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Feb 19, 2019

Even though “Virtualization” has been around since quite some time and the term has been thrown around for many parts of the computing world, it has become an “in-thing” since the re-introduction of Virtual Machines in early 2000s. Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and V...

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Feb 19, 2019

It all started in 1982 when IoT started bringing automation in the business processes. Today, this revolutionary concept is getting mainstreamed across different industry sectors rapidly. It is expected that we will have around 30 billion objects with the market value of over $7 trillion by the year...

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Feb 18, 2019

The web is inundated with advertisements for kits to help with daily meal planning, weekly work planners, or even month wardrobe assistance. You can even now find phishing kits targeted to specific applications or cloud services that are good enough to fool an employee of the targeted company or eve...

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Feb 18, 2019

A recent study by CSI executives involved interaction with U.S. financial institutions where these institutions were asked about the banking industry – strategic priorities, budgets, planning, technology choices, current trends, raising concern areas, compliance trends and much more. During th...

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Feb 18, 2019

Digital transformation is about more than simply shifting workloads into the cloud or issuing Internet of Things (IoT) devices to your staff; it’s about disrupting business processes for innovation, better productivity, and elevated customer experiences. Enterprises should expect their traditi...

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Feb 15, 2019

A useful analogy to understand SD-WAN is where VPN’s are like manual gearboxes in a car; SD-WAN is an automatic radar-guided cruise-control solution. Both can achieve the same result: connectivity between 2 remote locations, but SD-WAN can automate much of the complexity in tunnel monitoring, ...

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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

Part one in our latest blog series explores the difference between Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, how it can deliver value and some practical considerations around implementation.
There has been a dramatic increase in awareness around Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learnin...

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Feb 15, 2019

The latest version of iOS 12.1.4 was released last week. Apple has fixed a security flaw of Group FaceTime in this version. Well, we are not going to discuss it! What is noteworthy is the fact that the Cupertino Company Apple is committed to providing seamless performance to the iOS device users. Si...

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Feb 14, 2019

One of the things about newly hyped technologies is that they are often described in magical terms and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no different. Reading the technology press and vendor announcements make it seem as if AI can cure all your business’ problems and allow you to leapfrog the co...

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Feb 14, 2019

Recently the disclosure of a vulnerability (CVE-2019-5736) was announced in the open-source software (OSS) container runtime, runc. This vulnerability can allow an attacker to gain root-level code execution on a host. Runc is the underlying container runtime underneath many popular containers. Azure...

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Feb 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:  Database Maintenance Automation Will Accelerate: Many routine database management tasks have already been automated in...

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Feb 14, 2019

Virtualization—the creation of a simulation with functionality identical to that of the original physical object—has dramatically and positively altered the provisioning, management and economics of IT infrastructure. Virtualization removes the need for software to run on purpose-built a...

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Feb 14, 2019

Between public and private offerings, market-leading solution packages compiled by the world’s biggest tech companies, and agile new services delivered by nimble startups, there’s a lot on offer in the cloud.  So, it’s no surprise that as businesses rush to embrace all that th...

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Feb 14, 2019

As a pioneer in cloud computing, Microsoft’s Azure service continues to deliver innovative new solutions that help customers compete more effectively in the increasingly crowded online world. One of these latest innovations is Azure ExpressRoute connectivity. Designed specifically for hybrid a...

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Feb 13, 2019

Cloud computing has upended many “truisms” of IT infrastructure. Where the potential for market growth was once limited by the amount of computing hardware a company was able to invest in, many of today’s organizations have been able to ditch their physical infrastructure altogethe...

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Feb 13, 2019

As cities get smarter, so do they become more attractive to hackers and cyber-attackers. With so much personal and private date flowing through the system, how do we ensure the cities of the future are also secure ones? With urban populations expanding, some cities are struggling to cope under the s...

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Feb 13, 2019

If there is one thing living in this accelerating digital world has taught us it is that speed is everything.  Innovation in global data transmission speeds has transformed our daily lives – how we get news and information, access products and services, manage our healthcare and finances,...

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Feb 13, 2019

With the development of computers or machines, their potential to perform various tasks went on growing rapidly. The curiosity of humans led him to think if there is a way of making a computer, a computer-controlled robot, or software think intelligently, in the manner similar to what the intelligen...

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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

Industrial revolutions have shaped and forged modern society. The world we live in now is a direct result of the first steam engine and mass production of the assembly line. But how many industrial revolutions have there been so far? If you think the answer is three, you’re wrong. The 4th Indu...

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Feb 12, 2019

The only sure thing in the data integration and management world is that technology will continually change. While this is good for companies looking for a better way to manage and use the explosion of data now available, it also presents a challenge: How do you know what technology is right for you...

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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

Who should have access to your network? And who shouldn’t? How can you ensure that only authorized users are on your network, while the bad guys are kept out? When designing a wireless network, most companies first think about speed and coverage throughout their facilities. However if your use...

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Feb 12, 2019

The evolution and advancements of open source networking projects is the direct result of the high demands of network scaling and severe customization in the software. One can even consider this to be the building-block of the next generation information technology. We say this because many networki...

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Feb 12, 2019

The theme of RSAC 2019 is simply, “Better.” At this year’s conference A10 Networks takes security a step forward with automatic, AI-driven solutions that really are Better! Stop by our booth to learn how we can help you: Automate your DDoS defenses, Scale up for high-performance, a...

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Feb 12, 2019

IoT has now come a long way from merely being a concept. The mobile app development technology has already attained maturity and acceptance among businesses. Smartphones have turned into the first computing screen for people from all walks of life.  They unitedly make a big difference in the wo...

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Feb 12, 2019

Try as they might, telecoms have never quite been able to escape the “dumb pipe” moniker. All through the evolutions of 3G and 4G advances the telecoms tried to add upper-stack value to their offerings, but were out-played by more nimble and customer-focused over-the-top application vend...

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Feb 12, 2019

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of physical objects, such as smart appliances, car navigators, drones, etc. that can communicate, interact and exchange data over the internet. One of the earliest examples of IoT was a connected Coca Cola machine on the Carnegie Mellon University campus in ...

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Feb 12, 2019

Making an assumption that IaaS vendors are completely responsible for customer workloads’ security, is wrong. Cloud workload security comes under the category of shared responsibility, which means that businesses have to enforce traditional and advance online data protection measures to secure...

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Feb 12, 2019

Open standards can be critical as the market continues to shift to the era of hybrid and multicloud environments, where portability of workloads and no vendor lock-in are essential to the success of every business. Have you ever asked the question: “Which do I use—Cloud Foundry or Kubern...

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Feb 12, 2019

As the threat landscape continues to evolve rapidly, it now includes increasingly sophisticated, zero-day malware that traditional security approaches can no longer keep pace with. As a result, security researchers estimate that the cost of cybercrime will outpace security spend by over 16X, reachin...

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Feb 12, 2019

ETL testing leads to the process of authenticating, validating, and qualifying information while restricting duplicate records and data loss. It ensures that the exchange of information from independent sources to the central data warehouse occurs with stringent adherence to transformation rules and...

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Feb 11, 2019

Massive growth driven by Cloud and Consumer applications is driving Service Providers and enterprises to find an alternative to legacy networking. Long inflexible contracts and slow manual processes no longer match the applications and services that are being deployed. These traditional models make ...

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Feb 11, 2019

During the week of February 11, Fortinet will be at the HIMSS19 Global Event in Orlando, a large gathering focused on healthcare. The security challenges within this industry are certainly unique, and I have some thoughts I would like to share.   The Problem of Data: Medical patient record...

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Feb 11, 2019

Businesses with multiple small branch locations over a wide geographical area, face a unique networking and cybersecurity challenge when compared to other types of enterprises. For instance, the lack of IT staff at these hundreds (and sometimes thousands) of branch type locations, makes the ease and...

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Feb 11, 2019

Most modern devices, applications and services make extensive use of cloud computing resources (data centers, CDN’s). Nearly all hardware leveraged in cloud computing is composed primarily of: CPU’s, GPU’s, RAM, Network interfaces and non-volatile storage; all of these are the esse...

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Feb 11, 2019

As per a market forecast report, “Worldwide CRM Applications Market to reach $29.7 billion by 2022, compared with $27.1 billion in 2017 at a compound annual growth rate of 1.9%. In 2017, the top 10 CRM software vendors accounted for nearly 60% of the global CRM applications market which grew 1...

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Feb 11, 2019

Years of using self-made tools and the dire need for development of a process that can help build and deliver products at a faster rate led to the advent of Microsoft’s ‘Azure DevOps’. Bringing about a change in the development lifecycle, Microsoft’s widely-known flagship int...

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Feb 11, 2019

We are thrilled to announce two very exciting enhancements—”Range” and “Edge Functions”—to IBM Cloud Internet Services (CIS). IBM Cloud Internet Services (CIS) is IBM Cloud‘s go-to security, reliability, and performance solution for your client’s Inter...

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Feb 11, 2019

Data security is a top concern for consumers, understandably. A recent study from IBM found that 75% of customers will not purchase from an online company if there are any doubts regarding their data’s security. 85% of online shoppers agreed that companies need to do more to protect customer d...

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Feb 11, 2019

2019 has just started and for the facility management industry, this is going to be a very exciting year. It would be safe to say that globally this will be the year of IoT and new devices which would make things way more efficient for facilities management companies. Not to mention it will also hel...

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Feb 11, 2019

Azure IoT Edge is a fully managed service that allows you to deploy Azure and third-party services—edge modules—to run directly on IoT devices, whether they are cloud-connected or offline. These edge modules are container-based and offer functionality ranging from connectivity to analyti...

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Feb 11, 2019

When building the idea and thought process around implementing a serverless structure for your company, there are a few key risks one must take into account to ensure the architecture is gathering proper controls when speaking to security measures and how to adopt a program that can assist in mainta...

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Feb 11, 2019

Ahead of our 2019 Channel Xperience Day in Amsterdam, Aerohive’s own Alan Cuellar Amrod (Senior Vice President and General Manager – Products and Marketing) was interviewed by Vincent Everts about a multitude of topics ranging from 802.11ax, Machine Learning, AI, Atom AP30, Aerohive Conn...

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Feb 11, 2019

Migrating your business communications to the cloud gives you fast, easy and effective access to your data and information. And while your business will save money and have less downtime, it can be confusing to know how it works. Put simply, the cloud is a number of servers in data centres that your...

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Feb 11, 2019

How CyberProof’s next-gen services clarify risk and investment to help solve your organisation’s cyber-security needs. CyberProof is a security services company whose mission is to manage cyber-risk for enterprise organisations by providing pioneering, next-generation services and techno...

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Feb 11, 2019

As the web and mobile solutions are becoming an indispensable part of every business, the programming world is also growing at a faster rate than ever before. While on one hand, various new technologies and languages are getting into the limelight for making the different development processes more ...

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Feb 11, 2019

It is evident that today’s employees are no longer satisfied with the traditional ‘create and push’ information approach as it no longer meets the growing needs of the modern world. Currently, it seems as if the lines between the actual workplace and the physical office have been b...

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Feb 11, 2019

Just like any other in the technological industry, the mobile application development field is changing and progressing at a rapid pace. Building up an app for the services that you offer has become an essential part of running a business, small or big. Moreover, if you create one such application b...

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Feb 11, 2019

Blockchain technology has seen increasing adoption in recent years. It is appreciated by many people for its role as providing an underlying framework for Bitcoin cryptocurrency and other crypto assets. This has proven to be something that a lot of industries need, and its increased adoption shows a...

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Feb 11, 2019

In healthcare, your network cannot be an afterthought. Whether you’re in a long-term care, rehab, hospital system, remote clinic, or independent physician group, the need to support EHR systems and other critical apps such as SaaS, virtual apps, and VDI is critical to patient care today. The t...

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Feb 11, 2019

In the business world, the Shadow IT security concept seems good because it provides flexibility in work to employees. It enables officials to work in a proactive manner for achieving more productivity at the workplace. Several organizations using BYOD (bring your own device) infrastructure seem to ...

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Feb 08, 2019

The observations in the year 2018 regarding endpoint security risks’ state painted a severe image. The report was independently generated by Ponemon Institute. It resulted that not only are more enterprises experiencing successful Cyberthreats on their network endpoints but, the price of these...

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Feb 08, 2019

Top mobile app developers across the world have already recognized apps to be the easiest way to forward the technologies of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) to the end customers. Mobile-app based AR and VR solutions can easily be accessed just in smartphones. No High-tech head mount ...

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Feb 08, 2019

It’s natural for IT shops to replicate their current hardware and architecture when it’s time to refresh networking equipment. But refresh cycles provide a valuable opportunity to rethink — and improve — long-standing practices. Software-defined WAN applies software-defined n...

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Feb 08, 2019

Businesses are embracing the Internet of Things (IoT), which enables them to get closer to their users by delivering services right to the edge—think sensors on a remote oil pipeline, or the smartwatch or fitness band on your wrist—for a better customer experience. The number of IoT-conn...

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Feb 08, 2019

Given the rapidly growing popularity and significance of Big Data and its capabilities, the field of data science and analytics is bound for a slew of improvements and innovations within the duration of the coming year. Observing the recent changes and big data trends that adorned the previous year,...

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Feb 08, 2019

The people writing software for self-driving cars are having difficulties. Telling a car to stop at a red light is relatively easy, but recent articles have pointed out the difficulties of merging into fast moving traffic, dealing with roundabouts and updated roadwork.  In IT security we experi...

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Feb 08, 2019

The best part of emerging technologies is they possess the whole gamut of opportunities. IoT, AR, AI, and Blockchain are a few examples of such disruptive technologies. They are capable of revolutionizing the conventional mobile app development process. Here we are going to discuss how blockchain te...

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Feb 07, 2019

It’s clear that Python is on the rise in the IoT and embedded sphere. More and more engineers, product designers, and developers are starting to use it in their work. Compiling languages are making room for Python in the embedded category. We can’t forget that there is a whole new genera...

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Feb 07, 2019

In my last article, I covered how 5G with Cloud technologies will transform computing by shifting the computing power from the device to the Cloud through edge computing, making high-end experiences, such as high-quality wireless VR, accessible to more people at lower cost, without the need for cons...

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Feb 07, 2019

As the Internet of Things (IoT) proliferates, cutting costs and simplifying management, while maintaining system performance is not only desirable but essential. Many deployments, however, suffer from low ROI, and high software, hardware, and deployment costs limiting the potential for value to the ...

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Feb 07, 2019

This blog is a continuation of a series of blog posts to share best practices for improving performance and scale when using Azure Database for PostgreSQL service. In this post, we will focus on the benefits of using connection pooling and share our recommendations to improve connection resiliency, ...

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Feb 07, 2019

New trends in the development of mobile applications in 2019 will help entrepreneurs to make their apps closer to the user and more convenient. In the near future, AI, VR and cloud storage will play important roles. Mobile application development is currently experiencing phenomenal growth. A huge n...

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Feb 07, 2019

Last month, I wrote about the power of communities, and how focusing on user experience can help to attract and grow your community. However, innovation cannot happen without insight, and the process of building smarter applications needs feedback and collaboration with all stakeholders.

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Feb 07, 2019

The more the Cyber threat landscape changes and diversifies, the more it holds the same. Still, in today’s date, there are some old tactics in the playbook of hackers that remain successful and most prevalent. In the year 2018, the wide majority of data leakage incidents were attempted by Cybe...

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Feb 07, 2019

So when we combine the ‘old unconnected industry’ with IT-connectivity stuff (I will not explicitly call it ‘IoT’ because it is much, much more) we have to understand several side effects and their consequences. 5 side effects of IT-connectivity: 1.) Things that do real-time ...

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Feb 07, 2019

Like the 4G Evolved Packet Core (EPC), the 5G Core aggregates data traffic from end devices. The 5G Core also authenticates subscribers and devices, applies personalized policies and manages the mobility of the devices before routing the traffic to operator services or the Internet.

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Feb 06, 2019

Among other things, we discussed what we learned from our first incomplete migration attempt and how we applied that knowledge when successfully migrating our large-scale infrastructure to the Google Cloud platform. This blog post follows up on our talk with more details on the topic, and some gener...

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Feb 06, 2019

iOS from Apple is one of the most secure platforms. Also, the applications created using this platform are not as vulnerable as those built on other competing mobile platforms. Even then, businesses cannot put code, logic, data, and its communication open for any possible malware activity.

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Feb 06, 2019

If you are a network practitioner, you have likely implemented—or at least considered implementing—segmentation based on IP subnets, VLANs, or VXLANs in the network. While these techniques allow administrators to separate IT assets using network semantics, they do not inherently include ...

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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

As a result, every member of your organization’s security team, from CSO to security analyst, is constantly operating in a defensive mode. Malicious agents, local and global, are conducting offensive campaigns around the clock to find points of weakness in your cybersecurity strategy and explo...

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Feb 06, 2019

Enterprises are turning in droves to hybrid cloud computing strategies, especially for testing and development, quality assurance, and DevOps activities. But before the majority of enterprises can move on to more advanced hybrid cloud use cases, they'll need to overcome some lingering challenges...

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Feb 06, 2019

The prospect of moving an entire global network to the cloud has caused many a sleepless night for even the most experienced IT executive, especially with the added worry of security hanging over the entire project. While making a successful move to the cloud might seem overwhelming, many businesses...

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Feb 06, 2019

The VeeamON 2018 conference in Chicago brought with it the announcement of a range of new features from Veeam, one of the world’s leading data management providers. These additions centered around the  Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 4 which now has general availability as of 22 J...

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Feb 06, 2019

Today, the cybersecurity industry is faced with an increasingly capable set of threat actors using advanced strategies, tactics, and techniques. Threat actors are able to leverage advanced tools to apply them within multi-phased and multi-pronged campaigns to reach their objectives. While defenders ...

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Feb 06, 2019

Everything is a computer, from “smart” devices to home security systems to the massive infrastructure that delivers our utilities and provides mass transportation. Or in the case of vehicles, many computers. Hundreds of them that control everything from infotainment to safety systems lik...

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Feb 06, 2019

In our pursuit to democratize Internet of Things development, today we are excited to announce the Arduino IoT Cloud! The Arduino IoT Cloud is an easy-to-use platform that makes it very simple for anyone to develop and manage their IoT applications, then deploy them to a large number of users. It al...

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Feb 06, 2019

However, there are two main hurdles to resolve. First, you need to understand the kind of SDN solution that are you planning to deploy. For instance, Cisco Systems has their own version of SDN called Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI). Solutions from other vendors use the OpenFlowprotocol. And...

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Feb 06, 2019

There was a time when organizations confined their data in private data centers, but the dawn of cloud technology has opened up new doors for users to think and act without limitations and usher them towards new virtues. The adoption of cloud computing has made it easier to organize & manage tha...

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Feb 06, 2019

Individuals are buckling down each day to change the manner in which society survives innovation, and one of the most recent boondocks in the field of computer science is Artificial Intelligence. Numerous companies are investigating the utilization of AI and Machine Learning to understand how to anc...

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Feb 05, 2019

At Breadware we strive to constantly lower the barrier to entry for companies looking to get into IoT. We do this by providing information, resources, and tools to help build and successfully launch IoT products. The Breadware Development Estimator directly addresses primary challenges faced as indi...

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Feb 05, 2019

Frequent cloud platform upgrades are disruptive, while compliance and certification requirements that require extensive, costly testing procedures are financially onerous. Yet they’re often required, even when workloads or applications don’t require the latest features. Rackspace Private...

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Feb 05, 2019

The S in HTTPS is supposed to mean that encrypted traffic is secure. For attackers, it just means that they have a larger attack surface from which to launch assaults on the applications to exploit the security vulnerabilities. How should organizations respond? Most web traffic is encrypted to provi...

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Feb 05, 2019

No doubt about it: The interest in cloud computing is continuing to grow. As the market expands, IT professionals across the board are working day and night to minimize potential security threats associated with the technology. Going into the new year, there are a few points SMBs should consider bef...

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Feb 05, 2019

In many ways, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) networks are the glue that holds business operations together. Without them, a good portion of modern-day productivity as we know it would come to a grinding halt. More and more companies operate across continents, move application from on-premises ...

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Feb 05, 2019

Businesses have increasingly been adopting a multi-cloud approach for their IT infrastructure with applications and workloads running in both public and private cloud environments. The increased adoption of public clouds has primarily been driven by the ease of deployment of resources in public clou...

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Feb 05, 2019

Imagine an end-to-end WAN solution, anchored on the Citrix SD-WAN optimized edge, that could accelerate access to all SaaS providers and all cloud workloads, while delivering the performance, reliability, and SLAs of MPLS at a fraction of the cost.

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Feb 05, 2019

As we all know that the common and trending benefits of using cloud computing technology are business agility, efficiencies, scalability, and money savings. Apart from all these, the most important advantage of using the online platform is that ‘it does not demand any significant amount of cap...

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Feb 05, 2019

If you have been following anything related to tech, you would definitely know by now that Big Data has been the key term for the last couple of years. The importance of data analytics has blown up considerably, and it is being used by most of the organizations in the world either to derive business...

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Feb 05, 2019

2019 has begun and has proven rather fruitful technology-wise. If the year 2018 is any indication of the evolution and advancement of technology, then we are running at a quantum speed this year to surpass all the advancements of previous years. In our previous blogs, we have been talking about how ...

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Feb 05, 2019

Restaurants have operated in the United States for over 200 years, after spinning off from establishments that provided both lodging and dining -- what we now know today as the hospitality industry. While restaurants aren’t exactly a bleeding edge business model, in recent years restaurant own...

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Feb 05, 2019

The Internet of Things (IoT) is introducing sensors into virtually every process and device, transforming product-focused companies into service-oriented digital partners. Take these examples for instance: Every step, machine, and supplier in the manufacturing process is becoming a shared data input...

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Feb 04, 2019

Historically, the branch office of an organization was the red-headed stepchild of the network. Locally cached data tended to be out of date and connections to the central data center were often slow and unreliable. This was fine when interactions with customers and databases were slow, and the numb...

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Feb 04, 2019

ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform open-source framework. It enables development teams to create high performance and scalable web applications. The ASP.NET Core 2.2 new features bring together the best-of-the-best elements of the old .NET framework. It comprises of the latest versions of .NET MVC, We...

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Feb 04, 2019

Java has been the most popular language that often strikes first, when it comes to the best programming language for Android app. Java retained its space even with the introduction of a myriad of new technologies and languages in the Android app development horizon. It’s true that even today, ...

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Feb 04, 2019

CIOs from a wide array of in industries vouch that software testing has helped them create new milestones in unlocking customer service innovation. However, let’s analyse what they mean when they talk about innovation in the customer experience (CX) arena. According to most CIOs, CX innovation...

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Feb 04, 2019

It is important to be aware of the potential advantages and disadvantages of a hybrid cloud environment and, in order to do that, it is best to clarify what a hybrid cloud environment is.
What is a Hybrid Cloud Environment? Definitions of a hybrid cloud environment vary. Some vendors claim it...

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Feb 04, 2019

Do you know the recent online trend that dominates the financial strategical discussions? It’s none other than the data protection over multi-cloud architecture! Today in this CloudCodes official post, we are going to cover multi-cloud security challenges and suggest financial institutions tha...

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Feb 04, 2019

Regardless of industry, a company’s technology strategy is an essential component of their long-term business plan. When it comes to software, on-premises or SaaS, business leaders must regularly make decisions on whether to build custom applications in-house or buy off the shelf. With either ...

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Feb 04, 2019

As we already discussed in this blog, Edge Computing has been brought in as an approach to solve some of the main challenges of IIoT. Its main benefits are a higher reliability, low latency and better security when transferring data to and from multiple remote sites. But Edge Computing is capable of...

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Feb 04, 2019

For many of today’s businesses, providing speedy digital services over their networks isn’t a luxury—it’s a necessity. With so many options and providers to choose from, many customers look to network speed and performance as a key differentiator. If a company can’t pro...

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Feb 04, 2019

As we are growing with technology, security would undoubtedly strike our path. Taking a look at the points of interest clouds give, organizations are rapidly hustling up the stairs with no impressive security contemplations. As anticipated by Gartner, 99% of threats through 2020 that could increase ...

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Feb 04, 2019

If you thought cyber attacks were already unavoidable, learning that cybercriminals are now automating their attacks probably doesn’t give you much hope for the future of cyber security. Cybercriminals are taking attacks to the next level by having machines do their bidding. The damage to crit...

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Feb 04, 2019

Our world is truly becoming IoT-powered — even the simplest appliances like a fridge or air conditioner nowadays leverage a combination of various IoT modules and custom IoT software to interact with physical and digital worlds. According to IoT Analytics Research 2018, the number of connected...

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Feb 01, 2019

The growth of IoT into nearly every business space — from medical devices and healthcare IoT applications to industrial “IIoT” use cases — is amazing to behold. In this series on the range of applications for the Internet of Things, we share examples that illustrate how IoT p...

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Feb 01, 2019

Japan has approved a plan to test the security of around 200 million Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices in the country in a bid to beef up their cyber-resilience, according to a report by Japan’s public broadcaster NHK World. Armed with lists of default and commonly used passwords, employees of ...

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Feb 01, 2019

Internet of Things, one of the fastest growing technologies, is making a big difference in the world. Now we have a number of connected devices, gadgets, and appliances. They are the things with internet connectivity providing them the ability to sense, communicate, interact, and collaborate with ot...

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Jan 31, 2019

The blog is going to familiarize today’s business world with endpoint security risks, which occurred due to the emergence of new technology i.e., Blockchain. If you are one of the individuals who is planning to work with blockchain, firstly read this post carefully. This will prepare your mind...

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Jan 31, 2019

Cybersecurity is sometimes seen as a disaster recovery operation — a situation to be dealt with when it happens. Someone breaks in, and then the company reacts figure out who, what, when, where and how. However, the best way to approach this kind of situation isn’t to sit back and wait f...

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Jan 31, 2019

Striim enables continuous real-time data movement and processing for hybrid cloud, connecting on-prem data sources and cloud environments, as well as bridging a wide variety of cloud services across Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud platforms. With in-memory stream processing for hybrid cloud, ...

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Jan 31, 2019

City & Guilds Group’s CIO Alan Crawford had a global problem on his hands. Employees in a newly acquired company in New Zealand were having difficulty using the organization’s Microsoft Office 365 service that employees used to collaborate. Collaboration is central to the $195 millio...

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Jan 31, 2019

Most organizations with database needs have explored migrating their database operations to the cloud. Cloud-based database environments offer increased levels of convenience and reliability, making it easy to manage and control database access anytime, anywhere. But not every organization is ready ...

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Jan 30, 2019

Data centers take their security measures very seriously. With so much valuable data and IT infrastructure stored within the walls of these facilities, customers want to know their assets are well-protected. While cybersecuritydraws plenty of headlines as companies try to protect themselves against ...

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Jan 30, 2019

In comparison to the on-premises network security, there are number of benefits of using security-as-a-service solution. One of the major benefits is that it is available in lower costing. It is so because the service eliminates the capital expenditure and the maintenance services purchased either o...

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Jan 30, 2019

The future of cloud computing in Europe looks exceptionally bright. Not only are European countries investing heavily in their digital infrastructures, but public and private initiatives have been launched to fill the skills gap and accelerate the rate of cloud adoption. In February this, Germany&rs...

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Jan 30, 2019

Adopting SD-WAN can provide businesses with a long list of attractive benefits, like lower costs, stronger performance, security, and agility. However, before you can unlock this potential, you need to cut through the confusion of picking the right service. There are at least 50 distinct options for...

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Jan 29, 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, computati...

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Jan 29, 2019

Saddled by the complexities of IT, today’s CIOs are dreaming of a new level of holistic visibility that permeates the entire global IT environment, crossing both network and security domains and enabling smart automation. These capabilities are the springboard to the future and the next evolut...

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Jan 29, 2019

Hackers, cybercriminals, malware infections, and other external threats dominate the headlines. And for good reason. The loss of millions of data records as part of a security breach now seems to be a common occurrence. And as we move towards an integrated digital economy, the impact of a massive or...

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Jan 29, 2019

The Internet of Things (IoT) can do many things. But you may find the need to ask the question, “How do IoT and integration work so well together?” According to Wikipedia, the Internet of Things (IoT) is the “network of devices such as vehicles, and home appliances that contain ele...

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Jan 29, 2019

In simple term, VNF stands for virtualized network function, and commonly refers to the software form of network appliances such as a router, firewall, load-balancer etc. VNFs are mostly deployed as virtual machines (VMs) on Linux KVM or VMware vSphere hypervisors on commercial off-the-shelf hardwar...

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Jan 29, 2019

There is no doubt cybersecurity represents a significant financial investment for most enterprises. Protecting networks, identifying and monitoring all endpoints and continually defending against ever-evolving cyber attacks requires highly specialized personnel and/or technology. But failing to inve...

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Jan 29, 2019

At ConvergeOne, we begin our conversations with CISOs and Directors of Security by asking questions. We have no specific agenda in mind, no product to push, no PowerPoint that shows how wonderful and experienced we are. We simply want to hear about the customer's program and see if we can help t...

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Jan 29, 2019

Two of the most powerful technology advancements in the past decade are mobile and cloud computing. Mobile puts more processing and communications capability in your hand than many organizations had in their entire data centers twenty years ago. The cloud efficiently and economically places services...

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Jan 29, 2019

With so many large-scale data breaches that occurred in the last couple of years, we must ask ourselves: what does it take to improve the current cybersecurity processes and how to detect vulnerabilities and attacks on time? In reality, many people still think of cybersecurity as a specialized caree...

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Jan 29, 2019

Enterprises migrating to Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud-based offerings are learning the hard way that application performance varies wildly when end users are dispersed around the globe. Microsoft reports that more than 50% of its commercial Office customers are now in the cloud, and the compan...

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Jan 28, 2019

Recently, I had the opportunity to chat with Alan Shimmel from DevOps.com about some of the challenges and tips for cloud-ifying legacy applications and on-prem infrastructure. For many modern companies, growth often means growing through acquisition. As organizations become larger, it often makes s...

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Jan 28, 2019

A tsunami of groundbreaking and once in a while life-imitating technology has arrived. Artificial intelligence, Big Data, Robotics, Internet of Things, Digital Assistance, and VR/AR are transforming the nature of the society and the careers additionally it is blurring the line between technology and...

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Jan 28, 2019

Today is Data Privacy Day, an international awareness day held annually on January 28 to promote the importance of respecting privacy, safeguarding data and enabling trust. It was initially celebrated in Europe in 2007 to commemorate the Jan 28, 1981 signing of Convention 108, the first legally bind...

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Jan 28, 2019

There is a world-wide shift in the way people use Internet: a swift movement from browsing desktops to smartphones. The obvious reason for this shift is that an increasingly large number of people are always on-the-move and have a busy schedule. It is to be acknowledged and accepted that the shift i...

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Jan 28, 2019

The best practices for governance in the cloud for AWS and Azure apply to any business that uses any combination of cloud services from any combination of cloud service providers, whether the business operates in a single cloud, multicloud or hybrid cloud environment. Before discussing best practice...

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Jan 28, 2019

Last week we announced that we were rolling out support for Android Oreo. The distribution is now fully available, with documentation. Digi Embedded for Android is the custom distribution for Digi’s ConnectCore range of embedded System-On-Modules and Single Board Computers. It bridges the gap ...

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Jan 27, 2019

Imagine that we live in a world with a single capital city. Let’s call it “Kings Landing.” Kings Landing is surrounded by multiple remote cities, and the only way to travel between these cities are six-lane highways that connect them all together. Most of our friends and family liv...

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Jan 25, 2019

If you are owning a website having a large number of users, you might have faced the situation where problems related to Big Data analysis are playing a major role. Exactly when you require your site to respond rapidly to a fruitful promotional drive, it backs off. Big shot social media platforms ar...

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Jan 24, 2019

2019 will be the year of the hybrid cloud, claim federal executives. As offices like FedRAMP, OMB, and GSA continue to promote cloud computing as the path to IT modernization, hybrid cloud can help alleviate the regulatory compliance and security requirements that agencies must adhere to. With a hyb...

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Jan 24, 2019

Organizations are transitioning from traditional IT delivery models to cloud-based models to better serve customers, improve productivity and efficiency, and rapidly scale their businesses. Despite the benefits of public-cloud platforms, concerns over data sovereignty, compliance and privacy have de...

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Jan 23, 2019

While the term “cybersecurity” is as old as the hills in the security world, the term “cyber resilience” has been gaining momentum. This is a good thing. Cybersecurity management is complex and always changing, and focusing on security alone simply isn’t enough – ...

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Jan 23, 2019

There are few things more desirable than having everything you need in one place. Cox Automotive, a leading provider of products and services that span the global automotive ecosystem, has been using AWS while maintaining more than 45 on-premise data centers all around the world. Even though Cox had...

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Jan 23, 2019

Data has long been the lifeblood of manufacturing. Companies have used it to increase efficiencies, improve performance and productivity, and reduce waste. With the advent of Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things (IoT), the amount of data at hand has grown exponentially. Manufacturers are beginnin...

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Jan 23, 2019

Data encryption is the bedrock of cybersecurity. Encrypted data remains worthless ciphertext without access to encryption keys; hardware security modules (HSM) are well-established means for securing those keys in on-premises data centers. Data security teams are well-versed in the process of purcha...

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Jan 23, 2019

Starting a big data project solely for the purpose of exploring possibilities, without a clear objective, is a huge waste of time, effort, and resources. Many enterprises have learned this lesson the hard way. As such, 85% of big data projects fail. That’s insane. This high failure rate has li...

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Jan 22, 2019

SD-WAN and the dynamic nature of hybrid networks are making it easier than ever for CIOs to diversify WAN connectivity and rethink their IT infrastructure. But this new agility brings with it the responsibility to engineer the smartest network design. After all, IT architectures impact application r...

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Jan 22, 2019

How can organizations cut through the hype around AI to understand the most important issues they should be addressing? How can they incorporate AI into their security strategies now to take advantage of the technology’s ability to detect and mitigate attacks that incorporate the same capabili...

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Jan 22, 2019

What do the 6,210 hospitals in the United States all have in common? Virtually every hospital administrator is trying to accomplish the same thing: to provide excellent healthcare that fills a need in their community with the finite amount of resources that are available. It’s pretty universal...

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Jan 22, 2019

As software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) continues to be adopted by enterprises to address an increasingly complex network infrastructure, there are changes occurring in SD-WAN solutions themselves and in the SD-WAN market. Take a look at a few of the changes influencing how SD-WAN is used ...

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Jan 22, 2019

City-wide Internet of Things (IoT) networks are barely upon us but experts are already discussing the next innovations in smart city digital connectivity. Any IoT network worth its salt is built upon a high bandwidth, low-latency network capable of handling such vast swathes of data, but currently, ...

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Jan 22, 2019

Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) offers a variety of remedies to common networking challenges with multi-cloud support, enhanced security, and traffic optimization. Enterprises are increasingly implementing this technology, but there are decisions to be made about how to best execute S...

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Jan 22, 2019

What are the biggest cybersecurity challenges faced by companies these days in the year 2019? Cybersecurity is popularly known for its trending nature of evolution. It is a platform where both – internet attackers and Cyber clients, innovate themselves continuously in their respective domain. ...

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Jan 21, 2019

Being able to keep a business running smoothly is more critical than ever in today’s competitive environment, and any interruption in service can lead to serious – even fatal – consequences. But trying to keep a business continually operating at a high level is demanding for any or...

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Jan 21, 2019

IoT is the buzzword of recent years and we would like to introduce the terms and technologies behind it on our blog. This is part 2 of our blog series on LoRa - a technology that will undoubtedly be part of the future of the Internet of Things. At the moment, there is no common transmission technolo...

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Jan 21, 2019

Developing a data protection strategy primarily means thinking about how critical data would survive a complete failure. One of the most important decisions a business can make is how to provide additional capability to support a comprehensive disaster recovery plan. According to State Tech, "C...

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Jan 21, 2019

Technological advancements in the information age have leveraged the scope of various improvement opportunities for enterprises. These advancements aid in enhancing the performance of enterprises and work collectively with human workforce for achieving set goals. They have successfully eliminated th...

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Jan 18, 2019

People who believe that the hybrid cloud is only a transitory situation really need to think twice. Hybrid is just here to stay, says Paul van der Marck, Chief Commercial Officer at IT provider Sentia. “One kind of IT complexity has been replaced by another. Its importance has not diminished. ...

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Jan 18, 2019

Many people’s perception still lets them see AI just into the light of science fiction movies and books where machines have taken over the world or robots do things for humans. They think AI is something that will change tomorrow like it did in the Terminator. But the reality is different and,...

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Jan 17, 2019

Here at SecurEdge Networks we understand that wireless design is both an art and a science and to deliver it properly we must balance both aspects in an effort to achieve two goals. Our first goal is speed so that we can get you a proposal or an estimate so that you understand what you need and the ...

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Jan 17, 2019

Malware is a key vector for data breaches. Research shows that 51% of data breaches include the usage of malware, whether for initial breach, expansion within the network or heisting data. Yet despite malware being a pivotal attack vector, companies are unable to defend against data-theft malware ru...

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Jan 17, 2019

For those organizations looking for a cost-effective way to connect branch locations to corporate resources, Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) technologies offer many advantages. SD-WAN technology delivers site-by-site flexibility, cost savings, network agility, and enhanced application pe...

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Jan 17, 2019

One of the salient characteristics of the digital revolution is the acceleration of change. Technologies that enabled the digital revolution over past decades experience ever-faster innovation cycles—for example, recall how rapidly mobile phone technology has advanced. And while it’s a c...

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Jan 17, 2019

With increase in the use of tokens services, biometrics, and mobile applications, multifactor authentication is changing the sign-in procedure of end users. The purpose of the same is to add an extra cloud data security layer in the existing business network protection system. Besides user ID and pa...

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Jan 17, 2019

2018 didn’t disappoint in terms of cybersecurity headlines, as an estimated one billion people were affected by breaches disclosed last year. All the while, you were confronting the challenges involved with impeding data leakage and addressing attacks amid arguably the largest skills gap in hi...

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Jan 17, 2019

The motivation of hackers sometimes can be plain as day. Other times, not so much. As attacks on Internet of Things (IoT) devices and deployments escalate, it is important to understand what these attackers are trying to accomplish. Understanding these motives, after all, can help us to pinpoint why...

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Jan 17, 2019

Our smart Virtual Assistants Alexa, Siri, and Google Home have already proven to all of us how wondrous and helpful the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be. You must have come across numerous debates, discussions, and conferences around the globe that have woven around what AI can do and ca...

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Jan 16, 2019

If you’re still using Adobe Flash Player, this is for you. But first, don’t use it. Remove the plugins from your browsers and don’t fall for the scam where you should update your Android device’s Flash Player app, because that is truly a scam. A good reason for doing this is ...

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Jan 16, 2019

The revolution of the Internet of Things (IoT) has officially commenced, all with Gartner predicting 20 billion connected devices in operation by 2020. From being touted as the “Year of the Smart Device” in 2016 for its sensational rise in popularity for connected home systems to the mas...

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Jan 16, 2019

Although the enterprises know about common cloud security risks, they also consider its benefits. Almost two-thirds of all enterprises are showing their interest in moving the business operations on cloud sooner instead of delaying. The Equinix reported that the cloud is one of the topmost considera...

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Jan 16, 2019

Most of these topics could be the subject of their own article, (or perhaps their own book!) such is the impact of the technological forces collectively labeled “Cloud Scale Analytics”. In this post, I’ll break down one way of looking at these terms and explain why any business lea...

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Jan 16, 2019

Datacenter teams are finding that the levels of scale, simplicity, and agility needed to support complex digital transformation initiatives simply cannot be achieved using the long-standing practice of buying individually managed silos of datacenter resources, or just following the “check box&...

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Jan 16, 2019

Today, many organizations are now realizing that DDoS defense is critical to maintaining an exceptional customer experience. Why? Because nothing diminishes load times or impacts the end user’s experience more than a cyberattack. As a facilitator of access to content and networks, proxy server...

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Jan 16, 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 16, 2019

There are many reasons why an organization may opt for a hybrid cloud environment. The company may feel safer keeping certain applications, infrastructure, or data on premises; there may be a technical need, such as reliance on legacy software, that requires a hybrid environment; or they might requi...

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Jan 15, 2019

For most workplaces, wireless networking (WiFi) is as important as utility power, air conditioning, heating, and running water. Because of this, many kinds of companies invest in standby power generators to largely eliminate the business interruption from a loss of utility power.

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Jan 15, 2019

Unauthorized access, data exposure, or a hack! In today’s world of digitization, these kinds of words have constantly been in news headlines. What exactly all these mean for you and your company? Do all these incidents hamper work of your business employees? Should your company take steps to p...

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Jan 14, 2019

Data virtualization gives businesses the power to handle big data and make queries across multiple data sources fast and simple without moving data. As big data continues to grow, enterprises should have the ability to manage all of their data, regardless of where it lives, and they need a platform ...

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Jan 14, 2019

It is that time of the year – to call out predictions and trends for the year. The two hot areas that are enabling digital transformation across all industry verticals are IoT and edge computing. Let us look at what to expect in 2019 and beyond for IoT. In this post, I am going to focus only o...

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Jan 14, 2019

As per the “Automation Testing Market by Technology, Testing Type, Service, Endpoint Interface and Region – Global Forecast to 2023” report, the global automation testing market size is expected to grow from USD 8.52 billion in 2018 to USD 19.27 billion by 2023. The major factors t...

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Jan 14, 2019

In today’s day and age, data is an extremely important resource for enterprises.  As organizations work to get maximum insights from data in near real time use cases, the legacy architecture and experience needs an update. It needs a user experience that is driven by customer insights, va...

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Jan 14, 2019

No one can deny that cloud adoption is increasing at a fast rate. Though moving to the cloud offers many advantages—such as speed of development, cost savings, and reduced overhead—one of the implications of adoption is that customers must change the way they approach security to adapt t...

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Jan 14, 2019

Automatic device management in Azure IoT Hub automates many of the repetitive and complex tasks of managing large device fleets over the entirety of their lifecycles. Since the feature shipped in June 2018, there has been a lot of interest in the firmware update use case. This blog article highlight...

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Jan 14, 2019

In talks with information security professionals at security conferences, user group events, and customer sites, Chester Wisniewski frequently fields questions about country-based blocking as a network defense tactic. Though he couldn’t find any published data to confirm his assumptions, &ldqu...

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Jan 13, 2019

Consumer IoT is all about convenience. It’s about doing more with less. Deep down, humans only want to do what they like doing personally or socially and want the chores to be taken care of. Humans also want to feel comfortable, whether it’s hot or cold, rain or shine. From Smart Homes t...

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Jan 12, 2019

Ordinarily, one of the best ways to protect your organization’s infrastructure is to make sure any and all patches administered to the software you use are applied as soon as possible after they’ve been released. However, patches don’t help against threats that aren’t discove...

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Jan 11, 2019

For many businesses, a wireless network connection plays a large role in what they do. The people who make your organization work require access to a continuous Internet connection to ensure collaboration can happen with minimal trouble, but it also means that more productivity can happen throughout...

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Jan 11, 2019

As we enter 2019, cloud continues to be at the forefront of key initiatives for many organizations. CIOs are increasingly challenged with managing risk, reducing cost and creating revenue streams. It’s not enough for CIOs to just keep the lights on. They really need to home in on using technol...

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Jan 11, 2019

The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) is driving increased adoption of edge computing — a network design model in which computing resources are placed at the network’s edge in close proximity to data-collection sources. Gartner analysts say 70 percent of the organizations they...

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Jan 11, 2019

Mobile phones are no longer the everyday device for receiving or making phone calls. With your mobile phone, you can do more than receiving or making calls. The truth is; your mobile phone is like your personal computer. Using mobile phones revolutionized when app developers introduced downloadable ...

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Jan 10, 2019

Organizations across every industry struggle to keep pace with the evolution of technology in order to maintain a competitive edge and not get left in the dust by others who are better-suited to satisfy customer demand. This performance anxiety is exactly what’s behind the current corporate ma...

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Jan 10, 2019

Centralized control of traffic flows is critical for monitoring 10G, 25G, 40G and 100G networks. But before implementing SDN, network architects must ensure that they have a solid visibility plane that ensures 100% of packets will be seen by the SDN controller. To achieve complete transparency with ...

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Jan 10, 2019

Meteor or MeteorJS is one of the popular free and open source JavaScript web frameworks that are based on the isomorphic model. It is written in the Node.js and employed for building web and cross-platform mobile applications for Android and iOS platforms. The developers can also implement it with M...

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Jan 10, 2019

The data center landscape is undergoing radical changes. To compete in this rapidly evolving digital economy, organizations are moving workloads to the cloud, tapping into ecosystems of partners and leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver faster and better digital experiences. These trend...

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Jan 10, 2019

Per the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Software Test Automation: “Cloud and digital business demand a shift toward continuous quality. Application leaders must support their teams in integrating and effectively utilizing test automation tools in their DevOps toolchain, to enable continuous de...

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Jan 10, 2019

Everywhere you turn these days “the cloud” is being talked about. This ambiguous term seems to encompass almost everything about us. While “the cloud” is just a metaphor for the internet, cloud computing is what people are really talking about these days. It provides better d...

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Jan 10, 2019

Migration to cloud-based compute and services platforms has allowed organizations to quickly adapt to the global transition to a digital economy. The ability to quickly spin up resources, adopt new applications, and respond in real time to end user and consumer demands allows organizations to compet...

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Jan 10, 2019

In 2018 alone, multiple security regulations became effective across the globe, most notably the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and additional regulations are on their heels. As a result, businesses already grappling with increasingly sophisticated cybersecurity at...

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Jan 10, 2019

When we think of phishing, most of us imagine a conventional phishing attack that begins with a legitimate-looking email. It might appear to come from an e-commerce site with which you happen to do business. “We’ve lost your credit card number. Please follow the link to re-enter it,&rdqu...

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Jan 10, 2019

Artificial intelligence is a major driver of value for the enterprise. According to a recent AI study from IBM, 82 percent of organizations are now at least considering AI adoption, and the number of companies that are beyond the AI implementation stage is 33 percent higher than it was in 2016. What...

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Jan 09, 2019

Security professionals are tasked with outwitting adversaries and mitigating risk in a threat landscape that's evolving faster than ever before. The stakes are high, as the seemingly endless list of damaging breaches last year demonstrated. This organizational struggle isn't new, but when lo...

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Jan 09, 2019

January is a time when most of us create personal and professional plans for the year. For me, this time of the year is about creating a plan for investing in myself so that I am better prepared for the innovation that is happening in cloud computing. Today, enterprises spend over $3 trillion in IT....

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Jan 09, 2019

SAP continues to execute their cloud vision: to converge the SAP family of applications with SAP Cloud Platform at the center. As the SAP Customer Experience (CX) portfolio evolves, customers are better enabled for self-service of their cloud applications. Recent evolutions of SAP Commerce Cloud hav...

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Jan 09, 2019

The amount of data in the world continues to grow at an incredible rate. IDC suggests that, by 2025, there will be 163ZB (zettabytes) of data – up from 4.4ZB in 2013. This massive increase in data is both a challenge and an opportunity for businesses. Contained within that data is the insight ...

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Jan 09, 2019

The software development industry is going through major disruptions, leading to the rise of fresh approaches to testing practices in the software industry. Quality Assurance experts have to adapt to the changes rapidly in order to keep themselves pertinent. 2019 has commenced. Making predictions ar...

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Jan 08, 2019

The term UX originated in 1993 in the depths of Apple, the decoding sounds like "User Experience" (UX). With the growing popularity of mobile devices, this concept came into vogue and began to be used everywhere. But even now, not everyone can confidently answer the question what is UX des...

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Jan 08, 2019

EDI – Electronic Data Interchange. Definition: EDI is a computer-to-computer exchange of business documents in a standard electronic format between business partners without the need for human intervention. EDI permits exchange of multiple business documents, such as purchase orders, shipping ...

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Jan 08, 2019

The networking field is changing fast. This year, several emerging technologies will fundamentally impact how businesses and their employees connect. The good news is that each technology also represents a solid opportunity to improve some aspect of how a company runs – from network efficiency...

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Jan 08, 2019

Disaster recovery (DR) is more than just the restoration and validation of data. It often involves the reinstallation applications and painstaking reconfiguration to reflect changes that have been made over time. In today’s highly complex and ever-changing IT environments, it’s difficult...

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Jan 08, 2019

The Internet of Things (IoT) is simply an interconnected array of electronic devices that are linked by the Internet, through which they can transmit and receive data. The original “thing” was a Coca Cola vending machine that was able to report back to HQ how many bottles of soda were le...

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Jan 08, 2019

GPM has staff experts in a wide array of areas. Now these experts are here to share their insights on what issues are likely to trend in 2019, as well as what challenges are ahead and how you can prepare. In this column, Sean E. Smith, CISM, CISSP, Consulting Security & Compliance Engineer, and ...

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Jan 08, 2019

It’s incredible how complex today’s IT environments have become. Among the central promises of cloud computing were simplified management and security. However, almost paradoxically, it is the ease of cloud deployment and use that led to an explosion of adoption that has presented a sign...

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Jan 08, 2019

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being recognized as the next platform battle. As Wired Magazine noted, “Microsoft became the giant it is today because Windows was the place developers went to reach PC users.” As tech companies build their position, there is an active effort to recruit de...

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Jan 08, 2019

Almost every company is already using the cloud or thinking of moving at least part of their IT architecture to the cloud. But how can today’s enterprises take full advantage of hybrid or multi-cloud architectures without creating data silos and stifling innovation? In a hybrid cloud architect...

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Jan 08, 2019

Customer options to deploy hybrid cloud Citrix Workspaces continue to expand with the availability of Cisco HyperFlex for Citrix Cloud services. While we were preparing for the holidays in mid-December, Cisco quietly announced Cisco HyperFlex for Citrix Cloud services. It’s now January. Citrix...

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Jan 08, 2019

A 2017 study on the big data market worldwide showed that by the end of the year, nearly 53% of all companies had adopted big data analytics in some form to optimize business performance. The talent market too witnessed an increased demand for professionals with expertise in big data. We are the cro...

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Jan 08, 2019

When it finally comes about in the next two or three years, the 5G telecom standard will bring with it radical changes to the way we use data. Many people focus mostly on the consumer-grade upsides: fiber-like speeds directly to the phone, streaming virtual reality, autonomous cars, etc.

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Jan 07, 2019

Edge computing is on the rise globally, as business-critical cloud traffic exponentially increases and as 5G communications, AI applications and IoT implementations come to fruition. IT professionals will have to determine how edge and cloud complement each other. While cloud brings the benefit of e...

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Jan 07, 2019

Avast experts walk you through next year’s most menacing IoT threats in part 1 of our 2019 predictions. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. This is also true in the world of security. This year, we tracked a growing threat trend — that when just one device in a home or small b...

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Jan 07, 2019

Laravel is one of the most popular PHP frameworks today, and is a go-to-choice for development teams. It is because of its speed, extension ability, and quick institution. As an open source web application development framework it adheres to MVC pattern. It makes web development simple with its adva...

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Jan 07, 2019

The Internet of Things is unleashing an unimaginable growth in the number of connected devices. In fact, Arm predicts that 1 trillion devices will be connected by 2035, many of which are sensor systems that are designed to sense and interact with the world around them. The world around us is analog,...

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Jan 07, 2019

Let’s look at how Apache Cassandra handles data consistency. If you write data to n – 1 nodes in a cluster and then an application reads it from node n Cassandra could report that the data is not there as replication is not instant. That could be a big problem or not a problem at all. It...

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Jan 07, 2019

We have talked extensively about how cyber criminals don’t take time off for the holidays, but in fact redouble their efforts to wreak havoc and make a few million dollars in the process. If 2018 was any indication, then in all likelihood, 2019 will bring even more creative and potentially dam...

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Jan 07, 2019

Development of Enterprise IT software is considered to be extremely complex, and testing of such IT software is like a wakeup call in the software development lifecycle. It keeps nudging over intervals to enhance the overall software delivery process. This is true for all the large companies with co...

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Jan 07, 2019

Desktop and application virtualization have long been a practical solution for supporting a mobile, distributed workforce that desires to work anywhere, anytime, using any device. While providing a lot of benefits such as keeping data safely in the data center instead of on end devices and simplifyi...

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Jan 07, 2019

Big Data Analytics is a Healthcare application and has many positive life-saving advantages. Healthcare analytics is the term used for collecting data from four areas of healthcare. It’s a growing Industry and expected to grow stronger in the coming years. Big data analytics industry, mainly f...

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Jan 07, 2019

If you’re like most enterprises, migrating applications to the cloud is part of a bigger strategy for improving the customer experience, increasing agility and integrating data, and better understanding the customer. The cloud also offers infrastructure cost reduction and scalability, and you ...

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Jan 07, 2019

In 2017, software failures cost the economy US$ 1.7 trillion in financial losses. In total, software failures at 314 companies affected 3.6 billion people and caused more than 268 years in downtime. Software failures can prove to be the nemesis of organizations in this world of digital transformatio...

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Jan 07, 2019

The IoT journey has evolved over the last several years. But it is definitely a journey. Let’s look at the four steps every organization needs to master to truly realize value from their IoT efforts. Step 1 begins with the basics: IoT data. Or more precisely, gathering the data from your devic...

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Jan 07, 2019

With the increasing benefits of cloud-based data warehouses, there has been a surge in the number of customers migrating from their traditional on-premises data warehouses to the cloud. Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) offers the best price to performance when compared to its cloud-based ...

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Jan 07, 2019

It is true that with the escalation in the numbers of Smartphones and other devices, the mobile applications have also seen phenomenal growth in the current scenario. However, the prominence of the web applications cannot be subdued as they would also play a crucial role in generating more traffic t...

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Jan 07, 2019

Selenium as we know, is an open-source test suite used for cross-platform browser automation. Due to its popularity and ease of use, many compatible test frameworks with respect to different programming languages have been developed to extends support of Selenium for cross browser testing over multi...

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Jan 04, 2019

The IoT technology is a pretty new technology and it is the next big thing after artificial intelligence, virtual reality and augmented reality. If well exploited, app development technologies can take the app development industry to the next level.  Here are some of the ways through which app ...

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Jan 04, 2019

Research, reporting and commentary about Internet of Things security has made a flurry of technology headlines over the past several years. And industry observers are commenting that IoT security may finally be gaining the attention it deserves among technology decision makers. So will 2019 be a mil...

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Jan 04, 2019

DexGuard 8.3 introduces a new strong outer protection layer: code virtualization. It protects parts of your codebase from static analysis by replacing the original code with a randomized instruction set interpreted by a generated virtual machine (VM). Code virtualization is an alternative to class e...

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Jan 04, 2019

Internet of Things is likely to be more pervasive in 2019 and the time to come with the number of connected devices expected to jump from 15 billion in 2015 to 26.6 billion in 2019, 30.73 billion in 2020 and a whopping 75.44 by 2025 according to HIS Statista. IoT will be everywhere from manufacturin...

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Jan 04, 2019

Big Data refers to collecting large volumes of data, giving us greater insight into our data which can be used to drive better business decisions and greater customer satisfaction. Securing Big data is difficult not just because of the large amount of data it is handling, but also because of the con...

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Jan 04, 2019

If the business on multiple platforms is a new reality, a cross-platform app offers the solution! As a cost-effective and efficient business tool in the online world, no one can ignore the cross-platform apps. The concept of cross-platform mobile application development has started gaining ground be...

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Jan 03, 2019

One of today’s biggest megatrends is the rise of microservices and Kubernetes. Together, these technologies take what used to be monolithic and disperse it, essentially enabling a new way to scale workloads. Just like scaling the infrastructure before it, scaling workloads will have a dramatic...

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Jan 03, 2019

Last year has witnessed solid growth throughout the mobile app development industry, but 2019 is going to be more innovative. Technology trends for App Development in 2019 will force marketers, developers and businesses to think outside the box. This statistics presents a forecast for the number of ...

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Jan 03, 2019

2018 has been the year of SD-WAN. While Enterprises replaced their static MPLS networks and shifting base to Software Defined WANs, Networking companies have been offering virtualized WAN and end-to-end cloud-based provisioning. This will continue to happen in 2019. Although MPLS will not cease to e...

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Jan 03, 2019

Each quality assurance (QA) specialist has their own set of favorite testing methodologies and tools they use for testing cloud applications, mobile apps, and other types of software. In this article, we focus on two tools that our QA professionals often use for monitoring HTTP/HTTPS traffic when te...

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Jan 03, 2019

Ensuring that information flows safely and securely over the Internet is a growing challenge. Cloudflare has teamed with IBM Cloud to bring increased security and performance to individuals and to organizations of all sizes, helping protect critical online services.

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Jan 03, 2019

A great cloud success story is how Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has enabled ELEM Biotech. We've invited ELEM Biotech founders Mariano Vazquez, Chris Morton, Guillaume Houzeaux, and Jose Maria Cela to share how Oracle Cloud Infrastructure High-Performance Computing (HPC) enables them to make Virtu...

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Jan 03, 2019

All that’s new and incoming for the near and far terms inundated attendees at Microsoft’s Ignite conference in September. As usual, the announcements demonstrated yet again Microsoft’s mastery of all things digital and they are promising users new and novel solutions to problems an...

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Jan 03, 2019

Security breaches regularly made headlines in 2018, while advancements in DevOps, application security testing tools, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud adoption, and the Internet of Things raced forward. 2019 promises to be another busy year in technology and digital transformation, b...

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Jan 03, 2019

As we move into 2019, we thought we’d share a recap of some of our key announcements. In this blog: everything on Public Cloud. These core pillars define our approach to the support we give our customers. At VMware we are focused on supporting their digital transformation, from infrastructure ...

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Jan 03, 2019

Software security requires good hygiene and constant diligence to protect your organization and users from known threats; it also requires working proactively to identify and address emerging risks. Here at Google Cloud, we help you do both. We build products that make security easy—from autom...

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Jan 03, 2019

A new year is upon us, and 2019 looks to be just as exciting as 2018, with ample opportunities for organizations to improve their security stance. Cybersecurity teams and experts will continue to fight some familiar foes that have caused trouble over the past few years, as well as new threats that m...

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Jan 03, 2019

The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way we interact with the world around us. Over the next few years, billions more connected devices will enable us to drive efficiency, boost productivity, and enhance comfort and convenience in our personal and professional lives. And we’re not the ...

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Jan 03, 2019

The IoT market size in Europe is estimated to reach €242,222 million by the end of 2020. This rise in popularity of IoT-connected devices leading to rise in IoT app development does come with its fair share of concerns and security challenges. As manufacturers continue to compete on who would g...

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Jan 03, 2019

Today’s complex networks require hardware and software vendors to work well together to provide solutions that meet the customers’ needs. As a manufacturer of network TAPs and packet broker solutions, Garland Technology knows that enterprises, service providers and government agencies wo...

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Jan 03, 2019

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been one of the key buzzwords in the technology industry over the last few years. From enabling devices on the Internet of Things (IoT) to self-driving cars, the promise of AI seems endless. But using AI to solve your business problems can be daunting and it can be h...

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Jan 03, 2019

From the record-breaking number of data breaches to the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), 2018 will certainly go down as a memorable year for the cybersecurity industry. And there have been plenty of learnings for both the industry and organisations, too. Despite havin...

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Jan 02, 2019

It’s a rare week when a big company doesn’t announce a major data breach. Though it’s good these breaches are in the public eye, they shouldn’t happen so frequently.  Most cybersecurity experts recognize that it has become impossible to maintain intruders completely out ...

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Jan 02, 2019

Cybersecurity is top of mind for business owners and operators alike. In fact, there are approximately 300,000 open cybersecurity positions in the United States alone. Staggeringly, this number is expected to rise to 1.8 million by 20221. Likewise, smart business leaders know cybersecurity isn&rsquo...

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Jan 02, 2019

The average internet user gets to see a specific page on his/her system, through a series of interaction between various components of applications, user interfaces, middleware systems, databases, server and the browser. The framework which ties up this relation and interaction together is Web Appli...

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Jan 02, 2019

Let’s imagine that your company just completed a penetration test and you are left with an assessment report from the vendor with a list of exploits and vulnerabilities to remediate. You are trying to get a full understanding of the report, so you can better determine what the next steps are a...

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Jan 02, 2019

In the past, we’ve seen pre-installed malware with the notorious Adups threat, among others. “Pre-installed” means the malware comes already installed on a device at the system level, thus, it cannot be removed; only disabled. However, remediating these iterations of pre-installed ...

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Jan 02, 2019

With applications moving to the cloud and employee mobility on the rise, organisations must navigate a myriad of network infrastructure and security challenges on their way to making the internet the new secure corporate network. Here’s what some of our European leaders predict for the coming ...

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Jan 02, 2019

Looking back at the IT landscape of 2018 is helpful in pinpointing technology maturity, highlighting any remaining gaps or risks, and exploring advancements that earned the confidence of users and investors alike. The past 12 months brought with it valuable insights in the areas of networking, secur...

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Jan 02, 2019

More and more businesses have been moving their applications and data to the cloud to avoid building and maintaining on-premise IT infrastructure. In addition to availing computing resources based on the pay-as-you-use pricing model, cloud computing further helps scale resources, improve data securi...

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Jan 02, 2019

The number of cellular IoT subscriptions is forecasted to grow to 4.1 billion devices by 2024 (Ericsson Mobility report, Nov. 2018). A significant portion of this growth is expected to be Massive IoT devices that use technologies such as NB-IoT and Cat-M, are low-cost, and have long battery life.

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Jan 02, 2019

It’s an exciting time in medicine. Technology is constantly making healthcare more accessible, more precise, and more convenient. For instance, IoT in healthcare can increase hospitals’ efficiency in many ways. But you should also be prepared for the risks it brings. Benefits of IoT in H...

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Jan 02, 2019

A common reason for running the Windows operating system (OS) on a Mac computer is to bypass compatibility issues. Virtualization is the only way to efficiently install OS-specific software on any machine, so let’s go over some of the ways this solution creates synergy between the two platform...

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Jan 01, 2019

The adoption of SD-WANs continues to skyrocket.  ZK Research forecasts the market for SD-WAN infrastructure and services will grow at almost 70% CAGR between now and 2022.  Why such strong adoption?  For most businesses, the WAN is long overdue for an upgrade as the current architectu...

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Jan 01, 2019

We are just a few days away from the New Year. It is approaching quickly, and it’s hard to believe how quickly 2018 flew by. When it comes to looking at the 2018 mobile app market, it has witnessed just over 27 billion downloads that is a year-over-year growth of approximately 11%. Not only in...

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Jan 01, 2019

Cloud computing has become one of the prime opportunities worth exploring. Some businesses are rapidly progressing within the Cloud, while others continue to remain skeptical of the Cloud’s true capabilities. The Cloud is marketed as a tool to enhance efficiency, flexibility, and even provide ...

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Dec 31, 2018

Think innovation, and microservices is the first thing which comes to mind. Microservices has confirmed to be an innovative way to accelerate and enhance software development — this term specifically refers to the application subcomponents, which are formed separately to focus on one specific ...

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Dec 31, 2018

We have often been told that one of the key elements that drive the users into an app is intuitive design. What users prefer today is a simplified user interface with basic functionalities. But have you ever heard about the term minimalistic design? Actually, the word minimalistic design originates ...

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Dec 31, 2018

Businesses across the globe are evolving each day to confront the market challenges and deal with maturing customer expectations. Even the ongoing technology advancements keep twisting the arms of software testing experts for more attention and precision in the practice and processes. The year 2018 ...

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Dec 31, 2018

There’s one glaring problem with modern security tools. Even if you’ve deployed next-gen firewalls (NGFW), intrusion prevention systems (IPS), data leakage prevention and more, they’re all useless without total visibility of network packets. To keep up with increasingly-sophisticat...

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Dec 31, 2018

It’s the dawn of a new era for a set of networking protocols known as universal plug and play (UPnN) and Internet of Things plug and play. The Internet of Things (IoT) is described by Wikipedia as “the network of devices, vehicles, and home appliances that contain electronics, software, ...

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Dec 31, 2018

The world of IT has witnessed a significant increase in the adoption of cloud computing over the last few years. It is indeed a promising opportunity for both the upcoming and the existing businesses in terms of innovation and development. However,  some businesses are still incredulous about t...

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Dec 31, 2018

Maintained by Facebook and a community of developers, React, also known as ReactJS is a JavaScript library mainly to build user interfaces. Forming a base for both single page web application development and mobile application development, ReactJS offers most innovative solutions for developers work...

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Dec 31, 2018

No matter the programming language, CMS or front-end software you work with, chances are that web development innovation takes precedent in your everyday work. Software companies and independent web developers alike have a lot to look forward to with the continuous rise of IoT (Internet of Things) d...

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Dec 31, 2018

At a recent SAP® Innovation Forum event, delegates were focused on two clear priorities; managing and processing unstructured information, and transitioning to SAP S/4HANA®. Specifically: The challenges of managing and extracting value from unstructured data: IDC predicts that the total volu...

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Dec 31, 2018

The growing threat related to the security of IoT is quickly becoming a reality as new attack methods emerge. IOT is particularly at risk as the wide array of connected devices both inside and outside the business are very difficult to monitor and control. This was what discussed in one of the sessi...

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Dec 29, 2018

More and more enterprises are running several solutions in multiple cloud environments. As such, the ability to constantly implement intelligent capabilities quickly is becoming a matter of course. Access to solutions from any device, the ability to scale quickly, and the reliable performance and co...

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Dec 28, 2018

IoT and data remain intrinsically linked together. Data consumed and produced keeps growing at an ever expanding rate. This influx of data is fueling widespread IoT adoption as there will be nearly 30.73 billion IoT connected devices by 2020. The Internet of Things (IoT) is an interconnection of sev...

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Dec 28, 2018

The term “serverless computing” conjures images of a world where business owners don’t need to purchase expensive hardware or configure complex software. Luckily, serverless computing isn’t just a dream — it’s completely real and is the next big thing in cloud com...

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Dec 28, 2018

The big data world has seen just about everything. People have predicted the death of big data (yeah right, who wants to kill something that helps businesses understand their customers better and in turn make more money?) and that big data was just a fad or a buzzword. Big data is here to stay, and ...

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Dec 28, 2018

Artificial Intelligence has become the keyword which defines the future and everything that it holds. Not only has Artificial Intelligence taken over traditional methods of computing, but it has also changed the way industries perform. From modernizing healthcare and finance streams to research and ...

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Dec 27, 2018

There was a time when cloud computing used to be just a tool that facilitated smooth, on-the-go computing experiences, but now, it has evolved into a scalable service that is essential for a modern firm. With a sudden upsurge of competition, enterprises strive to provide services that are cheap, adv...

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Dec 27, 2018

For the last several years, one of the hallmarks of digital transformation has been the market’s rapid transition to the cloud, from applications and services to complete infrastructures. But a growing number of organizations have begun to pull away from that trend, primarily because of securi...

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Dec 27, 2018

Java so far has given a step-up to many of the light-weight programming platforms, as for Eclipse, Java Development Kit (JDK), the Oracle JDeveloper, as well as the Eclipse and other Open Source Applications. Let us take a look at the Java trends that made a breakthrough in application development.

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Dec 27, 2018

We asked 2,410 IT and cybersecurity decision-makers in six countries to identify their top cybersecurity and governance priorities for the New Year. Here’s what we learned. What are your top cybersecurity concerns for 2019? Tenable commissioned Ponemon Institute to conduct a survey of 2,410 IT...

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Dec 27, 2018

The ingenious concept of cloud computing has transpired as a heavenly benediction in this information age. Since it allow enterprises to access IT-based services and processes via internet, it is capable of leveraging a better response system in accordance of dynamic and changing trends of the marke...

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Dec 27, 2018

Cyber-attacks are becoming more common and have become a looming threat not just to large enterprises but also to small and medium-sized organizations. Here are our top 3 cyber security predictions for the year 2019: 1. Cloud Attack Threat: There’s a looming threat in the cloud as this is wher...

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Dec 27, 2018

At the end of every year, people share predictions about the next big thing for the coming year. They examine trends and sales forecasts then form their opinions and throw the dice. After all, isn’t a prediction just an informed gamble? Instead of gambling, I’d rather reflect on 2018 and...

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Dec 26, 2018

Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are two technologies that are increasingly accessed by enterprises to improve the customer experience, drive agility and flexibility objectives, and reduce costs. While it may seem that one of these technologies is pushi...

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Dec 26, 2018

If you’ve read our previous articles, you’d know by now that we have been endorsing ‘software defined everything’ to the T. We strongly believe that SD-WAN is the present and the future. The demand for Network SaaS is perpetual and the triad of The Cloud, Network and the Inte...

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Dec 25, 2018

As the holiday season approaches and more and more consumers begin shopping, comparing prices, and researching gifts online, cybercriminal efforts are expected to accelerate. Retailers and others offering connectivity to their customers need to pay particular heed to their wireless access points, wh...

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Dec 24, 2018

Ask a dozen technologists what edge computing is, and you’ll get a dozen answers. Each vendor has a different meaning, based on what they already sell, or what they think venture capitalists want to hear. Edge computing is the new cloud: a catch-all buzzword that has been so diluted as to be n...

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Dec 24, 2018

Here’s a problem many developers may relate to. They create their code and find themselves thinking ‘this code needs to be cleaned.’ This process can be time-consuming and slow the entire project down to a crawl. Instead, they want to develop a series of tests to ensure that code i...

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Dec 24, 2018

Threat hunting is the practice of iteratively and proactively hunting for threats or Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) that are launched by adversaries. Unlike traditional security systems such as antivirus program, firewalls, or SIEM, who use a reactive approach to threats, threat hunting utilizes ...

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Dec 24, 2018

According to Statista, 6,140 apps are released every single day. Research suggests that global mobile app revenue forecast for 2020 is a whopping $189 billion. With 66% of online traffic in the USA coming from mobile phones, & similar trends being noticed across the globe, businesses are going b...

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Dec 24, 2018

The advent of technology has surged all spheres of life and revolutionized the functioning and management processes of almost all sectors, from agriculture to e-commerce. Technological advancements in this information age have emerged as a holy grail of modern-day enterprise working by increasing ef...

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Dec 21, 2018

Multi-cloud deployments, containers and increasing demands on the IT department are a few of the key themes we heard most often in compiling the Splunk 2019 Predictions e-book. This may not come as a surprise, but the real news is the speed and scale at which companies—especially enterprise or...

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Dec 21, 2018

Angular is a leading TypeScript based open source framework for front-end application development. It has evolved with its every new version. The advantages of Angular include a handy resource for utilizing HTML templates, delivering dependency injection and assembling data services for applications...

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Dec 21, 2018

Software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) represent a core structural transformation in the way communication infrastructure is deployed. These technologies have induced significant improvements in the time to market, cost efficiencies, and innovation, helping the ...

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Dec 21, 2018

What a ride 2018. With the days growing shorter and time ticking every minute close to 2019, we just can’t help but look forward to a brand new year to start a different chapter in our lives. With so much happening, of course, the techies are looking forward to some amazing tech trends coming ...

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Dec 21, 2018

There’s no denying that the Internet of Things has seen a massive boom in the last few years. In 2015, there were about 15 billion connected devices. By 2020, some are predicting that number will double, with Intel going so far as to predict 200 billion devices in the next few years. Regardles...

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Dec 20, 2018

Rapid Prototyping applies an iterative approach to the design stage of an app or website. The objective is to quickly improve the design using regularly updated prototypes and multiple short cycles. This saves time and money by solving common design issues before development begins, helps businesses...

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Dec 20, 2018

As we saw last post, Software Defined Networking (SDN) revolutionised Open Networking by implementing network connectivity in software instead of hardware.  Rapidly came the next step in the evolution Open Networking: the implementation of software network appliances that implemented the &ldquo...

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Dec 20, 2018

As 2018 winds to a close, it’s a natural time to take stock of where we are and look ahead to what’s on the horizon for modern infrastructure, aka public and private “cloud.” We’re nearing the end of a year where the industry has truly matured: according to analysts, it...

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Dec 20, 2018

I stumbled across an article the other day that perfectly captures the frustration employees around the globe experience with digital transformation, especially as productivity applications move to the cloud: “Why your Office 365 apps may be running ‘so darn slow’.” Poor Offi...

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Dec 20, 2018

Gartner recently completed a survey that highlights key concerns organizations face as they implement an SD-WAN solution, and strategies for addressing those challenges. SD-WAN has been seeing rapid growth over the past two years according to IDC, with the total addressable market ballooning from $2...

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Dec 20, 2018

Networking has been a hardware centric business, where software was an after thought in the business model. All of today’s networking giants used to give away their networking software for free not so long back. The value models were built on a cost of hardware plus enviable margins due to mar...

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Dec 20, 2018

Gartner published its Magic Quadrant for Managed M2M Services, Worldwide on December 3, 2018, and authored by Pablo Arriandiaga, Eric Goodness, et al., and Sierra Wireless is recognized for the third year in a row. The report evaluated our AirVantage® IoT Platform, SIMs and Connectivity Services...

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Dec 20, 2018

Malware Analysis is the process whereby security teams such as Incident Response Handlers perform a detailed analysis of a given malware sample and then determine its purpose, functionality, and potential impact. Conducting malware analysis manually is a cumbersome and time-consuming process as it i...

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Dec 20, 2018

Doing usability testing of your product before it reaches the audience can save you time and money that you are likely to spend, if users are unsatisfied with what you offered them. It is much more reasonable to invest in a high-quality product than pay for redesign or code refactoring later down th...

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Dec 20, 2018

Here we show how to stress test a Cassandra cluster using the cassandra-stress tool. What this tool does is run inserts and queries against a table that it generates by itself or an existing table or tables. The Basic Flow- The test works like this: Insert random data. You specify the length of text...

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Dec 20, 2018

If a DDoS attack hasn’t happened to your organization yet, odds are one will eventually. So it’s crucial to familiarize yourself with DDoS attack mitigation best practices. Verizon’s 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report placed DDoS attacks at the top of its Incidents by Pattern l...

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Dec 20, 2018

High performance has always been and continues to be the calling card for flash storage. But many flash arrays use legacy storage interfaces and protocols that were designed for slower hard-disk drives (HDDs). Because the read/write arm moving across the spinning disk creates multiple milliseconds o...

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Dec 20, 2018

Fiber and copper cable each have their place, with their own advantages and characteristics. Depending on the application, there is no “right” or “wrong” answer when choosing between the two. In fact, they’re complementary in many ways. As our world becomes increasingly...

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Dec 19, 2018

You hear about a different security breach every few weeks, and it’s hard not to wonder how your strategy stacks up against those companies experiencing a crisis. Fortunately, there’s a lot you can do in the area of phishing prevention that goes a long way in protecting your company from...

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Dec 19, 2018

AngularJS has come a long way since Google launched it in 2009. Today, it is one of the most widely used JavaScript frameworks. Here are some of the good reasons which make the framework so popular and powerful. 1. AngularJS Modular Architecture Makes the Framework Very Powerful: AngularJS has a Mod...

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Dec 19, 2018

With spending on Big Data and associated technologies due to exceed $57 billion this year, there's no doubt data, and what we do with it, is going to be a huge part of the business going forward. But if you're looking into 2019, what can you expect the analytics trends to be? Read on for our...

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Dec 19, 2018

Sometimes, your data sources may reside on infrastructure that’s not directly exposed to the internet, which can result in all sorts of challenges. Kinvey’s Secure Gateway makes connecting to these data sources much easier. Kinvey Services enable developers to connect to external data an...

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Dec 19, 2018

Play is a lightweight open source framework developed by Lightbend. It is written in Scala and therefore supports it, as well as Java. Companies such as LinkedIn, Coursera, Verizon and many more already work with Play. Play aims to make it easy for developers to work and optimize their productivity ...

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Dec 19, 2018

Lessons from Dimensional Research’s Cloud Trends Report. I recently ran across a great stat from Enterprise Management Associates. According to the analyst firm, as much as 45% of enterprise network traffic today can be attributed to external cloud sources. I suppose it shouldn’t be a sh...

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Dec 19, 2018

Mobile devices are becoming an integral part of business operations. Thus, in addition to their regular activities, enterprises have to cope with mobile security threats. Yet, they are constantly losing this battle. This especially concerns the enterprises engaging digital nomads in their projects, ...

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Dec 19, 2018

Every year, we reach December and industry experts share their predictions and tell the world what the biggest trends will be for the following year. In the security industry it’s hard to predict exactly what cybercriminals might have in store, what new techniques will become popular and which...

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Dec 19, 2018

The excitement of realizing the benefits of the cloud means that organizations sometimes skip the planning process and move right ahead to the implementation phase. But those who have dived headfirst into the cloud have sometimes found themselves backing out as fast as they jumped in when issues aro...

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Dec 19, 2018

One of the big anticipations for us is how the Internet of Things will be enhanced by wider deployments of 5G networks around the globe. We’re excited to see how it will enable new and innovative use cases in areas like autonomous vehicles and Industrial IoT. Warren Chaisatien, global director...

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Dec 19, 2018

A major goal of branch consolidation with SD-WAN is overall reduction of WAN cost and complexity through managing bandwidth requirements and automating change management and policy adherence, while simplifying appliance and software sprawl. Branch-edge infrastructure complexity and cost remain signi...

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Dec 19, 2018

Application Security is the process of testing and examining an application to ensure that mobile apps, web applications, or APIs are secure from potential attacks. Organizations often lack the expertise and bandwidth to monitor their applications adequately and adapt their security protocol to miti...

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Dec 18, 2018

The cybersecurity landscape is in a constant state of change and, as many organizations have learned, it’s no longer a matter of if you’ll face a cyberattack, but when. In today’s world, attackers intentionally look normal to evade automated defenses. With the rise of ransomware, f...

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Dec 18, 2018

It’s been about three years since NetApp bought SolidFire, a maker of all-flash storage systems for data center applications. The acquisition was part of NetApp’s new Data Fabric strategy, which promised to simplify management across on-premises and cloud resources. Today, that work is p...

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Dec 18, 2018

In many organizations, traditional IT and critical Operational Technology (OT) networks are being merged to take advantage of the speed and efficiency of today’s digital marketplace. Typical OT networks are comprised of switches, monitors, sensors, valves, and manufacturing devices managed by ...

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Dec 18, 2018

As we’re on the edge of another year, it’s time to look ahead to the future of edge computing. 2019 Is looking to be a great year in edge computing for one reason in particular – the advent of 5G. Promised for years, the 5G standard (and devices that can use it) will finally be wid...

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Dec 18, 2018

Today, JavaScript is in the top-3 of the most popular programming languages. The number of JavaScript-based web tools created for all sorts of purposes, from back-end development to mobile front end, is the main reason for this success. And vice versa, this success is exactly why these web tools evo...

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Dec 18, 2018

The edge cloud on uCPE is an example of managed NFV providing services to enterprises. What I mean in this prediction is that enterprises will start to deploy NFV in their own networks. They will do so for the same reasons that service providers are using NFV: Breaking the single-vendor silos.

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Dec 18, 2018

Cloud computing has become an integral strategy for growing businesses looking for better scalability and improved operational efficiency. Cloud-based solutions provide access to unlimited storage services, better accessibility, and dedicated, 24/7 IT support. But does this mean every business appli...

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Dec 18, 2018

SD-WAN is all the rage. But before making any investment or commitment, buyers should understand the limitations of some SD-WAN solutions. Interoperability can often be a challenge with certain SD-WAN edge devices. SD-WAN and private access/MLPS are often paired together in networking solutions, bec...

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Dec 18, 2018

Outsourcing doesn’t mean handing control of your QA process over to an unknown entity. The right outsource team should seamlessly integrate with your own DevOps practice to maintain the smarter Agile approach. Digital technologies are now readily available to link you and your QA partner in re...

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Dec 18, 2018

Big data is transforming the world. Well, it is literally true. The role of big data in the healthcare industry is the perfect example of this evolution. The healthcare industry is experiencing complete disruption. Changes in legislative regulations and healthcare delivery models are changing the in...

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Dec 18, 2018

DDoS stands for Distributed Denial of Service. DDoS is a serious threat to businesses and organizations as it can be quite disruptive. According to the Verisign Distributed Denial of Service Trends Report, DDoS activity picked up the pace by 85% in each of the last two years with 32% of those attack...

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Dec 18, 2018

Columnar storage is an often-discussed topic in the big data processing and storage world today – there are hundreds of formats, structures, and optimizations into which you can store your data and even more ways to retrieve it depending on what you are planning to do with it. This plethora of...

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Dec 18, 2018

The McAfee Advanced Threat Research team today published the McAfee® Labs Threats Report, December 2018. In this edition, we highlight the notable investigative research and trends in threats statistics and observations gathered by the McAfee Advanced Threat Research and McAfee Labs teams in Q3 ...

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Dec 18, 2018

Traditional wide area networks (WANs) bring numerous challenges to the enterprise, ranging from increasing cost, performance issues and flexibility challenges. And with the onset of the cloud, today’s IT teams are searching for solutions that meet the data accessibility demands from inside the...

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Dec 18, 2018

It’s that time of year when we see a treasure trove of forecasts for the year ahead. Whilst these predictions are hardly an exact science, it’s interesting to read the commentary as a gauge to what the future might hold in terms of the IoT – the internet-enabled technology that pro...

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Dec 17, 2018

Organizations dedicate a good number of resources for mobile app development only because of the business enhancing and customer growth potential offered by the smartphone industry. On average, consumers in the U.S alone spend approximately five hours every day on their mobile devices. And that more...

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Dec 17, 2018

Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) were originally employed at the introduction of the internet because IT teams discovered that VPNs could be used to connect to remote gateways. For businesses that could not afford a wide area network (WAN), the technology allowed them to connect multiple locations to...

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Dec 17, 2018

If your contract on your traditional phone branch exchange (PBX) is up for renewal, it might be a good time to consider cloud communications. You may have looked into cloud solutions in the past, only to determine that you could lose call quality or that it may cost you in terms of IT resources. Tod...

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Dec 17, 2018

The mobile applications made their appearance after the evolution of the Smartphones and the tablets. In fact, mobile applications played a vital role in popularizing the smartphones and since then it has been altogether a different story. In the current scenario, the mobile app development industry...

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Dec 17, 2018

While many companies use public cloud to improve agility and cost efficiency, the reality is that not all workloads are suited for public cloud. Some mission-critical workloads that require complete control over data and security are better suited to remain on premises and behind the corporate firew...

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Dec 17, 2018

Today, almost every other product is bundled with more than one utility or benefits. Having said that, the first thing that comes to mind, (w.r.t product) is mobile, and (w.r.t service) the internet. As the virtual world is fast becoming a reality, by defining every aspect of a business into softwar...

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Dec 17, 2018

Kanban is a relatively recent approach to software development, which aims to create a development pipeline that continuously delivers constant value. Before delving into the use of Kanban with software development, a brief explanation of the history of both Kanban and software development technique...

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Dec 17, 2018

When the first smartphone was launched for the general public in 1994, nobody could have predicted how integral a part of our life it will become. Currently we have 2.1 billion mobile users and in 2019, the number is expected to cross the 5 billion mark according to a report by Statista. Smartphones...

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Dec 17, 2018

Traditionally, branch offices have been treated as a satellite to the core network, often receiving slower connections to the data center and delayed access to information. As organizations undergo digital transformation, however, its advantages need to be extended to the entire workforce, including...

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Dec 17, 2018

Infrastructure as Code, or IaC, is a method of writing and deploying machine-readable definition files that generate service components, thereby supporting the delivery of business systems and IT-enabled processes. IaC helps IT operations teams manage and provision IT infrastructure automatically th...

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Dec 17, 2018

Internet of things (IoT) is about capturing and making sense of data from the physical world. Soon, every physical device will be a source of data and this data can potentially become a source of business value. We have all heard the predictions about the explosion of IoT data and the IoT data delug...

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Dec 17, 2018

The realm of wide area network (WAN) now includes newer technology like SD-WAN services, so the enterprise needs to consider corresponding business requirements. While SD-WAN is generally discussed in terms of its ability to introduce cost savings and help meet the demand for access to cloud solutio...

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Dec 17, 2018

This time of the year is always exciting for us, as we get to take a step back, analyze how we did throughout the year, and look ahead at what the coming year will bring. Taking full advantage of our team’s expertise in data and application security, and mining insights from our global custome...

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Dec 16, 2018

With the changing business requirements and to keep in pace with the fast-transforming world, there is a need to distance oneself from the traditional approaches and make a move towards newer ones. This blog aims to tell how the newer wide area network approach (SD-WAN technology) is on the upper-gr...

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Dec 14, 2018

Based on CloudAcademy’s “November 2018 Data Report,” the world is fast facing towards the adoption of multi-cloud for business processes. As a matter of fact, multi-cloud environments have taken up center stage to the extent that DevOps engineers with coexisting skills in AWS and M...

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Dec 14, 2018

While virtual desktops have successfully helped address security and operational challenges, IT organizations still have concerns about a growing threat landscape and an expanded security perimeter that they need to protect, especially in public cloud environments. Malware, phishing, and other emerg...

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Dec 14, 2018

AWS developed its Well-Architected Framework to help cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient and efficient infrastructure for applications. The framework also offers customers a consistent way to evaluate those architectures. Rackspace was recently selected as one of just 34 compan...

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Dec 14, 2018

Web development is constantly evolving at an astounding pace every single day. It poses a huge challenge to keep a track of new tools, libraries, frameworks, and plugins, platforms for web developers that are flooding in this sphere. Web development involves an intricate cycle of 5 complex stages na...

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Dec 14, 2018

In artificial intelligence (AI) there is sometimes a confusion of language that can be easily prevented. AI in the narrower sense (also called “Strong AI”) aims to develop machines that act as intelligently as humans – but this is an academic vision out of reach. Instead, let&rsquo...

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Dec 14, 2018

2018 has been an eye-opening year for the cybersecurity industry. Big corporations such as Panera Bread, Facebook, Under Armour and more recently, Marriott, have had millions of customer records stolen, each of which has caused significant harm to the company’s brand. It is not only big corpor...

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Dec 14, 2018

As a proficient team which develops mobile apps, one should prepare for the challenges of the upcoming year by focusing more on the app designing rather than researching the latest technologies. With every passing year, the expectations of the users rise and in a competing market like Mobile app dev...

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Dec 14, 2018

Cybercriminals, former employees, and some careless users can bring down any computer network security and compromise sensitive data within seconds. In fact, on October 11, 2018, the internet provider Pocket iNet left an AWS S3 server exposed. Upguard, a cyber-risk team, later reported that this inc...

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Dec 14, 2018

Endpoint security is a way to protect your business network when it is connected to remote devices like smartphones, printers, laptops, etc.  A business server is installed with an endpoint security software and the same software is also installed on all other endpoint devices to ensure the sec...

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Dec 14, 2018

Innovating quickly is already a challenge for app developers, let alone those working with sensitive data. Learn how a high productivity platform can help you build even HIPAA-compliant apps fast. The healthcare industry is booming, powered by advanced technology that uses data to produce meaningful...

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Dec 14, 2018

Microsoft’s Application Insights provides a basic application performance monitoring solution for .NET applications. For some types of .NET projects, Visual Studio will automatically add it to your solution. In this article, we are going to cover how to disable Application Insights. When consi...

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Dec 13, 2018

It’s been a little over a year since we released the Titanium Package for Atom, and we are delighted by such great response shown by both the usage stats and external contributions we’ve received. However, Atom isn’t the only editor around today. Visual Studio Code has grown tremen...

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Dec 13, 2018

Agile and DevOps methodologies have shifted software testing and software development teams away from traditional silos. As the role of QA moves closer to the end user, the definition of testers has also changed. In the past, organizations could afford to take a siloed, waterfall approach to change ...

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Dec 13, 2018

An indicative sign to innovation is the coupling of intelligence with imagination. With the evolution of a transforming SAP®, the European SAP Center of Excellence within Capgemini is working on changing the perception towards SAP S/4HANA implementations. Learn how we tackle the mighty challenge...

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Dec 13, 2018

Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing our lives. What used to conjure up images of robots taking over the world, is now a household word. Recommendation engines are reading our minds, virtual assistants are listening to our voices, and AI insights are transforming our businesses. AI is definite...

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Dec 13, 2018

Regardless of your opinion of the term artificial intelligence (AI), there’s no question machines are now able to take on a growing number of tasks that were once limited to humans. These days, AI is commonly discussed in the context of video games and self-driving cars, but it is increasingly...

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Dec 13, 2018

Well, you have been following our blogs, reading about our vociferous appeal to transform your WAN with the Lavelle Networks SD-WAN platform. There has been a lot of news and press about how to do network security the right way in this new world of Software Defined “Everything”. If you a...

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Dec 13, 2018

Los Angeles has the 4th longest commute times in the country and citizens there spend an average of 81 hours per year in traffic. There are ways to sidestep the gridlock, as we’ll discuss, but both the problem and the solutions make for a good analogy if you’re using (or considering usin...

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Dec 13, 2018

Did you know you could realize huge performance gains for your scientific applications by taking advantage of the unique capabilities of the IBM Power Systems platform? Are you apprehensive about making the leap to another architecture? Let’s look at the current state of the software ecosystem...

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Dec 13, 2018

Put the pressures of the test cycle out of mind. In order to know why API testing is so important - especially during healthcare application development - you must take a calm step back to consider exactly what that specific testing does for your organization. Top-quality API testing improves the co...

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Dec 13, 2018

When it comes to machine learning (ML) algorithms, it’s a classic case of garbage-in-garbage-out: If the data being fed to the algorithm does not meet the requirements of the algorithm, then the accuracy of the results will suffer. Data preprocessing is a requirement for any ML project and mus...

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Dec 13, 2018

The business cybersecurity landscape is dramatically expanding in scale and complexity. From phishing scams, to ransomware attacks, to malicious breaches from state actors, the potential per breach threat to your business is not a trivial matter. According to the Ponemon Institute, the average per b...