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Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny I don’t mean that I sent one, I mean one that I received. In the 1970s, I worked for Honeywell Information Systems in technical marketing for the Multics operating system. Some of you may have heard about the system or studied it in college. It was a collaboration among AT&T Bell Laboratories, GE’s computer business (subsequently acquired by Honeywell) and MIT, with funding from ARPA (later renamed DARPA), to build a “C...

One of the healthy things about the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) movement has been that WAN and LAN network engineers are finding common ground.

When the legendary Admiral Grace Hopper would give a talk, she often handed out pieces of wire 11.8” in length, and educate her audience about the amount of time it took for electrons to traverse the length of the wire: 1/1,000,000,000 of a second, or, to round off a bit, electrons travel about one foot every nanosecond. In other words, it’s the same as the speed of light through free space.

Back on October 6 2016, one of my colleagues at Niagara wrote a post about the five reasons a Network TAP is better than a SPAN port. There is at least one other good reason. To explain it, I’ll start with a quote from a former CTO-tur...

Where did SDN come from? If you were to ask longtime telecom industry experts where Software-Defined Networking (SDN) originated, they might be quick to answer that the concept of controlling networks from a management console has literally been going on for decades in large telecommunication network environments. But that’s not the only valid answer to this question. If you want to know how the actual term SDN, came to be, here is the story.

Monitoring employees in the workplace is a sensitive topic because it touches on employee policies and an individual’s right to privacy, both of which often come with legal implications.

There are still a couple of weeks to go, but in the realm of computing technology, I already know what this year’s biggest impact has been on my personal computing security, cyber security, and my peace of mind.

Are We Already Numb to Cyber Attacks? On Wednesday, December 14, 2016, Yahoo announced that 1 billion user accounts were hacked in 2013 by wha...

I was thinking about where I want to go shopping this year on Black Friday to get the best sales of the season, when I realized, there’s a lot more to this retail madness that I never even thought to consider.