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SUNBURST – SolarWinds® Orion® IT Management Platform Security Advisory
If your organization is using SolarWinds Orion, the CISA ED advises its immediate shutdown and partnering with an organization that conducts incident response to assess impact.
Goodbye CentOS, hello CentOS Stream
From now on, there will be no CentOS Linux — just CentOS Stream. Here’s how it will affect the IT industry.
The downside of scaling up
The ability to quickly and easily provision resources (either automatically or manually) in the cloud is one of the most famous cloud benefits. People often leverage this ability to address performance issues or sudden increases in demand reactively. But this...
Get your 2021 IT budget right
Follow these recommended steps to get your tech budget right in 2021. Start by looking at your existing IT spend, line-item by line-item.
Listen to this podcast featuring Kurt Mackey, CEO of Fly.io
Listen to this new podcast interview with Kurt Mackey, CEO of Fly.io, a platform for running app servers close to users.
AWS Bottlerocket – A Quick, 9-Item Primer
Check out this quick, 9-item primer on AWS Bottlerocket, a new open source Linux-based Operating System (OS) that’s purpose-built to run containers.
iDRAC vulnerability puts Dell EMC PowerEdge systems at risk
SCTG is taking steps to mitigate a vulnerability (CVE-2020-5366) in the iDRAC9 controller onboard Dell EMC PowerEdge 14th-Generation servers.
SIGRed: What you need to know about Microsoft’s latest vulnerability
Security researchers have discovered a 17-year old bug in Windows Server that allows a hacker to gain Domain Admin rights to your system. Here’s what to do.
Why everyone says data centers are dead
No one wants to deal with building their own data center anymore. But cloud isn’t the only alternative.
ServerCentral Turing Group Provides Managed IT Services to Essential Chicago Businesses
In light of rapidly changing business conditions, ServerCentral Turing Group (SCTG), today announced its Essential Chicago initiative to provide managed IT services to Chicago essential businesses for the remainder of 2020. The company’s Essential...
VMware releases vCenter security advisory
VMware announced a vCenter security vulnerability rated 10 out of 10 on the CVSS v3 scale due to the likelihood and ease of an attacker exploiting it.
Fighting the coronavirus with computers
COVID-19 research is performed in labs — but not the kind you might think. Thanks to the biomedical research platform Folding@home (F@h), computer labs operating out of regular people’s homes are actually running the complex calculations that will help scientists understand the coronavirus. Here’s how to get involved.