Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform. Microsoft claims that Azure is “the cloud for modern business”. However, veteran Amazon AWS users may encounter a great deal of frustration at Azure’s immaturity. Despite Microsoft’s assertion that its “integrated tools, pre-built templates and managed services make it easier to build and manage enterprise, mobile, Web and Internet…
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The CentOS 7 repositories do not have java-1.8.0-openjdk packages yet. However, these have been released for CentOS 6. For our development workstations running CentOS 7, we have successfully installed the CentOS 6 openjdk packages. As root, create a new file in /etc/yum.repos.d called centos6.repo: [updates-centos-6] name=CentOS-6 – Updates baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/updates/$basearch/ gpgcheck=0 If you need to keep…
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Cloud data storage is incredibly convenient, yet it comes with significant risks. Systems like Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, DropBox, and Box.com can make your critical business documents and data accessible from anywhere, but they also expose it to potential breaches due to security vulnerabilities and hackers, user issues like logging in from a public computer, or…
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