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To SQL or NoSQL is the big debate among database experts these days. Both types of databases have fundamentally different architectures and support different use cases; hence, they have different pros and cons. On one end you have a mature 40 year old, stable and well understood relational database management system (RDBMS); on the other end you have a young and upcoming, five-year old DBMS which promises the world to you.

About a month ago, I wrote a blog to understand customer interest in a unified framework that would enable multi-vendor, cross-platform collaboration for identity and access management along with vulnerability assessment. This would allow organizations to increase granularity of device and user visibility for identifying risk in their environment and help expedite review and response to critical issues.

The 2014 holiday season is upon us and with it, the forecast of billions in retail sales. There are high expectations not only for record breaking retail revenues but also increased use of mobile payment solutions by consumers making holiday purchases – both online and at retail locations. The release of new mobile payment alternatives is at the forefront of expectations.

In less than two weeks, US consumers will engage in the annual holiday shopping frenzy known as Black Friday. Nearly 250 million shoppers will generate over $50 billion projected revenues during the Black Friday weekend, which begins on Thanksgiving Day.

Today Tenable has released Nessus v6 for download. This latest version helps reduce your attack surface by enforcing compliance and system hardening policies. Nessus users can create and customize compliance and security policies while also managing scan results, schedules, and policies.

This Introduction to Nessus v6 video provides an overview of the new features: