Do You Get A Comprehensive View of IT Assets and Activities @Cynet360

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I am sure keeping a track of IT Assets in the organization is a big pain for all IT Heads. There are assets that are in use. There are assets that are there as standbys. And then there are assets that are old, obsolete, or out of use that are lying idle in some storeroom of the organization. Losing …READ MORE

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Sensu targets MSPs with multi-cloud monitoring, multi-tenancy

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Sensu Inc. is finding an audience for its multi-cloud monitoring tool among managed service providers, which are integrating the product with their ticketing, configuration management database and event logging systems.

The Portland, Ore., company’s offering lets organizations monitor public clou…READ MORE

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Stuck Rocker Switch Means New Drive Dock

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As a dedicated Windows Insider (MVP) I run various Windows 10 Previews on 5 test PCs in my office. Of course, OS previews can (and sometimes do) fail or encounter install hiccups. That means I’m also dedicated to backing those systems up. I tend to take a snapshot after each feature upgrade, and at …READ MORE

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4 ways IoT innovation can transform the utilities industry

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IoT innovation is turning the utilities world on its head, augmenting smart meters with more advanced monitoring, alerting and data analytics capabilities than ever before. One of the most impactful innovations is a publisher-subscriber messaging protocol called MQTT. In the case of the utilities in…READ MORE

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Tibco sharpens open source cloud-native developer toolkit

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Tibco has made a direct developer play designed to drive recognition of its technologies in areas where programmers are looking to build cloud-native applications.

Known for its integration, API management and analytics stack, Tibco (sometimes written as TIBCO for The Information Bus COmpany) has…READ MORE

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The death of the data model?

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Agile developers tend to view data modeling as a bottleneck preventing them from delivering value.

This is the view held by Pascal Desmarets, founder and CEO of Hackolade, a Belgium-based startup that focuses on the importance of proper schema design in microservices architectures.

As we know …READ MORE

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London Tech Week opinion 1: Incorporating diversity in your company

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As I was on another assignment most of this week I didn’t manage to cover London Tech Week as much as I would have liked. I did manage to interview Russ Shaw, of Tech London Advocates before the show, which you can read here.

However various people have kindly offered to provide their opinions …READ MORE

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Threat vs trust: the overlooked power of words

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Words have power – in particular, your choice of words modifies how your readers or listeners react to what you write or say. Politicians do this sort of thing all the time, swapping one word or phrase for another to promote their own version of a narrative or boost their audience’s prejudices. …READ MORE

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Some reflections on Black Mirror

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The fifth series of Charlie Brooker’s anthology series Black Mirror landed on Netflix this month, and we were surprised to find it’s moved away from making terrifying technology predictions to become an unwitting homage to the Not a cell phone in sight meme.
The second episode, Smithereens, is …READ MORE

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How to troubleshoot a JVM OutOfMemoryError problem

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There aren’t any magical tools that will fix an OutOfMemoryError for you, but there are some options available that will help automate your ability to troubleshoot and identify the root cause.

Follow these three steps to deal with this JVM memory error and get on the way to recovery:

Capture…READ MORE

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Hofeller Storage Case Fascinating Study in How Not to Protect Data

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If you saw it on tv you’d probably chide it for being a cliché: A guy who spends his whole life passing information on in phone calls so he doesn’t have anything written down in email or paper dies, and has all sorts of incriminating stuff on his un-password-protected, unencrypted computer stor…READ MORE

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John Suffolk's grilling by MPs exposes the tech industry's troubling amorality

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In an astonishing and frankly unprecedented turn of events before the Science and Technology Select Committee this week, Huawei chief security officer John Suffolk was branded a “moral vacuum” by Conservative MP Julian Lewis.

Lewis was questioning Suffolk over his knowledge and acceptance of Huaw…READ MORE

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Cloud migration: A step-by-step guide

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In this guest post, Paul Mercina, director of product management, at datacentre hardware and maintenance provider ParkPlace Technologies offers a step-by-step guide about how, what and when to move to the cloud.

 The benefits of using cloud are multiple, but the process of migrating a company�…READ MORE

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Getting Started with Agile

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For something to be agile, it must be able to move quickly and easily. In other words, efficient and effective movement that’s adaptable to changing scenarios. As such, it’s not surprising that Agile is the name of the project management method that software developers flock toward.

When a pr…READ MORE

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Azure Database for MySQL server has a slow query log now

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I’m not sure when this feature got introduced, but I just saw it for the first time recently (and I asked for it when Azure Database for MySQL server was in private preview); but Azure Database for MySQL server can show you the slow queries that are running against the MySQL database. In fact, it’l…READ MORE

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New iOS features and other announcements from Apple WWDC 2019

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Apple announced many new features for iPads, iPhones and more at its Worldwide Developer Conference this week.

While announcements such as iOS 13’s dark mode and the $999 price tag for the Pro Stand desktop display stand garnered attention, there were plenty of announcements regarding new iOS fea…READ MORE

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Why Tech should lead, when governments lag

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Last week shares in the tech giants plummeted following reports that US regulators from the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission were looking at investigating their business.

On the one hand, this may be good for consumers, since the technological era the web giants have created, me…READ MORE

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Pure Storage up, IBM down in external storage systems revs

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Despite a recent earnings miss, Pure Storage has cracked the IDC enterprise storage tracker for the first time to grab a share of fifth place in external storage systems revenue to tie IBM Storage.

Although well behind storage leaders Dell EMC, NetApp and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Pure Storage …READ MORE

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A hospice for a dying HE/FE funding regime - A review of the Augar Report

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The report of the Independent Panel to the Review into the funding of Further and Higher Education was not just about Student loans and University Funding . But most of the 370 submissions came from Universities and their acolytes. There were only 9 from Further Education providers. “Businesses”…READ MORE

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‘A breath of fresh air’ for Gov.uk Verify?

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Three months ago, the Government Digital Service (GDS) appointed the first ever director of digital identity, Lisa Barrett – tasked with taking on the troubled Gov.uk Verify programme.

Barrett arrived just as the National Audit Office found that “it is difficult to conclude that successive de…READ MORE

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