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Curiosity Lab Partners with U.S.-Taiwan Business Group

Curiosity Lab has announced a new partnership with a U.S.-Taiwain business group to give Taiwanese companies acceess to smart tech incubator space.

November 13, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Curiosity Lab, a smart city and intelligent mobility laboratory near Atlanta, is partnering with the Taiwan-USA Industrial Cooperation Promotion Office to foster new smart technologies. Through the partnership, Curiosity Lab at Peachtree Corners, Georgia will provide opportunities for Taiwanese companies to establish operations in the city and leverage the lab’s infrastructure and service to test […]

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Stratus Technologies Announces Better Integration With Azure

Stratus Technologies says it has improved the integration of its products with the Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT cloud platform

November 11, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Autonomous edge computing solutions provider Stratus Technologies has announced the improved integration of its products with the Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT cloud platform. Stratus said the upgrade ensures customers’ IOT solutions are pre-tested, verified to work with Azure IoT services and paired with hardware and software that seamlessly captures data and analytics. According to […]

You Should Consider a Four Day Work Week

Some companies are beginning to experiment with a four-day work week. The IT industry—which is struggling with stress and hiring—should look into it.

November 11, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Take a minute to think about how nice it would be to have a long weekend—every weekend, with a four day work week. Would one extra day off per week do you and your team some good? The corporate world has been experimenting with this idea recently, and the results are generally positive, with employees […]

New Trustwave Service Adds Advanced Threat Protection and Response for Azure

Trustwave's Threat Detection and Response services for Microsoft Azure helps businesses stay secure as cloud security becomes more complex.

November 8, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Information security firm Trustwave has bolstered its threat monitoring, detection and response in Microsoft Azure has launched an advanced threat detection and response service for the cloud computing service. Trustwave said in an announcement earlier this week that its Threat Detection and Response services for Azure integrates with Microsoft Azure Sentinel — a cloud-native security […]

Smarsh Enterprise Archive Delivers Global Enterprises Unprecedented Flexibility and Scale

Smarsh Enterprise Archive brings cloud scale and multi-cloud deployability to the enterprise information archiving space.

November 8, 2019 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Smarsh says its Enterprise Archive brings cloud scale and multi-cloud deployability to the enterprise information archiving space. Smarsh says the cloud-native architecture of Enterprise Archive creates a secure and scalable platform across multiple cloud infrastructures (public and/or private). Organizations can choose to deploy archiving, supervision and e-discovery services on the infrastructures that align with their […]

The U.S. Needs to Get Serious About Election Cybersecurity

The U.S. government and lawmakers need to take cybersecurity a lot more seriously, especially when it comes to elections.

November 7, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

If there’s one legislative body that truly understands the importance of cybersecurity in the digital age, it should be the U.S. Congress. Remember the election cybersecurity issues of 2016? That was fun. We went through so many news stories about Wikileaks, hacking, and election interference that you were convinced Congress would act and take the […]

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Artificial Intelligence Has an Emissions Problem

Advances in arificial intelligence is making our lives easier and more automated. It's also becoming a huge emitter of greenhouse gasses.

November 6, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Technology, artificial intelligence and automation are supposed to solve our biggest problems, not create new ones or exacerbate existing issues. Unbeknownst to many, big tech is actually putting a huge burden on the environment. In a study assessing the energy consumption required to train several common large AI models, Researchers at the University of Massachusetts […]

Air Force Finally Upgrades Nuclear Launch System… From Floppy Disks

The U.S. had been relying on a computer system that used floppy disks that was responsible for fielding requests to launch nuclear weapons.

October 31, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

The U.S. military can send a missile halfway across the world with pinpoint accuracy, attack the computer systems of rival countries and pilot a drone from the U.S. to strike targets anywhere in the world. The military makes use of every technological advancement and has worked with some of the world’s largest companies to do […]

Court Ruling Finds FBI Abused Mass Surveillance Data

A 2018 court ruling shows the government used mass surveillance improperly, even four years after Snowden. Big tech should keep resisting.

October 29, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Federal officials could be combing through our emails and online messages without due process, according to a newly declassified FISA court ruling. As reported by the Intercept, the FBI could have violated the rights of millions of Americans by inappropriately searching through the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance program data. The ruling was made in […]

Linn County Sherriff Department’s DxEnterprise Computing Platform Saves Major Maintenance Time

The Linn County Sheriff’s Office updates computing platform with DxEnterprise replicated storage and Nutanix Hyperconverged solutions for less maintenance.

October 28, 2019 Jonathan Blackwood Leave a Comment

The Linn County Sheriff’s Office provides patrol services, detectives, corrections services, civil services, 9-1-1 emergency services, and emergency management for the citizens of Linn County, Oregon. The Sheriff’s Office employs a staff of 184 full time employees who serve in six different operational divisions. The Linn County Sheriff’s Office abides by a professional code of […]