Quantum CEO ready to acquire to expand StorNext

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Jamie Lerner’s first 90 days as Quantum CEO confirmed the idea he had about the company when he took over. Discussions with customers convinced Lerner that Quantum’s greatest strength and greatest opportunity is storage for managing rich media data and video.

Now he has a solid plan for going…READ MORE

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Puppet pulls strings on new DevOps tools

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Open source software configuration management company Puppet used its colourfully named Puppetize Live event in San Francisco this month to detail a new product designed to help measure their software delivery performance and to benchmark progress.

Puppet Insights (currently in private beta) prov…READ MORE

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The fintech interview: Part 6 Rebuilding Society

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In the sixth interview in this series I speak to Rebuilding Society, a fintech operating in the peer to peer lending sector.

It is a great example of how fintechs can offer customers a better deal and have different revenue streams in tech and financial services. It is also a good example of some…READ MORE

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TechTarget's weekly roundup (10/15 - 10/22)

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How would blockchain technology help your healthcare organization? Find out how three companies are changing the industry in this week’s roundup.

1. News roundup: 3 new blockchain in healthcare use cases – Valerie Silverthorne (SearchHealthIT)

Three companies…READ MORE

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How the IoT can form part of a targeted approach to infrastructure asset management

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This is a guest blog by Manish Jethwa, CTO at IoT specialist Yotta

Our national infrastructure assets are under more strain than ever. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the UK population was just over 66 million in June 2017. By 2041, the ONS projects it will reach almost 73…READ MORE

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Five Oracle Code One sessions you don't want to miss

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Going over my Oracle Code One schedule for 2018, there are five sessions that I’m particularly interesting in attending:

From Monoliths to Pragmatic Microservices with Java EE
Automating Your CI/CD Stack with Java and Groovy
Fully Reactive: Spring, Kotlin, JavaFX, and MongoDB
Jakarta E…READ MORE

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Test-Connection cmdlet

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The Test-Connection cmdlet wasn’t included in PowerShell v6.0 but did make a come back in v6.1.

The v6.1 version of Test-Connection has some serious issues as I’ve described before.

Work is being done at the moment to remedy those issues – hopefully for v6.2

This is your ch…READ MORE

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Build 17763.55 Fixes USB Issues

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A USB gotcha appeared among various woes in the wake of the initial 1809 release of Windows 10 (Build 17763.1). Having finally had time to test, I’m pleased to report that Build 17763.55 fixes USB issues. USB 3.0 devices, including drives and hubs, showed up in 17763.1 as USB 2.1. Now, they show up …READ MORE

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Can Matt Hancock be the minister that finally gets NHS technology right?

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A large and toxic cloud has hung over NHS IT since the failure of the £12bn National Programme that saw billions wasted on systems that barely worked. Since then, we’ve seen the collapse of Care.data, the botched attempt to share patient records through a central database, and a plan for a “pap…READ MORE

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Addicted to clicks? Would you try online retail rehab?

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In early October 2018, fintech firm iZettle ran a rehab centre for online shopping addicts to show the impact e-commerce has on the highstreet. But will this change customer habits?

Spoiler alert, the answer (in my opinion) is no.

The plight of shopaholics is something often covered in sitcoms…READ MORE

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A deep dive into diversity data, and advice from women in tech

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Several women in tech spoke about the importance of diversity at Splunk.conf 2018 in Florida, some about shocking diversity statistics and others giving advice from one woman in tech to another.

To begin with a deep dive of diversity data, Grace Balancio, sales engineer at Splunk, outlined the fo…READ MORE

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Why insurance is the next big opportunity for smart home adoption

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As we wrap up exciting changes in tech in 2018 and look ahead to a new year, one thing is for certain: smart home adoption continues to surge and mainstream awareness is growing at impressive rates. A report from Strategy Analytics found that the “sales of smart home devices are expected to reach $1…READ MORE

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How planning, data, and ‘digital string’ can combat the global food waste crisis

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This is a guest blogpost by Colin Elkins, global industry director, process manufacturing, IFS.

Global food waste, or food loss as it is classified by growers and manufacturers, is around 1.3 billion tons per year, which is one third of all food produced and twice the weight of the world’s curr…READ MORE

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Forget Hollywood's AI promises, results are what inspires next-gen tech pros

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During the “Lunch with Robots” panel at HubWeek 2018, host Jim Tracy asked a question that reflected a major theme of the weeklong event: How is the workforce going to change in the next 20 years, and how can we help people transition?

Panelist Colin Angle, founder and CEO of iRobot, said it will…READ MORE

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Singapore CIOs weigh in on digital transformation

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Earlier this week, all members of Computer Weekly’s APAC CIO advisory panel gathered for the first time to share their thoughts on digital transformation and what the overused term means to them.

Kicking off the lively discussion, which was held at SAP’s office in Singapore, was MyRepublic CI…READ MORE

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Patient vs. healthcare consumer? Musings on the CVS/Aetna merger

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During an interview on the PBS News Hour, CVS CEO Larry Merlo drew an interesting distinction when speaking about the future of healthcare. Fresh from the merger with Aetna, Merlo said people directly in the care of a physician or in a hospital setting were “patients” while everyone else is simp…READ MORE

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Archive360 Announces Full Support For Microsoft Azure Data Box - 2

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This is the concluding post of the previous post. The Microsoft Azure Data Box facilitates its customers with a more secure method for faster, more reliable and simple transfer of any volume of data to Azure. Customers only need to connect it to their network first. Next, they are required to load d…READ MORE

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PASS Summit 2018 Speaker Idol Judges

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It’s with great fanfare that I’m able to announce our PASS Summit 2018 Speaker Idol Judges. Our judges this year are folks we’ve had as judges before, and I’m thrilled that they’ve all agreed to be judges of all four speaker idol events.

Our Judges this year are:

Allan Hirt

Joey D…READ MORE

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Dialling into the Huawei Mate20

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Whether you can pronounce the company’s name or not, it’s for sure that Huawei (say: wah-way) has become a significant presence in the smartphone market today.

Now with corporate ambitions to become known for its cloud business and wider development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the chip…READ MORE

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A smartphone for your smartphone?

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As if smartphone devices aren’t already taking over our lives enough, a US company has launched a miniature phone to act as a companion to your main device. In a world where smartphones are becoming as big as tablets, this tiny credit-card sized smartphone, called Palm, is meant to save you from hav…READ MORE

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