combination of hardware and software to form a dynamic, application aware, converged network fabric. We covered the evolution of the network as well as a few of our predictions for the future. If you missed it, don’t worry—there will be more to come. In the meantime, I will be at VMworld in San Francisco next week from August 30—September 3. I’m always open to chat about networking at large and how we’re disrupting the networking norm here at Plexxi. Let me know if you’ll be there! Do you have any predictions for VMworld this year?

Below please find a few of our top picks for our favorite news articles of the week. Enjoy!

No Jitter: Network Change: Evolutions and Revolutions
By Tom Noelle
Networking, and its transformation, is more than just technology. Broadband Internet came along during an unfortunate shift in the politics of networking. In the ’80s and ’90s we were moving from a global vision of communications as a regulated monopoly or even a government agency to one of a free market. The Internet exploded on the scene Continue reading

Attention whitehats, The FTC wants you to lead new privacy, security push

FTC The Federal Trade Commission will in January hold a wide-ranging conference on security and privacy issues lead by all manner of whitehat security researchers and academics, industry representatives, consumer advocates.The FTC’s PrivacyCon will include brief privacy and security research presentations, along with expert panel discussions on the latest privacy and security challenges facing consumers. Whitehat researchers and academics will discuss the latest security vulnerabilities, explain how they can be exploited to harm consumers, and highlight research affecting consumer privacy and data security. During panel discussions, participants will discuss the research presentations and the latest policy initiatives to address consumer privacy and security, develop suggestions for further collaboration between researchers and policymakers, and highlight steps that companies and consumers can and should take to protect themselves and their data, the FTC stated.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 28th, 2015x

Hey, it's HighScalability time:


The oldest known fossil of a flowering plant. 130 million years old. What digital will last so long?
  • 32.6: Ashley Madison password cracks per hour; 1 million: cores in the Human Brain Project's silicon brain; 54,000: tennis balls used at Wimbledon; 4 kB: size of first web page; 1.2 million: million messages per second Apache Samza performance on a single node; 27%: higher conversion for sites loading one second faster; 

  • Quotable Quotes:
    • @adrianco: Apple first read about Mesos on http://highscalability.com  and for a year have run Siri on the worlds biggest cluster 
    • @Besvinick: Interesting recurring sentiment from recent grads: We lived most of our college lives on Snapchat—now we don't have any "tangible" memories.
    • Robin Hobb: For most moments of our lives, we have forgotten almost all of the world around us, except for what currently claims our interest.
    • @Carnage4Life: I'd like to thank all the Amazon employees who cried at their desks to make this possible ?? ????? 
    • Jim Handy: The single most interesting thing I learned at the 2015 Flash Memory Summit was that 3D NAND doesn’t have a natural limit, after Continue reading

Wi-Fi blocking debate far from over

Following the FCC’s warning in January that it would no longer tolerate the Marriotts of the world blocking visitors’ WiFi hotspots, I set a reminder on my calendar to revisit the topic six months later. After all, the issue of WiFi blocking sparked strong reactions from IT pros, end users and vendors of wireless LAN products early in the year, and I figured it wasn’t over yet. So I started by making an inquiry directly to Marriott Global CIO Bruce Hoffmeister, who foisted me on to a company spokesman, who “respectfully declined” to connect me with anyone for an update on how Marriott is now dealing with perceived threats to its network. He simply directed me back to Marriott’s statement from January that it would behave itself, no doubt hoping the hotel chain could further distance itself from the $600K fine that the FCC hit it with, as well as the rest of the bad publicity. I also inquired at the FCC, which in Marriott-like fashion, referred me back to the agency’s last statement on the matter from January, and in a follow up, said it can’t comment on whether any new investigations are underway. Continue reading

Researchers find many more modules of Regin spying tool

Security researchers from Symantec have identified 49 more modules of the sophisticated Regin cyberespionage platform that many believe is used by the U.S. National Security Agency and its close allies.This brings the total number of modules known so far to 75, each of them responsible for implementing specific functionality and giving attackers a lot of flexibility in how they exploit individual targets.Regin came to light in November last year, but it has been in use since at least 2008 and antivirus companies have known about it since 2013.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

QOTW: Height

Height is the measure of littleness. The man who has not the sense of true greatness is easily exultant or easily depressed, sometimes both together. It is because the ant does not consider the giant beetle that he looks down on the tiny gnat; and it is because the walker does not feel the wind from the heights that he lingers on the mountain slopes.
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Google to freeze some Adobe Flash content on Sept. 1

Google will stop some Flash content from automatically playing starting Sept. 1, a move it decided on earlier this year to improve browser performance.Flash, made by Adobe Systems, is still widely used for multimedia content, but security and performance issues have prompted calls to move away from it.In June, Google said it planned to pause Flash content that wasn’t central to a Web page but allow other content such as videos to autoplay. Flash, it said, can drain a user’s laptop battery faster.There are also security implications that Google didn’t mention. Vulnerabilities in Flash are one of the most common ways that malware ends up on computers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

SXSW Interactive 2016: Vote for CloudFlare’s Submissions

SXSW Interactive 2016: Vote for CloudFlare’s Submissions

SXSW Interactive 2016: Vote for CloudFlare’s Submissions

It’s that time of year again, when the end of summer is in sight, students are back in school, football is on TV again, and your social feeds are flooded with “vote for my panel at SXSW” updates. While it feels like our team was just at SXSW, it’s already time to start planning for SXSW ‘16. If these topics interest you, please take a minute to vote for them!

How to vote:

  1. Create an account here
  2. Enter your name & email address, then confirm your account
  3. Log-in with your new account and go to the “PanelPicker”
  4. Click “search/vote” and search for presentations by title

  5. VOTE!!

    *Voting ends on Friday, September 4th!

Just like last year, PanelPicker voting counts for 30% of a panel/presentation’s acceptance to SXSW. Check out the previews of our sessions below. Every vote counts!

CloudFlare's SXSW 2016 Submissions:


1) They’re Coming for our Internet: We can fight back
Join Matthew Prince, CloudFlare’s co-founder and CEO, for a presentation focused on Internet censorship and global security issues. Matthew will share how online censorship varies globally, and how tech giants should collaborate to expand the Internet’s reach, not divide it. He will also cover what your own personal rights are as an online user, and how you can better preserve them. If you're reading this blog post, this is a presentation you won’t want to miss!

Speaker:
Matthew Prince, CloudFlare

2) Innovating Like the “Early Days” 5+ years Later
Innovating is easy in the early days--especially without the legacy systems, prior customer commitments, or formal internal processes that come with time. Fast forward and you have more employees, customers, commitments, internal silos, and business goals than ever before. How do you maintain the agile innovation pace you had early on? This panel of builders and visionaries will share how they stay laser focused on what’s over the horizon, avoiding incrementalism. They’ll share how they keep their teams paving the way for others to follow.

Speakers:
Dane Knecht, CloudFlare
Charise Flynn, Dwolla
Marc Boroditsky, Twilio

3) PR for Startups: Low to No Budget Tips for Today
Learn how to drive PR for your startup--no matter how big/small you are or what your current role is. Join a former tech journalist and PR leaders from growth-stage and unicorn startups--across the enterprise, on-demand, and consumer technology industries--for a candid discussion on navigating the media landscape. Walk away with tips and tools (even free ones!) to drive awareness and take your company to the next level.

Speakers:
Daniella Vallurupalli, CloudFlare
Johnny Brackett, Shyp
Michelle Masek, Imgur
Ryan Lawler, 500 Startups

Please vote and help CloudFlare get to SXSW Interactive 2016! I can already taste the BBQ...

The ultimate auto-pilot software gets $15M boost

The development of an automated system that can help take care of flying an aircraft -- even perhaps helping pilots overcome in-flight system failures got another big boost this week when the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Aurora Flight Sciences $15.3 million to move development of the software into a second phase.DARPA says the Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System or ALIAS program, which was announced in 2014 envisions a tailorable, drop-in, removable software kit that allows the addition of high levels of automation into existing aircraft. “Specifically, ALIAS intends to control sufficient features to enable management of all flight activities, including failure of aircraft systems, and permit an operator to act as a monitor with the ability to intervene, allowing the operator to focus on higher level mission objectives,” DARPA stated.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

You built a cloud and now they want containers, too?

You built a private cloud at great expense and, despite the initial cost, real savings are being made. And even though you thought the cloud was just what your development teams wanted, they are now clamouring for containers. Why?

In common with most enterprise companies, you probably justified the investment in your cloud from an Infrastructure perspective with an emphasis on increasing utilization of physical hardware. The average utilization before virtualization was often below 10%, and virtualization as an enabler of workload consolidation has been a critical tool in ensuring that money spent on hardware is not wasted.

But – and it is a big but – typical enterprise private clouds offer little beyond cost savings and accelerated (virtual) machine delivery to the development teams who consume them. These are certainly valuable, but are rather short of the full promise of cloud.

To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

How emerging technology is changing K-12 classrooms

Though implementing one-to-one initiatives such as having a laptop for every student continues to be a primary focus for many school systems across the country, those who have already a 1:1 program are discovering new ways to shape student learning. Impressive technology trends are transforming traditional classrooms for students at every grade level.Robotics, makerspaces and wearables will be a few of the trends that join the ranks alongside teachers and students in the fall. “Research shows that this group of kids learns very differently from past generations,” says GB Cazes, vice president at Cyber Innovation Center recognized, Cazes says.“The use of cyber as a way to provide a context for the content is rapidly growing. We are putting them on a cyber-highway and providing them with on and off ramps,” says Cazes, who added that this is especially true in science and math. One exciting new tool, the Boe Bot robot, allows students to build a robot with a microcontroller. “There are no textbooks for the Boe Bot. The Boe Bot is the textbook, so you provide teachers with all they need and the students are learning programming and coding as they build,” Cazes says.To read this Continue reading

Monitoring Our Network Infrastructure With Sensu

Cumulus Networks provides a service known as the Cumulus Workbench. This service is an infrastructure made of physical switches, virtual machines running in Google Compute Engine (GCE), virtual machines running on our own hardware and bare metal servers. It allows prospective customers and partners to prototype network topologies, test out different configuration management tools, and get a general feeling for open networking. The workbench is also utilized for our boot camp classes.

Right now, we are completely rewriting the workbench backend! Many of the changes that we’re making are to the technical plumbing, so they’re behind the scenes. Monitoring the various workbench components is critical, as any downtime can easily affect a prospective sale or even an in-progress training session. Since our infrastructure is a mix of virtual machines, physical servers and switches, I needed one place to help me monitor the health of the entire system.

We use Puppet for automating our internal infrastructure. I chose Puppet since it holds most of my operational experience, but I firmly believe that the best automation tool is the one that you choose to use! If you want more details on how we use Puppet for automation, I will be speaking in Continue reading

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