Forrester IT
JUNE 24, 2020
Digital transformation was never optional. But most firms treated it that way, applying digital technology in dribs and drabs — until COVID-19 shuttered economies and forever altered the patterns of life and work and commerce. That is, until uncertainty and volatility became the new normal. Companies leapt into adaptive mode. And they seized digital to […].
Forrester IT
JUNE 1, 2020
The communications industry is facing a perfect storm of converging forces, from COVID-19 to the rise of influencer marketing and even AI. At Forrester, we research around 10,000 global technology vendors that utilize indirect sales and often get asked about the value of PR in the channel. A trend that is affecting many channel leaders […].
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Venture Beast
JUNE 30, 2020
ACM, one of the largest computer science orgs in the world, today called for the halt of facial recognition use by governments and businesses in the U.S. Read More.
Anoop
JUNE 30, 2020
Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s check who initiated CMPivot query. CMPivot is a real-time reporting tool available for SCCM admins. Microsoft introduced CMPivot with ConfigMgr version 1806. The CMPivot is a new in-console (stand-alone tool also available) utility that now provides access to real-time state of Windows 10 devices using the fast channel mechanism.
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Network World
JUNE 22, 2020
Microsoft has announced it will purchase the industrially focused network security vendor CyberX for an undisclosed sum in an effort to bolster the security capabilities of its Azure IoT platform. The acquisition strikes at the heart of two key IIoT security pain points. While it’s comparatively easy to build new IoT devices that have all the necessary features for seamless security management, older devices running a wildly diverse range of different protocols, which may lack important features
Tech Republic Security
JUNE 11, 2020
A password alone will not protect sensitive information from hackers--two-factor authentication is also necessary. Here's what security pros and users need to know about two-factor authentication.
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Forrester IT
JUNE 26, 2020
^^ CLICK IMAGE FOR FULL SCREEN ^^ The channel technology stack is a group of technologies that firms leverage to plan with, find, recruit, onboard, develop, enable, incentivize, co-sell with, co-market with, manage, measure, and report on partners. Delivering automation of indirect sales processes, workflows and partner programs, channel software is becoming increasingly critical […].
Tech Republic Cloud
JUNE 10, 2020
Applications are now open for the nanodegree program, which will help Udacity train developers on the Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure.
Anoop
JUNE 29, 2020
Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. ConfigMgr ADRs are Automatic Deployment Rules created for automatic deployment of Software Updates (monthly patches). Let’s learn to create SCCM Automatic Deployment Rule (ADR) to make monthly patching easy for Configuration Manager Admins. The assumption here is that you already have a manual patching process in place for your organization.
GeekWire
JUNE 30, 2020
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at the Microsoft Build developer conference in Seattle in May 2019. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota). Microsoft plans to provide digital skills training for 25 million people this year under a new, multi-million dollar initiative that will bring together multiple branches of the company, including LinkedIn and GitHub.
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Tech Republic Security
JUNE 8, 2020
The CFO of a small company that was the victim of a ransomware attack and reveals why they paid the ransom (in Bitcoin) to gain back control of their systems.
Information Week
JUNE 23, 2020
Here are six questions CIOs should ask themselves to assure that corporate governance and security are "up to the task" for remote work.
Forrester IT
JUNE 26, 2020
After years of high expectations for Amazon’s low-code platform project, its Honeycode product has finally arrived. Unfortunately, in its present release, Honeycode is far from the market disrupter that we and others expected from Amazon. The goal for the platform is clear: Combine the intuitive simplicity of a spreadsheet with the power and scale of […].
Gizmodo
JUNE 29, 2020
Warm air doesn’t reach Antarctica as easily as the rest of the globe, but a new study has found that not even the South Pole is safe from the influences of human-driven climate change. Read more.
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For many IT admins, business as usual is a juggling act. Job schedulers and scripts run on autopilot, applications and operating systems can’t speak the same language, and other tools—like RPA or MFT solutions—operate in isolation. On a good day, everything runs smoothly. But good days are rare; more often than not, something goes wrong and you’re stuck putting out fires.
Anoop
JUNE 9, 2020
Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Well, it’s not officially WVD v2, instead, it’s new Portal for WVD with new Admin Experience. However, the WVD architecture for the 2020 spring update is changed significantly with the WVD spring release. WVD New Arm Object Model The following are the main changes in the high-level architecture with Windows Virtual Desktop spring release (a.k.a […].
GeekWire
JUNE 30, 2020
SyncFloor co-founder and CEO Kirt Debique. (SyncFloor Photo). In his 20 years at Microsoft, Kirt Debique honed his tech skills as a Windows Media Platform engineering leader and Office Mobile general manager. After leaving in 2012 to pursue his passion for music, Debique started his own record label. Over the past few years, his love of independent music and artists has collided with his tech background.
Tech Republic Security
JUNE 23, 2020
Bad actors have flooded the enterprise with coronavirus-related attacks, but professionals working from home have other worries, Unisys Security found.
The Verge
JUNE 29, 2020
American Airlines will soon remove the booking limits it placed on flights back in April. | Photo by Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images. American Airlines will resume booking its flights to capacity starting July 1st, the company has announced. The policy is similar to that of United Airlines, which ABC News reports has never blocked out seats or put a cap on the capacity of its flights.
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TechSpot
JUNE 14, 2020
Launched on the Atari 2600 in 1982, it tasks players with traversing down a continuous vertically-scrolling maze while trying to dodge enemies. Since early game cartridges didn’t have a wealth of memory to store static maze designs, the developer relied on a technique that would procedurally generate the maze –.
Gizmodo
JUNE 27, 2020
Although the U.S. is still in the middle of a raging coronavirus pandemic that is breaking records in states like Texas and Florida and getting us banned from visiting Europe , American Airlines has decided to throw out social distancing measures on its planes. The airline quietly announced on Friday that it will start … Read more.
Anoop
JUNE 25, 2020
Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. After PXE Boot Failures Task Sequence Delays hotfix KB4567007 installation, there are many queries about SCCM 2002 site version. Another confusion was about the status of the post-installation. Let’s understand where all we can check and confirm what is the exact site version numbers of Configuration Manager Current Branch.
GeekWire
JUNE 24, 2020
(BigStock Image). The University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation has added mask-on and mask-off options to its computer-based projections for the course of the coronavirus pandemic — and estimates that 33,000 lives could be saved in the U.S. between now and October if masks are required. The projection released today anticipates that the cumulative COVID-19 death toll would hit 179,106 in the U.S. by Oct. 1 under current conditions.
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Tech Republic Security
JUNE 17, 2020
The partnership leverages Intel's CPU telemetry data to more easily detect abnormal system behavior that indicates illicit cryptocurrency mining.
The Verge
JUNE 26, 2020
Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Microsoft is giving up on physical retail. Today the company announced plans to permanently close all Microsoft Store locations in the United States and around the world, except for four locations that will be “reimagined” as experience centers that no longer sell products. Those locations are New York City (Fifth Ave), London (Oxford Circus), Sydney (Westfield Sydney), and the Redmond campus location.
TechSpot
JUNE 11, 2020
Back in 2018, Apple’s stock price got a boost after its revenue grew 17 percent year-over-year. The increase led to its value reaching an amazing $1 trillion. One month later, Amazon became the next US tech giant to join the trillion-dollar club. Since then, both Microsoft and Alphabet have also.
Gizmodo
JUNE 20, 2020
A freak heatwave has been scorching most of the Arctic for weeks now, but it broke records Saturday when the temperature hit 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit in a town in Siberia, one of Russia’s northernmost regions. Read more.
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Anoop
JUNE 1, 2020
Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. In this post, You will learn about bare metal deployment using the configuration manager (Windows 10 2004 Using SCCM). The bare metal scenario occurs when you have a blank machine you need to deploy or an existing machine you want to wipe and redeploy without needing to preserve any existing data.
GeekWire
JUNE 26, 2020
Bill Gates warned of a big spike in COVID-19 spread across the U.S. this fall if behavior does not change and called the country’s handling of the outbreak “embarrassing” compared to other countries. The Microsoft co-founder and global health expert was back on the news this week as COVID-19 cases spike again in several states. Florida reported more than 8,900 daily cases Friday while Texas closed bars after a reopen attempt.
Tech Republic Security
JUNE 30, 2020
Many companies are hampered by the use of too many security tools and the lack of specific playbooks for common attacks, says IBM Security.
The Verge
JUNE 25, 2020
Photo by Gotham/Getty Images. Many people are faithfully wearing masks in order to prevent others from being infected with COVID-19. But while mask-wearing is important for public health, it’s also a big adjustment for a lot of Americans who are adapting to a new garment and sweaty faces. Those of us with glasses have to deal with another problem: fogged-up lenses.
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