Last week I had the opportunity to attend theAFCEA Homeland Security conferenceinWashington, D.C. Eleven days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the first Director of theOffice of Homeland Security was appointedleadi...
A consequence of the Moore Nielsen prediction is the phenomenon known as Data Gravity: big data is hard to move around, much easier for the smaller applications to come to it. Consider this: it took mankind over 2000 years to prod...
A couple of months ago I designed a Cisco Unified Wireless Network for an enterprise company. One of the big challenges was the ability to serve wireless guest services in the branch offices, which are connected to the headquarter...
Innovation. Change. Market transitions. This is the natural order when it comes to IT. Today's accelerated rate of technological change is disrupting all areas of IT, while at the same time creating new possibili...
After a metric ton of work by the entire community, Open MPI has released version 1.7.5. Among the zillions of minor updates and new enhancements are two major new features: MPI-3.0 conformance OpenSHMEM support (Linux only) S...
At CES this year we announced the expansion of Videoscape to the cloud. By launching Videoscape Cloud Software and Videoscape Cloud Services, we are empowering our customers with flexibility and agility to provision and scale infr...
Web surfers in February 2014 experienced a median malware encounter rate of 1:341 requests, compared to a January 2014 median encounter rate of 1:375. This represents a 10% increase in risk of encountering web-delivered malware du...
This post is co-authored with Levi Gundert and Andrew Tsonchev. Update 2014-03-21:For clarity, the old kernel is a common indicator on the compromised hosts. We are still investigating the vulnerability, and do not yet know what t...
SES ( soon to be called ClickZ) hosted a Digital Marketing Conference in Jakarta this week which is the meeting point for digital marketing and advertising professionals in the AP region.Here the latest mobile marketing...
This post was also authored by Min-yi Shen and Martin Lee. Security is all about probability. There is a certain probability that something bad will happen to your networks or your systems over the next 24 hours. Hoping that nothi...
As an SMB, you thought there are solutions/options completely out of your range -10 Gigabit, Virtualization, Stacking, 16TB Storage, POE+, Layer 3, etc. If I told you you can get all of the following (an entire future-proofed feat...
In this week's episode of Engineers Unplugged, Tim Swanson (@tiswanso) and Nigel Kersten (@nigelkersten) discuss NXOS and Puppet, and the Cisco/Puppet plug-ins created for configuring network switches. What does this mean? Watch a...