Thu.Jun 23, 2016

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Microsoft’s Acquisition Of LinkedIn Will Not Translate Into A Revolution Of Enterprise Social Networking

Forrester IT

In a report , Forrester discussed arguments made by Microsoft regarding the potential benefits of the tie-up. There are some additional aspects that I also consider important when discussing the implications of the tie-up: Read more Categories: Enterprise Social Networking. Innovation. LinkedIn. Microsoft. management innovation.

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How TierPoint Quietly Built a Data Center Empire in Secondary Markets

Data Center Knowledge

Flying generally under the radar, the private equity-backed data center roll-up has grown from a small local player to a service provider of national scale Read More.

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Think like attackers, says HPE cyber security strategist

Computer Weekly

Organisations need to think of cyber attackers as adversaries and competitors focused on stealing data, maximising their profit and minimising their risk, says HPE security strategist Tim Grieveson

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Building a Future-Proof Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

The modern era of computing requires CIOs to take a more flexible approach to building a data center that can handle the demands and workloads of today’s compute environment – all while allowing them to continue to address the priorities of their business and technology strategy. Read More.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Computer Weekly announces the 50 most influential women in UK IT 2016

Computer Weekly

Computer Weekly announces its top 50 list of the most influential women in UK IT, including 2016 winner Maggie Philbin

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Is the Intel Management Engine a backdoor?

Tech Republic Security

Is Intel's Management Engine a backdoor for security groups and hackers, or just a feature created to aid businesses? Jack Wallen dives in and draws his conclusions.

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The case of the Bicentennial man.

IT Toolbox

Those of you who have read my blog for any length of time know that I love Asimov books. If you didn't know this then you know it now. One of the stories in those books has been re-created in movie form. The movie is called The Bicentennial Man.

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Why cloud disruption will shift the dynamics of IT budgets

Computer Weekly

Cloud computing is set to become one of the most disruptive forces of IT spending since the dawn of the digital age

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Why you may want a custom ABAP program for SAP BI

IT Toolbox

Customized extractors and loading processes can perhaps provide better ideal approaches to extend and optimise your standard SAP BI and BW system through custom development.

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UK social media habits are a corporate security risk, warns Intel Security

Computer Weekly

Companies should educate employees not to connect to strangers on social media to reduce the risk of phishing attacks, Intel Security has warned

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Basecamp vs. Wrike: Battle of the Project Management Apps

IT Toolbox

We compare Basecamp and Wrike, two top PM software solutions, on usability, productivity, collaboration, and other features. Which one is a better fit for your business?

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Stockport council ditches HDS SAN for Nutanix hyper-converged

Computer Weekly

Stockport council shifts to hyper-converged server storage boxes from Nutanix, with its previous SAN reaching end of life and experiencing operational issues and scalability problems

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Data Center Tech Cools Servers and Heats Water for Handwashing

Data Center Knowledge

DoE lab tests LiquidCool’s submerged cooling tech, reports high efficiency and heat reuse capabilities Read More.

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High-performing DevOps teams create better quality code, research suggests

Computer Weekly

The 2016 State of DevOps report makes the case for incorporating security checks into every stage of the software development cycle

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Larry Ellison Tells Jury Oracle’s Itanium Retreat Was Just Business

Data Center Knowledge

Trial meant to determine whether Oracle has complied with past court order to continue supporting Intel's now legacy chip architecture Read More.

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Most influential women in UK IT 2016: Rising Stars

Computer Weekly

Computer Weekly reveals the judges’ choice for the 2016 most influential women in UK IT Rising Stars.

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5 Tech Hacks for Strengthening Your Business Presence on the Web

IT Toolbox

Founding an online branch of an offline business is simple and usually free nowadays. You can use a free template to create a website or a blog.

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Equinix embarks on big data push to inform new datacentre designs and builds

Computer Weekly

Colocation giant Equinix outlines its plans to use IoT and big data analytics to improve the design of its carrier neutral facilities

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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Taiwan Chip Designers to Lobby for Ability to Work With China

Data Center Knowledge

CFO for one of Taiwan's biggest players wants cross-border M&A flexibility Read More.

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Dell divests software business to free up funds for EMC deal

Computer Weekly

It has been less than three months since Dell sold off its services arm. Now its software business is being offloaded.

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IBM Watson/ XPrize open $5 million AI competition for world-changing applications

Network World

IBM and the XPrize organization have opened registration and set guidelines to competing for a $5 million purse to those interested in building advanced AI-based applications that could address the world’s biggest issues – everything from clean water to better energy resources. According to IBM and XPrize, the four-year competition aims to “accelerate adoption of AI technologies, and spark creative, innovative and audacious demonstrations of the technology that are truly scalable and solve socie

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Nordic CIO interview: Martin Althén, Husqvarna

Computer Weekly

The CIO at power tool maker Husqvarna tells Computer Weekly how he is repositioning the company through digitalisation

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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Arista infringes on Cisco networking patents, trade agency says

Network World

In a move that could lead to a ban on selling its products in the United States, the US International Trade Commission has ruled that Arista does in fact infringe on a number of Cisco’s technology patents. Arista now must decide if it wants to ask the US government to overturn the so-called “import ban” or ask that an appeals court toss the decision, observers say.

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Rapid7 discloses remote code execution flaw in Swagger

Computer Weekly

Rapid7 researchers warn businesses of remote execution vulnerability in the Swagger programming tool

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Ascent B2B IT Forum – Machine Learning: How Artificial Intelligence is Invading the Enterprise

The Investing Edge

There’s no denying that machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are invading the enterprise at warp speed. Almost every industry is affected by the technology, and the innovation it inspires is fascinating. According to Gartner , machine learning is one of the top 10 strategic technology trends for 2016. Most of us are already — often unwittingly — interfacing with the technology when we use Google, Siri, Netflix and almost everything smartphone related (how does my iPhone

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What Does It Take To Become a Computer Security Specialist

Galido

Every day new businesses and organizations that use systems to store important information are formed. This information is vulnerable to hacks and attacks from outside users. The attacks happen in all types of industries, such as financial, military, healthcare, retailers, education, and even in small businesses that keep secure information such as employee or client’s confidential information.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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U.S. court rules that FBI can hack into a computer without a warrant

Network World

A U.S. court has ruled that the FBI can hack into a computer without a warrant -- a move which is troubling privacy advocates. The criminal case involves a child pornography site, Playpen, that had been accessible through Tor , a browser designed for anonymous web surfing. The FBI, however, managed to take over the site in 2014, and then tracked down and arrested its members by hacking their computers.

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Detect and delete duplicate files on Windows or Mac

Galido

Find and delete duplicate files in seconds with Easy Duplicate Finder™! With this tool you can recover gigabytes of space, make your computer faster, and organize your files. Managing duplicate files with Easy Duplicate Finder™ on your PC or Mac is fast, easy and fun. Easy Duplicate Finder™ has powerful features that will help you find and remove duplicate photos, documents, MP3s, videos, emails and more.

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Let’s Encrypt accuses Comodo of trying to swipe its brand

Network World

Let’s Encrypt, a free certificate authority launched by the Internet Security Research Group in November 2014 and backed by some of the biggest names in the industry, today revealed that rival CA Comodo is attempting to “improperly” trademark the Let’s Encrypt brand. And it’s difficult to see how that isn’t the case. From a blog post by ISRG executive director Josh Aas: Some months ago, it came to our attention that Comodo Group, Inc., is attempting to register at least three trademarks for the

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Why the DevOps faithful keep pulling away from their competitors

Tech Republic Data Center

PuppetLabs State of DevOps survey shows the smartest DevOps organizations are faster than ever, while the laggards are falling way behind.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.