Why next-generation IaaS is likely to be open source

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In this guest post, Chip Childers, CTO of open source platform-as-a-service Cloud Foundry, makes the case for why the future of public cloud and IaaS won’t be proprietary.

Once upon a time, ‘Infrastructure-as-a-Service’ basically meant services provided by the likes of Amazon Web Services (A…READ MORE

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Four steps to monetizing the internet of things

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The internet of things is expanding its reach! Early last year, Gartner calculated that around 8.4 billion IoT devices were in use in 2017, up from 31% in 2016. It also noted that this number is set to reach 20.4 billion by 2020. In terms of spending, IDC predicted that total expenditures will hit $…READ MORE

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Public scrutiny of IT failures is fundamental to IT success

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MPs on the Treasury select committee have been doing everyone in IT a favour lately. Thanks to pressure from their investigations, we’ve had near-unprecedented access to the real stories of what caused the Visa and TSB outages that affected millions of people recently.

Visa provided a detailed,…READ MORE

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APAC CIO interview: Kwong Yuk Wah, National Trades Union Congress, Singapore

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As a veteran in Singapore’s IT industry, Kwong Yuk Wah has played a part in major IT initiatives over two decades, starting with the government’s computerisation programme that paved the way for Singapore’s standing as the world leader in e-government initiatives today.

According to the 201…READ MORE

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Why QA, CI falter without automated release management

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Software release management is really not a new area of technology, but adoption of formal processes and automated tools in this area is shockingly low. Surprisingly, some IT organizations still think they can manage release management with Excel scripts. That’s just not true now.

The release o…READ MORE

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Edge devices' compute demands complicate cloud IoT choices

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Cloud vendors want companies to use their platforms for the full scope of their IoT deployments, but that might not be their best choice.

As edge computing emerges as part of IoT deployments, users must decide not only how often to send data to the cloud, but whether to send it there in the first…READ MORE

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Researchers use EHR data to predict opioid prescriptions

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EHR data can help healthcare providers identify which patients in a hospital were most likely to be prescribed opioids after discharge, according to researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

According to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in 2016, more tha…READ MORE

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Creating objects

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In my recent post about avoiding Add-Member I showed how to create objects. As with most things in PowerShell there are a number of different ways of creating objects.

I showed this code:

$os = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_OperatingSystem
$comp = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_ComputerS…READ MORE

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L is for the way you look at renewable heating technology

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A civil servant has swapped her job at the Department for Education for a stint on ITV’s hit reality show Love Island.

Zara McDermott, who had previously been developing government policy on renewable heating technology, told her employer she would be taking a break to focus on TV work – albe…READ MORE

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Think practically about software modernization

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Some businesses start software modernization projects to add sophisticated features, such as artificial intelligence and mobility, but that may be akin to icing a moldy cake. Software teams can add new application architectures, technologies and platforms as separate projects, but experts say they s…READ MORE

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Tintri CEO Barton tells board: ‘I'm outta here’

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The captain of fast-sinking Tintri has abandoned ship, just three months after he came aboard as a lifesaver.

Tintri CEO Thomas Barton, 54, informed the board of his decision on Monday, according to a securities filing. Tintri did not elaborate on the reason for Barton’s departure, but said it…READ MORE

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The hunt is on for a new BT CEO, but who would fill Gavin Patterson's shoes?

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Facing negative PR all around after announcing a strategic realignment that is to see 13,000 employees made redundant and the closure of its central London HQ after over 100 years, even the good stuff (such as pivoting the organisation towards full-fibre broadband at long last) that BT CEO Gavin Pat…READ MORE

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Glass Storage Comes to Life Again

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Every couple of years, it seems like everyone has to lose their minds over glass storage.

In 2012, Hitachi demonstrated using glass for storage, saying it could end up being a product by 2015. Or, at least, once they figured out how to make something to read it. Yes, that would be a problem, unle…READ MORE

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The external workforce: are you realising its full value?

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This is a guest blogpost by Mikael Lindmark, a senior vice president at SAP Fieldglass

As CIOs and other executives across enterprises turn to contractors, freelancers and other external workers to fill  skills gaps and meet their strategic objectives, they are transforming the way work gets do…READ MORE

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Considering Cyclomatic Complexity

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The longer the function, the more complex it is, the more likely we are to make mistakes. Knowing that makes measuring code complexity, and making the complexity of functions smaller, seems like a very good idea.

So how do we measure it? The most common measure of code complexity is probably “c…READ MORE

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Win10 Hyper-V VMs Benefit from More VRAM

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I saw a fascinating article from long-time Windows maven Ed Bott this morning at ZDNet. It exhorts users to “Fine-tune memory usage” for best results when working with Hyper-V VMs. In that story, he vindicates a long-held belief of mine, based on repeated observation. That belief is that indeed, Win…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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Cast analysis: cold war era ‘Thatcher’ apps still rock, Agile more flaky

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Cast is a company dedicated to the code analysis it performs as its core bread and butter. Not a security company as such, Cast describes itself as a software intelligence specialist

How much code analysis? Cast’s latest report analyses over 700 million lines of code.

The Software Intelligen…READ MORE

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Top new iOS 12 features helpful for the enterprise

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Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference this week showed some new iOS 12 features that could be exciting for Apple users in the enterprise.

Several features of the new iOS may help improve productivity for business users, by limiting distractions and improving workplace communications.  Apple’s i…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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