| | | INSIDER Alert | | Your guide to the top content posted this week for Insider members | | | | Network World MariaDB is a fork of the wildly popular open source database MySQL. Although MariaDB is very similar to MySQL, it is not necessarily the same. One of the primary goals behind the MariaDB project is to serve as a drop-in replacement for MySQL, but MariaDB also offers features beyond those available in MySQL.For example, MariaDB 5.5 is intended to be a replacement for MySQL 5.5. However, MariaDB 10 is a departure from the version 5.x tree and represents a new direction for MariaDB. If you are replacing MySQL, you're probably better off using a 5.x version. Otherwise, start fresh with version 10.x.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) | | Computerworld People who prize their privacy may be eyeing the iPhone 6, which both Apple and various law-enforcement officials say can defeat attempts by government agencies to get people’s text messages, emails, photos, contacts, and more. But if you’re thinking of buying an iPhone 6 because you want assurance that the government can’t spy on you, you should be aware that claims of nearly impregnable data have to be taken with a grain of salt.What is true is that the iPhone 6 has better privacy protection because encryption is turned on by default. Similar encryption is available on Android phones, but it’s not turned on by default. Google is expected to change that in an upcoming Android release.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE | | Computerworld When it comes to securing enterprise data, picture an IT leader with one foot on a dock and the other on a boat. Now watch the boat slowly drift away. Mobile, cloud and big data technologies are dragging businesses into uncharted waters, and data endpoints are moving further and further from the IT department’s control. Meanwhile infrastructure is barely able to handle existing threats — let alone new ones. IT departments are obviously stretched, often without the manpower or skills to handle growing security needs. A string of enterprise security breaches shows the obvious strain. In 2013, Verizon reported more than 63,000 security incidents and 1,367 confirmed data breaches worldwide in its annual security breach investigations report. In the first half of this year, some 395 data breaches were reported to regulators in the U.S., according to the Identity Theft Resource Center.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE | | Network World If you’re in IT -- and reading this article about women in IT – the odds are that you’re male. After all, just 24% of the U.S. IT workforce is female, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, quite a fall from its high point of 36% in 1991, according to the National Center for Women & Information Technology. This is at a time when women make up more than half (57%) of the professional U.S. workforce.But odds are that you’ll keep reading, as male IT executives increasingly seem to care about encouraging women to join the profession. In a recent study by Harvey Nash, nearly three-quarters (71%) of CIOs globally said they recognized the gender imbalance in their organizations.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story) READ MORE | | | |
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