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Yottabytes: Storage and Disaster Recovery by Sharon Fisher
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A blog for users, storage solution providers -- including value-added resellers (VARs), systems integrators, managed service providers (MSPs) and consultants -- about data storage hardware and software products and services, backup/archiving products and services, disaster recovery, storage area networks (SANs) and network-attached storage (NAS).
Could Amazon Create a Facial Recognition Database From Doorbells?
January 14, 2019 - We’ve written before about Rekognition, Amazon’s facial recognition software, and how organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has asked Amazon to stop selling it to law enforcement organizations. So Amazon is trying another tactic: Developing its own database, which it would collect through its Ring visual doorbell. “A patent application filed by...... READ MOREBlogs
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AI developer toolset series: Paperspace CEO on why is abstraction key to training machine brains
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The Computer Weekly Developer Network is in the engine room, covered in grease and looking for Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machines Leaning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) tools for software application developers to use.
This post is part of a series which also runs as a main feature in Computer W…READ MORE
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Windows 7 Inside Last Extended Support Year
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Monday was the 14th of January. When the next year comes and goes, that’s the end for Windows 7. That puts Windows 7 inside last extended support year, as this snippet from the Windows lifecycle fact sheet shows. Of course, if history is any guide, a certain cadre of desperate organizations will dec…READ MORE
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Real-time location services crosses the chasm: 3 predictions for 2019
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By all accounts, 2018 was a breakthrough year for real-time location services (RTLS), as organizations around the world derived real business benefit from being able to precisely locate people and objects in real time. Rapid growth occurred across a wide variety of applications, but none more so tha…READ MORE
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UK based challenger bank Atom has got the finance sector talking after Sky news revealed it has hired Citi to give it business advice.
It seems the feeling is it is about to be taken over.
The Sky news report names Spanish bank BBVA, which invested heavily in UK focused Atom last year, as pote…READ MORE
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Let’s take back control, unless we have to get up
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Mobile phone recycling comparison site Recyclezone has put together the findings of a survey that asked which household tasks Brits were most keen to palm off on smart technology, and you don’t need to ask us twice to play Vernon Kay with the results.
The survey said a laundry folding robot (32%)…READ MOREPosted in Downtime on
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Addressing the shortages of construction skills that threaten Broadband Roll-out
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Problems with quality, not just quantity threaten to derail full fibre roll out as they did cable TV roll out 25 years ago.
Over the past couple of years broadband roll-out projects (BT, Virgin, City Fibre etc.) have become increasingly delayed because of shortages of relevant construction skills…READ MORE
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Take that, Rubrik! Veeam gets $500M investment
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One day after Rubrik pulled in more than a quarter of a million dollars in fresh funding, rival Veeam Software picked up nearly twice as much.
Veeam today said Insight Venture Partners has invested an additional $500 million in the data protection software vendor. That brings the total investment…READ MORE
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Puppet on DevOps: practitioners (not managers) are the new champions
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Software delivery (and operations… and change) automation company Puppet has staged its fifth annual DevOps Salary Report.
With a foundation in open source, Puppet is championing a world of what it calls ‘unconstrained software change’… presumably an even more intense version of Continuou…READ MORE
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ONC updates, adds to Interoperability Standards Advisory
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Rules and regulations proposed by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology hang in limbo, thanks to the government shutdown. But that isn’t stopping the federal organization from pushing forward on addressing a significant pain point for the healthcare industry.
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Effect vs. affect; amorous cats
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Which is correct?
A manager’s level of emotional intelligence _______ the entire office.
a. affects
b. effectsAnswer: a
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As a verb, affect means to influence. Effect, as a verb, means to cause or to bring about. A manager’s level of emotional intelligence definitely influence…READ MOREPosted in Writing for Business on
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Another one bites the dust: Bauer’s departure from NHS England highlights public sector-wide issue
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NHS England’s chief digital officer (CDO) jumping ship to join the private sector is the latest example of one of the key issues facing digital and technology projects across the public sector, namely staff retention.
The news that NHS England’s CDO Juliet Bauer is leaving the health service …READ MORE
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Digitisation: The key to SMB success
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Quocirca’s Print 2025 Spotlight report Digitisation: the key to SMB success reveals that SMBs are accelerating their digitisation initiatives through the use of digital workflow services and solutions, as they seek to drive business efficiency and employee productivity.
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AWS mixes toxic cocktail for open source
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There is currently a crisis unfolding in the open source world, with a number of companies changing their licensing to protect revenue. This has arisen due to a potentially toxic situation where public cloud providers have introduced managed services based on free open source products.
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When is the Right Time to Look at New Services?
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Microsoft Azure is rolling out new features at a fantastic speed. But when is the right time to evaluate those new features? It might be right as the feature is released, it might be later in the lifecycle. The basic answer to when to look at using new services is, it depends.
If the compan…READ MORE
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Could Amazon Create a Facial Recognition Database From Doorbells?
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We’ve written before about Rekognition, Amazon’s facial recognition software, and how organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has asked Amazon to stop selling it to law enforcement organizations. So Amazon is trying another tactic: Developing its own database, which it wo…READ MORE
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Role Of Developers: Test As You Build Is The New Mantra
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There is a constant shift in the role of developers globally. Actually, it is not a shift completely. It is, in fact, an additional kind of role that is embedding within their existing role of coding and development. It is to test as you build. The new mantra is to test while you develop. Obviously,…READ MORE
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Improbable vs. Unity: Why enterprise cloud users should take notice
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Enterprise cloud users may have written off the spate between gaming companies Improbable and Unity as nothing more than industry in-fighting, but there are some cautionary tales emerging from the dispute they would do well to take note of, argues Caroline Donnelly.
The bun fight that has broken …READ MORE
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COI report offers stark reminder on cyber hygiene
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The Singapore government’s Committee of Inquiry (COI) that looked into the unprecedented cyber attack on SingHealth’s IT systems released a public report this week, detailing security lapses leading to the incident as well as recommendations to improve the public healthcare group’s cyber defen…READ MORE
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Why developers don't stay in management for IT career change
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There’s a saying in the life insurance industry that goes like this:
“The minute you become successful your first inclination is to stop doing all the things that made you successful. You stop making the phone calls, you stop scheduling the sit downs.”
This dynamic isn’t confined to life ins…READ MORE
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Amazon Connect is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud customer contact center service. Continued…
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“Together, Amazon Connect and Lex can benefit call center agents, as chatbots reduce the workload and provide valuable insights into the customer experience.” – George Lawto…READ MOREPosted in Word of the Day: Tech Definitions from WhatIs.com on
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