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Ορολογία της Ημέρας (T.O.D) – 12/12/2016 [Disaster Recovery as a Service]

Disaster Recovery as a Service Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is the replication and hosting of physical or virtual servers by a third-party to provide failover in the event of a man-made or natural catastrophe. Typically, DRaaS requirements and … Continue reading

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Ορολογία της Ημέρας (T.O.D) – 11/12/2016 [Data Warehouse]

data warehouse A data warehouse is a federated repository for all the data that an enterprise’s various business systems collect. The repository may be physical or logical. Data warehousing emphasizes the capture of data from diverse sources for useful analysis … Continue reading

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Does the early bird catch the Fish?

Fish Does the early bird catch the worm? or is it Fish? It all depends if you live by the sea (so it is a Fish caught by the seagull) or in the inland (so it is a worm caught … Continue reading

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Apple Pay now lets non-profits take donations — TechCrunch

Apple announced this morning that its payments service Apple Pay will now support the ability to make donations to non-profits, starting today in the U.S. This includes both Apple Pay on the web, where it can be integrated into websites’ … Continue reading

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Samsung Pay adds Rewards, offering points for every transaction — TechCrunch

Samsung is giving customers a new incentive to use Samsung Pay, its mobile payments product. The company released Samsung Rewards today, which is a program that provides points whenever a user uses their Samsung Pay for a transaction. The points … Continue reading

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NHTSA adds safety sound requirement for new electric and hybrid vehicles — TechCrunch

Electric cars and hybrid vehicles can be incredibly quiet – so quiet that a populace used to cars that make noise can be hurt when sharing space with them. New NHTSA standards for automakers aim to help fix that with … Continue reading

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Pushing Data From Excel To Power BI Using Streaming Datasets — Chris Webb’s BI Blog

One Power BI feature that almost passed me by (because it was released in August while I was on holiday) was the ability to create streaming datasets in the Power BI web app and push data to them via the … Continue reading

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The insurance impact of self-driving cars and shared mobility — TechCrunch

“We’re going to see more change in the next five to 10 years than we’ve seen in the last 50,” said Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors, on record. While that statement is now a year old, it continues to … Continue reading

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How bitcoin protects against geopolitical risk — TechCrunch

Importantly, Bitcoin is a global digital currency that is borderless, frictionless and secure. Unlike legacy currencies and payment systems, Bitcoin is immune to capital controls and currency manipulation. It does not limit people’s freedom to move money to where they … Continue reading

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Viber follows Messenger with the launch of Public Accounts for businesses and brands — TechCrunch

Viber, the messaging app with 800 million users owned by Japan’s Rakuten, is today taking the next step in expanding its platform as it seeks to compete against the likes of Facebook’s Messenger and WhatsApp not just for audience — … Continue reading

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