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| | | Microsoft Build 2018: The Biggest News from the Conference | | The Verge | Microsoft’s 2018 Build conference kicked off yesterday. The Verge has a fantastic roundup where you can learn more about the biggest news from Build. Major highlights include: Microsoft’s new Windows 10 app mirrors your phone’s features to your PC, Microsoft’s meeting room of the future is wild and "seriously impressive," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calls privacy "a human right," Microsoft demonstrates an Alexa and Cortana integration, and Microsoft is moving Kinect to the cloud. | | Blind Spots in Dropbox: 5 Things You Didn’t Know Your End Users & Admins Could Do | | BetterCloud Monitor | Dropbox provides plenty of flexibility to collaborate on and streamline work, but end users and admins can do and see things you might not be aware of. For example, end users can create public links to entire folders. Admins can sign in as any user and view sensitive information. To minimize security risk and exposure, here are five blind spots you should know about. | | Best Password Managers: Reviews and Buying Advice | | PCWorld | People are terrible at passwords. People suck at creating them (the top two most popular remain “123456” and “password”), people share them way too freely, and people forget them all the time. A password manager is the way to go. But password managers vary widely in their capabilities and cost, so PCWorld compared six of the most popular. Here are their top two picks, followed by tips on what to look for when shopping for a password manager and full reviews of all six products. |
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| | | 4 Ways to Find the Best Google Sheets Templates | | MakeUseOf | If you use Microsoft Excel, then you probably already know that websites with templates can be easy to find. But what about Google Sheets? The results appear limited when you do a Google search. However, you actually have more options than you probably realize. | | How to Rock Public Speaking When You're an Introvert Who's Terrified By It | | Introvert, Dear | The dreaded act of public speaking may send shivers down any introvert’s spine. Clammed up and sweaty palmed , introverts tend to avoid such an act at all costs. Hopefully, using the tips presented in this article, this can change for you. |
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| | | 3 Emerging Kubernetes Trends | | The Enterprisers Project | Kubernetes continues to gain steam in enterprises, and for good reason: It tames the complexity that arises as you begin to use containers at scale. It automates and orchestrates Linux container operations, eliminating many manual tasks involved in deploying and scaling containerized applications. The KubeCon conference offered a peek at where Kubernetes and container orchestration are heading. Take a look. |
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| | | PagerDuty Incident Response Documentation | | PagerDuty | Here at the BetterCloud Monitor, we're always looking for useful IT resources to share with everyone. Gavin H., a Monitor reader, wrote to us and suggested this link. He writes, "It's all very well when things go right in IT, but what happens when things go wrong? A robust incident response plan means the difference between a minor hiccup and a reputation-damaging outage. Pager Duty's guide is a great place to start when designing emergency support and incident response plans." |
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