| Network World Daily News PM | | | | Google is taking another crack at email overload, but this time around it's resorting to drastic measures, developing a new product apparently built from scratch without relying on Gmail. | | | Issue highlights 1. Ubuntu turns 10: A look back at desktop Linux standard bearer 2. Startup wants to make cloud attractive for security-sensitive businesses 3. Windows 10 to get two-factor authentication built-in 4. Why EMC acquired VCE from Cisco 5. Apple: Internet Explorer? Never heard of it 6. INSIDER Free and cheap ways to learn about network administration 7. Get More Network World Newsletters! 8. Windows 10: A guided tour 9. Lawmakers call on FCC to reclassify broadband for net neutrality 10. Massive malvertising campaign on Yahoo, AOL and other sites delivers ransomware 11. Lufthansa leaves the computing to IBM 12. Digium Now Offers Cloud-based SIP Trunks 13. Jive integrates enterprise social suite with Google Docs 14. IDG Contributor Network: How to get started on a solar power project 15. How to fix the four most annoying quirks of Yosemite 16. 26% start holiday shopping before Halloween? 17. Best Tech-o-Lanterns 2014 18. Cisco slashes stake in VCE joint venture, EMC takes control | | WHITE PAPER: Flexera Software This paper presents seven best practices that have been identified based on the experiences of early adopters and research from independent research. By applying these best practices, you can ensure success and maximize the value that your enterprise app store delivers. Learn More>> | | A brief history of Ubuntu, as alliterative as all-get-out. READ MORE | | After three years in stealth, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup named Bracket Computing launched a new computing system today that aims to make the public cloud more palatable for security-sensitive enterprises. Bracket uses what it refers to as "cells" that encapsulate an application and deploy it on to Amazon Web Service's or Google's IaaS public cloud. The system wraps the application with encryption and it automatically spreads the application out over multiple availability zones and regions to make it fault tolerant. + MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: Why EMC acquired Cisco's stake in VCE +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Microsoft is continuing its crusade to get CIOs interested in Windows 10, touting new security features that include two-factor authentication built directly into the OS.The effort to bake two-factor authentication into Windows 10 is intended at doing away with the old single-password method that has proven so insecure in recent years and has led to so many instances of system break-ins and data theft, according to Microsoft. With two-factor authentication, malicious hackers need to be in control of two pieces of information in order to break into a system, such as a password and a code sent to a user's device like a smartphone.Overall, Windows 10 will offer businesses enhanced security in areas like identity protection and access control, information protection and threat resistance, since security "has been central to many of the customer conversations I've had since we announced the availability of the [Windows 10] Technical Preview," wrote Jim Alkove in the blog post, referring to the pre-release version of Windows 10 that is publicly available for testing.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | This morning before its earnings call, EMC issued a press release stating it had acquired controlling interesting in the joint venture (JV) known as VCE. The JV was created by Cisco and EMC with minority investments from VMware and Intel to create the converged infrastructure market. Following the acquisition, EMC will own 90% of the JV, with Cisco maintaining about a 10% stake in the company.The companies formed VCE to develop an integrated, validated, pre-tested converged solution that customers could use to stand up a private cloud in just a few days. There are literally tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands, of configuration parameters required to stitch V, C and E together. The JV took much of the mystery out of that, at least 80% to 90%, with the remaining 10% to 20% being used to customize the solution for specific environments.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Apple on Tuesday told browser users to pay attention to warnings of insecure digital certificates after reports of a "man-in-the-middle" attack against iCloud.com in China was revealed earlier in the week.But Apple's support document, which illustrated the alerts that Chrome, Firefox and Safari post when they have encountered a self-signed certificate, omitted the most popular browser used in the People's Republic of China (PRC): Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE).MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: 10 (FREE!) Microsoft tools to make admins happier The omission wasn't a shocker: Apple narrowly couched the warning as solely aimed at iOS and OS X customers. "These attacks don't compromise iCloud servers, and they don't impact iCloud sign in on iOS devices or Macs running OS X Yosemite using the Safari browser," Apple said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Although degrees and IT certifications can be great eye candy for a resume, experience is king. As you may have encountered, a lack of experience can be a major roadblock to getting interest from employers in your early years.Project 6: Play with network emulators or simulatorsTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE | | WEBCAST: AT&T Cloud Services have transformed the way businesses operate and manage IT. Join us for this on demand virtual event and hear from IDC's Melanie Posey and AT&T NetBond VP René Dufrene as they explore the cloud models available and discuss why a network-enabled approach may be right for you. Learn More | | We have a wide variety of newsletters to satisfy all sorts of IT pros READ MORE | | Here are some of the most prominent changes to Windows 10 from its predecessor. READ MORE | | The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should reclassify broadband as a regulated public utility in order to achieve net neutrality, but take a "light touch" while doing it, a U.S. lawmaker said Wednesday.The FCC should be selective about what public utility-style regulations it should apply to broadband, Representative Anna Eshoo, a California Democrat, wrote in a letter to the FCC.FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, issued a net neutrality proposal in May that would allow "commercially reasonable" traffic management, but would not reclassify broadband. However, that route would not be "adequate to protect free speech, competition and the continued openness of the Internet," Eshoo wrote.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Malicious advertisements made their way last week to almost two dozen popular websites and used browser-based exploits to infect computers with CryptoWall, a nasty file-encrypting ransomware program.The malicious advertising, or malvertising, campaign was discovered by researchers from security firm Proofpoint and had an impact on visitors to at least 22 popular websites including Yahoo's Finance and Fantasy Sports sites, realestate.aol.com, theatlantic.com, 9gag.com and match.com."All told, more than 3 million visitors per day were potentially exposed to this malvertising campaign," the Proofpoint researchers said in a report published Wednesday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Getting out of the business of designing and running computer systems, German airline Deutsche Lufthansa AG is selling its IT services division to IBM and having Big Blue run its internal IT operations.The deal, announced by Lufthansa on Wednesday, comes about as part of the break-up of Lufthansa Systems, a subsidiary of the airline that provides systems integration services.Two divisions of that subsidiary, Airline Solutions and Industry Solutions, will now operate independently, while a third—the IT infrastructure division—will be sold to IBM, according to Lufthansa.The deal is not yet complete and is still subject to "final negotiations," the airline said. IBM didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Two announcements in the news today from Digium: the company has expanded its cloud offering to include IP trunks and, in separate news, announced the release of Asterisk 13 with hundreds of new features.Digium SIP Trunking, now offered as part of the latest Digium Cloud Services (DCS), provides VoIP connectivity for Switchvox, Digium's Unified Communications (UC) system. Digium SIP Trunking is available in two pricing plans. The channelized plan offers unlimited usage at a flat rate. A metered plan is also available for customers that need more flexibility. Digium SIP Trunking also provides unlimited free calls between DCS customers. Pricing starts at $18.45 per month for channel plans with unlimited minutes, and $0.015 per minute for metered plans.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | WHITE PAPER: BMC Software Enterprise IT operations teams are struggling to keep pace with the business as well as cope with new technology trends. Find out about a new solution that allows for increased critical business insight and a modern user experience. Learn More | | As it fights to remain a leader in enterprise social networking (ESN) among giant rivals, pure-play vendor Jive Software has been furiously integrating its suite with the most popular business software, now adding the Google Docs productivity applications.With the Connector for Google Docs, users will be able to create, call up, co-edit and add comments to Docs, Sheets and Slides files from within the Jive suite's interface. Jive users will work on the same live documents residing in Google data centers, so all changes and comments will be visible right away to people accessing the files from within the Google environment.The decision to build this new "connector" came from the realization that the use of Google Docs has been growing very quickly among its customers, said Clara Liang, Jive's chief product officer.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | If you're looking to power projects, whether it be a fully-fledged data center or just a hobby shack in the yard, you've likely looked at expensive solar options.Well, a recently released report confirms what we might have suspected - solar prices are indeed dropping, and dropping hard.The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory reckons distributed solar photovoltaic, or PV system, prices were down 12% to 19% in 2013, and will continue to drop by a projected further 3% to 12% by the end of 2014.The report says prices will continue to fall after that.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | OS X 10.10 Yosemite is out, and, while there aren't many surprises in the interface—which Apple has been showing off since June—users are getting their first tastes of the new look and new features. And many of them are finding that there are some annoyances the way Yosemite displays (or doesn't display) certain things. Here are my top four Yosemite annoyances and how you can fix them.Banish translucency I don't get the whole thing about translucency. It certainly looks cool, and the technology required to render both a translucent menu and what's behind it is probably quite complex. But what's the point of translucency? Is it simply, to paraphrase Steve Jobs, when he presented the rotating cube that displayed with Fast User Switching back in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, "Because we can?"To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | My mother, who passed away about 25 years ago, would have approved because she did it, but I simply cannot imagine starting my Christmas shopping already when I'm still short one Halloween costume for the kids.Yet an article on Google's "Think with Google" reports: People are starting their research early, and retailers are stretching Black Friday promotions across November, changing the focus from just one day to a month-long event. More than half of consumers surveyed said they'll start their research before Thanksgiving, with 26% of shoppers starting before Halloween.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | We've updated our collection of cool, scary and fun pumpkin carvings from around the web, with social media and other topics trending hot. READ MORE | | EMC confirmed on Wednesday that its VCE converged infrastructure joint venture with Cisco and VMware is heading into a new phase, with EMC taking control of the business and Cisco drastically cutting its stake in it. READ MORE | | WHITE PAPER: ForgeRock Forrester finds that to achieve this securely, companies need identity and access management (IAM) platforms that are adaptable, scalable, responsive, and high velocity. View now>> | | | | | | | | | |
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