PASS Summit 2018 Here I Come

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I’m thrilled to be able to say that I’ll be presenting a precon at the PASS Summit 2018.  This year I’ll be giving a precon on database security.  In this session we’ll be going over the various security features within Microsoft SQL Server, then putting these techniques into action by trying them…READ MORE

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Artificial Intelligence Arrives

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In his 1951 Paper  “The Imitation Game”, Alan Turing proposed a simple test of artificial intelligence. Put a real person in a room connected to a teletype machine, sending messages back and forth to some other entity. If the entity could be a human, or it could be a computer, and the person cannot…READ MORE

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Build 1803 Equals April Update

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For some reason, lots of people — including me — take pleasure from following the procession of Windows 10 release names. That’s why I jumped all over a Neowin.net news item today. It’s entitled “The upcoming feature update for Windows 10 will be called the ‘April Update’.” It even provides visual…READ MORE

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Ethics, values and common standards are essential for shaping an IoT-smart society

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Security and privacy are at the root of serious fears about personal information, especially in the IoT space, where remote system hacks become cyberinvasions that impact the physical world. Just look at what happened with Jeep and the Krebs on Security blog. These fears spell trouble for IoT if com…READ MORE

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Kaleao redesigns ARM-based HCI for enterprise

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Kaleao hit an obstacle when trying to convince its ARM-based hyper-converged systems fit well with traditional enterprises. While its features and services might fit enterprises, the original Kaleao box was a terrible fit.

So Kaleao is adding a 4U KMAX-EP system to go with its original KMAX, whic…READ MORE

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TechTarget's weekly roundup (4/16 - 4/23)

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What cybersecurity improvements do you think are most pressing? Find out what RSAC keynote speakers said the infosec community must focus on in order to enact real change in this week’s roundup.

1. Teradata applies time series analytics tools to IoT data – Jack Va…READ MORE

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Luxoft puts blockchain adapter into low-code Appian toolset

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Low-code software application development company Appian holds its annual user conference and exhibition this week in Will Smith’s favourite holiday hangout, Miami Beach Florida.

First to the table for a portion of news at Appian World 2018 was IT services firm Luxoft.

But in this day and age,…READ MORE

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TSB IT system chaos as bank cuts rope from Lloyds systems

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TSB customers have experienced a weekend of problems with online banking services as the bank migrates from Lloyds Bank systems to its new core banking system.

This demonstrates the challenge traditional banks will have when trying to compete with the new smaller digitally focused players. Challe…READ MORE

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Change a function definition

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Functions in PowerShell are based on scriptblocks and as I showed in my session at the recent PowerShell Summit its possible to change a function definition.

Let’s start with a simple function:

PS> function f1 {
>> $x = 1
>> $y = 2
>> $x + $y
>> }
PS> f1
3…READ MORE

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Attorneys Speculate on E-Discovery Implications of Cohen Files

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There’s one group of people that is really, really excited about the seizure of the potentially millions of legal documents associated with President Donald Trump: E-discovery people.

“Discovery nerds — and political junkies — are having a field day with the materials seized by the FBI’…READ MORE

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Being a Technical Advocate / Evangelist

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Back when I started working for technology vendors, the landscape was much different than it is today:

Vendors tended to focus on a specific technology area; hence their portfolio was primarily made up of various sizes and price-points of the same technology (e.g. security, database, storage, n…READ MORE

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Modern Requirements Management Tool – Modern Requirements4TFS

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I can build multiple use cases to depict the importance of Modern Requirements Management Tool – build on and for Microsoft Team Foundation Server. But before talking about Modern Requirements4TFS, let us understand what the biggest threat to the success of a project is. It is the business or user…READ MORE

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CrowdStrike unveils Meltdown exploit in unusual fashion

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SAN FRANCISCO – CrowdStrike displayed a flare for the dramatic at RSA Conference Wednesday during the company’s “Oscars” event, where it unveiled a new Meltdown exploit.

The cybersecurity vendor unveiled the exploit, dubbed “MeltiKatz,” during the company’s 2018 Hacking Exposed Oscars. The con…READ MORE

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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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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

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Red Hat goes big on interoperability-ness

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Red Hat changes its tagline from time to time, but this year the firm appears to happy being labelled as ‘the world’s leading provider of open source solutions’ — perhaps, with Microsoft and so many others picking up the flame, Red Hat feels it need to state its aim with such simplicity.

Brandin…READ MORE

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SheHacks hackathon at BU promotes female tech advancement

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For 36 hours during the last weekend in January, more than 1,000 attended one of the largest women’s hackathons ever at SheHacks Boston.

SheHacks Boston organizer Natalie Pienkowska said that the event was a way to counter the “ridiculous” amount of inequality that remains in the modern workplace…READ MORE

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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

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Positive Reinvention

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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

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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

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