Yottabytes: Storage and Disaster Recovery by Sharon Fisher
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A blog for users, storage solution providers -- including value-added resellers (VARs), systems integrators, managed service providers (MSPs) and consultants -- about data storage hardware and software products and services, backup/archiving products and services, disaster recovery, storage area networks (SANs) and network-attached storage (NAS).
The role of IoT and data analytics in equipment wellness
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The rise of the internet of things across industries has been huge over the last few years, and it’s only growing. IDC research finds that worldwide spending on IoT is forecast to reach $772.5 billion in 2018; a 15% increase over IoT spend in 2017. Led by manufacturing, transportation, and logistics…READ MORE
martech (marketing technology)
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Martech is the area of customer relationship management (CRM) that is concerned with using digital tools to automate tasks and help marketers make data-driven decisions. Continued…
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“Everyone should have a good idea of their CRM capabilities, their automation system and where t…READ MORE
Is AI ethics enough of a niche for the UK’s economic strategy?
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The House of Lords report on AI and UK economy and society came out this week, with the guardedly bullish title: “AI in the UK: ready, willing and able?” The question mark is moot.
I think a strong case can be reasonably made that the government has been using AI as a fig leaf to cover the ec…READ MORE
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It’s a truism that IT essentially reinvents itself every decade or so.
In some ways this can be rightly seen as a cynical way to repackage the same old tosh and sell it again to confused.com IT departments afraid of having an unsupported IT implementation. But it does also spawn benefits, not l…READ MORE
Why Windrush scandal demonstrates the importance of technology to political decision-making
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The Windrush scandal has revealed many disturbing things about government policy that have nothing to do with IT. But the issues raised amply demonstrate the importance of technology considerations in driving 21st century political decision-making.
Tony Smith, the interim director general of the …READ MORE
Twilio’s developer-first approach to programmable cellular communications
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Cloud communications software company Twilio has announced Twilio Programmable Wireless.
This is programmable cellular communications software that offers APIs to power web-connected Internet of Things (IoT) products.
To be clear, Twilio is making the cellular connectivity element itself progr…READ MORE
Growth mindset lets Microsoft love Linux
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Timed to coincide with the RSA security conference, Microsoft has announced Azure Sphere, a new solution for creating highly-secured, Internet-connected microcontroller devices. But there’s a bit more to it than that. Enabled by the company’s newly found ‘growth mindset’, Microsoft engineers can hap…READ MORE
Huawei’s industry vision offers glimpse into its priorities
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At Huawei’s annual analyst summit in Shenzhen this week, the Chinese technology giant unveiled its predictions about what the future holds from a technology perspective in its Global Industry Vision (GIV) 2025 report.
The crystal-ball-gazing exercise involved the use of its own “unique resear…READ MORE
CrowdStrike unveils Meltdown exploit in unusual fashion
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SAN FRANCISCO – CrowdStrike displayed a flare for the dramatic — as well as a touch of ego — at RSA Conference Wednesday when it snubbed various threat actor groups for the company’s “adversary Oscars” and gave the top prize to itself.
The cybersecurity vendor unveiled a new Meltdown exploit,…READ MORE
Code reviews and Iron Scripter
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Many organisations use code reviews to help ensure a quality outcome. At the recent PowerShell Summit we ran a scripting competition – Iron Scripter. I’ve had a thought on how code reviews and Iron Scripter have something in common. Something that could lead to a better code review.
Iron Scri…READ MORE
Applying AI: Accenture exec cites customer opportunities
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The task of applying AI, digital thread and augmented reality to here-and-now business challenges is much on the mind of Mike Sutcliff, group chief executive at Accenture Digital. Sutcliff discussed those technologies with SearchITChannel in a recent email interview. Here are some excerpts from that…READ MORE
Facebook's Private Setting No Shield in Forman Case
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If you’ve been revealing secrets on Facebook and thinking that you’re okay because your messages and postings are private, not public, think again: a recent court case ruled that attorneys could rule to more easily discover private as well as public Facebook material.
The case is Forman vs. H…READ MORE
Veeam and Pure Storage team up on data protection, production
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Four months after the release of Veeam’s Universal Storage API, Veeam and Pure Storage have teamed up to streamline data protection and storage, and speed recovery.
The integration — initiated through the API — between the Veeam Availability Platform and the Pure Storage FlashArray allows joint…READ MORE
When it comes to mobile spectrum, it's time for Three to get over itself
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I was hugely pleased today to see that despite the possibility of another legal roadblock in the Court of Appeal, telecoms regulator Ofcom is going to move ahead and lay the groundwork for the long-delayed auction of two massive slices of radio spectrum, one to support enhanced 4G mobile networks, a…READ MORE
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The sad news that outsourcing pioneer Robert Morgan recently died is a great loss to a great many people.I was with Robert a couple of weeks ago so it was a huge shock to hear of his sudden death.Robert is best known as co-founder of sourcing advisory Morgan Chambers, which cornered its market. It …READ MORE
Using cloud to help public transport operators put passengers first
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In this guest post, Craig Stewart, vice president of product management at cloud integration provider SnapLogic, spells out why the more traditional transport operators need to take a leaf out of their cloud-native competitors’ books to stay relevant and in-touch with changing customer demands.
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This is a guest post by Peter Duffy, CTO, Sumerian
British consumers are increasingly bombarded with a constant stream of companies attempting to bring their latest deals and products to their customers’ fingertips.
This has fantastic implications for both parties involved, however in orde…READ MORE
Blended security threats require a unified response
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The new mantra today is that it is not if your organisation will suffer a security breach, but when. In a recent survey released during Infosec Europe 2013, 93% of large organisations reported that they had been breached in the past year, as did 87% of small organisations. And the report also shows …READ MORE
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Don’t be alarmed, I am still alive! After a long absence I’m back after an unofficial hiatus. Past six months have been particular busy and it’s been awhile, but that’s always the risk of writing a blog when you have a full time job, a life and a family. So, I’m back and better than ever, well at le…READ MORE
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I’m sad to say that this will be my last post here on Computer Weekly’s Social Enterprise, so I’m afraid I must bid you farewell. I don’t know what’s going to happen here, whether someone else will take over or whether the archives will be preserved in aspic. But I do know that I’m sad to see the …READ MORE