October 2019 Activity Contest

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Well, we’re officially approaching the best time of the year… Halloween! Get your PSL’s or your pumpkin beer of choice, because it’s about to get spooky.

Before you start filling your Amazon cart with 50 pound bags of dum dums and a bunch of candy corn nobody will eat, let’s take a look at …READ MORE

Tom Curtin895 pointsBadges:

Women in code series: Cécile Tran

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The Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider team want to talk code and coding.

But more than that, we want to talk coding across the diversity spectrum… so let’s get the tough part out of the way and talk about the problem.

If all were fair and good in the world, it would…READ MORE

Adrian Bridgwater18,425 pointsBadges:

IFS drives ‘open’ into app suite, delivers new native API model

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Enterprise applications company IFS has used its annual user conference to detail work carried out on its major application suite.

The company wants to put the ‘open’ in service management, enterprise resource management (ERP) and enterprise asset management (EAM).

The company says it has …READ MORE

Adrian Bridgwater18,425 pointsBadges:

Multi-Cloud Intelligent Data Protection Solution @aparavisoftware

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Aparavi delivers hybrid and multi-cloud file backup and long-term retention solutions. The new solution Aparavi has designed is to address the varying and fast-growing unstructured data loads that organizations are trying to tackle today. Organizations all across the globe are not only fighting with…READ MORE

Jaideep Khanduja19,265 pointsBadges:

The 3 Ps of location accuracy: Presence, proximity and positioning

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Location has become a critical component across a wide variety of organizations as part of their ever-expanding IoT implementations. As companies get more sophisticated in their knowledge of what IoT can do for their business, they’re moving beyond basic applications to use IoT to better manage ke…READ MORE

Fabio Belloni0 pointsBadges:

Chasing Thunderbolt Drivers Down

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A famous quote from Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 reads “How can he see if he’s got flies in his eyes if he’s got flies in his eyes?” I was reminded of that snippet while chasing my tail this weekend. I wondered why I saw no Thunderbolt device in Device Manager on my Lenovo Thinkpad X380 Yoga laptops. On…READ MORE

Ed Tittel13,540 pointsBadges:

Business, data and analytics strategies – connecting the dots or just collecting?

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This is a guest blogpost by Michael Corcoran, senior vice president at Information Builders (www.informationbuilders.com).

Speaking at our Information Builders’ Summit, IDC Group vice president, Dan Vesset estimated that knowledge workers spend less than 20% of their time on data analysis. The re…READ MORE

Brian McKenna4,535 pointsBadges:

Doing something in a loop in Microsoft flow, and something else if there's no match

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Recently I wanted to make a Microsoft flow process to create channels in Microsoft Teams once a project is ready to start.  If the channel was already there then I wanted a message to be posted to the Teams channel saying that the project was ready, but that it didn’t need to create the channel.  …READ MORE

Denny Cherry69,005 pointsBadges:

Clinical Pathology Laboratories comes forward, also hit by AMCA breach

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Clinical Pathology Laboratories Inc. is the latest victim of a massive data breach that occurred at the American Medical Collection Agency, increasing the number of potentially affected patients to roughly 22 million.

Clinical Pathology Laboratories (CPL), based in Austin, Texas, notified patient…READ MORE

Makenzie Holland735 pointsBadges:

Why You May Not Want to Sign Up for the 'Storage for Life' Deal

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The other day, everywhere I looked, I saw an article about the same product.

5 terabytes of cloud storage! For $99! 89% off! For life!

As an indication of how awesome that deal is, I pay $99 for 2 terabytes from Google now. And that’s per year, not for life.

Yet I didn’t jump all over t…READ MORE

Sharon Fisher9,675 pointsBadges:

Turbocharging Full Fibre/5G Broadband

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Turbocharging is the new post-Boris buzzword. It is apt for the £5 billion pound boost to broadband roll out announced at the Conservative party conference. It does not really matter how much is new money and what the details are. That is likely to emerge during this year’s INCA  conference on the…READ MORE

Philip Virgo4,200 pointsBadges:

Digital process automation: Bonitasoft tool boosts BPM work

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Evoke Technologies, an IT services provider, has been using Bonitasoft’s digital process automation tool and getting results for clients in manufacturing and life sciences.

Evoke, based in Dayton, Ohio, focuses on areas including cloud computing, big data analytics and business process management…READ MORE

John Moore4,210 pointsBadges:

Calling all data storage products for the 2019 Products of the Year

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Do you have a great data storage product that first shipped or was significantly enhanced this year? If yes, we want to hear about it. There’s just one week left to enter your outstanding product in Storage magazine and SearchStorage’s 2019 Storage Products of the Year competition.

We’ve just ext…READ MORE

Stacey Peterson5 pointsBadges:

Five ways a managed print service can support cyber resilience

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As IoT devices, smart MFPs are susceptible to the growing threat of attempts to implant malware, recruit to botnets (to help perpetrate DDoS attacks), as well as potentially providing an open gateway to the corporate network. A managed print service (MPS) is an effective approach to building a mult…READ MORE

Louella Fernandes335 pointsBadges:

When does the state of quantum computing become relevant for CIOs?

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Is there a reason normal CIOs should be thinking about the state of quantum computing? It depends on how one defines normal, was Brian Hopkins’ answer. Hopkins is a Forrester Research analyst who focuses on emerging tech.

“It’s very much dependent on the industry you’re in. We think the first bre…READ MORE

Linda Tucci8,270 pointsBadges:

What developers need to know about an Alexa vulnerability

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A security vulnerability was discovered in July 2019 that showed Amazon’s cloud servers contained voice recordings of Alexa interactions from customers. Furthermore, improper handling of records retained by Amazon, along with this Alexa vulnerability, could expose users’ private data to a potentia…READ MORE

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Mark Zuckerberg’s existential threat

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When we heard that some of Mark Zuckerberg’s Q&A sessions with his Facebook massive had been released by The Verge, we hardly expected to witness a grand reveal of them all kicking off their shoes and letting their cloven hooves breathe free. It’s only an audio leak.
But hold the Sweet Baby…READ MORE

Ryan Priest955 pointsBadges:

Getting cloud under control: A how-to guide for CIOs

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In this guest post, Dave Locke, chief technology advisor for Europe, Middle East and Africa, at IT service provider World Wide Technology, sets out why organisations need a clear, consistent and easy-to-follow strategy to keep their cloud plans in check.

In August 2006, Google’s then-CEO Eric S…READ MORE

Caroline Donnelly7,350 pointsBadges:

New iOS features and other announcements from Apple WWDC 2019

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Apple announced many new features for iPads, iPhones and more at its Worldwide Developer Conference this week.

While announcements such as iOS 13’s dark mode and the $999 price tag for the Pro Stand desktop display stand garnered attention, there were plenty of announcements regarding new iOS fea…READ MORE

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What AWS and Azure’s cloud market growth says about IT

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Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud market revenues continue to grow at a torrid pace, reflecting IT departments’ increased comfort and reliance on cloud computing services.

Azure revenue, which is counted among Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud business division, grew 73% in Q1 2019. Intelligent Cloud sa…READ MORE

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