TIBCO Messaging now supports Apache Kafka

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TIBCO extends its open source credentials this month with commercial support and services for Apache Kafka as part of the firm’s branded Messaging product line.

Apache Kafka is a distributed open source publish-subscribe messaging system designed to replace traditional message brokers – as su…READ MORE

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Build 1803 Equals April Update

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For some reason, lots of people — including me — take pleasure from following the procession of Windows 10 release names. That’s why I jumped all over a Neowin.net news item today. It’s entitled “The upcoming feature update for Windows 10 will be called the ‘April Update’.” It even provides visual…READ MORE

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Scality gets $60m but keeps quiet about what it’ll spend it on

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French object storage specialist Scality recently raised $60m of funding, but what will that money go towards?

The company – most well-known for its RING object storage product – is in the middle of efforts to achieve “multi-cloud” operations, in which customers can operate within and bet…READ MORE

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Is the Facebook furore another piece of Fake News

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The story of how Cambridge Analytica used Facebook data collected by an Academic intermediary to supposedly help Remain “steal” the UK referendum campaign and Trump “steal” the US Presidential campaign can be read at many levels with many different questions.

What was so offensive/different abo…READ MORE

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About one million NatWest bank customers to move to RBS digital bank

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Last month Sky News reported that the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is planning to establish a digital bank that will be run separately from its existing business.

The report said that former RBS COO Mark Bailie is leading the project and thattens of millions of pounds have been allocated to the n…READ MORE

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Now and later with IoT: What to consider regarding cost, reliability and security

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The benefits of deploying IoT are becoming clearer for many organizations, especially when the use case is identified for a business problem solved with IoT (see my other article for more on that). However, once an IoT technology “sticks,” additional security considerations prior to deployment may n…READ MORE

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How Lego Education tries to encourage kids into Stem through play-based learning

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Lego Education, the more serious branch of the Lego enterprise, aims to provide teachers and other education providers with fun ways to engage children with science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) subjects.

To us, it may just be a toy we have long left in our childhood, but the makers …READ MORE

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Kaleao redesigns ARM-based HCI for enterprise

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Kaleao hit an obstacle when trying to convince its ARM-based hyper-converged systems fit well with traditional enterprises. While its features and services might fit enterprises, the original Kaleao box was a terrible fit.

So Kaleao is adding a 4U KMAX-EP system to go with its original KMAX, whic…READ MORE

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Appian’s 7 pillars of low-code

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Low-code business process company Appian has detailed its current updates and future road ahead as part of its annual Appian World user and customer conference.

Essential a mostly graphical visual drag-and-drop software tool designed to help build business ‘case management’ applications to tr…READ MORE

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ThreatQuotient ups the ante for dealing with security incidents

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ThreatQuotient ups the ante for dealing with security incidents

The hardware and software that constitutes the average organisation’s IT infrastructure records millions of events a day which are recorded in log files. This is known as machine data. Nearly all such events are benign and of littl…READ MORE

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Robert Morgan, RIP

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The sad news that outsourcing pioneer Robert Morgan recently died is a great loss to a great many people.I was with Robert a couple of weeks ago so it was a huge shock to hear of his sudden death.Robert is best known as co-founder of sourcing advisory Morgan Chambers, which cornered its market. It …READ MORE

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Forecasting the future of the unified communications industry

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New trends are reshaping the unified communications industry as organizations embrace the cloud and employees push new methods of collaboration. These trends are influencing the direction of UC vendor portfolios and introducing new technology, such as AI, into the workplace:

1. Digital transforma…READ MORE

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The IT - Business Alignment Paradox

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A lot has been written on this subject over the years and has also been intensely debated in various circuits. The task of aligning IT with business has probably been the most talked-of topic in the IT Management area. Quite a few seminars and talks on this subject that I attended, did talk of a hos…READ MORE

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Using cloud to help public transport operators put passengers first

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In this guest post, Craig Stewart, vice president of product management at cloud integration provider SnapLogic, spells out why the more traditional transport operators need to take a leaf out of their cloud-native competitors’ books to stay relevant and in-touch with changing customer demands. 

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Is AI ethics enough of a niche for the UK’s economic strategy?

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The House of Lords report on AI and UK economy and society came out this week, with the guardedly bullish title: “AI in the UK: ready, willing and able?” The question mark is moot.

I think a strong case can be reasonably made that the government has been using AI as a fig leaf to cover the ec…READ MORE

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CIM references and associations

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Way back in 2011, when I were just a young lad, I wrote about WMI or CIM references and associations – https://wordpress.com/read/blogs/16267735/posts/1673

ASSOCIATORS show the end point of the link between CIM classes and REFERENCES shows the linking class.

I used the Win32_NetworkAdapter cl…READ MORE

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onboard intelligence

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Onboard intelligence is the use of artificial intelligence (AI) that is housed locally in the device it operates. Continued…

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“To enable edge devices to make better decisions, onboard deep learning processors are required.” – Vishnu Andhare
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Machine Learning Is A Subset of Artificial Intelligence

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The key task of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is to make your machines and devices think and thus act intelligently. And this happens with the help of corresponding software that makes machines and devices to think and perform like humans. That is why it is not a misnomer to call Machine Learning a s…READ MORE

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Artificial Intelligence Arrives

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In his 1951 Paper  “The Imitation Game”, Alan Turing proposed a simple test of artificial intelligence. Put a real person in a room connected to a teletype machine, sending messages back and forth to some other entity. If the entity could be a human, or it could be a computer, and the person cannot…READ MORE

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Borderless blockchain collaboration to change how software is developed

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The gaming industry has, despite its roots in technology, so far failed to adopt a collaborative model. But that may be about to change.

Gamers are known as among the most passionate of the world’s digital communities and more games are being released than ever before. This wealth of releases b…READ MORE

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