Cyber 3.0 - Where the Semantic Web and Cyber Meet

by John Trobough, President, Narus The term “Cyber 3.0” has been used mostly in reference to the strategy described by U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn at an RSA conference. In his Cyber 3.0 strategy, Lynn stresses a five-part plan as a comprehensive approach to protect critical assets. The plan involves equipping military networks with active defenses, ensuring civilian networks are adequately protected, and marshaling the nation’s technological...

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CyrusOne Builds Texas Internet Exchange (IX)

CyrusOne introduced its Texas Internet Exchange (IX), an on-net platform deployed across its data centers in Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. The exchange uses redundant Brocade MLXe Series switches, which enable high-density, 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GigE), and 100-Gigabit Ethernet (100GigE) connections, enabling huge traffic exchanges at line-rate speeds. At the optical transport layer, CyrusOnes is using Infinera DTN digital optical...

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FCC to Review Cell Phone RF Exposure Limits

The FCC will undertake a review of rules  related to health and safety of radio frequency (RF) emissions from radio transmitters. Specifically, the FCC is opening an inquiry to consider both the currency of its RF exposure limits and possible policy approaches regarding RF exposure so as to determine whether the current rules and policies should remain unchanged, or should be relaxed or tightened. More specifically, the FCC said it aims...

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AT&T Reaches Labor Agreement in California and Nevada

AT&T and the Communications Workers of America District 9 reached a tentative labor agreement covering more than 17,000 wireline employees in California and Nevada. The three year deal, which will be submitted to the CWA's membership for a ratification vote, includes general wage increases in each year of the contract – 2.25 percent effective Oct. 1, 2012, 2.75 percent in 2013, 3 percent in 2014, and 2.5 percent in 2015. It includes a 1 percent...

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Shehzad Merchant Joins Gigamon as Chief Strategy Officer

Gigamon named Shehzad Merchant as Chief Strategy Officer. Previously, Merchant served as the CTO at Extreme Networks and prior to that as the co-founder and VP of Products at Polytime Systems. Merchant has also held various senior architectural and research roles at Allied Telesyn, Nevis Networks and SRI. http://www.gigamon.c...

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Proximal Data Raises $2M for Hypervisor Caching

Proximal Data, a start-up based in San Diego, raised $2 million in Series B funding for its server-side caching solutions specifically designed for virtualized environments. Proximal Data offers adaptive I/O caching to increase virtual machine (VM) density up to three times. It plugs into hypervisors, such as VMware’s ESXi, and transparently works on all I/O without requiring agents in guest operating systems. By placing hot I/O onto a PCIe flash...

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