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Remember "5/11″
Georgia's new statutory law of restrictive covenants became effective more than three years ago, on May 11, 2011. The significance of the new law cannot be overstated. Prior to the new law, Georgia Courts were required to follow sometimes arcane rules of construction that frequently resulted in covenants being invalidated in their entirety based on what seemed to be trivial defects.
Within the first year or two following May 11, 2011, several court decisions established that the shelter offered to employers by the new law was available only for agreements that were executed on or after the effective date of the new statute. Older agreements remained subject to the "old" law, and were no easier to enforce than before the new law went into effect.
One of the many remaining unanswered questions was whether an amendment executed on or after 5/11/11 to a pre-5/11/11 agreement made the new, enforcement-friendly law applicable to the whole agreement. A decision by the U.S. District Court sitting in Macon earlier this month decided that the answer to that question was "no." Lowe Electric Supply Co. and Edward Spell v. Rexel, Inc., (M.D. Ga. 2014).
Spell, a salesperson, signed a restrictive covenant agreement with his then-employer, Rexel, on January 12, 2011. The non-compete provision in this agreement was unenforceable on its face under the "old" Georgia law. Spell became dissatisfied with his employment and, in an effort to retain him, Rexel proposed a letter agreement modifying his compensation. The letter agreement expressly incorporated by reference Spell's January 12, 2011 restrictive covenant agreement. Spell signed the letter agreement on May 14, 2014.
A few months later, Spell remained dissatisfied with his employment with Rexel and resigned to go to work for Lowe Electric Supply, a competitor of Rexel. Following threats by Rexel to enforce the restrictive covenants contained in the January 12, 2011 agreement, Lowe Electrical Supply and Spell sued Rexel to enjoin it from seeking to enforce the non-competition and non-solicitation covenants. The court granted the injunction, finding that the amendment of the 2011 agreement in 2014 did not save the restrictive covenants in the older agreement from being found invalid under the "old" Georgia law.
The message for Georgia employers (or any company with employees in Georgia) is clear – if you have any pre-5/11/11 agreements, have those affected employees execute comprehensive new contracts. A post-5/11/11 "amendment" will not solve the problem.
November 18, 2014 No Comments
"You Can't Order Safety"
I recently read a brief article regarding the former Captain of "The Best Damn Ship in the Navy." The article, an interview with Capt. D. Michael Abrashoff, formerly Captain of the USS Benfold (shown below), specifically focuses on his view that safety must be a top priority in any workplace. As he says, even on a ship safety is something that you cannot just "order." Rather, safety is something that has to be part of every individual's daily thinking — from the Captain all the way down to the lowest ranking sailor.
Captain Abrashoff's perspective is useful for any workplace leader or any HR professional with responsibilities for workplace safety — and his point would be that every leader and HR professional has that responsibility. The Captain offers some points worth considering and taking to heart in creating or reviewing your own safety program:
- Creating a culture of safety is a must.
As he notes, even the Captain of a ship cannot "order" safety. A belief in the importance of safety becomes a "culture of safety" when it permates everything. Everyone has to feel the importance of doing every task safely.
- When employees are injured, they don't feel safe and that affects performance, not just medical costs.
Safety affects the success of the organization as a whole. It cannot be compartmentalized or just made a facet of certain actions or obviously dangerous situations; it must be considered in everything that is done and recognized in everything that is not done too. Safety impacts the bottom line in more than just lost work time, medical costs and workers' compensation claims.
- A safety culture takes actions, not just words.
Captain Abrashoff not only scheduled training on safe practices and improvements, but he attended the training and participated in the initatives right along side everyone else on the ship. By sending the message that safety considerations applied to everyone, he helped communicate the right message. As he says, "Every sailor knew that I felt their safety was a top priority of mine and not just lip service."
- Any sailor could stop any process if they thought safety was being impaired.
- Any sailor had a direct line to me if they thought their chain of command wasn't sufficiently concerned or didn't see what they were seeing.
These two concepts are key to an effective safety program. Employees will not believe there is a real commitment to safety if they have no role in it or if they are required to proceed with any action they consider unsafe. Knowing they have the right to say "stop" and that they can go to the top if they need to — even in a super-heirarchical organization such as a branch of the military — underscored that the Captain was serious about safety. That made the workplace safer.
While a Navy ship is not your regular "workplace," the lessons of Captain Abrashoff's experience offer great guidance to HR professionals and leaders in any workplace.
October 28, 2014 No Comments
Ebola Alert: OSHA Releases Guidance on Employer and Employee Obligations
The Occupational Safety & Health Administration ("OSHA") recently released an advisory addressing employer and employee obligations "in the event of possible worker exposure to the Ebola virus." Employers who believe that there is possible worker exposure to Ebola virus must implement various OSHA standards as part of a comprehensive worker protection program. The question many employers now face is: when does our workforce meet the threshold of "possible worker exposure" that would trigger implementation of these standards?
For many industries, it is more likely that there is possible worker exposure, as OSHA explains:
"Exposure to the virus or someone with Ebola may be more likely in certain sectors, including the healthcare, mortuary/death care, and airline servicing industries. Workers who interact with people, animals, goods, and equipment arriving in the U.S. from foreign countries with current Ebola outbreaks are at the greatest risk for exposure.
Precautionary measures for preventing exposure to the Ebola virus depend on the type of work, potential for Ebola-virus contamination of the work environment, and what is known about other potential exposure hazards."
More specific guidance is provided for workers in some of these specific industries, including healthcare workers, airline and other travel industry personnel, mortuary and death care workers, laboratory workers, borders customs and quarantine workers, emergency responders, and workers in critical sectors (e.g. transportation, bus drivers, subways, pharmacists). Employers in these industries will need to quickly become versed in this guidance.
More generally, OSHA has clarified that, "Employers should educate workers about the hazards to which they are exposed and to provide reasonable means by which to abate those hazards." In this respect, OSHA has released guidance to workers who believe they may have been exposed:
"If you think you have been exposed…
Any worker who thinks he or she may have been exposed to Ebola virus, including through travel, assisting an ill traveler or other person, handling a contaminated object, or cleaning a contaminated environment (such as an aircraft) should take the following precautions:
- Notify your employer immediately.
- Monitor your health for 21 days. Watch for fever (temperature of 101°F/38.3°C or higher), muscle pain, headache, sore throat, diarrhea, vomiting, rash, and other symptoms consistent with Ebola.
- Seek medical attention if you develop any of these symptoms.
- Before visiting a health care provider, alert the clinic or emergency room in advance about your possible exposure to Ebola virus so that arrangements can be made to prevent spreading it to others.
- When traveling to a health care provider, limit contact with other people. Avoid all other travel."
In light of this new guidance, employers who do not fit within one of the industries likely to be affected by Ebola should also consider releasing some communication to their workforce regarding Ebola precautions, including the information shared by OSHA above. Employers may also consider establishing guidelines that require employees to notify their employer if they think they may have been exposed to Ebola by traveling to one of the affected areas or by another means (e.g. caring for family member) and provide a confidential mechanism for doing so. At the same time, employers will want to be careful to abide by the mandates of the Americans with Disabilities Act, including providing reasonable accommodations and keeping any medical information shared confidential.
For more information on these issues, please contact Richard Gerakitis or Jim McCabe.
October 17, 2014 No Comments
Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014 Provides Paid Sick Leave For California Employees
Governor Jerry Brown recently signed legislation that compels California employers to provide sick leave for their employees. The law, AB 1522 – also known as the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014 ("HWHFA") – provides that employees will be entitled to earn at least three paid days of sick leave per year and will go into effect on July 1, 2015.
California employers should be aware of the provisions of AB 1522 and start planning for design and implementation of sick leave programs that comply with the law's requirements. The law is designed to cover all California employers regardless of size, and there are only a few exceptions in place for employees covered by collective bargaining agreements, certain in-home health care workers, or airline employees. AB 1522 also carries with it notice and record keeping requirements that will compel employers to be proactive to avoid fines and penalties available under the statute.
Key provisions of HWHFA include the following:
- Full or part-time employees who work more than 30 days per year in California may accrue and take paid sick days
- Employees must accrue at least one hour of paid sick time off for every 30 hours worked; alternatively, employers may implement a policy that provides at least 24 hours (or three days) of paid sick leave for employee use each year.
- Accrued sick days carry over from year to year, but do not need to be paid out at time of termination of employment
- If an employee separates from employment and is rehired within one year, any previously accrued and unused paid sick days must be reinstated
- Employees must be allowed to use sick time for their own or a family member's illness or preventative care
- Employees must also be allowed to use accrued sick time for time off related to an employee's status as a victim of domestic abuse, stalking, or sexual assault
- Employers are required to display a posting explaining employees' rights to mandatory sick time pay
- Records regarding hours worked, paid sick time accrued and paid sick time used must be maintained for three years
There are a number of other provisions in HWHFA that can catch unsuspecting employers. It is recommended that all employers with California-based employees or employees who may spend more than 30 days in California in a 12-month period review their policies and procedures for accrual and use of sick pay to ensure compliance with HWHFA. Violations of the Act can result in penalties ranging from $50 to $4,000 per violation, with authority for enforcement of the Act resting with the California Labor Commissioner. While HWHFA does not expressly include a private right of action for employees, employers may see such claims brought under the Private Attorney General's Act ("PAGA"), where employees may attempt to collect penalties on behalf of the state plus attorneys' fees and costs.
September 30, 2014 No Comments
Virginia Governor Creates Task Force on Worker Misclassification and Payroll Fraud
The following information was sent out yesterday (August 21, 2014) by members of our Labor & Employment team in Virginia. If you have employees in Virginia, you need to read this and consider how it may affect your company.
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe signed Executive Order 24 on August 14, 2014, to establish an interagency task force on worker misclassification and payroll fraud.
The Executive Order is a response to a 2012 finding (by the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) of the Virginia General Assembly) that one-third of audited employers in certain industries misclassify employees, resulting in a failure to provide workers' compensation insurance and unemployment insurance, to pay payroll taxes, and to comply with minimum wage and overtime laws. These employers are able to save up to 40 percent in costs, giving them a competitive advantage over complying employers. JLARC found that worker misclassification also lowers state income tax collections by up to $28 million each year.
The task force will be made up of representatives from the Virginia Employment Commission, the Department of Labor and Industry, the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation, the State Corporation Commission's Bureau of Insurance, the Department of Taxation, and the Workers' Compensation Commission, and will be chaired by the Secretary of Commerce and Trade. The task force is aimed at better coordinating the efforts of these agencies and developing a comprehensive plan to reduce worker misclassification and payroll fraud in Virginia.
The Executive Order provides seven specific roles for the task force:
- Reviewing statutes and regulations related to worker misclassification and payroll fraud;
- Evaluating current enforcement practices of the agencies involved;
- Developing procedures for more effective inter-agency cooperation and joint enforcement;
- Implementing a pilot project for joint enforcement;
- Developing educational materials for and an outreach strategy to employers;
- Advising on any technological improvements in worker misclassification and payroll fraud detection; and
- Recommending any appropriate changes to relevant legislation or administrative rules.
The task force will develop a plan and present a progress report to the governor by December 1, 2014.
Governor McAuliff's Executive Order follows a 2013 attempt by the legislature to create a task force with similar responsibilities. Although a bill was introduced in the Senate, it never made it out of the House of Delegates.
Virginia is not the only state to operate a task force focused on worker misclassification and fraud. In 2009, Maryland created a Workplace Fraud Task Force, which was given similar responsibilities.
Governor McAuliffe's action – and action by other states – should prompt employers to conduct self-audits of worker classifications, to ensure that they do not become the subject of government scrutiny.
August 21, 2014 No Comments
Have You Begun Updating Your Affirmative Action Plans? Step Six of Seven Towards Full Compliance with the New OFCCP Regulations
As we have discussed in our prior blog posts in this series on the new OFCCP Regulations (which became effective on March 24, 2014), most of the new Regulations do not go into effect until the beginning of the contractor's first plan year following March 24, 2014. Many contractors have delayed implementing these new requirements because their new plan year has not yet begun. The time for delaying is quickly coming to an end!
In this post, we continue with Step Six towards full compliance with the new Regulations. This step must be implemented by the beginning of your first new affirmative action plan after March 24, 2014.
Step 6. Disseminate Your Affirmative Action Program Internally
There has always been a requirement to engage in efforts to disseminate information about the affirmative action policy within the workplace. For example, it has always been "recommended" that contractors put their affirmative action policy in their handbook and notify any union that represents company employees of such affirmative action policy. Also, it has always been a requirement to provide notification to the union of the minorities/females affirmative action policy (and to post that notification). However, that notification has not been required for veterans/disabled persons affirmative action policy.
Under the new Regulations, contractors are now specifically required to include their affirmative action policy in their employee handbook or (if there is no handbook) to otherwise make it available to employees and to provide their employees' union(s) with notice of their affirmative action policy and request their cooperation. However, it is not entirely clear what specific "policy" language must be published in the employee handbook. The safest course is to include the entire "Policy Statement" referred to in 60-741.44(a) and 60-300.44(a). However, a contractor might choose, instead, to include a simpler policy that states that the contractor has an obligation to engage in affirmative action efforts to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals with disabilities and veterans (as well as minorities and women). Whether the OFCCP would find this shorter policy statement fully compliant remains to be seen.
This is also a good time for contractors to review the list of recommended steps in the Regulations for internal dissemination of the policy to determine which of those steps would also be appropriate. These recommended steps include:
(i) Inform all employees and prospective employees of its commitment to engage in affirmative action to increase employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans. The contractor should periodically schedule special meetings with all employees to discuss policy and explain individual employee responsibilities;
(ii) Publicize it in the company newspaper, magazine, annual report and other media;
(iii) Conduct special meetings with executive, management, and supervisory personnel to explain the intent of the policy and individual responsibility for effective implementation making clear the chief executive officer's support for the affirmative action policy;
(iv) Discuss the policy thoroughly in both employee orientation and management training programs;
(v) Include articles on accomplishments of individuals with disabilities in company publications; and
(vi) When employees are featured in employee handbooks or similar publications for employees, include individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans.
Finally, remember that contractors are required to train all personnel involved with selection and recruitment in the affirmative action program. If employment decision-makers do not understand the policy, it is not likely there will be proper compliance.
August 1, 2014 No Comments
Labor Unions Want Your Email System Too!
– Re-published from Information Intersection blog site.
If you have a union in your workplace, or if unions have tried to organize workers in your workplace, you know that unions need ways to communicate with your employees. Before the current digital age, unions relied primarily on communicating through informational picketing and leafleting, posters and mailings, and individual and group meeting to encourage unionization or to communicate with members and represented employees. Today, with the modern workplace and internet-connected workers, communications can be conducted far more quickly, efficiently, cheaply and often more effectively through electronic means, such as email. But historically, unions have not been permitted access to company email systems. The current rule is that "employees have no statutory right to use the[ir] Employer's e-mail system" for non-work-related purposes. If unions and the current Presidential administration get their way, that all might change.
July 29, 2014 No Comments
The Risky Business of Background Checks, Online and Otherwise
We recently posted on one of our firm's other blogs, Information Intersection, about the joint guidance that was recently issued by the EEOC and FTC on employment background checks. While much of the content of both the employer and employee directed guidance is not new or surprising, these publications further confirm the gist of our previous publishing on these topics.
The complete blog post is available at this link.
May 13, 2014 No Comments
President Employs More Executive Measures to Press Equal Pay Agenda
Yesterday, President Obama signed an executive order and issued a presidential memorandum pressing his equal pay agenda. The executive order establishes that workers cannot be prevented from discussing their pay with other employees or applicants. Its declared target is to support efforts to eradicate gender-based pay disparities. Its aim though is probably more akin to using a hand-held mirror to shoot over your shoulder at the target.
Protecting an employee or applicant because they've "inquired about, discussed or disclosed the compensation of the employee or applicant or another employee or applicant" will have only a minimal effect, if any, on pay equity. Its greater effect will be to offer employees a means to claim retaliation if, for instance, no pay raise results or any similar adverse job action occurs after the employee was known to have discussed his pay. This executive order will at least spur employers to redouble their efforts to keep comprehensive HRIS data and use vigorous disposition codes for documenting all types of workplace results for applicants and employees alike.
The presidential memorandum mandates that the Department of Labor create a rule requiring federal contractors and subcontractors to submit summary data on the compensation paid to their employees, including data by sex and race. Obviously, such a rule would normally include classifying the compensation by not only sex and race, but by job title, job grade or some measure differentiating the types of jobs involved. However, this summary data is likely going to be calculated merely by dividing the total compensation for all employees of a particular sex or race by the number of employees of that race or sex. Federal contractors already compile comprehensive information examining their compensation practices annually as part of their affirmative action obligations, but now they will be required to submit a snapshot of that data to the Department of Labor each year. The federal government claims it needs this information because of a "lack of data as a barrier to closing the persistent pay gap for women and minorities." However, if the Department of Labor's past practices are any indication, the compensation data will be collected in such a summary fashion that it is virtually worthless as a statistical indicator of pay discrimination. Soon the Department of Labor will be able to claim that overall disparities in compensation between genders or races (which could be driven by one or two highly-paid individuals or which could be the result of perfectly defensible pay decisions) justifies launching a widespread investigation of the employer. How this new data ends up being used against employers in the future will determine whether underpaid workers are benefited or instead whether employers are bludgeoned by submitting unreliable data that will supposedly reveal unlawful pay practices.
So the new federal executive order and presidential memorandum are not nearly as precise as the President intends. At least the approach of requiring a wage disclosure notice (as New York and California have done) where new employees are alerted to the wage rate for each position protects workers from being shortchanged in straight-time and overtime pay. These new orders are not nearly so precise nor useful to the workplace.
April 9, 2014 No Comments
Fines To Increase For Failing To Post Notice Of Anti-Discrimination Rights
The EEOC recently announced that it will double its fine for employers who violate the notice posting requirements of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act, from $100 per violation to $210. The new rule will go into effect on April 18, 2014.
Every employer covered by Title VII, ADA, or GINA must post the EEOC's "EEO is the Law" notice describing these laws. It must be posted in a prominent and accessible place where notices to employees and applicants are customarily maintained. Of course, the original notice requirements were put in place before the invention of the remote desktop, so consider posting these notices in multiple places, including the company intranet, or another electronic method, in addition to a physical office location.
The EEOC's announcement should also serve as good reminder to review other federal, state, or local notice posting requirements to ensure that you are in compliance with the law.
For more information, you can go to the EEOC's website and even download copies of the "EEO is the Law" poster or contact a member of the Troutman Sanders LLP Labor & Employment Section.
April 2, 2014 No Comments


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Singer Martin Luther struts into the Highline Ballroom to perform hard-hitting, soulful, rocking music from his latest release, Love is the Hero, with bassist Mark Kelley from The Roots, aka the house band on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and talented musicians, pianist Ray Angry (The Roots, D'Angelo, Joss Stone) and drummer Justin Brown. Luther portrayed a Jimi Hendrix-type character in Julie Taymor's rock musical movie Across the Universe and has shared the stage with The Roots, Cody ChesnuTT, Jill Scott, Dave Matthews, dead prez and many other artists. Indulge in a dose of Martin's inspiring inner-city grooves on "Waiting 4 You" and "Somebody Superstar" and his seductive crooning about lost love on "Everything Is U." Shea Rose opens.
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This is one of a series of posts discussing the new features in Windows Server 2012, now shipping and previously in public beta as Windows Server 8. You can find references to other related posts at the end of this article. This post reviews the new Hyper-V 3.0 feature, Virtual Fibre Channel.
Virtual Fibre Channel (VFC) enables a Hyper-V guest to access the physical storage HBAs (host bus adaptors) installed in the Hyper-V server. Normally, storage adaptors would be reserved for the use of the Hyper-V guest itself however this new feature acts as a passthrough, enabling any Hyper-V 3.0 guest (at the right O/S level) to access the HBAs and so connect directly to fibre channel storage devices.
VFC is implemented through the use of NPIV, or N_Port ID virtualisation. This a fibre channel standard that permits a single HBA to act as multiple nodes within a SAN environment. Normally, a single HBA connects to the SAN and presents a physical ID known as a World Wide Port Name or WWPN. This deals with the physical connectivity of the fabric. At the same time, the connecting server or storage device presents a node name ID or WWNN (World Wide Node Name). A WWNN can be unique per adaptor as is the case with most host-based HBAs or can be a single node representing an entire device such as a storage array. NPIV allows a single physical adaptor to present multiple node names to the fabric and so effectively "virtualise" the physical device. Each new node also has to have virtual WWPNs in order to adhere with fibre channel standards.
The benefits of being able to use NPIV to virtualise an HBA is that each guest in a Hyper-V environment can be assigned its own WWNN and so have a direct connection to the SAN. It may not be immediately obvious how this helps when virtual server infrastructure is supposed to abstract the physical layer but there are a number of distinct advantages in zoning storage devices in this way:
- Zoning can be done to the individual guest and is therefore more secure (albeit that it still goes through the hypervisor)
- Tape drives can be supported, so backup software can write directly to devices
- Storage that requires failover, snapshots and other SCSI based functionality can be directly supported, especially where non-standard SCSI commands are used
VFC is configured in Hyper-V Manager using the new Virtual SAN Manager option (see the screenshots). Only HBAs and firmware that support NPIV can be used for VFC. This means newer HBAs only, for example Emulex HBAs at speeds of 4Gb/s and above. Obviously the SAN fabric needs to support NPIV too. An HBA can only be attributed to one virtual SAN, however a virtual SAN can contain multiple HBAs. Once the virtual SAN is created, a virtual HBA can be assigned to a guest using the Add Hardware section under Settings. Fibre channel IDs can be set as any 16-digit hexadecimal number, although it's not advisable to use values that are already reserved out for vendors. Microsoft defaults to some standard values, which can be auto-generated to new values through the "Create Addresses" button. As yet I've not worked out why there are two sets of addresses as only the first appears to be visible on the fabric.
As soon as a guest is started, the fabric login process begins, even if no guest O/S has been installed. As you can see from screenshot 4, the additional node indicates the source Hyper-V server (in this case PH03) but doesn't pass through the guest name, indicating it only as "Hyper-V VM Port". It would be a nice update to be able to see the VM name there.
Using VFC within the Hyper-V guest requires two things; a supported O/S – one of Windows Server 2008, Windows 2008 R2 or Windows 2012 – plus the installation of the latest Integration Services update that comes with Windows Server 2012. This means that the virtual fibre channel adaptor is not emulated as a native device and so can't be used with other operating systems like Linux (more on this later). The fifth screenshot shows the emulated HBA controller and tape drive I presented to the host. One question that seems to have been discussed on a number of blogs is the support for tape drives. I can confirm tape drives do work, but can't see any documentation from Microsoft to say whether they are officially supported.
I chose a tape drive as this is a good way of demonstrating performance. Deploying Backup Exec 2012 onto my Windows 2008 R2 guest, writing to an LTO2 drive, I achieved around 12MB/s, better than I've managed with an emulated drive through vSphere 5.0. This is well under the spec of the drive itself (max 40MB/s) but is certainly usable in small environments. More testing is needed here I think, as there appeared to be little overhead on the Hyper-V server to manage the data passthrough.
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Virtual Fibre Channel is a great feature for providing native SAN device support. However there are few restrictions on use, most notably on the need to have latest hardware and be using Microsoft platforms. I haven't yet seen any best practices for using VFC; for example should HBAs be placed in a single virtual SAN or should multiple ones be configured for failover; these are questions that need to be answered. VFC could be massively improved on two fronts; firstly drivers could be provided for other platforms, especially Linux installations. Second, if vendors were able to write code using the virtual device, then virtual SAN appliances (VSA) could use fibre channel rather than be reliant on iSCSI as they are today.
One final comment; Microsoft are doing a poor job of providing detail on these new storage features. There is precious little to find, other than high-level blog information and as mentioned previously, no best practice documentation that I can locate. I'd be happy to be pointed in the direction of anything useful and I will link it from this post.
Related Links
- Windows Server 2012 (Windows Server "8″) – Storage Spaces
- Windows Server 2012 (Windows Server "8″) – Resilient File System
- Hyper-V Virtual Fibre Channel Overview (technet.microsoft.com)
Comments are always welcome; please indicate if you work for a vendor as it's only fair. If you have any related links of interest, please feel free to add them as a comment for consideration.
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Connected devices and the Internet of Things are getting significant momentum in 2014. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Hunter, Chief Scientist & Technology Evangelist at Greenwave Systems, examined three key elements that together will drive mass adoption of the IoT before the end of 2015. The first element is the recent advent of robust open source protocols (like AllJoyn and WebRTC) that facilitate M2M communication. The second is broad availability of flexible, cost-effective storage designed to handle the massive surge in back-end data in a world where timely analytics is e...
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We are reaching the end of the beginning with WebRTC, and real systems using this technology have begun to appear. One challenge that faces every WebRTC deployment (in some form or another) is identity management. For example, if you have an existing service – possibly built on a variety of different PaaS/SaaS offerings – and you want to add real-time communications you are faced with a challenge relating to user management, authentication, authorization, and validation. Service providers will want to use their existing identities, but these will have credentials already that are (hopefully) i...
Nov. 26, 2014 05:00 PM EST Reads: 1,225
The Internet of Things will put IT to its ultimate test by creating infinite new opportunities to digitize products and services, generate and analyze new data to improve customer satisfaction, and discover new ways to gain a competitive advantage across nearly every industry. In order to help corporate business units to capitalize on the rapidly evolving IoT opportunities, IT must stand up to a new set of challenges. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jeff Kaplan, Managing Director of THINKstrategies, will examine why IT must finally fulfill its role in support of its SBUs or face a new round of...
Nov. 26, 2014 05:00 PM EST Reads: 1,179
The Internet of Things will greatly expand the opportunities for data collection and new business models driven off of that data. In her session at @ThingsExpo, Esmeralda Swartz, CMO of MetraTech, discussed how for this to be effective you not only need to have infrastructure and operational models capable of utilizing this new phenomenon, but increasingly service providers will need to convince a skeptical public to participate. Get ready to show them the money!
Nov. 26, 2014 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,384
One of the biggest challenges when developing connected devices is identifying user value and delivering it through successful user experiences. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Mike Kuniavsky, Principal Scientist, Innovation Services at PARC, described an IoT-specific approach to user experience design that combines approaches from interaction design, industrial design and service design to create experiences that go beyond simple connected gadgets to create lasting, multi-device experiences grounded in people's real needs and desires.
Nov. 26, 2014 03:45 PM EST Reads: 1,361
P2P RTC will impact the landscape of communications, shifting from traditional telephony style communications models to OTT (Over-The-Top) cloud assisted & PaaS (Platform as a Service) communication services. The P2P shift will impact many areas of our lives, from mobile communication, human interactive web services, RTC and telephony infrastructure, user federation, security and privacy implications, business costs, and scalability. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Robin Raymond, Chief Architect at Hookflash, will walk through the shifting landscape of traditional telephone and voice services ...
Nov. 26, 2014 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,814
Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using the URL as a basic building block, we open this up and get the same resilience that the web enjoys.
Nov. 25, 2014 09:30 PM EST Reads: 1,825
The Internet of Things is tied together with a thin strand that is known as time. Coincidentally, at the core of nearly all data analytics is a timestamp. When working with time series data there are a few core principles that everyone should consider, especially across datasets where time is the common boundary. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Scott, Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture at MapR Technologies, discussed single-value, geo-spatial, and log time series data. By focusing on enterprise applications and the data center, he will use OpenTSDB as an example t...
Nov. 25, 2014 09:30 PM EST Reads: 1,878
The Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the most important components in networking infrastructure, enabling users and services to access applications by translating URLs (names) into IP addresses (numbers). Because every icon and URL and all embedded content on a website requires a DNS lookup loading complex sites necessitates hundreds of DNS queries. In addition, as more internet-enabled 'Things' get connected, people will rely on DNS to name and find their fridges, toasters and toilets. According to a recent IDG Research Services Survey this rate of traffic will only grow. What's driving t...
Nov. 25, 2014 07:00 PM EST Reads: 1,772
Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps, abiding by privacy concerns and making the concept a reality. These challenges can't be addressed w...
Nov. 25, 2014 04:30 PM EST Reads: 1,711
Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
Nov. 24, 2014 07:00 PM EST Reads: 2,071
Bit6 today issued a challenge to the technology community implementing Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC). To leap beyond WebRTC's significant limitations and fully leverage its underlying value to accelerate innovation, application developers need to consider the entire communications ecosystem.
Nov. 24, 2014 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,809
The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from hardware to software, or as we like to say, it's an Internet of many different things. The difference ...
Nov. 24, 2014 11:00 AM EST Reads: 2,173
Cloud Expo 2014 TV commercials will feature @ThingsExpo, which was launched in June, 2014 at New York City's Javits Center as the largest 'Internet of Things' event in the world.
Nov. 24, 2014 09:00 AM EST Reads: 2,026
SYS-CON Events announced today that Windstream, a leading provider of advanced network and cloud communications, has been named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9–11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York, NY. Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN), a FORTUNE 500 and S&P 500 company, is a leading provider of advanced network communications, including cloud computing and managed services, to businesses nationwide. The company also offers broadband, phone and digital TV services to consumers primarily in rural areas.
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"There is a natural synchronization between the business models, the IoT is there to support ," explained Brendan O'Brien, Co-founder and Chief Architect of Aria Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at the 15th International Cloud Expo®, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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The major cloud platforms defy a simple, side-by-side analysis. Each of the major IaaS public-cloud platforms offers their own unique strengths and functionality. Options for on-site private cloud are diverse as well, and must be designed and deployed while taking existing legacy architecture and infrastructure into account. Then the reality is that most enterprises are embarking on a hybrid cloud strategy and programs. In this Power Panel at 15th Cloud Expo (http://www.CloudComputingExpo.com), moderated by Ashar Baig, Research Director, Cloud, at Gigaom Research, Nate Gordon, Director of T...
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As reported by Fox news via Der Spiegel, a driver in Germany was pulled over for speeding and the police discovered the guy may have a bad habit of being distracted while driving.
The guy had a laptop PC, printer, a couple cell phones, a GPS and a power inverter to provide the juice for the setup. To be honest, I'd bet the guy was some kind of wardriver. Side note: I'm not surprised if I see this kind of thing on I-90 while going in/out of Chicago.
What was he charged? 118 Euro (~$120) for speeding on the AUTOBAHN – i.e. going 130kph in a 100kph zone (roughly 81mph in a 62mph zone). I dunno, just telling people that you got busted for speeding on the Autobahn is kinda cool tho, so there's that.
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Dewey Fredd Patterson, Jr., 79, died Sunday, March 7, 2010.
Born in Elkton, Maryland to Dewey & Elizabeth Patterson., he was a graduate of Elkton High School and the University of Maryland where he played trumpet for the university band.
During the early 50's he served as a Captain in the US Army. He also enjoyed a successful career as a sales manager for Peterson Publishing Co. He was lifetime member of Kiwanis Club and served as vice president of Jaycees. Read More»
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Jesse "Allen" Flowers, 82, of Tyrone, died March 8, 2010.
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Konos Juniors will present "Pirates of Penzance, Jr." Friday, Mar. 12, at 5 and 7:30 p.m. at Heritage Reformed Baptist Church next to Cleveland Elementary School on Lester Road in Fayetteville. This famous farce is one of the most popular operetta's by Gilbert and Sullivan. The junior version is especially designed for young audiences. Read More»
March 6 was opening day of the spring season for Fayette County Youth Soccer and for some of these players, members of U6 Muppet soccer teams, it marked their athletic debut. Scores weren't kept and every player was cheered as they gave their all while learning to play the "beautiful game." Photo/Ben Nelms.
An investigation that began in October concerning two women who kidnapped and robbed an elderly north Fayette woman after claiming to be police officers has resulted in one arrest. In another case, an Ashburn man has been charged with aggravated child molestation.
Paula Aurelia Youngblood, 55, of Birmingham, Ala., has been charged with impersonating an officer, kidnapping and robbery, according to Fayette County Sheriffs Office spokesperson Brent Rowan. Read More»
Five abandoned homes in Fayette County have become so run-down that they should be considered for demolition, county officials said.
Three of the five homes — all in the unincorporated area of the county — were damaged by fire, said Joe Scarborough of the county's Permits and Inspections Department. Read More»
Fayette County Commission Chairman Jack Smith says he does not support a transit system for the county's future, but his attempts to get bus and rail service deleted from a regional plan failed. Read More»
Hopewell United Methodist Church in Tyrone will begin Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University (FPU) class on Thursday, March 11, at 7 p.m.
FPU is a 13-week program with the goal of not just information, but transformation. More than one million families have attended FPU. On average, they pay off $5,300 in debt and save $2,700 in just 90 days.
The program is for everyone, regardless of age, regardless of income, and regardless of marital status. Read More»
Peachtree City United Methodist Church invites the commiunity to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its preschool program with a dinner and open house on Tuesday, March 16.
Festivities will begin with a spaghetti dinner at 5:30 p.m. in the PTCUMC multipurpose room. Class photos from all 25 years will be shown during the dinner and current students will sing.
Dinner is $5 per person, $3 for children under 12, with a $20 maximum per family. Call the church, 770-487-6499, ext. 248, for reservations. Read More»


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WILL Highlights
Video: The Illinois Gubernatorial Downstate Debate
This debate aired live on Thursday, October 9th at 8 pm on Public TV and Radio stations across Illinois
Illinois Gubernatorial Downstate Debate
Candidates for governor Republican Bruce Rauner and Democratic incumbent Pat Quinn will meet for the Illinois Gubernatorial Downstate Debate in Peoria at 8 pm Thursday, Oct. 9. It will be hosted by Illinois Public Media and three other Illinois public broadcasters along with the League of Women Voters of Illinois.
Public TV and radio stations throughout the state will broadcast the 60-minute debate. The debate will take place at WTVP (Peoria), which will sponsor and broadcast the debate along with WILL-TV and WILL-AM-FM (Urbana), WSIU-FM-TV (Carbondale) and WUIS-FM (Springfield).
Jak Tichenor, host of Illinois Lawmakers, from WSIU will moderate with questioning by Amanda Vinicky, statehouse bureau chief from WUIS; H. Wayne Wilson, host/producer of WTVP's At Issue; and Jamey Dunn, executive editor of Illinois Issues magazine.
Chad Grimm, Libertarian candidate for governor, did not meet all of the candidate eligibility requirements to appear in the debate. Those requirements are contained in the debate agreements posted below. See Illinois Public Media News stories about Grimm's candidacy.
Additional TV stations carrying the debate are WEIU (Charleston), WQPT (Quad Cities), WSEC (Springfield), WMEC (Macomb), WTTW (Chicago), and WQEC (Quincy). Other radio stations broadcasting the debate are WBEZ-FM (Chicago), WCBU-FM (Peoria), WVIK-FM (Quad Cities) and WNIJ-FM (DeKalb).
WTVP-TV, WILL AM-FM-TV, WSIU-FM-TV and WUIS-FM will stream the debate live on their station websites.
WILL-TV will re-air the debate at 10:30 pm Friday, Oct. 10, and 1 pm Sunday, Oct. 12.
Join the conversation online during the debate: #ILGov2014
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WILL-TV to Host 13th District Congressional Debate
Republican Rodney Davis of Taylorville and Democrat Ann Callis of Edwardsville, candidates for Congress in the 13th District, will meet in the WILL-TV studio for a debate hosted by Illinois Public Media in collaboration with the League of Women Voters of Champaign County, the News-Gazette, WCIA3/WCIX49 and the NAACP of Champaign County.
WILL-TV, WILL-AM 580 and WILL-FM 90.9 will broadcast the hour-long debate live at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 16, as will WCIX-TV 49. WEIU-TV (Charleston) will air the recorded debate at 8 p.m. the same night.
WCIA news anchor Jennifer Roscoe will moderate, with questioning by a panel of journalists including Tom Kacich of the News-Gazette, and Illinois Public Media News reporter Hannah Meisel.
Join the conversation online about the debate. What questions would you like the candidates to answer? Tweet your questions ahead of the debate using the hashtag #IL13th2014.
Find out more about where the 13th District candidates stand on the issues from our Illinois Public Media News interviews with each.
The 13th Congressional District stretches from Champaign-Urbana west to the Mississippi River and to the Illinois suburbs of St. Louis.
WILL-TV will rebroadcast the debate at 11 pm Friday, Oct. 17, and 1 pm Sunday, Oct. 19.
WILL-AM 580 and WILL-FM 90.9 will broadcast another 13th District debate, hosted by WUIS-FM in Springfield, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 21.
Journalist Hockenberry hosts show from WILL
Journalist John Hockenberry, a former NPR and Dateline NBC correspondent, is visiting the University of Illinois campus Sept. 29-30 and will host his public radio show, The Takeaway, from the WILL Radio studios on those two days.
During his visit, he'll meet with students and faculty from the U of I College of Media.
A paraplegic since an auto accident at age 19, he is also prominent figure in the disability rights movement. He is author of the nonfiction book Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence, an account of his reporting from all over the world while navigating in a wheelchair.
The Takeaway is an hour-long national news program that relies on the contributions of listeners across the country to deliver the perspectives and analysis you need to understand the day's news. Hockenberry convenes conversations with both newsmakers and diverse voices. It is a co-production of PRI (Public Radio International) and WNYC Radio in collaboration with The New York Times and WGBH Boston. To listen, visit the show website.
Listen to a piece he did Sept. 30 about the Illinois Public Media/University High School oral history project collaboration.
Hockenberry joined NBC as a correspondent for Dateline NBC in January 1996 after a 15-year career in broadcast news at both NPR and ABC News. Hockenberry's reporting for Dateline NBC earned him three Emmys, an Edward R Murrow award and a Casey Medal. His most prominent Dateline NBC reports include an hour-long documentary on the often-fatal tragedy of the medically uninsured, an emotional portrait of a young schizophrenic trying to live on his own and extensive reporting in the aftermath of September 11th.
In 2009, Hockenberry was appointed to the White House Fellows Commission by President Barack Obama where he participates in the selection of the annual Fellows for this most prestigious of Federal programs.
Hockenberry is also the author of A River Out Of Eden a novel based in the Pacific Northwest He has also written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, I.D., Wired, The Columbia Journalism Review, Details, and The Washington Post.
Hockenberry spent more than a decade with NPR as a general assignment reporter, Middle East correspondent and host of several programs. During the Persian Gulf War (1990-91), Hockenberry was assigned to the Middle East, where he filed reports from Israel, Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Iran. He was one of the first Western broadcast journalists to report from Kurdish refugee camps in Northern Iraq and Southern Turkey. Hockenberry also spent two years (1988-90) as a correspondent based in Jerusalem during the most intensive conflict of the Palestinian uprising. Hockenberry received the Columbia Dupont Award for Foreign News Coverage for reporting on the Gulf War.


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