More and more data is being created every day. We are storing more information for each person, and we are even starting to store more information from devices, too. Internet of Things is not something imaginary and really soon even your coffee machine will be tracking your coffee drinking habits and storing them on the […]
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More and more customers prefer online shopping to grab the best deal on Black Friday. It is so much easier to get your Christmas shopping over and done with without even leaving your home. But what does this mean for eCommerce websites? It’s simple – you need to prepare for a huge amount of traffic
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Telus recently launched an IoT Shop for small enterprises and developers to easily purchase IoT connectivity for product development and equipment testing. Traditional IoT connectivity needs businesses to meet a volume requirement. In order to qualify, the buyer must pass through a number of requirements including credit checks and other background checks. It makes it
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In the latest move to expand its edge computing business, Intel Corp. has agreed to purchase Smart Edge computing platform, an indirect subsidiary of Pivot, for US$27 million on Oct. 15. Smart Edge is a virtualized mobile smart edge (MEC) computing platform that provides services to enterprises and businesses at the edge. The technology enables
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A recent study commissioned by Microsoft and Intel reported that the cost of using a PC older than four years is more than buying a new one. As per StatsCanada, the country is home to around 1.2 million small and medium businesses. These businesses comprise 98.8 per cent of the total employee businesses in the
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Google LLC will open a cloud data center in Warsaw, Poland, to provide better service to Central and Eastern European companies, the company announced today. The search giant plans to build three so-called availability zones as part of the project. Availability zones are server farms that are located in close proximity to one another, usually
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The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), the non-profit organization that oversees all .ca domain names, published its new vision for the future internet in Canada. “We believe strongly that the future of the internet and the future of Canada are inextricably linked,” said Byron Holland, CIRA president, in a statement. “We believe that the internet
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In one of my latest reports, “Key Criteria for Evaluating Enterprise Block Storage,” I wrote that analytics is one of those features that make a difference and has an impact on overall system usability as well CTO. System-level monitoring and analytics The number of vendors providing this kind of functionality is now pretty large but
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Microsoft Corp. is pushing back its January 14, 2020 end of support date for Exchange Server 2010 by nine months. In a blog post published this morning, Greg Taylor, Microsoft’s director of product marketing for Exchange, noted the date was changed after “investigating and analyzing the deployment state of an extensive number of Exchange customers.”
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Panasonic yesterday launched the Toughbook 55 (FZ-55) laptop as the replacement to the Panasonic Toughbook 54, a ruggedized laptop designed for work harsh climates. Toughbook 54 Toughbook 55 Processor 7th-gen dual-core Intel Core i5-7300U 7th-gen dual-core Intel Core i7 8th-gen quad-core Intel Core i5-8365U 8th-gen quad-core Intel Core i7 Graphics Intel UHD graphics 620 AMD
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