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Infinicept Is The First All-In-One Payment Facilitator Solution in a Box
Infinicept Infinicept is the first all-in-one Payment Facilitator Solution in a Box. Infinicept, is a robust suite of automated services that collectively perform as an operational backbone for Payment Facilitators. Whether used as a fully integrated package, or a la...
Social Posts Become Evidence – Criminal Lawyer – Cybersecurity Poses Vendor Liability Questions
Social Posts Become Evidence Instagram and Twitter posts become evidence in Fyre Festival $100 million class action lawsuit... READ MORE Criminal Lawyer At Marinoff and Associates, P.C., Attorneys at Law, I bring extensive trial experience to anyone charged...
UN Report: Alipay and WeChat Pay Enable Phenomenal Digital Payments Growth in China
A recent study by the UN-based Better Than Cash Alliance supports what payment facilitators have long known – that enabling access to electronic payments is increasing financial inclusion and creating opportunity.The report, titled “Social Networks, e-Commerce...
Gartner Cool Vendor and IBNS: The Journey to Autonomous Network Operations
It’s been an exciting few months at Apstra! Among everything else going on, we have earned recognition from industry analyst Gartner. First, Apstra Operating System™ (AOS) was profiled in Gartner’s Innovation Insight Report: Intent-Based Networking Systems (IBNS) , as...
Is Frictionless Onboarding Too Risky?
With frictionless underwriting, it’s easy to sign up for merchant accounts in seconds. If that’s the case, what’s to keep bad actors from signing up for multiple accounts, with multiple service providers? In the latest in our series of industry perspectives on...
News Roundup: New Authentication Method for Mastercard Selfie Pay
In a roundup of news from this week, Mastercard comments on Samsung iris scanning technology, Wirecard acquires South African payments provider, and Alipay expands its reach again.
Coal Fires and Self-Operating Networks
Recently I had the opportunity to make a series of videos talking about some of the challenges Network Engineers have in their day to day work. They are located here: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Specifically, I talk about how we are, in many...
Transition to a Self-Operating CLOS
This blog is about how to transform a 3-tier (core-distribution-access) network into a multi-vendor L3 CLOS using the Apstra Operating System (AOS). This can represent a big step forward for most enterprises with big benefits including comp…
Chasing Mavericks – Catching and Surfing Market Transitions
I remember my first time surfing — Ken Hook took me out to Linda Mar in Pacifica, California early on a chilly Sunday. I bought a wetsuit, borrowed a 9’6” ‘soul board’ from Ken and proceeded to inhale enough water to fill a bathtub. I got pummeled on the swim out and...
Thermostats, Self-Driving Cars, and Self-Operating Networks™
Modern automation systems have two fundamental characteristics — they are Intent-Based and they are Closed-Loop. Yet it is only today, and with Apstra’s Intent-Based Self-Operating Network™ that these concepts are being introduced to network infrastructures!
Bamboozled by the Cloud
A few months back, I took the outrageous (to some) position of comparing the public cloud to a black hole. I claimed it was like a black hole because it would suck all the IT capabilities and expertise out of your organization, and eventually suck in your business as...
Intent-based Networking Systems
Gartner recently released a great report titled “Innovation Insight: Intent-Based Networking Systems” by Andrew Lerner, Joe Skorupa, and Sanjit Ganguli (ID: G00323513, Feb 7, 2017). The report covers key aspects of what makes an intent-based system, the impact...
Claw Back the Cost of Network Failure
The network is the underlying foundation of the data center. If that foundation becomes unstable, everything else, apps and all, are affected. The bummer is that most large data center networks are, in fact, unstable. Complex networks experience rapid entropy and...
