Cisco's top 10 innovations over the years

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Free Windows? Not a Chance Hackers said to threaten Sony employees Network World Daily News AM December 08, 2014 Cisco's top 10 innovations over the years A look back at Cisco's most innovative moves in its 30 years in the industry. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Free Windows? Not a Chance 2. Hackers said to threaten Sony employees 3. Sony hack dubbed 'unparalleled' crime, 'unprecedented' due to undetectable malware 4. How one firm makes beer and basketball better 5. Hadoop successor sparks a data analysis evolution 6. INSIDER Wanted for hire: Engineers with ideas (free reg) 7. Former Apple manager sentenced to prison for selling secrets for cash 8. NSA spy program targets mobile networks worldwide 9. Sites that don't like Chrome for no obvious reason 10. Grueling endurance test blows away SSD durability fears 11. Wozniak calls Apple garage origin 'a myth' WHITE PAPER: Kaseya 5 Ways to Reduce the Risk of Cybercrime to Your Business Cybercrime is on the rise. In fact, the risks and costs of cybercrime continue to increase each year. Don't be one of the many organizations naively clinging to the belief that a breach won't happen to them. As an IT professional, you need to take active steps to reduce the risk of cybercrime to your business. Reduce your risk today. Learn more Free Windows? Not a Chance Microsoft last week doused speculation that it would make Windows free across the board. "We've not had any conversations [about] Windows 10 being a loss leader for us," Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer, said at a technology conference sponsored by Credit Suisse on Thursday. "[But] we've got to monetize it differently. There are additional opportunities for us to bring additional services to the product and do it in a creative way." Turner was short on specifics, but spelled out in general terms those opportunities, saying that new business models will allow the company "to monetize the lifetime of that customer" by selling them services and what he called "add-ons."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Hackers said to threaten Sony employees The hack against Sony Pictures appeared to enter new territory on Friday when employees reportedly received messages threatening them and their families.The message, reported by Variety, warned that "not only you but your family will be in danger."Sony's computer system was attacked in late November and gigabytes of data, including unreleased movies, were stolen and leaked online. Embarrassing hacks have hit other companies in recent years, but threatening employees is highly unusual and will put extra pressure on law enforcement to find those responsible.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Sony hack dubbed 'unparalleled' crime, 'unprecedented' due to undetectable malware Some Sony employees have received a threatening email and completely annihilating Sony Pictures seems to be the goal of the GOP hacker group. The more we learn about the Sony hack, as people sift through the leaked Sony data, the more the attack boggles the mind. And that's not just the minds of average people as an expert in cyber-intrusions has called the attack an "unparalleled and well-planned crime."Variety published an email exchange between Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton and Kevin Mandia, COO of FireEye and formerly CEO of Mandiant. Even Mandia, who has been called in to clean up after numerous serious cyber-attacks, regards the attack as "unprecedented." Mandia wrote:To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Nexsan Technologies Hybrid Approach Rewrites The Rules For Backup Storage Exponential data growth and long-term retention requirements are putting tremendous pressure on IT professionals, and the constant pressure to reduce storage costs has led many IT departments to settle for the status quo when it comes to protecting their data. View more How one firm makes beer and basketball better Building its U.S. presenceUK-based Cambridge Consultants recently moved its U.S. headquarters to Boston, where it plans to expand headcount from 30 people today to more than 100 over the next three years. "We're looking for engineers of all different disciplines -- software engineers, mechanical engineers, electronics engineers, program managers," said David Bradshaw, a director at the 54-year-old product development and technology consulting firm. Read on to see some of the highlights of the firm's new U.S. offices and a few of its latest inventions.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Hadoop successor sparks a data analysis evolution If 2014 was the year that Apache Hadoop sparked the big data revolution, 2015 may be the year that Apache Spark supplants Hadoop with its superior capabilities for richer and more timely analysis."There is a strong industry consensus that Spark is the way to go," said Curt Monash, head of the IT analyst firm Monash Research."Next year, you will see a lot of [Hadoop] use cases that transcend Hadoop," said Ali Ghodsi, CEO and co-founder of Databricks, a company formed by a number of the creators of Spark that offers a hosted Spark service, as well as technical support for software distributors selling Spark packages.Spark is an engine for analyzing data stored across a cluster of computers. Like Hadoop, Spark can be used to examine data sets that are too large to fit into a traditional data warehouse or a relational database. Also like Hadoop, Spark can work on unstructured data, such as event logs, that hasn't been formatted into database tables.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE INSIDER Wanted for hire: Engineers with ideas (free reg) It's a playground for engineers inside the new offices of Cambridge Consultants.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Coresite 4 Advantages of Multi-Tenant Data Centers Increasing demands on IT are forcing organizations to rethink their data center options. For many organizations, that means turning to the flexibility afforded them by outsourced cloud solutions, which can provide exponential cost savings. Learn More >> Former Apple manager sentenced to prison for selling secrets for cash Back in 2010, an Apple global supply manager named Paul Shin Devine was arrested for providing Asian suppliers with confidential information such as product pricing and sales projections in return for cash and gifts. When the dust settled, prosecutors alleged that Devine made off with over $2.5 million in illegal kickbacks. Oddly enough, police during their investigation discovered that Devine was hiding $125,000 of his illicit gains in a shoe box of all places. I'm guessing Devine wasn't much of a baseball card collector. All told, Devine was hit with 23 charges, including wire fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering. Devine pled guilty to all of them. Last Monday, Devine was finally sentenced for his crimes. According to a report in the San Jose Mercury News, Devine was "sentenced to a year and a day in prison and ordered to pay more than $4.4 million in restitution."  To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE NSA spy program targets mobile networks worldwide The NSA has conducted a covert campaign to intercept internal communications of operators and trade groups in order to infiltrate mobile networks worldwide, according to the latest revelations from documents supplied by Edward Snowden.The U.S. National Security Agency ran two hitherto undisclosed operations, the Wireless Portfolio Management Office and the Target Technology Trends Center, operating under the aegis of a program called Auroragold, according to an article Saturday in The Intercept, which also published related documents.The operations closely monitored the GSM Association, maintained a list of 1,201 email targets, or selectors used to intercept internal company communications, and gathered information about network security flaws. The NSA documents show that as of May 2012 the agency had collected technical information on about 70 percent of the estimated 985 mobile phone networks worldwide.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Sites that don't like Chrome for no obvious reason I've become hooked on Google's Chrome browser. It's got so much going for it that once you've used it for a while it's hard to let go … except when certain sites don't seem to work with it. I find this extraordinary and the site that annoys me most when it comes to not working properly with Chrome is Wells Fargo.For some reason that isn't clear, if you're using Chrome in the Bill Pay section and you add or update payments then when you hit "Submit" you sometimes (perhaps one time in five) get to just sit there until your browser times out. I don't have any plugins that might be the source of the problem and I know this because the issue doesn't appear every time.  I now have to use Firefox when I'm interacting with my bank. When I asked Wells Fargo tech support why Chrome didn't work reliably I got some vague hand waving and the advice that I should use Firefox!To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Grueling endurance test blows away SSD durability fears An oft-discussed drawback to solid state drives was that they were ultimately unreliable. Despite the performance gains for your PC, it was only a matter of time before "poof!" your SSD would just up and die with almost no warning.But an ongoing project from Tech Report demonstrates what the experts have been saying for some time: fearing an SSD's untimely death is more about myth than substance.TR recently reported that after a year of testing the durability of six SSDs, four died after reaching between 728 terabytes and 1.2 petabytes of data writes, all of which is far beyond the specified life span for the drives.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE Wozniak calls Apple garage origin 'a myth' Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has done this kind of thing before, debunking – or at least degrading -- a slice of Apple lore.In 2011 he told me that the well-established date of Apple's founding -- April 1, 1976 -- was actually "murky" to his mind, meaning not that he didn't recall but that he didn't agree.And now he's told Bloomberg that the quaint "founded in a garage" tale – a staple for many a startup besides Apple – was less than it has been portrayed in his case.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here READ MORE WHITE PAPER: Curvature Whitepaper: Peers vs. Policy Companies are interested in a single point of contact, on-site vendor support, more comprehensive network knowledge, and support for end-of-life products. To keep up with these evolving requirements, IT decision makers are considering peer advice and alternative maintenance. View now SLIDESHOWS 14 go-to tools for Mac sysadmins Mac pro Gerard Allen shares his must-have sysadmin tools for enterprise Apple deployments. 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). Network World on Facebook Network World on LinkedIn MOST-READ STORIES of 2014 1. Woz says Apple's legendary garage beginning is a myth 2. 30 years of Cisco: The networking giant's boldest predictions over the years 3. Full speed ahead for 802.11ac Gigabit Wi-Fi 4. Windows 10 could prompt upgrades of 600 million aging PCs 5. Cool Yule Tools: Best techie gifts for 2014 6. Juniper unbundles switch hardware, software 7. 8 free online courses to grow your tech skills 8. Akamai: Surge in hackers using complex crimeware to drain money from online bank accounts 9. Notable deaths of 2014 from the worlds of technology, science & inventions 10. Intelligence agency wants a superconducting, super cool, supercomputer Follow Network World You are currently subscribed to networkworld_daily_news_alert as aquarianm@gmail.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy Learn about INSIDER When accessing content promoted in this email, you are providing consent for your information to be shared with the sponsors of the content. Please see our Privacy Policy for more information. 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