October 2018

New Searchmetrics study: Google now wants brands to get niche-specific

San Mateo, October 17, 2018 - Brands’ organic search strategies on Google should now be tightly tailored to the niche they operate in, according to the latest research by Searchmetrics. That’s because Google’s use of technologies such as AI and machine-learning are helping it pin-point, more clearly than ever, the specific factors that satisfy search queries in different niches and contexts. 

Rehabilitating Google AMP: My failed attempt

Back in February I wrote an article saying how I believed Google AMP has been imposed on the web by Google as a ‘standard’ for developing fast webpages, and my dismay about that. Google apparently developed this as an internal project without any open collaboration, and avoiding the W3C standardization processes. Google made implementation of Google AMP a requirement to show at the top of the search results for common news searches.

To many of us open web folk, Google’s AMP violated the widely held principle of search engines not putting bias into search results, and/or the principle of web standards (take your pick – it would not be bias if it was a standardized approach that the wider web community had agreed upon).

6point6 Cloud Gateway in the hunt for accolades at SVC Awards 2018

Celebrating excellence in storage, cloud and digitalisation

London, UK – 16th October 2018 – UK-based 6point6 Cloud Gateway has been shortlisted at the forthcoming SVC Awards 2018, in recognition of the excellence of its Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Cloud Gateway solution.

CEO, co-founder and agile networking pioneer Justin Day, said: “In what’s turning out to be a year in which cloud products are properly coming of age, this is quite some recognition for a company, team and solution barely 18 months old. We’re very happy to be on the shortlist and hope we might emerge on top on the night.”

IBM i professionals reveal security and compliance concerns with legacy enterprise applications

PETERBOROUGH, NH – October 16, 2018 – 63 per cent of IBM i users in a new survey reveal their organizations are keeping legacy IT applications alive – either on IBM i or other platforms – because the historical data those systems hold remains useful. This is despite many survey respondents agreeing that running these obsolete systems poses a risk to digital transformation, data privacy and security.

The survey of 46 IBM i users, conducted by SoftLanding® Systems, a division of UNICOM® Global, was completed by attendees at two recent IBM i conferences, International i-Power 2018 and PowerUP18. 

Panaya Offers Best-In-Class Integrations to Better Support Modern Software Development and Delivery

Hackensack, NJ – October 16, 2018 – Panaya, the leader in SaaS-based testing and continuous delivery, today announced the integration of over 150 leading application development and delivery tools and services into Panaya Release Dynamix (RDx), its Enterprise Agile Delivery (EAD) platform. Users can now take advantage of the tools they already employ every day to increase visibility, collaboration and communication among all stakeholders – the business, development, operations and test teams. With these new RDx integrations, organizations can now deliver application changes from ideation to realization in one unified platform. 

BIXOLON Launches the Cost-Effective SRP-E300 POS Printer Exclusively To the European Market

Durable and Cost-Effective 3” POS Receipt and Ticket Printer

BIXOLON Europe GmbH, a subsidiary of BIXOLON Co. Ltd, a leading global Mobile, Label and POS printer manufacturer today announced the launch of the new SRP-E300 durable, yet cost-efficient 3-inch (80mm) Direct Thermal POS printer exclusively to the European market. A cost-effective Receipt and Ticket printer ideal for Retail, Hospitality and Banking applications.

StarLink honored with Two Prestigious Awards by Palo Alto Networks

‘EMEA Distributor of the Year’ & ‘EMEA Excellence for Training’

Monday, 15th October 2018 - UK - StarLink, the fastest growing “True” Value-Added-Distributor (VAD) in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META) region announced receiving two prestigious awards: ‘The EMEA Distributor of the Year Award’ and ‘The EMEA Excellence for Training Award’ by Palo Alto Networks at an esteemed awards ceremony during their Annual Partner Summit in Toronto, Canada.

Quoting IT: Mistakes and Organizational Behavior

"Luckily, the company culture is to attack the problem, not the person. Everyone understood that if one person can bring down the site, there must be a lot of other issues involved. So instead of placing the blame on me, our engineering organization made some changes to prevent that from ever happening again."

- Katie Shannon, What I learned by bringing down LinkedIn.comVentureBeat, October 13, 2018.