What the T-Mobile-Sprint merger means for IoT

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It’s no secret that T-Mobile and Sprint are talking merger. However, other wireless carriers — and even some nontraditional competitors — have focused their attention on developing advanced solutions for the internet of things instead. So, how will this merger affect enterprise mobility and IoT co…READ MORE

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ZertoCON 2018: IT resilience takes center stage

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BOSTON – At the first ZertoCON in 2016, analyst John Morency said that “IT resilience” is becoming the new “disaster recovery.” The concept at the time stressed continuous availability and proactively avoiding all recovery situations, versus just being able to recover from huge disasters.

Two y…READ MORE

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Mambu: successful holistic systems start as well-structured monoliths

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The Computer Weekly Developer Network is running a mini-series of posts related to the rise of what we have called the ‘holistic’ application.

Not perhaps a formally defined technology industry term, the holistic application is an app that has arisen in the age of cloud with containerisation, mic…READ MORE

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Zoho Finance Plus Manages Finances & Operations Including GST returns

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Zoho is probably among those unique businesses where the business model, business benefits, customer value, and product value remains same irrespective of the size of the business of the customer. So whether it is a single professional, single person company, or a multinational; the pricing and all …READ MORE

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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

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It’s time to stop stalling on women in STEM

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In this guest post, Sheila Flavell, COO of FDM Group discusses the problems faced by women in the Stem industries.

The gender pay gap reporting process has left many companies facing difficult questions about how women are treated within the workforce. Although the results have caused embarrassme…READ MORE

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Reducing Stress from Work

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Imagine for a moment that you step into a therapists office, complaining of stress. You ask what to do and the therapist asks you for your ideas. You suggest running, watching a ball game, taking a nap, having a few beverage with friends, talking a walk, or watching TV. The therapist replies “It so…READ MORE

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Microsoft subscriptions aren't right for everyone

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With the push to deliver Office and Windows as services, Microsoft subscriptions will be a reality in most IT departments one way or another. But not all organizations are good candidates for going all-in.

Microsoft will continually update Windows 10 rather than release another version going forw…READ MORE

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XenMobile MAM covers all bases as Citrix joins AppConfig Community

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It’s no longer Citrix and Microsoft vs. the world in the MAM market.

Not too long ago, Citrix was the only third-party vendor that could manage Microsoft Office 365 mobile apps, and all the other major players promoted native OS-level mobile application management (MAM) through membership in the …READ MORE

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Win10 NetBIOS Names Get Weirder

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Last Friday, I observed in a post here that machine names appeared case sensitive in RDP. Indeed they are — kind of — and in other places, too. This includes the ancient and venerable PING command, a go-to utility to check connectivity between IP hosts. In trying to get all of my PCs to show up o…READ MORE

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How to 'git cherry-pick' from another branch to your own

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In a previous tutorial, we took a look at how to cherry-pick a commit on the current branch, but one of the ancillary questions that commonly arises is how to perform a git cherry-pick from another branch. The topic of how to git cherry-pick from another branch, along with what the result of such an…READ MORE

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After us the drought of democracy?

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The BBC cover of a report from the Environment Agency warning of serious water shortages by 2050 while sufficient to supply 20 million consumers is being wasted prompted an attack of déjà vu. Similar statements were made in the 1970s and led to the formation of the Regional Water Authorities. So I…READ MORE

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Math for Marketers

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Q: Are You Spending Enough on Marketing?

A word problem for marketers

Let’s say the analysts who make market forecasts believe your category in the technology market will be $1B next year.  Most markets that analysts cover are larger than that, but we will keep the example simple and our numb…READ MORE

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Why journalists and whistleblowers need to understand infosecurity

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An online training initiative promises to make information security accessible and understandable to journalists, confidential sources and whistleblowers.

Snowden’s revelations of the extent of UK and US state surveillance were a wake-up call to journalists, sources and whistleblowers to take i…READ MORE

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Build, Deploy & Iterate is the ‘new’ Extract, Transform & Load

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Alfresco Software has updated its open source process automation, content management and information governance software.

The immodestly named Alfresco Insight Engine creates dashboard-style statistics and data trend reports that previously required what the company decries as more arduous and ti…READ MORE

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What would Karl Marx make of Silicon Valley?

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It’s the bearded one’s 200th birthday this year. Much of the mainstream media has marked the occasion, including the Financial Times, that pre-eminent “capitalist” newspaper.

Why should Computer Weekly be any different? After all, one of our more distinguished alumni is Paul Mason, these …READ MORE

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CIOs need to nurture raw IT talent to power the future economy

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Each year, with the publication of A-level results, hundreds of thousands of school leavers embark on a journey that ultimately fuels the talent pool feeding the UK economy. Some argue that a generation brought up on the internet have different expectations of work than previous generations. But,…READ MORE

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Integrated communications extends UC capabilities

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Organizations that want to drive greater value from their unified communications deployment should look to integrate communications into other parts of their business.

Integrated communications extends the value of UC capabilities, such as messaging and video conferencing, by bringing them to oth…READ MORE

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Some types of artificial intelligence aren't ready for their close-up

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Michael Ringman, CIO at TELUS International, has a unique vantage point on artificial intelligence and how the technologies under the AI umbrella are developing. He’s helping build an artificial intelligence competency for TELUS’s customer contact center and for its IT services company, which suppo…READ MORE

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Pivotal's IPO highlights concerns about Dell's debt resolution

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Pivotal Software’s intention to go public once again draws attention to Dell Technologies’ ongoing efforts to pay down the mountain of debt incurred with its whopping $67 billion acquisition of EMC in October 2015.

Dell has attacked this problem from a number of angles, mainly the sale of softwar…READ MORE

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