Technology

One of the keys to prosperity in business is efficiency. If you aren&t operating at your best, your chances of success are severely diminished. And this even extends to the IT department, which is why so many companies around the world use VMWarevSphere virtualization platform.

vSphere optimizes your existing computer infrastructure. Ita gross oversimplification, but it essentially allows you to run a large number of virtual machines using just one physical system. The end result is that you&ll end up paying less for equipment, use what you already have more efficiently, and significantly reduce or even eliminate downtime.

But, even simplified, that sounds pretty complicated. Need a crash course in how it works but would rather avoid expensive and time consuming classroom sessions? Then we recommend giving The VMWare vSpere 6.7 Fundamentals Prep Course, now only $29.99, a try on for size.

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Northwell Health is connecting tens of thousands of hospital workers with Microsoft Teams, improving collaboration between clinical staff and reducing the time needed to access patient information.

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If you or your employees are working from home while our governments lurch awkwardly through the current crisis, then there are several security considerations that must be explored.

Your enterprise outside the wall

Enterprises must consider the consequences of working from home in terms of systems access, access to internal IT infrastructure, bandwidth costs and data repatriation.

What this means, basically, is that when your worker accesses your data and/or databases remotely, then the risk to that data grows.

While at normal times the risk is only between the server, internal network and end user machine, external working adds public internet, local networks and consumer-grade security systems to the risk mix.

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Pilot fish is looking at whattaking up disk space on one of her servers. Not surprisingly, some of the biggest files are archives of Microsoft Outlook messages from one user.

But the files have names likeDo Not Use__archive1.pst(size: 3,263,697 KB) andArchive4(dont open-is broken down).pst(size: 7,070,993 KB).

&Broken? I wonder if itbecause the file size is 3.5 times larger than the maximum that Outlook supports,& grumbles fish.

&Most people, when they have a corrupted file, they just delete it. This user is keeping the PSTs in hopes that someday the technology will become available to allow him to open his broken archives and recover his emails from them.

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Amazon has canceled re:MARS 2020, an annual AI event that focuses on machine learning, automation, robotics and space, over concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic. The event was scheduled to be held June 16 to 19, 2020 in Las Vegas.

Organizers of the event said in a statement on its website that the event will be cancelled and guests who purchased tickets will receive a full refund. Herethe statement:

Thank you for your interest in re:MARS 2020. Our top priority is the well-being of our employees, customers, partners, and event attendees. We have been closely monitoring the situation with COVID-19, and after much consideration, we have made the decision to cancel re:MARS 2020. All guests who have purchased tickets will receive a full refund of registration fees. Hotel rooms booked through our conference website will be canceled free of charge. Over the course of the coming weeks, we will explore other ways to engage the community.

Amazon launched re:MARS in 2019 and last year featured founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, Landing AI founder and CEO Andrew Ng, actor and producer Robert Downey, Jr., MIT Media Lab researcher Dr. Kate Darling and Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert, and Zoox CEO Aicha Evans, among others.

COVID-19, a disease caused by a new virus that is a member of the coronavirus family and a close cousin to the SARS and MERS viruses. COVID-19 has caused governments and companies to cancel tech, business and automotive events around the world, including the NCAA March Madness basketball tournaments, professional sports games in the NBA and NHL, the Geneva International Motor Show, MWC in Barcelona and the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. Disneyland and California Adventure will close through the end of the month. On Friday, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency, a designation that allows the government to free up more federal resources that states can access as they respond to outbreak.

Amazon issued guidance Thursday in response to the COVID-19 outbreak recommending that global employees who are able to work from home to do so through the end of March.

&We continue to work closely with public and private medical experts to ensure we are taking the right precautions as the situation continues to evolve,& an Amazon spokesperson said in an email statement. &As a result, we are now recommending that all of our employees globally who are able to work from home do so through the end of March.&

Earlier this week, Amazon said it would provide two weeks of extra paid time off for full and part-time employees who are diagnosed with COVID-19 or placed into quarantine. The company said it will continue to pay all hourly employees, including food service, janitorial and security staff, who support its offices around the world.