Are Your Tweets Really Your Own?

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We’ve all seen it recently. Twitter bios and blog profile pages with some combination of the following:

My tweets are my own.

Retweets are not endorsements.

My views do not represent my employer.

It has come to the point where the people in the industry are more visible and valuable than the brands they work for. Personal branding has jumped to the forefront of marketing strategies. But with that rise in personal branding comes a huge risk for companies. What happens when one of our visible stars says something we disagree with? What happens when we have to pull back?

Where Is My Mind?

Social media works best when it’s genuine. People sharing thoughts and ideas with each other without filters or constraint. Where it breaks down is when an external force starts interfering with that information exchange. Think about corporate social media policies that restrict what you can say. Or even policies that say your Twitter handle has to include the company you work for (yes, that exists). Why should my profile have to include miles of disclaimers telling people that I’m not a robot?

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Apple edges out Samsung in fourth quarter smartphone sales

Strong interest in the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus helped Apple sell more smartphones than Samsung in the fourth quarter of 2014.Apple sold 74.8 million smartphones globally during the fourth quarter, up from 50.2 million in the year-earlier quarter, according to Gartner. Apple’s decision to offer phones with larger screens paid off, the research firm said. U.S. and Chinese buyers are especially keen on the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus, said Gartner, adding that demand for the phones is still strong in both countries. The larger screens also gave Apple customers a reason to replace their older phones.Samsung, by comparison, sold 73 million smartphones in the fourth quarter, down from 83.3 million in 2013’s fourth quarter. Samsung had held the quarterly sales title since 2011.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Salesforce, SAP to get a shot of IoT data

The Internet of Things is really an Internet of data about things, and combining that information with other kinds of knowledge could add to its impact.At Mobile World Congress this week, data is starting to come together in new ways. One of the most powerful combinations may emerge from partnerships between IoT veteran Jasper Technologies and two software giants: Salesforce.com and SAP.Jasper sells a SaaS platform that companies use to monitor and control products or equipment in the field. It’s designed to handle all the functions involved in making money from a device or just using it within an enterprise, including setup, ongoing service and data collection. Jasper sells its SaaS through mobile operators, and the platform can be deployed through multiple carriers to give customers global reach.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Salesforce, SAP to get a shot of IoT data

The Internet of Things is really an Internet of data about things, and combining that information with other kinds of knowledge could add to its impact. At Mobile World Congress this week, data is starting to come together in new ways. One of the most powerful combinations may emerge from partnerships between IoT veteran Jasper Technologies and two software giants: Salesforce.com and SAP. Jasper sells a SaaS platform that companies use to monitor and control products or equipment in the field. It’s designed to handle all the functions involved in making money from a device or just using it within an enterprise, including setup, ongoing service and data collection. Jasper sells its SaaS through mobile operators, and the platform can be deployed through multiple carriers to give customers global reach.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Spock Encouraged Geeks to "Live Long and Prosper"

Spock Encouraged Geeks to "Live Long and Prosper"

by Brian Boyko, Contributor - March 3, 2015

When you think of how many ways “Star Trek” advanced society, there are a number of standouts. This includes everything from the treatment of then-modern social issues like civil rights and racism, to showing the irrationality of war when war with the Soviet Union seemed inevitable. But one that often gets lost in the shuffle is the idea that Star Trek started the ball rolling on what can be best described as “nerd pride.”

That is, while there were certainly smart, well-read, mathematical, logical people in 1966, before Star Trek, being a smart, technically minded person was - for most of society - a character flaw.

Indeed, being a “nerd” or a “geek” continued to be an insult first and foremost for decades afterwards. However, the thing about Star Trek is that it allowed some of our forefathers the ability to think of themselves as heroic. And that mostly had to do with giving young technical people a cherished role model - the character of Mr. Spock.

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Spain’s Telefonica goes virtual with HP

The push to virtualize mobile networks is picking up speed at Mobile World Congress this week as carriers and vendors promise new services and faster connections.Telefonica, the big international carrier based in Spain, plans to roll out a virtualized platform from Hewlett-Packard across its whole network in the coming years, a significant vote of confidence in NFV (network functions virtualization) only about four years after the concept emerged.NFV changes the back end of a carrier’s network from a set of specialized appliances into applications running on virtualized servers. The same way virtualization gives enterprise IT more freedom to deploy new capabilities, NFV should help carriers roll out new services and meet capacity demands.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Spain’s Telefonica goes virtual with HP

The push to virtualize mobile networks is picking up speed at Mobile World Congress this week as carriers and vendors promise new services and faster connections.Telefonica, the big international carrier based in Spain, plans to roll out a virtualized platform from Hewlett-Packard across its whole network in the coming years, a significant vote of confidence in NFV (network functions virtualization) only about four years after the concept emerged.NFV changes the back end of a carrier’s network from a set of specialized appliances into applications running on virtualized servers. The same way virtualization gives enterprise IT more freedom to deploy new capabilities, NFV should help carriers roll out new services and meet capacity demands.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Spain’s Telefonica goes virtual with HP

The push to virtualize mobile networks is picking up speed at Mobile World Congress this week as carriers and vendors promise new services and faster connections. Telefonica, the big international carrier based in Spain, plans to roll out a virtualized platform from Hewlett-Packard across its whole network in the coming years, a significant vote of confidence in NFV (network functions virtualization) only about four years after the concept emerged. NFV changes the back end of a carrier’s network from a set of specialized appliances into applications running on virtualized servers. The same way virtualization gives enterprise IT more freedom to deploy new capabilities, NFV should help carriers roll out new services and meet capacity demands.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Cisco unfazed by HP/Aruba

Cisco seems undaunted by HP’s nearly $3 billion acquisition of wireless LAN titan Aruba Networks. Cisco is the market leader in WLANs while HP gains a solid No. 2 position by acquiring Aruba.Said Jeff Reed, vice president of Cisco’s Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions Group: Enterprise mobility continues to be a key driver of growth in the networking industry. While some companies seek to bolt on wireless to their existing portfolios, mobility remains at the core of our networking business. As the clear market leader, we have delivered unified wired, wireless and cloud-managed platforms to our customers for years and will continue to do so.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

How Samsung’s Galaxy S6 stacks up against Apple’s iPhone 6 line

Samsung hit its mark with its Galaxy S6 announcement at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona this week.The company came prepared with an entirely new smartphone design and a concise explanation of the powerful hardware, rich display, strong security, great camera, and intuitive Android Lollipop software. The Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 Edge stood out as high-end hardware designed to compete with top-tier Apple and HTC smartphones.The S6's design and engineering afforded Samsung the luxury to concentrate on just the most important features during the announcement. It eliminated the temptation to add a bloated feature list that consumers often ignore and which mobile device companies are so often inclined to add during product announcements out of a desperation to differentiate me-too devices.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

AirWatch and Cisco help developers build enterpise-friendly smartphone apps

A group of companies, including Cisco Systems and mobile device management software vendor AirWatch, have joined forces to help enterprises take advantage of features that are integrated in Android and iOS.The companies have launched an initiative called ACE (App Configuration for Enterprise), which provides documentation for developers to help them build applications that can be more easily managed and secured.The first version of the ACE documentation covers six areas: remote app configuration, app tunneling, single sign-on, access control and security policies.There are tips regarding technical approach, security considerations, sample code and best practises. In addition to AirWatch and Cisco, development tool company Xamarin, online-storage vendor Box and ERP provider Workday are also helping get ACE off the ground. The group made the announcement Tuesday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Arista’s Cloud Network Solutions Validated by Market Share Gains

We are very pleased to report a major milestone for Arista Networks. According to the just released Q4’2014 Crehan Data Center Switch Market report, in the high-speed Ethernet switch market (defined as 10G Ethernet and above excluding blade switches) Arista’s port market share in 2014 rose to 9.3%, up from 6.7% in 2013. Our revenue market share for 2014 rose to 7.7% from 5.4% in 2013. All of this speaks volumes to the rapidly growing acceptance of our products by customers around the globe.

In the meantime, according to the same Crehan research report, Cisco’s port market share fell from 70.8% in 2013 to 66.1% in 2014, a loss of 4.7%. Cisco’s revenue market share declined from 74.2% in 2013 to 69.3% in 2014, a loss of 4.9% YoY. Again this speaks volumes to the decisions customers are making.

What is going on here? At the high level, it is very simple. Customers are transitioning away from legacy proprietary networking solutions and are embracing Arista’s cloud network architecture, a fully standards based solution that offer unparalleled scale, availability and open programmability.

Cloud Networking Has Arrived in Data Centers Everywhere

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EU data protection reform ‘badly broken,’ civil liberty groups warn

Leaked documents show that the European Union’s data protection is on its way to become an empty shell devoid of meaning, European civil rights groups warned Tuesday.The EU is busy overhauling its data protection rules, which date back to 1995. The European Commission and the European Parliament have already agreed on a draft regulation that seeks to modernize data protection rules to take new digital technologies into account.However, there is one more legislative body that has to sign off on the new rules: the Council of the EU, which consists of national ministers of EU member states.Since the Parliament approved the draft with minor changes in March last year, the Council has been busy changing the text. Ministers are expected to agree on how they want to reshape the text by Summer.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

orhanergun.net February 2015 Site Statistics

As a blog which mostly share network design articles and only launched less than 2 months before, traffic to orhanergun.net surprised me. Let’s see the page views,top articles,  top countries and top commenters. I am planning to advertise statistics every month, so you can see how the site which you follow/like performs. Statistics show only February… Read More »

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Plexxi Heads West: Big Data for Business

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Big data – a buzzword that every industry is trying to wrap its head around. But what does it mean for networking?

Plexxi’s Ed Henry had the opportunity to discuss big data fabrics and Plexxi’s perspective on tackling big data in networking at a Big Data for Business Meet-Up in Denver.

Ed shared insight into both the hardware (the components and switches) and software (affinity groups and links) and how the combination of the two is necessary to manage big data. Plexxi’s hardware/software approach integrated with Cloudera Manager allows companies to manage big data clusters and provisioned services. For more information on how Plexxi can help you define and manage your big data, contact [email protected].

This is the first of many meet-ups Plexxi will be attending to share networking and big data insights. Stay tuned to find out when we’ll be in a city near you. Are you planning an event and would like Plexxi to attend or present? Send us a note at [email protected]. We’re always interested in networking about networking!

 

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Aruba all-in-one box simplifies branch office communications

Aruba Networks today announced the availability of the 7000 series cloud services controller, an all-in-one box that aims to dramatically simplify branch office IT for far-flung businesses.The 7000 series combines a host of capabilities into a single unit, featuring a stateful firewall, deep packet inspection, WAN optimization, RF interference control and user access control, Aruba said.+ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: HP will buy Aruba to bolster its wireless networking business | Google's new campus plans hint at staggering ambitions | Will network disaggregation play in the enterprise? +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Is the Samsung Galaxy S6 a true iPhone 6 killer?

The Galaxy S6 is a great-looking phone with great specs -- but is it really an iPhone 6 killer? I've got specs and details. (Note that I'm comparing the non-curved version of the S6 to the iPhone 6, not the iPhone 6 Plus.)ScreenThe nod goes here clearly goes to the S6. It's got a 5.1-inch screen compared to the iPhone's 4.7-inch one. And it wins on resolution as well, 2560 x 1440 at 576 ppi, versus 1334 x 750 at 326 ppi for the iPhone 6.ProcessorThe S6 is powered by an Exynos 7 series quad 2.1GHz chip plus a quad 1.5Ghz, Octacore application processor. The iPhone 6, meanwhile, has an A8 64-bit chip. There's no real way to do a head-to-head comparison on this one, so we'll call it a tossup.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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