Month: October 2019

Marketing, Technology

Benefits and Risks Associated With Edge Computing

John Ejiofor / October 22, 2019

In 2017, it was discovered that around 10% of enterprise-generated data was being created and processed outside a traditional centralized data center or cloud. By 2025, however, Gartner predicts this figure will reach 75%, this is a clear case that edge computing is gaining steam. For a business to thrive, the outright mindset will be to make huge returns on investment and to this end, it’s expected that there will be concerted efforts at cutting costs especially those that are considered irrelevant. Another way to cut costs is by reducing waste such as is seen in bandwidth and that’s where edge computing comes in. Apart from the pressure on resources that are brought to bear by bandwidths and networks, some other driving forces that are responsible for the expected growth in edge computing include a growing scale of projects, an increase of IoT devices, and the need for quick data analysis across multiple IoT use cases.  If you also consider the fact that Intel founder Gordon Moore, says that by 2040 the world’s energy production will not support our computing capability, you will see a good reason for edge computing coming along to fill any possible void that will be…

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Nature

3 Home Remedies to Get Rid of Cockroaches

John Ejiofor / October 18, 2019

This may be had to digest, but the fact remains that cockroaches are among the dangerous animals we have notwithstanding the fact that there is an outcry to look into cockroach milk as the next superfood. They belong to the group of the most dynamic and resistant species of living organisms.  Roaches somehow, are spread over 4,000 species and are known to have been existing before the Jurassic era, about 280 million years ago. Such an ancient organism! They can cover a speed of three miles per hour. You can then imagine the rate at which they could be spreading their buddy germs to humans. Although there are a lot of cockroach foggers, powders, and gel baits available, in this article we’ll discuss how you can use simple home remedies to reduce cockroach infestation. This will come in handy if you belong to the group of people who will not want to use pesticides or any type of spray altogether.  Cockroaches have no difficulty in holding their breath for up to 40 minutes. All these facts establish the hardcore nature of the roaches and eliminate the chance that you can easily wash them away by ordinarily flushing in a toilet…

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Business

Outstanding 2020 Entrepreneur: 5 Things You Must Focus On

John Ejiofor / October 16, 2019

The Q4 of any year takes its toll on any entrepreneur for two main reasons. The first is that you have to take stock, find out all the areas you’ve underperformed, broken even, or made returns on your investments. The second is that you start preparing for Q1 of the next year in order not to be caught with your pants down. Funding is one of the major problems an entrepreneur has to contend with and according to a U.S. Bank study, an amazing 82% of businesses fail because of cash flow problems. To become an outstanding entrepreneur in 2020, you need to harness all your positive points and focus strongly on the following five things. 1. Cybersecurity About the most important thing, you should focus on as an entrepreneur in 2020, is the issue of cybersecurity. Cybercriminals are daily upping their heinous acts and don’t spare anybody, they even prefer to target businesses that will give them the least resistance. Since any attack that is directed at you may cripple your business as well as hurt your customers, vendors, contractors, and other third parties, you must not take this threat with a pinch of salt. In focusing on cybersecurity,…

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Business, Technology

How to Best Safeguard Your Customers’ Data From Cyberattackers

John Ejiofor / October 14, 2019

Your customer is the best asset you have and should be roundly protected from any form of harm. With the unceasing onslaught by cyberattackers on governments, businesses, and individuals, the least you can do is to go to any length to ensure that your customers’ data are safeguarded. A quick recap of some very ugly incidents in 2019, will bring to the front-burner why safeguarding your customers’ data must be your uppermost priority. In May, a surveillance contractor for US Customs and Border Protection suffered a breach, and hackers stole photos of travelers and license plates related to about 100,000 people.  A destructive strain of ransomware called LockerGoga has specifically been victimizing industrial and manufac­turing firms. As if that is not enough, in March, a research report from the threat intelligence firm Kaspersky, says that computer maker Asus disclosed a supply chain attack sometime in the second half of 2018 that had compromised the company’s Live Update tool to push malware to almost 1 million customers. We can go on and on as this is just the tip of the iceberg. The important thing to note here is that it’s now more necessary than ever to put serious measures in…

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Technology

Backdoor Encryption, An assault on Privacy

John Ejiofor / October 11, 2019

Facebook has certainly had its fair share of problems over the years, right from the Cambridge Analytica scandals to a host of other privacy issue related problems, which led to a lot of people deleting their accounts from the platform. Now that they have come up with a beautiful one, the end-to-end encryption that everybody should applaud, it’s a huge surprise that there is a concerted effort to stab privacy in the back through backdoor encryption. Salvos have been coming from all corners at end-to-end encryption. The surprising aspect of the whole thing is that these reactions are coming from largely unexpected quarters, that is those you thought would be very happy to fight cybercrime to a standstill.  The U.S. Attorney General William Barr in a reaction to the technology world says, “If the cops and Feds can’t read people’s encrypted messages, you will install backdoors for us, regardless of the security hit.” FBI head honcho Christopher Wray is not left out in the call for a backdoor, saying that the cops and Feds should be able to spy on end-to-end encrypted chats and the like. Also noteworthy is the fact that UK home secretary Priti Patel, US attorney general…

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Business

3 Best Ways You Can Use to Hire Content Writers

John Ejiofor / October 7, 2019

Writing is an inborn trait that comes naturally in the form of scribbling. However, the world has witnessed many incredible writers from different genera such as William Shakespeare, J.K Rowling, and Jeff Goins — a big name in content writing — who have used writing as a communication medium.  Clearly, there are many types of writings. In this internet era where everything has gone online, however, content writing has gained a huge attention. Today, people write online and instantly get noticed.  To this end, we have a mushroom-growth of content writers everywhere on the net. Some of these writers you will get to see are real quality writers, on the other hand, there is a brood of content writers you must avoid as plague. If you run a company and really want to hire some quality writers, it may prove to be quite a challenging task, you need to embark on thorough scrutiny. But you don’t need to kill yourself over this, there are some genuine ways for hiring content writers.  Some of the trusted ways are: Search in-house first This is the most common tip and you would have heard it many times, yet overlooked it all the time.…

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