Rewind acquires BackHub to extend its automated SaaS data backups to GitHub
Venture Beast
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Canadian back-up-as-a-service (BaaS) company Rewind acquires BackHub to extend its automated SaaS data backups to GitHub. Read More.
CIOs Start To Deal With The Problem Of Big Data Backup
The Accidental Successful CIO
AUGUST 14, 2013
Back in the old days, when the size of the data that your CIO job required you to manage was still something that could be dealt with, whenever the IT department received new data it just got added to your existing backup plan. Solutions To Your Big Data Backup Problem. It looks like another solution is going to be called for.
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Get Secure Cloud Storage on a 2TB Lifetime Plan With Internxt for $150
Tech Republic Cloud
OCTOBER 4, 2023
This secure storage platform uses open source code, zero-knowledge file systems, and end-to-end encryption to keep your online data truly private.
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7 free tools every network needs
Network World
AUGUST 15, 2017
Fortunately, many good tools, both commercial and open source, are available to shine much-needed light into your environment. Because good and free always beat good and costly, I've compiled a list of my favorite open source tools that prove their worth day in and day out in networks of any size.
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Empowering Change: Digital Library Solutions for Nonprofits
Kitaboo
MARCH 30, 2024
Top Features of Digital Library Solutions for Non-Profit Organizations Digital Asset Management (DAM) Systems Open-Source Digital Library System Cloud-Based Digital Library System II. Thus opening new avenues to collaborate with donors, volunteers, and supporters and improving their promotional and fundraising efforts.
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Top 5 Security Trends for CIOs
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 15, 2023
Most commercial enterprise software products and nearly all open-source ones depend upon numerous software packages and libraries. Many of these libraries are themselves open-source and depend upon other libraries in a complex network of opaque interdependencies. Another angle is to target the victim’s backups.
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Take control of your Oracle unlimited licensing agreement
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 6, 2023
During a health check, expert database administrators will work with you and perform an exhaustive review of the database environment to help ensure that it’s running as smoothly as possible, conforms to best practices, and utilizes practical and sound backup, recovery, and high availability strategies.
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Cybersecurity for Nonprofits: Cost-Effective Defense Strategies
SecureWorld News
JANUARY 21, 2024
Having basic cyber hygiene Advanced technology is important, but basics like regular data backups, software updates, strong password policies, and multi-factor authentication are fundamental. Another cornerstone of any robust cybersecurity strategy is having regular data backups and maintaining them properly.
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There’s a better way to protect yourself from hackers and identity thieves
Vox
MAY 6, 2021
Some apps give you an option to have a backup in the cloud or to use the app across multiple devices, which you might be happy to have if your phone (and, therefore, authenticator app on it) breaks or is lost. Instagram will then show you a set of backup codes. Again, remember to save Twitter’s backup code somewhere safe.
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The Best Ways to Consider WooCommerce to Magento Migration
Galido
DECEMBER 23, 2019
Both Woo-Commerce and Magento are open source, however, Magento is more superior to Woo-Commerce. Creating a Backup of all Data. A backup will help you secure all the product data should anything go wrong. A backup will help you secure all the product data should anything go wrong. LitExtension.
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Microsoft data leak: Microsoft’s 38TB time bomb ticks after 3 years
Dataconomy
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
The unveiling of the accidental Microsoft data leak The saga began in July 2020 when the Microsoft AI research division embarked on a mission to contribute open-source AI learning models to a public GitHub repository. While their intentions were noble, the unintended consequences of their actions would not surface until much later.
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Microsoft Accidentally Exposes 38TB of Sensitive Data
SecureWorld News
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
The incident, which began in July 2020 and remained undetected for almost three years, originated from Microsoft's attempt to share open-source code and AI models for image recognition via a GitHub repository.
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Inside our hybrid studio: GeekWire’s tech tips and tricks for the latest twist in virtual meetings
GeekWire
AUGUST 21, 2021
It’s free, open-source, and cross-platform. Backups and redundancy: This is the toughest lesson of all to learn the hard way. Squadcast offers video recording, as well, but we’ve opted not to use or pay for this at this point. We like Audacity for audio editing. We find it perfectly adequate.
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Overview of how Apache Spark fits in the Apache Hadoop ecosystem
CTOvision
DECEMBER 14, 2016
But now thanks to the contributions of a wide team of open source developers and leaders, the consensus is becoming clear (especially among enterprise CTOs), Spark is better as part of a more comprehensive framework. In the early days of Spark it was viewed as a bit of a competitor to the rest of the framework.
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Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 31, 2021
Filippo Valsorda speculates on how open source maintainers need to evolve into professional maintainers. This is a topic that comes up every time a notable vulnerability or flaw is found in some piece of heavily-used open source software; the prompt this time, as far as I can tell, is the Log4j vulnerability.
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5 Ransomware Attacks Targeting Food and Agriculture
SecureWorld News
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
The company did not pay the $40 million ransom and was able to successfully restore their systems from backups.". "In The company took its systems offline to prevent the further spread of malware, directly impacting employees who were unable to access specific systems, according to open source reports.". "In
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Databases are the unsung heroes of AI
Dataconomy
AUGUST 7, 2023
Redis Redis stands out as an open-source, in-memory data structure that has gained recognition for its versatility and robust feature set. MySQL’s reliability and performance have made it a favored choice in various industries, and its open-source nature ensures a thriving community and continuous development.
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Network Awareness Using ARPwatch | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure
Linux Academy
MARCH 25, 2019
Oh, yes, I love open source! Once again, open source to the rescue! Check out the previous articles in Securing Your Infrastructure : Security Awareness Training | Vulnerability Scanning | Patch Management | Data Backups | User Account Review. ARPwatch setup considerations. Well, off to April and new topics.
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Finding the Best Torrent for Mac
Galido
MARCH 12, 2020
The file is unfinished while it is copying, and is referred to as a backup. It is an open-source project with community assistance. Additionally, torrent clients are open-source and ad-free. If you choose to download a torrent, it may start through the downloading of a placeholder style file that contains the *.torrent
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Why NoSQL Is The Wrong Choice For A CIO — Sometimes
The Accidental Successful CIO
AUGUST 21, 2013
Open source noSQL databases seem to appear to be the solution to all of their data processing needs. Post tags: ACID , BASE , data , databases , hype , IBM , Microsoft , noSQL , open source , Oracle , relational databases , structured data. However, it turns out that this just isn’t the case…. CIOs everywhere are.
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S3motion Buckets Containers Objects AWS S3 Cloud and EMCcode
Storage IO Blog
APRIL 12, 2015
It’s springtime in Kentucky and recently I had the opportunity to have a conversation with Kendrick Coleman to talk about S3motion, Buckets, Containers, Objects, AWS S3, Cloud and Object Storage, node.js, EMCcode and open source among other related topics which are available in a podcast here, or video here and available at StorageIO.tv.
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Weekly Update 6-3-2019
Linux Academy
JUNE 3, 2019
Performing a Backup and Restore Using AMI and EBS. Plus when it’s okay to lie to the compiler, what GitHub’s Sponsors program means for open source, and your feedback. Plus Wes and Ell are back from KubeCon in Barcelona and return with some great news for open source. Working with MongoDB. Working with Couchbase.
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Top 16 business process management tools
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 16, 2022
Open-source options are also available for use by companies that have the developers to support them. The open-source software from Bonitasoft begins with process mining and AI to turn legacy software into modern workflows. There are a wide variety of pricing plans for the BPM systems. Others charge by user or node.
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The 10 most in-demand IT jobs in finance
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
In the finance industry, software engineers are often tasked with assisting in the technical front-end strategy, writing code, contributing to open-source projects, and helping the company deliver customer-facing services.
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The 10 most in-demand IT jobs in finance
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 31, 2022
In the finance industry, software engineers are often tasked with assisting in the technical front-end strategy, writing code, contributing to open-source projects, and helping the company deliver customer-facing services.
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What is special about Linux Mint 21.3?
Dataconomy
JANUARY 17, 2024
The open-source universe just got a little more exciting with the release of Linux Mint 21.3, The Mint Backup app adopts a new header bar design. a version that goes beyond the ordinary and ventures into the realm of experimental wonders. Sticky, the note-taking app, now supports dbus commands.
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Why Attorney General Bill Barr is mad at Apple
Vox
MAY 18, 2020
In this most recent case, Apple was not able to unlock the phones, although the company said that it gave the FBI access to any and all information related to Alshamrani that it had, including iCloud backups of Alshamrani’s phones. Open Sourced is made possible by Omidyar Network. Support Vox’s explanatory journalism.
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Cloud Conversations: AWS S3 Cross Region Replication storage enhancements
Storage IO Blog
MARCH 25, 2015
Some of those tools and technologies are open-source or free, some are freemium and some are premium for a few that also vary by interface (some with GUI, others with CLI or APIs) including ability to mount an S3 bucket as a local network drive and use tools to sync or copy.
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Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Ricardo Sueiras captured some great links on open source at AWS in this newsletter. Even if you use an online service such as GitHub, GitLab, or Codeberg, you still need to ensure you have backups of your repositories. I shared this via Twitter, but wanted to include it here because I think it’s a really cool use case.
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Ultimate Vim Config : spf13.com
SPF13
JUNE 25, 2010
Eliminates swap and backup files from littering directories, preferring to store in a central (hidden) location. Open source. Each section is labeled and each option is commented. It fixes many of the inconveniences of vanilla vim including: One config can be used across Windows, Mac and linux. The 15 Best Vim Plugins.
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Scott Lowe
JUNE 25, 2021
of the open source Kuma service mesh, and along with it a corresponding version of kumactl , the command-line utility for interacting with Kuma. The following steps will help you get multiple copies installed (with some limitations): Copy the /opt/homebrew/Cellar/kumactl/ directory to a backup location on disk somewhere.
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Crypto-currencies and their promise for enterprise technology professionals
CTOvision
JANUARY 25, 2016
It was invented by Satoshi Nakamoto, who published the invention in 2008 and released it as open source software in 2009. But if a user accidentally deletes their keys and have not made a hard copy backup they will be lost. More precisely, bitcoin is a digital asset and a payment system. And they can be stolen if left unguarded.
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GoPro ripped out the guts of the Hero10 Black to give its bones to drones
The Verge
APRIL 12, 2022
If you don’t want to use its two physical buttons or GoPro’s app or optional remote, there’s a third wire you can connect to a flight controller and operate with the likes of the open-source Betaflight software or GoPro’s Open GoPro APIs. You can develop whatever software you want,” Lema says.
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Technology Short Take #75
Scott Lowe
DECEMBER 29, 2016
Jase McCarty talks about how to backup or recover storage policy-based management (SPBM) profiles. This is notable (for me, at least) primarily because a growing number of Docker images are based on Alpine Linux. Bill Ho shares a walkthrough to setting up vSphere Integrated Containers 0.8.0-rc3. Virtualization. Career/Soft Skills.
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Data Security and its Importance on the Internet
Galido
DECEMBER 28, 2018
Hacking and data breaches are a common thing today, especially with the rise of open source platforms and electronic transactions. Backup Important Information. Backup servers and critical information daily. Consider a secure offsite backup service. A simple backup can save you a lot of trouble.
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Technology Short Take #60
Scott Lowe
JANUARY 28, 2016
And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. Elver Sena (great guy, by the way) has an article discussing NSX Manager backup and restore. Servers/Hardware.
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Technology Short Take #60
Scott Lowe
JANUARY 28, 2016
And while we are on the topic of Linux and open source in the networking industry…read this entertaining and informative article on the importance of (truly) open source libraries in networking. Elver Sena (great guy, by the way) has an article discussing NSX Manager backup and restore. Servers/Hardware.
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How to Protect WordPress Sites from Exploitation
SecureWorld News
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
WordPress sites can be structured in an almost infinite number of ways, integrating with numerous other open-source plugins and third-party systems. Perform frequent backups Despite upholding security best practices, some threats may succeed and "slip through the cracks." Schedule daily backups to create multiple restore points.
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Weekly Update 5-20-2019
Linux Academy
MAY 15, 2019
Creating a Secondary LUKS Passphrase and LUKS Header Backup. Plus, Jason goes down yet another awesome rabbit hole with a new project on GitHub aimed at giving back to the Linux and open source community. Configure a Password Complexity Policy. Managing SUDO Access. Create a New Encrypted Volume Using LUKS. Configuring SELinux.
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Delicious will be shut down. What to do and 6 major alternatives for social bookmarking.
Trends in the Living Networks
DECEMBER 16, 2010
to make Delicious open source or otherwise try to keep it alive rather than close it down. How to export your bookmarks : Go to your Delicious page, click on Settings in the upper right hand corner, then on Export/ Backup Bookmarks under the Bookmarks category. Many have called for Yahoo! But I’m not holding my breath.
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10 Best ePUB Readers for Android, Mac and Windows for 2023
Kitaboo
DECEMBER 22, 2022
Being a free, open-source, popular platform makes Calibre one of the best ePUB readers to date, which essentially created the groundwork for more sophisticated technologies. It also converts PDF documents into various eBook-friendly formats, including ePUB and MOBI amongst others.
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If Midjourney goes down, your backup plan is here
Dataconomy
JUNE 7, 2023
. “an astronaut riding a horse in photorealistic style” courtesy of DALL-E 2 Stable Diffusion AI Stable Diffusion is an open-source AI art generator launched by Stability AI on August 22. Stable Diffusion is built in Python and uses the transformer language concept. It works on all platforms that support Cuda kernels.
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Weekly Update 6-17-2019: All About Ansible
Linux Academy
JUNE 17, 2019
Ansible is an open source tool that has been backed by Red Hat since 2015. Plus the importance of automatic updates, and Jim’s new backup box. That’s where Ansible comes into play. We’ll see you in next week’s Weekly Update!
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How can such a small file do so much damage?
Dataconomy
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
A zip bombing like this can take a very long time to fix manually if backups are not taken in short periods. There are many different WAF solutions available, both commercial and open source. A stable system is a hacker’s dream and it is much easier to get hold of personal/company data after such an attack.
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