InfoWorld Daily: Afternoon Edition

May 15, 2017

FAQ: Are you in danger from the WannaCry ransomware?

WannaCry took down wide swaths of the internet over the weekend, then disappeared. Here's what you need to know, without the hype. Read More ▶

Your Must-Read Stories

•	Review: Tableau takes self-service BI to new heights

•	57% off Anker PowerCore Fusion 5000 2-in-1 Portable Charger and Wall Charger - Deal Alert

•	How to make sure your Windows PC won't get hit by ransomware like WannaCry

•	How Yahoo wrangles its giant private cloud

•	Faster machine learning is coming to the Linux kernel

•	Why snafus like HP's keylogger will happen again

White Paper: Fuze, Inc.

Drive Workforce Productivity and Organizational Agility with Unified Communications

It's easy to relegate your organization's communication system into the category of basic infrastructure. Rather than view communications systems as a checklist item, you should consider how your organization can harness these tools to enable its dispersed -- and increasingly younger -- workforce to work as efficiently and effectively as possible. Read More ▶

Review: Tableau takes self-service BI to new heights

Tableau strengthens its case with cross-database joins, browser-based authoring, and geo-analysis improvements. Read More ▶

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57% off Anker PowerCore Fusion 5000 2-in-1 Portable Charger and Wall Charger - Deal Alert

Charge your device and PowerCore Fusion's internal battery via a wall outlet, then take it with you for up to 3 phone charges -- any place, any time. Boasts a foldable plug to ensure maximum portability. Read More ▶

How to make sure your Windows PC won't get hit by ransomware like WannaCry

Microsoft has released MS17-010 and other patches to block worms like WannaCry. Here are the key details. Read More ▶

How Yahoo wrangles its giant private cloud

Yahoo VP of Cloud Services Preeti Somal pulls back the curtain on the internet company's vast private cloud—and offers valuable lessons any enterprise can use. Read More ▶

Faster machine learning is coming to the Linux kernel

The addition of heterogenous memory management to the Linux kernel will unlock new ways to speed up GPUs, and potentially other kinds of machine learning hardware. Read More ▶

Why snafus like HP's keylogger will happen again

The problem wasn't the length of time it took HP to respond to security researchers—it's that unreviewed code proliferates supply chains everywhere. Read More ▶

White Paper: Fuze, Inc.

Keep It Simple and Cost-Effective: Enable Communications and Collaboration as One

With or without you, business users are implementing new communications solutions. Read this whitepaper to discover why IT is losing control of enterprise communications, the role of millennial workers in the push for a unified approach to voice, video, and messaging, and how IT can use the desire for unified communications to reassert your business value. Read More ▶

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