Cash will survive beyond demise of plastic cards, says Deutsche Bank

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Deutsche has published the first part of its report on the future of payments this week and it is no surprise that cash appeared in the headline.

But Deutsche’s report rather than the usual claims that cash is all but history in the developed world, the bank has put a different spin on it. Cash…READ MORE

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Get me API Shark observability… and make it snappy

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We’re moving on from monitoring and management in some spheres of information technology.

Where we once had monitoring, alerting, abstraction and system visualisation alongside log analytics and tracing… we now move to a ‘superset’ of all those factors.

We call that superset observabil…READ MORE

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Open source licence series - Instaclustr: Is open core a rotten deal?

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Open source grew, it proliferated… and it became something that many previously proprietary-only software vendors embraced as a key means of development… but the issue of how open source software is licenced is still the stuff of some debate.

The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team now f…READ MORE

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Embracing the digital evolution approach in 2020 and beyond

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This is a guest posted by by Marc Caltabiano, vice-president for ANZ at Mulesoft

Companies across industries have been gearing up for digital transformation, which has become a buzzword in the tech sector in recent years. But what is digital transformation? In simple terms, it is a complete shift…READ MORE

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Tapping video equipment for transformative business insights

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At this stage of the game, it would be silly for any business or technology leader to overlook the massive potential of IoT. Discovering new sources of data and analyzing the trends found as a result can deliver insights that create compelling competitive advantages over less savvy rivals. As Gartne…READ MORE

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Year in Preview 2020: Ediscovery technology gives, takes away

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So what’s going to happen with the ediscovery marketplace in 2020?

It seems likely that, just like every year since 2011, acquisition and consolidation is going to be a thing. The big companies have already merged. Now, there’s myriad startups in the field, but they’re too small individuall…READ MORE

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Mr Shithole

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Facebook has extended its apologies to China’s president Xi Jinping for erroneously translating his name to “Mr Shithole”.
With Slick Nick busy defending his employer’s decision to keep letting politicians post false adverts, the task of dishing out this new and unforeseen genre of corporat…READ MORE

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Clients deem MSSP companies ineffective in supporting SOCs

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MSSP companies appear to be missing the mark with customers that have in-house SOCs, according to a new security operations center benchmarking study by Ponemon Institute.

The study, sponsored by Respond Software, a security operations software vendor, surveyed 657 IT and IT security practitioner…READ MORE

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How Enterprise-y Happens

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It’s been ten years since I read “Big Agile Up Front” on the C2 wiki. That article describes an “enterprise” where team members who have to go through a “deployment” routine in order to get a unit test to ru. They hook up their continuous integration server to an “Agile” Gant chart…READ MORE

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AWS month in review: An AWS re:Invent recap of overlooked roll outs

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At the 2019 re:Invent, AWS added a host of tools and features, raising the cloud provider’s portfolio to more than 175 services — many of which flew under the radar due to the sheer number of rollouts at the annual conference.

Flashier announcements took up much of the spotlight at re:Invent, …READ MORE

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Browser Updates Require Human Intervention

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I’m a dedicated Windows Insider (and Insider MVP). Thus, I run Microsoft’s latest and greatest offerings as a deliberate policy. Just this morning, I saw a notification on MSPowerUser that Edge had been updated to version 79.0.309.71. Sure enough, I went off to check and saw a notification on the Ed…READ MORE

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AWS Re:Invent 2019 new product round-up: What CIOs need to know

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In this guest post, Ivaylo Vrabchev, head of professional services at IT services management company, HeleCloud, shares his round-up of the most eye-catching announcements from this year’s AWS Re:Invent user and developer conference. 

More than 65,000 attendees trekked out to Las Vegas in early …READ MORE

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Coding Dojo bootcamp bests 4-year programs

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Cloud and mobile computing are driving demand for a never-ending supply of new applications as enterprises move toward digital transformation, which is driving demand for more developers.

Coding boot camps have entered into the equation, providing an influx of new developers. In fact, Coding Dojo…READ MORE

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Parsing the Iaas and PaaS divide for microservices

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By Alan Earls

Infrastructure as a services (IaaS) and platform as a services (PaaS) are both potential deployment paths for microservices. But there are big differences, and picking the right path for your project or organization involves a range of tradeoffs.

The problem with PaaS is that it …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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Calling all data storage products for the 2019 Products of the Year

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Do you have a great data storage product that first shipped or was significantly enhanced this year? If yes, we want to hear about it. There’s just one week left to enter your outstanding product in Storage magazine and SearchStorage’s 2019 Storage Products of the Year competition.

We’ve just ext…READ MORE

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What AWS and Azure’s cloud market growth says about IT

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Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud market revenues continue to grow at a torrid pace, reflecting IT departments’ increased comfort and reliance on cloud computing services.

Azure revenue, which is counted among Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud business division, grew 73% in Q1 2019. Intelligent Cloud sa…READ MORE

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Google focuses more on steering the Android ship than righting it

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Google has been a frequent target of criticism over security and privacy issues and how Android security updates filter out to users, butthe scale of its products has led Google to focus more on steering the ship rather than righting it.

Consider Android: an ecosystem of 2.5 billion active device…READ MORE

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Why organizations need SIP services now

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Whether you realize it or not, your company needs Session Initiation Protocol. As legacy telephony networks wind down and cloud-based voice services continue to grow, SIP services are necessary to support the transition to the cloud and ensure reliable communications infrastructure.

SIP is the pr…READ MORE

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Here we go again - strap yourself in for the next 10-year ride in digital government transformation

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There’s a new UK government, one with a comfortable majority, and it’s clear it wants to use that advantage for radical change.

The new prime minister says the government has “a mission to modernise” in order to “renew our country”.

“The old arguments about government are now out…READ MORE

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