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SQL Server 2017 on Linux boosts efficiency for analytics firm

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Microsoft has doubled down on its love for open source by bringing SQL Server 2017 to Linux, and it seems this support can help lighten the load for enterprises that already have in-house Linux expertise but also a need for SQL’s functionality.

While it’s not available until later this year, an early adopter has found a significant upside to the new support for Linux.

dv01, a software firm that makes a reporting and analytics platform to give financial institutions insight into consumer lending, has jumped the line and is running SQL Server 2017 on Linux rather than Windows for some of its workloads.

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Check Point boosts cloud-security education to help IT security pros stay relevant

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Check Point is investing heavily in educating IT pros about the cloud, not only to promote their own cloud security products but to give potential customers the skills they’ll need to keep their jobs as their employers move more and more resources to public cloud providers.

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“We try to explain how to be relevant in the cloud,” says Itai Greenberg, head of cloud security for Check Point.

A lot of old-school IT security workers need to learn about how cloud infrastructure works, the terminology used, the interconnections between cloud and corporate owned networks and the ins and outs of APIs, among other skills.

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Network World Tim Greene

AT&T boosts U-verse data cap to 1TB, keeps DSL users at 150GB

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AT&T is raising the data caps for U-verse Internet customers to 1TB a month and providing unlimited data “at no additional charge” to customers who subscribe to the company’s 1Gbps service.

But DSL users on AT&T’s network aren’t getting any extra data, and those users must continue to make do with a 150GB monthly limit.

AT&T has been enforcing data caps on DSL users for years but only began enforcement of caps on its faster U-verse service in May this year. Data caps were set at 300GB, 600GB, or 1TB based on the speed tier. But the changes announced today—which take effect August 21—give all U-verse customers a monthly data cap of 1TB or no cap at all. Previously, a 1TB cap was only for customers with speeds from 100Mbps to 1Gbps.

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$10 Billion Defense Cybersecurity Spending Boosts Cyberwarfare Technologies – PR Newswire (press release)

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$ 10 Billion Defense Cybersecurity Spending Boosts Cyberwarfare Technologies
PR Newswire (press release)
LONDON, Nov. 12, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Cyberwarfare is emerging as the next evolution in modern warfare between nation states. The active disruption of information and operational technologies and the engagement in protracted political and economic …

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