It's still one of the toughest jobs an IT professional faces. It's not the providing of cloud computing services, but convincing your non-technical clients that it’s safe to take the plunge and migrate to the cloud. This remains a frustrating task; especially when they’ve reviewed reliable and credible data and still resist.

This season’s spending is projected to be 14.8 percent more than that of 2017. That is, online spending at least. Adobe Analytics looked at 80 of the top 100 U.S. retailers and a wide swath of their customers and predict online sales between Cyber Monday and Christmas will produce an additional $284 million in sales over last year.

In general terms we kinda think we understand what blockchain is, right? It’s a distributed database with very secure encryption making it unchangeable and at the same time publicly visible and annonymous. Sounds good but what does that mean in real terms? If you’re still curious how all this comes together, here’s a demo created by Sean Han @seanjameshan · Developer & Designer, who exlpains, “Blockchain Demo is my attempt at demystifying the technology behind cryptocurrencies. It has a living blockchain, a peer-to-peer network, and a user tour.” You can walk through the 28 steps that describe what blockchain is and how it is made. By the way, this it NOT a crypto-currency demo. Remember that blockchain has lots of uses beyond exchanging money.