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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).
Laptop Border Searches Now Require Probable Cause
November 14, 2019 - It’s safe to bring your cell phones and laptops into the United States again. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has for some time been pushing for a case to expand the provisions of the Riley case, which stated that law enforcement officials needed a warrant to search someone’s cell phone, to Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) searches....... READ MOREBlogs
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The seven deadly sins of modern software development
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By Stuart Kennedy
Grappling with legacy systems to being fixated on project completion and budget rather than outcomes are some of the common challenges and pitfalls that software development teams face each day.
Yasmen Sader, a platform engineering partner at Deloitte Australia, highlighted t…READ MORE
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AWS month in review: Amazon rolls out RDS on VMware, loses JEDI deal
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This month, AWS solidified the next step in its hybrid cloud partnership with VMware, as it faces a more serious cloud market challenge from Microsoft, which won the desirable U.S. government JEDI cloud contract.
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) on VMware is generally available more than …READ MORE
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Evaluating what IoT device failure looks like in the current digital world
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The universe of connected devices continues to snowball and has now surpassed the number of smartphones globally and is projected to reach 18 billion devices by 2022. Smart devices and hyperconnected systems are becoming ubiquitous, ranging from connected doorbells to smart cities to hospital system…READ MORE
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USB iPhone Link-Up Causes BSOD
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Hmmmm. Here’s an odd one for you. I just upgraded my production desktop to 1909 on Wednesday (Build 18363.476). When I plugged my iPhone into that machine this morning to make a backup using iTunes, the PC crashed immediately. Any USB Iphone link-up causes BSOD like this one:
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Has ISOC sold .Org for 30 pieces of silver? - Update 15th November
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Since I posted this there have been many entries on an impassioned ISOC discussion thread. So far I draw three main conclusions:
Democratic accountability is alien to ISOC. It has long been structured as a top down organisation, living off the revenues from .org, , with multiple groups in which…READ MORE
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NearForm clocks in with hackable open source JavaScript AI smartwatch
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The Irish county town of Kilkenny is known for its medieval buildings and castle, its rich history of brewing, its distinctive black marble and as the home of White House architect James Hoban.
In more recent times, Kilkenny has become known as the home of the NodeConf EU conference, a coming tog…READ MORE
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CI/CD series - Altran: What's driving the continuum?
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This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network in our Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD) series.
This post is written by Jitendra Thethi, AVP of Technology and Innovation at Altran — the company is known for its software product development and consultanc…READ MORE
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Change how you present technical training for better value
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Most HR departments simply don’t get it when it comes to technical training. They set up the training in a practical method: first create an outline, second identify a speaker and third find a conference room or video conference bridge to deliver the training. In some instances, HR might even get a …READ MORE
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Labour's broadband plan won't work - but let's have a national debate to find a plan that does
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So, the Labour Party wants free full-fibre broadband for all, and to nationalise Openreach. Cue bedlam on social media as the telecoms industry slams the proposals and the Conservatives scream, “Marxism! State aid! Fantasy economics!”
There was more debate on Twitter alone about the UK’s na…READ MORE
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Like it or not, resume inflation is a real problem in Information Technology. Those that are willing to lie a bit are rewarded with better jobs and more money. If you are honest, leaving terms off your resume because you do not know the tech, you might not even pass the keyword-match algorithm. More…READ MORE
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Laptop Border Searches Now Require Probable Cause
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It’s safe to bring your cell phones and laptops into the United States again.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has for some time been pushing for a case to expand the provisions of the Riley case, which stated that law enforcement officials needed a warrant to search someone’s cell …READ MORE
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What are the chances of deepfakes poisoning the integrity of the UK’s current General Election? Probably a lot higher now a think tank has created clips of the two frontrunners endorsing each other for the likes of The Telegraph to share under the headline: Jeremy Corbyn urges voters to back Boris…READ MORE
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Apollo begins countdown to Tech Data acquisition
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Private equity firm Apollo Global Management has inked an agreement to acquire distributor Tech Data Corp. But the buyout terms leave the door open for other suitors.
Tech Data, based in Clearwater, Fla., ranks among the top IT distributors, offering resellers a range of hardware, software, netwo…READ MORE
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Wagestream gives staff alternative to payday lenders: Fintech interview 30
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Fintech Wagestream, which was founded last year, offers businesses a service where they can pay staff some of their earnings in advance of payday.
It gives workers access to the money they have earned straight away rather than at the end of the month
This is an employee benefit businesses offe…READ MORE
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DevOps needs more perspective and humility
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DevOps started as a grass-roots movement led by practitioners. The motives were pure, and focused simply on finding better ways of doing things for the good of everyone involved in software delivery.
In recent years, though, DevOps has become increasingly commercialised. Software vendors and serv…READ MORE
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PDP gaming accessories, worth a shot (or two)
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As any dedicated gamer knows, you need to have ‘everything just right’ in order to get the most fully immersive experience out of the challenges you set yourself in console land.
Gone are the early days of the Atari 2600 and its fairly joyless joystick that would have been better employed as …READ MORE
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Calling tech leaders: Should you stay or should you go?
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During Gartner’s recent Symposium event in Barcelona, CIOs heard the latest thinking from the analyst firm about where it sees the role of IT leader heading.
Each year, CIOs head to the Symposium events to network and hear from the analyst firm about its latest thinking on IT leadership.
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How Cybersecurity Evolves CISO/Security Vendor Relationship? @cynet360
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With any kind of evolution there is a need for realignment, reexamination, change from the existing, or discovery of new. Why is it so? Because a change seeks to change. With the change in the severity of threats and vulnerabilities, there is a need for evolution in cybersecurity. The same old metho…READ MORE
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How to test for query regressions when upgrading
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One of the things that you want to test for when doing an upgrade of SQL Server is query regressions. Regressions happen when the new version of SQL Server makes a poor decision when running the same code that you can before. Testing an application against the new version should always be done, ev…READ MORE
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Scale-out NAS bounces back to fight for unstructured data against object storage
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There’s a scrap breaking out between object storage and scale-out NAS. The battleground is the market for customers that need to deal with very large amounts of unstructured data.
In October, Cloudian’s CEO Michael Tso told ComputerWeekly.com that object storage is set to go mainstream, that …READ MORE
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