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What is S/4HANA? SAP’s latest ERP system explained

CIO Business Intelligence

S/4HANA is SAPs latest iteration of its flagship enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. In the 1970s, five formerIBMemployees developed programs that enabled payroll and accounting on mainframe computers. As a result, they called their solution a real-time system, which is what the R in the product name SAP R/1 stood for.

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Cisco pumps up data center networking with AI, large workloads in mind

Network World

It also includes support for high-speed optical network connections Open System Form Factor Plus (OSPF) and Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density (QSPF-DD). This is accomplished with a common operating system, P4 programmable forwarding code, and an SDK.

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CompTIA introduces foundational tech certification

Network World

Among the skills individuals taking the course with learn are: IT concepts and terminology: Understand notational systems, illustrate the basics of computing, and explain the value of data and troubleshooting. Software development: Comprehend programming language categories, interpret logic, and understand the purpose of programming concepts.

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Mastering technology modernization: 6 steps for building your road map

CIO Business Intelligence

At a time when technology innovation cycles are getting shorter, we will struggle to keep pace if we have to navigate around legacy systems that act as barriers to speed and agility. Over time the speed and agility barriers associated with the ERP spread to other systems as they, in turn, formed an expanding wave of technical debt.

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How ASLR protects Linux systems from buffer overflow attacks

Network World

Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) is a memory-protection process for operating systems that guards against buffer-overflow attacks. ASLR is used today on Linux, Windows, and MacOS systems. While ASLR provides the same function on each of these operating systems, it is implemented differently on each one.

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Navigating the complexities of security and compliance on the mainframe

CIO Business Intelligence

As organizations look to modernize IT systems, including the mainframe, there’s a critical need to do so without sacrificing security or falling out of compliance. And those incidents can have far-reaching consequences that go beyond the immediate damage to IT systems, data, or operations. Configuration-based vulnerabilities.

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Massive modernization: Tips for overhauling IT at scale

CIO Business Intelligence

Nimesh Mehta likens decommissioning legacy systems to going on an archeological dig: There are systems that still have a lot of value; its just a matter of unearthing them, taking out what isnt needed, and building new processes on top.

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