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Wake up! It's HighScalability time:
Event horizon? Nope. It's a close up of a security hologram. Makes one think.
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Number Stuff:
- $1 trillion: Microsoft is the most valuable company in the world (for now)
- 20%: global enterprises will have deployed serverless computing technologies by 2020
- 390 million: paid Apple subscriptions, revenue from the services business climbed from $9.9 billion to $11.5 billion, services now account for “one-third” of the company’s gross profits
- 1011: CubeStat missions
- $326 billion: USA farm expenses in 2017
- 61%: increase in average cyber attack losses from $229,000 last year to $369,000 this, a figure exceeding $700,000 for large firms versus just $162,000 in 2018.
- $550: can yield 20x profit on the sale of compromised login credentials
Quotable Stuff:
- Robert Lightfoot~ Protecting against risk and being safe are not the same thing. Risk is just simply a calculation of likelihood and consequence. Would we have ever launched Apollo in the environment we’re in today? Would Buzz and Neil have been able to go to the moon in the risk posture we live in today? Would we have launched the first shuttle with a crew? We must move from risk management to risk leadership. From a risk management perspective, the safest place to be is on the ground. From a risk leadership perspective, I believe that’s the worst place this nation can be.
- Paul Kunert: In dollar terms, Jeff Bezos's cloud services wing grew 41 per cent year on year to $7.6bn, figures from Canalys show. Microsoft was up 75 per cent to $3.4bn and Google grew a whopping 83 per cent to $2.3bn.
- @codinghorror: 1999 "MIT - We estimate that the puzzle will require 35 years of continuous computation to solve" 2019 "🌎- LOL" https://www.csail.mit.edu/news/programmers-solve-mits-20-year-old-cryptographic-puzzle …
- A few more quotes...if you dare.
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