Philly Tech People News 4/26/2016: Tirico leaving ESPN for NBC Sports




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Mike Tirico is leaving ESPN for NBC Sports (Washington Post)

Jarecke-Cheng Named Global COO of Publicis Healthcare Comms. (O'Dwyer's)


Sungard Availability Services Appoints Randy J. Hendricks to Board of Directors (PR Newswire)
Exec at Workday.

Diez, after $20M PointRoll sale, heads to NY (Philly Deals)

Aqua America Welcomes New Chief Information Officer (Aqua America)


SmartThings poaches Amazon engineering director to start simplifying the smart home (The Verge)

Workday names Sisco CFO (ZDNet)


eMoney Advisor's CEO, Ed O'Brien, Named One of 25 of the Most Influential People in the Financial Advisory Industry (eMoney Advisor)


Fingerpaint Founder Ed Mitzen Named Industry Person of the Year at 2016 Med Ad News Manny Awards (Fingerpaint)
Fingerpaint is based in upstate New York, but has a significant Philly presence.

Thomas M. Montgomery Elected Senior Vice President and Comptroller (Ametek


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Links 4/26: Regulators Approve Charter Communications Deal for Time Warner Cable; Microsoft, Dell reveal IoT plans



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Regulators Approve Charter Communications Deal for Time Warner Cable (NY Times)

Set Top Box Death Watch—Are You Kidding? (Rob Frieden / TeleFrieden)


Gannett Offers to Acquire Los Angeles Times Owner Tribune in $815M Deal (Hollywood Reporter)
People in Allentown can look forward to a slimmed-down Morrning Call if this deal goes through.

Newsonomics: After Gannett’s $815 million Tribune bid, here are eight things to look out for (Ken Doctor/Newsnomics)


SAP HANA enterprise cloud might even turn a profit in 2017
Rolling, two-year expansion planned for HEC (The Register)

After 16 Quarters Of Revenue Declines, When Will IBM Bounce Back? (Investor's Business Daily)


Microsoft extends the ‘Internet of Things’ to jet engines, refrigerators and more (GeekWire)

Dell Teams with GE, Microsoft, OSIsoft, PTC, SAP, Software AG and Others to Advance the Internet of Things (ARC Advisory Group)


Lutron lights up Amazon Echo’s life
(ReadWrite)

Electric Car Maker Fisker Has a New Name
(Fortune)
Not coming to Delaware any time soon (or probably never).

Uber drivers in N.J. want more flexibility (NorthJersey.com)


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Uber has become the symbol of everything right and wrong with Silicon Valley today (Business Insider)



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Remember the Inky / Daily News Android tablet?


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 Remember the days when the Inky/Daily News had its own tablet? (I can't remember under which reincarnation).

 I wonder how many they sold? There are still probably some sitting in inventory somewhere.

It still lives on the Philly.com website.





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Lutron President: The Best Leadership Advice I Ever Received (Fortune)

Lutron, based in Coopersburg Lehigh County PA, has become a star of the IoT world after more than 50 years in business.

Lutron has also made its Caséta Wireless system compatible with the Amazon Echo family of products.


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Pepper Hamilton, Reed Smith end merger talks (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Fox, Disney, CBS, Time Warner, Viacom protest proposed FCC set-top box rules (LA Times: Company Town)


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Linode: "Large DDoS attacks" in Tokyo (Frankfurt, London)


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Linode has experienced some DDoS attacks recently in Tokyo, as its status report indicates:

We're currently working to mitigate another large DDoS attack causing connectivity issues and packet loss in Tokyo.
Posted about 14 hours ago. Apr 22, 2016 - 08:57 UTC

I reached out to Linode for comment, and received the following statement attributed to lead network engineer, Alex Forster:

"There were three attacks several hours apart, two of which lasted approximately a half hour and one of which lasted approximately one hour. Linode was being attacked directly, not any of our customers, and the effect of the attack was severe packet loss for a subset of customers (not all due to ECMP traffic hashing)."

"As many enterprises in the cloud can attest, DDoS attacks are ever more common in any shared hosting space. However, these latest hacks have been especially large. Even as we mitigate the attacks, we're working as outlined here to upgrade the Tokyo connectivity situation."

It is important to note that no further problems have been reported since that last report, and no other regions have been impacted.

But talk of "severe packet loss for a subset of customers" is a concern.


Saturday update: Have problems spread to Frankfurt?


Linode Status Report:


Identified
We've identified the cause of these connectivity issues as a large-scale DoS attack. We're working with our upstream provider to mitigate the attack and and harden our network in Frankfurt against further attacks and will provide updates as needed.
Apr 22, 13:07 UTC


The situation appears to have stabilized since then.


 Latest problem spot: London
Degraded Network Performance in London
Incident Report for Linode
New Incident Status: Resolved
The degraded network performance and packet loss that was affecting a subset of customers in our London datacenter has been identified as related to a large DoS attack that was directed at the entire London datacenter. This attack has been fully mitigated by our upstream provider at this time.
Apr 23, 22:23 UTC





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Why Dick's Sporting Goods decided to play its own game in e­commerce (TechRepublic)


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LInks 4/21: AstraZeneca commits ‘hundreds of millions’ to sequencing genomes of 2M people over 10 years; Google Cast confirmed for Google Fiber hardware



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iCloud and Siri Teams at Odds as Apple Seeks to Move Cloud Services In-House (MacRumors)

 Google Cast confirmed for Google Fiber hardware
(Zatz not Funny)

 Comcast stabs set-top boxes in the back, pipes directly into smart TVs (The Register)

 Udall to McConnell: Call Up Rosenworcel Nomination (Multichannel News)

 Verizon warns strike could `pressure' earnings (USA Today)

 AstraZeneca commits ‘hundreds of millions’ to sequencing genomes of 2M people over 10 years (Techcrunch)

Accenture Sells 60% of Duck Creek (Insurance Networking News)

 Rapid Ratings Secures Growth Capital from LLR Partners to Accelerate Innovation in Financial Risk Management (Business Wire)
Targeting D&B.

 Microsoft Cloud Stumbles But Company Sees Light Ahead
(Fortune)
Unisys CEO: Security Sales Set To Soar As Cybsecurity Software Is Taken Global (CRN)
Pennsylvania slapped Uber with an $11.4 million fine for operating without a license (PCWorld)

 ServiceNow CEO – our approach to service management is different to the CRM vendors (Diginomica)


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Alibaba's Cloud unit teams with SAP, Accenture in China to serve enterprise market (Update)


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Alibaba’s cloud computing service unit, Aliyun, has teamed up with SAP and Accenture to provide services to the Enterprise market, the Shanghai Daily reports.

It has also built industry solutions in some sectors, including Internet of Things and online video streaming.

If I read the story correctly, the alliance is primarily aimed at the Chinese domestic market.

"It aims to can help both domestic companies to expand their overseas presence as well as establish local teams to boost revenues from foreign firms," according to the article.




Although its starting in China, Aliyun claims global presence, and its always possible the geographic scope of the partnership could expand.

Alibaba has been making huge investments in building a smarter cloud, with the aim of ultimately competing against Amazon Web Services.

Update: More info on partnership from Alibaba-owned South China Morning Post . Not clear what the specifics are behind the alliance agreement.







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LINKS 4/20: Comcast to kill the cable set-top box; SAP Sees 2016 Sales on Track After Sluggish Start to Year



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A guide to New Jersey startups (NJBiz)

SAS targets digital marketing with Customer Intelligence 360, updates architecture and IoT tools (ZDNet Blogs)
Philly has always been a major market for SAS, particularly in Pharma.

SAP Sees 2016 Sales on Track After Sluggish Start to Year (Bloomberg)

Comcast to kill the cable set-top box (Boston Globe)


Update: Comcast Xfinity TV Program Cited in Set-Top Dust-up (Multichannel News)

Wall Street is about to ask Google some tough questions about its big bets (Business Insider)


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