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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).
Concern Rises About ICE Facial Recognition Use
July 13, 2019 - In 2016, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) facial recognition database was big and broken, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Now, it’s not much better, a whole lot bigger, and it’s being used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as well. Previously, the FBI’s Facial Analysis, Comparison, and Evaluation program (FACE, get it?)...... READ MOREBlogs
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IoT investment has to begin now
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It’s been widely reported that the IoT market is expected to generate significant market opportunity – upwards of $267 billion — by 2020. Numbers aside, one of the main drivers is the rapid growth of IoT and connected devices consumed at both the consumer and industrial level, leading to an ext…READ MORE
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How to fix common JAVA_HOME errors quickly
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There’s nothing worse than installing your favorite Java-based application — such as Minecraft, Maven, Jenkins or Apache Pig — only to run into a JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory or a JAVA_HOME is not defined correctly error as soon as you boot up the program.
Well, there’s no need to f…READ MORE
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Know the ingredients for team collaboration app success
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Team collaboration apps are everywhere, but deploying them isn’t an immediate recipe for success for organizations looking to improve workflow collaboration. Attitudes toward the role of team collaboration apps, as well as the method of deployment all play a role in the success of adopting team coll…READ MORE
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PowerShell v6.2.2 has just been released.
One breaking change – the Enter-PSHostProcess is disabled when system is in lock down mode.
The jumplist is now created in STA to avoid potential CLR crash
Other changes are around the build process.
These changes shouldn’t have impact on you…READ MORE
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The recently announced Azure Bastion service looks like a pretty slick service. It provides a secure way into your VMs without the need to VPN in. It gives you the same authentication that you’d expect from the Azure Portal (MFA, AAD Credentials, etc.) all while giving you a pretty easy to manage …READ MORE
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Apollo 11: The human factor in autonomous systems
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“Once you put someone in orbit, it is a lot harder to fix it if something goes wrong,” says Paul Kostek, a senior Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) member and senior systems expert at Base2.
But things do go wrong. About 1:08:53 into the BBC’s excellent documentary, E…READ MORE
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Is Windows 10 19H2 Now Called Version Next?
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A few minutes ago, I saw word at TenForums that a new slow ring Insider Preview release was out. Until now, this version has been more or less uniformly known as 19H2 (for 2019, Second Half of year). But as the following screencap shows, it appears therein as “Windows 10 Version Next.” That’s as goo…READ MORE
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Metadata management is the administration of data that describes other data. Continued…
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“Big data often comes with big data management problems. Clean, well-defined metadata can make the difference in analyzing big data and delivering actionable business intelligence.” – Scott…READ MOREPosted in Word of the Day: Tech Definitions from WhatIs.com on
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Help set the forward agenda for Schools and Skills
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On the afternoon of 17th July Lord Lucas will chair a round table to launch a national debate on Digital Skills. Cconfirmed opening speakers include
Ben Mason from Global Bridge (opening up new pathways between employers and recruits in the North east),
David Willett, Corporate Director of t…READ MOREPosted in When IT Meets Politics on -
Concern Rises About ICE Facial Recognition Use
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In 2016, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) facial recognition database was big and broken, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Now, it’s not much better, a whole lot bigger, and it’s being used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as well.
Previously, …READ MORE
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1st Data Orchestration Platform with Multi-cloud Analytics AI @Alluxio
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Alluxio is a well-known name among the world’s top internet companies. In fact, 7 out of the top 10 internet companies use open-source data orchestration technology developed by Alluxio. The launch of Alluxio 2.0 at the recent AWS Summit in New York announces a lot more power in it. The open-source …READ MORE
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IUR policy scrapped amid Microsoft channel partner feedback
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Microsoft has dropped planned policy changes that would have compelled Microsoft channel partners to pay for software they have been using under internal use rights licenses.
Amid considerable partner dissent, Microsoft on July 12 rolled back its plan to cut IUR licenses, a move that would have…READ MORE
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Kubernetes catches up with operational reality
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With Kubernetes now established in many organisations as the container orchestration platform of the future, are cracks already starting to show? Well, not exactly – but if I could pull out one common theme from what’s hot in the world of cloud-native, it’s the dawning light of Day Two.
Tha…READ MORE
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Sennheiser MB 360 UC: minimalist design, high-quality finish
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People use headphones while they’re at work, get used to the facts.
Now then, some of those people are call centre workers, some of them are air traffic controllers, some of them are telesales people and some of them have a job that inherently demands that they don a pair of ‘cans’ over the…READ MORE
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BlackBerry juices up threat hunting software
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Things changed at BlackBerry, more than once, to be fair.
The company that used to be known as Research in Motion (RIM) decided to drop the somewhat incongruous name and some bright spark in marketing decided to rename the company after the device brand that we once all knew and loved.
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We shouldn't need to debate online identity again, but it's right that we do
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The latest select committee report by MPs into the progress of digital government in the UK has resurrected a question that has reared its head on several occasions in the past – do we need a unique single identifier for every citizen, to be associated with our online presence?
This debate was …READ MORE
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This month saw the Church of England release its own Digital charter, intended to improve the online community’s “common sense, kindness and sound judgement”.
Now, you can sit there and have a go at the pomposity of thinking a list of arbitrary rules is going to make notorious online trolls t…READ MOREPosted in Downtime on
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People that have never heard of the cloud enjoy cloud services, so why should open banking differ?
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According to a survey from banking software supplier Crealogix, there is lack of awareness of open banking among UK current account holders.
In fact its survey carried out by Censuswide found that two thirds of them had never heard of open banking. But it also found that the same proportion are…READ MORE
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ONC deputy national coordinator for health IT departs
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT will have a new deputy leader starting next month.
ONC announced Monday that Jon White, M.D., deputy national coordinator for health IT, will take on a new role outside of ONC as associate chief of staff of research at the Veterans Administrati…READ MORE
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StorOne's $799 per month storage array leasing offer: How does it stack up?
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Looking at the promise from StorOne to offer its software-defined storage for $799 a month – that’s about £640 – for 15TB of file, block or object storage capacity, I thought I’d compare it with the cost of cloud storage and buying an entry-level storage array from one of the big five.
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