 TechKnow | Volume #16 | April 28 2009 |
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What’d Ya Miss?Check out our previous newsletters in our archives to keep up-to-date on all the latest from CBT Direct and the world of IT. Private Clouding – Clearly a Good Idea or Just a Lot of Smoke? DoD Says It’s Worth Pursuing
The Department of Defense is launching development and testing tools in order to test and deploy software themselves in order to avoid all usual security and stability obstacles they are constantly faced with. For over a year, DISA has been building the Rapid Access Computing Environment (RACE), the future private cloud of the military. Finishing touches are still up in the air, but the DoD’s plans for RACE should prove to be a positive step toward rapid innovation. Read more here. Protect Yourself from Top Security Exploits
- Web 2.0 technologies are inspiring more attackers than ever, with about 20,000 pieces of malware launched in 2008 alone. - Attackers are likely to target data warehouses and Web-based applications more frequently in the future, for financial gain. - SMEs need a multilayered security strategy that involves an integrated appliance approach ad application security. Experts say that despite the fact there are no real ground-breaking innovations in security exploits, there are still trends you need to keep track of. Attacks to yield financial returns are becoming more and more sophisticated, like the attack on Paypal, where the domain name, email fonts and even the language were almost a spitting image of the real thing. SMEs and Web 2.0 technologies are also huge targets. Social networks users can be easily lured into a threat, without ever knowing what hit them. So how can you stay protected? Check out the article for more. The Memory Battle: Is Bigger Really Better?
They put DDR2 and DDR3 head to head for a careful comparison and as it turns out, there wasn’t enough of a difference to write home to momma. “From media encoding to application tests to games, DDR3 seemed to have no impact on performance over DDR2.” Why spend the extra money if you don’t have to, right? So who wins in the DDR3/1066 vs. DDR3/1600? And the 2GB, 3GB and 6GB battle? You’ll be surprised at what could be considered overkill. Read on here. Does Hard Work Pay Off Anymore?!
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Many computer vets complain that private clouding is merely something that happens outside of your data center and that the technologies have been around for years. But by creating cloud computing services, users will have all the capabilities without requiring all the abilities. InformationWeek recently talked about 
Well, here are the latest facts, as listed by Processor:
Does more memory make you groan with glee? Well, hold up, because it’s not always the size that matters, but it’s how you use your…er…stick that makes the difference, as Maximum PC points out.
Well, despite what you might be feeling lately, many emails we’ve been receiving have confirmed that hard work still pays off in the end. Take these testimonials, for example:
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