Residents in part of the large South Lanarkshire (Scotland) village of Drumsagard have complained, perhaps unfairly, after contractors working to extend UK ISP Virgin Media’s fibre broadband network – Keir Group – reportedly left the pavements looking like an “eyesore,” except it looks mostly fair to us. According to the Daily Record, which carries a…
What could be even worse than getting hacked? It’s the “failure to detect intrusions” that always results in huge losses to the organizations. Utah-based technology company InfoTrax Systems is the latest example of such a security blunder, as the company was breached more than 20 times from May 2014 until March 2016. What’s ironic is…
Good news for customers of Sky Broadband, specifically those who previously liked to use their own third-party Domain Name System (DNS) settings before the UK ISP broke that ability when they introduced early support for the Sky Buddy App in April 2019 (here). You’ll soon be able to use third-party DNS servers again! Firstly, let’s…
Tweets reach a limited audience, but screenshots on other platforms spread them further. Source:: BBC News – Technology
Cyberattacks on small and midsized companies in 2019 cost $200,000 per company on average, mercilessly putting many of them out of business, says CNBC in its analysis of a recent Accenture report. In light of the global cybersecurity skills shortage, the number is set to soar in 2020. Solely in the UK, over 50,000 British…
The promise of SD-Branch is that by collapsing network functionality in branch offices to a unified platform, enterprises can reap benefits in speed of deployment, ease of operation and cost. Since Wi-Fi is a critical piece of local area communications for many branch sites, improved integration, security and management of Wi-Fi is becoming increasingly important…
The tech giant plans to partner with banks and credit unions in the US to offer current accounts. Source:: BBC News – Technology
A pilot is in progress to see if invisible barcodes on packaging can improve recycling rates. Source:: BBC News – Technology
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AWS IoT Device Management now provides enhanced fleet-level metrics and insights with simple statistics, percentiles, and cardinality. Source:: Amazon AWS
You can now add tags to a lifecycle policy in Data Lifecycle Manager (DLM). Tags allow you to categorize your policies in different ways, such as by department, purpose or owner. You can also enable resource level permissions based on tags to set access control on ability to modify or delete a tagged policy. Source::…
AWS Firewall Manager is now available in Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), South America (Sao Paulo), EU (Paris) and EU (Stockholm), extending the total to 16 AWS Regions and all Amazon CloudFront edge locations. Source:: Amazon AWS
You can now launch the next generation general-purpose burstable T3-Standard cache nodes in Amazon ElastiCache. Amazon EC2’s T3-Standard instances provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst CPU usage at any time till the accrued credits are exhausted. They offer generational advances in CPU performance that enable a higher overall baseline…
Here’s what they thought of paid-for adverts from the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats. Source:: BBC News – Technology
AWS Fargate is a compute engine for Amazon ECS that lets you run containers in production without deploying or managing servers. Fargate lets you focus on designing and building your applications instead of managing the infrastructure that runs them. Source:: Amazon AWS
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is now available in the China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. You can create DAX clusters in this AWS Region for your DynamoDB applications that require microsecond response times. Source:: Amazon AWS
Amazon Chime Voice Connector, the AWS SIP trunking service that can save you over 50% on your calling costs, now supports the US West (Oregon) region and redundant call routing across multiple regions for higher availability and disaster recovery. With this feature, companies can continue to place and receive phone calls even if access to…
AWS Launch Wizard for SQL Server is a new service that offers you a guided way of sizing, configuring, and deploying self-managed Microsoft SQL Server Always On Availability Groups on AWS without you having to identify and provision individual AWS resources. Source:: Amazon AWS
AWS Data Exchange is a new service that makes it easy for millions of AWS customers to securely find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud. Qualified data providers include Reuters, Foursquare, TransUnion, Change Healthcare, Virtusa, Pitney Bowes, TP ICAP, Vortexa, IMDb, Epsilon, Enigma, TruFactor, ADP, Dun & Bradstreet, Compagnie Financière Tradition, Verisk,…
Starting today, Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) is available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Singapore) and South America (Sao Paulo) in additional to EU (Dublin), EU (London), EU (Frankfurt), Canada (Central), US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions. Also starting today, BYOIP…