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Nearly 70 percent of organizations that participated in an IBM/Ponemon Institute study published earlier this year said they lacked visibility...
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I recently called a plumber to my home, but he arrived two hours late because the previous customer had a...
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When Gartner speaks, the cloud computing market listens. In the fractured, still immature cloud market, the research firm’s annual Magic...
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When it comes to the public cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the clear winner today. Outside of the public...
The old saying “may you live in interesting times” is a blessing or a curse, depending on how you look...
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It is no longer just a matter of simply using touch, voice, and keyboards to provide your computer with information....
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“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you...
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Things move with incredible speed in container space. As recently as October everyone, it seemed, loved them some Docker. You...
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The data storage industry is in no danger of diminished growth anytime soon. The amount of data we need to...
Many folks seem excited about Apple’s introduction of Apple Pay and its potential to advance contactless payment technology, by solidifying...
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Mobile technology. Cloud computing. Big data analytics. The Internet of things. All four technologies are essential to business (and personal)...
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It’s a given in the cloud computing business that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the clear and undisputed market leader....
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New terms and new concepts seem to continuously be making their way into the media and onto web sites. For...
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If you ask most companies in the IT channel what the biggest game-changer is for them, chances are most would...
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New ways of collecting and analyzing data are creating new opportunities for companies to gain an edge over their competitors...
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In his first interview as the new CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella recently spoke with The New York Times about...
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If one current technology trend is touching every aspect of the business and both its IT and line-of-business workforces, it...
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2014 is, without a doubt, an exhilarating time to be in the IT industry. We had gone through a period...
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As the managing editor of Datamation, I track the dizzying change-fest that is the current IT scene. It’s a lot...
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The movie “Field of Dreams,” starring Kevin Costner, spawned one of the most well-known quotes of all time: “If you...
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One of the questions that Webopedia has been asked a few times on our Facebook Page is to explain the...
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I recently visited my friend, John, in Seattle, and considering that it was my first time to this wonderful city,...
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I recently turned on NPR and started listening to a special interview of Twitter founders, Evan Williams and Biz Stone,...
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A blog search engine is specifically focused on finding content in the blogosphere. Blog search engines only index and provide...
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