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Locked in by choice: Why Munich is dropping open source for Microsoft

Munich has saved €11m by moving to open source. Now, in a move seen as highly political, lord mayor Dieter Reiter is planning a return to Microsoft

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JOANN Stores hires new CIO to push customer experience strategy

JOANN Stores' announcement of a new CIO hire is another signal that engaging customers is increasingly part of the CIO portfolio.

Comparing chatbots vs. virtual assistants vs. conversational agents

Is a conversational agent the same as a chatbot or a virtual assistant? Not exactly. IBM Watson VP and CTO Rob High explains the ...

MIT CIO 2019: Scaling AI and data to build the 'smart enterprise'

The theme of MIT Sloan CIO Symposium 2019 is 'leading the smarter enterprise.' We caught up with event chair Lindsey Anderson to ...

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FEMA data exposure affects 2.3 million disaster victims

FEMA's data exposure is another high-profile example of accidental data disclosures -- a trend that has some security experts ...

Study reveals sale of SSL/TLS certificates on dark web

Security researchers discovered the availability of SSL/TLS certificates for sale on the dark web, which allow cybercriminals to ...

Hundreds of millions of Facebook passwords exposed internally

Facebook learned three months ago that hundreds of millions of passwords were stored internally in plaintext, but it didn't ...

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How 5G can start a brand new era for the virtual RAN

5G is forging the way for operators to delve into virtualized RANs. Yet, despite its benefits, vRAN lacks standards and is still ...

Array Networks launches monitoring system for app performance

Array Networks launches a monitoring and reporting tool that draws data from the vendor's application delivery controllers to ...

VMware-VeloCloud sees the future of SD-WAN with 5G, hybrid cloud

A glimpse into one software-defined WAN vendor's vision shows a heavy interest in SD-WAN's integration with the network edge, 5G ...

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Pick the right colocation site for your organization

Colocation is more than signing a contract and installing hardware. Evaluate redundancy, rack space real estate and distance to ...

Can IT admins benefit from a DevOps environment?

Admins might wonder if they need to pay attention to DevOps, but collaboration with developers helps minimize bad code and ...

4 PowerShell modules every IT pro should know

Find out how to use four of the most popular PowerShell community modules in the PowerShell Gallery to help better manage your ...

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Facebook alumni forge own paths to big data analytics tools

Startups Interana and Rockset differ in their approaches to providing new query capabilities on fast-arriving big data. Both are ...

Building a business glossary enhances data governance

Experts say data professionals are responsible for establishing a common vocabulary across the organization to help ensure data ...

Why data silos matter: Settling ownership of data issues

Data ownership is still seen as a task for IT -- but that can lead to data silos full of redundant information. Find out why you ...