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The Internet of (Secure) Things – Embedding Security in the IoT

CTOvision

We’re seeing a glimmer of the future – the Internet of Things (IoT) – where anything and everything is or contains a sensor that can communicate over the network/Internet. You can opt-in to smart metering so that a utility can load balance energy distribution. Similar sensor systems exist for rail, sea and air transportation.

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How to Achieve PCI Compliance in AWS?

Galido

They should institute measures including encrypting data, establishing secure network firewalls, monitoring the networks with testing, ensuring access controls, and establishing vulnerability management programs. The first layer uses Transport Layer Security and Secure Sockets Layer to protect data.

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Fountainhead: Emergence of Fabric as an IT Management Enabler

Fountainhead

Four days packed with presentations and networking (of the social kind). Think of it this way: Fabric Computing is the componentization and abstraction of infrastructure (such as CPU, Memory, Network and Storage). Virtualizing I/O and converging the transport. Transport can be Ethernet, FCoE, Infiniband, or others.

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Fountainhead: Converged Infrastructure Part 2.

Fountainhead

And I mean I/O components like NICs and HBAs, not to mention switches, load balancers and cables. In the same way that the software domain has been virtualized by the hypervisor, the infrastructure world can be virtualized with I/O virtualization and converged networking.

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Fountainhead: Converged Infrastructure. Part 1

Fountainhead

Converged Infrastructure and Unified Computing are both terms referring to technology where the complete server profile, including I/O (NICs, HBAs, KVM), networking (VLANs, IP load balancing, etc.), The result is a pooling of physical servers, network resources and storage resources that can be assigned on-demand.