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• What one company learned from testing Intel's superfast Optane SSDs

  07-04-2017 22:46
  
  Intel's large-capacity Optane is like the Ferrari of storage: It's super fast, it's cool and it's expensive.Also, it isn't for everyone yet. That was reiterated by Intel when it introduced its first large capacity SSD, the Optane SSD DC P4800X, last month.The 375GB DC P4800X is aimed at high-end applications. Optane is also available as low-capacity cache storage on motherboards, allowing Windows 10 and other applications to load faster.Before release, Intel gave Optane SSDs to a select few cust
  
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• BrandPost: Migrating to IaaS

  07-04-2017 22:11
  
  To shift IT budget dollars away from running a data center and toward higher value IT investments, more and more organizations are ramping up their move to consuming cloud-hosted Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).IaaS is growing faster than any other type of cloud service, according to Gartner. Many providers offer IaaS as part of a public cloud platform, where consumption is expected to grow nearly six times as fast as overall IT spending, according to IDC. The same growth in consumption of hy
  
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• Microsoft hikes Windows 10 savings claims by 28%

  07-04-2017 22:05
  
  Microsoft this week boosted by 28% its claim of how much enterprises can save by deploying Windows 10.The revised estimate came from a Microsoft-commissioned analysis first done in mid-2016 by Forrester Research. Then, Forrester said the per-worker savings over a three-year stretch would be $404. To reach that number, the research firm interviewed four Microsoft customers that had begun moving to Windows 10, then modeled a hypothetical organization with 24,000 Windows devices, and a large number
  
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• Microsoft launches Windows 10 beta program for business users

  07-04-2017 22:00
  
  Business users get access to their own version of the Windows 10 beta program this week. On Friday, Microsoft unveiled the Windows Insider Program for Business, alongside its first post-Creators Update Windows 10 beta.The program will let business users sign up for beta updates with their Azure Active Directory credentials, rather than a personal Microsoft account. The new feature is designed to provide IT professionals with a path for giving Microsoft business-specific feedback on Windows 10 fe
  
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• 20% off Litom Solar Outdoor Motion Sensor Security Lights, 2 Pack - Deal Alert

  07-04-2017 21:32
  
  This Amazon #1 best selling solar security light is super bright and easy to install wherever you need it. It features 3 modes: (1) Always on, (2) Dim until motion is detected, and (3) Off until motion is detected. It's designed with a large sensor that will detect motion over a larger distance, and 20 LED lights that the company claims are larger and more powerful than the competition offers. Being weatherproof, this is a light you can mount anywhere you need it outdoors. The Liton outdoor moti
  
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• Microsoft prepares for Redstone 3's fall release, with Windows 10 Mobile nowhere in sight

  07-04-2017 21:29
  Having successfully delivered the Windows 10 Creators Update, Microsoft engineers are onto their next project: writing the code that will make up “Redstone 3,” the next major update to Windows 10. But where's Windows 10 Mobile in all this?Microsoft pushed Build 16170 of Windows 10 to the Fast Ring on Friday, an otherwise bland update that fixes a few bugs. The most important element, however, is what the build prepares for: adjusting the OneCore code underlying the PC, tabl
  
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• BrandPost: SDN:The Evolution from Hype to Competitive Advantage

  07-04-2017 21:26
  
  Unlike many hyped technologies that either never work as advertised, or arrive long after their 15 minutes of fame, Software Defined Networking (SDN) is delivering real-world benefits to its users.A quick reminder on the foundational definition is good to review. SDN—the physical separation of the network control plane from the forwarding plane, and where a control plane controls several devices—is designed to deliver a host of networking services to datacenter and enterprise network
  
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• WikiLeaks: CIA used bits of Carberp Trojan code for malware deployment

  07-04-2017 21:21
  
  When the source code to a suspected Russian-made malware leaked online in 2013, guess who used it? A new release from WikiLeaks claims the U.S. CIA borrowed some of the code to bolster its own hacking operations.On Friday, WikiLeaks released 27 documents that allegedly detail how the CIA customized its malware for Windows systems.The CIA borrowed a few elements from the Carberp financial malware when developing its own hacking tool known as Grasshopper, according to those documents.Carberp
  
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• BrandPost: Keep Your Organization Safe and Secure

  07-04-2017 21:18
  
  Cyber attacks are growing in frequency and sophistication every day. Every organization, regardless of vertical industry, or size must ask themselves, is my security strategy up to date? Our team at Connection has created a series of Security Solutions videos to help you learn how to address the security risks to your organization.You’ll learn how to build a strategy that helps you plan for and react to breaches with Connection’s risk governance solutions, as well as how creating a u
  
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• BrandPost: What Amazon's Outage Reminded Us

  07-04-2017 21:11
  
  Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a four-hour outage in its U.S. East-1 region. The outage is reported to have affected global business and commerce, with consultancy firm Cyence predicting the S&P 500 companies incurred $150M is losses from the outage. Fifty-four of the Internet’s top 100 retailers reported performance impacts to their user experience, and certainly countless other small businesses who don’t register on these ranks were adversely affected if they relied sole
  
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• Twitter pulls lawsuit after US government backs down

  07-04-2017 20:53
  
  Twitter has withdrawn a lawsuit against the U.S. government after the Customs and Border Protection backed down on a demand that the social media outlet reveal details about a user account critical of the agency.The lawsuit, filed Thursday, contended that the customs agency was abusing its investigative power. The customs agency has the ability to get private user data from Twitter when investigating cases in areas such as illegal imports, but this case was far from that.The target of the reques
  
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• IoT malware starts showing destructive behavior

  07-04-2017 20:37
  
  Hackers have started adding data-wiping routines to malware that's designed to infect internet-of-things and other embedded devices. Two attacks observed recently displayed this behavior but likely for different purposes.Researchers from Palo Alto Networks found a new malware program dubbed Amnesia that infects digital video recorders through a year-old vulnerability. Amnesia is a variation of an older IoT botnet client called Tsunami, but what makes it interesting is that it attempts
  
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• Hortonworks investing in major international growth to cut reliance on U.S. market

  07-04-2017 20:08
  
  Hortonworks is planning a major international expansion this year as it looks to become less reliant on its core North American market.The vendor of big data services and support based on open source technologies is putting its money where its mouth is, with new president Raj Verma vowing to invest 95 percent of new headcount spend on international growth over the coming year.Speaking at the DataWorks Summit in Munich this week the new VP of international at Hortonworks, Joe Morrissey, told Comp
  
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• The Weekly Wrap: Time to prep for Windows 10 Creators Update

  07-04-2017 20:04
  
  Windows 10 Creators Update doesn't officially roll out until Tuesday -- and it'll likely be months before everyone running Windows 10 gets it. That's when the installation file will hit Windows Update and be offered to a select group of users.That said, you can actually get a jump on everyone else now by running the Upgrade Assistant, which is available on Microsoft's website. (Update Assistant is a consumer-and-business alternative to Windows Update that lets you download the OS befor
  
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• Samsung's squashing of malicious Tizen smart TV bugs is turning messy

  07-04-2017 19:49
  
  After 40 critical vulnerabilities on Samsung's Tizen -- used in smart TVs and smartwatches -- were exposed this week by Israeli researcher Amihai Neiderman, the company is scrambling to patch them.But Samsung still doesn't know many of the bugs that need to be patched. It's also unclear when Tizen devices will get security patches, or if older Tizen devices will even get OS updates to squash the bugs.Beyond Samsung's smart TVs, Tizen is also used in wearables like Gear S3 and handsets like Samsu
  
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• Android device updates: Android 7.1.2 arrives for Pixel and Nexus devices

  07-04-2017 19:42
  
  It was a relatively busy time on the Android update beat this week. Pixel and Nexus phones got some bug fixes, while a couple of more watches finally get the long-promised Android Wear 2.0 update. Let’s dive in to everything that has rolled through the update pipeline.Each week, we round up all the major software updates to hit the Android ecosystem, including phones and tablets on U.S. carriers, unlocked phones, smartwatches, and Android TV devices. Make sure your device is running the la
  
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• Unity out at Canonical amid big shakeups

  07-04-2017 19:17
  
  Canonical, the company behind the best-known Linux distribution in the world and one of the biggest players in commercial open source software, has announced several large-scale changes of direction that have created big ripples in the open source world.The biggest news is that the company will no longer focus development resources on its Unity desktop front-end for Linux – a long-standing project designed to make Ubuntu a viable operating system for a wide array of endpoints, including ph
  
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• US lawmakers demand to know how many residents are under surveillance

  07-04-2017 19:09
  Two powerful U.S. lawmakers are pushing President Donald Trump administration's to tell them how many of the country's residents are under surveillance by the National Security Agency.In a letter sent Friday, Representatives Bob Goodlatte and John Conyers Jr. asked the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to provide an estimate of the number of U.S. residents whose communications are swept up in NSA surveillance of foreign targets. Goodlatte, a Republican, is chairman of the House Jud
  
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• What C-level leaders need to know about cybersecurity

  07-04-2017 19:04
  
  Despite the scale and potential harm from cyber-attacks, there's wide recognition that corporate leaders, especially boards of directors, aren't taking the necessary actions to defend their companies against such attacks. It's not just a problem of finding the right cyber-defense tools and services, but also one of management awareness and security acumen at the highest level, namely corporate boards."Our country and its businesses and government agencies of all sizes are under attack from a var
  
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• Surprise! Your first-gen Huawei Watch might get Android Pay after all

  07-04-2017 18:40
  
  While many people who bought an original Huawei Watch are still counting the days until delivery of the Android Wear 2.0 upgrade, the long wait isn’t the only thing that’s bumming them out. One of the new OS’s best features, Android Pay, remains just out of reach since the watch doesn't have built-in support for NFC. Or so we thought.A report from Ausdroid indicates that the original Huawei Watch, one of the bright spots in the first crop of wearables, secretly included an NFC
  
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• Why zero-tolerance policies never stop abuse

  07-04-2017 18:32
  
  When I first came to the Silicon Valley it was to work for ROLM Systems and while I’d been recruited by firms like Microsoft, I chose ROLM because it actually had a Great Place to Work organization.   I’d worked for a number of companies before ROLM and I decided that the quality of my life was more important than the any other factor. Looking back, two of the best managers I’d ever had, and the happiest years, were spent there.   Sadly, ROLM was acquired an
  
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• This year's H-1B cap is quickly reached -- and exceeded

  07-04-2017 18:05
  
  The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) said Friday that the H-1B cap for FY 2018 has been reached. The agency will now hold a computer-generated lottery to distribute the visas.The USCIS didn't say how many visa petitions it received, and an agency spokeswoman said counting up the final number will take a week or two.[ Find IT salary listings and the latest compensation news at IT Salary Watch ]The U.S. began accepting petitions on Monday, April 3. This quick announcement means tha
  
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• University CIO calls on cloud phone service

  07-04-2017 17:17
  
  Georgetown University is testing a cloud phone service intended to replace its 25-year-old system, which would cost millions of dollars to replace. The move, part of a broader telecommunications infrastructure overhaul, advances the private university's plan to migrate to consumer-friendly cloud and mobile software, says CIO Judd Nicholson.Georgetown University Georgetown University CIO Judd Nicholson.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Pairing Galaxy S8 with Microsoft apps seen as benefit to business customers

  07-04-2017 16:50
  
  Samsung and Microsoft recently struck an unusual partnership: Buyers of new Samsung Galaxy S8 phones will soon be able to load Office and other productivity apps onto those Android 7 phones via Wi-Fi when inside Microsoft Stores.[ Related: Samsung targets the enterprise with Galaxy S8 and S8+ ]With the Windows apps on a Galaxy device and the new Samsung DeX docking station, business users will be able to access Microsoft Azure cloud services, and more, through the large monitor and full-sized ke
  
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• McAfee: Trend indicates 2017 will be bumper year for new malware

  07-04-2017 16:47
  
  A cycle of increasing new malware is well underway and could last the rest of this year if a trend established over the past two years continues.Defenders enjoyed a nine-month dip in malware innovation last year, but that’s over with, according to a cycle identified by McAfee Labs.Its latest McAfee Labs Threats Report says that starting at the beginning of 2015, the volume of new threats has fluctuated in a regular pattern, with two to three quarters of growth followed by three quarters of
  
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• Samsung made an even better Galaxy S8+, but you can’t have it

  07-04-2017 16:29
  
  In just a few weeks, Galaxy S8s will begin appearing in mailboxes, and people will be posting pictures and videos of their new phones to make all their Twitter followers and Facebook friends who don’t have one jealous. But even if you’re rocking the Galaxy S8+ with the upgraded Y50BT AKG headphones and packing a 256GB SD card, you still won’t have the best model money can buy.[ Related: Samsung targets the enterprise with Galaxy S8 and S8+ ]
  [ Related: Samsung Introduces Galaxy
  
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• Google combats fake news with 'Fact Check' results in search and news

  07-04-2017 16:22
  
  Google is ready to roll out its fact check label to Google News editions worldwide after introducing the feature in October for the United States and the U.K. The label will also appear in searches in all languages that Google supports. When you’re searching for a topic that’s been answered by a source using the fact check label, Google’s results page will include a snippet with three components: information about the claim being made, who made the claim, and whether that
  
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• 20% off Pre-Order of Prey for Xbox One, PS4 and PC - Deal Alert

  07-04-2017 15:52
  
  Amazon Prime members get an exclusive 20% off the pre-order of Prey. In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong.
  
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• IT-certificaten maken verschil op de arbeidsmarkt

  07-04-2017 15:49
  De kosten van certificaten verdienen zich terug door hogere productiviteit, snellere oplossing van problemen en minder hiaten in kennis. Werknemers met certificaten verdienen ook beter. Werkgevers die vooral goedkoper uit willen zijn, kunnen beter een kandidaat aannemen zonder relevante certificering: het salaris ligt... lees meer
  
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• Why Google BigQuery excels at BI on big data concurrency

  07-04-2017 14:34
  
  If you're trying to do business intelligence (BI) on big data and the capability to handle large number of concurrent queries is a key issue for you, Google BigQuery may well be the way to go, according to a new Business Intelligence Benchmark released Thursday by AtScale, a startup specializing in helping organizations enable BI on big data.[ Related: Google BigQuery update aims for enticing Hadoop users ]To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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  07-04-2017 13:52
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• 7 Salesforce certifications that will advance your career

  07-04-2017 13:46
  
  Salesforce is one of the fastest-growing, most in-demand skillsets out there. From software developers, solutions architects and designers to project managers and marketing and sales professionals, it's a skill that almost every professional can benefit from.
  If you're looking to leverage your Salesforce skills to land a new job or secure a promotion, certifications are a great way to prove your competency and boost your paycheck, says, Meagan Humphrey, director of sales operations, IT recruitin
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Accenture’s eye-catching acquisition of Genfour

  07-04-2017 13:00
  
  It’s a safe bet that most enterprises as well as service providers pay attention to Accenture’s market moves and investments. After all, Accenture is the world's largest independent consulting and IT outsourcing firm, so who wouldn’t think it wise to learn by observing the firm’s strategies? Let’s look at Accenture’s recent acquisition of Genfour. Interestingly, the two major considerations that typically drive acquisitions are not at play in this case; so, wh
  
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• Today get 36% off JBL Flip 3 Splash Proof Portable Bluetooth Speaker - Deal Alert

  07-04-2017 12:49
  
  The all-purpose, all-weather companion JBL Flip 3 is the next generation wireless speaker in the award-winning Flip series. It is a comprehensive portable Bluetooth speaker that delivers surprisingly powerful, room-filling stereo sound everywhere. This ultra-compact speaker is powered by a 3000mAh rechargeable Li-ion battery that offers up to 10 hours of continuous playtime. Sporting a durable, splashproof fabric and available in 8 vibrant colors, Flip 3 is the all-purpose, all-weather comp
  
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• U.S. businesses jump on trend to buy unlocked smartphones

  07-04-2017 12:27
  
  Cost-conscious businesses are increasingly buying unlocked smartphones for their workers, instead of more expensive smartphones with two-year service plans that are locked to a certain wireless U.S. carrier."Unlocked makes more sense," said Craig Riegelhaupt, direct of product marketing for mobile at Tangoe, an IT and telecom expense management software and services vendor that functions as a consultant to thousands of large businesses.There's a "definite" trend among Tangoe customers toward buy
  
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• Robots: Lots of features, not much security

  07-04-2017 12:17
  
  Robots are supposed to do good things for us, not bad things to us.But there is plenty of evidence that, like the billions of other connected devices that make up the Internet of Things (IoT), the growth of robot technology is coming with loads of features, but not much of a security blanket.More evidence came in a report on home, business and industrial robots released last month by security research firm IOActive, which found that “most” of them lacked what experts generally call &
  
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• Infosec careers: There is no one true path

  07-04-2017 12:16
  
  How’d you get that gig?Image by 422737It would sure make things simple if there were one easy and obvious way to get a job or start a successful business in IT security. But it would also cut off a lot of potential career paths. We spoke to a host of different IT security pros and found that indeed there wasn't just one route to that coveted job. "There are very few formal paths into security," says Justin Collins, an application security engineer at SurveyMonkey. "Everyone has a different
  
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• Microsoft .Net Framework gets updated for Windows 10

  07-04-2017 12:00
  
  Microsoft has launched .Net Framework 4.7 this week, offering enhancements for Windows Forms, cryptography, and touch.Included in the Windows 10 Creators Update and supported in Visual Studio 2017, version 4.7 enhances functionality available with Eliptic Curve Cryptography. ImportParameters(ECParameters) methods were added to the ECDsa and ECDiffieHellman classes to enable an object to represent an already established key. Also, an ExportParameters(bool) method was added for exporting the key u
  
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• 10 fun tech ads through the years

  07-04-2017 12:00
  
  Editor's note: We originally published this look at tech ads throughout the years for Computerworld's 40th anniversary. It's just as fun -- maybe even more so -- a decade later for our 50th.It's rare for us to spend an hour-long staff meeting in nonstop laughter.But that's pretty much what happened when we gathered to go through old print issues of Computerworld as part of our 40th anniversary celebration.The original idea of hauling those Computerworld issues out of storage was to look at impor
  
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• US FCC said to have a plan for rollback of net neutrality rules

  07-04-2017 10:28
  
  Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has disclosed preliminary plans to roll back some of the net neutrality provisions in the U.S., which could be put to vote as soon as May or June, according to news reports.In a meeting this week with industry associations, Pai is said to have outlined a plan that would do away with the classification of broadband providers as common carriers subject to the oversight of the FCC.The new proposal would, however, require the broadband providers to
  
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• Samsung's profit soars after recovery from Note7 debacle

  07-04-2017 04:21
  
  The costly Galaxy Note7 debacle, which led to the recall of about 3 million smartphones because of overheating batteries, seems to be behind Samsung Electronics, with the company forecasting a 48 percent growth in operating profit in the first quarter.Samsung has not had a new flagship smartphone on the shelves ever since it stopped production of the Note7 in October after replacement phones shipped by the company were also found in some cases to have the battery issue. The company now has its h
  
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