from the not-everything-should-be-connected-to-the-internet dept So we’ve talked repeatedly how the shoddy security in most “internet of things” devices has resulted in increasingly-vulnerable home networks, as consumers rush to connect not-so-smart fridges, TVs and tea kettles to the home network. But this failure extends well beyond the home, since these devices have also resulted in historically-large …

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All the data that pours in from the internet of things needs to go somewhere. Increasingly, that somewhere may be a NoSQL database. While NoSQL does not provide the same tight data consistency that SQL databases do, the simplicity and resultant speed of NoSQL can lead to predictable processing performance that may elude established SQL …

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Cisco initially scheduled its inaugural DevNet Create developers’ conference in San Francisco for what turned out to be the same week in May as Google’s wildly popular I/O event in Mountain View (that coy old Google didn’t reveal its show dates until late January). So Cisco wound up bumping its new event to the following week …

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