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Quali, a company which specialises in providing cloud and DevOps automation software, took to a variety of US industry events during 2016 to ask attendees about their DevOps practices and the challenges they face. The verdict: almost half of applications in traditional environments were considered complex for cloud, while the current vendor ecosystem is open-ended [...]

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The 2017 Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) shows that the EU is making progress but the gap between top digital players and lower-performing countries is still too wide. More efforts and investments are needed to make the most of the Digital Single Market. Today the European Commission published the results of the 2017 Digital Economy [...]

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The amount of money U.S. users are spending on iPhone apps is steadily climbing, but one category in particular saw significant growth last year: Entertainment apps. The category – home to streaming services like Netflix, Hulu and HBO NOW – saw consumers’ average spending increase by 130 percent year-over-year, according to a new report from app intelligence [...]

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First IDC made its forecast on the public cloud, and now Gartner has done likewise, predicting that public cloud services market will grow 18% in 2017 to total $246.8 billion (£198.1bn). IDC’, by comparison, said global spending on public cloud services and infrastructure would reach $122.5bn by the end of this year with seven out [...]

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If you’re a hiring manager, you know how many resumes come flooding in every time a job is posted. That’s why the resume-screening process is now automated to keyword searches, just to help sift through the volumes of documents. However, if you’re hiring for cybersecurity talent, you don’t have to worry about such inundation. In [...]

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aNewDomain — How many people are on the Internet in the U.S. and worldwide? And what are they up to? Our friends over at vpnMentor recently dug through piles of Internet studies to dig up the most recent 2017 Internet statistics. Here they are — topic by topic. You won’t find a more complete collection of Internet and [...]

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Black Friday is November 25, the day following Thanksgiving (the fourth Thursday of November). Since 1952, it has been traditionally regarded as the most active shopping day of the year and it also starts the holiday season. We mention the holiday season for one good reason: around 30% of annual retail sales happen between Black Friday and Christmas. For some [...]

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The largest online community of Ukrainian geeks, DOU has just published interim results of their ongoing programming languages survey and this is my English translation of its main takeaways and results as of January 2017. The survey was comprised of over 8,100 respondents, and 90% of the participants currently reside and work in Ukraine. According to [...]

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Total spend on IT infrastructure products deployed in cloud environments will hit $44.2 billion (£36.6bn) in 2017, according to the latest analysis from IDC. The findings appear in the firm’s latest quarterly cloud IT infrastructure tracker, and argue that the primary spend (61%) will come through public cloud data centres, while off-premises private cloud environments [...]

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Many of us use the New Year as a time to set resolutions and become better versions of ourselves. Traditionally, we start with a list of things that will impact our personal lives: get in shape, stop procrastinating, spend more time with family. This year, we challenge you to start the new calendar with resolutions [...]

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