| Network World Daily News PM | | | | LAS VEGAS - Amazon Web Services operates at huge scale - in Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant the research firm estimated AWS's capacity at five times larger than the company's next 14 competitors combined. The cloud has 11 regions around the world made up of 28 availability zones, each of which has at least one data center and each data center has between 50,000 and 80,000 servers. Every day AWS adds enough new capacity to its cloud to power the needs of Amazon.com in 2004 when it was a $7 billion revenue company. And there was one thing AWS Vice President and Distinguished Engineer James Hamilton was worried would slow the whole thing down: the network.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here | | | Issue highlights 1. 8 free online courses to grow your tech skills 2. Google quadruples Nobel Prize in Computing to $1M 3. Cisco winning SDN battle: Chambers 4. iPad Pro production reportedly pushed back to Q2 2015 5. Microsoft open sources all of the .Net framework 6. Black Friday iPad fire sale at Staples 7. INSIDER IT resume makeover: Position your accomplishments for maximum impact 8. IDG Contributor Network: Redundancy and failover and HA, oh my! 9. IDG Contributor Network: How long until a 'free and infinite' cloud? 10. Microsoft to boost Active Directory protection with Aorato acquisition 11. FTC chair wants clearer disclosures to protect privacy 12. Hot products from AWS: reInvent | | WHITE PAPER: BMC Software In a first-of-its-kind study, IDC has documented the costs of business risks created when business and IT teams fail to communicate effectively. Hear how enterprises are addressing the friction associated with IT needs and the gaps and opportunities that exist between business needs and IT service delivery models. Learn More | | Free Online Tech CoursesAt one time, universities and colleges were institutes of higher learning for those who were passionate about acquiring knowledge. Today, education discussions tend to to center around how much individuals can make with their degree. Thanks to the Internet there are still places that offer open learning initiatives designed to help a new generation of technologists succeed. If money was the only thing holding you back from learning more about technology, we've got good news for you. There are many places offering free online tech training that while may not be degree/certificate driven can still give you a leg up on the competition.While many of the courses listed here offer either a certificate or credit for a fee, they also all are free for those who just want to learn about technology or add a new skill to their "toolbox."Introduction to LinuxHave you always wanted to learn more about Linux but never had the extra cash to inveset. This course offered through edX might be just what you're looking for. The Linux Foundation partnered with edX to offer this free Introduction to the Linux that covers familiarity with the graphical interface and command line as well as a look at all the major Linux distributions. The course gives an over view of the day to day working environment of a Linux administrator and covers pertinent tools and skills.The designers of the course estimate that a total of 40- 60 hours of study are required to accurately cover the material. Students have the option of auditing the course, at no cost. You get access to course materials, tests, assignments and activities. Those who audit and complete the course will receive a certificate of achievement, but for those wanting to add it as a bullet point on their resume there is a verified certificate available for a fee.Google Analytics AcademyWith the proliferation of the Web, online shopping and social media marketing, competition for organic search traffic has gone through the roof. Understanding your website's analytics can help you make better data-based decisions while at the same time improving the customer experience. Google knows this and would love for you to use its product, Google Analytics. So much so that they've created this online learning center that offers courses to help you better use the hidden data located within your site. Building Mobile ExperiencesAnother MIT offering through edX, Building Mobile Experiences, looks at the foundation for building mobile experiences. Mobile app traffic accounted for 55 percent of Web usage, surpassing desktop to become the dominant percentage of internet traffic, illustrating the need for today's developer to become acquainted with the process, design and skills necessary to build the next "big thing."Based on a poplar MIT class that's been taught since 2006, Building Mobile Experiences' primary focus explores the analysis of mobile user behavior and the implementation of those findings in the design process. The course length is 12 weeks and requires roughly 10-12 weeks of study per week. While there is some code writing required, the bulk of the course will be designing and evaluating what a "unique mobile experience" is.Students can pay to receive a verified certificate of achievement or audit the course for free and receive and Honor Code Certificate.Microsoft Virtual AcademyMicrosoft Virtual Academy offers a host of courses on mainly -- you guessed it -- Microsoft products. They offer courses on everything from game to cloud to app development and many more. There is no cost to participate but you must use a Microsoft account and create an MVA profile. Once you're logged in you can take courses or attend live events as well as build a learning plan and track progress towards your goals.UdacityUdacity got its start when Stanford University starting offering free computer classes in 2011. In April 2014, it boasted more than 1.6 million users. Its free tech offerings include HTML , Python, Intro to Data Science and many more. In fact, Google recently partnered with Udacity to bring Android development to the masses. Individuals who access the courses for free get access to course materials, like instructor videos and project instructions. AlisonAlison offers an array of free online technical courses covering everything from, building an online business, to C programming to several flavors of Adobe training. One of their more popular tech courses is, ABC IT - Computer Training Suite which teaches users the basics of computing.Altogether the e-learning provider reports more than 3 million have used its solutions to get educated and they offer more than 600 courses. They have roughly 106 technology courses available in their Digital Literacy and Skills section.Design and Development of Educational TechnologyMassachusetts Institute of Technology offers a course entitled, Design and Development of Educational Technology via Edx, a service offering interactive online classes and MOOCs from some of the world's most distinguished universities. The course runs six week and requires 4-6 hours of study each week. The course itself covers the evolution of educational technologies and how it's being used en masse.Enrollment for the most recent ended October 8th and the course will run for 6 weeks. It's unclear at this time whether it will run again before 2015.Harvard's CS50 Computer ScienceHarvard offers this introduction to computer science. Those who participate will get a foundation in basic coding and learn aspects of C programming, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and SQL. This is a great, free way for individuals who want to learn to code to get their wish. You can enroll for Harvard credit or earn a certificate of achievement for a fee. You can also audit the course for free. Those who audit the course and achieve a satisfactory level of work will receive an Honor Code certificate.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | ACM The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has announced that its annual A.M. Turing Award, sometimes called the Nobel Prize in Computing, will now come with a $1M award courtesy of Google. Previously, the award came with a $250K prize funded by Google and Intel. The award, which goes to "an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community," is generally doled out in February or March. This past March, the winner was Microsoft Research principal Leslie Lambert, a distributed computing wrangler.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Cisco CEO John Chambers is claiming victory in the company's battle with SDN. If you read or listened to his somewhat chilling comments during Cisco's Q1, FY 2015 quarterly conference call this week, it's "game over": We're winning big-time on Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and pulling away from the start-up competitors … we are not only pulling away from, I think, while they have news left on the table, I think, it's game over, I think we have got them.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | While Apple rumors are typically a dime a dozen, one can usually separate the wheat from the chaff when a particular rumor begins sprouting up from a number of different sources. We saw it last year amidst reports that Apple was working on a larger screened iPhone 6 and we're seeing it again with a steady stream of rumors which claim Apple is working on a larger screened iPad that many are already calling the iPad Pro.As we reported last week, the rumored iPad Pro will feature a 12.2 inch display and will come with 2GB of RAM along with the same blazing fast A8X processor already used in the iPad Air 2.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: SolarWinds® SolarWinds® Log & Event Manager is a comprehensive SIEM for any security pro. Increase security visibility with 24x7 automated monitoring and real-time analysis. Tackle log management and compliance monitoring with expert developed, pre-packaged templates. Perform rapid root cause analysis with built-in intelligence and strong visualization. Gain the power of SIEM without spending a fortune or hiring an army. Download a free, fully-functional trial and start analyzing your log files within an hour. | | In the latest sign that there is a new regime at Microsoft, the company announced it will release the full server-side stack of the .Net framework as open source code, and that Visual Studio 2013 will be free for small teams of developers. READ MORE | | Apple Staples for Black Friday 2014 will not only be offering deep discounts on older iPads, but will let you buy them via Apple Pay at some 1,400 retail locations.Staples otherwise isn't putting Apple products front and center. In promoting the top 10 gift trends for this holiday shopping season, Staples never even mentions any Apple wares, instead highlighting Jawbone and Fitbit wearables, and Asus and Samsung tablets.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Cameron Tate's is a seasoned IT leader. His resume was thorough, well-organized and detailed, but he wasn't getting the responses his extensive experience and impeccable credentials warranted.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE | | Two of the three don't matter. READ MORE | | : MoreDirect In this eGuide, Computerworld along with sister publications InfoWorld and CIO look at recent disaster recovery trends and offer expert opinions and advice. Read on to learn how the right disaster recovery efforts can protect your organization's data. Learn More | | Aaron Levie, CEO of Box, predicts "a future where storage is free and infinite." Just what's led to this startling forecast? READ MORE | | Microsoft plans to beef up Active Directory's security with machine learning technology from a startup it has acquired.The security technology from Aorato will give Microsoft customers "a new level of protection against threats through better visibility into their identity infrastructure," Takeshi Numoto, corporate vice president of Cloud and Enterprise Marketing at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post."With Aorato we will accelerate our ability to give customers powerful identity and access solutions that span on-premises and the cloud," he added.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | Online service providers need to do a better job telling users what information will be gathered about them and how it will be used, a top official at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday."It's crucial to provide some form of notice, like in the initial set-up of a device or app, about what information is collected, how it's used, and with whom it's shared," said Edith Ramirez, chairwoman at the FTC.Companies collect a staggering amount of personal data via apps and online services, and they're doing so in in increasingly sophisticated ways. But most people still don't understand what data is collected, and cryptically-worded privacy policies don't help.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE | | As the show gets rolling this week, here are some of the products on display READ MORE | | WEBCAST: IBM Join us for this webcast to hear from: Melissa Webster and Anthony Fiorot as they review the findings of IDC's recent analytical report titled: "The Business Value of IBM's Exceptional Digital Experience Solutions." Learn More>> | | | | | | | | | |
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