Google’s security researchers with the now famous Project Zero, disclosed yesterday two vulnerabilities, named Meltdown and Spectre. Even as the new year starts, this could be 2018’s largest vulnerability discovery, as it affects all software running on Intel processors, regardless of Operating System. Basically, every Intel processor after 1995 is affected. The vulnerability exploits “out of order execution” The large group of researchers collaborated from … Read More
Amazon AWS announces EC2 Bare Metal Instances.
AWS announced today an EC2 instance with direct access to hardware. In the announcement, Jeff Barr said this is the result of unique client requests and the result is that “every AWS customer has access to whatever it is that we build, and everyone benefits” The specific cases for this request are when the customer wants access to the physical … Read More
New from Synology: All-flash desktop factor FlashStation FS1018
Released today, December 14, 2017. This is Synology’s first all-flash NAS unit. Here are the main specifications: Support for up to 12 2.”5 SATA SSD Intel Pentium D1508 dual-core CPU 8 GB ECC DDR4 SO-DIMM, expandable to 32GB 4 Gigabit Lan Ports PCIe 3.0 x8 slot All backed up with Synology’s 5-year limited warranty. Please see the full product specifications at … Read More
From the Office 365 Blog: Four Success Factors for Driving Microsoft 365 Adoption
The four-part blog on how to succeed with Microsoft 365 implementation contains useful information from client implementations, third-party research, and best practices. By Cyril Belikoff at Microsoft Part 1 on the Office 365 Blog Part 2 on the Office 365 Blog Part 3 on the Office 365 Blog Part 4 on the Office 365 Blog
Complete list of Talks including Security, Compliance, Identity and more.
The following link covers all introductory, advanced and expert talks at AWS 2017 event. AWS re:Invent2017
Seagate Ironwolf Series: 12TB
Seagate just announced its Ironwolf and Ironwolf Pro series with 12 TB capacity. These units go from one to sixteen bays, and the top end Pro series is backed by a five-year warranty, and five years promotional Rescue Data Recovery Service. Ironwolf hard disk drives are ideal for NAS configurations as they are equipped with Vibrational Rotational Sensors. This will … Read More
Announcement by Amazon AWS: Alexa for Business.
Alexa for Business makes it easy to deploy and manage Alexa devices at scale in your organization. The new tools let you manage Alexa skills, users, and devices, both as Personal and Shared devices. Follow the announcement at the link: Alexa for Business.
Jony Ive portrayed in the Smithsonian Magazine.
Sir Jony Ive needs no introduction. His lifelong career as Chief of Design at Apple has earned him numerous awards. On November 30, 2017, he was presented with the American Ingenuity Award, from the Smithsonian. Please see the video at the bottom of the post: Smithsonian Magazine: American Ingenuity Awards