IBM to pump billions into new IoT business unit

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	IBM to pump billions into new IoT business unit Hungry for a bigger piece of the Internet of things market, IBM will invest $3 billion over four years to establish a new business unit dedicated to providing IoT systems and services to enterprises.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More WEBCAST: Aerohive Gigabit Speed Wireless Networks with 802.11ac With the development of 802.11ac, WLANs surpass the gigabit speed barrier. Watch this webinar recording featuring author of "802.11ac: A Survival Guide" (O'Reily), Matthew Gast, for a discussion on 802.11ac and why it's posed to become the 802.11 standard of choice and how to incorporate it into your network plans. View now>> In this Issue Akamai: Most Internet attacks in Q4 originated in China INSIDER Will open source save the Internet of Things? 5 freshly-funded cloud computing companies worth watching Flaw in common hotel router threatens guests' devices Cisco programs the cloud INSIDER Modernizing enterprise apps for the mobile world Amazon debuts bottomless storage plans for photos, data Anonymous proxies now used in a fifth of DDOS attacks WHITE PAPER: Aerohive Rethinking Enterprise Wireless Networks This paper from IDC explores the trends, challenges, and solutions that the latest generations of WiFi architecture deliver. View Now>> Akamai: Most Internet attacks in Q4 originated in China The number of DDoS attacks in 2014 remained nearly the same compared to 2013 Read More INSIDER Will open source save the Internet of Things? Middleware standards based on open source could be the glue that pulls IOT solutions together. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive WLAN Buyer's Guide It is crucial to thoroughly understand the systems management capabilities of any WLAN being considered, since this will be the largest ongoing expense of the overall deployment. Learn how to evaluate properly by reading Aerohive's WLAN Definitive Guide. View Now>> 5 freshly-funded cloud computing companies worth watching Investors made a crowd around the cloud this week, investing $175 million in companies focused on everything from storage to the WAN to the supply chain. Read More Flaw in common hotel router threatens guests' devices Corporate travelers should be warned that a vulnerable Wi-Fi router commonly used in hotels is easily compromised, putting guests passwords at risk and opening up their computers to malware infections and direct attacks. Read More WHITE PAPER: Aerohive The Network Impact of 802.11ac This paper discuss two approaches for efficient WLAN design. Both let you integrate 802.11ac into your WLAN and help lay the foundation for future, high-speed technologies. View Now>> Cisco programs the cloud Virtualization and scale enhancements for service provider routers address traffic growth, network agility Read More INSIDER Modernizing enterprise apps for the mobile world At SaskPower, an electric utility serving the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, the IT philosophy is leverage, buy or build -- in that order. So when SaskPower wanted to make its SAP applications available on mobile platforms, officials first looked inward to see if those systems could be extended out.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More Amazon debuts bottomless storage plans for photos, data If you’ve got tons of digital photos and music that are a headache to back up, Amazon wants to interest you in two new storage services designed to ease home backups and archiving.The company’s new Unlimited Everything plan provides what promises to be unlimited storage for US$59.99 per year. The company has also introduced unlimited storage for just photos, at $11.99 a year. Free three-month trials are available for both services, which will replace its heretofore standard free 5GB plan for anyone who bought digital content from Amazon.Customers can store any sort of digital material on the Unlimited Everything plan, including photos, videos, files, documents, movies, and music. The Unlimited Photos allows unlimited storage of photos, and also includes 5GB of additional storage for other files. Amazon Prime members will get the unlimited photo storage service at no cost.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Anonymous proxies now used in a fifth of DDOS attacks The number of distributed denial of service attacks using anonymous proxies has increased dramatically over the past year, according to a new research report, as attackers use these proxies to create an instant pseudo-botnet. Ofer Gayer, security researcher at Redwood Shores, CA-based Incapsula Inc., said he first spotted the trend about a year ago. Incapsula was working on creating a database of IP addresses spotted attempting malicious activity, and discovered that attackers were abusing anonymous proxies to turn a regular single-origin denial of service attack into a distributed denial of service attack with traffic flowing through thousands -- or tens of thousands -- different IP addresses.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More
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