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Convenient – Red Hat exams. On your time. Red Hat’s certification program is consistent, reliable, and trusted. Exams are hands-on, making them better indicators of your proficiency. Each exam tests your ability to perform actual IT tasks just as you will on the job. With expanded testing locations around the world, Red Hat Individual Exams can help you prove your skills and prepare for a global marketplace. You can take Red Hat certification exams as an individual exam on a secure, personal testing station at Red Hat partner location – at Softergee HQ. Red Hat Individual Exams allow you to schedule an exam at a time and location that is convenient for you. Prepare at your own pace and take your exam on a testing station near you. Logistics: How will I take my exam? You will take the individual exams on an individual testing station developed by Red Hat. It is a secure, preconfigured kiosk or laptop. The testing station makes sure that you have the complete functionality required for the exam, and that you can take the exam in a secure manner remotely monitored by a Red Hat test proctor. Red Hat Individual Exams can offer you extra time to study, and they are a flexible, convenient way to accommodate busy schedules. More / registration: here Looking forward to discussing ways of achieving your open source knowledge goals with you. Contacts: email training@softergee.si or phone +386 (0)59 048 857.

Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities Notice from SUSE: 09 Jan 2018 Regarding Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities SUSE notice; As you may already be aware, the security community and a number of IT vendors announced the existence of several hardware security vulnerabilities that allow potential exploits across a range of hardware architectures and operating systems including but not limited to Linux. SUSE engineers have been collaborating with our industry partners and the Linux community on upstream Linux kernel patches. As a result of that collaboration, we are now able to release patches for most recent SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) versions. Additional patches for other SLE versions and environments will follow shortly. Please direct to the following resources: Up to date information on all the patches available will be continually posted here on this Technical Information Document page. Additional details on specific vulnerabilities will be posted here in CVE reports: https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5753/ https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5715/ https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-5754/ Due to the nature of this issue, applying the maintenance updates will require a reboot of the operating system. As research on these issues continues across the industry, additional optimizations and information may emerge and we will provide continually updated details on the pages referenced above. For further details, please contact the SUSE Partner Team or Softergee as a SUSE partner representative.

Staying competitive in today’s market means embracing the reality of having to do more with less. By Pierre Fricke I June 27, 2016 The world is experiencing the greatest information explosion in history: 90% of the world’s data was created in the last five years, and most of it is unstructured. The volume, velocity, and variety of data are unprecedented. Gartner says by 2020, 25 billion connected things will be generating data 24x7x365. This incredible expansion in the volume, velocity, and variety of data is the engine driving the torrid pace of innovation that we experience today. Companies everywhere strive to understand more about their customers through data, and are then trying to use that data to better service their needs. This data, when coupled with analytic and new applications that can be developed quickly and then easily updated, drives competitive advantage. Enterprises that harness the power of this data with new applications better and faster than their competitors will lead their industries. However, an inordinate percentage of IT budgets is spent on maintenance to “keep the IT lights on” rather than on innovation. Companies spend as much as 80 – 90 percent of their IT budgets on maintenance, according to Columbia Business School Professor Rita Gunter McGrath. A Forrester Research survey of IT leaders at more than 3,700 companies found that respondents estimate they spend an average of 72% of their IT budget on maintenance, with a mere 28% dedicated to new projects. With an OSS relational DBMS and application platform that can be deployed in a wide range of environments from virtualized and container-based to hybrid clouds, you are in a position to fund more digital business innovation initiatives and get them done quickly. You can work aggressively with the Line of Business and the Chief Marketing Officer to prioritize projects and become more relevant to the business. EnterpriseDB Postgres EnterpriseDB provides everything you need to adopt Postgres in the enterprise to transform core IT at scale at the lowest risk. The EDB Postgres Platform is the first integrated open source-based operational data management platform that brings together all of the components required for managing structured and unstructured data in a federated model. The platform enables integration across different databases, but it also supports combining unstructured data from NoSQL solutions with corporate, transactional data in structured, relational systems. Migration and Management tool suites as well as 24×7 support, services, and training round out the additional capabilities that help DBAs and developers to be more productive. The EDB Postgres platform is available as a subscription, inclusive of all data management solution components, Postgres support, software upgrades, and access to EDB’s partner ecosystem. EDB Postgres software can be deployed on bare metal: virtually, including container environments or in a public, private and/or hybrid cloud environments. Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Red Hat® JBoss® Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) is the market-leading choice to deliver enterprise-grade security, performance, and scalability in any environment–on-premise, virtual, private, public, or hybrid cloud.  A fully certified Java EE platform, JBoss EAP gives you a single platform to quickly develop and deploy applications serving a wide range of requirements spanning traditional to new web-scale, microservice applications. And by using JBoss EAP with common DevOps tools, you maximize development and operations teams’ productivity, decrease quality issues, and get new apps out to market fast. JBoss EAP gives you the competitive edge you need in today’s rapidly changing business environment. EDB Postgres and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform together provide deployment flexibility to deliver a total application and data platform that transforms IT and drives digital business. See full article: http://www.enterprisedb.com/postgres-plus-edb-blog/pierre-fricke/competitive-advantage-engage-customers-edb-postgres-red-hat-bos About the author: Pierre Fricke is Vice President, Product Marketing of EnterpriseDB