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CTOvision Named One Of The Top 50 Must-Read IT Blogs In The US

CTOvision

With the help of our readers during the nominations round and through some good old fashioned sleuthing on the Internet, we believe we've pulled together an all-star list of blogs. Others are focused on specific technology topics, such as networking or security. In short, there's something here for everyone.

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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

System administrators didn't bother locking down their systems, because the possibility of bad actors using them didn't really cross their minds. Unlike the attitudes of today, Stoll was shocked that someone was taking entering his network without permission, and the violation of trust upset him.

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Forget the FUD: VMware NSX and Cisco ACI SDN solutions

Virtualized Greek

There has been a good deal of FUD spread since VMware has announced their NSX network hypervisor based on software from their $1 billion Nicira acquisition. VMware is a large corporation but, $1 billion is a lot of money to any company and a big bet on network virtualization. This post is Sponsored by – My Linked Profile.

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Understanding VMware vCloud vs. Openstack

Virtualized Greek

The admin had some ability to define and configure physical compute, storage and network resources for provisioning via the command line and scripts. This is foreign to the target administrator and is a completely different approach to consuming physical resources vs. the VMware model. This is vCloud and vSphere.

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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 most reliable form of communication available is the Iridium satellite network. Communications.

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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. And this network appears to be a key source of WikiLeaks documents, for the following 10 reasons: 1. Day-to-day security practices had become woefully lax.".