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Password Encryption 101: Best Practices Guide for Orgs of All Sizes

SecureWorld News

Keeping software and operating systems up to date, using security software, and being careful when opening email attachments or clicking links can help avoid malware. Argon2 Argon2 is a password hashing function explicitly constructed to resist both brute-force attacks and pre-computed hash table attacks.

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Technology Short Take #35

Scott Lowe

His follow-up article on disaster recovery of DCE VM with vCHS is also pretty good. Operating Systems/Applications. It’s an interesting construct: rather than managing the configuration of servers, you simply spin up new instances when you need a new configuration; existing configurations are never changed.

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Technology Short Take #44

Scott Lowe

As described in this Metacloud blog post , vxfld is designed to “handle VXLAN traffic from any operationg system or hardware platform that adheres to the IETF Internet-Draft for VXLAN” Nir Yechiel recently posted part 1 of a discussion on the need for network overlays. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers » Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge

So the number of companies that really understand the network topology, the data center construction, the server requirements to build this public cloud infrastructure is very, very small.” Microsoft’s ‘Cloud Operating System’ 218,000 Servers in Microsoft Data Centers? Disaster Recovery.