Formulus Black Revolutionizes Computing with ForsaOS @FormulusBlack

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Formulus Black, a ventured startup, creates a new landmark in computing by changing the whole paradigm. It is something that is happening for the first time in the world. While so many giants might have been struggling with this idea and finding ways to give it a real shape, Formulus Black breaks th…READ MORE

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Why are connected device risks more inherent with APIs?

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I recently purchased a Bluetooth speaker. All the prior Bluetooth speakers I owned had two connectivity modes: pairing with phones or tablets via Bluetooth, or physically plugging in an Aux cable.

This model of Bluetooth speaker was different — it demanded a Wi-Fi connection. I was curious and a…READ MORE

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Another turn of the screw on the CIO job? All hail the CIO-plus

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What is it about the CIO job that makes it so ripe for over-analysis? As long as I’ve been covering CIOs, there’s been hand-wringing over how to fill the job successfully. CIOs need to have a seat at the table to do well. They need to partner with the CFO, work hand-in-glove with the CMO, generate r…READ MORE

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What the Myspace data loss debacle tells us about how the internet values creative content

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The news that Myspace lost 12 years of user-generated content during a botched server migration has prompted a lot of debate this week, which Caroline Donnelly picks over here. 

When details of Myspace’s server migration snafu broke free from Reddit, where the incident has been discussed and k…READ MORE

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Using business intelligence tools to prevent team burnout

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This is a guest blogpost by Andrew Filev, founder and CEO, Wrike.

Since no business wants to leave money on the table, it’s tempting to try to squeeze as much productivity as possible out of your workforce to execute every campaign, programme, and project available.

The problem with this app…READ MORE

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Ribbon ties developers to connected comms on AT&T API marketplace

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US telecoms stalwart AT&T is expanding its Application Programming Interface (API) marketplace connectivity points.

The AT&T API Marketplace (it’s an online store zone, not a real market, obviously) hosts pre-packaged software code for developers to embed into communications-related web…READ MORE

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I thought my days of Linux were over

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Oh, how wrong I was. Back in the day, all I worked on was Microsoft SQL Server. These days I’m doing some Microsoft SQL Server and a decent amount of Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS cloud work. With all three of those, there’s a lot of Linux in play. Microsoft SQL Server has supported Linux since…READ MORE

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How Instacart works around buggy Elasticsearch queries

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Enterprises that use Elasticsearch to find dynamic information in other apps are struggling to identify errant code that stalls enterprise apps. In theory, application performance monitoring tools should help. But, it wasn’t enough for Instacart to identify the queries that consistently created prob…READ MORE

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Big Switch builds open source network operating system

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Big Switch Networks describes itself as the cloud-first networking company.

The firm focuses on what public cloud-style networking matched with hybrid cloud consistency.

News this month sees the firm launch an open source network operating system.

Big Switch says that key points to zone in …READ MORE

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'Lunar Library' is the Ultimate Backup

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No doubt you’ve heard the advice to keep at least one of your backups off-site. One company is taking that advice really seriously: It’s planning to store one on the moon.

The Israeli spacecraft Beresheet took off recently, and its cargo includes a 30-million page archive of human knowledge, …READ MORE

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A New Source for Kubernetes Knowledge

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It’s been a few months since I posted anything on this blog, and especially anything having to do with Kubernetes. Part of that had to do with work projects and other technology projects, but it also had to do with moving (and updating) all of the content for the weekly Kubernetes-centric podcast th…READ MORE

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Praising Voidtools Everything

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According to its online description voidtools Everything “is a desktop search utility for Windows that can rapidly find files and folders by name.” I’ve been a user and fan of this tool for years. But yesterday, I got a real glimpse of what it can do in the Windows environment. I’m helping a friend …READ MORE

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Predicting Senturion’s magnificent seven

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Luxury wrist-worn supercar key manufacturer Senturion has revealed it will release seven limited edition £211,550 pieces, fashioned from some asteroid, later this year. But who’ll get them?
They remind us a bit of a Power Rangers watch – not aesthetically dissimilar – we pestered our parents…READ MORE

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With Rubrik Go, backup vendor adopts evergreen pricing

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Converged secondary data vendor Rubrik is the latest storage vendor to jump on the cloud-like pricing bandwagon.

Rubrik today said it is adding a subscription pricing model, called Rubrik Go. Go is a three-year subscription that covers software, support and hardware – including refreshes – fo…READ MORE

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Synechron demos asset tokenization on blockchain

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Synechron, a consulting firm focusing on financial services, is applying emerging digital strategies such as asset tokenization in the rapidly growing wealth management industry.

The New York-based company earlier this month launched its Wealth Tech Accelerator program, which aims to marshal tech…READ MORE

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Hear from some of the women shaping UK fintech

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Innovate Finance released its Women in FinTech Powerlist last month with a list of 150 women who, its says “have made a real impact over and above their day-to-day role in fintech.” There were 1200 entries.

Charlotte Crosswell, CEO at Innovate Finance, said these women are making a major impa…READ MORE

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Engineer Mindset, Entrepreneur Mindset

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It’s been eights years now since I took Excelon Development full-time. In that time I’ve had the pleasure of deal with slow-paying customers, not-enough customers, an employee or two, and a whole lot of of contractors. I’ve also had the ironical pleasure of reading about the “Entrepreneur mindset” a…READ MORE

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MWC 2019: Robots, robots and robots, oh my!

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All the world loves robots, and when they are robots holding something a human might hold, doing an activity a human might do, and preferably doing it while looking a bit like a human (two legs, arms, a smiley cartoon face, etc) the world loves them even more.

And at Mobile World Congress in Barc…READ MORE

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March 2019 Activity Contest

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Well, ITKE users, we have a first this month. In true March Madness fashion, two of our top users have TIED in points for the month of February! ToddN2000 and Subhendu Sen have been pillars in our community for years, and their accomplishments here are remarkable. Looks like we’ll have…READ MORE

Tom Curtin460 pointsBadges:

Do we need an ‘app’ for mindfulness?

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Software application developers will always be looking to create the next big thing (Twitter etc.) and come up with a killer app to forge their name in history.

So what’s trending next?

A recent BBC television documentary by Dr Chris and Dr Xand Van Tulleken investigated mental health and st…READ MORE

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