The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance has grown and claims it is the largest open-source blockchain initiative. In its press-release (Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Becomes World’s Largest Open-source Blockchain Initiative), 34 new organisations…
RFC8200: IPv6 reaches official Standard milestone
The Deploy360 group within the Internet Society report that at IETF99 in Prague, Czech Republic, the IPv6 protocol has reached Standard status after RFC8200 was published on 17 July 2017.…
IBM’s new z/14 encrypting mainframe
IBM launches the z/14 mainframe, which encrypts data at rest and in flight using Pervasive Encryption.
MDSec produce PowerShell delivery via DNS
Remember a few months ago, I posted a piece via Engadget about Cisco's Talos team finding bot control traffic in DNS data. Now MDSec have produced and published a proof…
Cisco announces intent to acquire Observable Networks
Cisco announces its intention to acquire privately held Observable Networks. Observable Networks was founded in 2011. Cisco says that Observable will help extend their Stealthwatch platform. The Observable Networks team…
SDxCentral: Another Service Provider Picks VeloCloud for SD-WAN
SDxCentral is reporting that NetFortris, is selling VeloCloud to its existing MPLS service customers initially. Based out of Seattle, Washington, US and Plano, Texas, US, NetFortris have customers in the…
SDxCentral: Viptela Updates SD-WAN Fabric to Enhance Cloud Usage
SDxCentral are reporting that Viptela have extended their SD-WAN solution with Cloud Onramp. This was previously available for IaaS services in Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS. Now it takes adds…
Oracle Cloud NetBond-ed by AT&T
The Oracle Cloud platform has been added to AT&T's NetBond, providing connectivity from the customers MPLS network direct to the cloud via AT&T infrastructure. This takes AT&T's NetBond for Cloud…