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SnaPatch Patch Management Software Configuration how to

This video shows how to configure SnaPatch by SmiKar Software for use in your environment. SnaPatch interacts with SCCM, VMWare and HyperV. It will automate Snapshots of your virtual servers prior to deploying updates from SCCM, and only if the snapshot were successful. Help alleviate the patching risk, with SnaPatch.

How’s your SSL security doing?

It was in your TodoList: install the SSL certificate. So you’ve setup your SSL certificate on the web server. It’s quite trendy to use SSL. Google will give you a modest ranking bump, some users will feel safer, all is good. You have even tested your configuration with Qualys, got you an A+. Good job: most got a C, even banks. Now what? What will happen when your cert is about to expire? Your CA will send an email to renew your cert. But maybe someone in the accounting dept will get that email.

Fox Technologies Acquires IT Monitoring Pioneer GroundWork, Inc.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Wednesday, February 17, 2016 — Fox Technologies, Inc., a portfolio company of Parallax Capital Partners, today announced its acquisition of GroundWork Open Source Inc. Based in San Francisco, GroundWork provides unified monitoring solutions for IT operations management, performance analysis, and hybrid cloud monitoring.