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Selecting a Compute Platform for Virtualization Hosts
The digital revolution started off with vacuum tubes and punch cards, and machines the size of a building’s entire floor. For its time, Univac was a modern marvel but nowadays the phones we all have…
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5 Flavors of Microsoft SQL Data Encryption
With the constant drumbeat of security vulnerabilities and breaches in the news, protecting data is, or should be, on everybody’s mind. While we know that a firewall is essential to keeping the bad guys out,…
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Benefits of Virtualization
Virtualization has been rising in popularity during the past few years due to its ability to provide a viable solution for companies to increase productivity while reducing IT infrastructure costs. By switching to virtualization, companies…
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Meltdown & Spectre Follow-up
Over the last week, most of you have heard about the latest exploits that are potentially impacting your business, Meltdown and Spectre. These particular exploits target a system’s CPU. The news of this particular attack…
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Chipzilla Intel Flaw?
There have been rumors in the wind that there could be an Intel chip flaw that affect Intel Processors built in the last 10 years. Linux distributions have been frantically updating their code, but being…
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Thrive Ranked Among Top 100 CSP’s
7th Annual Talkin’ Cloud 100 Report Identifies Top Cloud Services Providers Thrive ranks among the world’s Top 100 cloud services providers (CSPs), according to Channel Futures seventh-annual Talkin’ Cloud (TC) 100 report. The full list…
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A Major Hospital was Cyber Attacked
Well sort of, popular TV series Grey’s Anatomy featured an episode last week where the hospital in the show was cyber attacked. It started with multiple departments experiencing some technical difficulties. Enter confused internal onsite…
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How low are you willing to CybeRTO and CybeRPO? Part 2 of 3
Intrigued by the notion of learning more about new industry terms? In the first part of this series, we discussed CybeRTO (Sigh Ber To) and CybeRPO(Sigh Ber Po) and the general meanings of both. In…
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Keys to Getting Started With Compliance
I have recently jumped head first into a number of compliance initiatives both for our internal needs as well as for our customers. To say that I have learned a lot in 3 months is…
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Update: What is Regulatory Compliance?
Regulatory compliance has many different definitions depending on what industry you are applying the policies to. Since compliance means integrating standards that follow specific requirements, regulatory compliance is the regulations a company must follow to meet specific…