How the internet of things is opening possibilities beyond the home

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Most people have heard of the internet of things by now, but few are familiar with the possibilities this platform opens for businesses and consumers alike. This platform, that has long been associated with the smart home, offers real and tangible value beyond the cool factor. Consumers and business…READ MORE

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DiskPart and PowerShell–part 1

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An attendee at the Summit made the statement that the DiskPart utility didn’t have any equivalent in PowerShell. That’s not strictly true as the storage module provides a lot of functionality that maps to diskpart functionality.

The module contents include:

PS> Get-Command -Module Stora…READ MORE

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Partitioned Tables and ColumnStore

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ColumnStore indexes are all the rage with data warehouses. They’re fast, they’re new(ish) and they solve all sorts of problems when dealing with massive amounts of data.  However they can cause some issues as well if you aren’t very careful about how you setup your partitions on the ColumnStore ind…READ MORE

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data artist

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A data artist is a business analytics (BA) specialist who creates graphs, charts, infographics and other visual tools that help people understand complex data. Continued…

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“Visualization makes data accessible to a much wider audience, and that helps grow the analytics culture o…READ MORE

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Build 15063 DISM Fix Available

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If you’re running the Current Branch release for Windows 10 — namely, Build 15063 — you may have a DISM problem. Some tangible percentage of such installs will puke if you run DISM /checkhealth on the runtime image. But with a Build 15063 DISM fix available, you can repair this anomaly yourself. H…READ MORE

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Oracle draws curtains on OmniOS

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With its openly stated operational remit of ‘aggressive acquisitions’ (albeit positively aggressive), Oracle is (very) arguably a firm known for buying, swallowing, acquiring those companies it decides to consume.

With Oracle’s stewardship Java still very much in existence, not every report detai…READ MORE

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Can DWP meet its revised 2022 target for completion of Universal Credit?

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In the run-up to the last UK general election in 2015, the Labour Party’s then shadow employment minister Stephen Timms pointed out that the target completion date for the Universal Credit welfare reform programme had “slipped four years in four years”.

In July last year, the secretary of s…READ MORE

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Celebrate digital transformation failures, not just successes

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Unless you have been living under a rock, you would have heard of the term “digital transformation” that has been bandied around over the past few years by technology suppliers big and small.

And why does it make a difference now, given that organisations, including governments, have been emb…READ MORE

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Spanning Cloud Apps ‘finds a home’ outside Dell EMC

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Dell EMC has sold off another asset after its mega-merger.

Dell EMC last week spun out Spanning Cloud Apps to Insight Venture Partners, less than three years after EMC acquired Spanning for its cloud-to-cloud backup software. Insight added Spanning to its collection of backup companies, which inc…READ MORE

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Cyber Security Best Practices Guidelines by Carl Manion

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Who else would be the best person to talk about Cyber Security Best Practices than Carl Manion? Carl is a Managing Principal at Raytheon Foreground Security. He is responsible to provide advice and guidance to enterprises of all sizes. He guides the organizations to tangibly realize their corporate …READ MORE

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Flyover country: Making data center market growth great again

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Your data center provider is more likely than ever to have a southern drawl or Midwestern lilt.

The Southeast, Southwest, and Midwest are among the fastest growing data center markets in the United States, according to year end 2016 data from Synergy Research Group. This illustrates how data cent…READ MORE

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Free Kata Tool - And How To Use Them

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We don’t do deliberate practice enough as programmers. Instead, too much of our time is spent trying to get the next piece of work done. Perhaps we’ll clean it up tomorrow. Perhaps we’ll do it right next time.

Perhaps monkeys will fly.

Instead of trying to clean it up later, I recommend develo…READ MORE

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Veritas survey provokes Talend opinion on GDPR data developer responsibility

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A new study from information management firm Veritas Technologies has suggested that 86 percent of organisations worldwide are concerned that a failure to adhere to the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) could have a major negative impact on their business.

Nearly 20 percent said…READ MORE

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New York to Destroy IDNYC Data

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We’ve written before about government agencies concerned that President Donald Trump’s administration could end up destroying data that those agencies find useful but which the administration finds inconvenient. Now we have the opposite situation: Cities that are destroying data to keep it out o…READ MORE

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Data science and AI share similar needs

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Data science and artificial intelligence are converging toward one another, as businesses look to leverage anything they can to get a leg up on the competition.

In this edition of the Talking Data podcast, we take a look at how enterprises can support these two trends. While they may initially se…READ MORE

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How messaging platforms disrupted the UC market

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These days, disruption and innovation entwine like a hashtag. As an example, Slack and other messaging platforms have ruffled the unified communications market with a new way of working and collaborating.

Several factors have sparked the success of messaging platforms and disrupted traditional UC…READ MORE

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With vCloud Air sale, VMware clears cloud computing path

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With the sale of its long languishing vCloud Air offering this week, VMware found a way to step away from the product that has had an uncertain future for quite some time.

The company sold its vCloud Air business to OVH, Europe’s largest cloud provider, for an undisclosed sum, handing off its vCl…READ MORE

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Testing times for virtual reality despite Sky's Attenborough odyssey

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Sir David Attenborough is to be digitised as part of an interactive virtual reality experience promising hands-on access to some of the rarest items from London’s Natural History Museum. But after a difficult launch year, is virtual reality itself destined to become little more than a fossil?

T…READ MORE

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Desktop virtualisation dilemmas: Solving the VDI blame game

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In this guest post, Kevin Cooke, product director at desktop virtualisation software provider Liquidware Labs, explains how CIOs and IT departments can avoid playing the blame game when working out why their VDI projects are not going to plan.

The move to virtual desktops, whether full on-premis…READ MORE

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Oracle nudges enterprises towards using Docker

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Oracle has pushed itself further into the Docker community by allowing developers to now pull images of their flagship databases and developer tools through the Docker Store.

Effective immediately, developers can pull images of Oracle products including Oracle Database, Oracle MySQL, Oracle Java …READ MORE

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