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Ben Richardson

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Ben Richardson is the director of Acuity Training, one of the UK’s leading providers of classroom-based Excel training.

Richard Conn

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Richard Conn is the Senior Director for Demand Generation at 8x8, a leading communication platform. Conn is an analytical and results-driven leader with a track record of achieving major ROI improvements in fast-paced, competitive B2B environments.

Doug Kersten

Chief Information Security Officer

Doug Kersten is the Chief Information Security Officer at Appfire. Kersten brings more than two decades of security leadership experience to this role, having led IT and security programs for some of the world’s top financial institutions and law firms.

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There are a few predominant reasons why experts in cybersecurity will talk about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining being...

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A virtual local area network (VLAN) is an abstracted LAN that is created to operate through the data link layer (layer 2...

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Scaling up and scaling out are two IT strategies that both increase the processing power and storage capacity of systems...

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A: Mobile hotspots and tethering services offer similar results for users, but they work a little bit differently. A mob...

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Car manufacturers are realizing there’s extensive untapped revenue to unlock by drawing attention to the passenger...

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In times of uncertainty, companies are under pressure to make the right decisions for their customers quickly and reliab...

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While hyperautomation is an extremely important term in today's technology conversations, it's also one that is ...

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Ideally, only positive impact. If done correctly, peer-to-peer content distribution is invisible to the end user —...

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The difference between supervised and unsupervised learning is that only one of these processes, supervised learning, ta...

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A decision scientist is a technology professional who is mainly focused on making technologies work for decision-making ...

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The mobile network state is an indicator on smartphones and similar mobile devices that shows whether the device is conn...

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The difference between a composite key, a foreign key and a primary key is a good illustration of the complex and byzant...

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At first glance, the deployment of data science seems trivial: just run it on the production server! Closer examination ...

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Companies may want to start thinking about the benefits of improved employee mobility and employee satisfaction when imp...

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One could argue that the value of good big data management is more important to the business during times of uncertainty...

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The biggest uses of Structured Query Language (SQL) today have to do with using a long-established conventional language...

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Business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) are mistakenly used interchangeably, when in reality they are two se...

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As you consider your move, I recommend spending time looking at a few key areas and dig deeper into what interests you. ...

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In a nutshell, business continuity is the ability of an organization to maintain essential functions during and/or after...

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In computer programming, a function is a series of instructions and computational steps provided to carry out a certain ...

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