Wed.Oct 19, 2016

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Loose Lips Sink M&A Ships

Forrester IT

Companies look for merger & acquisitions opportunities to boost their growth. But when confidential information gets exposed, it throws a monkeywrench into their confidential assessments, strategies and negotiations. Recent news proves this once again. Whether Twitter would be a good fit for SalesForce is a question - but that the news that Salesforce was considering it leaked into the public domain made their decisions harder.

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Cloud backup saves data after fire destroys school

Computer Weekly

Data from The Academy secondary school in the seaside town of Selsey was restored just hours after a fire destroyed most of the premises, thanks to a cloud backup agreement set up a year earlier

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Brexit Makes Customer-Focused Innovation Imperative

Forrester IT

Phote: Cover of Panorama magazine Italia. While uncertainty continues, focusing on innovation is your best chance of success. British Prime Minister Theresa May has repeatedly said, "Brexit means Brexit." This statement ensures that every business operating in the UK will experience an uncertain and volatile market environment for some time.

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Knowing the business is key to security, says consultant

Computer Weekly

Security must be based on real-world business needs and practices as traditional perimeter-based security is no longer working, says independent security consultant Brian Honan

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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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Digital Realty to Build Data Center Tower in Downtown Chicago

Data Center Knowledge

Site for the planned 12-story facility is reportedly shovel-ready, but construction crews will not break the ground until a major anchor tenant is on board. Read More.

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Ireland to follow UK in setting up national cyber security centre

Computer Weekly

The Republic of Ireland plans to set up a national cyber security centre and education programme to improve the security of critical infrastructure, businesses and citizens

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Information security needs to cast recruitment net wider, says panel

Computer Weekly

Companies struggling to fill info sec roles should focus on finding people who can do what they need, not on qualifications, according to a security industry panel

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Cocktail Talk: Evolution and the Future of Containers and Virtualization

Data Center Knowledge

It is not unreasonable to assume that the use of virtualization moving forward will become more limited by specific requirements, security for example, while the use of containers within the data center will continue to expand. Read More.

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Apprentices flourish in IT services sector

Computer Weekly

Members of the apprentice scheme at UK IT services firm MCSA tell Computer Weekly why university was not the natural progression for them

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Cisco Revives LAN-SAN Convergence Play in the Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

With all the ingredients finally in place in one family of switches and a revised family of storage directors, will convergence happen at last? Read More.

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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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Matt Hancock calls for market to lead on full FTTP broadband

Computer Weekly

Digital and culture secretary used his keynote speech at Broadband World Forum to call for a national market-led fibre-to-the-premise roll-out, and pledged government support to make it happen

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Here are the Top DCIM Software Vendors, According to Gartner

Data Center Knowledge

Three vendors continue to lead; six dropped from Magic Quadrant for failing to meet criteria Read More.

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Snowden: the IT analyst turned whistleblower who exposed mass surveillance

Computer Weekly

Oliver Stone's biopic on Edward Snowden reaches the heart of the ethical crisis posed by mass surveillance for the state and ordinary citizens

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Just Exactly How Do You Get Started With Big Data?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Big data is powerful, but how does one get started using it? Image Credit: Ron Mader. The world of IT is often filled with buzz words that draw the attention of CIOs because of all of the discussions that surround these new words. Right now, “big data” is one such buzz word. that everyone is saying is critical to the importance of information technology.

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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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VMworld 2016 vox pop: VMware users cool about VSAN

Computer Weekly

As VMware announces upgrades to its VSAN hypervisor-based storage software, event attendees seem to think it is a costly product and possibly unsuited to high-end use cases

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How to use Apple Configurator 2 to simplify deploying iOS upgrades OTA

Tech Republic Security

Follow these steps to create a configuration file in Apple Configurator 2 that you can deploy to end users or push via MDM to manage settings on devices over-the-air (OTA).

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New College Durham selects VMware’s VSan over hyperconverged appliances

Computer Weekly

New College Durham decides to update its expensive SAN with VMware’s Virtual San, as hyperconverged infrastructure was deemed too expensive and ill-fitting for the college

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How to configure G Suite for HIPAA compliance

Tech Republic Security

You can use G Suite and comply with HIPAA, but you'll need to spend some time configuring your Admin console settings.

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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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Obituary: Jonathan Green-Armytage, former Computer Weekly journalist

Computer Weekly

Computer Weekly marks the passing of one of the great tech reporters from the 1980s and 1990s

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How to install Rocket.Chat with Ubuntu Snap in 5 minutes

Tech Republic Data Center

See how to get a solid chat server up and running in approximately five minutes with the help of Rocket.Chat and Ubuntu Snap.

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Ministry of Defence CIO Mike Stone set to leave in early 2017

Computer Weekly

Ministry of Defence IT chief will depart in March next year, becoming the latest of several high-profile government technology leaders to quit

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How to encrypt a single partition in Linux

Tech Republic Data Center

Jack Wallen walks you through the steps of encrypting a single partition on a Linux machine.

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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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Asean countries deepen joint efforts against global cyber threats

Computer Weekly

Asean Cyber Capacity Programme (ACCP) launched in Singapore to fund cyber security efforts across the region.

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IBM says it is 3X more expensive to manage PCs than Macs

ComputerWorld Consumerization IT

With Apple set to announce new Macs next week , enterprise users may want to open their wallets to get hold of the new kit, as there’s a big business case that says they should, according to IBM. Up to $535 saving per Mac. IBM today told the record-setting seventh Jamf Nation User Conference that it is saving even more money by deploying Macs across the company than it thought: each Mac deployment saves the company up to $535 over four years, in contrast to the $270 per Mac it claimed last year.

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Emirates NBD pilots blockchain-based money transfers

Computer Weekly

UAE bank becomes the latest to test out the potential of blockchain technology for improving financial services processes

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IoT botnets powered by Mirai continue to grow

Network World

Level 3 Threat Research has noted an uptick in activity by new IoT botnets that are backed by the Mirai malware, with some attacks enlisting 100,000 individual hijacked devices. A significant number of these zombie devices are enslaved by more than one botnet, according to the research described in the Level 3 Beyond Bandwidth blog , and some of these botnets use overlapping infrastructure.

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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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BT plans more rural FTTP digs as demand for ultrafast grows

Computer Weekly

At Broadband World Forum in London, BT showed off improved FTTP and G.

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Recruiting and retaining cybersecurity talent

Network World

As we know, there is an acute shortage of cybersecurity talent available on a global basis. For example, previous ESG research from 2016 reveals that 46 percent of organizations say they have a “problematic shortage” of cybersecurity talent at present. Unfortunately, the cybersecurity skills shortage goes beyond headcount alone. According to a recently published report from ESG and the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)— The State of Cyber Security Professional Careers, Part 1 —cyb

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10 DevOps experts to follow on Twitter

Tech Republic Data Center

Want to learn more about the DevOps movement? Check out these 10 experts who make the most of their 140 characters on Twitter.

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Murphy’s Law: The security version

Network World

Since the first of the month, I’ve heard colleagues and others report each of the 10 security variants to Murphy’s Law listed below. Murphy is not only alive but has been reincarnated. It’s worth reminding the gentle reader of various famous last words: 1. All documents will be out of date or simply missing Documents will not be maintained. Documents will have pages missing.

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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.