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May 2020

Office productivity in a post Coronavirus world
Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 27 May 2020

One of the changes that has come out of the Coronavirus pandemic is that people are learning to work from home. This is more than IT providing remote and cloud-based access to business ...

How hard is a robot?
Cliff Saran - Managing Editor 14 May 2020

Earlier this month Ocado Technology and a consortium of academic institutes announced Armar-6, the culmination of the five years EU-funded SecondHands project. The premise behind the project was to ...

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Dell, PwC, Peapod accelerate digital transformation initiatives

Several organizations have made the decision to continue with digital transformation efforts during the pandemic to better ...

4 ways CIOs can drive IT cost savings during the pandemic

Here are four ways to drive tech savings amid the COVID-19 pandemic that can both yield quick wins and position organizations to ...

Post COVID-19 strategies for CIOs on leading through crisis

To see their companies through the current crisis, CIOs should consider these five strategies focused around IT budgets, ...

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RSA finds two-thirds of phishing attacks directed at Canada

RSA Security researchers found that nearly 70% of phishing attacks were directed at users in Canada, while the majority of ...

Cybercriminals auction off admin credentials for $3,000

Threat actors are auctioning off domain administrator accounts, selling access to the highest bidder for an average of $3,139 and...

Data theft in ransomware attacks may change disclosure game

Many ransomware attacks aren't publicly disclosed. But as ransomware gangs continue to steal, encrypt and threaten to publicly ...

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HPE ups SD-WAN chops with Silver Peak acquisition

Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Silver Peak acquisition could significantly improve the software-defined WAN offering that's ...

Evolution of WLAN technology improves data rates, security

WLAN technology has evolved dramatically -- most notably, in terms of network speeds and security. Innovations in Wi-Fi 6 show ...

Future of wireless communications unifies 5G and Wi-Fi 6

The future of cellular, Wi-Fi and other wireless communication networks will see these technologies unify to support faster ...

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The basics and benefits of lights-out management

For remote IT capabilities, lights-out management tools enable admins to power servers off and on, monitor temperatures and ...

Troubleshoot Linux kernel panic with the kdump crash tool

Kernel panic renders your system useless. With an NFS server and kdump crash tool, you can easily perform a root cause analysis ...

IoT data center tech aims to improve operational efficiency

IoT tech can make data center operations data-driven and automated. For a successful implementation, IT managers should evaluate ...

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BigQuery Omni enables Google multi-cloud data analytics

Google BigQuery data analytics users can now query data across clouds from multiple providers, including AWS and Microsoft Azure,...

Key points for a monitoring center pandemic action plan

On-site monitoring centers come under stress when it's necessary for most workers to telecommute. Here are key points to include ...

AWS and Oracle battle for hybrid cloud database deployment

Oracle's Autonomous Database and the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) are coming down from the cloud and are now ...