Air Force veteran to IT: 'Live your dreams'

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	Air Force veteran to IT: 'Live your dreams' Retired Air Force Major Brian Shul isn't an IT expert, but his story of survival and recovery captivated the IT audience at a national management conference. A fighter pilot during Vietnam, he was shot down near the Cambodian border as the war was ending. Shul was so badly burned that he wasn't expected to survive. He nearly didn't. Read More WEBCAST: Ciena Corporation Security+ Guide to Network Security Fundamentals Serious IT breaches happen too often. Is there a way to reduce or eliminate the impact on consumers? Attend this Live Webinar Dec. 2nd,1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT to learn methods for protecting your information resources. Learn More In this Issue Obama: Broadband should be regulated as a utility Cisco, Arista disaggregating? Juniper ousts CEO Kheradpir Pica8 blends SDN with traditional networking Cisco patches serious vulnerabilities in small business RV Series routers Hot products from AWS: reInvent 10 open source projects proving the power of Go Obama's net neutrality proclamation won't help solve the problem Industry reacts to Juniper CEO's ouster after just 1 year on the job Improving performance and security with a visibility plane in virtual network infrastructures WHITE PAPER: Curvature The State of IT Infrastructure & Operations The challenge that IT decision-makers face is the pressure to reduce costs paired with the pressure to progress digital maturity. Curvature analyzes why businesses miss significant CapEx and OpEx cost savings and how to refocus IT strategy. View now Obama: Broadband should be regulated as a utility President Barack Obama has made his strongest statement on net neutrality to date, calling on the Federal Communications Commission to reclassify broadband as a regulated utility, and to prohibit broadband providers from charging Web content producers for paid traffic prioritization. Read More Cisco, Arista disaggregating? Should Cisco and Arista make like Cumulus Networks and develop versions of their operating systems for bare metal hardware? If the market shifts dramatically toward white box switching from brand name networking, they may have to. Read More Juniper ousts CEO Kheradpir Removed by board after review of customer negotiation; Rahim takes over; Kriens cites industry doubt about leadership in internal memo obtained by Network World Read More WHITE PAPER: Agari Find Out How Vulnerable Your Industry is to CyberAttack Download Agari's quarterly TrustIndex report for an in-depth look at where consumers are most protected or vulnerable to email attack across industry sectors including Financial Services, E-Commerce, Social Media, Travel, Logistics and Gaming. Read now! Pica8 blends SDN with traditional networking As hot as the topic of software defined networking (SDN) has been over the past few years, many organizations have stayed away from it. It's not because SDNs don't provide value, but because the technology can be quite disruptive to network operations. Read More Cisco patches serious vulnerabilities in small business RV Series routers Cisco Systems released patches for its small business RV Series routers and firewalls to address vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands and overwrite files on the vulnerable devices. Read More Hot products from AWS: reInvent As the show gets rolling this week, here are some of the products on display. Read More WHITE PAPER: Curvature Smart Companies are Migrating their Maintenance Contracts By refocusing their strategy to maintenance contracts that are independent of OEM policies, companies can maximize their IT budget while managing their infrastructure more efficiently. Read about alternative strategies and debunk IT market myths. View now 10 open source projects proving the power of Go A mere five years in the wild, Google's Go is a language on the cusp. Lightweight and quick to compile, Go has stirred significant interest from early adopters due to its generous libraries and abstractions that make it easier to program concurrent and distributed (read: cloud) applications. Read More Obama's net neutrality proclamation won't help solve the problem It's no secret where I stand on the concept of net neutrality. I firmly believe that the Internet should be equally open to all comers, and that if companies and consumers are paying for internet access they should get equal access to the entire internet, not just the parts their provider is getting paid to provide. Read More Industry reacts to Juniper CEO's ouster after just 1 year on the job [View the story "Tech world reacts to Juniper CEO's ouster after just 1 year on job" on Storify] Read More Improving performance and security with a visibility plane in virtual network infrastructures Software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) promise numerous benefits, but adding layers of network abstraction come at a cost: visibility into the traffic traversing the links at the physical layer. The migration to ever-faster networks is compounding this challenge because virtually no network monitoring, management or security tool today is capable of operating at 40Gbps or 100Gbps. Read More
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