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Today's Top News 1. Cisco bets on Internet of Things with new business unit
The term 'Internet of Things' is as amorphous as it is ambitious. Cisco is looking to put more definition around it, launching a new business unit to tackle some of the interesting challenges. Connecting everything to everything would simply produce an unmanageable flood of data. Cisco VP Guido Jouret, who will head the new unit, tells InformationWeek that intelligent data management is one key puzzle to be solved. It's important to prioritize by determining which devices can become more effective due to interconnectivity, and then create the necessary standards, algorithms and engineering designs to deliver that value. Security is often cited as a huge problem when, for example, industrial control systems are networked. Jouret argues that the Internet of Things, properly executed, could increase security rather than decrease it by distributing more intelligence to the edge of the network. Cisco pushed its new business unit at its first Internet of Things World Forum this week in Barcelona. For more:
- read InformationWeek's interview with Jouret
- read ZDNet's coverage of the World Forum More about M2M and Internet of Things:
Rise of the Machines [FierceMobileIT]
The cloud takes 3 of Gartner's top 10 predictions for 2014
M2M networking spurs mix of hope and fear
Read more about: m2m, Internet of Things
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2. How to upgrade from 10G Ethernet
Ready for more bandwidth? Big data, video, mobile device proliferation--today's tech trends demand big pipes. The switch from 10G Ethernet to 40G or 100G requires attention to some very particular details, writes Jim Duffy at Network World. The most obvious is cabling--make sure your physical infrastructure is ready for higher throughput or bottlenecks will happen. Shaun Walsh, a VP at Emulex, notes that 100G is significantly different at the physical layer; while 40G Ethernet consists of four 10G "lanes", 100G is four 25G lanes, which requires a "a whole new generation of optics, cables, everything." Precise synchronization of the clocks on network switches is another requirement. A small difference can result in latency and packet loss even for 10G networks; the impact goes up by orders of magnitude at 40G. Intelligent load-balancing becomes more important as well. Network tools including monitoring and security will have to keep up with the increased flow, or, again, bottlenecks can occur. The result of missing critical details may be that you don't realize the full value of the upgrade. For more:
- read Duffy's article More on network infrastructure:
What to ask your SDN supplier
Networking pros not likely to be automated out of jobs
Making clouds work together
Read more about: 40G Ethernet
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3. SDN's impact might be different, more profound, than you imagine
Software-defined networking might flatten your network and make resource allocation a breeze. But it might do something more than that. And various experts and prognosticators have differing opinions of what. Arthur Cole rounds up some of these views on Enterprise Networking Planet. For example: SDNs are an opportunity to put APIs and services as close to the end user as possible, according to Vodaphone's Michael Burger. Performance and response times could benefit. On the other hand, a 'single-layer' resource pool raises security and reliability concerns. Tom Nolle of CIMI asks "Why couldn't you attack a resource pool by spoofing status messages that made the resource appear to be down, or make a single resource look available to everyone no matter what its state?" Nolle's point, detailed on his blog, is not that this resource approach is bad or good, but that "cooperation in a distributed [environment] doesn't come easy." For more:
- read Cole's roundup, with links to various posts
- read a contributed column from Radware comparing SDN and Network Function Virtualization More on software-defined networking:
What to ask your SDN supplier
Spotlight: Another study finds value in SDN (but not now)
Software-defined networking spotted in the wild
Read more about: software-defined networking
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4. Feds need to get it together with enterprise architecture
Federal agencies are required to take an enterprise architecture approach to IT, combining strategic planning, business requirements and technology. But these plans need to be better formalized and shared in order to facilitate shared services across agencies, said Federal Chief Enterprise Architect Scott Bernard, speaking at a conference in D.C. last week. In fact, Bernard went on to note that the use of competing architectures perpetuates the type of silos that currently exist. The use of multiple email, accounting and help desk systems, for example, indicates that shared services--and the resulting efficiency--are not a priority for government agencies. Bernard cited a number of government initiatives that would benefit from sound enterprise architecture: the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative, the White House's digital strategy and the Office of Management and Budget's PortfolioStat review process. For more:
- read FCW's account of Bernard's talk
- see the 2012 Common Approach to Federal Enterprise Architecture issued by the Executive Office (.pdf) More on enterprise architecture:
Rapid business model change strains enterprise architectures
Bottom-up change hits enterprise networks
SOA lessons from Twitter, Netflix
Read more about: Federal Government, enterprise architecture
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> Developer picks: 7 hot tools for agile development. Blog (InfoWorld)
> Review: Mobile web development frameworks. Article (InfoWorld)
> Only 39% of IT projects successful? That's a good start. Article (ZDNet) And Finally... Developers are becoming jacks of all trades. Article (PandoDaily)
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