TechTarget's weekly roundup (6/18 - 6/25)

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Do you think the NSA holds any responsibility for its leaked exploits being repurposed? Why or why not? Check out why experts believe the NSA should not be held accountable for the damages in this week’s roundup.

1. PyRoMineIoT cryptojacker uses NSA exploit to spr…READ MORE

Michael Tidmarsh63,360 pointsBadges:

Electric Cloud develops 'credit score' for application success

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There’s applications and application delivery… and then there’s the arguably more upmarket notion of Adaptive Release Orchestration & Continuous Delivery (AROCD – not a real acronym).

Placing itself unabashedly in the latter category is Electric Cloud.

The firm this month brings fort…READ MORE

Adrian Bridgwater14,335 pointsBadges:

SUSE CaaS Platform 3: ein fabelhaftes Container-Paket

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Software-und System-Entwicklung (or, SUSE, to you and me) has been active this month and opened the box on SUSE CaaS Platform 3.

SUSE CaaS is the acronym for the open source operating system company’s Container-as-a-Service technology.

The firm presents SUSE CaaS Platform as a route to ‘p…READ MORE

Adrian Bridgwater14,335 pointsBadges:

Are You Using Data Storytelling In Your Organization?

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Smart Visualization is not the only way of making AI transform BI in a big way. There are other ways too. Before coming to those, let us discuss smart visualization a little more. As we understand from my previous post, it helps in eliminating the gap between experts and non-experts. That means it h…READ MORE

Jaideep Khanduja17,750 pointsBadges:

Creating collections for output

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There are many times when you end up creating a collection – either for output or use for performing further processing. There’s a common pattern that’s used when creating collections for output that’s very inefficient.

That pattern is:

$data = @()
97..122 | foreach {
$props = @{
Nu…READ MORE

Richard Siddaway8,355 pointsBadges:

Modern Network Architecture: Work Place productivity

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This last week I gave a presentation about CRM strategy.  After the presentation, there were some interesting comments made by the business owners in the group I thought might be interesting to both my technical and non-technical readers.  Specifically about business services workflows.  After a …READ MORE

James Murray1,795 pointsBadges:

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

Eric Free45 pointsBadges:

On-premises contact center technology on the decline

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On-premises contact centers are decreasing in popularity as more organizations look to cloud-based and hosted services for their contact center technology.

According to a recent Gartner Magic Quadrant report on contact center infrastructure, a number of vendors in the market are seeing sales drop…READ MORE

Katherine Finnell2,070 pointsBadges:

Why one expert doesn’t think AI will take over the world

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Every time a robot does something that humans deem to be suspicious, a debate is sparked about when artificially intelligent beings will take over the world.

There have been more than enough films about it, ranging from Terminator and iRobot to more recent films such as ExMachina, to name just a…READ MORE

Clare McDonald5,530 pointsBadges:

Unstructured data is a misnomer

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Nowadays, the term unstructured data pops up everywhere. It owes its popularity for a large part to the success of big data, to successful technologies such as NoSQL and Hadoop, and to formats such as JSON and XML. Unfortunately, different definitions for unstructured data exist. All these different…READ MORE

Rick van der Lans160 pointsBadges:

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

Caroline Donnelly5,605 pointsBadges:

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

Ed Tittel11,250 pointsBadges:

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

Bryan Glick5,885 pointsBadges:

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

Aaron Tan1,740 pointsBadges:

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

Jan Stafford4,310 pointsBadges:

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

Trevor Jones2,460 pointsBadges:

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

Tayla Holman960 pointsBadges:

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

Ryan Priest350 pointsBadges:

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

Jan Stafford4,310 pointsBadges:

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

Garry Kranz4,215 pointsBadges: