Why One CIO Is Saying 'No' to BYOD

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Why One CIO Is Saying 'No' to BYOD

A growing backlash threatens to thwart the BYOD trend. The CIO of a large electrical contractor explains why his company will "never have a BYOD environment.'

Issue highlights

1. 10 things to know about the smartphone kill switch

2. HP refreshes enterprise switch line

3. Microsoft fixes Exchange Online outage after almost 9 hours

4. 4.7 and 5.5-inch iPhones slated to go on sale simultaneously this Fall

5. Police turning to mobile malware for monitoring, study says

6. Dell Storage branches out with midsize arrays, software-defined appliances

7. The PSTN transition to VoIP: Going green

8. Former NSA director defends data collection, cloud security

9. Startup offers Netflix-like clothes rental for women (video)

10. Smooth like btrfs: Inside Facebook's Linux-powered infrastructure

11. Montana data breach exposed 1.3 million records

12. Verizon's videoconferencing offers virtual doctor visits via smartphone

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10 things to know about the smartphone kill switch

Apple already has one, Microsoft and Google say they'll build one, Minnesota will demand it from next year and it could soon be the law in California and maybe nationwide. The smartphone kill switch appears to be on its way to every handset sold in the U.S. so what's all the fuss about? Here's a look at the main points of the technology.What is it?For more than a year, law enforcement officials across the U.S. have been pressuring the telecom industry to do more to combat smartphone theft and the kill switch has been proposed as the answer. It's a piece of software installed in every new phone that can disable a stolen handset.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

HP refreshes enterprise switch line

HP this week is refreshing its 5400 series switch line with new chassis that features double the switching capacity of its predecessor. 5412r zl2 switch HP's next-generation 5400R zl2 switch series features a 2Tbps HP-developed ASIC and support for OpenFlow 1.3. HP is a strong proponent of SDNs architecture to the OpenFlow model of decoupled control and forwarding planes.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

Microsoft fixes Exchange Online outage after almost 9 hours

Microsoft has finally fixed an Exchange Online outage that left affected users without access to email for almost nine hours on Tuesday, prompting many to vent their frustration online as they struggled to get their work done.The company hasn't said how many customers were impacted, but judging by the volume of complaints posted in discussion forums and social media sites, it must have hit a substantial number of users.Plus, the length of the outage, and the fact that it struck during U.S. work hours, makes it a significant and embarrassing one for Microsoft, which is locked in a fight with Google in the cloud communication and collaboration software market.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

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Police turning to mobile malware for monitoring, study says

Governments are increasingly using spyware for mobile devices to monitor targets, raising questions over the possible misuse of such tools, a new study suggests.The Citizen Lab, part of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, and Kaspersky Lab both published analyses on Tuesday of a surveillance product called Remote Control System (RCS) from Hacking Team in Italy.Hacking Team is one of a handful of companies, including the Gamma Group, specializing in what are essentially malicious software programs designed to intercept data but intended for governments and law enforcement.The Citizen Lab has long expressed concern in other published research over the use of the tools by governments, which it has concluded have been employed to suppress speech and monitor political opponents in the past.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

Dell Storage branches out with midsize arrays, software-defined appliances

Dell plans to expand its storage lineup with a series of midsized SAN arrays and a portfolio of software-defined storage systems, furthering two prominent industry trends.The new arrays will be configurable as hybrid or as all flash and will undercut competing solid-state arrays in a market where flash storage is getting more competitive with disk drives, according to Dell. The SDS (software-defined storage) appliances are based on a startup's software that runs on standard hardware. Both were announced at the Dell User Forum in Miami on Tuesday.The SC4000 series of SAN (storage area network) arrays brings most of the features of the SC8000 series to enterprises with smaller storage requirements. Those products will tackle a multibillion-dollar market that Dell has never addressed, taking on other midrange arrays priced between US$25,000 and $50,000, said Travis Vigil, executive director of Dell Storage.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

The PSTN transition to VoIP: Going green

We've discussed some of the advantages of transitioning the PSTN to IP, but there we haven't yet covered the environmental implications of the pending transition. At their annual partner conference Perspectives14, GENBAND hosted a discussion which addressed the power costs behind the PSTN, pointing out the benefits an IP transition.In advance of that panel, GENDBAND released a statement with some insightful statistics that qualify those benefits: "The central offices that power the PSTN in the U.S. use more than 12 billion kilowatt hours of power every year, which compares to the power consumption of more than one million homes annually and the CO2 emissions of more than two million cars. PSTN phase-out options and new approaches for supporting network modernization . . . would reduce energy and water usage costs by 70%; real estate by 85% and CO2 emissions by 40%."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

Former NSA director defends data collection, cloud security

Former National Security Agency director Gen. Keith Alexander claims the media leaks by Edward Snowden about how the NSA conducts cyber-espionage have undermined national security …. and he ardently defends those NSA bulk collection practices. But that was just one theme Alexander took up in his keynote address at the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit here today: He's also bullish on cloud security and spoke about some experiences the NSA has had with it. Just retired from the NSA in March, Alexander has also set up a new consultancy called IronNet Cybersecurity. Without mentioning former Snowden or any specific news organization, Alexander said the revelations about the tools and processes the NSA uses to conduct mass surveillance have had a "devastating" impact on national security. "It's devastating not only for our country but for Europe," he said, adding he thinks that Islamic militant terrorist organizations seem "to be learning from these leaks" and evading some detections.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

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Startup offers Netflix-like clothes rental for women (video)

San Francisco-based startup Le Tote offers a Netflix-style subscription service for women's clothing. For $49 a month, customers get a box with a new outfit and accessories that they can keep... READ MORE

Smooth like btrfs: Inside Facebook's Linux-powered infrastructure

Facebook engineer Chris Mason is unequivocal about the primacy of Linux in Facebook's storage infrastructure."If it runs on a computer, and it's storing important data," he said, "it's running Linux."Mason, speaking at the Linux Enterprise End-User Summit on Monday in New York, joined Facebook just six months ago in order to spearhead the social network's move to btrfs (usually pronounced "butter eff ess."), the Linux-based file system that he created in 2008 while working at Oracle.+ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: Why Facebook's SDN switch won't affect Cisco's customers | OpenStack chair: Linux at the cutting edge of the cloud +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

Montana data breach exposed 1.3 million records

Up to 1.3 million records, including health care and bank account information, may have been exposed after a server at Montana's public health department was hacked in May, the state said Tuesday.The server, which belonged to the Department of Public Health and Human Services, was shut down on May 22, a week after suspicious activity was noticed and an independent forensic investigation began, according to a news release.The state said it has no knowledge if data on the server was inappropriately used or accessed. The data was backed up.The server held information such as names, addresses, birth dates and Social Security numbers for services citizens had applied for or received. For some people, the information may have included data on health assessments, diagnoses, treatment, health condition, prescriptions and insurance, the state said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

Verizon's videoconferencing offers virtual doctor visits via smartphone

If you're sick with a cold or the flu while traveling, Verizon's new videoconferencing technology could help you reach a doctor for a quick consult from a smartphone or tablet.The Virtual Visits technology is designed to offer security and high-quality videoconferencing to health systems, employers, hospitals, retail pharmacies and others. Verizon hasn't announced the U.S. healthcare providers that would participate, but is expected to do so in a few weeks. Depending on their insurance, patients could end up paying the cost of a co-pay for the service.MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: 12 most powerful Internet of Things companies Physicians, nurses and other clinicians will use a two-factor authentication protocol to join a videoconference, and a patient's medical records will be stored in a secure Verizon Cloud, which is designed to meet federal HIPAA standards for privacy. All the data is encrypted during the call and while it is stored in the cloud.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE

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