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	Directly connected to the Internet of Things Last week here in Backspin I discussed how real-world "things" that aren't easily augmented with digital instrumentation, such as bicycles, cars and even dogs, can be indirectly connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) using physical ID tags and online proxies. This is, as I pointed out, a powerful concept. Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed Technology Eliminate Network Finger-Pointing Cascade Demo: With Cascade, you get visibility into network optimization and analysis, application performance management, IT consolidation, and security. Watch as Jack, the manager of the network team, deals with user complaints about application performance. See how he uses Riverbed Cascade to solve them. Learn more! In this Issue Hacktivists take on 'Olympus Has Fallen' scare tactics style Verizon report: China behind 96% of all cyber-espionage data breaches Bringing the benefits of SDN to the enterprise (Hint: It's not SDN). Breaking down VMware's talk at ONS Life in a Dual Stack World Post Boston: Privacy advocates warn about coming tsunami of surveillance cameras Hacktivists take on 'Olympus Has Fallen' scare tactics style Twitter is a great place if you want news that is so red-hot off the press that the e-ink is still wet. But with the likes of the Syrian Electronic Army hijacking Twitter accounts and tweeting disastrous fake news as if Olympus Has Fallen is a reality and not a movie, Twitter is finally going to implement two-factor authentication. Read More WHITE PAPER: Netscout Systems Inc. Good APM Practices Get Results According to NetForecast's survey, enterprises with application performance management (APM) best practices benchmark scores above six on a ten-point scale experience 75% better results in critical areas. This research paper reveals the survey results as well as discusses the best practices for APM. Learn More. Verizon report: China behind 96% of all cyber-espionage data breaches Verizon's 2013 Data Breach Investigation Report is out and includes data gathered by its own forensics team and data breach info from 19 partner organizations worldwide. The report covers about 621 confirmed breaches and about 47,000 security incidents that occurred in 2012. Security incidents do not necessarily mean the attackers were able to breach an organization and could include DoS attacks. Read... Read More WHITE PAPER: VMware, Cisco and NetApp Oracle RAC Built on FlexPod with VMware This technical white paper for Database Administrators (DBA) and Data Architects demonstrates how enterprises can apply best practices to deploy Oracle Database 11g R2 GRID Infrastructure with RAC option. Read Now! Bringing the benefits of SDN to the enterprise (Hint: It's not SDN). Breaking down VMware's talk at ONS Read More Life in a Dual Stack World Last week was the 2013 North American IPv6 Summit conference. This was the 6th year of the IPv6 conference held in Denver, CO. One of the items that all attendees received at the registration booth was an IPv6 Buddy keypad. This got people thinking about what other changes we might expect to experience as we move into a dual-protocol Internet world. Picture of my new little IPv6 Buddy. Read More Post Boston: Privacy advocates warn about coming tsunami of surveillance cameras In The Dangers of Surveillance, Neil Richards, law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, made a case for legally recognizing why surveillance is harmful. Read More
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