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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).
End of an Era: BackBlaze Switches Out Its 3 TB Hard Disk Drives
December 11, 2018 - It’s always interesting to read about how the BackBlaze backup service is doing with its hard disk drives. Like companies such as Facebook and Google, it uses so many hard disk drives that it ends up stripping off extraneous parts and building its own structures with them. But because the company is so much more...... READ MOREBlogs
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No smart security without IoT protocols
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Modern smart home security owes much of its success to advances in IoT protocols. These communication channels enhance interoperability and enable thousands of devices to “speak” and interact with each other — a critical requirement for any smart system.
The adoption of a single common protocol …READ MORE
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Citizen development is a low code approach to software development that allows people to create software programs without needing to know anything about programming languages or how to write code. Continued…
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“Low-code development platforms provide opportunities to citizen deve…READ MOREPosted in Word of the Day: Tech Definitions from WhatIs.com on
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Return of the missing PSDiagnostics
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Return of the missing PSDiagnostics members in PowerShell v6.2 preview 3.
In Windows PowerShell v5.1 the PSDiagnostics module contains these members:
Disable-PSTrace
Disable-PSWSManCombinedTrace
Disable-WSManTrace
Enable-PSTrace
Enable-PSWSManCombinedTrace
Enable-WSManTrace
Get-LogProper…READ MOREPosted in PowerShell for Windows Admins on
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FDA selects 8 medical device developers into opioid crisis challenge
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration took an innovative approach to combating the national opioid crisis earlier this year. The FDA issued a challenge to medical device developers to leverage technology in the fight against opioid addiction and abuse.
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Why learning Stem skills from a young age is so important
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In this contributed post, MJ Chun, director of product, Anki, explains why children need to be exposed to science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) from a young age.
Coding was added to the UK curriculum in 2014 but we recently undertook some research which revealed 43% of parents strugg…READ MORE
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VMware tracking stock is history, as Dell preps for public trading
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It’s official: Dell Technologies once again will become a public company, after gaining hard-won approval to buy back VMware tracking stock from shareholders in a transaction approaching $24 billion.
Dell said 61% of VMware shareholders approved of the deal, capping months of sometimes-contenti…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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End of an Era: BackBlaze Switches Out Its 3 TB Hard Disk Drives
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It’s always interesting to read about how the BackBlaze backup service is doing with its hard disk drives. Like companies such as Facebook and Google, it uses so many hard disk drives that it ends up stripping off extraneous parts and building its own structures with them. But because the company …READ MORE
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Storj: Can uberization of cloud storage succeed?
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On the face of it, cloud storage should be an ideal candidate for an “excess capacity”, “sharing economy” business model.
Otherwise termed “Uberization”, we’ve seen the rise of apps and services that seek to marry excess capacity in cars, homes etc to those looking to use it, and ge…READ MORE
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The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) team recently got to meet with enterprise applications company IFS at its Sri Lanka headquarters in Colombo.
The meetings were designed to explore the work its IFS Labs division is currently undertaking, talk to senior local management to find out why …READ MORE
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Adobe CFO John Murphy on CFO role as digital transformation evangelist
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The question for Adobe CFO John Murphy was how had digital transformation changed his job. Are there decisions you’re involved in today that would wouldn’t have been involved in 10 years ago? he was asked.
Murphy, who assumed the CFO role at Adobe in April, was being interviewed at the recent MIT…READ MORE
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Out Darned Win10 Dollar Files!
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Checking over my production PC this weekend, I noticed a half-dozen folders at the root of my system drive (C:). By definition such files are system related and ordinarily hidden from view. Looking them over, I quickly realized I neither wanted or needed most of them. Hence my exhortation: Out darne…READ MORE
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Secure Cryptocurrency and other fine myths
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Two months ago I started to take a course on Udemy building secure cryptocurrency. The course walks you through downloading the code for bitcoin, which is open source, then rolling your own network copy of it.
Then this showed up in my Github alerts:
This is a real vulnerability in the cor…READ MORE
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Moving VMs in Azure with Managed Disks Between Resource Groups
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Azure is a great platform to use, and the new Managed Disks are fantastic as you just need to set it and forget it. However, if you run into the problem that I can recently with moving the VM from one resource group to another, you’ll run into a stumbling block pretty fast. I hit this because …READ MORE
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Linux networking project: ‘expose & orchestrate’ to ONAP
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LF Networking (LFN) is the label used by the Linux Foundation to denote the coming together of seven top networking projects.
In other (arguably more straightforward) words, LFN is an open source networking stack.
The openly stated aim of LFN is to increase harmonisation across platforms, com…READ MORE
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The government recently announced plans that – despite facing delays and setbacks – a new Emergency Services Network (ESN) will be phased in from the beginning of 2019. It will replace the legacy infrastructure, Airwave, a radio-based terrestrial trunked radio (Tetra) network.
Now, Tetra, and…READ MORE
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IoT and Hybrid Cloud in 2019 According to Don Boxley @DH2i
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A recent interaction with DH2i CEO and Co-Founder, Don Boxley about the key technology transformations in 2019, he talks about two key developments he foresees in 2019 regarding IoT and Hybrid Cloud. So, his 2019 predictions go as follows. The first prediction says Enterprises will replace VPNs with…READ MORE
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What is a lambda expression and from where did the term 'lambda' elute?
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It was Java 8 that saw the inclusion of lambda expressions, a concept that has long been baked into languages such as Groovy and Ruby, but due to various language constraints, had never made it into the Java language. As organizations slowly move to Java 8 and Java 11 platforms, more and more develo…READ MORE
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O2 outage proves the weakest link in the digital revolution is fallibly human
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So it turns out the O2 mobile network failure that took out data access for some 30 million people this week, was caused by an expired software certificate – no great conspiracy, no programming error, no undiscovered bug, no malicious interference, but one of the most basic systems administration …READ MORE
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Diversity in analytics: how to overcome the obstacles and optimise the opportunities
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In this guest blog, Jennifer Major, head of internet of things (IoT) at SAS UK & Ireland, discusses the obstacles and the opportunities involved creating diversity in analytics.
In the face of the constant soundbites we hear about the British tech sector’s “worrying” lack of diversi…READ MORE
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