Announced just yesterday in security advisories from Intel, Microsoft and Red Hat, a newly discovered vulnerability affecting Intel processors (and, thus, Linux) called L1TF or “L1 Terminal Fault” is grabbing the attention of Linux users and admins. Exactly what is this vulnerability and who should be worrying about it? L1TF, L1 Terminal Fault, and Foreshadow […]
Archives for 2018
NVMe over Fabrics: Fibre Channel vs. RDMA
For enterprises deploying NVMe over Fabric, choosing between Fibre Channel and RDMA can be difficult, because both have advantages and disadvantages. In the last few years, enterprises have been getting hungrier for infrastructure that provides high throughput with low latency and greater performance for hosted applications. Faster networking with high-speed Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and Infiniband […]
Digital transformation firm Shaping Cloud gets £1.4m boost
News 15 Aug, 2018 Keumars Afifi-Sabet Consultancy firm hopes to expand its software business
Box boosts European exec team with new appointment
News 15 Aug, 2018 Clare Hopping Chris Baker has joined the firm as SVP and general manager of EMEA
UKFast makes data-intensive apps easy to run remotely
News 15 Aug, 2018 Clare Hopping FASTdesk GPU makes running graphics-intensive applications up to 112 times faster than using a standard CPU
Should Your Workers Be Employees or Contractors?
For most businesses, it’s clear who you need to hire. A gym needs fitness instructors. A restaurant needs cooks. A salon needs hair stylists. But what’s not always clear is how you should categorize those people. Should they be employees or independent contractors? Companies across the U.S. are struggling to answer this question. For example, […]
Nvidia’s new GPUs can handle real-time ray tracing
News 14 Aug, 2018 Clare Hopping Quadro RTX 5000, 6000 and 8000 are powered by Nvidia's new Turing architecture
Microsoft Says ‘SDN Goes Mainstream’ in Windows Server 2019
News Microsoft Says ‘SDN Goes Mainstream’ in Windows Server 2019 By David Ramel 08/13/2018 In highlighting the top 10 networking features of the upcoming Windows Server 2019, Microsoft claimed software-defined networking (SDN) has gone mainstream. The emerging open-standards-based and vendor-neutral virtualization architecture has disrupted the staid, proprietary networking industry with its software-centric approach that seeks […]
Helping businesses with their bookkeeping
Bookkeeping is an unknown quantity for many people. Does anyone really understand what it entails and what a bookkeeper does? Bookkeeper is a title which can cover everything finance related or can be as simple as data entry. The word “bookkeeper” doesn’t really do justice to our role in a business but I haven’t yet […]
Blue Team Village, DEF CON 2018 | Salted Hash Ep 43
Host Steve Ragan talks to Munin, a staffer at the DEF CON Blue Team Village about what’s happening and what you can expect.