Saturday, January 2, 2016

Tabular Rosa Systems Blog Of 1/2/2016 - Blog Of 1/2/2016 - Core Netiquette Principles for Internal Job Seekers


The following is an except form my book, described below. You can view the table of contents on Amazon, the links are below.

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Core Netiquette Principles for Internal Job Seekers

People are not your most important asset. The right people are.
—Jim Collins

The following list is a core composite for internal job seekers:
1.       Maintain Netiquette consistency the same way you normally do.
2.       Do not make any assumptions.
3.       Ensure you are qualified for the position you are seeking to transfer to.
4.       Advise your supervisors of your intent to move between positions prior to submitting your application.
5.       Do not disparage any of your fellow applicants.
6.       If you do not receive the offer, be gracious and congratulate the person awarded the job.
7.       Should you receive the position, send thank-you emails to all the people who assisted you.
8.       Send an email to your new manager highlighting your new roles and responsibilities.
9.       Notify any recruiters or managers within or outside of the company that you have a new position, and supply appropriate thank-you messages.
Change your social-media information and email signature appropriately.

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For a great parody on email see this site:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTgYHHKs0Zwscoop_post=bcaa0440-2548-11e5-c1bd-90b11c3d2b20&__scoop_topic=2455618



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Special Bulletin - My just released book

"You're Hired. Super Charge our Email Skills in 60 Minutes! (And Get That Job...) 

is now on sales at Amazon.com 

Great Reasons for Purchasing Netiquette IQ
·         Get more email opens.  Improve 100% or more.
·         Receive more responses, interviews, appointments, prospects and sales.
·         Be better understood.
·         Eliminate indecision.
·         Avoid being spammed 100% or more.
·         Have recipient finish reading your email content. 
·         Save time by reducing questions.
·         Increase your level of clarity.
·         Improve you time management with your email.
·        Have quick access to a wealth of relevant email information.
Enjoy most of what you need for email in a single book.

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**Important note** - contact our company for very powerful solutions for IP
 management (IPv4 and IPv6, security, firewall and APT solutions:
www.tabularosa.net
==================================================

Another Special Announcement - Tune in to my radio interview,  on Rider University's station, www.1077thebronc.com I discuss my recent book, above on "Your Career Is Calling", hosted by Wanda Ellett.   

In addition to this blog, Netiquette IQ has a website with great assets which are being added to on a regular basis. I have authored the premiere book on Netiquette, “Netiquette IQ - A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email". My new book, “You’re Hired! Super Charge Your Email Skills in 60 Minutes. . . And Get That Job!” has just been published and will be followed by a trilogy of books on Netiquette for young people. You can view my profile, reviews of the book and content excerpts at:

 www.amazon.com/author/paulbabicki

In addition to this blog, I maintain a radio show on BlogtalkRadio  and an online newsletter via paper.li.I have established Netiquette discussion groups with Linkedin and  Yahoo I am also a member of the International Business Etiquette and Protocol Group and Minding Manners among others. I regularly consult for the Gerson Lehrman Group, a worldwide network of subject matter experts and I have been contributing to the blogs Everything Email and emailmonday . My work has appeared in numerous publications and I have presented to groups such as The Breakfast Club of NJ and  PSG of Mercer County, NJ.


I am the president of Tabula Rosa Systems, a “best of breed” reseller of products for communications, email, network management software, security products and professional services.  Also, I am the president of Netiquette IQ. We are currently developing an email IQ rating system, Netiquette IQ, which promotes the fundamentals outlined in my book.

Over the past twenty-five years, I have enjoyed a dynamic and successful career and have attained an extensive background in IT and electronic communications by selling and marketing within the information technology marketplace.Anyone who would like to review the book and have it posted on my blog or website, please contact me paul@netiquetteiq.com.
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Tabula Rosa Security Alert For 1/2/2015 - Adobe issues emergency patch for critical Flash Vulnerabilities

Adobe issues emergency patch for critical Flash vulnerabilities
by Rob Wright  from searchsecurity.techtarget.com
Published: 30 Dec 2015
Just weeks after its biggest security update of the year, Adobe issued emergency patches for a new round of Flash bugs, including one already being exploited by attackers.
Adobe this week released a series of emergency patches for Flash vulnerabilities, including a critical vulnerability that is already being exploited in the wild.
The emergency patches address a total of 19 Flash vulnerabilities, the most pressing of which involves an integer overflow vulnerability that Adobe said could allow attackers to execute code. Adobe acknowledged that the vulnerability, identified as CVE-2015-8651, has already been leveraged by attackers.
"Adobe is aware of a report that an exploit for CVE-2015-8651 is being used in limited, targeted attacks," the company wrote on its security blog. "Adobe recommends users update their product installations to the latest version using the instructions referenced in the security bulletin."
Initial news reports said CVE-2015-8651 was reported to Adobe by Kai Wang and Hunter Gao of the Chinese networking firm Huawei, which has come under fire in recent years for its close ties to the Chinese government. However, a subsequent update to the Flash security bulletin removed the acknowledgement for CVE-2015-8651 and any mention of Wang and Gao. No explanation was given by Adobe for the removal.
The emergency patches for Flash in this week's security bulletin also cover a type confusion vulnerability, four memory corruption vulnerabilities and 13 use-after-free vulnerabilities. Like the CVE-2015-8651 vulnerability, all 18 could allow code execution.
This week's patches cap off a difficult year in which security experts and technology professionals have renewed their calls for Adobe to kill Flash once and for all. In October, Adobe released an emergency patch for Flash vulnerabilities that were being exploited in a series of attacks on foreign ministries. And over the summer, officials from Facebook and Mozilla issued scathing rebukes of Adobe after another out-of-band security update was issued following the discovery of more Flash vulnerabilities in the Hacking Team data breach.
In addition, this week's emergency patches come just three weeks after Adobe issued its largest security update of the year, which addressed a total of 79 critical vulnerabilities. With Adobe's recent decisions to support HTML5 development and to rename Flash Professional CC as Animate CC, security experts have speculated that the end of Flash may be coming sooner rather than later.
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 Good Netiquette And A Green Internet To All!
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Great Reasons for Purchasing Netiquette IQ
·         Get more email opens.  Improve 100% or more.
·         Receive more responses, interviews, appointments, prospects and sales.
·         Be better understood.
·         Eliminate indecision.
·         Avoid being spammed 100% or more.
·         Have recipient finish reading your email content. 
·         Save time by reducing questions.
·         Increase your level of clarity.
·         Improve you time management with your email.
·        Have quick access to a wealth of relevant email information.
Enjoy most of what you need for email in a single book.

=====================================================
**Important note** - contact our sister company for very powerful solutions for network, security and systems management!

www.tabularosa.net

In addition to this blog, Netiquette IQ has a website with great assets which are being added to on a regular basis. I have authored the premiere book on Netiquette, “Netiquette IQ - A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email". My new book, “You’re Hired! Super Charge Your Email Skills in 60 Minutes. . . And Get That Job!” has also been published. You can view my profile, reviews of the book and content excerpts at:

 www.amazon.com/author/paulbabicki

 If you would like to listen to experts in all aspects of Netiquette and communication, try my radio show on BlogtalkRadio  Additionally, I provide content for an online newsletter via paper.li. I have also established Netiquette discussion groups with Linkedin and Yahoo.  I am also a member of the International Business Etiquette and Protocol Group and Minding Manners among others. Further, I regularly consult for the Gerson Lehrman Group, a worldwide network of subject matter experts and have been a contributor to numerous blogs and publications. 

Lastly, I am the founder and president of Tabula Rosa Systems, a company that provides “best of breed” products for network, security and system management and services. Tabula Rosa has a new blog and Twitter site which offers great IT product information for virtually anyone.
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Friday, January 1, 2016

Tabula Rosa Systems Blog Of 1/1/2016 - Gartner’sTop 10 Strategic Technologies For 2016


Gartner’s top 10 strategic technologies for 2016
Analyst firm shoots for machine learning, autonomous agents and the Internet of Things among the technologies that will most impact business strategies next year

Posted by Ben Rossi
 7 October 2015 informationage.com
Analyst firm Gartner has revealed the top ten technology trends that it predicts will be strategic for most organisations in 2016.
The company defines a strategic technology trend as one with the potential for significant impact on the organisation.
Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to the business, end users or IT, the need for a major investment, or the risk of being late to adopt. These technologies impact the organisation's long-term plans, programmes and initiatives.
"Gartner's top ten strategic technology trends will shape digital business opportunities through 2020," said David Cearley, VP and Gartner Fellow. "The first three trends address merging the physical and virtual worlds and the emergence of the digital mesh. While organisations focus on digital business today, algorithmic business is emerging.

 “Algorithms – relationships and interconnections – define the future of business. In algorithmic business, much happens in the background in which people are not directly involved. This is enabled by smart machines, which our next three trends address.
“Our final four trends address the new IT reality, the new architecture and platform trends needed to support digital and algorithmic business.”
1. The device mesh
The device mesh refers to an expanding set of endpoints people use to access applications and information or interact with people, social communities, governments and businesses.
This includes mobile devices, wearable, consumer and home electronic devices, automotive devices and environmental devices – such as sensors in the Internet of Things (IoT).
"In the post-mobile world, the focus shifts to the mobile user who is surrounded by a mesh of devices extending well beyond traditional mobile devices," said Cearley.
While devices are increasingly connected to back-end systems through various networks, they have often operated in isolation from one another.
As the device mesh evolves, Gartner expects connection models to expand and greater cooperative interaction between devices to emerge.
2. Ambient user experience
The device mesh creates the foundation for a new continuous and ambient user experience. Immersive environments delivering augmented and virtual reality hold significant potential but are only one aspect of the experience.
The ambient user experience preserves continuity across boundaries of device mesh, time and space. The experience seamlessly flows across a shifting set of devices and interaction channels blending physical, virtual and electronic environment as the user moves from one place to another.
"Designing mobile apps remains an important strategic focus for the enterprise," said Cearley. "However, the leading edge of that design is focused on providing an experience that flows across and exploits different devices, including IoT sensors, common objects such as automobiles, or even factories.
“Designing these advanced experiences will be a major differentiator for independent software vendors (ISVs) and enterprises alike by 2018."
3. 3D printing materials
Advances in 3D printing have already enabled 3D printing to use a wide range of materials, including advanced nickel alloys, carbon fiber, glass, conductive ink, electronics, pharmaceuticals and biological materials.
These innovations are driving user demand, as the practical applications for 3D printers expand to more sectors, including aerospace, medical, automotive, energy and the military.
The growing range of 3D-printable materials will drive a compound annual growth rate of 64.1% for enterprise 3D-printer shipments through 2019, according to Gartner.
These advances will necessitate a rethinking of assembly line and supply chain processes to exploit 3D printing.
"3D printing will see a steady expansion over the next 20 years of the materials that can be printed, improvement in the speed with which items can be printed and emergence of new models to print and assemble composite parts," said Cearley.
4. Information of everything
Everything in the digital mesh produces, uses and transmits information. This information goes beyond textual, audio and video information to include sensory and contextual information. Information of everything addresses this influx with strategies and technologies to link data from all these different data sources.
Information has always existed everywhere but has often been isolated, incomplete, unavailable or unintelligible. Advances in semantic tools such as graph databases as well as other emerging data classification and information analysis techniques will bring meaning to the often-chaotic deluge of information.
5. Advanced machine learning
In advanced machine learning, deep neural nets (DNNs) move beyond classic computing and information management to create systems that can autonomously learn to perceive the world, on their own.
The explosion of data sources and complexity of information makes manual classification and analysis infeasible and uneconomic. DNNs automate these tasks and make it possible to address key challenges related to the information of everything trend.
DNNs (an advanced form of machine learning particularly applicable to large, complex datasets) is what makes smart machines appear ‘intelligent’.
They enable hardware- or software-based machines to learn for themselves all the features in their environment, from the finest details to broad sweeping abstract classes of content.
This area is evolving quickly, and Gartner advises organisations to assess how they can apply these technologies to gain competitive advantage.
6. Autonomous agents and things
Machine learning gives rise to a spectrum of smart machine implementations – including robots, autonomous vehicles, virtual personal assistants (VPAs) and smart advisors – that act in an autonomous (or at least semiautonomous) manner.
While advances in physical smart machines, such as robots, get a great deal of attention, the software-based smart machines have a more near-term and broader impact.
VPAs such as Google Now, Microsoft's Cortana and Apple's Siri are becoming smarter and are precursors to autonomous agents.
The emerging notion of assistance feeds into the ambient user experience in which an autonomous agent becomes the main user interface.
Instead of interacting with menus, forms and buttons on a smartphone, the user speaks to an app, which is really an intelligent agent.
"Over the next five years we will evolve to a post-app world with intelligent agents delivering dynamic and contextual actions and interfaces," said Cearley. "IT leaders should explore how they can use autonomous things and agents to augment human activity and free people for work that only people can do.
“However, they must recognise that smart agents and things are a long-term phenomenon that will continually evolve and expand their uses for the next 20 years."
7. Adaptive security architecture
The complexities of digital business and the algorithmic economy combined with an emerging ‘hacker industry’ significantly increase the threat surface for an organisation.
Relying on perimeter defense and rule-based security is inadequate, especially as organisations exploit more cloud-based services and open APIs for customers and partners to integrate with their systems.
IT leaders must focus on detecting and responding to threats, as well as more traditional blocking and other measures to prevent attacks, says Gartner. Application self-protection, as well as user and entity behavior analytics, will help fulfill the adaptive security architecture.
8. Advanced system architecture
The digital mesh and smart machines require intense computing architecture demands to make them viable for organisations. Providing this required boost are high-powered and ultraefficient neuromorphic architectures.
Fueled by field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) as an underlining technology for neuromorphic architectures, there are significant gains to this architecture, such as being able to run at speeds of greater than a teraflop with high-energy efficiency.
"Systems built on GPUs and FPGAs will function more like human brains that are particularly suited to be applied to deep learning and other pattern-matching algorithms that smart machines use," said Cearley.
"FPGA-based architecture will allow further distribution of algorithms into smaller form factors, with considerably less electrical power in the device mesh, thus allowing advanced machine learning capabilities to be proliferated into the tiniest IoT endpoints, such as homes, cars, wristwatches and even human beings."
9. Mesh app and service architecture
Monolithic, linear application designs (e.g., the three-tier architecture) are giving way to a more loosely coupled integrative approach: the apps and services architecture.
Enabled by software-defined application services, this new approach enables web-scale performance, flexibility and agility.
Microservice architecture is an emerging pattern for building distributed applications that support agile delivery and scalable deployment, both on-premises and in the cloud.
Containers are emerging as a critical technology for enabling agile development and microservice architectures.
Bringing mobile and IoT elements into the app and service architecture creates a comprehensive model to address back-end cloud scalability and front-end device mesh experiences.
Application teams must create new modern architectures to deliver agile, flexible and dynamic cloud-based applications with agile, flexible and dynamic user experiences that span the digital mesh.
10. Internet of Things platforms
IoT platforms complement the mesh app and service architecture. The management, security, integration and other technologies and standards of the IoT platform are the base set of capabilities for building, managing and securing elements in the IoT.
IoT platforms constitute the work IT does behind the scenes from an architectural and a technology standpoint to make the IoT a reality. The IoT is an integral part of the digital mesh and ambient user experience and the emerging and dynamic world of IoT platforms is what makes them possible.
"Any enterprise embracing the IoT will need to develop an IoT platform strategy, but incomplete competing vendor approaches will make standardisation difficult through 2018," said Cearley.
========================================================= For a great parody on email see this site:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTgYHHKs0Zwscoop_post=bcaa0440-2548-11e5-c1bd-90b11c3d2b20&__scoop_topic=2455618



==============================================

Special Bulletin - My just released book

"You're Hired. Super Charge our Email Skills in 60 Minutes! (And Get That Job...) 

is now on sales at Amazon.com 

Great Reasons for Purchasing Netiquette IQ
·         Get more email opens.  Improve 100% or more.
·         Receive more responses, interviews, appointments, prospects and sales.
·         Be better understood.
·         Eliminate indecision.
·         Avoid being spammed 100% or more.
·         Have recipient finish reading your email content. 
·         Save time by reducing questions.
·         Increase your level of clarity.
·         Improve you time management with your email.
·        Have quick access to a wealth of relevant email information.
Enjoy most of what you need for email in a single book.

 =================================

**Important note** - contact our company for very powerful solutions for IP
 management (IPv4 and IPv6, security, firewall and APT solutions:
www.tabularosa.net
==================================================

Another Special Announcement - Tune in to my radio interview,  on Rider University's station, www.1077thebronc.com I discuss my recent book, above on "Your Career Is Calling", hosted by Wanda Ellett.   

In addition to this blog, Netiquette IQ has a website with great assets which are being added to on a regular basis. I have authored the premiere book on Netiquette, “Netiquette IQ - A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email". My new book, “You’re Hired! Super Charge Your Email Skills in 60 Minutes. . . And Get That Job!” has just been published and will be followed by a trilogy of books on Netiquette for young people. You can view my profile, reviews of the book and content excerpts at:

 www.amazon.com/author/paulbabicki

In addition to this blog, I maintain a radio show on BlogtalkRadio  and an online newsletter via paper.li.I have established Netiquette discussion groups with Linkedin and  Yahoo I am also a member of the International Business Etiquette and Protocol Group and Minding Manners among others. I regularly consult for the Gerson Lehrman Group, a worldwide network of subject matter experts and I have been contributing to the blogs Everything Email and emailmonday . My work has appeared in numerous publications and I have presented to groups such as The Breakfast Club of NJ and  PSG of Mercer County, NJ.


I am the president of Tabula Rosa Systems, a “best of breed” reseller of products for communications, email, network management software, security products and professional services.  Also, I am the president of Netiquette IQ. We are currently developing an email IQ rating system, Netiquette IQ, which promotes the fundamentals outlined in my book.

Over the past twenty-five years, I have enjoyed a dynamic and successful career and have attained an extensive background in IT and electronic communications by selling and marketing within the information technology marketplace.Anyone who would like to review the book and have it posted on my blog or website, please contact me paul@netiquetteiq.com.
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