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Cyberattacks and New Regulations Top Supply Chain Resilience Report
IT and telecommunications outages; cyber attacks; and loss of skilled employees are the top three causes of supply chain disruption, according to the Business Continuity Institute (BCI)’s ninth annual Supply Chain Resilience Report.
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Consumers Want “Internet of Things” to Become the “Internet of Intelligence”
A new study looks at how the proliferation of connectivity is changing the way consumers engage with content, information and the world around them.
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Microsoft brings Apache Spark, Cassandra, MariaDB to its Azure cloud
Microsoft has brought several third-party popular platforms to its Azure cloud aimed at developers and data analysts.[ What is Apache Spark? The big data analytics platform explained. | Which NoSQL database should you use? MongoDB and Couchbase Serv…
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Washington, D.C., New York, and Chicago Have Most Cybersecurity Job Openings
The demand for cybersecurity professionals remains strong across the United States, according to new data from CyberSeek™.
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A Guide to Effective Network Penetration Testing
Do you want to discover vulnerabilities before a hacker exploits them? Are you already aware of network vulnerabilities, but need an authority to testify that your network security needs additional investments?
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What’s new in Microsoft .Net Framework 4.7.1
With Microsoft’s release of .Net Framework 4.7.1 this week, the development platform gains critical improvements to garbage collection, security, and application configuration. To boost memory allocation performance, particularly for large object he…
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IDG Contributor Network: Do you know the one secret to successful digital transformation?
Devops and cloud are the inescapable words of the decade for IT professionals, and with good reason: making the shift to digitally transform under these models can result in a business-defining transformation with increased speed, reduced costs, and…
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How devops changes both dev and ops
Devops is the literal and figurative fusion of development and operations. For years, these two groups have been separated by cultural and knowledge boundaries, particularly inside larger enterprise IT organizations.This separation was straightforwa…
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What is SaaS? The modern way to run software
One of the most popular forms of cloud computing is software-as-a-service (SaaS), defined as a software distribution model in which a service provider hosts applications for customers and makes them available to these customers via the internet.SaaS…
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Doing cloud computing? You need devops, too
I’ve gone from recommending that you should have devops to you must have devops. At least, if a public cloud is in your future.There are two fundamental reasons why cloud computing and devops are necessary complements.[ What is devops? Discover how …
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How devops tools accelerate software delivery
Once upon a time, there was a developer who needed to write code against a database. So he asked the database administrator for access to the production database.“Oh, dear me, no,” said the DBA. “You can’t touch our data. You need your own database….
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Network monitoring tools: Features users love and hate
Managing the health of the corporate network will directly affect the productivity of every user of that network. So network administrators need a robust network monitoring tool that helps them manage the network, identify problems before they cause…
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