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SDN start-up reaches for its "Wedge" The Internet of Things at home: 14 smart products that could change your life Network World Daily News PM July 04, 2014 Share this email 20 great Firefox extensions READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. SDN start-up reaches for its "Wedge" 2. The Internet of Things at home: 14 smart products that could change your life 3. FTC: T-Mobile made hundreds of millions from unwanted SMS features 4. PayPal locks out ProtonMail, asks if encrypted email service has government approval 5. INSIDER Hadoop's success drives efforts to make it more secure 6. Gartner: Best practices for Amazon AWS security 7. 100Mb/sec Ethernet coming to a car near you? 8. Google reacts to Office 365 momentum with beefier Apps suite 9. Early user of VMware NSX net virtualization tool extols fine grain controls 10. 10 Microsoft research projects WHITE PAPER: Box Advantages of State-of-the-Art File Collaboration Today's employees expect high levels of simplicity and transparency when it comes to their ability to upload, download, share and communicate. This white paper explains why IT must stop thinking about point solutions and start considering a system that encompasses multiple aspects of collaboration. Learn more SDN start-up reaches for its "Wedge" Pluribus Networks, the SDN start-up with the server/switch combination and network hypervisor/operating system, is looking to make a gradual exit from the hardware end of that market. Pluribus this week said distributor Arrow Electronics will now supply the Pluribus-branded, 1RU E-68 Server-Switch that combines Broadcom Trident II chips with Intel Xeon server-class, multi-core processors. Pluribus Networks Pluribus announced its Freedom server/switch architecture with the Netvisor network hypervisor in February. The company's CEO is Kumar Srikantan, formerly vice president and general manager of hardware engineering in Cisco's Enterprise Networking Group, and caretaker of the Catalyst 6500 switch.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE The Internet of Things at home: 14 smart products that could change your life The Internet of Things is changing simple homes into smart homes, where everything from your lights to your locks can be controlled from your smartphone. Here are a few products that can help you get started. READ MORE FTC: T-Mobile made hundreds of millions from unwanted SMS features T-Mobile USA made hundreds of millions of dollars by charging customers for purported "premium" SMS subscriptions that, in many cases, they never ordered, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission says.The FTC, in a legal complaint filed Tuesday, alleged that T-Mobile pocketed 35 percent to 40 percent of the amount charged to customers for SMS-based services such as flirting tips, horoscope information and celebrity gossip, with the services typically costing US$9.99 per month.T-Mobile, in some cases, continued to bill customers for these services, offered by what the agency called "scammers," years after the company was alerted that the charges may have been fraudulent, the FTC said. The charges were often added to customers' bills through a fraudulent process called cramming, the FTC said. Cramming involves adding charges to bills without customers' approval.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WEBCAST: IBM The Next Generation of Big Data Learn about IBM's new and expanded Information Management capabilities now delivered in the cloud. Learn More PayPal locks out ProtonMail, asks if encrypted email service has government approval We previously looked at the huge demand for ProtonMail, an easy-to-use and free NSA-proof email service created by CERN and MIT scientists. It is based in Switzerland, meaning the U.S. government can't just hoover it up without an enforceable Swiss court order, which is hard to come by since the Swiss legal system has "strong privacy protections." The demand for the end-to-end encrypted email service was so high that ProtonMail ran out of a month's worth of server capacity in three days.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE INSIDER Hadoop's success drives efforts to make it more secure Talk about big data and it won't take long for Hadoop to appear in the conversation. The Apache open source software is used to orchestrate clusters of commodity computers to crunch information from mountains of data.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE Gartner: Best practices for Amazon AWS security Amazon's cloud service still needs security improvements says Gartner analyst. READ MORE RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Data+ Conference Are you monetizing your social data? Tweets, updates, likes and more; social media is rich with customer interactions and ripe with business intelligence that's yours for the picking. The challenge is in knowing how to analyze and optimize new data formats, including sensors to social, mobile and more. Learn how to manage and monetize your social data at the Data+ Conference, September 7-9, 2014 in Phoenix, Arizona. Sign up to attend free at: http://www.dataplusconference.com/NL 100Mb/sec Ethernet coming to a car near you? As more and more infotainment and crash avoidance technology gets stuffed to cars and trucks, the need for better, faster and more reliable in-car networking equipment grows. In theory at least. With an eye towards that concept the IEEE this week said it formed the 802.3 Single Twisted Pair 100 Mb/s Ethernet Study Group to explore the technological needs for a 100 Mb/s speed for Ethernet in automotive networking.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Google reacts to Office 365 momentum with beefier Apps suite Under pressure from Microsoft's Office 365, Google has launched a premium edition of Apps with unlimited cloud storage and extra IT controls, and has also improved the Docs office productivity suite.Although this new edition is essentially Apps for Business with an extra set of features, Google has branded it differently, shifting the spotlight from "apps" to storage by calling it Drive for Work.It's an acknowledgement by Google of the red hot popularity of cloud storage and file sharing services for personal and work documents, like its own Drive, which has about 190 million active home and business users, Microsoft's OneDrive and OneDrive for Business, and similar services from Box, Dropbox and others.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Early user of VMware NSX net virtualization tool extols fine grain controls Canadian airline company WestJet is one of the earliest customers of VMware's NSX network virtualization tools, which initially reached for the tech to address a security issue. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently sat down with WestJet technologist Richard Sillito to learn what the company is learning about network virtualization and its broader NSX plans.Let's start with a thumbnail description of your environment. We have two geographically dispersed data centers, a main data center with about 2,000 servers, 80% of them virtualized, and a second center with around 500 servers for disaster recovery. We also have a third collocated data center we're shutting down.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE 10 Microsoft research projects An early look at cutting-edge technology being developed by Microsoft READ MORE WEBCAST: Network Instruments 3 Choices for Effective UC Management This webcast discusses five best practices on how to successfully optimize and manage UC, as well as how to gain clear picture of overall performance and quickly troubleshoot when the inevitable issues arise. 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