Cisco lawsuits aside, Arista forges ahead with EOS

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New products of the week 12.08.2014 Building a private cloud, of sorts, with OwnCloud Network World Daily News AM December 10, 2014 Cisco lawsuits aside, Arista forges ahead with EOS As it faces down a litigious assault from rival Cisco, Arista Networks is enhancing its switch operating system to expedite DevOps deployments. Arista this week unveiled EOS+, a version of the operating system with deeper programmability and pre-integrated applications for customizing the network and tightening its alignment with the workloads it supports. EOS is at the heart of at least three lawsuits – two from Cisco last week and another from a company founder – filed against Arista this year, its first as a public company.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. New products of the week 12.08.2014 2. INSIDER Building a private cloud, of sorts, with OwnCloud 3. Father of Video Games Ralph Baer dead at 92 4. 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View now New products of the week 12.08.2014 Our roundup of intriguing new products from companies such as Microsoft and Watchguard Technologies READ MORE INSIDER Building a private cloud, of sorts, with OwnCloud Getting cloudy has always been a mixed proposition in the IT world. Your users want the convenience of using a variety of devices and having their work accessible on all of those devices from wherever they are, whereas you still have to worry about data security, lost computers, federal regulation and the control that is necessary to ensure your organization's information technology resiliency. Add the fact that most cloud services like OneDrive, Google Drive or Dropbox -- let's face it, the ones that your users want -- are consumer-oriented services that lack the ability to be managed and controlled centrally, and you have a face-off for the ages.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE Father of Video Games Ralph Baer dead at 92 ralphbaer.com Long before the Xbox came the Brown Box, a creation that defense contractor engineer Ralph Baer and colleagues built in the late 1960s that would become known as the first real video game system. The video game industry this week mourns Baer, a German-born American who has passed away at the age of 92.Baer worked on what would become the first multi-player video game console while employed at defense contractor Sanders Associates, which licensed it to TV maker Magnovox. That company brought the system to market in 1972 as the Odyssey, and spawned what is now an industry worth tens of billions of dollars.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Cisco Catalyst 6500 shops adopting Nexus 9000 SAN JOSE -- By the end of 2015, all of Cisco's Catalyst 6500 data center customers will have deployed the company's new Nexus 9000 switch.That's not to say they will have retired all of their Catalyst 6500s, according to Rob Soderbery, Cisco senior vice president of enterprise products and solutions. But they will have deployed the Nexus 9000 at least alongside the older switches with the expectation of replacing them over time.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Box Cloud File Sharing Solutions: Box vs. Dropbox This report is recommended for any growing business or company considering an investment in enterprise content collaboration and cloud file sharing. Both let users access important content simply and securely, on any device: desktop, laptop, phone or tablet. Learn more 5 myths and 5 mistakes job-hunting coders must know about What you need to know to land the jobThanks to strong demand and high median annual wages, more and more people have pursued careers as computer programmers over the past few years. If you are looking to break into the industry (or to move into a new position by augmenting your skills), you need to be aware of these five myths and five mistakes that can keep you from getting that job offer. Read on as Coding Dojo founder Michael Choi puts you on the road to the job you want. Good luck!To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Why the board of directors will go off on security in 2015 Imagine it's the end of 2015 and you're about to read an expose from a fly on the wall at top closed-room board meetings across the enterprise discussing the state of information security. You're excited, right? Well, why wait? Here's your seat at the table for 2015's most heated board room discussions about information security.The backdrop: Events to come Certain characteristic types of painful breaches will drive heated security debates in the board room in 2015. First, there will be high-profile reinfections of organizations infected in 2014; and, there will be first-time high-profile infections of enterprises that significantly increased their information security budgets to avoid what they saw happening to other companies. "Those are two that will create ripple effects and frustration in the board room," says Eric Cole, Senior Fellow, The SANS Institute.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE AT&T's Thaddeus Arroyo: Tech Will Transform Customer Engagement Thaddeus Arroyo, president of technology development at AT&T, believes IT leaders must show their organizations how technology will transform both how they do business and how they engage with customers. AT&T "Today's technology thought leaders," he says, "are guiding and informing business strategy, not just enabling it." That kind of thinking, along with his leadership skills and strategic vision, earned Arroyo the 2014 MIT Sloan CIO Leadership Award. Arroyo, who oversees about 15,000 IT employees and 10,000 contractors, shares his ideas on being a CIO.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Catchy nicknames prompt more patching of vulnerabilities Vulnerabilities with catchy nicknames get more attention from media, customers, and vendors and so get patched more thoroughly than similar vulnerabilities without clever names.According to a report released Tuesday by security researcher Secunia ApS, based in Copenhagen, Denmark, names such as Heartbleed, Shellshock and Poodle make it easier for users to learn about vulnerabilities and to ask their vendors for patches.More than 100 vendors issued patches for 600 products within 40 days of the Heartbleed news.MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: Free security tools you should try "When Heartbleed hit us there was a lot of media attention, there was a logo, and everyone was going crazy," said Kasper Lindgaard, Secunia's director of research and security. "It was pretty heavy."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Kaspersky Lab, Inc. eBook: The Evolution of Corporate Cyberthreats Cybercriminals are creating and deploying new threats every day that are more destructive than ever before. While you may have more people devoted to IT security, established businesses like yours are vulnerable to a wider array of attacks. To keep your organization safe, it's imperative to stay at least a few steps ahead of the bad guys. Learn More Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to uninstall Office Microsoft today took the unusual step of telling users running Windows 10's Technical Preview to uninstall Office before applying one of December's security updates."We just made a tough call after working through the night that I thought I should share with you," wrote Gabe Aul, the engineering general manager for Microsoft's operating system group, in a four-part Twitter understatement Tuesday.MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: 10 (FREE!) Microsoft tools to make admins happier "We have a security update going out today, and the installer fails on 9879 if Office is installed," Aul continued. "Rather than rolling a new fix (losing several days in the process) we're going to publish it as is. The workaround is painful: uninstall Office, install the hotfix, reinstall Office. Sorry. We're working hard to fix."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Review: 6 business-class Chromebooks test their mettle I've spent the last three weeks taking six business-oriented Chromebooks through their paces. I started out as a skeptical Windows-rules-them-all kind of guy: I've been using Windows since the early days, and I've rarely strayed from the ghosts of my Windows masters. By the end of my Chromebook experiment, however, my old biases were shaken.+ ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD Google Chromebook Buyer's Guide +There's a definite siren call to a light, fast, portable computer with a solid keyboard that isn't subject to the patching and malware malaise that has become part and parcel of Windows-dom. Every Chromebook runs precisely the same version of Chrome OS. It's updated constantly -- no Patch Tuesday (or Second, Third, or Fourth Tuesday, with occasional out-of-band fixes). There are no independent drivers to juggle. I, for one, find the absence of device drivers to be a godsend.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE The paranoid person's guide to a complete Mac backup I'm somewhat paranoid about backing up my data files. And by "somewhat paranoid," I mean "petrified." If you're not of a similar mindset, you should be. Consider what it would mean to lose some irreplaceable photos, for instance. Or the please-let-me-keep-my-job presentation that you've been pulling together for months. Or your financial data. Being paranoid in every waking hour isn't a great way to get through life, but when it comes to backing up your data it's nearly impossible to go too far. Here's the multi-level plan I use to keep my paranoia at bay. Seagate Level 0: System Setup My backup plan begins with my basic system setup, which may be different from yours. I keep very little data on the internal boot drive. My user's folder is on that drive, along with my most-used applications. But that's it; everything else is saved elsewhere. I even go so far as to use aliases (or symbolic links, if necessary) to move large data files off the boot drive for programs that don't let me specify a storage location. As a result, my boot drive is typically fairly empty—I'm using just 75GB of the 256GB SSD in my Retina iMac, for example.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE MIT names U.S. CTO Megan Smith as 2015 commencement speaker The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is getting a seriously early jump on its 2015 commencement exercises, naming U.S. CTO and MIT alum Megan Smith as its speaker for the June 5 event.Smith, who has undergraduate (1986) and master's (1988) degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT, was named by President Barack Obama as the chief technology officer of the United States in September. Before that, she was VP of new business development at Google.RELATED: Top Techie College Commencement Speakers of 2014To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Best Apple iTunes apps of the year are brain trainer, number puzzler Apple has named Elevate, a set of brain training games, and Threes!, an addictive numbers game, as its top 2014 app and game, respectively. Elevate Elevate Brain Training app Elevate is a free (with in-app purchases) brain training program from Elevate Labs that the app maker says was "designed in collaboration with experts in neuroscience and cognitive learning." The iPhone/iPad app is built to improve users' "focus, speaking skills, processing speed, memory, math skills and more." You need to use it at least 4 times a week to see real results, the software maker says.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: PC Connection | EMC XtremIO – Make an Informed Flash Decision What does better storage mean for your business? How do you hope to improve your storage efficiency? What form do you expect IT innovation to take in your organization? Learn More SLIDESHOWS Cisco's top 10 innovations over the years A look back at Cisco's most innovative moves in its 30 years in the industry. JOIN THE NETWORK WORLD COMMUNITIES As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). 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