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Breathe New Life into Your Devices: Prepare for Windows 7 End of Life

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Phishing scams alone caused over $26 million in losses between 2016 and 2019. You could take this opportunity to change to a different operating system such as Mac OS X or Linux. In fact, the statistics on cybercrime are daunting : By 2021, experts estimate that responding to cyberattacks will cost $6 trillion each year.

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Bastion Host: What Is It and Do You Really Need It?

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That takes significant effort from a system administration perspective. As of today Amazon Linux, Amazon Linux 2, CentOS 6.0+, Oracle Linux 7.5+, RHEL 6.0+, SLES 12+/15+, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS +, macOS Mojave/Catalina (in shortlisted AWS Regions), Windows 2012+ (Windows Server 2016 Nano is not supported).

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Technology Trends for 2024

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It’s now used in operating systems (Linux kernel components), tool development, and even enterprise software. We’ve said in the past that Linux is table stakes for a job in IT. Hardening, a much smaller topic that addresses making systems less vulnerable to attack, grew 110%. We also saw 9.8% That’s still true.

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A Deep Dive into Docker – The Container Revolution!

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For example, Java applications will be running on Linux OS, SQL Server running on Windows OS, etc. One virtual machine can have a Linux Operating System, another VM can have a Windows Operating System and so on. For running a Tomcat server, an entire Windows Operating System needs to be installed.