Working Outside of the Process

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A few years ago I was on an overworked team. Big surprise there, right? We were working on a long list of work for an upcoming release. We through everything was documented in our bug tracker, but you know software, the more you dig into the work the more new scope you discover. We would work on a c…READ MORE

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Mission-critical IoT: What every business needs to know to prosper

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Picture this. An Alzheimer patient slips quietly unnoticed out of a healthcare facility. Or a young child playing in his yard unattended walks off and in an instant goes missing. It is an all too scary scenario that occurs every day around the world. In Korea alone, 10,000 Alzheimer’s patients go mi…READ MORE

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Math for Marketers

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Q: Are You Spending Enough on Marketing?

A word problem for marketers

Let’s say the analysts who make market forecasts believe your category in the technology market will be $1B next year.  Most markets that analysts cover are larger than that, but we will keep the example simple and our numb…READ MORE

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Why journalists and whistleblowers need to understand infosecurity

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An online training initiative promises to make information security accessible and understandable to journalists, confidential sources and whistleblowers.

Snowden’s revelations of the extent of UK and US state surveillance were a wake-up call to journalists, sources and whistleblowers to take i…READ MORE

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Build, Deploy & Iterate is the ‘new’ Extract, Transform & Load

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Alfresco Software has updated its open source process automation, content management and information governance software.

The immodestly named Alfresco Insight Engine creates dashboard-style statistics and data trend reports that previously required what the company decries as more arduous and ti…READ MORE

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What would Karl Marx make of Silicon Valley?

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It’s the bearded one’s 200th birthday this year. Much of the mainstream media has marked the occasion, including the Financial Times, that pre-eminent “capitalist” newspaper.

Why should Computer Weekly be any different? After all, one of our more distinguished alumni is Paul Mason, these …READ MORE

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Android bites Apple in UK, iPhone X marks the spot in China

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The smartphone sales results are in: Android continues to bite chunks out of Apple in UK and France, while iPhone X is eating Android in the East. 

The latest ComTech Smartphone OS Market Share report from Kantar Worldpanel reveals some interesting insights into how Apple and Android handsets ar…READ MORE

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What is a data science platform?

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In an information technology landscape full of platforms, the ‘data science platform’ is now an official thing – but what is it, or what is one?

The curiously named John Snow Labs company is a specialist in Artificial Intelligence DataOps (that’s operations with a specific focus on data …READ MORE

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CIOs need to nurture raw IT talent to power the future economy

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Each year, with the publication of A-level results, hundreds of thousands of school leavers embark on a journey that ultimately fuels the talent pool feeding the UK economy. Some argue that a generation brought up on the internet have different expectations of work than previous generations. But,…READ MORE

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Integrated communications extends UC capabilities

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Organizations that want to drive greater value from their unified communications deployment should look to integrate communications into other parts of their business.

Integrated communications extends the value of UC capabilities, such as messaging and video conferencing, by bringing them to oth…READ MORE

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Some types of artificial intelligence aren't ready for their close-up

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Michael Ringman, CIO at TELUS International, has a unique vantage point on artificial intelligence and how the technologies under the AI umbrella are developing. He’s helping build an artificial intelligence competency for TELUS’s customer contact center and for its IT services company, which suppo…READ MORE

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Pivotal's IPO highlights concerns about Dell's debt resolution

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Pivotal Software’s intention to go public once again draws attention to Dell Technologies’ ongoing efforts to pay down the mountain of debt incurred with its whopping $67 billion acquisition of EMC in October 2015.

Dell has attacked this problem from a number of angles, mainly the sale of softwar…READ MORE

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PowerShell parameter sets

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PowerShell parameter sets allow you to control which parameters can be used together. If a parameter isn’t in the parameter set you’re trying to use you’ll get an error message.
PS> Get-VM -Name XYZ -id (New-Guid)
Get-VM : Parameter set cannot be resolved using the specified named paramet…READ MORE

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The sky is the limit for UK tech – as long as we embrace diversity

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In this contributed blog post, Russ Shaw, founder of Tech London Advocates & Global Tech Advocates explains that the UK’s tech ecosystem has the potential to be the best in the world, as long as diversity is part of the picture. 

Over the past five years, the UK tech sector has reached unpre…READ MORE

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CFO Found Guilty in HP-Autonomy Case

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OMG. Can our long international nightmare be over? HP won a criminal case against Autonomy, the e-discovery vendor it bought in 2011 for more than $10 billion, of which it had to write off $8.8 million, claiming that the U.K. company had inflated its value.

Sushovan Hussain, “the former chief f…READ MORE

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The UK fintech economy will create different pockets of excellence all over the country

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The fintech sector in the North is a different shape to its London counterpart with a real shortage of startup businesses. But that doesn’t mean it does not have potential to grow.

While there are many companies in the broader Northern England fintech sector, doing IT for financial services, th…READ MORE

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Pure Storage: flash is a means, not an end, to shared data

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SAN FRANCISCO – Pure Storage will push the theme of a “data-centric architecture” at its annual Accelerate user conference that begins Wednesday.

Data-centric architecture is Pure’s description for its new flash strategy. The strategy revolves around the concept that the storage array is …READ MORE

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Bring Back PING in Win10 1803

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The old putatively Chinese curse goes “May you live in interesting times.” And in that sense, interesting is the adjective I’d apply to networking in Window 10 Version 1803 of late. My previous blog post explained my difficulties in resolving a NetBIOS name, only to figure out that it was case-sensi…READ MORE

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TechTarget's weekly roundup (5/14 - 5/21)

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How effectively is your organization investing in health data analytics? Find out why investing in data is critical for healthcare organizations in this week’s roundup.

1. Healthcare data analytics success grows when IT advises execs – Dave Bernard (SearchHealth…READ MORE

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Microsoft List of Partners Helping Customers in Their GDPR Journey

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Recently Archive360 has been Included on Microsoft List of Partners Helping Customers in Their GDPR Journey. The list is a part of the Microsoft’s latest blog with the title “Leverage the Channel Ecosystem to Create GDPR Offers”. GDPR or the General Data Protection Regulation is impacting all organi…READ MORE

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