SDN in action: Hands-on with Cumulus Linux

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	INSIDER SDN in action: Hands-on with Cumulus Linux The stage is set for SDN (software-defined networking) to change the way we push data through our infrastructures, with the promises of more agile network provisioning and management, as well as more affordable network hardware. But for many, the SDN concept is still amorphous. What does SDN look like in practice? 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 Cisco open sources security New cruise ship a floating heaven for tech geeks Extreme extends SDN products, partners Gartner's cloud showdown: Amazon Web Services vs. Microsoft Azure Alcatel-Lucent virtualizes WANs and routers Google Internet balloon drops in on farmer USB Armory is the Swiss army knife of security devices Activists release Detekt tool that finds surveillance malware Microsoft Azure thrown out of gear during a performance update : Venafi Securing Keys and Certificates to Critical Assets Today's most devastating cyber attacks—including ShellShock, Heartbleed and Zombie Zero—prey on trust. And that puts your digital certificates at risk. This informative resource center explores how next-generation trust protection can help you combat today's attacks, ensuring trusted access to critical assets. Learn More Cisco open sources security Cisco this week announced the availability of an open source security framework designed to harness big data analytics to combat data loss. Cisco OpenSOC integrates elements of the Hadoop ecosystem, such as Storm, Kafka, and Elasticsearch, to provide a platform incorporating full-packet capture indexing, storage, data enrichment, stream processing, batch processing, real-time search, and telemetry aggregation. It also provides a centralized platform to enable security analysts to detect and respond to threats, Cisco says. Read More New cruise ship a floating heaven for tech geeks Walking up the gangway to board Royal Caribbean's tech-laden Quantum of the Seas, it was hard not to marvel. Across the harbor was Manhattan, and at 348 meters the new ship is almost as long as the Empire State Building is tall. But it's what the ship contains that made my inner geek salivate. Read More Extreme extends SDN products, partners Extreme Networks this week announced new products and technology partners for its Software Defined Architecture data center product line. Read More WHITE PAPER: Akamai The Importance of Improving and Adapting Web Security With so much depending on web site availability, Chief Security Officers are considering new ways to be cost-effectively proactive and vigilant. This paper looks at the challenges and options to web security deployment. Learn More Gartner's cloud showdown: Amazon Web Services vs. Microsoft Azure Gartner IaaS Research Director Kyle Hilgendorf says one of the most common questions he gets from enterprise customers looking to go to the cloud is: AWS or Azure? Amazon Web Services has been anointed the public IaaS cloud leader by Gartner and many others, but over the past year or so Satya Nadella's Microsoft has made significant advancements to its public cloud platform. AWS now has competition. Read More Alcatel-Lucent virtualizes WANs and routers Alcatel-Lucent's Nuage Networks SDN venture has broadened its product line to tackle enterprise WANs, an increasingly vital market for the technology. Read More Google Internet balloon drops in on farmer Buyers of the earthly explanation for whatever fell from the sky in Roswell, N.M. back in 1947 are likely to appreciate the reaction of a South African farmer who recently came across what he assumed to be a crashed weather balloon. In this case, however, the confusion proved only temporary. Read More WHITE PAPER: Presidio Top 5 Criteria for Data Center Transition to Private Cloud Converged Infrastructure Solutions are changing the game for data centers and private cloud implementations. How can you extend your data center into a private cloud? Top five recommendations for selecting converged infrastructures. View now USB Armory is the Swiss army knife of security devices "Where's Andrea?" That was the question on the lips of attendees at this week's No Such Con security conference. They were looking for Andrea Barisani, Chief Security Engineer of Italian security consultancy Inverse Path, and more precisely the prototype USB security device he was carrying. Read More Activists release Detekt tool that finds surveillance malware A free tool released Thursday allows users to scan their computers for surveillance malware that has been used in attacks against journalists, human rights defenders and political activists around the world. The open-source tool is called Detekt and was developed by security researcher Claudio Guarnieri. Read More Microsoft Azure thrown out of gear during a performance update A service interruption on Azure storage services late Tuesday was caused by Microsoft's attempts to roll out a performance update that had been earlier tested for several weeks. Read More
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