Circles

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One of my all time favourite films is “The Thomas Crown Affair” – the original NOT the remake. The films theme tune – Windmillls of your Mind – with its focus on circles got me thinking about geometrical calculations in general and circles in particular. I decided I’d create a library of…READ MORE

Richard Siddaway9,830 pointsBadges:

If you can see it, the computer can see it too

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If you’re exploring IoT-enabled technologies for your enterprise, don’t overlook an asset you might already have on site, such as video cameras. IP cameras, which are digital video cameras that use the internet to receive control data and send back image data, are one of the most powerful data-c…READ MORE

Robert Schmid35 pointsBadges:

AWS Re:Invent 2019 new product round-up: What CIOs need to know

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In this guest post, Ivaylo Vrabchev, head of professional services at IT services management company, HeleCloud, shares his round-up of the most eye-catching announcements from this year’s AWS Re:Invent user and developer conference. 

More than 65,000 attendees trekked out to Las Vegas in early …READ MORE

Caroline Donnelly7,680 pointsBadges:

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

Chris Kanaracus50 pointsBadges:

Davos 2020: Tech sector and the climate change challenge

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Last week Microsoft chief, Satya Nadella, made the headlines, with an audacious plan to eradicate the company’s historic carbon footprint, by reversing all its emissions since 1975.

As political and business leaders head to the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, the risks associated with …READ MORE

Cliff Saran12,240 pointsBadges:

2020 The year of VOIP assisted on-line fraud

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The Internet as we know began with a DARPA three way trial of Voice over IP using a Packet Radio Van to simulate the needs of the military for secure mobile communications. The wheel has come full circle. VOIP has not only taken over from analogue telephony it is also at the heart of digital imperso…READ MORE

Philip Virgo4,275 pointsBadges:

NAKIVO Releases Backup & Replication v9.1 Including Data Protection

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NAKIVO releases its much-awaited Backup & Replication solution v9.1. The new release takes data protection to a new level. The backup functionality extends to the untouched zones. The new release adds support for backup to tape and Linux Server Backup. This would bring a sigh of relief to a larg…READ MORE

Jaideep Khanduja19,810 pointsBadges:

Getting MS Mouse&Keyboard Center Version Info

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Trolling my usual news sources this morning, I noticed a story at OnMSFT.com. It reported a new version of the Mouse and Keyboard Center software was out, with support for ARM64 processors, as well as x64 and x86 CPUs. Sure enough, if you visit the MS Mouse and Keyboard Center download page, you’ll …READ MORE

Ed Tittel13,965 pointsBadges:

Visual Data Lineage

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In speaking with customers lately, I am finding more and more attention spent on the lineage of data.  It isn’t enough these days to manage these type of complex movements and manipulations of data with spreadsheets.  More often than not, I am finding customers asking for the golden nugget feature…READ MORE

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Open source licence series - Perforce: it was NEVER about the money

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Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development… but the issue of how open source software is licenced is still the stuff of some debate.

The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team now f…READ MORE

Adrian Bridgwater19,360 pointsBadges:

AWS month in review: An AWS re:Invent recap of overlooked roll outs

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At the 2019 re:Invent, AWS added a host of tools and features, raising the cloud provider’s portfolio to more than 175 services — many of which flew under the radar due to the sheer number of rollouts at the annual conference.

Flashier announcements took up much of the spotlight at re:Invent, …READ MORE

Ryan Dowd215 pointsBadges:

Here we go again - strap yourself in for the next 10-year ride in digital government transformation

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There’s a new UK government, one with a comfortable majority, and it’s clear it wants to use that advantage for radical change.

The new prime minister says the government has “a mission to modernise” in order to “renew our country”.

“The old arguments about government are now out…READ MORE

Bryan Glick6,490 pointsBadges:

Unstructured data is a misnomer

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Nowadays, the term unstructured data pops up everywhere. It owes its popularity for a large part to the success of big data, to successful technologies such as NoSQL and Hadoop, and to formats such as JSON and XML. Unfortunately, different definitions for unstructured data exist. All these different…READ MORE

Rick van der Lans160 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 Peterson40 pointsBadges:

OutSystems Forge fires up the furnace for low-code softwaresmiths 

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Low-code application development company OutSystems has noted a milestone, the firm’s Forge asset portal has hit one million unique component downloads.

The Forge offers access to over 2,500 assets for building low-code apps.

The portal takes its name from ironwork forges operation by blacks…READ MORE

Adrian Bridgwater19,360 pointsBadges:

Plantronics Voyager Focus UC B825 Bluetooth Headset

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Sometimes it’s the unexpected things that make a user like a technology product or service.

You’d expect a £200 (approx) pair of headphones to be better than a £100 pair, but when it comes to Plantronics latest range of cans, we actually preferred the cheaper unit and would like to suggest …READ MORE

Adrian Bridgwater19,360 pointsBadges:

Consent and GDPR: at least get the basics right!

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Why do companies find it so hard to get their heads around even the basics of GDPR compliance? I’m not even thinking here of techie stuff like not getting hacked, and not losing a laptop full of unencrypted customer data.

By comparison, informed consent is simple. I mean, it’s not exactly roc…READ MORE

Bryan Betts340 pointsBadges:

Stop scheduling to go from testing straight to production

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All too often I see the same basic pattern happening.  Software changes are written in dev, those changes to move QA, then the changes move to production.  The problem with this schedule is that if there’s a problem found in the QA process, there’s no time in the schedule for problems to be found …READ MORE

Denny Cherry69,115 pointsBadges:

Systems integrators emerge as key mobile SFA channel

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The mobilized sales force automation market will edge toward $4 billion by 2023 and systems integrators will serve as the main channel partner in that growing field.

A report from Frost & Sullivan, a market research firm based in Santa Clara, Calif., forecasts the North American mobile SFA ma…READ MORE

John Moore4,445 pointsBadges:

I was wrong

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Earlier in the week I wrote a post, Why Johnny Can’t Agile. The post made a point that we might consider giving up on “saving” legacy code bases. That is, code without unit tests, with a high change failure rate, where a change in one place might break another. Perhaps it is all just too hard,…READ MORE

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