Fri.May 24, 2019

article thumbnail

Windows 10 Is Now On 825 Million Active Devices: What It Means For Programmers

The Crazy Programmer

In November 2017, Windows announced that their Windows 10 operating system had been downloaded onto 600 million active devices. This was a big deal at the time, representing an extra 100 million users in less than six months. However, in May 2019, that record was smashed as it emerged that there are now 825 million devices running Windows 10. This makes it the world’s most popular operating system for desktops and laptops, finally surpassing Windows 7.

Windows 113
article thumbnail

Understanding the Digital Transformation Journey

Getronics

Over the years, we’ve all heard people say, “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.” That’s a humorous quote that had its origin in Lewis Carroll’s classic children’s story, “Alice in Wonderland”. Ironically, though, I see it play out on a daily basis in my interactions with organizations that are unsure where they need to go with their data centers, and how to get there.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Stop Drowning In Data And Create An Optimisation Plan

Strategy Driven

One thing is certain – Big data is big business. As the ways in which we can gather information have expanded almost infinitely, so the data we have stacks up and up. We’ve been promised the earth by understanding our customers better – enhanced profits, more repeat sales, higher average transaction values, loyal brand advocates. And while it’s true that data can deliver all of that, for most businesses, it doesn’t.

Data 27
article thumbnail

Vital Leadership Choice – Do You Want to Be Effective or Right?

Let's Grow Leaders

It’s easy for leaders to get in their own way. Have you ever insisted that you’re right and then experienced frustration as nothing worked the way it was supposed to? You’re not alone – the leadership choice between “right” or effective […]. The post Vital Leadership Choice – Do You Want to Be Effective or Right?

article thumbnail

Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

article thumbnail

Get Testing Bottlenecks Out of Your Pipelines

DevOps.com

I first learned the term “deployment pipeline” when I read “Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test and Deployment Automation,” by Jez Humble and David Farley back in 2009. End-to-end automation of the build, deploy, test and release processes kick in each time a team member commits a change to the source code repository. […].

Testing 103

More Trending

article thumbnail

CloudBees Increases Size of DevOps War Chest

DevOps.com

CloudBees has increased the pool of dollars it is aggregated to drive further consolidation across the DevOps sector by $10 million, thanks to an investment from HSBC. The investment comes on the heels of $62 million in funding that CloudBees raised last year, which brings the total amount invested in the company since 2010 to […]. The post CloudBees Increases Size of DevOps War Chest appeared first on DevOps.com.

DevOps 101
article thumbnail

DIA Provides Vision of New Data And Analytics Approach Called MARS

CTOvision

Editor’s note: The following was posted on the Defense Intelligence Agency website and is provided for your awareness. DIA’s Vision of MARS: Decision advantage for the 21st century JOINT BASE ANACOSTIA-BOLLING, D.C. , May 23, 2019 — When it comes to providing warfighters with the best intelligence to carry out missions, the decisive use of […].

article thumbnail

The dangers of breach fatigue—and how to take action

TechBeacon

A stream of near-constant data breaches has left many consumers numb to security risks. Remember when the first major retail data breaches occurred? Everyone rushed to change their passwords and credit card information. But after so many major breaches, a sense of complacency has taken hold.

Retail 85
article thumbnail

Intelligence Exploitation Summit 23-24 July 2019

CTOvision

Defense Strategies Institute provided us with the following information on what promises to be a very interesting event: Defense Strategies Institute is proud to announce the 5th annual Intelligence Exploitation Summit, occurring on July 23-24, 2019 at the American Institute of Architects in Washington, DC. This year’s summit is designed to bring together members of […].

article thumbnail

Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

article thumbnail

Losing Revenue in a Growing Market

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

The latest International Data Corporation ( IDC ) Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker , was published on March 4, 2019. It showed vendor revenue in the worldwide enterprise storage systems market is still increasing: 7.4% year over year to $14.5 billion during the fourth quarter of 2018 (4Q18). Total capacity shipments were up 1.7% year over year to 92.5 exabytes during the quarter.

article thumbnail

10 Signs That Your Company Can't Support Growth

Docuphase

The goal of any business is to grow – to increase revenue and profits, all while keeping your customers and your employees happy. This is the definition of business success!

Company 75
article thumbnail

Growing Pains for Containers, Data Centers Call for Better Management

DevOps.com

Containers have taken the tech community by storm with their ability to drive agile and effective innovation. Compared to the rigid nature of virtual machines, it’s no wonder developers and IT teams have flocked to containers and their flexibility. By dropping the strict hardware focus of virtual machines, containers are allowing teams to surface innovation […].

article thumbnail

CIO Perspectives – Boston 2019

Linux Academy

We will be sponsoring the CIO Perspectives event in Boston, MA. The executive forum will focus on leadership, IT innovation, and business strategy – it’s a great way to network and share insights & experiences with other senior IT leaders, CIOs, Vice Presidents, and Directors of IT. Meet us in Boston and learn how you can empower your team or entire enterprise to Learn by Doing and stay ahead of the cloud technology curve with Linux Academy for Business — the #1 multicloud Learn

Linux 60
article thumbnail

Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

article thumbnail

6 Things We Learned at Collision 2019

BrainStation Technology

Collision 2019 has come and gone, and the massive tech conference did not disappoint, with thousands of attendees, exhibitors, and speakers from some of the largest and most innovative companies in the world. It’s impossible to sum up the entire conference, but here is a snapshot of some of the things we learned at Collision 2019. Technology is Impacting the World (for Better or Worse).

article thumbnail

FBI: Internet-fueled theft, fraud, and exploitation reaches cost of $2.7 billion

DXC

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) published its fifth annual Internet Crime Report last month. The report, based on information gleaned from 351,936 complaints of suspected Internet crime, found more than $2.7 billion in Internet-fueled theft, fraud and exploitation for 2018. According to the report, email scams wrought the highest level of financial losses […].

article thumbnail

Build an Android Mobile Application Using Azure DevOps

Dzone - DevOps

In the dynamic realm of Android app development, efficiency is key. Enter Azure DevOps, Microsoft's integrated solution that transforms the development lifecycle. This tutorial will show you how to leverage Azure DevOps for seamless Android app development. What Is Azure DevOps? Azure DevOps is not just a version control system; it's a comprehensive set of development and deployment tools that seamlessly integrate with popular platforms and technologies.

Azure 52
article thumbnail

La actividad del ransomware disminuye, pero continĂşa siendo una amenaza peligrosa

Symantec

A pesar de la reciente disminuciĂłn, el Ăşltimo Informe sobre las amenazas para la seguridad en Internet de Symantec, revela que los ataques contra los usuarios mĂłviles y las empresas continĂşan siendo preocupantes

article thumbnail

7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

article thumbnail

Il futuro degli smartphone potrebbe essere nelle tue mani

DXC

L’era degli smartphone ha i giorni contati, a causa della saturazione del mercato e della mancanza di significativi progressi tecnologici avvenuti negli ultimi anni ma è anche dovuto alla necessità dei produttori di evitare la mercificazione, fattore che li ha costretti ad abbattere i prezzi diminuendo drasticamente i margini di profitto.

54
article thumbnail

ReasonML – the new way of escaping JavaScript runtime exceptions

VironIT

JavaScript is a great tool for quick prototyping and developing smallscale applications, but this speed comes at a price. Dynamic types have a huge impact on the codebase. This starts from a significant amount of manual type checking and tests to make sure that data is of the same shape we expect and ends with […].

Testing 53
article thumbnail

Identity is Security: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

Sailpoint

Our personal data is sacred. It is the digital footprint that holds us up and allows us to live our lives out online, but once it’s out there (and in the wrong hands), our footprint becomes wider—and not in a good way. That’s why this week, a headline in CSO caught my attention. A large direct marketing list now circulating on the grey market revealed highly sensitive data on 200 million U.S. citizens.

Media 53
article thumbnail

Four short links: 24 May 2019

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Forms by Configuration, GitHub Sponsors, SpaceX's LEO Internet, and a Gallery of Programmer Interfaces. ncform -- a very nice configuration generation way to develop forms. GitHub Sponsors -- allowing donations. Starlink -- SpaceX is developing a low latency, broadband internet system to meet the needs of consumers across the globe. Enabled by a constellation of low Earth orbit satellites, Starlink will provide fast, reliable internet to populations with little or no connectivity, including thos

article thumbnail

Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

article thumbnail

Sociotechnical Design Variables

Strategic Tech

Over the past few years I have focused much of my learning and work choices around learning about the design of sociotechnical systems?—?how to design software architectures and organise teams around them. Looking through the history of my talks and my posts you can see evolutions in my thinking. One of my current working models is that there are five main categories of criteria for designing boundaries: Business Value: design decisions aligned to the business strategy Domain: design decisions a

System 45
article thumbnail

Announcements: Abstractions II: Pittsburgh Boogaloo

The Daily WTF

I’ve been a big fan of the work Code and Supply has been doing for years, with their focus on building a community for developers, starting in Pittsburgh and expanding their sights. We’ve co-sponsored a number of events, and I’ve personally found jobs and made friends through the organization. Their first Abstractions conference, in 2016, was easily one of the best conferences I’ve seen, and they’re bringing it back for 2019.

article thumbnail

6th Annual Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame Awards

Palo Alto Networks

Rick Howard presenting at the 6th Annual Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame Gala. Last week, Palo Alto Networks hosted the sixth annual Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame Awards at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. The Cybersecurity Canon Project is a network defender community effort to identify the must-read books in the cybersecurity space. It is set up like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in that a committee of network defenders read the books and decide which ones should be candidates, and

article thumbnail

IT Event Filters, Zendesk Integrations Reduce Incident Pain

xmatters

The new xMatters release is called Enduro , and the race is on! This blog post is going to explore some of these awesome features in a bit greater detail and put them into the real(ish)-world context of a leading ice cream delivery service. We’ll highlight IT event management flood control filters, incident notification response options, Zendesk actions in the Flow Designer workflow builder, and more!

article thumbnail

Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

article thumbnail

Channel Scoop – May 24, 2019

Palo Alto Networks

It’s that time again! We kicked off our annual Partner Satisfaction Survey this week. If you received an email this week with a unique URL to complete our annual survey, don’t ignore it. We enhance our NextWave Partner Program with feedback we receive from the survey. Plus, you can win a $500 gift card. Make your participation count. Channels Weekly for Partners.

article thumbnail

Monitoring Box Security with USM Anywhere

AlienVault

Introduction We recently announced the release of the new AlienApp for Box in USM Anywhere, which uses the Box Events API to track and detect detailed activity on Box. This new addition to the AlienApps ecosystem provides an extra layer of security to cloud storage services that many enterprises are outsourcing to Box. Beyond monitoring and data collection, USM Anywhere offers early detection of critical events and alerting, thanks to event correlation and business intelligence.

article thumbnail

IT Event Filters, Zendesk Integrations Reduce Incident Pain

xmatters

The new xMatters release is called Enduro , and the race is on! This blog post is going to explore some of these awesome features in a bit greater detail and put them into the real(ish)-world context of a leading ice cream delivery service. We’ll highlight IT event management flood control filters, incident notification response options, Zendesk actions in the Flow Designer workflow builder, and more!