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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).
Another Bitcoin storage fraud, this time in China
November 30, 2019 - The CEO of a Chinese Bitcoin exchange, International Data Access Exchange (IDAX), has vanished with the keys, leaving all its balances inaccessible — to anyone but himself, presumably. “Following the official announcement ‘Announcement of IDAX withdrawal channel congestion’ on November 24, We announce Urgent notice about current situation of IDAX Global,” noted the company’s website....... READ MOREBlogs
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AWS Re:Invent 2019: The kids' take on the public cloud's biggest tech show
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Official estimates suggest 65,000 people made the trek out to Las Vegas this year for the 2019 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Re:Invent user and developer conference, and among them were five tech-savvy teenagers from Hertfordshire-based boarding school, Bishop’s Stortford College.
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CI/CD series - Confluent: Events provide an 'in-built primitive' for continuous coding
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This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network in our Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD) series.
This contribution is written by Neil Avery, lead technologist and member of office of the CTO (OCTO) at Confluent — the company is known as for its event strea…READ MORE
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Calmer waters promised in the data lake through Linux Foundation Delta Lake Project
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The Linux Foundation’s promotion and hosting of Delta Lake is an interesting development.
Delta Lake (wait for it… the clue is in the name) is a project focusing on improving the reliability and performance of data lakes.
Delta Lake was actually announced by unified analytics company Dat…READ MORE
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China Says No Mo Windows or PCs Starting 2022
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Here’s one to remember and keep track of. According to the Australian Financial Review, as reported at MSPowerUser.com: “The Chinese Communist Party Central Office has ordered all government services to replace all computers running non-Chinese software and operating systems within the next 3 years….READ MORE
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Who will be first to have an Uber-like innovation for communications?
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We live in an ever increasing digital society with an always on mentality. Cities and governments have the social responsibility to bridge the digital divide that’s occuring and ensure internet access to all their citizens. The private sector focuses on delivering a return for investors while citi…READ MORE
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Find the right pull request workflow for your dev projects
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At the heart of all large-scale software development projects are the communications patterns required to keep everyone on the same page. The dawn of Git as a distributed version control system allowed enterprises to rethink the way they communicate about the state and updates of large application c…READ MORE
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Microsoft wants bugs found in SQL Server and reported to Microsoft
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There are two groups of people that use SQL Server. Those that submit bugs to Microsoft and those that blog about problems that they find.
Those that submit their feedback about bugs to Microsoft want the issues to be fixed.
Those that blog about potential bugs in order to be seen, just want t…READ MORE
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The IT - Business Alignment Paradox
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A lot has been written on this subject over the years and has also been intensely debated in various circuits. The task of aligning IT with business has probably been the most talked-of topic in the IT Management area. Quite a few seminars and talks on this subject that I attended, did talk of a hos…READ MORE
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Intel delays means Windows 7 support deadline needs extending
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In the last few days Hewlett Packard Inc and Dell have posted results, in which their respective chief financial officers have spoken about the issues their businesses face with the supply of Intel processors. This affects the ability of these PC firms to fulfill orders of new PCs for enterprise cus…READ MORE
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Moving forward, data science needs a holistic approach
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Data science is a relatively new entry into the scientific fold. In general, all of science is concerned with data in the grander scheme of things, but data science has a much broader focus and tends to make much greater use of machine learning and sophisticated algorithms in order to parse data and…READ MORE
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MSP automation taps PowerShell as multi-tool
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PowerShell serves as the Swiss army knife of MSP automation.
Indeed, Microsoft’s PowerShell scripting language has become a highly versatile tool for managed service providers (MSPs). PowerShell scripts plays multiple roles, including in software installation and integration, report creation, pol…READ MORE
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Everyone in UK tech must hold the new government to account on its digital promises
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When Computer Weekly set out to compare and analyse the tech and digital policies in the major political parties’ manifestos for the 2019 General Election, the article extended comfortably to nearly 5000 words, and could easily have been a lot longer.
Even as recently as the 2017 election, we w…READ MORE
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Twelve years ago I was complaining about this term, Heuristics. The term itself is incredibly simple in meaning – the kind of thing you can learn in thirty seconds. People seemed, to me, to be using it to “sound smart”, to create insiders (who knew the term) and outsiders (who did not).
Today I…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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Turning heads for the HyperX Cloud Orbit gaming headset
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Inspect-a-Gadget has been on the road — it’s been a busy tech conference season and so all the normal home comforts have had to be forgone for a good part of the autumn period.
Upon getting back to base though, the go-to comforts include a portion of non-chlorine washed chicken, a cup of prope…READ MORE
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2020 Customer Support and Experience (CX) Predictions
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UJET’s Anand Janefalkar, Founder and CEO has some very interesting 2020 Customer Support and Experience (CX) Predictions. UJET is provider of the world’s leading cloud contact center platform. Here are those quotes by Anand.
According to Anand, Messaging Will Surpass Voice. He says,
“While vo…READ MORE
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There wasn’t much fanfare around Amazon Prime’s midweek maiden voyage into Premier League football coverage. We’d have missed the delectable choice of fixtures altogether had we not opened the app to check on the order status of a used £1.81 hardback of Hugh Cudlipp’s 1976 memoir Walking on…READ MORE
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Are your message threads tight or Slack?
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Why doesn’t Slack want us to use threaded replies to messages? At least, that’s the impression I come away with from having used at least five Slacks, some for business collaboration and others for consumer-grade discussions.
Slack’s had the capability to show a message and its replies as…READ MORE
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Cerner-AbleVets deal aimed at helping federal programs
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EHR vendor Cerner Corp. is bringing an IT consulting firm into the fold to assist with its work with federal clients, particularly with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Cerner is acquiring IT consulting and engineering firm AbleVets, a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned small busine…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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