When IT Meets Politics

November 2016

Not quite "bye bye to business rates for broadband" ... yet
Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 24 Nov 2016

The broadband business rates "holiday" does not, yet, fully address the problem.

Bye bye business rates on full fibre broadband
Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 23 Nov 2016

The ending of business rates on full fibre broadband has fired the start gun for an explosion of activity. But there is much more to do.

Homebuilders Federation opposes fibre to the home policy
Philip Virgo - Winsafe Ltd 03 Nov 2016

The Home Builders Federation opposes Ashford Borough Council's fibre to the home policy because it goes further than their deal with BT for free fibre.

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Adobe, Uber on the challenges of digital transformation

Digital transformation initiatives may be all the rage in the enterprise, but they also pose significant challenges to CIOs and ...

Cloud migration failures and how to prevent them

Companies are moving more applications than ever to the cloud, but many of these initiatives fail. Learn how to avoid making your...

Achieving business value from cognitive collaboration

CIOs can take advantage of AI to improve employee and customer collaboration with cognitive capabilities that are now available ...

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Essential instruments for a pen test toolkit

Does your penetration testing toolkit have the proper contents? Learn the must-have tool for any pen tester, as well as specific ...

Imperva breach update puts blame on exposed AWS API keys

Imperva CTO Kunal Anand posted updated information regarding the recent breach affecting Cloud WAF customers and admitted poor ...

Cybersecurity threats on the rise, prey on human nature

Cybersecurity attacks continue to rise, taking advantage of network vulnerabilities -- and human ones. First National Technology ...

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3 potential multi-cloud challenges that could go unnoticed

Disaster recovery, vendor lock-in and cost are major factors as organizations evaluate multi-cloud strategies. However, these ...

After ransomware virus, Merck's medicine was network automation

After a ransomware attack, Merck decided the best remedy was to deploy network automation tools designed to transform how it ...

Prep for SD-WAN challenges, and you'll reap its rewards

Reap SD-WAN's multiple benefits by knowing ahead of time what the likely issues will be and the options available at the ...

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Essential private cloud migration steps

Executive buy-in, application evaluation and tool configuration are all important parts of cloud selection. With these steps, ...

IBM quantum computers' usefulness in sight -- using binoculars

IBM's Bob Sutor discusses Big Blue's new quantum systems and computation center, the realities of quantum computing today and how...

Addendum sets ASHRAE 90.4 as energy-efficiency standard

The publication of ASHRAE 90.4 in 2016 brought a new set of energy guidelines, but the industry still used Standard 90.1. A new ...

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PostgreSQL 12 boosts open source database performance

Widely used open source PostgreSQL database platform gets a major update providing users with new SQL query capabilities for JSON...

Data integration vs. ETL in the age of big data

Data integration provides a consistent view of business performance across multiple data sources, though it needs to keep up with...

5 steps to an improved data quality assurance plan

Consultant David Loshin offers tips on developing a data quality strategy that can help identify data errors before they cause ...