The privacy-focused ProtonMail is celebrating their four-year anniversary. If you haven’t already, the service is definitely worth a look.
Favorites
What Are Favorites?
Gestalt IT creates link posts to our favorite material from around the web in the category of Favorites.
Joining Microsoft’s Teams, or No More Slacking
This piece by Scott Lowe breaks down why ActualTech Media made the switch from Slack to Microsoft Teams. For their organization, context and deep integrations made Teams a better choice.
Quantum Computing and Cryptography
Bruce Schneier breaks down why traditionally encryption may be in trouble once quantum computing becomes a reality, and what security researchers are doing to keep things locked down.
Bad Security? Have You Tried Shame?
As a long time Have I Been Pwned fan, I like to keep up with what Troy Hunt is saying about security. In this post, he makes the argument that publicly shaming bad corporate security is a net positive. This kind of direct public pressure, either from journalists, security researchers, or anyone with social reach, […]
Network4Dev: A Community is Born
Network4Dev is a new site created by Daniel Dib and Cristian Sîrbu to give application developers a base of technical articles about networking. It’s a really interesting idea, and we hope the IT community will help build it into a true resource to make better applications.
Friends with Azure Hybrid Benefits
With all the new features of Windows Server 2019, Azure Hybrid Benefits might have slipped by unnoticed. But it’s the kind of thing that might have been verboten by Microsoft a few years ago. It shows the company is able to be agile and creative when it comes to their growing cloud solutions.
VMware NSX: The path forward
Kurt Marko wrote up an excellent piece looking at why VMware NSX is the key to future growth for the company.
Pure Storage’s NVMe Vision for Storage
Chris Evans does a great job showing that Pure Storage’s FlashArray//X isn’t important because it’s a bold new product for the company, but rather because it’s the latest step of iteration in a well executed vision.
TestDisk: Bringing Drives Back from Mostly Dead
I’ve seen more than a few dead hard drives in my time. Perhaps the most devastating was on my old family computer, which I had taken with me to college. This was long before the words “data protection” had ever entered my lexicon. The old HP machine had over 8 years of files on it, […]
A Look at Data Center Design
David Raney takes a look at different approach to data center design, specifically comparing 3 Tier and Leaf/Spine architectures.