Compuware unifies an Agile ‘DevOps toolchain’ across the mainframe

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Compuware has been busy.

Along with its usual weekly basket of supermarket essentials, the firm has announced a product acquisition, unveiled enhancements to its automated unit testing tool Topaz for Total Test, plus also unveiled a partnership designed to champion Agile and DevOps on mainframes …READ MORE

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Win10 Migration Survey Reveals 2018 Challenges

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Jeremy Moskowitz, Group Policy MVP, offers an interesting survey covering Windows 10 migration challenges. It’s entitled “The 2018 State of Windows 10 Migration Challenges Report.” (Sign-up link for download: registration required.) The survey involves over 500 organizations from over 30 countries, …READ MORE

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Lenovo picks Cloudistics as ThinkAgile CP partner

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Like the other major server vendors, Lenovo proclaims it is “all in” on hyper-convergence and software-defined storage. It just goes about it in a different way.

Unlike the Dell EMC VxRail, Cisco HyperFlex and Hewlett Packard SimpliVity and Synergy platforms, Lenovo does not develop its own h…READ MORE

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Chief data officer role today: Less on defense, more on offense

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Customer experience is front and center for every member of the C-suite today — from the CEO down. That goes for the chief data officer role, too. CDOs were once seen as the high stewards of data quality and data governance. Today, they are increasingly asked to generate revenue for the company.

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Putting IoT to work in the intelligent office

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Sometimes I get nostalgic about overhead projectors.

The teacher would turn off the lights, turn on the projector, take out a transparency and a dry-erase marker and begin a lecture. The overhead projector was simple technology that was an essential part of the classroom through the 1990s. Fun fa…READ MORE

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New blockchain network to ease pan-Asian trade

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Singapore-based Global eTrade Services (Gets) has launched an open trade blockchain (OTB) network to boost cross-border trade between China and the rest of Asia.

Aligned with China’s Belt Road Initiative (BRI) and the Southern Transport Corridor, the permissioned blockchain network is run by tr…READ MORE

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The secret history behind the success of npm and Node

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When JavaScript was first introduced, it was a programming toy that sort of worked, but worked differently across browsers. But a few pioneers saw the potential for bringing this language to the back-end as well, where it has transformed the application development landscape. We caught up with CJ Si…READ MORE

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Chitty Chitty Bond Bond

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Aston Martin unveiling plans for a “sports car of the skies” will presumably cause some headaches for those James Bond fans of the school of thought that nothing about the franchise should ever under any circumstances deviate from Ian Fleming’s books to reflect the modern world.
James Bond is…READ MORE

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A conference room for the future

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In some ways, the recent completion of Plantronics’ $2 billion purchase of Polycom was more surprising for the amount paid than the fact that this is basically an audio headset supplier taking over a conferencing technology veteran. Given the way that videoconferencing has evolved to the cloud, Po…READ MORE

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data scientist

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A data scientist is a professional responsible for collecting, analyzing and interpreting large amounts of data to identify ways to help a business improve operations and gain a competitive edge over rivals. Continued…

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“Beyond math skills, data scientists must be able to t…READ MORE

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London Fintechs: Could Saudi Arabia be your next stage growth opportunity?

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At the London Fintech Week event recently I attended a presentation from the Saudi Arabian general Investment Authority (SAGIA). Omar Rebhan, head of the UK office of the organisation, was talking about the opportunities for fintechs to set up shop in Saudi Arabia.

I am always told that countries…READ MORE

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What are ‘mature’ stateful applications?

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BlueK8s is a new open source Kubernetes initiative from ‘big data workloads’ company BlueData — the project’s direction leads us to learn a little about which direction containerised cloud-centric applications are growing.

Kubernetes is a portable and extensible open source platform for ma…READ MORE

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General availability: SQL Database auto-failover groups - and it looks awesome

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A really great feature in Azure SQL DB went GA today. That feature gives you and SQL DB the ability to automatically fail databases over to a Secondary replia, without having to configure your application to handle that failover. You point your application at a VIP and that VIP will automatically ha…READ MORE

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Top 10 VMworld 2018 sessions to look forward to

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VMworld is right around the corner and the 2018 conference promises an exciting mix of keynotes and breakout sessions that cover a variety of emerging and established technologies. Whether you’re looking to get a sneak peek at VMware’s multi-cloud plans, get updated on vSphere’s current capabilities…READ MORE

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UK PowerShell conference

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There’s a one day PowerShell conference in October in London – https://powershell.org/2018/07/17/psdayuk-2018-the-uk-powershell-conference/

It’s rumoured I may be there and speaking…READ MORE

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Walmart's cloud strategy sticks by OpenStack, despite Azure migration

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Walmart’s cloud deployment strategy takes a big turn to Microsoft Azure, but it won’t leave OpenStack completely in the dust.

A five-year deal to make Microsoft Azure the preferred cloud provider for Walmart, the largest corporation in the world, isn’t a shocker, but it does raise questions about…READ MORE

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To fix healthcare IT, start with medical appointment reminders

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All the talk about interoperability in healthcare misses the point, according to Rick Halton, vice president of Lumeon, a European automated care pathway platform provider that moved in to the US market last fall.

For Halton the place to start is with the appointment reminder. “It’s so basic,…READ MORE

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Era of the Smart Factory: how can manufacturers get to the future quicker?

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This is a guest blogpost by Antony Bourne, Industries President at IFS

Businesses are constantly told they will go bust if they do not digitally transform and quick, but for manufacturers it’s not quite as simple. If production goes down even for a day, the impact can be irreversible, with mill…READ MORE

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Is the new California privacy law a domestic GDPR?

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The difference between data privacy protections afforded to European Union residents and people in the U.S. is more sharply highlighted now that the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation has taken effect. Will passage of a new California privacy law make a difference?

At first glance, it may se…READ MORE

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Optimizing Distributed Teams

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When I was in graduate school at Grand Valley State University, I wrote but never published a paper on distributed teams.

The body of the paper was shorter than the title.

The title of the paper was “On the Optimization of physically distributed analysis, design, code, test, operations, and ma…READ MORE

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