The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security
I’ve posted a copy of: The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security
It’s an oldy but a goody. Things like this tend to get forgotten over time and or get lost in the shuffle.
As a buddy pointed out in part (6):
“It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.”
A former company he worked for was hell bent on building a ‘Server Farm’ without having a customer who wanted to purchase or support said server farm. In fact I’m not sure they really understood what one was. But by golly the knew they wanted one and had to have one to be successful. 
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Absolutely terrific data analysis and visualization software.
Tableau…
A product manager pointed out this product when I was showing her our new MS Analytics (olap) implementation a couple weeks ago.
They have some great examples on their site of just how powerful this product is. http://www.tableausoftware.com/learning/examples
It is spendy, $1500 per named license + maintenance.
It’s primarily designed to go against Excel or table data, but it works with olap cubes as well, or at least somewhat. Just enough to get you excited then you find out there’s a number of things you can’t do. Hopefully this will be enhanced in a future version.
It works outstandingly well if your data is nice and pretty. Normalized well. Of course all of the sample data falls into that category. It also works well against SQL, gain if your joins are easy to do. It would be nice if they had a visual tool for creating joins.
Even so, I highly recommend it.
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