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Enterprise IT in 2014 – Under-the-Radar Challenges with WAN Bandwidth, BYOD, and XP Security

CTOvision

In a 2014 Next-Generation WAN Survey , 68 percent of respondents said demand for WAN bandwidth will increase over the next year. The end of support for Windows XP, slated for April 8, 2014, is a dangerous security issue. In addition, desktops and laptops remain revenue-critical workhorses for most companies, and cannot be neglected.

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Why eBPF is critical and how it’s getting better

Network World

Linux first integrated eBPF in 2014, and the technology and its capabilities have grown over the past decade. eBPF is amazing at enabling rapid innovation for infrastructure and for tooling at the operating system level,” Thomas Graf, co-founder and CTO of Isovalent, said during his keynote.

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New Spectre derivative bug haunts Intel processors

Network World

It was first introduced in 2014 and is a mechanism that allows applications to put a ring around sections of memory that blocks other programs, the operating system, or even a hypervisor from accessing it. SGX stands for Software Guard eXtensions. To read this article in full, please click here

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Apple quashes 3 zero-days with emergency Mac update

Network World

According to one of the groups that first revealed the flaws, the vulnerabilities could have been "weaponized" for use against OS X, the Mac's operating system. The out-of-band update was aimed at OS X El Capitan (aka 10.11) and Yosemite (10.10), the 2015 and 2014 editions, respectively.

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Project Ray: World's First SmartPhone Designed Especially for the Blind and Visually Impaired

CTOvision

operating system & eye-free operation to specialized built-in apps and content featuring: • Multiple built-in communication services within one powerful device. One common, simple user interface across all system functions, applications and services. 29, 2014 (pluk.mt.typepad.com).

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Windows 10 Evidences Transitions at Microsoft

CTOvision

While the incorporation of touch-screens and the emphasis on applications demonstrated Microsoft’s willingness to change, many found that the execution of the new operating system left much to be desired.

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Ready…Set…Start Your Containers

CIO Business Intelligence

Incompatibility and unreliability caused by configuration differences such as versions of compilers, loaders, runtime libraries, middleware, and operating systems in new environments contributed to increased project effort, cost, and timelines. Containers provide an elegant solution to this problem. in an isolated and executable unit.