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A server room can be explained as a room used to store, power, and operate computer servers along with their respective components. It provides functional & environmental services to monitor enterprise class servers. They can be centrally accessed and managed via a server administration system, which is commonly located outside the room. These rooms are primarily used to execute enterprise applications which require large computer resources at run-time. These include applications like banking software, social media applications, or search engines. It is important to keep a host of factors in mind, before setting up a server room for one’s business, which are listed below. Choosing the right location   There is a multitude of factors to consider before finalising the location of a server room. Firstly, one must check whether the building structure would be able to hold the server’s hardware requirements. Another point to examine is whether there is enough ventilation. Larger ...

Hearing Friday in Jewel NSA Spying Lawsuit: EFF Asks Court to Let Case Proceed to Determine Constitutionality of Mass Surveillance DOJ’s Attempt to Drag Out State Secret Defense Again Should Be Rejected Oakland, California—On Friday, March 29, at 9:00 am, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will tell a federal court that its clients should be allowed to proceed with their case challenging the constitutionality of NSA spying. The government’s latest attempts to prevent the court from evaluating the legality of surveilling millions of innocent Americans should be rejected, EFF will argue. Friday’s hearing is an important milestone in EFF’s long-running lawsuit alleging that the government’s mass interception and collection of people’s communications violates the U.S. Constitution. After years of government efforts to delay and block our ability to bring the NSA to account for spying on Americans emails, phone call information, and other communications, the government is ...

Texas: Don’t Let the Legislature Gut Your State’s Free Speech Laws A bill is moving forward in the Texas Legislature that would make it easier to bring baseless lawsuits against Internet users in the state who review businesses, speak anonymously, or otherwise exercise their First Amendment rights. If you’re a Texan, we need you to contact your lawmakers and speak up for free speech. The bill, HB 2730 , would gut key protections of the Texas Citizens Participation Act, or TCPA. The TCPA was passed in 2011 to help fight back against lawsuits meant to silence free speech, which are sometimes called SLAPPs—which stands for Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. The Texas anti-SLAPP law’s robust speech protections have made it a national model.  Properly crafted anti-SLAPP laws provide critical protections for speech. While the state laws are different, they generally allow individuals targeted by the suits to get them thrown out early and allow targets of the lawsuits t...

Mobile World Congress is now one of the world’s largest tradeshows with 2,400 exhibitors and 110,000+ attendees. Without question, 5G was the dominant theme this year. Massive 5G signage draped practically every booth and 5G was either the main subject or mentioned in every speech, interview, and side conservation at the event. When will the theory of 5G move into reality? Although the messaging may lead you to believe 5G is already here, it’s not. We at Schneider already know this as we are in a unique position. As a physical infrastructure provider, we are working with many equipment manufacturers and service providers to design and build the 4.5 and ultimately the 5G network. Tremendous progress has been made in the last year with initial standards being finalized and operators across the globe testing, and even rolling out, limited early stage production systems in select markets. So, when can we expect to see “production 5G”? Of the four big U.S. carriers, Sprint projected th...

Over the last several years, the mantra of “digitization is coming” has rung like a steady bell in the ears of both industrial manufacturers and the OEMs who support them.  Although the theory surrounding how digitization can help OEMs to accelerate time-to-market, to optimize workforce knowledge, to increase productivity, and to lower downtime, has been a consistent topic of discussion, it has taken some time for practical solutions to appear that make a difference in how machine OEMs run their businesses. The market has finally matured enough that disparate technologies can now come together, and the core elements of truly IIoT -ready devices, edge control, and software and analytics can now talk to each other, enabling OEMs to begin offering a new generation of digital services to their manufacturing customers. Three areas where digitization is generating benefits for OEMs Most OEMs find themselves in an environment where processes, and the tools that support those processes ...

Who should be able to access a company’s data? Under what circumstances do organisations deny access to a user with access privileges? To adequately protect data, an organisation’s access control policy must solve the issues presented by these questions. It is critical to understand the basics of access control – what it is, why it’s needed, which organisations require it the most, and the challenges it poses. Access control is the process of identifying and then subsequently granting access to individuals trying to access an organisation’s data. At an advanced level, access control is a selective restriction to information. There are two main components – authentication and authorisation. Authentication is a technique used to confirm an individuals identity; however, one could argue that this isn’t sufficient by itself to protect data. What is needed is another layer of authorisation that controls whether a user should be allowed to access the information or continue with the trans...