With internet connection reaching new heights, ITU looks to the IoT

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	With internet connection reaching new heights, ITU looks to the IoT The number of connected people on the planet has reached 3.2 billion, according to a report from the International Telephone Union (ITU.) Managers, marketers, engineers, and designers who are building mobile and internet products for international consumption should read the full report. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: ExtraHop Networks Designing and Building an Open ITOA Architecture With the aim of providing practical and prescriptive guidance, this paper introduces a taxonomy that covers the primary data sets that serve as the foundation of Open ITOA. Learn more >> In this Issue Handicapping Enterprise Security Vendors DARPA wants early warning system for power-grid cyberattacks Considering a hardware RAID? Here's what you need to know VPN bug poses privacy threat to BitTorrent downloaders It's cloud soon gone, HP aligns with Microsoft Azure IDG Contributor Network: Equinix extends AWS Direct Connect to London, Dallas How to get the most out of an IT outsourcing vendor visit WHITE PAPER: VMTurbo, Inc. Demand-Driven Application Control: Assuring App Performance In this paper, we examine the evolution of enterprise applications, the data centers in which these applications reside and the increasing expectations of businesses and end-users on the Quality of Service (QoS) their applications deliver. Learn More Handicapping Enterprise Security Vendors In the course of my average work day, I try to read all the cybersecurity news I can.  I came across a very good article in Forbes that looks at the cybersecurity opportunities for companies like IBM, Cisco, Dell, and others.  The article points out that the market for cybersecurity products and services is estimated at $77b today, growing to $120b by 2020.  That’s a lot of firewalls, AV software, and identity tokens!Since I agree with some of the author’s points and disagree with others, I decided to post my own thoughts on my list of leading enterprise security vendors.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More DARPA wants early warning system for power-grid cyberattacks Developing systems to protect the nation’s electric grid has been a key goal for many public, private and government developers for years – yet exerts say the grid is still largely vulnerable of serious cyberattackers.The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking to bolster the nation’s grid defenses with a system called Rapid Attack Detection, Isolation and Characterization (RADICS) that will detect and automatically respond to cyber-attacks on US critical infrastructure.+More on Network World: 21 more crazy and scary things the TSA has found on travelers+To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WHITE PAPER: VMTurbo, Inc. Assuring Application Performance at Scale This paper explores the benefits of incorporating network traffic to topology information in VM placement decisions, as well as the integration between VMTrubo and Arista Networks. Learn More Considering a hardware RAID? Here's what you need to know It’s quiz time: what’s the single most important thing in your Mac computing environment? Is it the actual Mac model you use? Is it the size of the display attached to the Mac? The speed of the CPU? The amount of memory? The size of the hard drive? The speed of and memory on the graphics card? The network connectivity?While all of those may seem important, I would argue that the most important thing in your Mac computing environment isn’t any of those things. In fact, it’s nothing you can directly touch or see. It’s your data. Whether that data is photographs or text documents or code or 3D CAD drawings or digital artwork, it’s your data that’s truly important. All the other stuff is hardware, and is easily replaced. Your data is irreplaceable. That’s why you have a backup plan, right?To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More VPN bug poses privacy threat to BitTorrent downloaders A bug affecting some VPN services can be used to figure out a computer's real IP addresses, including those of BitTorrent users, which could pose a huge privacy and possibly a legal risk.The vulnerability affects those services that allow port forwarding, according to VPN provider Perfect Privacy, which wrote about the issue on Thursday.A successful attack requires a couple of conditions to be met: the attacker must be on the same VPN network as the victim, who also has to be lured into connecting to a resource controlled by the attacker.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WEBCAST: IBM Enabling Multi-Speed IT Transformation Cloud, Mobile and Social are today's communication and engagement models for customers, employees and partners. And to support these models, your infrastructure needs to be simple, flexible, stable, scalable and highly secure. Learn 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 IDG Contributor Network: Equinix extends AWS Direct Connect to London, Dallas Equinix has, over the past several years, played the role of connector between a number of public cloud vendors and organizations' existing IT assets. It's a natural move for Equinix, which, as a global vendor of data center space, is an important utility provider, but obviously doesn't really play much up the value chain. Direct Connect helps them to change that, allowing companies to connect their privately owned and managed infrastructure to AWS. It also performs a similar role for other public cloud platforms, Microsoft Azure for example.The reasons for providing these connections are obvious - privacy, security, throughput, and application performance all benefit from these high-spec pipes. A recent study released by Equinix, titled Enterprise of the Future, found that by 2017, 84% of IT leaders will deploy IT infrastructure where interconnection – defined as direct, secure physical or virtual connections  – is at the core, compared to only 38% today. Don't let it be said that interconnection is not an important part of the modern enterprise IT organization.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More How to get the most out of an IT outsourcing vendor visit IT organizations are conducting fewer site visits before signing new offshore outsourcing deals. IT leaders “due to a sense of urgency in the sourcing and selection process, lack of time and the cost of the travel investment” are less inclined to take the long-distance trek, says Steven Kirz, partner with outsourcing consultancy Pace Harmon. “Also there is a perceived lack of benefit from these trips.”But the main reason this important due diligence step may have failed to deliver in the past was that the wrong person was making the journey at the wrong time, says Kirz. “This type of trip is not for the CIO – it is for the key IT staff members who are tasked with making the outsourcing relationship work and will be engaged with the service provider on a day-to-day basis,” he explains. “Also, the best time to go is before final section, when there is a short list of providers, as the visit allows direct interaction with the provider team leads to judge quality and identify and resolve potential issues before final selection.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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