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The IoT Files: The need for cryptography

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 03/09/2016 AI Tech Update, Tech Update in English

The IoT Files: The need for cryptography One of the main arguments that should be touched by IoT discussion is cryptography. There is an undisputed consensus that cryptography is a mandatory requirement to preserve security and privacy in the IoT world, but we are far away for a general consensus on how to operate. The need for cryptography in IoT comes from two main aspects: Data security Data privacy The first need is clear; encryption is a mandatory requirement when we want to implement any form of authentication and non repudiation. Encryption is widely used even if we don’t know…

Managers and Leaders are not the same thing

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 03/05/2016 AI Tech Update, Tech Update in English

Managers and Leaders are not the same thing There is always a lot of talk about managers and leadership, but I sometimes have the feeling there is a little confusion on the subject. I can agree that a manager needs to have leadership qualities, as some other key soft skills, but leadership, per se, is not enough. Wait, this means that a great leader can’t be also a great manager? Exactly, a manager need leadership skills to be good, but this is only one of the several skills he need. He should be able to understand the job heshe is…

weak manager style

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 03/05/2016 AI Tech Update, Tech Update in English

In a previous post () I tried to put some rationale on my thoughts about management, designing some of the characteristics a manager usually have (bad ones of course). One of the biggest “Ahas!” new and experienced managers (and the people who work for them) have experienced is the realization that being a strong manager doesn’t mean being forceful or domineering. It’s just the opposite — strong managers are strong enough to lead through trust, whereas weak managers have to use the force of their job titles to make people listen to them. Most of the management style depicted (not…

What is Openstack

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 03/04/2016 AI Tech Update, Tech Update in English

OpenStack is an open source platform for creating and managing large groups of virtual private servers in a cloud computing environment. The platform supports interoperability between cloud services and allow businesses to build and deploy private cloud services in their own data centers. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) worked with Rackspace, a managed hosting and cloud computing service provider, to develop OpenStack. RackSpace donated the code that powers its storage and content delivery service and production servers. NASA contributed the technology that powers their high performance computing, networking and data storage cloud service. OpenStack has a modular architecture…

Management style, common error to avoid

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 03/04/2016 AI Tech Update, Editorials, Editorials in English, Tech Update in English

Management style, common error to avoid Being a manager is a hard job, and it deals with cultural, economical, corporate issues and rules. But being a manager is indeed an important job usually performed with a not clear idea on what a manager should do. We can find Bad and Good managers, and most of the times they do not even realize where they stand in the good or bad dashboard, because usually nobody teach you what to be a manger means. Nevertheless there is a world of literature on management, so If someone really want to improve from naïve…

Security and Datacenters

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 03/03/2016 AI Tech Update, Tech Update in English

A Datacenter is a collection of several different elements, all working together to offer a platform to our digital needs. A datacenter is actually a mix of different elements, some logic some physical, it is just not a mere collection of elements but a complex systems with a lot of interactions. We can easily see inside the datacenter, cables, racks, servers, network equipments, storage units and so on but all are there (or should be there) for a purpose and are interconnected. A big part of a datacenter is not even visible; it is the software and data running in…

The IoT Files: is a small OS good for security?

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 03/02/2016 AI Tech Update, Tech Update in English

The IoT Files: is a small OS good for security? NOTE: I will update this article with images later. One of the key aspects that should be addressed on IoT is the OS security. Many people rules this fear out, when talking about IoT, telling that IoT require so small OS that security isn’t really a problem, or a minor issue. It is a common idea that a smaller OS is less prone to security risks, and could not be more wrong. Security in IoT has in OS one of its Achilles’ heel, let me show why in a few…

The rightful way to make an employee unhappy

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 02/29/2016 AI Tech Update, Editorials, Editorials in English, Personal, Sic Transit Gloria Mundi, Tech Update in English

Management is a difficult art, management in big corporations is more difficult. Management in a corporation where the multicultural requirement is a need is even harder. We all know it and, to a certain extent, we have to deal with it. We can’t expect everything works well and right, and we have to show flexibility and we have to be open to change and embrace the new but… Let’s be real, no matter how much effort you put sometimes things are just not right. When the environment is too toxic probably is better to leave than hoping for a change. …

The IoT Files: Culture

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 02/29/2016 AI Tech Update, News From The World, Tech Update in English

The IoT Files: Culture In the previous IoT flies tried to outline what are, from my point of view, some key factor that have to be taken into account when talking about IoT. The last, but not the least, point I would like to put some notes is culture. Since IoT is something that will shape out way of life on many aspect, we have to convene that culture is a key element in order to positively and safely embrace it. Culture refers to billions of things, from language structure to literature, from how we share information to how…

The fine art to make impossible what is possible. (Or why many projects fail)

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 02/28/2016 AI Tech Update, Editorials, Editorials in English, Personal, Tech Update in English

I know there is always a great distance between reality and management, Sometimes it happens to me to bump into a real good manager, but it is mostly an exception to the general rule than the norm. I would say that my personal opinion is that because nowadays management mostly is all but dealing with reality, with the prevalent culture that has moved from production to finance, we moved from the real economy to a virtual representation that does not take into account many factors because focused only on few parameters. The result is quite interesting since, from one side,…

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