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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).
Year in Preview 2020: Storage, the New Electricity
January 13, 2020 - The problem with storage becoming a commodity is that people stop thinking about how important it is. If you look at the various predictions for 2020 – and people are loving to make them, because “2020” is such a cool number – hardly any of them explicitly mention storage, and the ones that do typically...... READ MOREBlogs
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IoT-based smart cities: Shaping the future we’ll live in
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The ever-growing population along with rapid urbanization will impact global cities the most. As per an estimate, more than 180,000 people move to cities every day. This migration of population to metropolitan and urban cities will result in reduced resources and increased congestion in cities.
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Clients deem MSSP companies ineffective in supporting SOCs
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MSSP companies appear to be missing the mark with customers that have in-house SOCs, according to a new security operations center benchmarking study by Ponemon Institute.
The study, sponsored by Respond Software, a security operations software vendor, surveyed 657 IT and IT security practitioner…READ MORE
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It’s been ten years since I read “Big Agile Up Front” on the C2 wiki. That article describes an “enterprise” where team members who have to go through a “deployment” routine in order to get a unit test to ru. They hook up their continuous integration server to an “Agile” Gant chart…READ MORE
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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
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Browser Updates Require Human Intervention
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I’m a dedicated Windows Insider (and Insider MVP). Thus, I run Microsoft’s latest and greatest offerings as a deliberate policy. Just this morning, I saw a notification on MSPowerUser that Edge had been updated to version 79.0.309.71. Sure enough, I went off to check and saw a notification on the Ed…READ MORE
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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
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Coding Dojo bootcamp bests 4-year programs
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Cloud and mobile computing are driving demand for a never-ending supply of new applications as enterprises move toward digital transformation, which is driving demand for more developers.
Coding boot camps have entered into the equation, providing an influx of new developers. In fact, Coding Dojo…READ MORE
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Parsing the Iaas and PaaS divide for microservices
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By Alan Earls
Infrastructure as a services (IaaS) and platform as a services (PaaS) are both potential deployment paths for microservices. But there are big differences, and picking the right path for your project or organization involves a range of tradeoffs.
The problem with PaaS is that it …READ MORE
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Salesforce seeks DevOps street cred with CD Foundation
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Salesforce recently joined the Linux Foundation’s Continuous Delivery Foundation to help grow the CI/CD ecosystem. This move seems to have gone unnoticed by many, but two things stood out to me about it.
I wasn’t aware that Salesforce had its own DevOps tool, Salesforce DX, which enables develope…READ MORE
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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
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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
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Open source licence series - Percona: is the battle won, or is this a different war?
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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
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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
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Google focuses more on steering the Android ship than righting it
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Google has been a frequent target of criticism over security and privacy issues and how Android security updates filter out to users, butthe scale of its products has led Google to focus more on steering the ship rather than righting it.
Consider Android: an ecosystem of 2.5 billion active device…READ MORE
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Why organizations need SIP services now
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Whether you realize it or not, your company needs Session Initiation Protocol. As legacy telephony networks wind down and cloud-based voice services continue to grow, SIP services are necessary to support the transition to the cloud and ensure reliable communications infrastructure.
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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
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When does the state of quantum computing become relevant for CIOs?
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Is there a reason normal CIOs should be thinking about the state of quantum computing? It depends on how one defines normal, was Brian Hopkins’ answer. Hopkins is a Forrester Research analyst who focuses on emerging tech.
“It’s very much dependent on the industry you’re in. We think the first bre…READ MORE
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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
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The BBC’s Dan Walker has sat down with Boris Johnson to probe him over all manner of hot topics, including the government’s decision to let Huawei build its 5G telecoms infrastructure.
Having dismissed a doting US dossier, this was Johnson’s chance to put our minds at ease. How would he allay…READ MOREPosted in Downtime on
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IT spending expected to shift toward services, software in 2017
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The following is a roundup of last week’s SearchCIO and SearchCompliance content.
With digitization, unpredictability comes with the territory. This is epitomized by Gartner’s revised IT spending forecast for 2017, which shows a modest increase in worldwide spending, but less than originally pr…READ MORE
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