This month in our Microsoft update, Practice Director, David Barter discusses the new Citrix and Microsoft service, Citrix XenApp Essentials. This service helps Azure RemoteApp customers simplify management and app provisioning, improve monitoring, and strengthen security. Another major Microsoft announcement this April is Microsoft Teams, a chat-based workspace in Office 365 that helps users stay on task and efficiently collaborate. Available in 181 countries and in 18 languages, this tool is sure to become a serious competitor to Slack.
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Tech News Recap for the Week of 04/17/17
Did you have a busy week? Here’s a tech news recap of articles you may have missed for the week of 04/17/2017!
Major announcements made at AWS Summit. Microsoft Azure launches 3 new tools to speed migration to the hybrid cloud and optimize deployment. 1,175 hotels listed in payment card breach of Holiday Inn parent company. Microsoft is buying the company, Intentional Software, to build apps for the future. Job seekers on ZipRecruiter being targeted by scams and more tops news this week you may have missed!
Remember, to stay up-to-date on the latest tech news throughout the week, follow @GreenPagesIT on Twitter.
Tech News Recap
AWS
- AWS Portsmouth User Group is official!
- 20 years of AWS: Time flies when you’re winning
- Here’s everything announced at Wednesday’s AWS Summit
Microsoft
- Meet the new Microsoft Edge: 5 key improvements with Creators Update
- Microsoft patched ‘NSA hack’ Windows flaws before leak
- Microsoft Azure launches 3 new tools to speed migration to hybrid cloud and optimize deployment
- Top five Hyper-V 2016 features in Windows Server
- Microsoft is buying company, Intentional Software, to build apps for the future
- Microsoft commits to twice updates Windows 10, Office 365
- Microsoft is reportedly eyeing this cloud monitoring company
VMware
- VMware Horizon 7.1 updates boost remote user experience
Cisco
- Cisco issues 7 “high priority” security advisories; Firepower, iOS, and ASA issues among them
Cloud
- Microsoft, AWS, and Google may have just started the next cloud computing price war
- Cloud as a check and balance for on-premises systems
Security
- McAfee Linkedin page hijacked
- Prisoners create their own IT team inside an Ohio Prison, go on a cyber crime spree
- Trojan malware targets tax-filer, as if filing taxes isn’t bad enough already
- IoT malware clashes in a botnet territory battle
- 1,175 hotels listed in payment card breach of Holiday Inn parent company
- Ransomware is now so awful it’s actually making us take security seriously
- Oracle drops massive 299 vulnerability patch, fixes Shadow Broker exploit
- Job seekers on ZipRecruiter being targeted by scams via email and text
- Terrified about cyber-ninjas? You may be missing the real threat
- Unacknowledged data breach leads to millions of game accounts exposed
- Hackers use old Stuxnet-related bug to carry out attackers
This is just ridiculous…
- Find My iPhone helps nab thief at Coachella that stole 100 iPhones
Join us at Boston Summer VMUG UserCon on Thursday, June 1, 2017!
By Jake Cryan, Digital Marketing Specialist
Tech News Recap for the Week of 04/10/17
Did you have a busy week? Here’s a tech news recap of articles you may have missed for the week of 04/10/2017!
New vSphere 6.5 features. Cisco fortifies storage throughput, analytics. Microsoft patches serious Word bug. How to avoid getting hooked by phishing scams. Shadow Brokers dump contained Solaris hacking tools. Cisco runs out two “critical” security warnings for IOS, Apache Struts. Windows Vista reaches its end and more tops news this week you may have missed!
Remember, to stay up-to-date on the latest tech news throughout the week, follow @GreenPagesIT on Twitter.
Tech News Recap
GreenPages Blog
- GreenPages and LogicsOne celebrates 25 years of delivering IT innovation
- GreenPages & LogicsOne named 2017 Tech Elite Solution Provider by CRN
VMware
- New vSphere 6.5 features put spotlight on security
- VMware updates vSAN with multi-cloud customers in mind
- VMware acquires Wavefront to boost cloud management profile
Cisco
- Exploring the features and deployment options of Cisco campus switches
- Cisco fortifies storage throughput, analytics
- Behind Cisco’s big play to turn itself into a software company
- Cisco runs out two “critical” security warnings for IOS, Apaches Struts
Microsoft
- Microsoft acquires Deis, open source tool for developers to build, run, move apps between on-prem machines and clouds
- Microsoft patches serious Word bug, used by scammers trying to steal banking logins
- Windows Vista will no longer receive new security updates, non-security hotfixes, assisted support options and more
- Microsoft kicks security bulletins to the curb in favor of security update guide
- Microsoft sets May 9 as original Windows 10’s retirement date
Fortinet
- Fortinet upgrades for better cloud, SD-WAN protection
IT Operations
- Let’s talk about IT infrastructure and emerging technologies
- How can disaster recovery systems use software-defined networking?
- CIO looks at future of the healthcare virtualization, its security benefits
- How to pick the right VDI management and monitoring tools
Security
- Angry Shadow Brokers release password for suspected NSA hacking tools
- Hackers are attacking Word users with new Microsoft Office zero-day vulnerability
- Dallas city alarm hack raises fears over vital system security
- 7 step to avoid getting hooked by phishing scams
- Security data silos: disjointed products = more gaps
- How to detect and mitigate malicious content from the cloud
- Department of Justice dismantles Kelihos botnet, responsible for countless spam and malware attacks across the globe
- Amazon’s third-party sellers hit by hackers
- Suspected CIA spying tools linked to hacks in 16 countries
- 6 common enterprise cyber security threats and how to avoid them
- Shadow brokers dump contained Solaris hacking tools
- Ransomware: Why one version of this file-encrypting nightmare now dominates
- What prevents breaches: process, technology or people?
- Unpatched vulnerability exposes Magento online shops to hacking
- 7 common reasons companies get hacked
Click here to download our recent webinar and find out how to embrace not resist DevOps and transform your IT with a next-gen IT Operations Transformation Framework
By Jake Cryan, Digital Marketing Specialist
GreenPages-LogicsOne Celebrates 25 Years of Delivering IT Innovation
This April we are celebrating GreenPages’ 25th anniversary. As we mark this occasion and on behalf of Team GreenPages, I want to thank our customers—the driving force behind our 25-year journey. I also want to thank our technology partners for your ongoing support and dedication to innovation and excellence.
In April of 1992, an entrepreneur named Kurt Bleicken founded GreenPages as a resource for corporate IT professionals to efficiently procure the hardware and software required to drive their IT initiatives during the early stages of the client-server computing revolution. Prior to founding GreenPages, Kurt spent considerable time speaking to corporate IT leaders to better understand their challenges and best serve their business needs. Kurt embedded “a better way” into our core business systems and founded GreenPages with a strong customer focus and commitment to world-class execution and service, delivered by a customer-focused team working collaboratively in a strong, employee-focused culture. GreenPages saw great growth and success during the 1990s fueled by Kurt’s founding vision.
As I often tell our team, we are living in an amazing period of human history and our 25-year journey has occurred at the epicenter of what makes our time remarkable: the information technology revolution. When GreenPages was founded, we lived in a much different world. Microsoft had just launched Windows backed by a $10 million publicity blitz. The internet browser had just been invented, but few people used or even knew what the internet was. Digital had just announced the Alpha chip to enable 64-bit computing. The JPEG standard had just been finalized, and a prototype SSD module had been submitted for evaluation by IBM. We were still in the early stages of what would become a tsunami of technology innovation that would change the way we live, work, and play, and the very nature of humanity itself.
Through the internet becoming a pervasive force in our lives, to the logical abstraction of workloads driven by the virtualization wave, to the emergence of cloud computing and arrival of the cloud-mobile era, Team GreenPages has evolved in close collaboration with our customers and technology partners. We have moved from a supply chain organization that offered a faster, better, and cheaper method for procuring IT goods, to an industry leader in cloud computing, offering strategic consulting, architecture, systems integration, and systems management for the hybrid cloud computing models fueling the digital era.
As we celebrate our 25th anniversary we are very excited about the road ahead. The pace of change is accelerating and we see tremendous opportunities for our organization, our customers, and our technology partners in the digital era. Today, we are focused on enabling technological innovation to fuel our customers’ digitalization strategies that enable both agility and business velocity. Speed is everything today. The art of IT innovation is delivering this needed agility in a secure and compliant manner, and ultimately the next generation computing platforms backed by the old-world mandates of security and compliance, which are more important than ever.
I expect the next 25 years to be even more amazing than the past 25 and look forward to celebrating our 50th anniversary with you in 2042. As we drive into the future, our customer focus and commitment will remain the constant amidst the tremendous waves of change sweeping across our industry. We will continue to strive every day to deliver outstanding technology-driven business results with the best, brightest, and most committed team in our industry.
Sincerely,
Ron Dupler
CEO, GreenPages
Tech News Recap for the Week of 04/03/17
Di you have a busy week? Here’s a tech news recap of articles you may have missed for the week of 04/03/2017!
VMware sells vCloudAir to OVH. Azure and AWS services compared. Top 5 email security practices. Taming the SaaS security wilderness. How to protect your internet privacy with a VPN. Azure surpasses AWS as public cloud of choice and more tops news this week you may have missed!
Remember, to stay up-to-date on the latest tech news throughout the week, follow @GreenPagesIT on Twitter.
Tech News Recap
VMware
- VMware takes aim at enterprise hybrid cloud
- VMware sells vCloudAir to OVH
- vCloud Air sale clears deck for VMware’s AWS strategy
Cisco
- Cisco/AppDynamics upgrade broadens DevOps role in an app management game
- Cisco issues variety of security warnings on wireless gear
Microsoft
- Azure and AWS services compared
- Azure surpasses AWS as the public cloud of choice
- Alibaba is using Microsoft’s Azure networking switch for its public cloud
- Microsoft details new privacy settings in Windows 10 Creators update
Cloud
- Focus more on data migration when moving to the cloud, expert says
- AWS to open cloud data center in Sweden
DevOps
- Ten ways DevOps can change how you run your IT department
Security
- Custom phishing attacks grow as crooks create fake flight confirmation, receipts
- Non-malware attacks grow – there are tools for IT security to fight back with
- Top 5 email security best practices to prevent malware distribution
- Russian hackers accessed IAAF athletes medical data in cyber attack
- UK nuclear stations on terror alert for cyber attacks
- Android beware: State-backed Pegasus spyware is found using phones to eavesdrop and grab data
- Taming the SaaS security wilderness
- How to use a VPN to protect your internet privacy
- Kaspersky Lab reveals ‘direct link’ between banking heist hackers and North Korea
- Apple fixes wireless-based remote code execution flaw in iOS
- What makes a good application pen test? Metrics
- Scottrade Bank data breach exposes 20,000 customer records
- What enterprises can learn in the aftermath of a phishing attack
- The evolution of data center segmentation
- US trade lobbying group attacked by suspected Chinese hackers
- For internet privacy, a VPN won’t always be the best option
And this is just cool…
- Round up of Google’s April Fool’s Day fun
Did you miss our recent webinar, “Harnessing Lightning: DevOps + ITOM for Secure & Compliant Hybrid Cloud Ops?”
Click here to download the webinar and find out how to embrace not resist DevOps and transform your IT with a next-gen IT Operations Transformation Framework
By Jake Cryan, Digital Marketing Specialist
Tech News Recap for the Week of 03/27/17
Were you busy this week? Here’s a tech news recap of articles you may have missed for the week of 03/27/2017!
Apple iCloud account beach gets bigger. A scramble at Cisco exposes uncomfortable truths about U.S. cyber defense. How VMware HA works in your data center. Cisco’s AppDynamics acquisition is official. Why hybrid IT is the stepping-stone to the enterprise cloud. Leaked records up 566 percent to 4 billion in 2016 and more tops news this week you may have missed!
Remember, to stay up-to-date on the latest tech news throughout the week, follow @GreenPagesIT on Twitter.
Tech News Recap
Security
- Researchers use $5 speaker to hack IoT devices, smartphones, and automobiles
- The Necurs botnet has returned, and it’s now being used for stock market scams
- Apple iCloud accounts breach gets bigger: Here’s what we’ve learned
- A scramble at Cisco exposes uncomfortable truths about U.S. cyber defense
- FBI warns of attacks on anonymous FTP servers
- Apple confident its iCloud hasn’t been compromised, credentials obtained from a third party
- Blockchain can help secure medical devices, improve patient privacy
- SDN solves a lot of network problems, but security isn’t one of them
- Google downgrades trust in Symantec SSL certificates
- Leaked records up 566 percent to 4 billion in 2016
- Trojan source code leak poised to spur new online banking attacks
- Hackers continue to troll LinkedIn
- Skype user hit by ransomware through in-app malicious ads
- Custom phishing attacks grow as crooks create fake flight confirmations, receipts
- Non-malware attacks grow -there are tools for IT security to fight back with
- Congress just obliterated Obama-era rules preventing ISPs from selling your browsing history
VMware
- VMware vSphere gets much-needed facelift
- How VMware HA works in your data center
- VMware to have a crack at desktops on docked smartphones
- VMware patches critical virtual machine escape flaws
- VMware to end support for third-party virtual switches
Cisco
- Cisco’s AppDynamics acquisition is official, what now?
- Cisco reportedly developing standalone networking OS
- Cisco announces plenty of product updates at Enterprise Connect
- Cisco expands wireless reach with access points, management software
Microsoft
- Microsoft winds up work on Windows 10 Creators Update
- Microsoft: We’ve got 10 million Insiders testing Windows 10 to keep bugs at bay
Cloud
- Harnessing Lightning: The Power of DevOps + ITOM
- How Bitly moved to the cloud to save money and future-proof its innovation path
- 95% of businesses have migrated critical applications to the cloud, it’s time for you to do the same
- Why hybrid IT is the stepping-stone to the enterprise cloud
- Why hospital data centers are moving to the cloud
- Amazon Connect brings contact centers to the cloud
Software Defined Networking
- What future SDN holds for ethernet in data centers
- Dell EMC VxRail leads college toward software-defined everything
- How will the network manager’s role change in the SDN world?
- When deploying SD-WAN technology, do your homework
And these are just cool…
- Inside the world’s most bizarre data centers
- Data Center that looks like it should be a villain’s lair
Did you miss our recent webinar, “Harnessing Lightning: DevOps + ITOM for Secure & Compliant Hybrid Cloud Ops?”
Click here to download the webinar and find out how to embrace not resist DevOps and transform your IT with a next-gen IT Operations Transformation Framework
By Jake Cryan, Digital Marketing Specialist
Harnessing Lightning: The Power of DevOps + ITOM
Did you miss our recent webinar, “Harnessing Lightning: DevOps + ITOM for Secure & Compliant Hybrid Cloud Ops?” Simon Johnson, Senior VP of Client Services and Jay Keating, Senior VP of Cloud and Managed Services explain how to embrace, not resist, DevOps, the pivotal role of IT as the control plane for workload distribution, how to transform your IT with a next-gen IT Operations Transformation Framework, and much more.
We’re at a time that IT has become a business and the value that IT can give to the business exceeds what it’s ever been able to do before. The ability to gain a competitive advantage to technological innovation is really driving the business to demand a lot more from IT. With this, we are seeing the expansion of new approaches to delivering IT services. We are seeing hybrid clouds as a strategy around agility and time-to-market and we are seeing DevOps as another key area, bringing two traditionally disparate organizations together.
This helps to accelerate the application delivery cycle to take advantage of transition points in the market. At that time, that’s driving operational complexity into IT organizations. It teaches you how to work with agile delivery techniques, how to report in a timely manner and be the thought leader and key decision maker to enable and drive business value through IT innovation.
To download the webinar, please click here!
By Jake Cryan, Digital Marketing Specialist
Tech News Recap for the Week of 03/13/2017
Were you busy this week? Here’s a tech news recap of articles you may have missed for the week of 03/13/2017!
Hackers steal personal data of thousands of hospital staff. SUSE acquires HPE’s cloud assets. Microsoft to start previews of on-premises Dynamics 365. Microsoft releases new productivity app, Teams. Massive U.S. corporate database breach. Why SDN and DevOps are a perfect match and more tops news this week you may have missed!
Remember, to stay up-to-date on the latest tech news throughout the week, follow @GreenPagesIT on Twitter.
Tech News Recap
- Hackers steal personal data of thousands of hospital staff
- An action plan for cloud management
- Virtualize, Cloud, & Mobile first
- GOP Senator alleges password-hijack attempts after blasting Wikileaks Julian Assange
- SUSE acquires HPE’s cloud assets
- Your password is probably useless, says coding guru Jeff Atwood
- Microsoft to start previews of on-premises Dynamics 365 for operations in April
- VMware struts its NFV infrastructure stuff for Telcos
- Mirai is the hydra of IoT security: Too many heads to cut off
- The internet of botnets and ransomware on your TV: Here come your next big security headaches
- Citrix could be up for sale again, is Microsoft interested?
- Millions of records leaked from massive US corporate database
- SDN and DevOps are a match made in heaven, complimenting each other perfectly
- Microsoft adds new service tier to Azure SQL Database, increases storage limits on existing databases
- Adobe, Microsoft push critical security fixes
- Microsoft’s new productivity app Teams to compete against Slack
- VMware targets digital workplaces with Workspace ONE, AirWatch updates
- After rocky tenure, Mayer to leave Yahoo ‘tarnished’
- ABTA website hacked, 43,000 people affected by breach
- Inside the Russian hack of Yahoo: How they did it
- Citrix ShareFile, an enterprise-class managed file transfer service
- Cisco hyper-converged update spruces HyperFlex, raises HCI stakes
- Five free new features in vSphere 6.5
- Ransomware attacks continue to grow, over 600% in 2016, costing businesses $1B
- Yahoo breach exposes the drawbacks of state-sponsored hacking
- What 2017 has in store for cyber security
By Jake Cryan, Digital Marketing Specialist
Tech News Recap for the Week of 03/06/2017
Were you busy this week? Here’s a tech news recap of articles you may have missed for the week of 03/06/2017!
The end is near for Microsoft SQL 2005. How the CIA can hack your phone, PC and TV. Is VDI susceptible to ransomware threats? HPE acquires Nimble Storage for $1 billion. Cisco and IBM extend VersaStack to hybrid cloud, software-defined storage. 7 tips to strengthen online security and more tops news this week you may have missed!
Remember, to stay up-to-date on the latest tech news throughout the week, follow @GreenPagesIT on Twitter.
Tech News Recap
- Ransomware: An executive guide to one of the biggest menaces on the web
- Cisco updates and integrates HyperFlex converged infrastructure system
- In another major acquisition, HPE acquires Nimble Storage for $1 billion
- IT Executives believe service management is the key to digital transformation
- Microsoft Azure: a growing presence in the Cloud
- The end is near for Microsoft SQL 2005
- Accept everything is hackable, business told
- Failing to secure DNS is “savage ignorance”
- AWS, Microsoft and Google take different paths to the cloud
- MacOS malware on the rise as Apple silently patches a mysterious new threat called Proton
- Microsoft is doubling their top bug bounty reward, to focus on finding flaws in core Office 365 applications
- New dark web scheme lets wannabe cybercriminals get in on ransomware, for free
- Microsoft’s update shrinking reduces Windows 10 Insider betas by 65%
- How to decide to deliver apps through VDI vs installing them locally
- How the CIA can hack your phone, PC and TV
- Apple to iPhone owners: We’re working fast to block CIA’s IOS hacks
- Is VDI susceptible to ransomware threats?
- Cisco and IBM extend VersaStack to hybrid cloud, software-defined storage
- New wiper malware hits Middle East and Europe
- Securing data in the Cloud
- 7 tips to strengthen online security
- How to close the digital leadership gap
- One of the oldest forms of POS malware has been tweaked to avoid detection
- Cisco’s Jasper deal – one year, 18 million new IoT devices later, challenges remain
- Flawed Javascript is turning the web into a hacker’s playground
- Cloud vendor management services see demand for SMBs
- FBI chief calls for private sector to help battle cyber crime
By Jake Cryan, Digital Marketing Specialist
The End Is Near for Microsoft SQL 2005
It’s an end of a great era some may say…SQL 2005 is going End of Support. It’s like finally selling that old Dodge Durango you had since college, or throwing away that T-shirt with a whole bunch of holes in it. It’s a sad day when you finally must say goodbye. The year 2005 brought some amazing things such as YouTube, Mr. Brightside by the Killers, and The Chronicles of Narnia movie (WHAT!) What was so special about SQL 2005 was that it took Microsoft five years to come out with it. The previous edition of SQL was 2000 so it took some time to perfect the next installment of this well-known database. Now all that is coming to an end as extended support will no longer be available for SQL 2005 as of April 12, 2016.
With the End of Support, security updates and hotfixes are no longer available from Microsoft. There’s never been a better time to upgrade and benefit from the performance gains, higher availability, greater scalability, and rich BI capabilities that SQL Server 2014 and 2016 offer.
Reasons to Upgrade to 2014 or 2016
Breakthrough in-memory performance: SQL 2016 is 13x faster than 2005. That’s like challenging Usain Bolt to a game of “beat you there,” and expecting to win. Not going to happen. SQL 2005 crawls compared to what the current database can provide. Plus, SQL 2016’s additional in-memory OLTP delivers up to 30x more in performance.
High Availability: SQL 2014/2016 includes HA and disaster recovery with SQL AlwaysOn.
Security: Per the “National Institute of Standards and Technology,” SQL 2014/2016 was recognized as being the most compliant database with the least amount of security vulnerabilities for the past 6 years in a row.
Scalability: SQL 2014/2016 is scalable across computer, networking, and storage with Windows Server 2016 and has virtualization and live migration support.
Support: Since SQL 2005 will not have any support (hence this blog) there will be support if you upgrade to the latest edition. With 2014/2016 SQL Server, the support includes security patching and maintenance updates, and eliminates the expense of custom support agreements.
Another thing to consider is compliance, as it can be problematic for SQL Server 2005 just like it was when Microsoft ended support for Windows 2003. HIPAA and PCI compliance both require up-to-date patch databases, just like they do with the operating system. So, if you’re using SQL Server 2005 for anything related to HIPAA or PCI, you will be out of compliance in April.
If you’re looking to migrate from SQL 2005, the licensing has certainly changed over the past several years. SQL 2016 is the latest edition, however with backward compatibility rights, previous editions can be run like SQL 2014 and SQL 2012. SQL is offered in two editions: Standard and Enterprise (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-editions) and is sold as a Per Server/Cal or by the Core.
If you need any assistance migrating from SQL 2005, GreenPages has a team of experts who can help. Talk to your account manager or call us at 800-989-2989 and we’ll set up a time to discuss!
If you have any more questions, email us!