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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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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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A week ago today, I grabbed a great Black Friday deal from Lenovo. I purchased an X390 Yoga (i7, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD) for almost $150 less than what I paid for a similarly equipped X380 a few months back. In other words: a killer deal. I’ll be replacing my wife’s ancient (2011/2012) mini-ITX PC wi…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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Sumo Logic cracks on with new bands of intelligence strapping
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Self-styled continuous intelligence company Sumo Logic has reached beta on two new analytics services that extend its Cloud Flex offering (a credit-based licensing strategy).
Interactive Intelligence Service and Archiving Intelligence Service work to provide monitoring, troubleshooting and threat…READ MORE
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Tibco dials into Apache Pulsar
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Software integration and analytics company Tibco has added Apache Pulsar as a fully supported component in its own messaging brand, TIBCO Messaging.
By way of definition and clarification then…
Apache Pulsar is a distributed ‘pub-sub’ messaging platform with a flexible messaging model …READ MORE
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Get the best from connected RPA in 7 steps
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Connected RPA provides a collaborative platform for humans and automated Digital Workers to deliver business-led, enterprise-wide transformation. Although connected RPA is a business-led technology, it can end up out of control if it’s treated solely as a pure business project. However, it’s not…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).
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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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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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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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DCAC Supporting Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (@egpaf) #WorldAIDSDay - Redux
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Tis the season and Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting has a quick way for you to make a difference. All you have to do, is click through to our donation webpage, and that’s it. For clicking through, DCAC will donate $1 to Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
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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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Taking the cloud to the edge of space
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In this guest post, Chris Roberts, head of datacentre and cloud at Goonhilly Earth Station, wonders if enterprises are ready to tap into the business opportunities the explosion in data generated by Earth observation satellites is on course to bring?
During the summer, satellite images of fires b…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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How to decide on the top and best SD-WAN offerings
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If you are currently considering initial investigation into SD-WAN procurement, you’ll know how many moving parts are involved. In this article, I’ll discuss 17 features and benefits together with 10 vendors which IT teams may wish to consider when buying SD-WAN solutions for U.K., U.S. and global b…READ MORE
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Your election choice: Protectionist Stagflation or Radical (Technology enabled) Change
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Without radical change, particularly to our education and training system to give our current and future workforce the skills of the future, that future is bleak, who-over wins on December 12th.
Thec Conservative spending plans are ambitious. They require much more than the Brexit Dividend from h…READ MORE
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