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Throwback Thursday: Research carried out in 2011[...]
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Throwback Thursday: this week we're going back to 2008[...]
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Throwback Thursday: Predicting the future back in 2012[...]
Throwback Thursday: this week we're going back to 2011[...]
Analyst Opinion At least, not yet. The world is still in the very abnormal grip[...]
Throwback Thursday: Heading back to 2010[...]
Throwback Thursday: This week we are going back to 2007[...]
Throwback Thursday: Looking back to June 2008[...]
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Throwback Thursday: This week we are heading back to 2010[...]
Analyst Opinion: Most coverage on the Salesforce acquisition of Slack has focused on the industry[...]
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Analyst Opinion DevOps started as a grass-roots movement led by practitioners. The motives were pure,[...]
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Analyst Opinion With Kubernetes now established in many organisations as the container orchestration platform of the future,[...]
Analyst Opinion I hate it when you realise that your point of reference has been[...]
Analyst opinion The availability of funding – or rather, the lack of it – is[...]
Analyst Opinion Words have power – in particular, your choice of words modifies how your[...]
Analyst opinion One of the most interesting things about the recent Open Infrastructure Summit – the new[...]
Analyst opinion It’s getting hard these days to find places where container technology doesn’t feature,[...]
Analyst opinion Many cybersecurity professionals like military analogies. Indeed, some security pros are ex-military. But[...]
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Analyst opinion If you think Brexit will be advantageous for the UK economy and the[...]
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Analyst opinion The recent Industry of Things World conference in Berlin offered insights into the[...]
Analyst opinion Google has made a complete about-face on the enterprise. It took so long[...]
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Analyst opinion When IT vendors talk about the market, they tend to focus on how[...]
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Analyst opinion In some ways, the recent completion of Plantronics’ $2 billion purchase of Polycom[...]
Analyst opinion The US Department of Labor has updated its Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system.[...]
Analyst opinion Passwords have been the mainstay for securing applications, devices and the data they[...]
Analyst opinion One of the defining characteristics of the modern digital workplace is a PC[...]
Analyst opinion But do people know what they mean when they talk about it –[...]
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Analyst opinion Timed to coincide with the RSA security conference, Microsoft has announced Azure Sphere,[...]
Analyst opinion It’s all too easy to conflate the kind of AI being hyped in[...]
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