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Mar 22, 2019

VMware has announced advancements to VMware Cloud that further the company’s vision for delivering a digital foundation to support customers’ and partners’ digital transformation. These advancements include updates to VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware vCloud Director, and CloudHealth...

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Mar 21, 2019

Autonomous vehicles. Smart buildings. Wearables. Commercial drones. New digital payment methods. What could they mean for your business? Now more than ever, technology is a key business enabler, with the potential to accelerate time to market for new products, services, and user experiences. How can...

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Mar 21, 2019

Due to the growing usage of mobile data, consumption of rich internet content and data storage demand from a variety of industries, our lives now rely on data centres. These data centres host and manage the data that makes our day-to-day activities possible - from energy and lighting to urban traffi...

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Mar 21, 2019

This is a guest post by Asif Taj, Technical Solution Architect – IP MPLS Networks & SD-WAN. We are grateful to him for sharing his expertise on our blog in order to help others. Software Defined Networks: WAN and Branch Virtualization Software Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WAN) is a moder...

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Mar 21, 2019

When the Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report (WISR) was launched 14 years ago, 10 Gbps attacks made headlines and took networks down. Today, attacks forty times that size are routinely mitigated with little to no disruption to online services. Indeed, that is good news. But think about that for...

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Mar 21, 2019

On February 28, 2019, we announced Microsoft Threat Experts, a new managed hunting service within the Microsoft 365 Security portfolio that enables customers to extend their expertise and insights with the help of Microsoft security professionals. This release showcased our philosophy that security ...

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Mar 21, 2019

The process industry has spent billions of dollars on robots and robotic automation, but are these monoliths flexible enough for today’s manufacturing requirements, will they eventually take our jobs and will the human-less factory really become a reality?The earliest known industrial Robot, c...

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Mar 19, 2019

IBM has a long history of leadership in high performance computing (HPC). With ground-breaking advancements in systems, software, and services, IBM has enabled enterprises across many industries to manage distributed environments for running their HPC workloads for decades.Customers are taking advan...

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Mar 19, 2019

For years, companies have used both DevOps and business intelligence (BI) to further their reach. While you may understand these terms and the benefits that they bring to an organization separately, when combined, they benefit your business and keep your team productive and efficient. In this articl...

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Mar 19, 2019

Alibaba Cloud provides a comprehensive suite of cloud computing services to power businesses across the globe. We are excited to announce that our new integration with Alibaba Cloud is now in public beta. While the Datadog Agent has always been able to provide visibility into Alibaba Cloud instances...

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Mar 19, 2019

With the rise of cryptocurrency-mining malware over the past couple of years, cybercriminals are constantly trying different kinds of monetization schemes. One of the methods becoming increasingly commonplace is targeting the cloud — specifically enterprise cloud infrastructure. A report by AT...

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Mar 19, 2019

Once upon a time, when it came to networks, customers were pretty much at the mercy of service providers, who determined what customers could get in terms of features, how they could use them and how they could organize their services. Few customers even thought to demand changes to create a more us...

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Mar 19, 2019

All Global 2000 firms are awash in infrastructure data. Every device that an application flows through, be it network equipment, firewalls, servers, load balancers, cloud providers, service providers, storage, etc., provide data to communicate state metrics, events, logs, et al. That is, all the dev...

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Mar 19, 2019

Infovista announced new cloud-native management and control with next-generation Application Intelligence+ for Ipanema SD-WAN. Infovista’s Ipanema SD-WAN with new cloud-native management and control of applications tightly combines session-based routing and dynamic path selection of the underl...

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Mar 19, 2019

In the past few months, an alleged group of transparency advocates, headed by activist Emma Best (@NatSecGeek), created an online repository of leaked data similar to WikiLeaks, named “Distributed Denial of Secrets” (@DDoSecrets). Our initial examination revealed that the repository incl...

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Mar 19, 2019

During the last several years we have described multiple incidents with ransomware targeting organizations such as hospitals, municipal transit, or even government computers for an entire county. Then came the age of the wipers, with epidemics of WannaCry, ExPetr, and Bad Rabbit spreading through th...

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Mar 19, 2019

The importance of data in not only business but our day-to-day lives continues to grow – no one is arguing that. But the pace at which it’s growing is mind-blowing. In a recent study sponsored by Seagate Technology, IDC forecasted that the global data sphere will grow to 163ZB by 2025. C...

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Mar 18, 2019

The most effective User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) solutions leverage big data. Big data refers to large and complex data sets that traditional data processing application software cannot process effectively because of volume, velocity and variety. This was documented as part of big data&r...

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Mar 18, 2019

CIO’s are frequently faced with limited resources, like time and money, as they consider a disaster recovery plan. This blog will help businesses weigh the disadvantages and advantages of each type of disaster recovery methods. Ideally, every business should have an IT disaster recovery (DR) s...

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Mar 18, 2019

Alluxio, developer of the world’s first software system that unifies data at memory speed, announced that it has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), further demonstrating its commitment to supporting and promoting open cloud native technology and expanding its collaboration wi...

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Mar 18, 2019

According to a new report made by AT&T Cybersecurity wing of the United States, many crypto attacks seem to be focused on cloud infrastructures. The report revealed that organizations of all sizes continue to face significant crypto mining attacks despite the ongoing bearish market. Hackers seem...

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Mar 18, 2019

Today, we’re going to explore one of the least know opportunities about the VMware Cloud Provider Program (VCPP): the ability for cloud providers to extend their managed services to customer’s data centers using VCPP points and products; whether for simple data center modernization, hybr...

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Mar 18, 2019

Most data centers weren’t designed with the explosive growth and unique demands of AI in mind. But NVIDIA DGX POD offers a blueprint for every data center architect who wants to optimize their compute, storage and network infrastructure to meet the rising tide of AI-infused applications. And t...

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Mar 18, 2019

Move over Super Bowl and the World Series. Esports and online gaming are making their move. In 2018, the global Esports audience grew to 380 million viewers[i] and by 2021, the U.S. will have more viewers than every professional sports league save the NFL.[ii] Newzoo predicts that the global Esports...

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Mar 18, 2019

By 2024, there will be a forecasted 1.5 billion 5G mobile subscriptions worldwide. Currently, 5G is at a transition point that will soon mark the arrival and evolution of new trends in the telco market. Much like 3G and 4G allowed for innovations and the growth of services over the air such as multi...

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Mar 18, 2019

Allied Market Research (AMR) is constantly pumping out new market forecast reports, and one of the group's latest contains some eye-popping numbers regarding planting the roots for 5G.AMR's new report, "Global 5G Infrastructure Market: Opportunities and Forecasts, 2018-2025", state...

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Mar 18, 2019

Predictably, the topic of 5G cropped up everywhere at Mobile World Congress. During a hectic week in Barcelona I talked to many people about 5G and came away with the impression that many operators are struggling to get to grips with this major step in our industry. And if operators are finding it d...

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Mar 17, 2019

Taking advantage of recent stolen credential dumps, attackers have been exploiting legacy protocols like IMAP to engage in high-volume password-spraying campaigns for the purpose of breaking into companies’ cloud accounts, researchers at Proofpoint are reporting.Used by email clients to retrie...

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Mar 17, 2019

n previous years, people associated the term ‘digital’ with binary code, the language used by computers to process and store information.  Binary is composed of the numbers 1 and 0. However, depending on someone’s age and their experience with technology, they may have differe...

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Mar 17, 2019

With the cybersecurity environment changing so rapidly, it can be difficult to stay abreast of the latest threats and what they may mean for your business. Having a few go-to resources makes it easier to continue to educate yourself on this important topic. While there are hundreds of places you can...

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Mar 15, 2019

Impact Of IT Infrastructure Service In Banking Industry
Protecting information and keeping data integrity is one of the main challenges for organizations around the globe and with latest rising threats, the financial institutions are attempting Banking Infrastructure and Technology services t...

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Mar 15, 2019

For some time now, Dynatrace has provided the ability to register and monitor custom (network) devices using the Dynatrace API. Over the past few months, this functionality has been widely used to gain visibility into custom devices where OneAgent can’t be installed. It’s amazing to see ...

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Mar 15, 2019

In late 2018, we surveyed IT professionals to learn about current unstructured data trends and challenges. If you did not get an opportunity to read our blog on the survey and its findings, we found there were five surprising trends that emerged from the report. Regulatory requirements are shaking u...

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Mar 15, 2019

The first rollouts of 5G in the U.S. are only a few months away. However, because of the ambiguity and integration challenges with legacy infrastructure that come with 5G, enterprises are approaching the new technology with caution. Instead of simply waiting for 5G to arrive, businesses should be pr...

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Mar 14, 2019

When Touchstone Solutions launched its hosting service, its primary customers were established web designers and experienced tech professionals in India who understood the value of the company’s solutions. Those clients also appreciated that Touchstone actually provided the services it promise...

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Mar 14, 2019

I’ve been using ZNetLive’s High Availability Cloud Servers for nearly 3 years now, and I have to admit… I’m in love…But I wasn’t always such a big fan. When cloud storage first appeared on my radar, I wasn’t all that interested in giving it a shot. Sure, i...

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Mar 14, 2019

Serverless architectures are revolutionizing the way organizations procure and use enterprise technology. This cloud computing model can drive cost-efficiencies, increase agility and enable organizations to focus on the essential aspects of software development. While serverless architecture offers ...

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Mar 14, 2019

With hybrid cloud, local and state governments can do everything from roll out new services more quickly and improve inter-departmental collaboration to eliminate redundant IT expenditures and add vital operational benefits. So why aren’t all government agencies adopting hybrid cloud? As you m...

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Mar 14, 2019

Would you trust the internet to make your food safer? Well, there is a good chance you have already eaten food that benefited from the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT has generated a lot of buzz in the tech world, but it’s only recently started to gain traction in the food and beverage indus...

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Mar 14, 2019

With the release of 18c and Oracle Autonomous Database, 2018 has been an incredible year for the database.  So what's happening in 2019? Here are five database predictions: 1. Database Maintenance Automation Will Accelerate Many routine database management tasks have already been automated ...

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Mar 14, 2019

The Encyclopedia Britannica defines Chaos Theory as “the study of apparently random or unpredictable behavior in systems governed by deterministic laws.” A classic illustration of this is the Butterfly Effect, which meteorologist Edward Lorenz devised as an explanation of how simple phys...

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Mar 13, 2019

As enterprises develop network strategies and technical roadmaps, one hot technology that will be on their radar is SD-WAN, a significant transformational solution in networking and a major change  from the MPLS status quo that most enterprises have deployed. As bullish as we are on SD-WAN, we ...

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Mar 13, 2019

Change is daunting.  Organizations might realize they need a data center infrastructure makeover, but the process can seem overwhelming. How do you pick the “right” solution with the least disruption? Customer viewpoints offer critical insight when evaluating new data center systems...

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Mar 13, 2019

Every day, drivers take significant risks when getting behind the wheel. And with the rise of 5G, it seems the stakes are getting higher. But what if our addictive mobile devices, and the data they utilize, made us safer while on the road? 5G is coming to a world caught in the middle of a massi...

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Mar 13, 2019

The demand for Asia data center is growing. According to the Data Age 2025 white paper by IDC, the collective sum of the world’s data will grow from 33 zettabytes in 2018 to a 175ZB by 2025, for a compounded annual growth rate of 61 percent. China and Asia Pacific regions are the fastest growi...

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Mar 13, 2019

Single-tech solutions have dominated the showroom floor at Mobile World Congress over the past couple of years. Think biometric scanners or beacons for indoor positioning and you get the picture. This all changed at MWC19. Exhibitors at the 2019 event presented a simple formula for anyone who are lo...

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Mar 13, 2019

The incredible power and automation offered by today’s more advanced SD-WAN platforms is transforming how enterprises are building and managing their networks. Operations that were once massive resource-intensive projects for network teams, have now been reduced to mere minutes of work. Need t...

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Mar 13, 2019

SD-WAN is a specific application of software-defined networking (SDN) technology applied to WAN. It’s a flexible software layer, which is logically separated from the WAN hardware infrastructure – accessed via the cloud or on-premises – reducing management complexity.  Not onl...

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Mar 13, 2019

From February 26–28, researchers gathered in Boston for the 16th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), one of the top conferences in the networking and systems field. Microsoft, a silver sponsor of the event, was represented by researchers serving on the progr...

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Mar 12, 2019

A group of big names in the data center space have linked arms to develop yet another high-speed interconnect, this one designed to connect processor chips. It's called Compute Express Link, or CXL, which is aimed at plugging data-center CPUs into accelerator chips. Members of the alliance that ...

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Mar 12, 2019

Machine learning is the study of algorithms that have the potential to learn through patterns and, according to that, make projections against patterns of data. It’s a better substitute leveraging static program instructions and instead of making data-driven assumptions or decisions that will ...

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Mar 12, 2019

Google parent Alphabet, Intel and Amazon are the three IT companies best placed to succeed in the servers, storage and networking equipment sector, according to exclusive theme-based analysis.GlobalData has scored the world’s top 54 servers, storage and networking companies on their leadership...

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Mar 12, 2019

An increasing number of mobile network operators (MNOs) have turned their attention to the Internet of Things (IoT) edge. They are being driven by the need to improve efficiency, lower costs and make operations more predictable, while enhancing the security and privacy of their networks. IoT edge co...

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Mar 12, 2019

Cloudops (cloud operations) and secops (security operations) are quickly evolving practices. While I’m seeing some errors, what’s more common is that ops teams are leaving important things out. If these missing aspects are not addressed, secops will become problematic quickly. Here are t...

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Mar 12, 2019

After almost five years of talk, 5G is finally arriving. I had an opportunity to attend MWC Barcelona this year, and the innovations and challenges of 5G were on full display. A number of operators announced their 5G launch plans for 2019, and several manufacturers announced 5G handsets. With this b...

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Mar 12, 2019

In my previous blog post, I talked about the need for organizations that are making the transition to public cloud to understand the inherent value of being in the cloud. Moving your private infrastructure into a hybrid cloud is not enough. You need to focus on transforming people, processes and tec...

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Mar 11, 2019

For nearly two decades, Sean Ding, CTO and chief scientist of Alibaba Cloud IoT, has worked in software and algorithm architectures, sensing, semiconductors, systems and cloud computing – all areas that have contributed to the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT). It’s no surprise, then,...

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Mar 11, 2019

Many organizations are turning to a cloud-first model for more flexible, cost-effective operations. According to Cisco, 94 percent of workloads and compute instances will be processed by cloud data centers by 2021. For cloud providers, this means being nimble enough, and having the necessary capacit...

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Mar 11, 2019

At Microsoft, we are deeply invested in engaging with financial services regulators and customers to understand what regulatory requirements must be satisfied and, further, to build in capabilities in our cloud services (Microsoft Azure, Office 365, and Dynamics 365) to help customers meet such requ...

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Mar 11, 2019

Business leaders with enterprises of all sizes have similar aspirations– they want to thrive in a 21st century business environment. To do this, they must leverage the power of technology, including big data and real-time analytics, multicloud architectures, blockchain technologies and certain...

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Mar 11, 2019

With Pulumi, you can create, deploy, and manage any cloud resource using your favorite language. This includes application- and infrastructure- related resources, often in the same program. One area this gets really fun is serverless. Because we're using general purpose languages, we can create ...

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Mar 11, 2019

IBM recently wrapped up a very bustling week in San Francisco at THINK 2019 full of client conversations — through sessions and in the expo hall — and how technology will transform enterprises with data, AI, cloud, blockchain and more. In my blog post prior to THINK, I wrote about how bl...

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Mar 11, 2019

File storage and block storage are both very traditional types of storage, and in this lightboarding video, I’m going to take a closer look at the two options. We’ll be going through an overview of the structure of each, taking a look at the different benefits offered, and I’ll fin...

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Mar 11, 2019

When you think of Facebook services, high-speed connectivity is not the first thing that comes to mind. But the social media giant is doing just that, offering high-capacity fiber-optic routes to sell unused capacity between its data centers for third parties.Facebook has created a subsidiary called...

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Mar 11, 2019

Many organizations start moving different types of workloads to the cloud and they do it for many reasons, such as modernizing operations through automation, on demand elasticity or cost savings to name a few.I recently got to work with Jacek Jaworski, Development Manager at StepStone, on a presenta...

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Mar 11, 2019

During the recent winter meeting of the National Governors Association, U.S. governors pressed for a comprehensive federal infrastructure plan that would provide financial incentives for states to rebuild and reinforce infrastructure. Infrastructure resiliency depends on the deployment of modern tec...

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Mar 11, 2019

With the technological advancements, the move from 3G to 4G was incredibly uneventful. In fact, 50% of the population globally still uses 3G more often. So, what’s the big deal about 5G? Will it change our lives? Yes and a big yes!Evolving Internet of Things such as smart cities, driverless ca...

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Mar 10, 2019

Australia search and language data services firm Appen Ltd. today said it has acquired rival Figure Eight Inc. for $175 million upfront with an additional earn-out payment of up to $125 million in 2020 based on performance.To fund the deal, Appen has announced an AU$285 million ($200 million) fundra...

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Mar 10, 2019

Traditional networks are struggling to keep up with the demands of new IT delivery models across enterprises - from the widespread adoption of cloud services, ever-expanding SaaS/application traffic, the explosion of IoT devices and increasing reliance on mobility and big data. Today, SD-WAN, with b...

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Mar 10, 2019

Have you heard of Microsoft Azure? It is another application in a long list of useful tools offered by Microsoft, to keep your day to day operations running as efficiently as possible. What is Microsoft Azure? Azure hosting is a cloud-based computing service designed to build, test, deploy, and mana...

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Mar 09, 2019

IT infrastructure has been undergoing transition over decades. From the level of traditional hardware with heavy maintenance, the IT industry has matured to a stage where infrastructure maintenance is easily manageable. Cloud is one solution in that journey that simplified IT maintenance concerns by...

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Mar 08, 2019

Experts largely agree that automation is an important ingredient for managing cloud services and technology. Typically, this means a battery of pre-defined processes and procedures run according to a well-defined schedule and set of policies. It also means adopting a set of best practices to make su...

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Mar 08, 2019

Cloud computing has recently gained popularity due to the grace of flexibility of services and security measures. Before it, on-premise computing was the one reigning the kingdom due to its sheer benefits of data authority and security. The critical difference on the surface between the two is the h...

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Mar 08, 2019

Edge computing and cloud computing are sometimes discussed as if they’re mutually exclusive approaches to network infrastructure. While they may function in different ways, utilizing one does not preclude the use of the other. In practice, they actually complement one another quite effectively...

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Mar 08, 2019

As edge computing becomes a regular feature of today’s network strategies, many companies are turning to edge data centers to help implement these plans. The rising demand has caused data center providers to rethink how they position themselves in growing markets that stand to benefit the most...

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Mar 07, 2019

Cloud-based technologies and service models are changing the way companies are doing business and drive innovation. Fundamentally, there are three main categories of cloud computing services: Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS). This arti...

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Mar 07, 2019

Rick Merritt of the EE Timesrecently reported that Uber is using banks of Nvidia GPUs for deep learning applications. The transportation network company (TNC) is also testing FPGAs from multiple startups such as Eyeris, Graphcore and Wave Computing. In addition, Uber maintains a dedicated AI researc...

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Mar 07, 2019

Without a doubt, 5G — the fifth generation of mobile wireless technology — is the hottest topic in wireless circles today. You can’t throw a stone without hitting 5G news. While telecommunications providers are in a heated competition to roll out 5G, it’s important to reflect...

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Mar 07, 2019

Today’s data centers eat up and waste a good amount of energy responding to user requests as fast as possible, with only a few microseconds delay. A new system by MIT researchers improves the efficiency of high-speed operations by better assigning time-sensitive data processing across central ...

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Mar 07, 2019

SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) was initially developed by our team of IP and video experts to address the main challenges of streaming content over the internet: security and reliability. Security is a large concern. Legacy protocols for broadcast contribution and distribution including RTMP and UD...

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Mar 07, 2019

Transaction Network Services (TNS), a leading global provider of data communications and interoperability solutions, today announced the expansion of its managed hosting and market data services to provide clients with low-latency connectivity to key financial markets.These enhanced capabilities are...

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Mar 07, 2019

“5G is not a buzzword anymore, it is a reality. 5G is here!” is what Ignacio Contreras from Qualcomm told me when I said 5G is a big buzzword at the Mobile World Congress 2019. Truth be told, he was right. There were some 5-7 devices all primed and ready to go to market, all with the Sna...

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Mar 06, 2019

With 90% of the world’s data created in the past couple of years, at a clip of 2.5 quintillion bytes a day, many businesses and industries still struggle to harness the information they need to improve outcomes. Fortunately, data scientists and analytics specialists in the emerging field of ma...

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Mar 06, 2019

Data is the gold of the this century. Access to data is power, and any operation done in any working field ends up being converted into a bunch of data. If digitization is not a news, though, people’s rising awareness about their value is. This transformation changed the nature of many busines...

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Mar 06, 2019

In today’s technological climate, there is certainly no shortage of enterprise data. However, a whitepaper from Big Data analytics leader Arcadia Data highlights the absolute importance of securing this valuable data. Companies are constantly seeking a balance between data agility with self-se...

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Mar 06, 2019

Today, even the large IT infrastructure can get security threats if they have not 24/7 cyber security monitoring. These threats are harmful for the organizations and must be avoided by contacting a good security operations center. Below are 5 reasons that shows why your infrastructure need 24/7 cybe...

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Mar 06, 2019

Today Enterprise IT does not question the value of containerized applications anymore. Given the move to adopting DevOps and cloud-native architectures, it is critical to leverage container capabilities in order to enable digital transformation. Google’s Kubernetes (K8s), an open source contai...

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Mar 06, 2019

Not everyone is fully aware that software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) solutions can be designed differently. Enterprises considering SD-WAN should understand how the design impacts total costs, network reliability, application performance, and service-level promises. The good news is that your choices are ...

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Mar 06, 2019

This week at RSA, the cybersecurity industry’s biggest annual conference, Alphabet and its subsidiary Google made a splash with a series of announcements, the biggest one being a new service called Backstory. Backstory is a product by Alphabet's new cybersecurity arm, Chronicle. A cloud-ba...

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Mar 06, 2019

A recent Gartner survey reported that cloud computing will become a $300 billion business by 2021. In the simplest terms, cloud computing is computing over the internet. Up until recently, users would run applications or programs downloaded on a physical computer or server at the workplace; cloud co...

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Mar 06, 2019

As IT executives develop the blueprints and architecture needed to deliver on their digital transformation initiatives, the growing challenge of connecting to a myriad of partners, providers and platforms looms. Digital infrastructure is becoming increasingly distributed and local communications pro...

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Mar 06, 2019

If operators are to make a success of 5G, they should adopt a four-pronged approach to automated assurance that includes unified cross-domain assurance, dynamic monitoring, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and assurance-assisted closed-loop automation with MANO.5G promises to support di...

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Mar 05, 2019

In its second decade, cloud computing has become a mature and reliable technology, but we still have only scratched the surface of the cloud’s full potential as an enabler of digital business transformation. With access to core business applications, analytics and collaboration tools, cloud co...

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Mar 05, 2019

Late last year I moderated a MicroScope roundtable in the UK on the challenges and opportunities of SD-WAN. The representatives included 12 leading SD-WAN vendors, including Michael O’Brien, vice president of worldwide channel sales for Silver Peak. I started off the discussion by introducing ...

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Mar 05, 2019

You couldn't move without stumbling over a 5G product at MWC this year. From ridiculous trend followers to the first 5G smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G, it's clear this next-gen network technology is going to be 2019's defining trend — for better and for worse. You'r...

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Mar 05, 2019

More than 100 years after it was written, this observation by fictional sleuth Sherlock Holmes still rings true. Businesses today rarely act – or even contemplate an action – without analyzing troves of data. They can make good use of data, in part, because technology has democratized th...

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Mar 05, 2019

Every year, we watch analyst predictions closely to determine trends currently in the market—and those that are gaining momentum for the future. It is pretty safe to say we are firming entrenched in the era of the cloud.Here at Constructech we have been writing about the impact of the cloud on...

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Mar 05, 2019

As we move into the age of 5G and IoT technology, local governments will be able to turn infrastructure like roads, streetlights and traffic signals into smart city assets that can deliver real-time data to reduce congestion and improve air quality. These advances can’t come soon enough. By 20...

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Mar 05, 2019

SD-WAN is generating a lot of noise at the moment, and it’s no wonder when IDC predicts the SD-WAN market will enjoy a compound annual growth rate of 40% until 2022. The reasons for its growing popularity aren’t that hard to discern. From a technological point of view, it promises to sim...

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Mar 05, 2019

Applying software-defined (SD) networking to the wide area networks (WANs) that connect enterprises over large geographic areas helps them move their workloads from one edge to another. These edges can be any of the devices, sensors, applications, services or clouds that make contact with end-users,...

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Mar 05, 2019

I have documented more than once that the data center is not going away; it’s being reimagined. And now comes a report with greater details on that change. Spiceworks has released its 2019 State of Servers report that examines on-premises server infrastructure in the workplace, including purch...

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Mar 05, 2019

Tools used to manage bare-metal cloud environments can be used to attack data centers and are often overlooked, experts say, with IBM being one recent victim. Security vendor Eclypsium reported last week that the Cloudborne vulnerability could be used by attackers to change a rented bare-metal serve...

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Mar 05, 2019

Many of the innovative technologies powering today’s internet got their start in data center facilities. While data centers may have changed quite a bit over the last few decades, they remain key players in driving innovation for IT infrastructure and network architecture. For companies lookin...

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Mar 04, 2019

New and emerging technologies such as AI, 5G, SD-WAN, and Cloud-Edge Computing are driving the expansion of network bandwidth. Data center operators and cloud providers are continually tasked to update their systems to cope with rising bandwidth demands. As such, 400GbE platforms are being increasin...

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Mar 04, 2019

With modern digital supply chains becoming increasingly complex, organisations are finding themselves having to protect not only their own digital boundaries, but those of their suppliers, customers, and others too. Keeping on top of the constantly evolving threat landscape has therefore never been ...

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Mar 04, 2019

5G is a hot topic these days. With massive bandwidths and transmission speeds 10-100 times faster than existing technologies, it is often predicted that 5G technology will revolutionise cellular networking – and indeed, society – by enabling many new use cases and applications.In fact, r...

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Mar 04, 2019

The security industry is an exciting, attractive and technology-driven industry delving into the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud, big data, analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), drones, robotics, software as a service and more. There’s data coming from everywhere. Now, the challenge is how ...

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Mar 04, 2019

Enterprise IT leaders are being asked to deliver performance, scale, and availability for their mission-critical workloads while improving operational efficiency through the adoption of new management solutions that include AI and analytics capabilities. The goal is to accelerate deployment and mana...

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Mar 04, 2019

As retail’s digital transformation continues at a breakneck pace, savvy retailers understand that the key to their future success lies in data management. The technology and tools that work together behind the curtain to gather and process insights from customer behavior, purchasing trends and...

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Mar 04, 2019

The ocean of information surrounding cloud services IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS can be a lot to sort through, but the incredible benefits these services offer make it essential to understand how each of these solutions can improve business operations through cloud computing.In this blog, we break down the ...

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Mar 04, 2019

5G is not just the next evolution. It is the next networking revolution. The speed of 5G is exponentially faster than 4G, and while low-latency and even ultra-low-latency networks have many benefits and are driving very valuable business applications (for example, closed-loop systems driving true au...

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Mar 04, 2019

In the mid-19th century, the mortality rates for women who delivered babies at the best maternity hospitals in America and Europe were three times greater than women who delivered babies with midwives. The medical community explored several ways to detect the and stop the infection and save lives, b...

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Mar 04, 2019

Data centers are an essential element of the internet’s infrastructure. In the sprawling data networks that deliver content and services around the world, these facilities serve as relay stations, processing centers, and warehouses. Although this infrastructure is incredibly complex, none of i...

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Mar 04, 2019

It was August 2014 when a team of Gartner analysts declared that original design manufacturers (ODMs) were having a greater influence on the implementation of data centers than traditional OEMs. This was on account of the growing purchasing power of hyperscale customers — organizations looking...

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Mar 04, 2019

You’d be forgiven for thinking that hard drives are boring and the technology behind them isn’t very exciting. You’d also be wrong. Here at Western Digital we’re dedicated to pushing the boundaries of physics and technology to produce solutions that are bigger, faster, and mo...

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Mar 03, 2019

The power grid of the United States is one of the most complex and technical systems in operation around the world. In order to deliver consistent electricity to the entire country, a number of regional transmission organizations (RTOs) must interact and manage resources. Like with any wide-scale ne...

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Mar 01, 2019

We are excited to share a new suite of Parallel File Tools that take advantage of the full performance of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure File Storage service. File Storage offers elastic performance where throughput grows with the amount of data stored in every file system. File Storage is best sui...

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Mar 01, 2019

When it comes to our data-centric world, these are exciting times. I know. I’ve been with Western Digital through its many technological transformations and have directly worked for almost every CEO we’ve had. I’ve seen how data has rapidly evolved from a simple record, or a transa...

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Mar 01, 2019

MWC Barcelona 2019 has now drawn to a close… and if there’s one thing that has been impossible to miss this year (other than foldable smart phones), it’s the prevalence and the unstoppable growth of the IoT. The innovations in IoT products and infrastructure over the past year, ma...

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Feb 28, 2019

For the eighth year in a row, I attended this year’s NRF Big Show in New York City in mid-January. As usual, it was an insanely hectic, jam-packed event full of non-stop activity (see my LinkedIn post for a glimpse into the action). Now it’s time to review what most caught my attention a...

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Feb 28, 2019

In the electronics world, arguably no word had more buzz throughout 2018 than “5G”. And there’s no reason to think it won’t be that way throughout 2019 and perhaps the next couple of years. So far, the vast majority of media coverage on the topic of 5G has been about its pote...

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Feb 28, 2019

Cloud computing has quickly become the standard by which organisations run their businesses. It gives companies access to Software, Hardware and other IT Infrastructures that are flexible, scalable, and cost effective. This gives businesses the ability to be more efficient and save on software and h...

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Feb 28, 2019

Through this decade, the world has witnessed a never-before data proliferation. And today, we have collected a critical mass of data which has the potential to lead to fruitful prediction across sectors, helping businesses generate higher revenue and also become a source of disruptive innovation. Tr...

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Feb 28, 2019

Federal agencies are adopting mobile solutions that allow workers in the field to achieve their missions. They are exploring and deploying Internet of Things technologies and are enabling users to get online and process data in far-flung locations, from Antarctica to war zones.  Increasingly, m...

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Feb 28, 2019

Want to become an expert in Big data analytics, or a Data Scientist, or Big Data architect and don’t know about the future of big data, well you have landed on the right page. IT industry has seen an immense growth and impact of Big data and its capabilities. The coming years are yet to see a ...

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Feb 28, 2019

One of the enterprise highs in the previous year has been the cause of essential workloads to cloud platforms. Since today’s market is flooded with vendors like Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services, vying for the market share, only this is the starting of coming new ...

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Feb 28, 2019

The Identity Defined Security Alliance (IDSA), an industry alliance that helps organizations leverage existing cybersecurity investments to establish a stronger security posture, announced that it has incorporated as a Colorado nonprofit organization, enabling its governing body greater flexibility ...

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Feb 28, 2019

Software-defined WANs have been available for the better part of five years with the on-premises vendors ruling the roost. This makes sense, because early adopters tend to have highly sophisticated IT organizations and embrace the do-it-yourself model. Now that the market is maturing, less-technical...

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Feb 28, 2019

The U.S. financial firms spend approximately $25.3 Billion in terms of compliance, risk management and AML procedures. Europeans banks come close with $20 Billion annual AML expenditure. The increasing territorial and regulatory gap between organisations and consumers has lead to a demand for digiti...

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Feb 27, 2019

When Microsoft realized that the software-defined networking it was using to give Azure customers virtual networking wouldn’t keep up when 40GB and 100GB NICs arrived, it took the same FPGAs running Bing in its data centers and turned them into smart network cards. The company had been using e...

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Feb 27, 2019

Software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs) help overcome networking challenges that make branch-level activities slower than those processed at the network core. SD-WAN delivers better application performance along with deeper visibility into traffic. However, businesses shouldn’t assume th...

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Feb 27, 2019

How can you get robots (machines) to behave like humans? Neural networks and deep learning, which represents the next evolution of machine learning, learn from the data and make decisions based on their learning. Kelzal, a start-up based in San Diego, announced its strategy for a new product line ca...

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Feb 27, 2019

The world creates a massive volume of data, increasing proportions of which are being stored in the cloud due to its economic and operational advantages. As data amasses in any one place, it begins to acquire what we might think of as gravity. Data gravity, a term first coined by IT expert Dave McRo...

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Feb 27, 2019

Enterprise Architecture (EA) functions to assist enterprises in building structural foundations to match proposed business strategies. It captures the vision of an enterprise by integrating its dimensions to contextualize transformation strategies, organizational structures, business capabilities, d...

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Feb 27, 2019

Flexibility and elasticity. Both rank high on the corporate agenda in the age of digital transformation and IT is no exception. From the perspective of IT, virtualization and cloud computing have become the de facto standard for deployment models. They provide the infrastructure elasticity to make b...

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Feb 27, 2019

Forty seven percent of CEOs say they are being “challenged” by their board of directors to show progress in shifting toward a digital business model according to the Gartner 2018 CIO Agenda Industry Insights Report. By improving IT operations, organizations can progress and even accelera...

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Feb 27, 2019

Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) is a not-for-profit, international organization of information security professionals and practitioners. It provides educational forums, publications, and peer interaction opportunities that enhance the knowledge, skill, and professional growth of its ...

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Feb 27, 2019

In one of the largest breaches in 2018, Target Inc. was targeted by cyber-criminals who made away with critical information of 110 million customers. The information leak occurred through a vendor site where an unsuspecting employee decided to reply to a phishing mail. 2018 has seen enterprise level...

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Feb 27, 2019

2019 is seen as the kick-off year for 5G, with many global operators quickly accelerating their investment in their infrastructure to support 5G use cases and services, offering great potential for both consumers and businesses. 5G represents a fundamental transformation of the role that wireless ne...

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Feb 26, 2019

The adoption of container technology continues to mature and advance. Today, enterprises are steadily recognizing the importance of enterprise container platforms – they provide a complete solution for operationalizing and securing applications in containers at scale over the entire lifecycle ...

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Feb 26, 2019

Gartner predicted that the overall cloud computing market will expand by 17 percent annually during the next three years to $206 billion — and continued growth is expected in healthcare as well. “We’re kind of nearing the tipping point with significant growth and acceleration aroun...

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Feb 26, 2019

Similar to when Daft Punk’s 2001-hit “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” first came out, the 5G vision seems to be playing on a loop with no indication of stopping. After all, who doesn’t want better, faster and stronger wireless coverage? Companies and even countries are driv...

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Feb 26, 2019

With every new cellular phone standard announcement comes claims about the impending demise of WiFi. When 3G was announced, the promise was that it would make WiFi (802.11b) redundant, which clearly turned out to be incorrect. 4G (LTE) was going to put WiFi (802.11ac) in the shredder. And now 5G&rsq...

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Feb 26, 2019

his blog is an executive summary of an article by Fortinet’s Jonathan Nguyen-Duy that appeared on the Light Reading SecurityNow website on January 29, 2019, entitled, “5G Security Transformation: Why Businesses Need to Prepare Now.” 5G is set to transform our wireless experience. 5...

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Feb 26, 2019

As your organization moves into the era of in-memory computing to leverage its powerful data capabilities of speed at scale, recognize that the new breed of vendors has a lot to live up to in terms of expectations. You’re selecting from a critically-important, yet a relatively young set of new...

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Feb 26, 2019

It’s not uncommon for growing organizations to reach a point where their existing data solution is no longer adequate for their needs. In most instances, this happens with companies that have utilized an on-premises infrastructure since the early days of the business, but now need to upgrade t...

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Feb 26, 2019

As IT organizations move more of their infrastructure to the cloud, many are realizing the benefits of a cloud directory. In short, the benefits of a cloud directory are increasing productivity and agility while reducing cost and management overhead. The longer story is how, which is what we’l...

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Feb 26, 2019

When you’re one of the largest mining companies in the world, you can’t afford to have 75% of your databases out of support for long. For Brazil-based Vale, upgrading its databases was essential to optimizing performance and having the flexibility and scalability to run its business ...

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Feb 26, 2019

The world of healthcare is currently undergoing a digital transformation. Patient data is transitioning from paper to electronic medical records, telemedicine lets doctors see patients over the Internet, and hospitals, urgent care facilities, and other medical offices are appearing on almost every s...

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Feb 26, 2019

If the Internet is a network of networks, IoT is the ecosystem of everything network-connected. IoT encompasses the dynamic interaction between devices, sensors, actuators, applications, data, storage and networks. There are many reasons why IoT is exploding. One of the biggest factors is digital tr...

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Feb 25, 2019

Marc Ashworth, Senior VP and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) with First Bank, has a unique role. Not only is he the CISO of the multi-branch U.S. bank based in St. Louis, but he’s also in charge of the network. That’s one of the reasons why deploying an SD-WAN platform made sen...

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Feb 25, 2019

By this time, many of you might have followed the exciting news of the launch of commercial friendly user trial by Rakuten Mobile Network Inc. (referred as just “Rakuten” in this blog post) – the newest and the 4th mobile network operator in Japan. Rakuten Inc., the parent company,...

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Feb 25, 2019

A data center is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems. It generally includes redundant or backup power supplies, redundant data communications connections, environmental controls (e.g., air conditioning, fire suppression)...

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Feb 25, 2019

What’s next in supply chain management? Wouldn’t we all love to know two years in advance. Actually, six months wouldn’t be bad, come to think of it. As a senior-level supply chain management professional, you’ll have a chance to find some of those early answers in about 50 d...

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Feb 25, 2019

The speed of development of artificial intelligence (AI) has aided its adoption in several industries,  and the physical security market is increasingly looking to adopt AI applications, particularly in the case of deep learning algorithms in the video surveillance market. AI in Physical Securi...

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Feb 25, 2019

For most of the modern day organizations, the term “cloud” is an increasingly unsound statement. On an average, 63% of the overall organizations are making use of the multi-cloud approach and its relevant services. The left out 37% of companies have successfully migrated to the hybrid cl...

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Feb 25, 2019

Gone are the days of costly and cumbersome hardware, bloated service packages and lengthy service provision times. The digital business model is the new common standard, expanding a company’s reach further and faster than traditional setups could ever dream of. In recent years, the addition of...

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Feb 25, 2019

The edge is where your cloud meets your users and endpoints. A secure, high-performing edge is a requirement for delivering secure, high-performing cloud services. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has released three new features -- a web application firewall (WAF), DNS traffic management, and health chec...

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Feb 25, 2019

Two of the biggest challenges that CISOs face today are ensuring that security and business strategies are in alignment and that security solutions are focused on solving the right problems. More often than anyone wants to admit, security teams spend significant resources trying to resolve a specifi...

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Feb 25, 2019

Powerful malicious actors continue to be a substantial risk to key parts of the Internet and its Domain Name System security infrastructure, so much so that The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is calling for an intensified community effort to install stronger DNS security technol...

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Feb 25, 2019

Big data is still a hugely relevant topic, although the term has become a little distorted and overused. According to Google Trends, there’s an indication that interest is fading in terms of the hype.1 However, it’s actually accelerating in terms of real enterprise adoption.Big data has ...

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Feb 24, 2019

The industry is in the midst of a perfect storm. We must support billions of devices and things that generate an incredible volume of data, prepare for the imminent arrival of 5G, and continue the multi-year, network transformation process by cloud economics across the network to the intelligent edg...

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Feb 22, 2019

A new generation of point AI solutions will prove themselves in 2019. They’ll build new trust, urgency and understanding of what ‘AI’ actually is, and just how much it can deliver. Voice-driven solutions will lead the charge. And we’ll see pick-and-place robots in smart wareh...

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Feb 22, 2019

Today’s data centers eat up and waste a good amount of energy responding to user requests as fast as possible, with only a few microseconds delay. A new system by MIT researchers improves the efficiency of high-speed operations by better assigning time-sensitive data processing across central ...

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Feb 22, 2019

Linux is a tried-and-true, open-source operating system released in 1991 for computers, but its use has expanded to underpin systems for cars, phones, web servers and, more recently, networking gear. Its longevity, maturity and security make it one of the most trusted OSes available today, meaning i...

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Feb 22, 2019

RAID has been around for a long time, and at this point, most people consider it to be a reliable and well understood technology.  But as storage devices continue to get larger, a lot of the assumptions we make about RAID begin to fall apart. These days, we’re measuring drive capacities i...

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Feb 22, 2019

While data centers are starting to come into vogue now, thanks to the sheer number of potential applications and use cases posed therein, they've been around for the last several years. That can mean some data centers are past their prime and ready for decommissioning. For those looking to engag...

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Feb 22, 2019

At SimpleWAN, we’re always looking out for our customers. We are dedicated to helping them push past their competition with solutions that ensure security, compliance, constant uptime, and more. That’s why we make it a priority to integrate new services and make new partnerships that wil...

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Feb 21, 2019

When you migrate your data between your premises and the cloud, you need that migration to run quickly, seamlessly, and securely. How can you safely migrate and synchronize your data, without wasting your valuable time and resources? Cloud Sync is NetApp’s service for rapid and secure data syn...

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Feb 21, 2019

The IoT is an all-encompassing technology, transforming everything consumer apps to highly complex level manufacturing and industrial applications. The promise of the Internet of Things (IoT) is about transforming business results for different industries. It is all about improving employee efficien...

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Feb 21, 2019

This year’s MWC event will be dominated by 5G in a way that will make last year’s seemingly heavy 5G tilt look quaint. Basically, if a company anywhere on the millions of square meters of show floor does not have something in their booth tied to 5G, they may want to re-evaluate their att...

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Feb 21, 2019

It wasn’t long ago when the perceived wisdom was that live broadcast video via the cloud was a dodgy proposition. Today, it’s not only becoming a viable option, but could become the preferred delivery method for some applications. The processing, packaging and delivery of live video cont...

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Feb 21, 2019

Today’s architects and developers are comfortable with powerful cloud infrastructure service abstractions that help them quickly build applications. The (REST API + stateless microservice + database) model for cloud apps works remarkably well - from Netflix to Office 365. Though many cloud app...

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Feb 21, 2019

Qlik Technologies Inc. today announced plans to buy Attunity Ltd. in a $560 million deal that’s set to give it a bigger slice of the lucrative data management market. The acquisition price breaks down to $23.50 per share, an 18 percent premium to the Wednesday closing price of Attunity’s...

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Feb 21, 2019

Data center infrastructure is evolving. Public cloud services lay out the path for where it’s headed. Everyone knows they can sign up with a public cloud service and allocate data center infrastructure, servers, and connected storage in minutes. You can also build private data center infrastru...

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Feb 20, 2019

Our Complete Application Security Checklist describes 11 best practices you’ll want to implement to minimize your risk from cyber attacks and protect your data. Enterprise application security is a crowded, confusing field. And it grows more confusing every day as cyber threats increase, organ...

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Feb 20, 2019

Less than a week to go until MWC19 Barcelona, one of the largest mobile industry events in the world, bringing together the latest innovations and cutting-edge technology from more than 2,400 organisations. The majority of the buzz at the show will be centred on the latest smartphones and innovation...

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Feb 20, 2019

A transformation is underway in the public cloud and network architecture towards a more distributed internet infrastructure. We began speaking publicly about our views on this ongoing transformation at Arm Techcon 2018 with the unveiling of the Arm Neoverse brand and the vision and strategy of the ...

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Feb 20, 2019

Is outdated infrastructure holding you back? For many organizations, moving toward cloud architecture or adopting emerging technologies reveals a distressing reality: aging infrastructure is slowing down IT delivery. With new year planning underway, organizations are turning their attention to IT in...

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Feb 20, 2019

In October, Arm announced Neoverse, our brand and initiative for creating Arm-based solutions for the infrastructure market from the edge to the cloud. Today we are proud to announce the Arm Neoverse N1 Platform for revolutionary compute performance and the Arm Neoverse E1 Platform for leading edge ...

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Feb 20, 2019

Bottlenecks are one of the banes of IT professionals’ existence, and they have been for decades. Thanks to a new generation of AIOps-powered tools, however, it’s becoming possible to move past bottlenecks. Let’s explore how. What is a Bottleneck? Simply put, a bottleneck is a point...

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Feb 20, 2019

Access to food is a basic human right, vital for good health and reduction of the risk of diseases. Eating many different foods helps maintain a healthy and interesting diet which, giving the body a range of different nutrients. According to the health and wellness brand, Easy Will Power, if we don&...

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Feb 20, 2019

The focus on customer needs for greater choice and flexibility is a constant at the IBM Think 2019 conference. Nowhere is this more evident than in IBM Hybrid Data Management, which supports data of any type, source and structure, be it on-premises or in the cloud. On Monday, the level of customer c...

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Feb 20, 2019

As 2009 was getting started, my best friend Adam Fingerman and I had already spent months sketching out app ideas and building rough prototypes for Apple’s iPhone and the brand new App Store. In early February, we knew we were on to something — a consulting business to help companies bui...

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Feb 20, 2019

Partnering is a powerful way to build profitable revenue models and add value to customers by bringing the expertise of multiple organizations together. It’s also how NetApp has stayed at the forefront of data storage solutions that are helping other organizations transform their business.&nbs...

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Feb 19, 2019

While every data center takes security seriously, some facilities take the concept of physical security to another level. Over the last two decades, a number of unique data centers have emerged to capture the public imagination with their novel approaches to protecting customer data and IT assets. M...

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Feb 19, 2019

It’s not an easy decision to replace your existing security infrastructure with cloud security. After all, in the world of cybersecurity, the bad guys only have to succeed once playing offense, whereas you, playing defense, have to succeed every time. With this ever-present threat looming, man...

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Feb 19, 2019

Alcidion Group’s software platform Miya Precision has gone live for the first time anywhere in the world, with successful launches at Palmerston North Hospital and Horowhenua Health Centre, part of New Zealand’s MidCentral District Health Board (MDHB).  MDHB staff have already seen ...

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Feb 19, 2019

Let’s begin to speak about software engineering that is an area of knowledge of computation turned to specification, development, and maintenance of software system, applying technology and practice of project management and other disciplines, creating an organization, productivity, and qualit...

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Feb 19, 2019

With the number of smartphones users predicted to cross the 5 billion mark in 2019, ensuring cyber security of mobile apps has become even more relevant. As a matter of fact, cyber criminals are more busy “sneaking” malicious apps in app stores than ever before. Malware of various kinds ...

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Feb 19, 2019

“Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.” – Tim Berners-Lee, the official inventor of the World Wide Web We live in a time where data is all around us. In the digital age, those who can squeeze every single drop of value from the wealth of data av...

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Feb 19, 2019

This week, we released the latest update to the Cisco Mobile Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast (2017 – 2022). The annual study provides global, regional, and country-level projections and trends associated with mobile (cellular) networks as well as an analysis of mobile traffic that is of...

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Feb 19, 2019

The Report Cloud Data Center Market – Global Drivers, Restraints, Opportunities, Trends, and Forecasts to 2023 gives a detailed analysis on the global market for cloud data center market. The Cloud Data Center market is expected to reach USD 67.5 billion by 2023, growing at a CAGR of around 28...

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Feb 19, 2019

In Modern Storage Workflows in the Age of Cloud, Part One, we introduced a powerful maxim to guide content creators (anyone involved in video or rich media production) in choosing storage for the different parts of their content creation workflows: It’s true that every video production en...

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Feb 18, 2019

Businesses and government organizations of all sizes, and across all industries continue to be challenged by rapidly growing repositories of unstructured content. Regulated industries like financial services, healthcare, legal, and government may be subject to more regulatory compliance standards an...

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Feb 18, 2019

With almost five million square kilometers of forest, Canada is one of the most forested nations on the planet, second only to Russia. Almost half the country is covered in trees, providing habitat for wildlife along with myriad other ecological benefits for Canadians and humans world-wide. We depen...

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Feb 18, 2019

Previous posts in the Computer Architecture Today series have explored how the broader adoption of smart NICs is providing applications a mechanism to push computation closer to the data and inside the network stack to hide the latency of accessing remote memory in a data center. This post discusses...

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Feb 18, 2019

There was a time when much was talked about machines interacting with humans and now it’s the time when machines can also be interacting with each other, sharing valuable data with each other. Thanks to the Internet of Things of IoT technology that machines can now communicate with each other ...

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Feb 18, 2019

Data is indispensable, especially for modern business houses. Every day, more and more businesses are embracing digital technology and producing massive piles of data within their supply chain networks. But of course, data without the proper tools is useless; the emergence of big data revolution has...

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Feb 18, 2019

Plants are master chemists, and Michigan State University researchers have unlocked their secret of producing specialized metabolites. The research, published in the latest issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, combined plant biology and machine learning to sort through tens of t...

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Feb 18, 2019

Everyone agrees that since its inception in 1956, AI has revolutionized the way businesses make decisions and deploy their resources. Over the decades, AI has proven its worth by helping businesses in a variety of industries flourish. From robots in a vehicle manufacturing plant to predicting curren...

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Feb 18, 2019

In the past few years, various forms of AI have begun to creep into our daily lives whether we know it or not. It is being used by major companies to improve their services and make their processes more efficient .In 2017 Andrew Ng went as far to say “just as electricity transformed almost eve...

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Feb 18, 2019

Upgrading a traditional phone system to take advantage of the features, functionality and cost savings of VoIP is a common endeavor in today’s market. The business case may be bolstered by an existing telephony system and associated monitoring tools well past, end of life. Or, it may be driven...

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Feb 17, 2019

Rapid technological advances have created opportunities for smaller companies to serve customers around the world and effectively compete with larger companies for new customers. These smaller companies are rapidly going global, deploying a variety of technology-enabled solutions such as automated c...

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Feb 17, 2019

Humans look at AI in both awe and fear. When I tell folks that I work for a company that builds AI-powered virtual assistants, they frequently ask me if AI is close to becoming sentient. Is it close to becoming human? Are we fast approaching a future where Skynet from the Terminator is real? Will AI...

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Feb 15, 2019

While many countries of Africa have experienced some of the fastest GDP growth rates in the world, and despite 4 billion people worldwide now connected to the Internet, the African Continent still suffers from the highest costs globally for broadband and mobile data, as well as the slowest Internet ...

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Feb 15, 2019

In an era where IoT sparks innovation in every corner of the globe and is redefining entire industries in the process, companies are using custom chips to differentiate their new products against competitors. By adopting a custom solution, companies are able to achieve lower bill of material (BOM) a...

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Feb 15, 2019

Since computers were first invented people have been looking for 'the next big thing.' Now, as close to half the world owns a phone faster than the earliest supercomputers, it is difficult to keep track of what we should pay attention to. While many of the inventions that utilize powerful te...

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Feb 15, 2019

Data centers have become increasingly part of the corporate landscape — and with good reason. A data center can help drive improvements in customer experience, give vital insight into operations, and fuel growth and development throughout the business itself. The growth of artificial intellige...

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Feb 15, 2019

Decades ago, the arrival of the standard shipping container revolutionized global logistics. Today, the concept of the software container is transforming software deployment. Containerization solves any number of problems for software development and deployment, which is why we adopted the concept o...

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Feb 14, 2019

According to IDC, organizations are increasingly relying on SD-WAN to “intelligently automate how application traffic is delivered to branch sites, moving away from traditional hub-and-spoke WAN architectures and the backhauling of Internet- and cloud-bound traffic to on-premises datacenters,&...

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Feb 14, 2019

The goal of AI is to replicate the analytical processes of human intelligence but to enable decision making at machine speeds. The most effective AI uses a deep-learning model built around an artificial neural network (ANN). This network is comprised of hardware and software configured after the neu...

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Feb 14, 2019

Valentine’s Day is a boon to restaurants, retailers, flower shops, online dating sites – and cyber hackers. That’s because consumers’ defenses are down, as they search for great deals on gifts for loved ones – or seek to start a new relationship online. As a result, com...

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Feb 14, 2019

Australian businesses are expected to spend approximately $93billion on IT products and services in 2019, as the demands on IT continue to increase year on year. While all organisations understand the need to invest in IT services, fiscal efficiency is always a key priority. One cost every organisat...

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Feb 14, 2019

Intel might be late to the 10nm party and short on silicon for other form factors, too, but a spate of offers built around the architecture standard and unveiled in Las Vegas last week suit its position as the world’s leading maker of computer chips. As the rollout of 5G communications technol...

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Feb 14, 2019

For a few months, there is much talk about the introduction of artificial intelligence technology to smartphones. Various mobile app development companies started implementing it seriously to grow their client-base by delivering them the ultra-modern mobile apps. It’s completely a new experien...

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Feb 14, 2019

It’s no big surprise that a field as far-reaching as IoT has a complex ecosystem. Even at a basic level, there are many pieces—both technical and non-technical—that must be tied together for a successful IoT implementation. Hardware, including the “things” in IoT, is th...

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Feb 14, 2019

What’s the difference between retail colocation data centers and wholesale data centers? Traditionally, wholesale data centers were facilities where businesses with large footprint requirements rented space and power, bringing everything else with them: IT staff, hardware, IP carriers, cloud c...

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Feb 14, 2019

Manufacturing has transformed from a traditional set of mechanical process to a high-end automation industry. Most of the manufacturing industries are adopting upcoming technologies to improve productivity, efficiency and minimize overall operational cost. The sector is accepting technologies like b...

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Feb 13, 2019

ePlus, a long-time trusted NetApp partner, empowers organizations to imagine and accomplish more with technology. Beginning with assessment, ePlus advises, designs, implements, and optimizes cloud, security, and digital infrastructure solutions to help customers: thrive in the digital economy and mu...

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Feb 13, 2019

Enterprises have come a long way with cyber security, embracing robust enterprise security platforms and elevating security roles and best practices. Yet with public cloud adoption on the rise and businesses shifting to agile development processes, new threats and vulnerabilities are testing traditi...

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Feb 13, 2019

5G is the latest emerging standard in cellular mobile communications and it will eventually replace 4G LTE, 3G UMTS and 2G GSM systems. 5G networks can achieve much higher data rates up to 10 Gbps with lower network latency that is 100 times faster than 4G LTE cellular technology, and faster than th...

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Feb 13, 2019

This is one instance where I disagree with Childrens Health Defense, but not because they overstated the problem, rather because they severely understated the problem. The health problems of 5G are not just from 5G but from the entire wireless infrastructure that has been put up in the US since the ...

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Feb 13, 2019

Businesses are shifting their work online because of the multiple benefits provided in cloud computing like business growth, innovation, scalability, and agility. But, because of the issues like privacy, security, and big data, enterprises are quite worried. They have to face lots of cloud challenge...

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Feb 12, 2019

Worldwide companies are in a continuous process of collecting data. They collect data from various sources, analyze that data minutely which help them in improving their services and products. Data is also beneficial in getting a better perception of developing business processes. Information of use...

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Feb 12, 2019

We recently launched a "Why Oracle Cloud Infrastructure" web page that describes how Oracle's approach to cloud is different, and why we think our cloud infrastructure can be uniquely valuable to customers. I’ve been at Oracle for two years, and I joined this team because I belie...

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Feb 12, 2019

With SD-WAN becoming remote users’ primary access to cloud-based applications, and with organizations deploying multi-cloud environments to optimize performance, it’s important for IT pros to choose SD-WAN technology that supports secure, low-latency and easy-to-manage connectivity to th...

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Feb 12, 2019

Pivot3, a provider of intelligent infrastructure solutions, today announced that it has expanded its sales leadership with Dan Flood joining as Vice President of U.S. sales. In his role, Flood will lead Pivot3’s U.S. sales teams to drive the company’s continued growth in the enterprise a...

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Feb 12, 2019

While 2018 saw continued growth and dependency on big data, the world also witnessed high-profile data breaches and online scams. Today, big data has become integral for business, particularly online business. Its growing dependency has manifested in a clear shift in the focus of business towards da...

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Feb 12, 2019

While nearly every industry is immersed in digital transformation that will have an unprecedented effect on the innovation of businesses, few of these efforts will have a more profound impact on our lives than the digital transformation happening in healthcare. Digital healthcare technologies presen...

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Feb 12, 2019

Microsoft introduced the Azure Virtual Datacenter as a solution to extend your on-premises datacenter to the public cloud. It lets you keep crucial aspects of your traditional IT infrastructure, such as your existing security and networking policies, while also offering all the advantages of cloud c...

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Feb 12, 2019

The digital age has entirely reshaped how we create, enjoy, and share information around the world. If you find yourself needing to know almost anything, the answer is at your fingertips… but this has caused some new security concerns to arise too.The most obvious security concern on top of e...

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Feb 12, 2019

The 5G, IoT and AI era will create large amounts of data that need to be stored and processed with a continuous need for almost infinite storage of every type of data – images, text, transaction, mapping and much more. The explosion of data will make new terms like zettabytes, yottabytes and b...

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Feb 11, 2019

The Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved from a futuristic business buzzword and can now unleash vast potential. With the evolving technology landscape, IoT technology is getting smarter, and therefore, more companies are incorporating AI (like machine learning, deep learning, genetic algorithms, ad...

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Feb 11, 2019

NBC News reported that an “avid” user of smart home technology told the station that after hearing noises from his seven-month-old baby’s bedroom, he checked and found a “deep male voice” coming from the Nest security camera in the nursery. The online intruder had also ...

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Feb 11, 2019

Blockchain, the technology behind the most valuable digital currency Bitcoin, has been accepted to be the next revolution in internet technology. Blockchain provides a way to conduct transactions on a decentralized network, eliminating a need for a third party like a bank, government or treasury. Th...

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Feb 11, 2019

It’s 2019. Do you really need to pay for anti-spam and anti-virus software for your company? Is there still a pressing need for these? And can you make do with free versions? We’ll cut to the chase with the answers: Yes, anti-spam and anti-virus solutions are still mandatory as basi...

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Feb 11, 2019

The year 2019 will not only see massive advancements in AI but also new applications and unimaginable steps that will require humans to go back to the drawing board and re-consider whether AI is a boon or a bane. We like to think that it could be both just like every other technological advancement ...

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Feb 11, 2019

Modern cyber attacks are increasing and are becoming more sophisticated. In addition to existing malware, security experts are seeing an increase in never-seen-before malware. For the average SonicWall customer, malware has increased 44% from 2017 levels, and ransomware threats have increased 117% f...

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Feb 11, 2019

Last winter I wrote an enterprise storage dictionary for non-experts, and now it's time for a data center version. The following are a dozen of the less-understood terms you'll hear in the field. Post in the comments if you have suggestions for terms that should be on this list. ASHRAE is th...

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Feb 11, 2019

In our last blog, we explored the risk of receiving sensitive data unauthorized via email, the sharing sensitive information internally across departments, and the need for advanced data protection features within both on-premise email systems and Microsoft Office 365 (MO365) environments to mitigat...

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Feb 11, 2019

During its early years, the value proposition for a failsafe SD-WAN solution – i.e. one the delivers MPLS-class high availability and predictable Quality of Experience (QoE) – such as Oracle's revolved around its ability to deliver MPLS-class performance at a fraction of the expense ...

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Feb 09, 2019

Mosaic NetworX, a full-service telecommunications and IT infrastructure service provider, today announced the launch of its new Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) service offering. Delivered as a Network-as-a Service (NaaS), the Mosaic SD-WAN solution is an intelligent network service that enables organi...

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Feb 08, 2019

Each year 400+ vendors and 50k attendees descend on San Francisco to network and learn about the current and future trends in security that they can apply in their organizations. While you may have your own priorities, it is often hard to understand the offerings of the hundreds of vendors you will ...

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Feb 06, 2019

WAN traffic continues to explode as more and more applications are becoming network centric. Many legacy applications required the data to be located close to the applications, so it was often stored on the local PC, department server or in the company data center. In each of these cases, the WAN wa...

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Feb 06, 2019

The data center industry is changing and proliferating. We have already seen some significant developments in the data center industry throughout 2018. As we look to the future, the concept and tasks of data centers will continue to evolve. We can see a development in data center management and tren...

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Feb 06, 2019

Are your mission-critical data, customer information, and personnel records safe from intrusions from cybercriminals, hackers, and even internal misuse or destruction? If you’re confident that your data is secure, other companies had the same feeling: Target, one of the largest retailers in th...

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Feb 06, 2019

In anticipating the major cyber security and privacy trends for the coming year, you can find plenty of clues in the events of the past 12 months. Among the now familiar forms of attack, cyber hacks of major corporate systems and websites continued in 2018 and will inevitably be part of the 2019 cyb...

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Feb 06, 2019

If you work in cyber security, you probably know how important your field is in our world today. Cyber security is the primary line of defense against cyber attackers who continue to find new ways to wreak havoc on our computing systems. Cyber security is a rapidly growing field for a reason: we nee...

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Feb 06, 2019

The move to cloud shows no signs of slowing, with Gartner predicting the worldwide public cloud services market to grow 17.3 percent in 2019. So, as organizations shift more to the cloud, it means they will increasingly rely on networks and infrastructure they don't own and directly manage. Yet ...

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Feb 06, 2019

Dynamic digital representations, or Digital Twins, are rapidly changing the way industries design, build and operate their products and processes. Gartner predicts, “by 2021, half of large industrial companies will use Digital Twins, resulting in those organizations gaining a 10 percent improv...

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Feb 05, 2019

What inspires customer confidence? Great service and reliable information certainly help customers trust a brand. However, in our modern digital age, companies need to offer much more to win loyalty. As data breaches become more prevalent, it’s more critical than ever to assure customers that ...

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Feb 05, 2019

It is always more compelling when an objective and respected third party articulates a solution’s value proposition compared to telling it yourself. Appledore Research’s November 2018 profile on Nuage Networks SD-WAN does just that when describing Nuage Network’s SD-WAN solution. T...

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Feb 05, 2019

Data platforms and emerging technology are set to revolutionise life sciences, according to one of the world’s largest providers of clinical trials. With a well established software-as-a-service platform, Medidata Solutions is now turning its attention to how it can better utilise the trove of...

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Feb 05, 2019

A hyper converged infrastructure (hyperconvergence) is typically defined as an infrastructure system that is largely software defined with tightly integrated compute, storage, networking, and virtualization resources.  But when you widen your search to include “analyst reports,” it ...

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Feb 05, 2019

Ever since commercial cloud services were launched over 12 years ago, media and entertainment professionals have debated how and where cloud services best fit in their workflows. Archive and delivery were seen as the most natural fits. But complete, that is, end-to-end cloud workflows were seen as i...

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Feb 05, 2019

Chargeback for cloud services can be a controversial subject—not necessarily because business units don’t want to be charged for the cloud services they consume, but because the factors that impact chargeback for on-premises IT services may not be acceptable or effective in a self-provis...

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Feb 05, 2019

We’re hearing more and more about edge computing, and it will likely continue to be a focal point within IT as the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to gain momentum. A key question for organizations looking to the edge: What are the cyber security implications? With edge computing, comp...

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Feb 05, 2019

As companies plan their data security strategy for 2019, they’re faced with a particularly challenging set of unknowns. On top of shifts in the market and political uncertainties, businesses must operate in an ever-changing threat landscape as they make decisions about how best to protect thei...

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Feb 05, 2019

This week at the DistribuTECH conference, Nozomi Networks debuts our flagship industrial security and visibility solution as part of the RUGGEDCOM Multi-Service Platforms from Siemens AG. SCADAguardian Advanced Container Edition – a first-of-its-kind for our product category – provides i...

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Feb 05, 2019

For decades, video storage has been the domain of the security organization. And for decades that’s been just fine. Traditional video surveillance deployments that record data to dedicated digital video recorders (DVRs) or network video recorders (NVRs) don’t need a lot of specialized sk...

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Feb 05, 2019

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is one of the most trending, new and emerging technologies in our modern, digital-first culture and its popularity is steadily rising. RPA and cyber security risk management principles are complimentary to each other. Applying RPA in cyber operations improves its eff...

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Feb 05, 2019

There are plenty of reasons for organizations to embrace edge computing. By moving applications, data, and computing services to the edge of a network, as opposed to a large data center or cloud, organizations can lower operating costs, improve application performance, reduce network traffic, and ac...

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Feb 04, 2019

Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the connection of various electronic and network enabled devices through the internet. This concept is beneficial, especially to the ever evolving education system. How it Helps Students It helps students learn at their pace. With IoT, you can use your smartphone t...

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Feb 04, 2019

As the field of business intelligence (BI) rapidly evolves, so does the technology supporting and advancing the industry. Natural language processing (NLP), a subset of artificial intelligence that allows software to understand human language by transforming words into structured data has establishe...

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Feb 04, 2019

As Australia goes through the inevitable digitisation of hospitals, moving away from paper into the digital environment, data-driven approaches are key to informing system evaluation and redesign, improving flow through hospitals and delivering improved patient outcomes.  CSIRO Australian E-Hea...

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Feb 04, 2019

For the past three years, SD-WAN has been one of the most talked about technology trends. All the discussion around SD-WAN has helped shine the spotlight on the business value enterprises can realize by changing the way they build their wide area networks. As the market continues to gain momentum co...

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Feb 04, 2019

Last year saw some of the largest security breakdowns of all time. Half a billion Marriott Starwood customers had their personal data compromised. More than 100 U.S. university research programs had valuable intellectual property stolen. Ransomware attacks disrupted municipal services in Atlanta and...

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Feb 04, 2019

2018 was quite a big year when it comes to cybersecurity. There were some absolutely huge breaches that changed the way many went about security. In this article, we will look at some of the biggest breaches, and stats regarding the state of cybersecurity in 2018. Airlines were a big target in 2018,...

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Feb 04, 2019

The fifth-generation wireless technology, a.k.a. 5G is slated to revolutionize global communications, data transmission, and the Internet of Things (IoT). 5G technology is geared toward fast-tracking data transmission for tablets, phablets, and online devices. The implementation of this new technolo...

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Feb 04, 2019

The overture to business reality is ending for SD-WAN solutions. Now a company’s entire network, security and software operating environment is deployed in unison, it runs on hybrid infrastructure at the highest levels of service, and is adaptively prioritized to provide functionality at the e...

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Feb 01, 2019

Recently our team put together notes from the field into a new whitepaper: The 5G Revolution. In it, we discuss the fact that 5G demands software capabilities and methodologies that are new to CSPs and telecom software solution providers. Read this post to learn the top four critical database compon...

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Feb 01, 2019

The Singapore Management University (SMU) has signed an agreement with Google Singapore to propose the SMU-Google Squared Data and Analytics Programme. It will be a great opportunity for SMU students looking forward to penetrating into the data and analytics sector. The tie-up implies that the tech ...

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Feb 01, 2019

The landscape of IT infrastructure is changing rapidly. Traditional racks of servers stored in cages are disappearing as more and more companies migrate some or all of their IT services and applications to the cloud. According to LogicMonitor, 83% of enterprise workloads are projected to be in the c...

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Feb 01, 2019

It’s a common scenario. The IT team is backlogged with incidents that must be resolved, eating up time and taking focus from other important tasks. Even though your IT infrastructure is built well, events will occur. But a reactive approach is certainly the least efficient method to deal with ...

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Feb 01, 2019

The convergence of technology in this digital age is phenomenal. At the core, every organization is looking forward to a single speedy solution that provides them with the opportunity to streamline their operational efficiency and cut costs of IT functionalities. From the release of application to c...

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Feb 01, 2019

The field of networking is always evolving, and the pace is relentless. 2019 is set to be no different, and several emerging technologies will have a fundamental impact on how businesses and employees connect. According to a blog post by Anand Oswal, Senior Vice President of Engineering in Cisco&rsq...

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Feb 01, 2019

Enterprises transposing towards the digital transformation had to face many challenges of new innovations, networking demands and security policies. Many of the challenges that enterprises faced were either due to the concentration of innovation in operational steps or in cases wherein the innovatio...

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Jan 31, 2019

5G, AI, 3D printing, radio, TV and smart speakers are just some of the trends tipped for the coming year by Deloitte in its "TMT Predictions 2019" report on what's in store in the technology, media and telecommunications sectors. 1. The 5G network arrives 2019 will be the year of 5G. A...

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Jan 31, 2019

So, you want to scale your computing muscle to train bigger deep learning models. Can your data center handle it? According to Nvidia, which sells more of the specialized chips used in machine learning than any other company, it most likely cannot. These systems often consume so much power, a conven...

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Jan 31, 2019

Loon, an Alphabet Inc. unit working to expand internet access around the world, is teaming up with satellite operator Telesat Inc. to deploy its technology in orbit. The companies announced the collaboration this morning. The project centers on a piece of technology that Loon has developed to suppor...

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Jan 31, 2019

Gartner recently released its list of top 10 strategic technology trends for 2019. It’s an intriguing list, and we can glean from it where disruptions of the future might occur. There is a common thread that holds each of the trends -- artificial intelligence (AI), augmented analytics, blockch...

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Jan 31, 2019

I've had a few conversations with Sophia the Robot, an invention of Hanson Robotics making the rounds of tech conferences worldwide. Preparing for a session at Webit 2018 in Sofia, Bulgaria, I had a surprisingly engaging exchange with Sophie. (Unfortunately, she didn't cooperate during our i...

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Jan 31, 2019

There is a strong case to be made that artificial intelligence (AI) is now the most central topic in technology. While the computer science that underpins AI has been in development since the 1950s, the rate of innovation has gone through multiple step changes in the last ten years. The technologica...

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Jan 31, 2019

K–12 schools need powerful data centers now more than ever as their infrastructures feel the increasing weight of new technology integrations, data analytics initiatives and the rising number of personalized devices. Hyperconverged infrastructure may be the answer. Across industries, hyperconv...

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Jan 30, 2019

Medical cybersecurity startup Medigate Tech raised $15 million in a series A funding round led by the U.S. Venture Partners along with the participation from existing investors YL Ventures and Blumberg Capital. The Israel-based startup stated the new investment will be used to accelerate its growth ...

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Jan 30, 2019

When combined with today’s powerful edge devices — whether consumer-grade smart devices or the new generation of industrial-grade IoT devices — the impact of 5G on business and networking strategies will be transformational. There are important implications for digital transformati...

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Jan 30, 2019

Sygic, the global navigation leader with more than 200-million users, recently made headlines with its Truck GPS navigation system at this year’s ICT & Logistics trade show in the Netherlands. The algorithm analyzes multiple waypoints in order to send drivers on efficient routes, which sav...

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Jan 30, 2019

Cloud migration is supposed to improve SAP system performance, but it could be an expensive move if you’re not addressing the challenges of SAP on the cloud. To beat the 2025 deadline SAP set for all its users, enterprises and MSPs are actively working on migrating to Hana. More and more often...

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Jan 30, 2019

If you believe the rumors, the brick and mortar store is a dying breed. However, at Hughes we are witnessing a rebirth of the retail store as the hub of the customer experience. In fact, retailers committed to the digital transformation of the customer experience in stores are thriving. We see succe...

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Jan 30, 2019

Have you noticed that just about every mobile network operator is claiming to be ‘first’ to deploy a 5G network? First 5G fixed wireless access! First 5G enhanced mobile broadband network! First nationwide 5G coverage! First ‘real 5G’ network! First 5G compliant network! Then...

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Jan 29, 2019

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and IoT have a great potential to disrupt industries across multiple verticals. AI and IoT are emerging technologies but they are not in the nascent stage gone by the research that is being undertaken and the increasing number of applications. At 27th Convergence India 2...

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Jan 29, 2019

SD-WAN vendor Cato Networks announced today that it has lined its coffers with a $55 million funding round to bring its total to $125 million. The latest funding round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and also included current investors Aspect Ventures, Greylock Partners, Singtel Innov8, USVP ...

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Jan 29, 2019

Cloud is driving fundamental changes in how networks are built, which requires a more flexible network architecture that can accommodate and secure connections to multiple clouds. The context between SD-WAN and security are in the midst of an evolution that will grow in importance and dominate the W...

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Jan 29, 2019

If you have Internet of Things (IoT) devices in your environment, you might want to look at what’s going on under the hood. IoT attacks increased 600 percent between 2016 and 2017, and they show no signs of slowing down. As that trend has accelerated, we’ve already seen several well-docu...

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Jan 29, 2019

CNET and CBS News Senior Producer Dan Patterson sat down with the Future Today Institute founder and quantitative futurist Amy Webb to discuss her predictions for 2019 tech trends. The following is an edited transcript of the interview. Dan Patterson: So tell me about 5G, tell me about quantum, tell...

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Jan 29, 2019

Online gambling has turned into a multi-billion dollar industry today and according to Statista, in 2015, the online gaming industry had a volume of $37.91 billion and this figure was forecasted to increase to 59.79 billion U.S. dollars in 2020.  Talking about traditional gambling, it is still ...

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Jan 29, 2019

Public pension funds in the United States invest in infrastructure. Unfortunately, they aren’t very good at it. A recent working paper of the NBER concludes, indeed, that public pensions are so bad at such investments that they—and thus either the public or its retirees or both—are...

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Jan 29, 2019

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) in October approved new mandatory reliability standards to bolster supply chain risk management protections for the bulk electric system of the United States. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) proposed the standards in res...

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Jan 28, 2019

As the new year begins gaining steam, there is ostensibly a piece of good news on the cyber front. Major cyber attacks have been in a lull in recent months and still are. The good tidings are fleeting, however. Attacks typically come in waves. The next one is due, and 2019 will be the worst year yet...

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Jan 28, 2019

The internet of things (IoT) is one of the most talked-about technologies of the past few years. More and more devices are able to connect to the Internet now, allowing companies to tap into devices without physically operating them. Analyst house Gartner predicts that by 2021, there will be 25 bill...

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Jan 28, 2019

Even as enterprises embrace cloud computing, and often a mishmash of different clouds to serve different needs, private cloud (aka "private data center") keeps ticking at an 11% Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR), according to Cisco data. Companies are moving their private data center work...

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Jan 28, 2019

In a case of history repeating itself, 5G is set to arrive on Android devices before iPhones. Apple is well-known for waiting until innovations hit a certain level of maturity before including them in their products — it’s one of the ways it ensures consistent quality across its products...

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Jan 28, 2019

Companies spent about 11 percent more on data center IT systems last year than they did the year before, by Gartner’s estimates. But don’t expect a similar splurge in this category this year – or next – the analysts said. Enterprises are shifting their spend from on-prem data...

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Jan 28, 2019

One of the realities of modern technology—and consequences of living in a cloud-connected society—is that business and consumer electronics effectively require some degree of internet access to fully leverage the features touted on the packaging. For public sector organizations charged w...

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Jan 28, 2019

A supply chain attack, also called a value-chain or third-party attack, occurs when someone infiltrates your system through an outside partner or provider with access to your systems and data. This has dramatically changed the attack surface of the typical enterprise in the past few years, with more...

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Jan 27, 2019

The future of communications is careening toward us at an incredible clip. The new age is going to be amazing and messy at the same time. Verizon rolled out fifth-generation wireless service in four U.S cities in October 2018. 5G is so fast that it changes what is possible with networks. It brings c...

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Jan 27, 2019

“‘Cloud native’ is more than ‘cloud only,’” I wrote in my December 2017 article Seven Remarkable Takeaways From Massive Kubernetes Conference. “It means bringing cloud-centric best practices to software and IT generally, whether that be in the cloud or on pr...

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Jan 27, 2019

Wireless internet changed our lives, making it possible to do so much more in so many places—around the home or office, or even way out in the wilderness. Yet you likely never think about it, so long as it’s working. It’s like oxygen: You take it for granted until it’s gone&m...

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Jan 25, 2019

The smart home market is getting bigger all the time, and with every consumer that makes their home a bit smarter, that pace accelerates. In fact, recent market size projections from Statista predict smart home revenue to grow from about $12 Billion in 2016 to $53.45 Billion by 2022.  Statista ...

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Jan 24, 2019

Since the earliest days of computers, we’ve known the incredible promise they held. Inventors like Charles Babbage and Alan Turing were visionaries who recognized that these tools – like the steam shovel and printing press before them – had the power to not only replicate the work ...

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Jan 24, 2019

With the ever-evolving and expanding connected world, cybersecurity tries to keep pace, thus making it more complex and tougher to understand. One company has a plan to simplify it all. The development of the smartphone started a trend of connected devices that not only perform some form of computin...

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Jan 23, 2019

Essential for testing the operations of fiber optic cables and the feasibility of such networking in specific applications, pre and post installation, the demand for fiber optic tester equipment has witnessed a strong rise in recent years. With widespread applications in various commercial fiel...

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Jan 23, 2019

Is 5G It's a big year for letters of the alphabet, 2019: it's what you might call a Red Letter Year in technology, a year when the letters "K" and "G" are both going to be a lot of attention. Not only is 2019 the year we're all meant to throw away our just-purchased 4...

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Jan 23, 2019

Italian-headquartered multinational utility Enel has selected its strategic provider of big data platforms to improve business operations. The utility is working with C3 over the next five years to employ smart grid analytics-based applications. C3 is providing its AI suite to integrate big data fro...

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Jan 23, 2019

More organizations than ever are conducting business online. An expanding digital footprint and increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks have created a growing urgency to secure that data and the resources organizations are deploying. It’s one reason why Gartner predicts worldwide spending on ...

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Jan 23, 2019

Growing focus on the development of 5G network-based devices with rapid increase in adoption of the wireless networking benefitting in-building communication systems is expected to significantly dive-in production opportunities for manufacturers in the RF testers market. Modular RF testers are witne...

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Jan 23, 2019

Experts at a Brookings Institution panel discussion agreed today that 5G wireless technology has the potential to impact tech policy on Capitol Hill and beyond, including historically disadvantaged communities with people of color and those who live in rural areas where internet access is not as rea...

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Jan 23, 2019

The Internet of Things (IoT) and other enhanced reality technologies are steadily improving performance metrics throughout major companies in the United States and throughout the world. No wonder the solution is set to generate $344 billion in additional revenue by 2020 while reducing costs by $177 ...

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Jan 22, 2019

The risk of attacks on education networks increases as they become more reliant on open environments and the use of mobile and “internet of things” technology. By knowing the top threats to their networks and then applying the right tools and strategies, educational institutions at all l...

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Jan 22, 2019

Many security teams are operating with incident response plans that haven’t been updated — or even looked at — in months or years. That’s a big mistake. While revising documentation is nobody’s idea of a good time, an outdated plan is rarely useful to anyone. IT securit...

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Jan 22, 2019

As 5G approaches, businesses are optimistic. So optimistic, in fact, that 80% of communication service providers believe that the introduction of 5G will enhance revenue opportunities with enterprise customers — according to a survey from Amdocs. As a result, around a third of operators plan t...

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Jan 22, 2019

Excitement about 5G, the fifth generation of mobile network technology, has been building steadily. The long process of rolling out 5G networks is already underway and we should see some limited availability this year. Now, 5G brings a lot of potential benefits, but one of the key questions that imm...

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Jan 21, 2019

AS a result of the rapid development of future technologies, enterprises everywhere have started adopting digital solutions to tackle their business problems and maximize productivity to increase revenue. However, businesses aren’t the only ones adopting futuristic solutions. Thanks to the pro...

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Jan 21, 2019

Extreme Networks delivers customer-driven enterprise networking solutions that create stronger connections with customers, partners, and employees. It is focused on customer-driven networking to improve transformation, innovation, and customer experience – from the enterprise edge to the cloud...

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Jan 21, 2019

The inherent objective of enterprise digital transformation efforts is to innovate faster. In these application-centric enterprises, modern agile development practices, microservices, containers and cloud infrastructure are jointly empowering application developers to build, deploy and update applic...

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Jan 21, 2019

Australians have until January 31 to decide if they will opt out of a nationwide My Health Record initiative designed to ensure healthcare providers have instant online access to important patient information. At the same time, cybercrime is the fastest growing crime in the world, and Australia&rsqu...

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Jan 21, 2019

Businesses across the globe are working on their game plans for long-term Internet of Things (IoT) deployments. IT teams are now faced with managing a network that extends well beyond the traditional boundaries of fixed locations. Using wireless as a primary wide area network (WAN) link, says Donna ...

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Jan 21, 2019

Every time I read about another 5G use case, I can't help but wonder how our future will look like in ten years' time? Today, we navigate our lives by bouncing from one cloud platform to another. Netflix is the prime case in point for how a successful cloud-native platform looks today. You c...

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Jan 21, 2019

Rubrik, a cloud data management startup, recently raised $261 million in a Series E funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures along with the existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greylock Partners, Khosla Ventures, and IVP. The California-based startup stated the new investment will be us...

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Jan 21, 2019

ECS, a cloud and cybersecurity solutions provider, recently announced that it’s entering into a partnership with Elastic, an enterprise search engine company. The new alliance enables ECS to leverage Elastic’s technology to enhance the security, reliability, and speed of its big data sol...

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Jan 21, 2019

AI and machine learning startup Spell, unveiled a new, end-to-end deep learning and AI platform designed to empower teams and businesses across different sectors to build with AI. This development reflects Spell’s commitment to provide greater accessibility to the advanced AI tools currently d...

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Jan 21, 2019

Named Exercise Mercury, the competition is aimed at benchmarking a security posture in the higher education sector and providing information that can be shared for the benefit of the whole sector. It was developed at Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia and Cambridge University and is being s...

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Jan 21, 2019

As traditional cable, satellite, and terrestrial TV are challenged by over-the-top (OTT), internet protocol television (IPTV), and video-on-demand services — made even more challenging by higher-bandwidth, last-mile fiber, and 5G mobile network extensions — service providers are transfor...

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Jan 21, 2019

While 5G has been a hot topic at the annual Mobile World Congress (now shortened to just MWC Barcelona) event for the last few years, 5G security seems to have fallen by the wayside. There’s usually some panels on the topic, but the discussion has been dominated by the flashy, new technologies...

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Jan 20, 2019

Recently, I participated in several tenders for smart-city projects around the world. I also partook in CEO roundtable discussions at Telecom Exchange LA, including one about what Los Angeles would look like in 10 years for the 2028 Summer Olympics. From those projects, I realized there are several ...

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Jan 20, 2019

Looking back at 2018, we have had a number of major developments globally – around new technology trends such as big data, IoT, edge computing and analytics. Many of these developments have been clubbed under a common theme of ‘digital transformation’. Cloud computing has been anot...

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Jan 20, 2019

Public cloud platforms such as Azure and AWS provide enormous scope for flexibility and scaling as requirements change. For users, building their infrastructure on these agile opex models gives them a great opportunity to look at different cloud solutions. But, understanding which systems can and sh...

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Jan 17, 2019

Large organizations are eagerly adopting cloud infrastructures and services, according to a NetEnrich report released on Thursday. Some 85% of businesses said they use cloud infrastructures moderately or extensively; however, it is public cloud adoption that will dominate 2019, the report found. The...

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Jan 17, 2019

We frequently talk about IT careers here on TechGenix. Why? Because we IT pros and IT managers and devs live in a rapidly changing world where everything is in flux in our profession. So we share tips on certifications and tech sales and rules for success and we focus in on new areas of opportunity ...

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Jan 17, 2019

The amount of large data centers operated by hyperscale providers ballooned to 430 by the end of 2018, up 11 percent year over year, with Amazon and Google leading the way building new facilities. And there’s no sign of the market slowing down. There already are 132 hyperscale data centers in ...

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Jan 17, 2019

Multi-tenant wholesale data center leasing doubled in 2018 compared to 2017, spurred by a proliferation of a huge hyperscale leases, according to a new research report from North American Data Centers. There were 12 deals in 2018 in which tenants leased at least 10 megawatts of data center space, ad...

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Jan 17, 2019

The mere suggestion that employees should be given greater autonomy on cybersecurity decision-making would send a shiver down the spine of many C-suite executives. If anything, IT security procedures often revolve around keeping a close eye on employees to ensure they are always doing the right thin...

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Jan 17, 2019

With emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain continuing to reveal their capabilities to the marketplace, Federal IT leaders discussed the potential–and the pitfalls–of implementing new technology in government during a Thursday session at an event hosted by...

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Jan 17, 2019

Supply chains present a weak link for cybersecurity because organisations can’t always control the security measures taken by supply chain partners.  Sean Duca, Vice President and Chief Security Officer of Palo Alto Networks explores the ways in which cybercriminals can attack an organisa...

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Jan 16, 2019

Persistent underfunding of critical infrastructure worldwide is hampering economic progress, and exposing businesses and communities to significant risks. Existing physical and digital infrastructure are under stress from population growth and face challenges from cyberattacks, extreme weather and c...

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Jan 16, 2019

For eons, cities have attracted hopeful migrants in search of economic opportunity and a better future. The age old reality on the ground, however, has usually been far less rosy. Even today, nearly one-third of the world’s city dwellers, or about 1 billion people, live in overcrowded, underse...

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Jan 16, 2019

The New York Times recently (Dec. 15, 2018) ran a disturbing article entitled “The Hard Truths of Trying to ‘Save’ the Rural Economy.” The article documents what anyone living in Otsego County knows all too well: the increasing economic and cultural gap between affluent urban...

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Jan 16, 2019

Cyber research in UK academia is concentrating heavily on critical infrastructure and the healthcare sector, according to a review of current and past projects. Crossword Cybersecurity has carried a global survey to build a database looking at the focus of relevant research in universities. It said ...

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Jan 16, 2019

One of the most important elements of todays enterprises is agility. And there’s nowhere that is more true than in the data center and IT department. Enterprises need to be able to shift and adapt to the market and business demands, as well as the needs of their clients. And with more data dis...

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Jan 16, 2019

Versa Networks announced the official rollout of a joint solution to deliver Versa's best-in-class SD-WAN capabilities to BringCom's telecom managed service providers and SaaS platform operators in East and West Africa. Following the VERSA-BringCom partnership established in October 2018, Br...

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Jan 15, 2019

As hyperscale computing transforms the world of Internet infrastructure, new investors and new data center platforms are emerging to focus on the needs of hyperscale players. The latest is STACK Infrastructure, a new brand formed by investor IPI Data Center Partners with assets acquired from Infomar...

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Jan 15, 2019

Since its emergence, the Internet of Things (IoT) has grown in popularity at a rate similar to the personal computer, smart phone and other transformative technologies. For example, according to Cisco's annual Visual Networking Index, machine-to-machine (M2M) connections will account for more th...

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Jan 14, 2019

Theatro, pioneers of the world’s first voice-controlled mobile app platform for the hourly workforce, today announced that it has reached an agreement with Honeywell to create joint Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions that empower retail store associates. With this agreement, Honeywell will...

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Jan 14, 2019

A multi-cloud environment offers Federal agencies the advantages of high resiliency combined with the agility to adapt quickly to changing mission and technology requirements. But if migrating workloads to one cloud environment expands the attack surface, imagine how multiple clouds can extend the a...

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Jan 14, 2019

Artificial Intelligence As a Service (AIaaS) allows enterprises to leverage AI for specific use cases and lower the risk and cost at the same time. This can include a sampling of multiple public cloud platforms to test different machine learning algorithms. The applicability of AIaaS cuts across all...

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Jan 14, 2019

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced a big customer win in the hospitality industry, with Choice Hotels International Inc. going “all-in” on its public cloud infrastructure. Choice Hotels, which owns well-known hotel brands such as Ascend Hotel Collection, Cambria Hotels, Comfort, Sl...

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Jan 14, 2019

Architectural transitions for layers in the IT stack at hyperscalers can happen in a matter of years, and cloud builders and HPC centers can move at almost the same speed. But for the vast number of enterprises, it takes a long time to change their stacks, in part because they are more risk averse a...

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Jan 14, 2019

Managing Wide Area Networks (WAN) for companies is easier these days than they were in the past. For businesses that rely on the internet on a daily basis, WAN are a godsend from the technological god. Especially if your company has dozens of locations throughout the country – locations that d...

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Jan 14, 2019

Nigeria’s refractory and sore-footed approach to the protection of critical infrastructure particularly ICT resources is worrying. To most Nigerians, ICT infrastructure is fat cow which everybody must milk. And either out of ignorance or by refusal to do the right thing or both; governments at...

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Jan 14, 2019

Cisco is rolling out a cloud-based geolocation package it expects will help customers grow mobile location services and integrate data from those services into enterprise analytics and business applications. The package, called DNA Spaces, is comprised of Cisco’s Connected Mobile Experience (C...

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Jan 14, 2019

According to the International Data Corp. (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker, vendor revenue from sales of IT infrastructure products (server, enterprise storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud environments, including public and private cloud, grew 47.2 percent year over year ...

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Jan 13, 2019

The new year brings with it the tremendous predictions of technological advances. We are in the midst of great change. Artificial intelligence, machines that learn, algorithms that can predict the future, and automatons that can replace human jobs. It’s exciting and overwhelming at the same ti...

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Jan 12, 2019

It was way back in 2000 that Security information and event management (SIEM) approach to security management systems first appeared from vendors. The original SIEM functionality centred on event correlation from perimeter security devices such as IDS/IPS and firewalls and the demand came from vendo...

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Jan 11, 2019

The next generation wireless network known as 5G is like an abstract painting—you can make of it what you want. To some, 5G is “wireless cable,” the means to deliver video and high-speed internet much like a cable system. To others, 5G is the transformational technology necessary t...

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Jan 10, 2019

The automatic fire sprinkler has remained fundamentally unchanged since Frederick Grinnell invented the first practical sprinkler in 1882. In 1890, he invented the glass disc sprinkler, which is effectively the design we know and use today. However, the lack of innovation in fire sprinkler design si...

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Jan 10, 2019

R&D is an essential part of bringing about that all-important innovation to your company via IoT projects. And though we can all agree how important R&D is, it requires a great deal of experience, senior experts, and specific toolsets—resources that not every tech company can say they ...

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