This week Red Hat announced that Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) 4.4 would be available. For those unfamiliar, Red Hat Virtualization is their enterprise virtualization platform that supports virtualization workloads, including resource-intensive and critical applications, using the KVM hypervisor. This latest release runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.…
On July 14th, Microsoft publicly released a statement associated with a severe vulnerability in the Windows DNS server, codenamed CVE-2020-1350. Discovered as early as May by Check Point Software, an Israeli cyber security firm, this issue has since been patched. Due to its severity and high risk factor, this security…
The Zettelkasten Method is a note-taking method that organizes information in a way that allows an individual to see connections between ideas. This method was devised by prolific German sociologist Niklas Luhman who utilized his expansive Zettelkasten throughout his life in his research. During his career, he published more than…
Last week Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: Focal Fossa was released and for those new to Ubuntu, this is a 'Long Term Support" release which is published every two years in April. These are typically the most widely used versions of Ubuntu as they are enterprise-grade. Version numbers are YY.MM…
Before I explain the term chaos engineering in detail, you should be familiar with some understanding of the significance of testing software during the software development cycle. Today, the need to offer a faultless, seamless and reliable experience to users is the reason behind the agile development, continuous software examination…
To expand the reach of its Microsoft Teams product, Microsoft has announced that the Office 365 group chat tool is now available for Linux. The Microsoft Team product is being made available in a public preview in .deb and .rpm formats starting immediately, with all Linux users' capabilities, although the…
Google along with a number of other trusted manufacturers announced OpenTitan which is an open-source silicon root of trust (RoT) project. If this the first time you have heard of 'root of trust' - well join the club. It seems we have lots to learn together. Google and others are…
There are a lot of reasons as to why you would want to speak at a conference. It could be community interest, building your brand or trying to get your product known across the audience. Perhaps you are trying to recruit people for your company. Or you are simply trying…