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In This Issue: Conquering Your To-Do List | Cisco 1000BASE-T SFP Module | Best Practices for Data Center Security in 2022 | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – Conquering Your To-Do List
Good morning all!
Hope you are having a great week. I’ve been spending quite a bit of time in “catch-up” mode from doing quite a bit of traveling last week. It’s always so fun and fruitful to travel and further connect with people in person but is hard to put everything else on pause. Do you struggle with doing this?
Overtime, it seems like it’s become more of a struggle to be out and come back and not feel overwhelmed by your incredibly long to-do list. Specifically for me, working from home, I find myself working incredibly late hours trying to catch up and not giving myself a break to fuel up for the next day ahead. Have you found yourself in the same situation? What best practices do you put in place each day to conquer these feelings?
I hope you have a great week!
Ashley
Product Spotlights & Updates
Achieve Gigabit Ethernet connectivity over Cat5e copper wire using the Cisco GLC-T transceiver module. These hot-swappable 1000BASE-T SFP gigabit interface converters (GBIC) plug directly into a Gigabit Ethernet port or slot, linking the port with the network and delivering high-performance Ethernet networking.
Learning Center Article – Best Practices for Data Center Security in 2022
If you looked at data center security best practices only a few years ago, the leading trends and advice would be dramatically different from the leading areas of focus today. Everyone in IT knows that things change fast, but it feels like change has accelerated.
Here are four up-to-date best practices that can help you think about how things have changed and what you can do to keep up.
Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- So long Internet Explorer. The browser is officially retiring as Microsoft will no longer support it.
- Total mortgage application volume was 52.7% lower last week than the same week one year ago.
- The United Arab Emirates’ Media Regulatory Office announced it would ban Disney Pixar’s “Lightyear” based on what it said was a “violation of the country’s media content standards.” The ban comes despite an announcement last year that the country would no longer censor films.
- The European Space Agency’s Gaia observatory has just unleashed a “treasure trove” of data on nearly 2 billion stars in the Milky Way, revealing how fast they move toward or away from us, as well as unusual ‘starquakes’ that change the shapes of stars. Check it out here!