Fri.Oct 21, 2016

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What Product Development Orgs Can Learn From The Samsung Crisis

Forrester IT

As details regarding the termination of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone continue to unfold, there are several important lessons, both technological and organizational, that manufacturers and product organizations should take away from their peer's costly product crisis: Read more Categories: PLM. Product Lifecycle Management. Product development. digital business. digital twin.

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Cognitio’s Bob Gourley on picking from the ‘thousands’ of vendor solutions

CTOvision

Michael Johnson. Our editor Bob Gourley was featured on FedScoop TV discussing the twin challenge of a Cambrian Explosion of new technologies and a Malthusian Problem that will cause many to die off.

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Many firms failing on crucial customer experience in digital era

Computer Weekly

Only through collaboration between all customer-facing parts of a business can it deliver the customer experience that is crucial to survival in the digital era, according to CXP Group consultant Nicole Dufft

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Hackers Take Down Sites From New York to LA in Web-Host Siege

Data Center Knowledge

Hackers hammered servers along the US East Coast with phony traffic until they crashed, then moved westward. 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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Spotify on benefits of ditching its datacentres and going ‘all-in’ on Google cloud

Computer Weekly

Spotify’s vice-president of infrastructure opens up about the company’s datacentre downsizing plans, and how taking a multi-cloud to IT consumption would not work for the firm

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Michael Dell Outlines Framework for IT Dominance

Data Center Knowledge

It's a brave new digital world, and Michael Dell thinks the whole kit and caboodle should run on infrastructure from the Dell Technologies family. Read More.

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Microsoft Sales, Profit Top Estimates as Cloud Demand Soars

Data Center Knowledge

Company has pledged to reach $20B in corporate cloud revenue by the fiscal year that ends in June 2018. Read More.

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UK first to bring surveillance under rule of law, says former GCHQ director

Computer Weekly

Former GCHQ head David Omand says the UK will be the first country in Europe to legislate to regulate digital intelligence and put it under judicial supervision with judicial review

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IBM and SBI Securities test bond trading on the blockchain

Tech Republic Security

SBI Securities will adopt the Hyperledger Fabric and work with IBM to test the application of blockchain technology for operational processes and security around bond trading.

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Interview: Kevin Cunnington, director general, Government Digital Service

Computer Weekly

The government’s new digital chief talks about his plans for the future and the challenges of transforming public services

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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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GE Adds Flywheel Energy Storage to UPS Lineup

Data Center Knowledge

Partners with Vycon to combine existing UPS products with flywheels Read More.

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GDS goes nationwide to ease relations with government departments

Computer Weekly

Government Digital Service aims to open more regional outposts for training civil servants in digital skills, says new chief Kevin Cunnington

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Switching clouds: What Spotify learned when it swapped AWS for Google's cloud

Tech Republic Cloud

Spotify reveals how it fared when replacing Amazon's cloud storage with Google's and shares the gotchas to watch out for.

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Huawei unleashes European cloud programme, commits to UK business

Computer Weekly

At an event in Paris, Huawei launches a €75m cloud development programme, and reaffirms its commitment to its UK operations post-Brexit

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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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MIT students and others to teach IBM Watson about cybersecurity

Tech Republic Security

Enterprise IT risks are growing seemingly faster than security professionals can keep up. Enter artificial intelligence as their latest defense mechanism.

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Major DDoS attack on Dyn causes internet disruption

Computer Weekly

DNS provider Dyn experiences a large DDoS attack, causing disruption to online services

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5 top takeaways from Dell EMC World 2016

Tech Republic Data Center

At the inaugural conference of the newly-joined tech giants, a host of announcements were made around products and services. Here's what you need to know.

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Why there's no compelling use case for hybrid cloud

Tech Republic Cloud

Don't confuse hybrid infrastructure with hybrid cloud. With no real reason to integrate public and private cloud solutions, hybrid cloud isn't a worthwhile undertaking.

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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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How the Dyn DDoS attack unfolded

Network World

Today's attacks that overwhelmed the internet-address lookup service provided by Dyn were well coordinated and carefully plotted to take down data centers all over the globe, preventing customers from reaching more than 1,200 domains Dyn was in charge of. The attacks were still going on at 7 p.m. Eastern time, according to ThousandEye , a network monitoring service.

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Why you should devote as much time to dark data as big data

Tech Republic Big Data

Dark data projects can be a tough sell. Learn ways to explore dark data that can generate business insights and results.

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IDG Contributor Network: 7 steps to proactive security

Network World

Data breaches are increasingly becoming an expensive problem for more and more companies. According to the most recent Ponemon Institute Data Breach report , insecure data cost companies an average of $221 per compromised record in 2016, an increase of 7 percent from the previous year and an all-time high. + Also on Network World: A breach alone means liability +.

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How-To: Migrate A Database from On-Premise to the Cloud

Dataconomy

Migrating from an on-premise server to a cloud server will offer you a wide range of benefits. They range from a reduction to your involvement in database management to getting more advanced features from a third party whose main job is to offer the best database services. All in all, The post How-To: Migrate A Database from On-Premise to the Cloud appeared first on Dataconomy.

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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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Extensive DDoS attack against Dyn restarts, could indicate a new use of old criminal tech

Network World

Attacks against DNS service provider Dyn resumed today after a two and a half hour lull, and could indicate a new application of an old criminal technology, experts say. Dyn hasn’t shared details on the type of DDoS attacks used nor the size of those attacks that have affected access to sites including Amazon, Etsy, GitHub, Shopify, Twitter and the New York Times.

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5 Reasons to Attend Data Natives 2016: #5: Best Kept Secrets

Dataconomy

Last chance to buy tickets! Go to datanatives.io and register, and get instant access to speaker and schedule information on Data Natives Berlin 2016. 5 days away from the conference, we have arrived at the fifth and last of the Reasons to Attend Data Natives – After Building A Strong. The post 5 Reasons to Attend Data Natives 2016: #5: Best Kept Secrets appeared first on Dataconomy.

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DNS provider Dyn gets DDoSed, takes out Twitter, GitHub and plenty others

Network World

Some of the biggest names on the internet – including Twitter, GitHub, Etsy, Shopify, the New York Times and the Boston Globe, among many others – were temporarily knocked offline by a DDoS attack that targeted DNS provider Dyn early Friday morning. DNS is the mechanism by which computers turn human-readable web addresses like www.networkworld.com into a numerical format that can be used to retrieve the actual web page.

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Leading women in technology: LinkedIn's Erica Lockheimer

ComputerWorld IT Management

CIO senior writer Sharon Florentine, journeys to Grace Hopper 2016 to meet up with LinkedIn's senior director of engineering growth and head of its Women in Technology group, Erica Lockheimer, where they discuss LinkedIn's women in tech initiatives.

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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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An IoT botnet is partly behind Friday's massive DDOS attack

Network World

Malware that can build botnets out of IoT devices is at least partly responsible for a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that disrupted U.S. internet traffic on Friday, according to network security companies. Since Friday morning, the assault has been disrupting access to popular websites by flooding a DNS service provider called Dyn with an overwhelming amount of internet traffic.

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Three Pitfalls in IT Digital Transformation

Future of CIO

IT and the business need to develop a true partnership and work to pursue the desired outcomes. The majority of organizations are designed to improve functional efficiency in the industrial era; there is nature friction between different functions of the organization , because often they compete for the limited resources, or speak different business dialect.

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U.S. indicts Russian for hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, Formspring

Network World

The U.S. has charged a suspected Russian hacker with breaking into computers at LinkedIn, Dropbox and a question-and-answer site formerly known as Formspring. On Thursday, a federal grand jury indicted 29-year-old Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin following his arrest by Czech police in Prague on Oct. 5. LinkedIn has said that Nikulin was involved in the 2012 breach of the company that stole details from over 167 million accounts.

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Innovation Management Assessment and Measurement

Future of CIO

Innovation management assessment and measurement is both art and science. For many businesses, creativity is the mystery and innovation is a serendipity. In fact, innovation is how to transform novel ideas and achieve its business value. Due to the hyper-complexity of modern businesses, innovation is also about reducing the unnecessary business complexity to tackle the complexities of business dynamic.

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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.