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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions

CIO Business Intelligence

Financial institutions must ensure the protection of sensitive personal information, most commonly payment card data, to maintain, trust and meet various regulatory requirements. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a crucial framework to which financial institutions must adhere.

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Q&A: DexCare CEO Derek Streat’s advice on raising cash in a rough market: ‘Don’t if you don’t have to’

GeekWire

We help extend the capacity of our customers’ existing resources, with more intelligent matching and load balancing orchestration. The tighter the financial environment gets, the more resonant our value proposition becomes. That extends their capacity by about 40% without having to add new resources.

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4 Tips for Processing Real-Time Data

CIO Business Intelligence

It underlies services such as identity management, fraud prevention, financial transactions, recommendation engines, customer relationship management, and social media monitoring. Similarly, a company may decide to keep its most critical data – everything from financial records to engineering files – local where it can protect this data best.

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Technology Short Take 151

Scott Lowe

Nick Schmidt talks about using GitOps with the NSX Advanced Load Balancer. I was very glad to see this blog post about the financial future of the GnuPG project. Aidan Steele examines how VPC sharing could potentially improve security and reduce cost. What do you think microsegmentation means ? Servers/Hardware.

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IBM to Acquire Cloudant: Open, Cloud Database Service Helps Organizations Simplify Mobile, Web App and Big Data Development

CTOvision

Financial terms were not disclosed. Clients across a variety of industries, including gaming, financial services, mobile device manufacturers, online learning, retail and healthcare are already using Cloudant technology.

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Diablo 4 DDoS attack strikes again: A bitter deja vu for players

Dataconomy

Financial motives : Online gaming is a lucrative business, with in-game purchases, subscriptions, and virtual economies generating substantial revenue. Furthermore, competitors or rival game developers may employ DDoS attacks to undermine the reputation and financial success of a popular game.

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Fountainhead: New AWS enable "Real" Elastic Clouds

Fountainhead

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing: A for-fee ($0.025/hour/balancer + $0.008/GB transferred) which automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 instances. Similarly, Egeneras PAN Manager approach dynamically load-balances networking traffic between newly-created instances of an App.