JSON documents in Azure and IF/THEN blocks

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If you do any work in Azure you’ve probably done deployments using JSON scripts. Originally JSON in Azure didn’t support much, you could create objects, but if you put it in the JSON script, it would be created.

Thank thankfully isn’t the case anymore. We now have conditions in JSON in Azure whic…READ MORE

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Kafkaesque: Instaclustr creates Kafka-as-a-Service

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Instaclustr has announced Kafka-as-a-Service in bid to provide an easier route to the real-time data streaming platform

An open source player from the start, the e-dropping Instaclustr specifies that this release follows an ‘early access programe’ that saw a handful of Instaclustr users deplo…READ MORE

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Enterprise AI: fiction and reality

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If you are starting to suspect that the AI hype is overblown, and that it’s just the latest term that marketing folk love to add to make their product sound more interesting, you are not alone. You’d be wrong though – the AI effect is very real, and is set to make serious waves across many industr…READ MORE

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Got questions? Get them answered -- and make better data-driven business decisions

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No one wants poisoned food — or the resulting misery — and CIOs, chief data officers, business analysts and other data wranglers don’t want poisoned data. But it’s out there, perhaps spreading even now throughout your company, even as you strive to make data-driven business decisions. Anthony Acca…READ MORE

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Grab New DriverStore Explorer from GitHub

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Over the years I’ve written repeatedly about a terrrific tool from ace developers Kannan Ramanathan and Teddy Zhang. It’s called DriverStore Explorer, also known by its executable name: RAPR.exe. A few years back this open source project moved from Microsoft’s CodePlex to GitHub. This great little …READ MORE

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Aging successfully in technology: Addressing the graying elephant in the room

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Consider this: the median age of a Google employee is 29. At Amazon, it’s 32. On an industry-wide scale, the average age for a software developer in the United States is 28, according to Stack Overflow’s 2018 Developer Survey. In Russia, it’s 25. For India, it’s 23. Given these facts along with …READ MORE

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Can Hitachi Vantara build 'ecosystem, stack, platform' universe with enough granular clout?

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Hitachi Vantara continues its development in the post-HDS post-Pentaho post- ‘the other bit’ (okay we know it was Hitachi Insight Group) amalgam that has seen the company now build its current stack (it would say platform) of combined software and hardware engineering.

Platform indeed… the …READ MORE

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TechTarget's weekly roundup (6/11 - 6/18)

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How should the U.S. government address North Korean cyberattacks during summit negotiations? Find out why we should still be worried about North Korean hacking and cyberespionage in this week’s roundup.

1. North Korea hacking threat still looms despite summit -…READ MORE

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SaaS vs IaaS vs on-premise: What if moving to the cloud is not the answer?

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In this guest post, Richard Blanford, managing director of G-cloud-listed IT services provider Fordway, advises companies to weigh up the pros and cons of using SaaS and IaaS before going all-in on the cloud.

For many organisations, moving to the cloud makes complete business sense. If I set up a…READ MORE

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European Parliament heads for showdown with US over Privacy Shield

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By Kevin Cahill

The Justice Committee of the European Parliament has set the scene for a major showdown with the US over data transfers between the EU and the US by setting a Sept 1st deadline for the US to get in compliance with EU law.

At issue is the Privacy Shield non-legal, non-binding re…READ MORE

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Endpoint Security Means Complete Lifecycle Security On A Single Platform

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This is my concluding post on Top Security Concerns For 2018-2019, a 3-posts series. As we see Encryption, SOC and Mobility remain the top concerns in this regard. In my last post, we were talking about the increasing trends of mobility of employees of an organization. Thus, automatically, a new dem…READ MORE

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Maxta MxSP dons its Red Hat for container storage

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Maxta MxSP hyper-converged infrastructure is expanding integration with Red Hat. The software-only vendor has added support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, which is built on Red Hat Container Native Storage with GlusterFS file system.

The move is designed to ease migration of containers…READ MORE

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Plural and possessive acronyms

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In a lifecycle-focused API management platform, specific types of software manage each stage of the _____ lifecycle.

A. APIs
B. API’s

Answer: B

Plurals and possessives can be confusing when it comes to acronyms. A good rule of thumb is to use ‘s when the a…READ MORE

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Becoming better with blockchain

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Blockchain, best known for being the technology behind cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, has gained significant popularity over the last couple of years. Today, however, its value in other applications may be greater than the initial application which popularized the technology.

Know…READ MORE

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Can good data approaches help uncover bad data social manipulation?

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Software definitely helped cause the pernicious problem of fake news – but could also ameliorate it, says data expert Emil Eifrem, in a guest blogpost.

Time was it was the tabloid newspapers that cornered the market when it came to fake news (remember ‘Freddy Starr Ate My Hamster’?). These …READ MORE

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The next moves by DCMS on data and digital identity must lay foundations for UK's digital economy

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Matt Hancock, the secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport (DCMS), is not everyone’s cup of tea – especially when that cup is Matt Hancock branded. But regardless of whether you’re a fan or not, he’s clearly on a mission to accelerate the UK’s digital economy, and is winnin…READ MORE

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'Gen V' attacks: The next cybersecurity problem?

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In a recent online presentation, Check Point Software Technologies founder and CEO Gil Shwed stated that “we are at an inflection point” when it comes to cybersecurity.

Shwed’s statement came on the heels of Check Point’s release of its 2018 report that found 97% of surveyed companies were unprep…READ MORE

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Fixing the future of Fax - more important than you might have thought?

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There is a term which crops up a lot in the technology sector – ‘legacy’. Occasionally, especially when talking to very long-established companies, the term ‘heritage’ occurs. It is useful therefore to consider the important difference between legacy and heritage:

Legacy tends to be use…READ MORE

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Divisive Devices And Conferencing Woes?

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Like – I suspect – many people, I spend far too large a percentage of my one and only life on various ‘net conferences, using a variety of platforms.

Most of them are truly loathsome. So it was quite refreshing recently, when speaking to a conf software vendor, Fuze, using its own product for sai…READ MORE

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On-premises contact center technology on the decline

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On-premises contact centers are decreasing in popularity as more organizations look to cloud-based and hosted services for their contact center technology.

According to a recent Gartner Magic Quadrant report on contact center infrastructure, a number of vendors in the market are seeing sales drop…READ MORE

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