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CIOs Deal With Password Lockout Challenges

The Accidental Successful CIO

If you put yourself in the shoes of a system administrator, you need to think about how it would look if you increased the number of permitted tries, and then the system then gets compromised. In most organizations, the system administrator would be held accountable.

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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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Understanding VMware vCloud vs. Openstack

Virtualized Greek

We aren’t looking at developer heavy environments such as Paypal, Netflix etc. OpenStack is a platform that’s designed from the ground up to provide and infrastructure to software developers to build Cloud aware applications. I believe OpenStack see’s application developer’s as the ultimate customer.

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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!). How are people using your product?

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Coldest Data Center in the World – Ice Cube Lab

Galido

Systems are monitored over a multiplexed Iridium satellite connection. You just try to collect as much information as you can and do what you can remotely,” says Ralf Auer, WIPAC’s South Pole systems administrator. The tape drives might develop internal static; humidifying the tapes made them perform better.

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Looking beyond linpack: new supercomputing benchmark in the works

Data Center Knowledge

Dongarra and his colleague Michael Heroux from Sandia National Laboratories are developing a new benchmark that is expected to be released in time for the next TOP500 list release in November. He has served many roles in the data center, including support, system administration, web development and facility management.

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10 Unbelievable Ways the CIA Is Failing at Cybersecurity

SecureWorld News

The CIA's Center for Cyber Intelligence (CCI) operates a development network where it creates and validates secret cyber weapons the United States uses against its adversaries. Shared passwords and a failure to control access: "Most of our sensitive cyber weapons were not compartmented, users shared systems administrator-level passwords.".