Opinion: New APIs work to connect apps to multiple messaging platforms

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Note: Vonage is a client of ZK Research.

The digital transformation era has arrived, and market leadership will be largely based on excellence in customer service. In 2017, ZK Research data showed two-thirds of millennials changed brand loyalties because of a bad experience. Provide a great custo…READ MORE

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For smarter buildings, we need to bridge the IT-facilities divide

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IoT technologies are starting to bring significant benefits to organizations that operate multiple physical locations, reducing equipment costs and downtime and providing a better experience for customers. But to build the infrastructure and data pipelines that enable these benefits, facilities mana…READ MORE

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Ctera Networks snares $30 million in Series D funding round

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Ctera Networks CEO Liran Eshel said his cloud file system company became cash flow positive this year, but it grabbed $30 million in new funding to grow as part of a booming market.

Ctera Networks raised $30 million in Series D growth equity funding to expand its global sales and delivery organiz…READ MORE

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Enterprise digital transformation: How CIOs can drive business growth

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Digital transformation is becoming a reality for many organizations: IDC forecasts worldwide spending on technologies and services that drive enterprise digital transformation to soar past $1 trillion in 2018. As a result, CIOs must be more mindful of overall business needs when implementing digital…READ MORE

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Cisco announces new version of CCIE SP Written and Lab Contents with version 4.1

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Recently Cisco updated the blueprint for the Cisco CCIE Service Provider Written & Lab exams, the new CCIE SP version 4.1 is only about 10% different than its preceding version 4.0. The exam format still remains the same, the CCIE SP written exam number also remains the same (400-201) and the CC…READ MORE

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No Cloud Over VDI!

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Unsurprisingly, whatever the IT genre and whatever the weather, cloud is always on the horizon right now.

One of several top meetings I had last week within IP Expo’s confines was with Morteza Esteki of Liquidware (glamorously assisted by Jane Rimmer of Hiviz Marketing of course, from an original…READ MORE

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Spiceworks puts 'personalisation factor' into IT procurement

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Technology marketplace company Spiceworks has detailed how it thinks new Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities can be used to drive a ‘new personalisation factor’ at the connection point between technology buyers and sellers.

The firm estimates the IT industry to be worth as much as US$3 (UKÂ…READ MORE

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Algorithm gets cancelled

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Amazon has had to rein in the artificial intelligence it was using to help vet job applicants after picking up on its male chauvinist tendencies.
As is the case with its human bigot counterparts, the recruitment engine’s evident hatred of women was a learned behaviour. Most of the applications ov…READ MORE

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The fintech interview: Part 4 Akoni

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In my latest fintech interview meet London based Akoni, a company which offers SMEs a platform that provides functionality normally reserved to large corporate treasury departments.

Read how Akoni’s platform links SMEs to banks and automates the process of finding the most appropriate financial…READ MORE

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translation lookaside buffer (TLB)

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A translation lookaside buffer (TLB) is a memory cache that stores recent translations of virtual memory to physical addresses for faster retrieval. Continued…

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“TLB-splitting segregates the portion of a computer’s memory where a program stores its data from the portion where i…READ MORE

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Excellent PowerShell Day

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I spent yesterday at the excellent PowerShell Day UK 2018 – https://psday.uk/

I presented the keynote and a technical session on CIM

The organisers are to be congratulated for producing an excellent event.

The dates haven’t been settled but I’ve been assured that the event will return n…READ MORE

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Blockchain for Mere Mortals

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If you’re anything like me, you’ve heard a lot about Blockchain. According to some, it is a distributed ledger technology that will make middle-person companies like Airbnb, Uber, Turo, and Taskrabbit obsolete. Others claim Blockchain will enable people to securely document their land ownership,…READ MORE

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SpiceWorld 2018 Confirms Win10 Migration Intelligence

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For the past two days I’ve been wandering the halls of the Austin Convention Center, along with two-plus-thousand fellow SpiceHeads. This humble Pimiento is palling around with Habaneros, Serranos, and a Ghost Pepper or two. I even saw two Pure Capsaicins achieve the spiciest of all designations T…READ MORE

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GDS must share the lessons of Verify - good and bad - to boost the digital identity ecosystem

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Depending on your perspective, Gov.uk Verify is now either secure in its future at the heart of the UK’s emerging digital identity ecosystem, or it has one foot in the grave and is on the way to its inevitable demise.

The Cabinet Office has produced a carefully worded announcement that leaves r…READ MORE

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DataStax code leader: how to be a good guru

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Developers need thought leadership, it’s a fact.

It is for this reason that software application development focused tech vendors often employ futurists, evangelists and advocates.

Computer Weekly Open Source Insider asked DataStax ‘solutions architect / vanguard’ (Ed: wow, that’s a ne…READ MORE

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When modern meetings don't work

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Once upon a time, pretty much every meeting had a minute-taker – someone who kept notes, summarising who said what. These meeting minutes were circulated afterwards for comment and correction, and to confirm actions that people had said they would carry out.

Then teleconferencing happened, and …READ MORE

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Taming the flow monster in real-time payments

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This is a guest post by Bhupendra Warathe, chief information officer for corporate and institutional Banking, information technology and operations at Standard Chartered Bank

As the world adopts real-time payments, creating massive volumes of instantaneous transfers in seconds, the challenge for…READ MORE

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New Zealand border phone searches cause outcry

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We’ve had this in the U.S. for a while, but now it’s happening elsewhere: Enter New Zealand, and either be willing to hand over your smartphone and password, or pay a $3200 fine.

“New laws that came into effect in New Zealand on October 1 give border agents ‘…the power to make a full …READ MORE

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How do you setup Disaster Recovery for people?

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Normally large companies invest in Business Continuity (BC) sites, hardware, and people to keep companies up and running in the event of a disaster. But what happens when your working with a small company and the CEO is suddenly unavailable for 2-3 months because of a medical emergency or other di…READ MORE

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TechTarget's weekly roundup (10/1 - 10/8)

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How do you think the merger of Cloudera and Hortonworks will affect your use of Hadoop? Find out why the new company may be more competitive with AWS and Google in this week’s roundup.

1. Cloudera-Hortonworks merger narrows Hadoop users’ options – Jack Vaughan (Search…READ MORE

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