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| | | Microsoft Patches Windows XP, Server 2003 to Try to Head Off 'Wormable' Flaw | | ZDNet | Citing a potential 'wormable' flaw in Remote Desktop Services, Microsoft is patching not only Windows 7, but also its no-longer-supported XP and Windows Server 2003 OS variants, as well. | | Don't Miss Our Webinar Tomorrow: 4 Insider Threats That Should Keep You Up at Night | | BetterCloud | Threats from external actors are scary, but so are vulnerabilities created by well-meaning yet negligent insiders. Today users are accessing, sharing, and exposing SaaS data in new ways you might not be aware of—and it's happening more frequently. What if you had a way to detect and mitigate that risk? Join BetterCloud tomorrow at 1pm ET for a deep dive on how to use our platform to protect your data. Register right here. (If you can't make it, register anyway to get the recording.) | | Microsoft Wants Its Azure Servers to Be as Durable as Tardigrades | | ZDNet | Microsoft is working on multiple fronts to improve resiliency of its Azure datacenters. During his "Inside Azure datacenter architecture" presentation at Build 2019 last week, Mark Russinovich, the Chief Technical Officer for Azure, outlined some of the reliability-specific areas on which the company is focusing. One of the efforts Russinovich described is known as "Project Tardigrade." With Tardigrade, Microsoft's goal is to enable a cloud app to survive platform failure. | | The IT Kit Podcast: Greylock’s Head of Technology Manuel Bernal & Casper's Director of IT Ryan Seit | | Greylock Partners | Ryan Seit, Casper's director of IT, took the time to discuss modern IT trends and challenges and the IT tools he uses to manage his environment with Greylock's Head of Technology, Manuel Bernal. They expand on the importance of IT as a contributor to operational excellence. Seit had this to say about BetterCloud: "It is the standard foundational glue between all of the services and automation behind IT. BetterCloud acts as a virtual team member capable of building, supporting, and creating things for us!" See what else he had to say about the tools in his IT toolbox. |
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| | | 6 Reasons Why Your IT Project Will Fail | | TechRepublic | Here are six of the most common project implementation problems—and how you can avoid them. | | What Is Inbox Zero, and How Can You Achieve It? | | How-To Geek | Inbox Zero is a staple of digital productivity advice. “Achieving Inbox Zero” is the knowledge worker’s equivalent of “reaching enlightenment.” But Inbox Zero doesn’t mean having an empty inbox—it’s all about reducing the stress of email. |
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| | | Choose Your Videoconferencing Option on Jamboard by June 30 | | G Suite Updates | Starting on May 13th, you can choose whether or not to enable an enhanced Jamboard videoconferencing experience with Hangouts Meet on Jamboard devices. If you don't configure your boards to enable or disable this feature by June 30th, your boards will be automatically enabled. | | Two Improvements to New Sites Footers | | G Suite Updates | Google is making two changes to Google Sites footers, which include removing the current footer appended at the bottom of all new Sites and adding the ability for site editors to show the last time a page was updated via a newly designed site info icon. |
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