Super friends: IoT, AI and cloud create a powerful team

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What do blockbuster movies have to do with IoT? More than you might think.

Superhero movies are the big box office draw right now, with superhero team movies leading the way. Even if you’ve never seen one, you probably know the formula: A group of superheroes with different powers and vulnerabili…READ MORE

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KB4465065 Offers New Microcode Fixes

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On March 19, Microsoft issued a new and comprehensive set of microcode fixes for Intel CPUs. These go back to Ivy Bridge (and perhaps earlier) and address potential issues on all of my PCs. They may do likewise for yours. In fact, KB4465065 offers new microcode fixes for three specific vulnerabiliti…READ MORE

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How not to write a Git commit message

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I’m working on an article that outlines how to write a good Git commit message, along with a variety of Git commit message conventions and rules that developers should follow. But, as I write about the best practices developers should follow, I constantly find myself in an internal discussion of wha…READ MORE

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NVIDIA Inception Startups Get Free MapR Enterprise License @mapr

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MapR announces MapR AI Edge Program. This program benefits all NVIDIA Inception startup members with a free MapR enterprise license. This is something phenomenal. And it means a lot for the startup community. What it means is that all NVIDIA AI startups can boost their AI development lifecycle with …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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Another Year Gone, Another Year as a VMware vExpert

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Another year has past, and VMware has decided to make me a VMware vExpect again. I believe that this is the 5th time I’ve been a VMware vExpect (the 4th time in a row, there was a gap year because I forgot to fill out the form, it was a thing).

I’m thrilled that VMware has decided to give me this…READ MORE

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CMS taps Mark Roche as agency's first chief healthcare informatics officer

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services appointed a new leader to drive change and interoperability in healthcare from the federal level.

Mark Roche, a physician informaticist, will take on the newly formed role as chief healthcare informatics officer, a position created last year by the C…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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The Cloud Bait and Switch

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When we started to talk about the cloud, twenty years ago, it was a picture on a napkin. We would draw one physical, concrete system, then an arrow, then a cloud. The cloud represented “the internet.” Its great power was that it was not concrete.

We did not know where the internet was. We did not…READ MORE

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MPs hear more revelations about Gov.uk Verify as troubled project gets a new leader

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Hello and good luck, to Lisa Barrett  – the newly appointed director of digital identity at the Government Digital Service (GDS). She’s taken on what many people outside GDS see as something of a poisoned chalice.

You might think it strange, that this job has been created for the first time bare…READ MORE

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NAS vendor RackTop Systems gets first funding haul

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RackTop Systems has racked up its first round of outside capital, six years after launching its “cyber-converged” BrickStor NAS appliances. The Fulton, Md.-based vendor received $15 million in a Series A round to fund a storage product that focuses on security for large capacities of data.

“W…READ MORE

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Powershell default parameters

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The issue Scope issue with Install-Module that I discussed in recent posts is annoying because I know that I’ll forget about it and end up installing in the wrong place and have to uninstall and reinstall. Then I remembered PowerShell default parameters.

By adding the line

$PSDefaultParamete…READ MORE

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Fun Hacking Salvaged Data Storage

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Every few years, someone hits the papers—or, in this day and age, the Internet – by going out to eBay or Craigslist, buying a bunch of old computers, and checking out what data is still available on them.

This year, it was Josh Frantz, a senior security consultant for Rapid7, a security firm,…READ MORE

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Moogsoft CTO Cappelli: hats off to understanding AI understanding

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The Computer Weekly Developer Network team spoke this month to Will Cappelli in his role as CTO for EMEA and VP of product strategy at Moogsoft on the subject of just how far we need to understand Artificial Intelligence’s ability to understand, reason and infer on the world around it. 

Moogso…READ MORE

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SuSE touts ‘move to independence’

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Corporate (but ultimately technically-related) news from March saw the completion of SuSE’s acquisition by growth investor EQT from Micro Focus.

EQT is a Scandinavia equity funds organisation that has previously spoken of its intentions to invest in engineering prowess at SuSE itself.

As Tec…READ MORE

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Is open source lock-in possible?

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Earlier this week, open source software company SuSE announced that it is strengthening its presence in the Asia-Pacific region following its acquisition by growth investor EQT from Micro Focus.

Well-known for its SuSE Linux distro that got me into Linux during my student years, SuSE is now Europ…READ MORE

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Dell EMC partner strategy stays the course for FY20

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Ahead of its 2019 global partner summit, Dell EMC isn’t veering from its core channel priorities.

Since the formal launch of the Dell EMC Partner Program in 2017, the company’s channel strategy hasn’t seen any significant overhauls. In February, which marked the start of Dell Technologies’ fisca…READ MORE

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Remainers accidentally DDoS the British government

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With eight days until the UK’s scheduled exit from the European Union, a prime minister who has lost control, a paralysed political system, and Britain reduced to a laughing stock on the world stage as it limps into an entirely avoidable humiliation, the country feels like it’s on the edge of total …READ MORE

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Vote Leave’s early bath

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Vote Leave’s band of zip-wiring cowboy builders has been handed another fine: this time for sending out nearly 200,000 unsolicited texts to the poor sods who entered their contest to win £50m if they could correctly guess every single result of Euro 2016.

At this point, the Vote Leav…READ MORE

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Welcome to the new legacy

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Budgets in IT general do not grow at a rate that can sustain stellar financial performance across the IT industry.

However, Gartner’s latest spending forecast has reported that worldwide software spending projected to grow 8.5% in 2019. It will grow another 8.2% in 2020 to total $466 billion. A…READ MORE

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