Just joining the Windows Insider Program, with Build 16237. Improvements to container and virtualization, and greater pass through of the underlying hardware to the VM. Support for non-volatile memory has been integrated, leading to the benefits of low-latency performance. Battery Passthrough to the VM. Enhancements to Container Networking. As covered by Peter Bright of Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/07/first-insider-build-of-windows-server-arrives-with-new-virtualization-features/ And the announcement on … Read More
Cloudflare and HTTPS
As the prevalence of encryption increases, Cloudflare, a leading Content Delivery Network, makes it easy to enable HTTPS only, and furthermore Strict Transport Security HSTS. Here is their blog post with the information on how to secure your website. https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-to-make-your-site-https-only/
Happy 4th !
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Microsoft Anounces Large disks sizes for the Premium and Standard storage Tiers.
SSD Premium Disk storage is typically used for I/O intensive ops, providing low latency. The announcement, available at all regions covers two large disk sizes 2TB and 4TB. At the same time, the Input Output Operations per Second was increased to 7,500 along with bandwith to 250 MBps. Please follow the links to learn more About disks and VHDs for Azure Windows VMs documentation web … Read More
Cloud Wars: Top Ten Rankings as of June 1 2017
In a recent article published on Forbes by Bob Evans, Microsoft emerges as the top cloud vendor. The analysis is based not only on revenue but on other metrics such as scalability and integration. Definitely a complicated market, with some surprises such as SAP taking fourth place. Please follow the link for the complete story: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bobevans1/2017/06/01/sorry-amazon-but-microsoft-is-the-worlds-1-cloud-vendor-heres-why-cloud-wars/#319156d27928
Microsoft’s Blog: “The need for urgent collective action to keep people safe online: Lessons from last week’s cyberattack”
A reflection by Brad Smith, Microsoft’s Presidente and Chief Legal Office, on the complexity and diversity of the current wave of risks: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2017/05/14/need-urgent-collective-action-keep-people-safe-online-lessons-last-weeks-cyberattack/
Dell Inspiron 27″ All In One
Great design in the all new Inspiron 27″ Here are some of the specs: AMD Radeon™ RX 500 series graphics card with GDDR5 memory. AMD 8 Core Ryzen™ processor. 16GB of DDR4 2400MHz memory IPS Panel with InfinitiEdge at 4K resolution http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/productdetails/inspiron-27-7775-aio?dgc=EM&cid=311936&lid=5878841&acd=12309230467259870&ven1=11380765&ven2=348414873&ven3=811703849627480850
BackBlaze Anual Backup Awareness Survey Results For 2017
To the question: “How often do you back up all the data on your computer ?” The results are very low. The 10th Year of the survey still indicates a low backup frequency (yearly, 26.3%) The complete survey is here: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backup-awareness-survey/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=Newsletter-B1&utm_content=2017-bu-awareness-b&utm_campaign=Newsletter-20170606