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Microsoft launches on-demand Azure backup and recovery

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Microsoft has announced new preview features for Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery to provide more flexible backup and recovery options for enterprise private and public clouds.

The new features come as part of Microsoft's Availability on Demand service for enterprises with a hybrid cloud strategy, and are aimed at helping those customers move and manage data and applications across on-premise and cloud environments.

The features are targeted at Microsoft's IT pro customers, and follow the company's mobile developer focused announcement this week of Azure App Service.

The Azure Backup feature update will let enterprise run online backups of Windows and Linux VMs deployed in an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) setup and restore them as needed.

It's designed to support enterprises with on-premise deployments to move capabilities to Azure, such as disaster recovery, analytics, backup, cloud bursting, migration, and development and testing.

To cater for for scenarios where an enterprise network is congested, customers can ship initial backups to the nearest Azure datacentre using the Azure Import/Export service.

The new Azure Site Recovery features, also currently in preview, lend Azure to use as a substitute disaster recovery site, which customers can use to protect VMware virtual machines and physical servers.

Microsoft says the service will offer "near-zero recovery point objective", meaning that data is mirrored to the offsite location constantly. Customers can also choose to configure Site Recovery so as to minimise lost data and switch back to the on-premise VMs when their datacentre recovers. Customers can also use the feature to test new versions of their application and treat is part of their cloud migration strategy.

Microsoft's Azure API Management Premium also hit general availability, allowing customers to host an API Management instance in multiple Azure datacentres and have them automatically synchronised in different regions.

Finally, the company delivered a few updates to Azure Active Director including automatic password rollover to help protect company owned social media accounts, as well as multifactor authentication that can be set up for more sensitive applications.

The Highest-Paid Big Data Skills

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Yes, “Big Data” has become one of those buzzwords, along with “cloud,” that’s way overused these days. But it’s clear that employers want tech pros who can analyze massive datasets and deliver actionable intelligence: According to the most recent Dice Report, firms in several states consider data-analytics skills a critical resource, one that they’re more than happy to shell out big bucks to obtain.

Dice found that a full 24 percent of survey respondents in Seattle had Big Data skills—an unsurprising twist, considering the number of data-hungry firms (such as Amazon and Microsoft) that call the surrounding region home. Close behind it was Portland, with 22 percent, followed by Silicon Valley with 20 percent, Baltimore/Washington, D.C. (and its heavy contingent of federal agencies) with 19 percent, and Atlanta with 17 percent.

Check out the latest analytics jobs.

Whether startups and tech giants on the West Coast or federal contractors in Washington, D.C., there’s clearly a demand for analytics abilities. But which of those abilities pay the best? Here’s Dice’s list of the top seven, by average annual salary:

Cassandra: $128,646
MapReduce: $127,315
Cloudera: $126,816
HBase: $126,369
Pig: $124,563
Flume: $123,186
Hadoop: $121,313

That doesn’t include perks or other incentives, of course. “Big Data” might be a buzzword… but it’s one that can prove lucrative for those with the aptitude for crunching it.

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10 Free Online Courses That Can Benefit Every Entrepreneur

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Every entrepreneur can benefit from continued education. Whether you are just starting out and handling multiple roles within your company or an experienced business owner -- enrolling in an online course is always a good way to improve your knowledge and has never been easier or more affordable.
Long gone are the days of taking evening classes at local colleges and paying tuition. You can now take excellent courses in the comfort of your own home for free.
Here are ten free online courses that every entrepreneur can benefit from.

1. 21 Critical Lessons for Entrepreneurs

This two-hour video course by Docstoc CEO Jason Nazar takes his real-world experience and breaks it into several video lessons that discuss all the important steps of running a successful business, from vetting an idea and raising money from investors to scaling and growth strategies.
There are a lot of coaching and training programs online that are put together by individuals that don’t have real business experience. They make their money by teaching and not by doing. Nazar’s insight is truly valuable because he has been there. He has used the information he is sharing to grow Docstoc into a successful business.

2. New Venture Finance: Startup Funding for Entrepreneurs

Some entrepreneurs prefer not to seek outside funding, opting to bootstrap -- but the majority of startups would welcome funding with open arms if they knew how to secure it. This is what this online course from the University of Maryland covers, as professor Michael R. Pratt explains what you need to do in the early stages of your business to prepare for funding, where to source funding, how to pitch investors and venture capitalists, as well as how to close funding.
There is a lot more to the process than putting together a business plan and a pitch deck and firing it off to any investors or VC that you can find. Part of being successful is being prepared -- and this course helps entrepreneurs be prepared before going after funding.

3. Introduction to Web Development: HTML

Every business has an online presence these days, meaning every business has a website. Some tech startup founders are very computer savvy and can write code in their sleep. Other business owners, such as a restaurateurs or retailers, might not have the same knowledge and experience. So what do entrepreneurs do that don’t have a coding or programming expert on their team? They pay ridiculously high rates to companies to make simple website changes.
A lot of the small changes and tasks can be completed in-house with just a little HTML knowledge -- exactly what this course delivers. You aren’t going to become a world-class developer after taking this, but you will have a thorough understanding of how to create HTML web pages and make changes and edits to existing pages.

4. Scaling Operations: Linking Strategy and Execution

This course from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University is a five-week lesson that shows you how to correctly build an operation that is both stable and scalable. There isn’t a single entrepreneur that starts a business hoping to stay small.
The two professors, Gad Allon and Jan Van Mieghem, cover everything from the correct framework, marketing, outsourcing and strategy required to scale efficiently and successfully.

5. How to Make Money Online: The Passive Income Business Plan

My company brokers the sale of online businesses, so I understand firsthand how lucrative online-based businesses can be. This course lays out a simple, yet effective, way to make money online. The goal of the 12-hour video course is to explain how to execute a plan to make $5,000 in monthly passive income by creating 10 websites that each produce $500 in monthly revenue.
While this is a basic introduction to online business, it does provide helpful information for entrepreneurs that have contemplated starting an online business but weren’t sure how to start. It’s a good first step for those interested in making money online -- as are these online business models.

6. Successful Negotiation: Essential Strategies and Skills

Being able to negotiate is a skill that every entrepreneur should master. Business contracts, vendor contracts, lease agreements and employee contracts all require negotiation. George Siedel and the University of Michigan have put together a video course that consists of more than eight hours of practical education that breaks down the negotiation process into four parts.
This is also a great course to have your sales team complete -- there isn’t a single sales professional that cannot benefit from additional negotiation education. The fundamentals taught in this course can be applied to virtually any sales scenario.

7. Foundations of Business Strategy

Think you would gain a competitive advantage if you understood how to position your company to maximize your value creation? Professor Michael Lenox, from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, has created a seven-hour video course designed to help entrepreneurs understand competitive markets, analyze structure and capabilities, as well as how to determine competitive positioning.

8. Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management

Look back at the last project you completed -- did it go as smoothly as you would have liked? You could have the best plan but if it isn’t executed properly you could potentially miss a deadline or fail entirely. Not only does this course put together by the University of Virginia explain how to properly plan a project, but it also explains what to do when things don’t go as planned.
Understanding how to react when things go wrong is equally as important as understanding how to execute a project that is going to plan. Have your project manager or department heads take this course with you and really increase your company’s effectiveness.

9. Entrepreneurship -- From Idea to Launch

If you are just starting a business or are thinking about becoming an entrepreneur, this course is for you. With nearly 40,000 individuals already completing this course, Dr. Jeff Cornwall explains practical steps to take an idea and turn it into a successful business.
Currently a professor of entrepreneurship at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., Cornwall walks the talk. He took a nine-year break from the education world to co-found Atlantic Behavioral Health Systems. This course is a great introduction to the world of entrepreneurship that is taught by someone who has actually launched a company.

10. Marketing in a Digital World

Every single business needs to have a digital footprint these days -- there are no exceptions. While you can always just hire a digital marketing firm to handle everything it is a good idea to have a full understanding of what a digital marketing campaign consists of.
Along with discussing digital promotion, this course also dives into the creation of digital products. Many businesses -- the publishing industry for example -- are converting to digital products. This is a four-week course by Aric Rindfleisch of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that is a must for new entrepreneurs as well as seasoned business owners that haven’t quite grasped digital promotion.

Buying a business can be a shortcut to success online. Why start something from scratch when someone else has done all of the hard work for you?
This short guide by my company walks through the whole process of buying an online business from initial identification all the way through to successfully closing a sale. You can get free access to it here.
Have you taken any free online courses that you found to be highly valuable and might be of interest to other entrepreneurs? Share your favorites in the comments section below.

Snapdeal to hire 1,000 in next two quarters for regional push

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MUMBAI: E-commerce firm Snapdeal plans to hire 1,000 employees - who know particular geographies well - for their regional centres in the next two quarters, in an attempt to help the company stay closer to local sellers.

Each centre will have an M&A and an accounting team and around 500 employees will be hired in both groups. "We will follow the hub-andspoke model and these employees will go and get the merchants from local markets," says Saurabh Nigam, VP - HR.

Hiring will be centrespecific, so Chennai and Hyderabad in the South; Jaipur, Jalandar in the North; Surat, Ahmedabad and Pune in the West and Kolkata in the East are some of the regions identified. Snapdeal has created recruitment teams for each centre and even roped in hiring agencies for the local hiring.

Those with experience in sales will be on the company radar in these regions. As of now, 300 such employees are on board and the rest will be completed in next two quarters, adds Nigam. The company has a workforce of around 5,000 employees and is one of the largest recruiters in engineering and management campuses from the e-commerce industry.

Co-founded by Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal, the e-commerce firm, along with Flipkart and Amazon, form the holy trinity in India's $12-billion online shopping market.

Besides Softbank injecting $627 million last October, Snapdeal's investors include eBay, BlackRock, Ratan Tata, PremjiInvest, the personal investment arm of Wipro Technologies chairman Azim Premji, hedge funds Myriad Asset Management and Tybourne Capital.

Microsoft to open datacentre in Pune

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PUNE: Microsoft today announced that it would be opening a datacentre in Pune by the end of the year, one of the three that it would be opening in India. Last year the company had announced that it would offer Microsoft Azure and Office 365 cloud services from the local datacentres by the end of 2015. The company has 19 regional data centres globally, set up at a combined investment of $4.5billion. Speaking at the launch of the Microsoft Cloud Accelerator Programme at the Microsoft Azure Conference, Bhaskar Pramanik, chairman, Microsoft India, said, "The cloud accelerator programme is designed to help India move to the the cloud and in turn, help 'Make in India' a reality. This will open up new possibilities in e-governance, financial inclusion, healthcare and education."

The key aim is to increase the adoption of the cloud, whether public, private or a hybrid model, among enterprises and government organizations. The accelerator programme will help enterprises plan local cloud roadmaps by providing a decision framework. The Cloud Decision Framework, aimed primarily at PSUs, government departments and the banking and financial services sector to help them make the transition to the cloud.

Microsoft's cloud platform would also be compliant with local regulations. Microsoft has also launched cloud training programmes - Azure Vidyapeeth and GuruVarta- that will enable SMBs transition to the cloud. The company hopes to reach out to 10,000 SMBs across 250 cities through this.

Karan Bajwa, Managing Director, Microsoft India said, "Our early-adopter customers are already seeing the benefits of public, private and hybrid cloud. With the Cloud Accelerator Program, we and our partners will be able to move thousands of customers to the cloud over the next few months. We are committed to help government departments, public sector organizations, and banking and financial services companies move forward on their own cloud journeys."

Microsoft has seen a rapid rise in cloud adoption in India and across the world. In the quarter ending December 2014, Microsoft's commercial cloud revenue grew 114% globally. This was driven by Office 365, Microsoft Azure and Dynamics CRM Online.

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Know What Hackers Know: HP Cyber Risk Report 2015

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Hackers build attacks on a huge treasure-trove of existing vulnerabilities, and they find new ways to exploit new technologies like mobile and the Internet of Things.

HP Cyber Risk Report To fight back, you need to know what they know. HP Cyber Risk Report 2015, a comprehensive report from HP Security Research, contains more than 70 pages jam packed with data and analysis detailing the threat landscape and how hackers exploit it.

Read it to learn:

• The vulnerability and exploit trends in Windows, Linux, and mobile OSs
• How well-known vulnerabilities continue to open the door to hackers
• The new technologies that introduce new avenues of attack

The breadth and depth of the full report make it a must-read for security professionals.

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Website's what are they.

Since the beginning of economic revolution. Organizations always came up with ideas to promote and sell their product and services to more and more individuals.

Banners across the street and over the building roof's were the 1st ones to bring advertisement to individuals. After the birth of Television a new generation of dream sellers came to existing. They were called marketing companies. These companies changed the idea of selling. These are the merchants who sold dreams to individuals through these days. They are called the dream merchants.

As years passed. Social media took over and become a part of all generation daily life. Social media companies realized this and they themselves became a somewhat marketing companies. Where you can pay them for showing up your product ad's.

Google too played a major role in this revolution and changed the way people search for anything. Google search replaced the term search for every individual across the world. Which made google re-think and a search company became a marketing company.

Right marketing helps reach out to masses and convey the message. Internet has brought the world closer and every emerging company a multinational.

Website's are the gateway to the world. Best designed and optimized websites help bring people to visit and read about your organization, product and services offerings. Making them visible on Social and blogging is marketing.

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10 tips for protecting your most important data

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For many modern businesses, their data is their most valuable asset. However, these days it seems every morning brings news of another high profile data breach.

Sadly hackers are becoming more sophisticated and more determined than ever before, but this doesn’t mean businesses can’t take steps to protect themselves. Just a few considerations regarding security processes can be enough to ensure would-be hackers move on to an easier target.

Here are ten tips which can help individuals and businesses of all shapes and sizes better protect personal data, financial information and privacy.

Keep your operating system and all software up to date.

This is a tip you’ll hear time and time again from security professionals. Those pesky OS and computer software updates are not only important from a functionality standpoint, but they more often than not contain critical security updates and vulnerability patches.

Where possible, enable automatic software updates to streamline the process and ensure you are always up to date.

Encrypt sensitive data.

Data encryption is no longer just for large enterprises – there are many tools now available to individuals and smaller businesses (some free) that make it easy to encrypt your sensitive data.By using

By using encryption, you can ensure that your data will remain unreadable and safe, even if accessed by a malicious actor. Additionally, always encrypt sensitive data before copying to removable devices such as USB storage or portable hard drives.

In doing so, you’ll ensure that your sensitive information isn’t at risk if a device is lost or stolen.

Use antivirus software.

While it’s widely accepted that antivirus software won’t protect against all types of threats, it does still offer baseline protection against common, well-known malware.

At the minimum, install a reputable free antivirus tool and perform virus scans periodically on all of your IT.

Ensure all employees use a unique, complex password for every account.

Reusing passwords (or slightly modified passwords) across different accounts is one of the biggest concerns in the event of a hacking attack or data breach.

Many times attackers will attempt to access multiple other accounts (banking, PayPal, etc) using login credentials that they have obtained for a single, original account.

If employees reuse passwords, a simple credential breach of a non-sensitive account can grant attackers access to an organisations most sensitive online accounts quickly and easily.

Securely archive or delete data no longer needed.

Minimising the amount of data an organisation stores is not only good housekeeping, but it also minimises the amount of information that is available to an attacker that has gained access to those devices.

If data is no longer needed, it should be encrypted and moved to an offline storage device or deleted altogether – particularly old bank statements, contracts, bills, health records, and work documents.

Regularly monitor activity on online accounts.

No surprise here – the best way to stay on top of a compromised account or fraud is to monitor account activity regularly.

If suspicious activity is identified, all parties involved should be notified immediately. Even with other protections in place, vigilant monitoring is still often the fastest way to identify a compromise.

Change all passwords following news of an account compromise or data breach.

Sadly, data breaches make the news all the time these days – but what should be done when a company or website with which you have an account gets breached?

The most important first step is to change all associated passwords. By doing so, you ensure that your credentials are useless, even if stolen.

Manage privacy settings for mobile applications and online accounts.

While it may seem like a daunting task in today’s day and age, keeping up with the privacy settings for different accounts and applications is critical.

It’s still the best way to ensure that companies (or individuals) do not have access to private information about yourself or your business.

Be wary of free Wi-Fi networks.

Hackers and online thieves often use unprotected Wi-Fi networks to carry out sniffing and/or man-in-the-middle attacks on unsuspecting victims, stealing credentials or other data in-transit.

Avoid using free Wi-Fi networks, particularly in high traffic public places like cafes, airports, and similar places. If using an unprotected Wi-Fi network is unavoidable, be sure that HTTPS is enabled for any sites visited – a good habit for all online activity.

Learn to recognise and avoid phishing attacks (and educate your employees).

Social engineering tactics, particularly phishing attacks, are an incredibly popular tactic for cyber criminals.

Why is that? Simply put, it’s often faster and easier for an attacker to trick another person into taking a desired action rather than conducting complex, manual hacking attacks themselves. Phishing attacks typically have telltale signs such as unfamiliar senders, strange domain names, spoofed web pages or emails, and messages with links or attachments that weren’t requested.

Leverage free online resources to train yourself and your employees to better identify phishing attacks, and avoid messages that appear suspect.

Sadly cyber attacks and online fraud are becoming an increasingly prominent part of personal and business environments today, but there is still plenty that can be done to reduce the odds of an unwelcome attack.

By following these tips and training employees to do the same, individuals and businesses alike can ensure they are not an easy target.