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History of IoT: What It Is, How It Works, Where It’s Come From, and Where It’s Going
Not so long ago, the idea of connecting everything with everything may have sounded like some far-fetched futuristic idea – a bit of fun for science fiction enthusiasts, but not something we would likely experience in our lifetime. Then it started happening. The internet exploded across the world. Suddenly, everyone had a PC and we
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Cloud Workloads to Rise to 63% by 2020, per IT Survey
We’ve all accepted that organizations are moving to the cloud. But which cloud? And how quickly? And what about multi-cloud, hybrid and edge computing? According to LogicMonitor’s Hybrid World survey, 2020 will be a monumental year for cloud. By next year, today’s relatively even split between enterprise workloads stored on-premises (46%) and those stored in
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5G Vs 4G – How Mobile Networks Are Changing Forever
5G is finally coming. The fifth generation of wireless broadband technology, set to revolutionize mobile networking with superfast speeds, high bandwidth, and ultra-low latency, will start rolling out in earnest throughout 2019-2020, representing the next phase of mobile telecoms standards. Actual release dates vary by carrier in the US, but here’s a glimpse of what’s
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Ensuring the Success of Hybrid Multi-Cloud Enterprises with Hybrid Data Management
The future of enterprise IT will almost certainly be hybrid. After all, multi-cloud seems to be the preferred strategy among a majority of businesses. However, even within multi-cloud, a hybrid strategy that blends public and private clouds in orchestration seems to be gaining an edge over a strictly public- or private-only policy. This is according
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Data Analytics vs. Data Science: What’s the Difference?
Businesses are developing an appetite for data science. According to a recent report from job site Indeed, the demand for data scientists increased by 29 percent year-on-year and by 344 percent since 2013. The role of data scientist has also been rated the best job in America for three years running by Glassdoor. As Andrew
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Is short-sightedness fuelling the tech skills shortage?
The tech industry is suffering a skills shortage. There isn’t a high enough supply of skilled technology workers to meet sector-wide demand – from cybersecurity, to software development, to big data management. The question is why? The tech skills shortage is, of course, a nuanced and complicated issue. It’s in part down to the pressing
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IT Reporting: 14 Must-Have Reports that Prove the Value of IT
I hate to say it, but IT gets a bad rap. Technology has hugely significant business value, but CIOs and IT leaders are still struggling to show the value IT delivers to the entire organization – and it’s a problem. While many CIOs have successfully managed to move from back office support functions and are
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Garbage In, Garbage Out – How Bad Data Leads to Bad Reporting and Bad Decision-Making
Here’s a saying you’ve no doubt heard, and probably even repeated yourself in recent years: “Today, data is the fuel that drives business success.” But how true is that statement? Well, it is true. Data is the fuel that drives business success – but only so far as the fuel you use to power your
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