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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. We have some of the best Linux engineers and we can’t leave them behind.”

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Protecting your business from unforeseen outages: Lessons from the recent CrowdStrike incident

CIO Business Intelligence

In the CrowdStrike incident, Linux and Mac endpoints were not affected. Safeguard contracts: Include clauses in vendor contracts that address service-level agreements (SLAs), response times, and penalties for prolonged outages. A review of third-party rollouts should consider such capabilities.

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Seattle-area cybersecurity startup Polyverse raises $16M

GeekWire

Polyverse’s main product is “Polymorphing for Linux,” which scrambles open-source code without affecting its operation, shielding it from hackers looking to exploit weaknesses in the code. The company is led by CEO Alexander Gounares , a former CTO at AOL, CEO of Concurix, and Microsoft executive.

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25 Feb Cloudera Federal Forum in Tysons Corner: Amazing agenda filled with lessons learned and best practices

CTOvision

Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera Eddie Garcia is chief security architect at Cloudera, a leader in enterprise analytic data management.

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Join Architects, Planners, Program Managers, Data Scientists at 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum in DC 25 Feb

CTOvision

Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera. Chief Security Architect, Office of the CTO, Cloudera Eddie Garcia is chief security architect at Cloudera, a leader in enterprise analytic data management.

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How Cybersecurity Benefits from Hackers

CTOvision

Sometimes, organizations will actually hire a hacker that they have vetted ahead of time. They point these vulnerabilities out to the companies that hired them, and the organization goes to work fixing those vulnerabilities. The creators of some of the most well-known software are self-proclaimed hackers.

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Careers in Tech: New Changes Means New Training

Linux Academy

Emmett has introduced Linux Academy For Business to his team of 12 in the NOC and the progress they’ve made is outstanding! When I joined my company in 2015 it was 100% a Windows house, so we hired staff with only Windows server experience. For one, Linux. I said to him, “Dude, you have to. We have to support it all.”