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In This Issue: CK Giving Day 12 | Dell Lithium-Ion Battery | Cat7 Ethernet: Beginning & End | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – CK Giving Day 12, The Cure CJD Campaign
We’ve invited each member of our team to advance our giving efforts and provide us with an organization they are passionate about to donate $500 to. Enjoy Avian’s story below on the organization they selected.
I have chosen to give my CK donation to “The Cure CJD Campaign”. This campaign supports the work of doctors at the MRC Prion Unit at UCL to develop a treatment/cure for CJD. It is close to my heart because my father has recently been diagnosed with CJD. It gives me a glimpse of hope.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare and fatal condition that rapidly destroys the brain and there is no known cure at the moment.
Thank you for this opportunity, CK family!
If you’re interested in donating to the Cure CJD Campaign you can do so here!
Product Spotlights & Updates
Servers are the workhorse of your network. They store your data, act as a web server, house your entire email library, run your applications, and occasionally act as your print server. Sometimes, servers need to have a little backup. This is where a controller battery comes into play. The Dell Lithium-Ion Battery is a brand-new backup battery for specific Dell servers.
Learning Center Article – Cat7 Ethernet: Beginning & End
Ethernet has been a staple in networking for decades. When copper cables can provide enough throughput, they tend to be much cheaper and easier to use than other connection types. Ethernet is the king of simplicity, and that’s a major part of why it is so popular.
Over the many years of Ethernet’s use, it has seen incremental improvements and upgrades. As internet access expanded in the 90s and 2000s, many home networks started off with Cat5 cabling. For faster networks, Cat6 was frequently chosen. Today, you will see that even in data centers Cat8 is a good choice. But, you won’t often see Cat7 cables anywhere. Why is that?
Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- Amazon Web Services has launched general availability for Amazon Omics, which helps researchers store and analyze omic data like sequences of DNA, RNA and proteins. More than a dozen customers and partners tested a beta version of the service and are already using Amazon Omics.
- WhatsApp will soon stop working on several iPhone and Samsung devices. Check out which ones here.
- There was no winner on Tuesday to Friday’s jackpot will reach an estimated $640 million with a cash option of $328.3 million. It is the sixth largest Mega Millions jackpot ever and the 13th largest in U.S. lottery history.
- Pope Francis has said that his predecessor Pope Benedict, the 95-year-old former pontiff who resigned from the post nine years ago, is “very sick” after a deterioration in his health on Wednesday. “I want to ask you all for a special prayer for Pope Emeritus Benedict who sustains the Church in his silence. He is very sick,” Francis said during his general audience at the Vatican on Wednesday.