Cisco updates CCIE, CCNA certifications: What you need to know

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	Cisco updates CCIE, CCNA certifications: What you need to know Last week, Cisco announced some changes to its CCIE Data Center and CCNA Security certifications to prepare IT pros for the evolving IT landscape. Read More   WHITE PAPER: IBM Corporation   4 Keys to Making the Most of IBM Control Center Making sure your supply chain and internal business processes are efficiently connected can be extremely difficult, especially in today's complex, volatile business environment. Learn More In this Issue Kalinin nuclear power plant's new neighbor will be a data center INSIDER Get started with Windows PowerShell DSC After breach, Cisco takes cert tracker offline VCE integrates Cisco's ACI to simplify SDN deployments Microsoft's PowerApps spices up its secret cloud sauce Millions of embedded devices use the same hard-coded SSH and TLS private keys It's cloud soon gone, HP aligns with Microsoft Azure HP bows out with a 9 percent drop in sales : APC by Schneider Electric   eGuide: Data Center Efficiency In this eGuide, Computerworld, CIO, and Network World examine recent trends and issues related to data center efficiency. Read on to learn how a more efficient data center can make a difference in your organization. Learn More Kalinin nuclear power plant's new neighbor will be a data center Kalinin nuclear power plant's new neighbor will be a data center.The plant, near the city of Tver, is close to fiber-optic lines between Moscow and St Petersburg, providing the future data center with the double advantage of reliable power and fast communications links.When completed, the data center will be the largest in Russia, with a capacity of up to 10,000 racks, the company claims.Construction work will begin shortly, plant director Mikhail Kanyshev said Monday. The first phase is due to enter service in March 2017, and the second a year later, he said.Nuclear reactors need to run continuously, and so are a good match for loads that, like many data centers, run 24 hours a day. RosEnergoAtom expects the Kalinin data center to consume about 80 megawatts. That's just 2 percent of the neighboring power plant's generating capacity: Its four reactors are rated at 1 gigawatt each.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More     INSIDER Get started with Windows PowerShell DSC In today's cloud-centric world, we're seeing an explosion in the number of servers under IT management. Virtual machines made servers cheap, and containers will push prices down further. As a result, businesses can afford to deploy a server for every new need, but they can no longer afford to manage servers individually. Your servers no longer garner individual attention but are simply soldiers in a huge resource pool, dutifully fulfilling the resource requests of the data center.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More   WHITE PAPER: Neustar Inc   Neustar DDoS Attacks & Protection Report October 2015 Neustar surveyed approximately 760 IT professionals in North America and the EMEA region to provide a comprehensive view of the persistent DDoS attack landscape, and learn what companies are doing to mitigate risk. As an institutionalized threat, DDoS attacks are no longer a matter of if or when, but how often. Learn More After breach, Cisco takes cert tracker offline Cisco has taken its training certification tracker offline after a "limited" data breach earlier this week at Pearson VUE, which maintains the system for Cisco and other companies. In a blog post, Cisco says the breach exposed only the names, addresses, e-mail addresses and phone numbers of CCIE, CCNA, CCNP and other Cisco certification candidates. Certification testing tools themselves have not been affected, according to the Cisco blog post:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   VCE integrates Cisco's ACI to simplify SDN deployments VCE, the company that started off as a joint venture between VMware, Cisco, and EMC, has been highly successful in simplifying the process of deploying converged infrastructure. Its flagship product, Vblock, enables customers to deploy a private cloud using a converged system from the three founding vendors. As widely deployed as VMware, Cisco, and EMC are, most customers do not have the skills to deploy the three sets of infrastructure in an optimized way. I've discussed this challenge with VCE and they've told me there are literally hundreds of thousands of configuration parameters, and VCE has done all of the heavy lifting to remove the complexity of deployment (disclosure: VCE and Cisco are clients of ZK Research).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   WEBCAST: IBM Discover your Data Dilemma Join this on-demand webinar to hear about how to identify redundant, obsolete, trivial and risky data. Learn More Microsoft's PowerApps spices up its secret cloud sauce In another rapid catch-up move to the cloud, Microsoft announced a new shortcut method to enable mobile use of line-of-business apps, PowerApps — not only on iOS and Android, but of course, Windows 10 and Windows 10 Phone. It's about turning apps—especially SaaS apps—into diversely mobile apps.Note that Apple's App Store and the Google Play store, among others, carry the client-side of these apps, but the back-end, server geometry of these apps has been dominated largely by a superfluity of cloud-based back ends, some on Apache/Tomcat, Nginx, in combinations with an increasing variety of relational and non-relational database infrastructure. A commonality: a wild west of server back-end structures.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Millions of embedded devices use the same hard-coded SSH and TLS private keys Thousands of routers, modems, IP cameras, VoIP phones and other embedded devices share the same hard-coded SSH (Secure Shell) host keys or HTTPS (HTTP Secure) server certificates, a study found.By extracting those keys, hackers can potentially launch man-in-the-middle attacks to intercept and decrypt traffic between users and millions of devices.Researchers from security firm SEC Consult analyzed firmware images for over 4,000 models of embedded devices from more than 70 manufacturers. In them they found over 580 unique private keys for SSH and HTTPS, many of them shared between multiple devices from the same vendor or even from different ones.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   It's cloud soon gone, HP aligns with Microsoft Azure   Hewlett-Packard Enterprise has partnered with Microsoft to offer its Azure cloud services to customers, filling a gap when HPE closes its own public cloud early next year.Microsoft will be a "preferred" public cloud partner to HPE, and HPE will become a "preferred provider" of Microsoft Azure services, CEO Meg Whitman said on HP's quarterly earnings call Tuesday. She didn't provide details but said they'll be forthcoming at HPE's Discover conference in London next month.It's no surprise to see HPE cut its first cloud deal with Microsoft rather than Amazon or Google. The companies work closely in servers and PCs, and they're both trying to sell customers a mix of on-premises and cloud products.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   HP bows out with a 9 percent drop in sales It was an inglorious ending but not a surprising one. The former Hewlett-Packard Co. logged an 8 percent drop in sales for its last quarter before breaking in two, perhaps a sign that it really is better off in two pieces.The old HP split into two companies on Nov 1, when Hewlett-Packard Enterprise was spun out as a separate business. HPE, as it likes to be called, now sells HP's data center products and services, while HP Inc. sells its printers and PCs.The old HP had been struggling for years as the PC industry withered, the market for high-end servers dried up and customers shifted spending to cloud services, an area where HP barely competes directly.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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