Threat monitoring for SMBs and enterprises can be a complicated, daunting business, but following some basic best practices learned on the front lines can help.
Finding shared interests and passions can be challenging, and this event helps Tom connect with like-minded people and establish lifelong relationships.
Paul lays out the options for an organization that's relied on VMware for virtualization needs but is finding the "sticker shock" too hot to handle and is looking for alternatives.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 06/13/2024
Tom reviews Ubuntu.
Tom steps through the process of downloading, installing and licensing Workstation Pro 17 on his personal laptop.
Tom Fenton explains how this is huge news for the tens of thousands of students, hobbyists and casual users who would like to run multiple instances of OSes on a single computer.
Tom recaps an end-user computing conference heavy on the tech (no sales) featuring "choose your own adventure" and what to pack for bug-out bags for tech emergencies.
Frustrated by outdated info? Here's a roundup of the knowledge cutoff dates and internet search abilities of some top freely available online AI sites.
Many more new features than last release, explained in detail by Paul Schnackenburg: "Maybe Microsoft has realized that not everything is in the cloud, and giving attention to Server is important."
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 04/30/2024
The brand-new coding assistant from Google compares nicely with GitHub Copilot. Here's how to get started.
After using the private preview of Exposure Management for some months, Paul outlines what it does, why you should care and raises some still unanswered questions.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 03/25/2024
Tom sets up remote access to his home lab, adds Linux and cloud devices, explores Tailscale's features and technology -- and really likes what he sees.
Not to be outdone by ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini, Amazon is currently previewing its own AI assistant for AWS, which it calls Amazon Q. Like competing AI assistants, Amazon Q could be described as a cloud-based, large language model (LLM), generative AI assistant.
Paul presents a brief overview of Enterprise Internet of Things (EIoT) and Operational Technology (OT), and how you can use Microsoft Defender for IoT to protect both, as well as integrate everything into a single Security Operations Center (SOC) solution.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 02/26/2024
Tom concludes this benchmarking testing suite is not inexpensive, but considering what it does, it should be in the toolbox of corporations that genuinely care about how well their hardware performs AI tasks.
Tom is excited to see that UL Solutions has a benchmarking tool that uses MS Office tools.
Paul details what you need to do to prepare your business for different Copilots, because if you don't have good data governance, you'll likely have some "interesting times" ahead if you roll out the AI broadly.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 01/31/2024
Tom's mini-PC can surf/stream, comes up short with office apps and doesn't do Windows 11, but is perfectly capable of running a thin-client OS in a VDI setup.
Is an $89 mini-PC adequate for home/office use? Well ...
Tom seeks a usable low-cost PC that isn't "cheap."