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December 2016

GUEST BLOG: Two women in tech, two diaries, one firm
Clare McDonald - Business Editor 21 Dec 2016

This guest blog features two women in tech from the same firm - product manager Therese Stowell and senior software engineer Maria Ntalla - both explain their career paths and how they became women ...

GUEST BLOG: Gender diversity isn’t just a feel-good initiative
Clare McDonald - Business Editor 21 Dec 2016

In this contributed blog post, Damilola Erinle, area vice-president for UK & Ireland at Salesforce, discusses why businesses should see gender diversity as a way to increase productivity and ...

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Senators press Facebook, Google on consumer data value
Facebook and Google took the hot seat Tuesday during a Senate subcommittee hearing to defend their companies' business practices ...
FTC rescinds vertical merger guidelines, raises concerns
The FTC recently rescinded its 2020 guidance for vertical mergers. Meanwhile, Pres. Joe Biden plans to nominate a new ...
Top 10 promising 5G use cases CIOs should know
The technological advantages 5G presents are well known. The hard part for business leaders is choosing where 5G implementation ...

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Experts debate XDR market maturity and outlook
Is extended detection response still all buzz and no bite? Experts disagree on whether XDR qualifies as a legitimate market yet ...
Turla deploying 'secondary' backdoor in state-sponsored attacks
Cisco Talos said hackers connected to the Russian APT Turla are using a new piece of malware to get persistent access on infected...
Marcus & Millichap hit with possible BlackMatter ransomware
The real estate firm confirmed in a SEC filing this week that it had suffered a recent cyber attack but claimed there was no '...

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Ways to speed up white box networking adoption
Most organizations are slow to deploy new techniques, white box networking included. Experts explain why and offer advice on how ...
A review of Cato Networks' SASE Cloud platform
Cato's SASE Cloud lacks some features and may require customers to replace point products to fully benefit from the platform. But...
The role of smartNICs in modern enterprise networks
This chapter excerpt from 'Building a Future-Proof Cloud Infrastructure' looks at how smartNICs can support distributed services ...

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Use colocation and cloud together
Rather than deciding between cloud or colocation, consider using both cloud and colocation. Colocation can support a hybrid cloud...
What does a DPU do?
Learn the basics of data processing units: What they are, what they do, who's making them and who's adopting them. Then decide ...
Nutanix Cloud Platform, AOS 6 improve networking, security
Nutanix debuted a new version of its AOS operating system along with new networking features, looking to boost its chances in the...

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The benefits and pitfalls of cloud-based data management systems
Learn the benefits of cloud-based data management systems, common pitfalls and strategies when considering varying data levels ...
NoSQL database types explained: Column-oriented databases
Learn about the uses of column-oriented databases and the large data model, data warehouses and high-performance querying ...
Nutanix boosts data management services in the cloud
Nutanix is aiming to make it easier to manage, deploy and protect data and databases across hybrid and multi-cloud environments ...

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December 2016

GUEST BLOG: Two women in tech, two diaries, one firm

GUEST BLOG: Gender diversity isn’t just a feel-good initiative