Having been in the infosec world for more than 10 years, I have learned the hard way that there are some real issues around effective security for everyone. One of them is that security is hard and seems to be getting harder. As a result security is also very expensive. So expensive that only the largest of organizations who put a high value on securing their assets can afford it. Read more
Over the last week I have received many emails about a story on the net. The story is all about Cisco giving Purdue University a 76% discount on the Nexus Product line. How they got to that number was a combination of Cisco math (discount, trade in on obsolete Cisco Switches) of which every customer by now is used to. The comments vary a great deal, I have listed them below and removed names.
"What does this say about Cisco list pricing if they give 76% off to a customer" Read more
BitRock is the company behind Bitnami.org the developers of the popular pre-packaged open source packages that more than one million people have used. In addition to the open source packages from Bitnami, BitRock's installers allow many companies to package their software and make it easy to install on a wide variety of platforms including Windows, Mac and Linux. Read more
Bringing a state-of-the-art cloud offering to market is not easy task. There is much more involved then just spinning up a VM server with some storage. Logicworks has been a premier hosting provider for a long time. But when they decided to jump into the cloud market with their Infinicloud offering they turned to two trusted partners to help them. Read more
Recently we asked, are IT departments are too slow to patch Windows? Well today Microsoft announced a change to how it will rate exploits in regard to how vulnerabilities will affect newer and older platforms. This is meant to better help IT admins who cannot install all security updates at once. Read more
After reading that nearly half of U.S. PCs are infected by malware, Ed Bott at ZDNet called those statistics quoted by CNNMoney "bogus" and set out to get realistic numbers. Read more
This week I have streaming video content and TV on my mind. Actually I've had it on my mind for some time because some months ago I picked up a Panasonic BD 655 Blu-Ray player from Costco for $160.
This player comes with Panasonic's Viera Cast streaming service. Among the content sources supported is Netflix Watch Instantly which I immediately fell in love with.
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Friends, Romans, Countrymen. Lend me your ears. I come here today to bury Microsoft, not to praise them - Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation
My fellow Network World writer, Jon Brodkin has an article up today about an interview he had with Jim Zemlin, the Linux Foundation Executive Director. Zemlin is an unabashed Linux advocate and not a big fan of Microsoft. But even taking what he says with a grain of salt, you have to laugh when he says Read more
The open source and mobile computing communities were ablaze last week with the news that Google was "delaying" the release of the Android 3.0 OS codenamed Honeycomb to the open source community. Read more
Rumors are running rampant that tomorrow Amazon will announce that they are launching their very own Android App Store. This app store will compete with the Google run Android market already operating. Does the Android market need two app stores? I guess we will find out. More importantly for me though is that this is a bit of turnaround is fair play on Google. Read more
This is my first blog in a new technology area that I’ve been very involved with over the past year. I’ve worked my way into the promised land of virtualization in the process of achieving the VMware Certified Professional (VCP) and VMware Certified Instructor (VCI). This is my first blog out of many future blogs in which my role will be that of virtualization enthusiast. I hope you enjoy the blog, ask questions, post your own personal virtualization experiences, and feel free to collaborate. Read more
Open Source for America has released their study of which departments in the federal government are most open source aware and friendly. The results may surprise you. But before we get to the results, let me give you some background on Open Source for America: Read more
Before the Thanksgiving holiday I wrote a post about the security of open source apps in the health care field. It was itself in response to a post written by Rafal Los, a security researcher and evangelist with HP. Read more
Most SMB medical practices cannot afford the hefty price tag that larger commercial software development firms charge for their Emed software. As a result a thriving open source niche has sprung up to fill that vacuum. Read more
Over the last month I have received many emails talking about the new Umi Home Telepresence by Cisco Systems. While many have talked about the price of the system that they are seeing on the Best Buy's web page for pre-order ($599.98), others have asked about deals. This is the month for deals with Christmas coming soon and Black Friday is right around the corner. So, will we see a Cisco Telepresence product on sales during Black Friday? Read more
I am not sure why some people think this, but yesterday I read two articles that clearly seem to pit open source versus cloud solutions and open source versus managed services. In my mind nothing can be further than the truth. In fact open source is the great enabler of both of these technologies. Much of the underpinnings of the cloud are in fact open source based. Read more
Why can't I have logs with my Amazon Cloud? So asked Misha Govshteyn, CTO of Alert Logic on Secure Cloud Review in response to an article on logs and clouds by Andreas M. Read more
Next week, September 16-17 in San Jose, Ca, I will have an opportunity to visit with a number of vendors as I participate in the Networking Tech Field Day. I'd like to open up the opportunity for my readers to ask any questions they may have related to the following companies, their technology, and perhaps how it relates to your Cisco lives. Read more
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Microsoft's newest Small Business Server, codenamed “Aurora” works great. If so, Microsoft will be doing a big service for the small and mid-sized business -- leading them gently to the cloud. A preview version of Aurora was released by Microsoft yesterday. Read more
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