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
Digital Ocean Announces Cloud Firewalls.
Digital Ocean has lately been simplifying the infrastructure experience. With that approach in mind, Cloud Firewalls is an effective and simple way to secure Droplets. The service is free and created with scalability in mind. Cloud Firewalls is a central location where access rules are defined and applied to Droplets, enforcing them on the network layer. Non-whitelisted traffic will not reach the droplets, … Read More
“7 Mental Strategies That Will Make You More Successful”
Pulsar Technology Corp’s Blog is not only technology focused. As a Small Business on the fast paced IT field we take a full time learning very seriously around here. We are passionate about Entrepreneurship, Business Development, Digital Marketing and plain hard work. So every few technical posts, you will see writeups on these interests. Today’s link is a great post by Elle … Read More
Symantec’s Blog with updated information on WannaCry Ransomware
As it has been widely covered in the media by now, since Friday, May 12, 2017, the WannaCry Ransomware has affected a significant number of machines, effectively encrypting 176 file types and renaming them to *.WCRY, asking for the equivalent of US 300 in bitcoins. The amount increases to double that after three days, complete with visual countdown indicator. After … Read More
Synology adds Active Directory Server to DSM 6.1
This tool essentially turns your Synology NAS into a MS domain controller. Plesase see details at: https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/6.1/packages/ActiveDirectory
Synology Announces High Performance FlashStation FS2017
All Flash high-performance 24-bay rackmount Network Attached of I/O intensive applications. Ideal for virtualization, video production and post-production and other storage intensive tasks. CPU Intel® Xeon D-1541 8-core processor Memory 16GB DDR4 ECC RDIMM up to 128GB High Performance Up to 90,000 4K random write IOPS Scalability Up to 72 2.5″ drives with RX2417sas For further information please see … Read More