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A data scientist is a professional responsible for collecting, analyzing and interpreting large amounts of data to identify ways to help a business improve operations and gain a competitive edge over rivals. Continued…

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“Beyond math skills, data scientists must be able to t…READ MORE

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NFC: The bridge between IoT and the consumer

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Thirty-six billion IoT devices will be in use by 2020 — that’s at least four IoT devices for every person on the planet. Global spending on IoT devices and services will top $1.5 trillion in two years.

Yes, the IoT market numbers are staggering. But what you may not know — the secret behind the…READ MORE

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London Fintechs: Could Saudi Arabia be your next stage growth opportunity?

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At the London Fintech Week event recently I attended a presentation from the Saudi Arabian general Investment Authority (SAGIA). Omar Rebhan, head of the UK office of the organisation, was talking about the opportunities for fintechs to set up shop in Saudi Arabia.

I am always told that countries…READ MORE

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What are ‘mature’ stateful applications?

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BlueK8s is a new open source Kubernetes initiative from ‘big data workloads’ company BlueData — the project’s direction leads us to learn a little about which direction containerised cloud-centric applications are growing.

Kubernetes is a portable and extensible open source platform for ma…READ MORE

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General availability: SQL Database auto-failover groups - and it looks awesome

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A really great feature in Azure SQL DB went GA today. That feature gives you and SQL DB the ability to automatically fail databases over to a Secondary replia, without having to configure your application to handle that failover. You point your application at a VIP and that VIP will automatically ha…READ MORE

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Get started with GoLang maps: A tutorial

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An important part of programming with GoLang is working with maps. In this GoLang maps tutorial, we’ll demonstrate the value of maps and show you how you can integrate them into your programs.
What are GoLang maps?
A map has a key and a value. The value can be any value, such as another map. For …READ MORE

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Top 10 VMworld 2018 sessions to look forward to

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VMworld is right around the corner and the 2018 conference promises an exciting mix of keynotes and breakout sessions that cover a variety of emerging and established technologies. Whether you’re looking to get a sneak peek at VMware’s multi-cloud plans, get updated on vSphere’s current capabilities…READ MORE

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UK PowerShell conference

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There’s a one day PowerShell conference in October in London – https://powershell.org/2018/07/17/psdayuk-2018-the-uk-powershell-conference/

It’s rumoured I may be there and speaking…READ MORE

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Walmart's cloud strategy sticks by OpenStack, despite Azure migration

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Walmart’s cloud deployment strategy takes a big turn to Microsoft Azure, but it won’t leave OpenStack completely in the dust.

A five-year deal to make Microsoft Azure the preferred cloud provider for Walmart, the largest corporation in the world, isn’t a shocker, but it does raise questions about…READ MORE

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To fix healthcare IT, start with medical appointment reminders

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All the talk about interoperability in healthcare misses the point, according to Rick Halton, vice president of Lumeon, a European automated care pathway platform provider that moved in to the US market last fall.

For Halton the place to start is with the appointment reminder. “It’s so basic,…READ MORE

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A conference room for the future

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In some ways, the recent completion of Plantronics’ $2 billion purchase of Polycom was more surprising for the amount paid than the fact that this is basically an audio headset supplier taking over a conferencing technology veteran. Given the way that videoconferencing has evolved to the cloud, Po…READ MORE

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Era of the Smart Factory: how can manufacturers get to the future quicker?

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This is a guest blogpost by Antony Bourne, Industries President at IFS

Businesses are constantly told they will go bust if they do not digitally transform and quick, but for manufacturers it’s not quite as simple. If production goes down even for a day, the impact can be irreversible, with mill…READ MORE

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Is the new California privacy law a domestic GDPR?

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The difference between data privacy protections afforded to European Union residents and people in the U.S. is more sharply highlighted now that the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation has taken effect. Will passage of a new California privacy law make a difference?

At first glance, it may se…READ MORE

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Optimizing Distributed Teams

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When I was in graduate school at Grand Valley State University, I wrote but never published a paper on distributed teams.

The body of the paper was shorter than the title.

The title of the paper was “On the Optimization of physically distributed analysis, design, code, test, operations, and ma…READ MORE

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Governance is coming to next-generation information architecture

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At times the era of big data has taken on the flavor of the old West – the kind depicted in a movie like The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. While it was seldom an outright confrontation, there’s little question that conscientious data stewards were usurped in some organization by developers who sligh…READ MORE

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Hedvig and Veeam integration converges storage, backup

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As an alternative to selling branded integrated appliances as most of its large competitors do, Veeam partners with as many hardware vendors as possible.

Hedvig is the latest Veeam partner, now that the vendors have teamed up to integrate Hedvig’s software-defined storage with Veeam’s data pr…READ MORE

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Injecting evidence into the On-line Child Safety Debate

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it is now a year since the Digital Economy Act required age checking for pornography web sites . A growing number of providers (from Age Checked  through Call Credit  to Yoti ) offer the services necessary to help improve child safety. Many of them offer secure anonymity in line with PAS 1296  (w…READ MORE

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Disaster recovery and business continuity: A best practice guide

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In this guest post Paul Timms, managing director of IT support provider MCSA, shares his thoughts on why enterprises can ill-afford to overlook the importance of business continuity and disaster recovery. 

With downtime leading to reputational damage, lost trade and productivity loss, organisati…READ MORE

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Productivity Hurdles Emphasize Office PC Setup Benefits

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I’ve been working long half-days since last weekend, on the road in the DC area. I’ve been gone long enough now to really, really miss my home office setup. After writing a couple of white papers, 5 blog posts, and dealing with email and surfing, I’ve identified important personal productivity elem…READ MORE

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The analogue minister

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When Theresa May’s unstoppable reshuffle tour eventually reached as far as grinning app namesake Matt Hancock, he found himself thrust from his role as secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport and into the crosshairs of Antony from The Royle Family. But there was scant time to cry …READ MORE

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