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Intel has become the latest technology firm to suspend its business operations in Russia. The announcement comes a month after the chipmaker announced that it would suspend all shipments to customers in Russia and Belarus. “Intel continues to join the global community in condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine and calling for a swift return to peace,” the company said in a statement. Intel says that it is working to support its 1,200 Russian-based employees and…

Picking just 10 Linux open source security tools isn’t easy, especially when network professionals and security experts have dozens if not several hundred tools available to them. There are different sets of tools for just about every task—network tunneling, sniffing, scanning, mapping. And for every environment—Wi-Fi networks, Web applications, database servers. We consulted a group of experts (Vincent Danen, vice president of product security, RedHat; Casey Bisson, head of product growth, BluBracket; Andrew Schmitt, a…

Agricultural equipment manufacturer John Deere this week announced a new level of integration with Samsara Vehicle Gateways, which should allow farmers a greater degree of real-time insight into the vehicles that support key farm gear. The new integration works through JDLink, John Deere’s in-house connectivity layer for remote management and monitoring agricultural equipment. JDLink, via a phone or web app, can show remote diagnostic information, track machinery geographically, and provide a host of other remote…

In 1980, if I told you that you could program without writing code, you would have thought I was insane. But hello, it is 2022 now. The low-code/no-code revolution is real, and it’s time we all put it to work. Today I want to talk about how one low-code platform, Node-RED, is revolutionizing the job of programming Internet of Things services and devices. Node-RED is a low-code, open source, browser-based programming platform which lets you…

There are many ways to remove duplicate lines from a text file on Linux, but here are two that involve the awk and uniq commands and that offer slightly different results. Remove duplicate lines with awk The first command we’ll examine in this post is a very unusual awk command that systematically removes every line in the file that is encountered more than once. It leaves the first instance of the line intact, but “remembers”…

Welcome to the Launchpad, our new blog series! This is your one-stop shop for everything you need to get started with a certain technology or certification path. It’s also the perfect place to be if you just want to learn something cool. As I use my time to pick up a new skill or study for a certification, I realized that I don’t always know where to start. I always feel conflicted because I have…

What do factory operations (OT) and IT teams have in common? They both want a reliable and efficient industrial network to increase production outputs, reduce downtime, and protect the enterprise from cyber attacks. But beyond that, each team has its own objectives. OT is dealing with crises like supply chain disruptions and the relentless push for sustainable manufacturing, increased productivity, and faster cycles. To counter these challenges they’re investing in plant floor digitization and industrial…

Co-Authored by Andy Fleck   We all know that experiences matter most to our customers. Perceived delays in completing an online store order or attaining value from a paid digital service can quickly result in business lost to the competition. This means organizations need to continuously and proactively take the pulse of the underlying end-to-end business processes that deliver those customer experiences. In that way, root causes can be quickly identified and remediated before customers…

As outlined in my first blog, there is a paradigm shift towards heterogeneous computing.  Key drivers being emergence of new workloads in the AI/ML domain requiring best of breed hardware and software framework.  While we are going to focus on system architecture trends and requirements driving the need of heterogenous compute, it is worth noting that on the software side similar trend is happening.  Plethora of code bases from x86/ARM/MIPS/RISCV, system and function libraries, embedded…

Part 1 of the Wi-Fi 6E and Network Access Series: Making the Access Networking Choice When it comes time to upgrade your network, we know that there are plenty of options in the industry. But after you review those options, you’re going to realize that Cisco is the best choice when it comes to Access Networking. The global pandemic of the last two years has shifted the way that most people operate their business. What…