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CIOs Deal With Password Lockout Challenges

The Accidental Successful CIO

Accessing a system should not be a challenge for users Image Credit: Les Orchard One of the things that a CIO has to do is to deal with a long list of complaints from users about how the company’s technology works. Fairly high on this list at most companies is the problem with password lockouts.

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Microsoft's monthlong delay of patches may pose risks

Network World

They are aware of vulnerabilities in their products and have developed fixes; those should always be made available to customers in a timely fashion." The company did not initially specify for how long the patches will be postponed, which likely threw a wrench in some systems administrators' patch deployment plans.

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The Challenges in Building Digital Trust

SecureWorld News

And how do you trust a company that is silently tracking your movements every day, collecting data on you, and not telling you what they do with that data? System administrators didn't bother locking down their systems, because the possibility of bad actors using them didn't really cross their minds.

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Matching the UI to the User

Sean Daniel

Recently, I was the product manager working on Notarize.com , a new product to enable American's to get documents Notarized in a digital fashion, without the beige carpeted walls of an antique Notary office (at least that's how the one looked like that I went to when I was desperate one day!). We designed for this persona as well.

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Forget the FUD: VMware NSX and Cisco ACI SDN solutions

Virtualized Greek

VMware is a large corporation but, $1 billion is a lot of money to any company and a big bet on network virtualization. VMware wants to stop nothing short of disrupting the network industry in the same fashion in which they have the 86x server industry. Cisco’s claim is that their ACI approach is one system.

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Is an integrated ERP suite or a composable ERP strategy right for you?

CIO Business Intelligence

Differences between integrated ERP and composable ERP An integrated ERP suite is the de facto approach for many companies. The end-product is an ERP portfolio built in a modular fashion, which welcomes the use of different technologies and platforms in order to best serve the business. Let’s dive in.

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Looking beyond linpack: new supercomputing benchmark in the works

Data Center Knowledge

The Linpack will not be laid to rest though – HPCG will serve as a companion ranking of the Top500 list, in a similar fashion to how the Green 500 re-ranks the Top500 according to energy efficiency. He has served many roles in the data center, including support, system administration, web development and facility management.