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  • Edge computing shifts IT's gravity

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 20 Jan 2020
  • In this guest blog post, Satyam Vaghani VP/GM, IoT & AI, Nutanix discusses the way IT will need to change to support edge computing. The rise of the edge will require a redistribution of the ...

  • Windows 7: Don’t cry for me

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 16 Jan 2020
  • It may have gone unnoticed with the January 14 end of support deadline for Windows 7, but Microsoft’s 10 year old OS, had one last Patch Tuesday update. And , surprise, surprise, this included a ...

  • The challenge of metadata at the edge

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 14 Jan 2020
  • Nelson Petracek, chief technology officer at Tibco  says that one of the issues in deploying and managing edge computing devices is how will the device metadata be managed and governed. Such ...

  • There is nothing new in IT

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 13 Sep 2019
  • Once a new technology becomes mainstream the industry needs to find a new thing to sell its customers. It’s been this way since the time IBM provided big metal boxes with integrated software and ...

  • Gigging for robots

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 23 Aug 2019
  • A few months ago Automation Anywhere began collaborating with freelance software developer recruitment platform, Toptal, on robotic process automation in the human workforce. The concept is called ...

  • IBM floats another cloud strategy

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 15 Aug 2019
  • Gartner's latest magic quadrant report on cloud infrastructure puts IBM in the bottom left quadrant, as a niche player, alongside Oracle and Alibaba. IBM is hoping the £34bn it has spent on buying ...

  • Use Windows 7 end of support to reboot desktop IT

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 29 Jul 2019
  • What does a modern desktop look like? For the last few decades since the desktop PC established its place in offices, the role of desktop IT has been to provide end-users with access to corporate ...

  • Apollo 11: The human factor in autonomous systems

    Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 15 Jul 2019
  • “Once you put someone in orbit, it is a lot harder to fix it if something goes wrong,” says Paul Kostek, a senior Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) member and senior systems ...