The CES 2020 show flooded our attention spans last week with interesting new products and updates to a slew of existing smart home systems. And some silly stuff, as usual, like the Charmin RollBot toilet paper delivery drone.

In the IT community, it is often said that the best defense against a cyber-attack is to “think like a hacker.” This tactic may work when an attack is directed at network infrastructure, and the goal is to protect technical information from exfiltration or exploitation.

The new HE150 combines Scale’s HC3 Edge software with Intel NUC hardware to produce an affordable, low-power, “tiny form factor” device that doesn’t require a backplane network switch.

It’s the countdown to Halloween that will come knocking on your door this Thursday. Weather forecast: frightful in some places, with snow in the Midwest over to the Great Lakes and rain up the entire eastern coast. And, of course, wildfires in California.

How did the first week of fall treat you? Our Montana readers may not feel the love because they’re numb from the cold and all those feet of snow dumped on them. At least they don’t have to rake leaves until the snow melts. When will someone come up with an IoT snow removal robot?

Scale Computing has shipped its HC3 Edge Solution for distributed enterprises and IoT solutions.