Miscellaneous Tech News
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Cloud Services Starting To Overtake On-Prem Database Management Systems
Database management system (DBMS) growth is happening more on the cloud services side than on the traditional "on-premises" side, according to a report published this month by Gartner Inc.
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Extreme Networks to buy up smaller Milpitas rival Aerohive for $272M
https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2019/06/26/extreme-networks-aerohive-acquisition-extr-hive.html -
Cloud Services Use on the Rise But Security Concerns Remain
A recently published industry report suggested that use of public cloud services by organizations may nearly double in the next two years.
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WireGuard on Windows early preview
WireGuard for Windows is still in pre-alpha, but it's looking very good.
WireGuard is a new peer-to-peer VPN technology that has the potential for greater speed, smaller attack surface, and easier configuration than commonly used and better-established VPN platforms such as OpenVPN and IPSec -
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Microsoft Isn't Patching Excel Dynamic Data Exchange Attack Vulnerability
The Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program, in combination with its Power Query data-fetching component, can be leveraged in so-called "Dynamic Data Exchange" (DDE) types of attacks, according to a report published on Thursday by Mimecast Threat Center researchers.
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https://m.phys.org/news/2019-06-eu-okays-ibm-bn-buyout.html
Comment from Osiris1
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Microsoft Turning On Teams for Office 365 Business, ProPlus Subscribers as Early as July
Microsoft plans to activate its Teams collaboration app for organizations with existing Office 365 Business or Office 365 ProPlus subscriptions starting as early as July 9, according to a Friday announcement.
Unless IT pros take advance action to block the arrival of Teams, the application will get turned on automatically by Microsoft with the arrival of next Office update.
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Microsoft Bringing Kaizala Pro Capabilities to Microsoft Teams
Microsoft plans to add Kaizala Pro capabilities into Microsoft Teams over the next 12 to 18 months, according to a Thursday announcement.
Kaizala is a Microsoft mobile chat application for Android and iOS devices that has "enterprise-grade security" and uses a simple phone number user identity verification scheme. -
Cpanel Price increases are leaving webhosting companies waving pitch forks. It is a complete different pricing model, a completely greedy pricing model.
check out the this thread: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1770316 -
@StuartJordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
It is a complete different pricing model, a completely greedy pricing model.
It's only greedy if the customers decide that it is worth it and it maximizes profits.
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cPanel is pretty awful. Companies using it feel lost. Like they are building businesses without any idea of what goes on underneath. Pretty much waving flags identifying themselves as prime targets for huge price increases because they self identify as depending totally on cPanel to build their business.
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Microsoft asks to join private Linux security developer list
Microsoft's migration from Linux enemy to Linux friend continues in security circles.
Almost all of Linux's development work is conducted in the open. Almost. -
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@StuartJordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
It is a complete different pricing model, a completely greedy pricing model.
It's only greedy if the customers decide that it is worth it and it maximizes profits.
LOL - that's not greed.
