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5 tips and tricks for getting your automated network up and running

While the whole point of automation is to make your life easier, getting it off the ground can be a challenge. It’s not as if you just decide, “Hey, we’re going to automate our network now!” and then you follow a fool proof, well-defined process to implement network automation across the board. You have to make many decisions that require long discussions, and downright difficult and careful thinking about how you’re going to automate. By Pete Lumbis, Technical Evangelist Cumulus...

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The AIOps promise: future of IT management across the hybrid data centre

Today’s IT infrastructure is a hybrid environment on many levels: a cacophony of legacy architecture, coupled with new technologies and architectures across private and public clouds. It is almost impossible for operations teams to effectively manage all of these disparate elements without the business at some point suffering from performance issues or worse, outages. By David Cumberworth, MD EMEA, Virtana.

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The top tech trends VARs and MSPs shouldn’t ignore

By Rachel Rothwell, Regional Director Southern Europe and UK at Zyxel.

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Human-robot teamwork makes the dream work

By Karen Inbar – Director of Marketing, NICE Advanced Process Automation Solutions at NICE.

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Why Organisations Are Facing An Automation Conundrum

More organisations today are realising the advantages that automation can bring their businesses in reducing errors; increasing profitability; driving efficiencies and enhancing competitiveness. These benefits are increasingly clear but achieving them has not been easy historically. The right technology has not always been available and even when it has been, organisations have often struggled to afford the investment required. By Richard Seel, Managing Director, Supply Chain & Logistics (UK &...

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Could voice technology be the next secret weapon in driving retail growth?

According to a report from analysts at Canalys, the worldwide smart speaker market grew by 187 per cent in the second quarter of 2018. Collectively, Apple, Google, Xiaomi, Amazon, and others shipped 16.8 million units, up from nine million in the first quarter. According to Canalys, there will be more than 200 million by the end of this year, while Juniper Research predicts that there will be 8 billion digital voice assistants by 2023. That’s more than one for every person on the planet. By...

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Docker on IoT devices

Docker is an open platform for developers and system administrators to build, ship and run distributed applications. With Docker, IT organizations shrink application delivery from months to minutes, frictionlessly move workloads between data centers and the cloud and can achieve up to 20X greater efficiency in their use of computing resources. Inspired by an active community and by transparent, open source innovation, Docker containers have been downloaded more than 700 million times and Docker is used by millions of developers across thousands of the world?s most innovative organizations, including eBay, Baidu, the BBC, Goldman Sachs, Groupon, ING, Yelp, and Spotify. Docker?s rapid adoption has catalyzed an active ecosystem, resulting in more than 180,000 ?Dockerized? applications, over 40 Docker-related startups and integration partnerships with AWS, Cloud Foundry, Google, IBM, Microsoft, OpenStack, Rackspace, Red Hat and VMware.

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