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Testing is an integral part of IT professionals’ jobs. Administrators test server hardware, patches to the operating system, and configuration changes. Developers test the applications they have created. The proliferation of mobile devices has made testing more complicated in recent years. IT professionals must test on many platforms. Amazon Web Services (AWS), which can assist…
In the previous column, we discussed how Amazon Web Services’ Simple Email Service (or SES) can be used to send various types of automated mail. I then showed you how to verify your e-mail address to use Amazon SES. Let me now show you how to use SES for bulk e-mail. Before I begin, I…
Related: Part 2 of Amazon SES for Bulk E-Mail Distribution If you’re like me, you likely receive a lot of bulk e mails every day. I’m not talking about spam. I mean things like advertisements from companies I do business with, e mail newsletters, and other such things. Many companies use bulk email to engage…
Unisys Corp. placed its Stealth micro-segmentation solution for security on the Amazon Web Services Inc. Unisys Stealth uses micro segmentsation to enact security policy. This is a new virtualization method that moves security measures away from network perimeters to fine-grained applications. It manages security by identity and not network topology. Unisys states that it virtualizes…
John Oden. You probably first learned about a Local Area Network (LAN) early in your journey into networking. A LAN is a group of devices that are connected to each other. Figure 1 shows a network for an organization that has several departments. Figure 1: A typical local area network (LAN) Problems with LANs Although…
Ransomware was the biggest online threat in 2017, surpassing all other forms. Ransomware is a type of malicious software (or malware). It takes control of your computer and threatens to cause you harm by encrypting all your personal data and denying you access. To restore access to the data, the victim is required to pay…
According to Gartner’s new data, higher-than-expected spending in both the Software as a Service and Platform as a Service categories is driving growth within the overall public cloud service market. The research firm released its findings late last week. It stated that the global SaaS market far exceeded expectations in 2016, when it earned $48.2…
The new dashboard feature of Simple Storage Service (S3) promises greater insight into object storage usage. This will help users cut costs and improve security. Amazon S3 Storage Lens was launched by Amazon Web Services (AWS), this week. It is “the first cloud storage analytics tool to give you organization-wide visibility in object storage, with…
Data analytics firm Ryft made Wednesday its cloud-based, FPGA-optimized analytics platform on the AWS Marketplace. Ryft Cloud’s accelerated analytics solution uses field-programmable gate arrays, (FPGAs), to perform data queries at significantly higher rates than traditional CPU-based platforms. This is up to 91 times faster according to Ryft benchmark testing. Customers can now run Ryft Cloud…
Ruxit, a company that specializes in application performance management (APM), announced that it has added Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), to its list of supported technologies. The startup from Waltham, Massachusetts, emerged last fall in stealth mode with its artificial intelligence-based cloud monitoring software. It stated that its solution aims to improve upon existing cloud…