You need to toss these routers, experts say

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	You need to toss these routers, experts say Sometimes it is best to toss security-challenged technology, and that's the recommendation experts are giving to small businesses using a flawed router from a China-based manufacturer. Read More   RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Comcast Business Community Join the Community Built for Business Managing a company's technology infrastructure – and keeping it running smoothly on a daily basis – isn't easy. That's why we created the Comcast Business Community, an online forum that provides best practices, tips and industry insights – with content by business, industry, and technology experts – designed to help you support business success. Visit the community In this Issue The new Microsoft under Satya Nadella VMware calls new "hyper-converged" system a building block for software-defined data centers Please join us on Facebook Salesforce.com CRM upgrade puts heavy emphasis on mobile INSIDER Manage infrastructure convergence without losing your grip Annoying cubicle behavior Three security practices that IoT will disrupt Vulnerabilities on the decline, but risk assessment is often flawed, study says says 20 Cool Things You Can Do With a Raspberry Pi WHITE PAPER: Dropbox The Truth About Cloud Security "Security" is the number one issue holding business leaders back from the cloud. But does the reality match the perception? Keeping data close to home, on premises, makes business and IT leaders feel inherently more secure. But the truth is, cloud solutions can offer companies real, tangible security advantages. Learn more! The new Microsoft under Satya Nadella The Microsoft CEO has set new goals, taken some decisive actions, moved ahead with works already in progress and made Wall Street happy Read More   VMware calls new "hyper-converged" system a building block for software-defined data centers SAN FRANCISCO – VMware this week unveiled at its VMworld event the first in a family of "hyper-converged" systems, a product called EVO:RAIL that it says will help customers build software-defined data centers. The product combines compute, network and storage functionality in a single appliance, and comes in a standard 2U form factor with four nodes. + MORE VMWORLD: VMware takes its best shot at the cloud | Hot products from VMWorld 2014 +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Please join us on Facebook Please Like our Facebook page and share content with peers Read More   Salesforce.com CRM upgrade puts heavy emphasis on mobile Salesforce.com's development teams are continuing their steady pace of improvements to the Salesforce1 mobile application, which first debuted at last year's Dreamforce conference.More than 50 features being rolled out as part of the upcoming Winter '15 release of Salesforce.com's CRM (customer relationship management) suite target the mobile app, according to a set of release notes recently posted on its website.On the whole, the updates focus on improving the app's usability while also giving users the ability to do more things.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More     INSIDER Manage infrastructure convergence without losing your grip Michael Heil remembers when network convergence began to make sense to him. A few years ago, the manager of infrastructure engineering for Cone Health, a regional health care provider in central North Carolina, was asked to stand up a large virtualized SQL environment running Microsoft Amalga in 90 days with no additional resources. About the same time, he was also asked to implement a new document management system -- again, with no extra hands on deck.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) Read More   Annoying cubicle behavior Similar to the passenger sitting in front of you on an airplane, there are annoying behaviors to endure around your own cube. Read More   Three security practices that IoT will disrupt I made it back from DEFCON with both my phone and tablet intact, but I'm happy I didn't bring a light bulb. You see, if had brought a light bulb, and that light bulb was a smart LED bulb running Linux, it might be running someone else's software by now. MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: 12 most powerful Internet of Things companies Right now, there are hundreds of companies churning out "Internet of Things" (IoT) devices as fast as they can. The people slapping these devices together are often doing things on a shoestring budget, with an incomplete understanding of the full potential of their components, and rarely any eye toward security.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   Vulnerabilities on the decline, but risk assessment is often flawed, study says says Based on data gathered over the first six months of 2014, security researchers from IBM X-Force predict that the number of publicly reported vulnerabilities will drop to under 8,000 this year, a first since 2011.While the majority of flaws disclosed so far fall into the medium-risk category, the IBM researchers said that the widely used system to rate their severity often fails to reflect the real risk they pose to users.Over the first half of the year, the IBM X-Force team collected reports about 3,900 security vulnerabilities from advisories published by software vendors, security industry mailing lists and other sources. If vulnerability disclosures continue at the same rate, the number of flaws reported in 2014 will fall under 8,000, several hundred less than in each of the previous two years, the team said in a report released this week.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More   20 Cool Things You Can Do With a Raspberry Pi Get creative. No, more creative than that. Keep going. Read More
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