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• NZTech explores uptake and potential of IoT in NZ

  ​NZTech has initiated a collaborative research project to better understand the potential benefits and risks of IoT for the New Zealand economy.

• Virtualisation not a magic cure-all: users, vendors, analysts

  For a technology that’s supposed to make computing easier, virtualisation is becoming quite complicated.

• Fringe benefits — just how taxing are they?

  Companies like Google behave almost as though the dotcom crash never happened. They still emphasise the importance of fringe benefits in their recruitment and selection process. “Let’s face it — programmers want to program, they don’t want to do their laundry,” says Google boss Eric Schmidt in Google: Ten Golden Rules, a recent article in Newsweek. “We make it easy for them to do both.”

• Reviving native traditions

  I was once renowned and reviled for my lack of regard for Visual Basic. I have since reformed, realising that we all benefit from languages that target developers at different skill levels and shorten the distance between concept and delivery. Modern server computing power and capacity more than offset the performance limitations of Visual Basic and its follow-ons, .Net and Java.

Whitepapers about benefits

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  How Automating the Development Pipeline, Security and Infrastructure Leads to Real Business Benefits

  With the growth of cloud-based deployment and more agile workflows in today’s software industry, companies are increasingly looking for new ways to manage the complexity. In rapidly changing industries, speed to market with new features and improvements is critical to keeping up with the competition. Luckily, most companies can automate a large portion of their development pipeline, security and infrastructure, allowing new updates to reach users quickly as they’re developed. Download our paper to see how automation can have huge impacts on your business’s bottom line.

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  10 Commandments of BYOD