Find below a “Vaccine” for the current strain of “NotPetya” which has been hitting large numbers of systems around Europe in the last 48 hours. NotPetyaVaccine (Zip File) To use the Vaccine; Download the zip file. Extract the zip file. Read the “Instructions.txt” file. (Don’t worry, it’s very simple!) In addition to this vaccine, if …
Well, I expect you’ve probably guessed it by now, but Visualisations and Infographics are definitely not the same thing, although they certainly share some significant similarities, and are very often used interchangeably by most people. I want to be clear that I am coming at this topic from the perspective of an “Information Professional”, as …
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Despite the importance, and complexity, of the enterprise cloud data archival space there is a dearth of simple, clear and equivalent comparisons of each of the major offerings (Amazon Glacier vs Google Nearline vs Azure Storage), particularly as concerns costs. Paramount to any foray into exploring these solutions as possible technologies to implement in your scenario …
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IT provides an essential service to all organisations, and requires of all its practitioners a selfless, generous, and often patient, approach to support and improvement. All too often colleagues feel that IT professionals are “superior”, “dismissive” or just “too busy”. This is, of course, dangerous as it can create an environment in which it is …
So Google have made a bit of a quSplash (wait for it…) with their latest fun NASA mash-up quantum computing video… Now, for various reasons I think anyone watching it, and I include it directly below this paragraph so that you can if you haven’t, should also do themselves a favour and check out what …
We’ve recently been putting together some plans for new buildings and facilities. During this process we were debating which cabling approaches to take. Even amongst ourselves there was some some debate about where we could use Cat 5e or Cat 6, if we should invest in Cat 7 / Class F. When optical fiber would …
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This is a look at the important topic of environmental control for the IT estate of SMEs, this is not a data center centric discussion. There are plenty of excellent resources on how to manage the environmental aspects of data centers… On numerous occasions I’ve come across ambiguity, doubt and sometimes all out confusion …
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So, we all know that everyone should always have the latest and greatest mobile phone don’t we. OK, wait… why? Well it’s the only way to get the latest and greatest functionality and software upgrades for it isn’t it! OK, erm… no. In the same way that you can upgrade your computer from Windows XP …