Blockchain could help answer one of IoT's biggest questions

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The biggest promise of the internet of things is also arguably its biggest weakness — namely its scale. While the prospect of billions of IoT devices has the potential to alter the global economy, it also creates an enormous attack surface for hackers to exploit. Luckily, blockchain technology is p…READ MORE

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Pivot3 revenue growth stokes IPO talk

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Pivot3, one of the last small independent hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) vendors left, is on a growth path that its CEO said could lead it to going public within two years.

The vendor report its first quarter 2018 bookings increased more than 60% over last year, with two-thirds of its sales…READ MORE

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Troubleshooting #1

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How do you go about troubleshooting a problem?

There are two ends to the spectrum of solutions to troubleshooting a problem. At one end you have the click and pray brigade who will manically click round all the menus on all the tools they can think of using to try and find something that will fix…READ MORE

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Artificial Intelligence Arrives

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In his 1951 Paper  “The Imitation Game”, Alan Turing proposed a simple test of artificial intelligence. Put a real person in a room connected to a teletype machine, sending messages back and forth to some other entity. If the entity could be a human, or it could be a computer, and the person cannot…READ MORE

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Top Barriers To Using Machine Learning In An Organization

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What would be an organization’s top barriers to using machine learning? Machine learning, big data, IoT, Industrial IoT, etc. are the newest trending technologies. These are becoming, in fact, global phenomenon. Rather, these are becoming a necessity for businesses to strive. the businesses that are…READ MORE

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The life of macro

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Kanye West’s recent Twitter meltdown, in which he professed his love for Donald Trump, has seen many fans turn on him, but our interest lies more with his denunciation of Microsoft Excel.
The erratic series of tweets was littered with enthusiastic musings such as him and the president sharing som…READ MORE

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Commercialising Innovation - scaling tech start-ups

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Innovation and innovative people are spread evenly around the globe. But there is more of an uneven challenge to bring products and services successfully to market. Many times this is due to a lack of resources or funding and sometimes a lack of a supportive ‘community’. Hence all the ‘Silicon…READ MORE

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Is AI ethics enough of a niche for the UK’s economic strategy?

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The House of Lords report on AI and UK economy and society came out this week, with the guardedly bullish title: “AI in the UK: ready, willing and able?” The question mark is moot.

I think a strong case can be reasonably made that the government has been using AI as a fig leaf to cover the ec…READ MORE

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TSB chaos: When choosing bank people should look at core banking platform and not just funky apps

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When consumers today chose which bank to use they will inevitable look at the digital services it offers.

Digital savvy consumers expect a great mobile and internet experience as well as easy ways to be identified such as fingerprint and iris scanners. They might even like the service that tells …READ MORE

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Chasing Grace Project spotlights women in tech

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Poet Lauren Zuniga is featured in Episode 1 of the Chasing Grace Project, a documentary series about women in tech.
Photo by Beth Pariseau, TechTarget
Diversity Luncheons have popped up with increasing frequency, but in the thirteen years I’ve been a tech reporter I’ve avoided them like the plag…READ MORE

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MSP tools: Virteva consolidates monitoring for better visibility

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MSP tools play a pivotal role in a managed service provider’s business. 

A mix of off-the-shelf and home-grown tools help MSPs deliver services to their customers. Using automated tools to remotely monitor and manage clients’ IT assets is really the essence of what an MSP does. The MSP industry …READ MORE

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Skippy Shows Off Lean Win10 Edition

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Imagine my surprise upon stumbling across mention of a new Window 10 edition yesterday. An alert installer named Lucan found it in the latest Skip Ahead Insider Preview (Build 17650). That’s how I cobbled my headline — “Skippy Shows Off Lean Win10 Edition” — together. But it’s not yet clear what …READ MORE

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The biggest surprise about TSB's IT disaster is that people are still surprised when banks' IT fails

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The only real surprise about TSB’s IT disaster this week is that people are still surprised when a retail bank has IT problems.

There are few organisations with a more complex and difficult technology legacy estate than the big banks. For all the online banking sites and mobile banking apps we�…READ MORE

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TIBCO Messaging now supports Apache Kafka

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TIBCO extends its open source credentials this month with commercial support and services for Apache Kafka as part of the firm’s branded Messaging product line.

Apache Kafka is a distributed open source publish-subscribe messaging system designed to replace traditional message brokers – as su…READ MORE

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Scality gets $60m but keeps quiet about what it’ll spend it on

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French object storage specialist Scality recently raised $60m of funding, but what will that money go towards?

The company – most well-known for its RING object storage product – is in the middle of efforts to achieve “multi-cloud” operations, in which customers can operate within and bet…READ MORE

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Is the Facebook furore another piece of Fake News

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The story of how Cambridge Analytica used Facebook data collected by an Academic intermediary to supposedly help Remain “steal” the UK referendum campaign and Trump “steal” the US Presidential campaign can be read at many levels with many different questions.

What was so offensive/different abo…READ MORE

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How Lego Education tries to encourage kids into Stem through play-based learning

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Lego Education, the more serious branch of the Lego enterprise, aims to provide teachers and other education providers with fun ways to engage children with science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) subjects.

To us, it may just be a toy we have long left in our childhood, but the makers …READ MORE

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Appian’s 7 pillars of low-code

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Low-code business process company Appian has detailed its current updates and future road ahead as part of its annual Appian World user and customer conference.

Essential a mostly graphical visual drag-and-drop software tool designed to help build business ‘case management’ applications to tr…READ MORE

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Robert Morgan, RIP

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The sad news that outsourcing pioneer Robert Morgan recently died is a great loss to a great many people.I was with Robert a couple of weeks ago so it was a huge shock to hear of his sudden death.Robert is best known as co-founder of sourcing advisory Morgan Chambers, which cornered its market. It …READ MORE

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Forecasting the future of the unified communications industry

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New trends are reshaping the unified communications industry as organizations embrace the cloud and employees push new methods of collaboration. These trends are influencing the direction of UC vendor portfolios and introducing new technology, such as AI, into the workplace:

1. Digital transforma…READ MORE

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