Big Data. As business buzz-words go, it is up there with paradigm shifting and strategic synergy. Like these, it is often used liberally without an accurate context, and anyone remotely interested in IT or data management will be bored to tears with hearing the term. And yet it seems to be thrown around in the business world as a dark art solution to the continued seesaw economic depression.
When one analyses the traditional definition of Big Data, it is harder still to understand how it can
Recently I was asked to assist an IT team in the replacement, installation and migration of their SIMS server. In taking this task on, I considered the following potential slip-ups that might occur during or after a migration to a new SIMS server and I thought it might be nice to share these:
- What is the current server technology (Server 2003 for example), and can this be upgraded during the process (Ensuring any version chosen is supported)?
- What is the current server
... and 1 man's quest for more freebies.
Years ago I was stung with losing my hard drive without a decent backup. This was in my early days of IT and thought Windows XP would create a DVD using the built in software, oh how wrong I was!
Since then I have been sure, almost OCD, to backup regularly, recently onto an external hard drive. 5 months ago, a good friend of mine posed the question about the best backup solution possible:
“Permanence, Security, Integrity, Accessibility, Redundanc
For the past 4 years I have been meaning to attend BETT. I have always had a professional and personal interest in the new, the exciting and the ingenious; BETT has always seemed like the perfect demonstration of all of these from the biggest and smallest players in the education/technology game.
I will not hinder this article by detailing my planning and journey to the event, but I would like to say thank you to Tony Sheppard among others for a series of extremely useful tips as to how and w
Zenithink ZT180 EPad Review
For a good while I had been looking for a mobile/portable device to act as a storage and display mechanism as well as a ‘quick internet access’ method, to use both at home and at work/on the road. For my family also I wanted the device to allow us all to check emails, facebook, news, bank balance, etc. at a moment’s notice there and then. There were several technology choices available:
I am already a happy iPhone customer, but the unit I find is too small to be u
Taken from ComputerWeekly - interesting article!
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Net neutrality is a basic value of the internet according to web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, accusing Facebook and Apple of threatening the web's future development.
Writing in an essay for Scientific American, Berners-Lee named Facebook, LinkedIn and Friendster, among others, as sites that threaten web innovation by "walling off information posted by their users from the rest of the web".
"The web as we know it, however, is bei
Last week I was doing my usual sift through recent Facebook status updates on a mobile app, in an effort to avoid X-Factor. After ignoring not only every group or fan page update (Please support this charity, dates for my next tour, etc) but also the mounting afore mentioned X-Factor posts of disgust at one Wagner, I realised that the only things most of my 273 ‘friends’ would post about were about their child’s latest toilet escapades, how great life was being to them, or self-demoting posts ai
As some of you know, my profession as an IT Trainer currently tasks me with working with young people looking to start their IT career, from 16 at Foundation Learning level (the new government name for Entry to Employment, E2E) moving through modern apprenticeships in ICT. I thoroughly enjoy working with these individuals because it gives me not only the opportunity to impart my experience of the working world and ICT knowledge, but also gives me insight into just how much the world has moved on
