Tabula Rosa Quote Of The Day - The Criteria Of A Good Letter!

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“Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.”

E. M. Forster

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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!” will be published soon follow 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

 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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Tabula Rosa Newsletter Of 2/26/15 - Best Of Breed Products!

Solutions for your toughest network challenges  For more than 14 years,  Tabula Rosa Systems (TRS), has offered our customers elite IT technology products, solutions and services. We provide a full cycle of network planning, design, selection, implementation and optimization. New world class products for network, security and systems management are added regularly to our repertoire. Each of our products is a leader in price/performance, customer satisfaction and long-term viability.  Our newsletter features product solutions based upon input from our customers.   To schedule a meeting/webex or to request a product evaluation call 609-818-1802.  See our blog or email sales@tabularosa.net. Check out our popular Netiquette IQ blog and Paul Babicki's book "Netiquette IQ- A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email".

Tripwire is the market leader for security configuration management, configuration compliance management, vulnerability management, and reliable log collection management.  Auditing the configurations of IT systems and monitoring changes in those configurations is critical to reducing security risk and achieving compliance.  Tripwire Security Products shore up defenses against threats, provides visibility and context into your infrastructure, helps you focus corrective efforts on the events that matter, and lets you get your security operational. With Tripwire, you prevent breaches from occurring—and protect the business when they do—to minimize their consequences. Tripwire's solutions help organizations of all sizes and types quickly address the first four, truly foundational, security controls. Conquering the first four then lays the foundation for addressing additional controls—which Tripwire can also help with. Using Tripwire, enterprises can achieve accelerated progress on: CSC 1 - Inventory of Authorized and Unauthorized Devices CSC 2 - Inventory of Authorized and Unauthorized Software CSC 3 - Secure Configurations for Hardware and Software on Mobile Devices, Laptops, Workstations, and Servers CSC 4 - Continuous Vulnerability Assessment and Remediation Regardless of the security control framework your organization may be considering or has begun to implement, the SANS 20 is a flexible starting point, applicable to nearly any organization regardless of size, industry, geography or government/commercial. See how Tripwire can help you make rapid progress in establishing a strategy, quickly implementing and then measuring and reporting against your organization's goals. For further information, visit our blog, contact us at 609-818-1802or email sales@tabularosa.net

Catchpoint Systems offers wide-ranging and easy-to-use web monitoring tools that allow businesses to discover and fix problems with their websites before they impact end users, thus preserving their brand in the eyes of consumers. Using Catchpoint’s customizable dashboards and innovative alerting system, DevOps professionals can rest easy knowing that their sites’ speed, availability, and reliability are maximized to the fullest extent due to the company’s wide-ranging offering of Synthetic and Real User Measurement monitoring tools. The key to Catchpoint’s value is the end-to-end visibility of the complete user experience that their clients are able to access. Thanks to 12 different monitor types, including web, DNS, API, transaction, network path, and a number of others, Catchpoint users can get real-time analytics across a broad variety of functionalities that make up their sites. In addition to the wide array of tools, Catchpoint clients have access to the most expansive coverage of nodes in the industry. With more than 380 node locations on every continent save for Antarctica – including backbone, last mile, wireless, and private nodes – businesses can test their sites and infrastructure from all over the world to get the clearest possible view of their users’ experiences, and fix problems before those experiences are hampered. For further information, visit our blog, contact us at 609-818-1802 or email sales@tabularosa.net

Tabula Rosa Systems Technical Term Of The Day Cloud Orchestrator

Via techterms.com Cloud Orchestrator

A cloud orchestrator, also called a cloud service orchestration platform, is software for managing interconnections and interactions among cloud-based and on-premises business units.  The goal of cloud orchestration is to automate the configuration, coordination and management of software and software interactions in a distributed computing environment so that intercomponent and interapplication links are correctly established and maintained. Orchestration tasks include directing the flow of processes among applications, dealing with exceptions to typical workflows and managing server runtimes. Orchestration, in an IT context, is the automation of tasks involved with managing and coordinating complex software and services. The endeavor is more complex in a cloud environment because it involves interconnecting processes running across heterogeneous systems in multiple locations.  =================================  **Important note** - contact our company, www.tabularosa.net, for very powerful solutions for IP management (IPv4 and IPv6), security, firewall and APT solutions: 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!” will be published soon follow 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  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. ==============================================

Make Your Own Internet of Things Devices - IoT Starter Kit

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We have all read many things about the Internet of Things. For most of us, it still remains something mysterious as a future part of our society. Guess what? You can now build your own devices. The future is now!See below for an example.
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Make your own Internet of Things devices - IoT Starter Kit released by ARM and IBM

IOT devices can be built in a matter of minutes with ARM and IBM's mbed starter kit 

By Agam Shah | 24 February 2015 | IDG News Service CIO Magazine

ARM and IBM want hobbyists and small businesses alike to create their own Internet of Things applications and devices in a matter of minutes with a new development kit.

The ARM mbed IoT Starter Kit - Ethernet Edition will allow users to make cloud-ready Internet of Things products that could receive or transmit data for analysis or alerts. The development kit will come with ARM's mbed OS and connect into IBM's BlueMix cloud, which will help in the development of applications and services.

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The starter kit will get data from "the on board sensors into the IBM cloud within minutes of opening the box," ARM said.

ARM and IBM hope to cash in on the mass adoption of IoT, which has led to a mesh of interconnected devices used in smart homes, smart city implementations and enterprises. The devices, which could range from weather sensors to health devices, already number 1.2 billion, and could touch 5.4 billion by 2020, according to a recent study by Verizon.

Related:

• Internet of Things and smart cities - The 2014 CIO review
• Internet of Things and robotics innovation lead coming from UK CIOs
• Internet of Things and embedded devices lift Intel earnings

The IoT market is currently fragmented with a wide variety of hardware, operating systems and communication standards in use. Through the developer kit, ARM and IBM want to bring a level of consistency in hardware and software across IOT devices. Beyond making it easier for devices to talk one another, the developer kit could make it easier to push or pull data out of a larger number of cloud services.

The development kit includes a board with a Freescale K64F Kinetis microcontroller, which has an ARM Cortex-M4 processing core running at 120MHz. An Ethernet connection links the board to IBM's BlueMix cloud service, which then acts as a guide on how to use the board. Other components on the board include a 128 x 32 graphics LCD, 256KB RAM, 1MB of flash storage, a speaker, a five-way joystick, temperature sensor, accelerometer, potentiometers and a PWM (pulse-width modulation) control line to receive digital signals.

The starter kit has Ethernet for connectivity, but there's a possibility it may also include cellular or Wi-Fi in the future, ARM said.

ARM didn't provide details on the pricing or availability of the starter kit. The first devices resulting from the development kit are expected to be released later this year. 

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

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!” will be published soon follow 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

 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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Tabula Rosa Systems Security Alert Via US-CERT - Vulnerability Summary For The Week OF 2/23/15

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National Cyber Awareness System:

SB15-061: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of February 23, 2015

03/02/2015 06:02 AM EST

Original release date: March 02, 2015

The US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletin provides a summary of new vulnerabilities that have been recorded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Vulnerability Database (NVD) in the past week. The NVD is sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) / United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). For modified or updated entries, please visit the NVD, which contains historical vulnerability information.
The vulnerabilities are based on the CVE vulnerability naming standard and are organized according to severity, determined by the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) standard. The division of high, medium, and low severities correspond to the following scores:

·         High - Vulnerabilities will be labeled High severity if they have a CVSS base score of 7.0 - 10.0

·         Medium - Vulnerabilities will be labeled Medium severity if they have a CVSS base score of 4.0 - 6.9

·         Low - Vulnerabilities will be labeled Low severity if they have a CVSS base score of 0.0 - 3.9

Entries may include additional information provided by organizations and efforts sponsored by US-CERT. This information may include identifying information, values, definitions, and related links. Patch information is provided when available. Please note that some of the information in the bulletins is compiled from external, open source reports and is not a direct result of US-CERT analysis.


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

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!” will be published soon follow 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

 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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Tabula Rosa Quotation Of The Day - The Effect Of Fonts On Email And Tone

“To make a simple change of a typeface can instantly transform text which had the appearance and tone of a joyous announcement to suddenly convey that of a somber tragedy.”
― Paul Babicki, Netiquette IQ: A Comprehensive Guide to Improve, Enhance and Add Power to Your Email

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

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!” will be published soon follow 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

 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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Tabula Rosa Systems Blog Of The Day - Best SaaS Best Practices For Performance Management - Via ThousandEyes

SaaS Performance Management: Best Practices

One of the great advantages of SaaS applications is the ability to login and begin work without the archaic implementation cycles of legacy enterprise software. Performance management of SaaS applications should not be an afterthought. Enterprises should evaluate application performance as part of the vendor evaluation and selection process. This is especially critical when users will be in a variety of branch offices throughout the enterprise. A SaaS application may have great bells and whistles features, but if key users outside of the corporate HQ experience poor performance, those features are of little consequence. Setting up periodic tests repeating a certain behavior or flow from multiple branch offices is a good way to track application behavior across time and space. Ensuring good performance of SaaS services is largely dependent on tight collaboration between the Network Operations team, Application Owners and SaaS vendor. At a high level, the two aspects to pay attention to are provisioning and monitoring.

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

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!” will be published soon follow 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

 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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