Category: Tech
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The Connected Home – How Secure Are All These Gadgets?
by Des Nnochiri Connected or smart homes are becoming more commonplace as people use computer networks to control different aspects of their in-house technology. But how secure are these networks? Everything Online A connected home allows occupiers to remotely control and monitor their in-house technology via their smartphones and tablets and its uses can […]
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Operation Data – The 18 Key Principles of DataOps
by Des Nnochiri The term DataOps was coined back in 2015 but only really became a significant force in professional circles during the latter part of 2017. But what is this latest tour de force in software development methodology? Over the last decade, cloud technology has been well and truly embraced by organizations as […]
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Marketing Personas and AI
by Des Nnochiri One of the bedrock elements of digital marketing is the creation of the customer or buyer persona – essentially, a fictionalized character representing the identity, personality traits, and purchasing habits of a typical consumer in a specific market sector or target demographic. Traditionally, these personas have been created and managed […]
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Does Edge Computing Have the Edge?
by Des Nnochiri The use of mobile devices as endpoints for corporate and public networks continues as a prevailing trend, putting an emphasis on the need for readily available internet connections and data-processing capabilities. Together with the growth and evolution of the so-called Internet of Things (IoT), with its consumer and industry/infrastructure-level ecosystem […]
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DNS in the Cloud– Solid or Not?
by Des Nnochiri The Domain Name System (DNS) catalog maps text-based URLs to their specifically-numbered host systems. As the phone book or Yellow Pages of the internet, DNS governs the speed with which websites and online resources may be located, so the speed and robustness of your DNS service can have a profound impact […]
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DBaaS Pros & Cons
by Des Nnochiri DBaaS or Database as a service is yet another of the cloud-hosted offerings gaining traction in the enterprise IT market. It’s especially popular with businesses that lack the financial clout, IT expertise, spatial resources, or infrastructure to host and manage their own data center. But as with all cloud-packaged service […]
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ADSL vs. Fiber Optic – Is it Worth the Switch?
by Des Nnochiri A quick way of guessing which generation a person belongs to is to mention the words “dial-up internet” and gauge their reaction. If the response is an elevated quizzical eyebrow, then they are probably at the younger end of Gen Y (millennials) or a Gen Z child. If, however, the term […]
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Updating Django OSQA to use reCaptcha 2
Our support site is built on OSQA which in turn is built on Django. It was still using reCaptcha (version 1) which was taken over by Google, and discontinued. So it was time to roll up our sleeves and update to reCaptcha 2. The main idea is the reCaptcha is a field based on a widget. […]
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Enterprise File Synchronization and Sharing (EFSS)
As institutions and business organizations strive for the ideal of “digital transformation” – the optimizing of internal operations and increase in productivity through the adoption of technology and the elimination of analog processes – the need has grown for documents and files to be made available on demand, to whoever requires them. Policies […]
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Power Admin on the Radio!
Doug from Power Admin was invited onto the popular “Dave the IT Guy” radio show yesterday. It was a great conversation and we’re glad we got to participate. You can listen to the show directly by clicking here. Read more about Dave the IT Guy and his rich experiences in the IT sector. […]