IT Toolbox

MAY 22, 2016

If you haven?t come across the term before, data lakes ?support storing data in its original or exact format. The goal is to offer a raw or unrefined view of data to data scientists and analysts for discovery and analytics. It helps them ask new or difficult questions without constraints. Data lakes are not a replacement for data warehouses.

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Network World

MAY 22, 2016

Kansas Heart Hospital in Witchita was hit with ransomware last week. The ransomware attack occurred on Wednesday and the KWCH 12 news video from Friday night said some files were still inaccessible by the hospital. Hospital president Dr. Greg Duick refused to disclose the ransom amount and the ransomware variant; he said, “I'm not at liberty because it's an ongoing investigation, to say the actual exact amount.

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IT Toolbox

MAY 22, 2016

Have you ever thought about how much data a self-driving car will generate, and how valuable that data could be?

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Network World

MAY 22, 2016

Now when ransomware tries to take over your computer, there’s something you can be sides pay up: stop it, buy more time to deal with it or mitigate the damage it might do. These options include both hardware and software approaches IT pros can take to defeat the malware, a group at this weekend’s Security BSides Boston conference was told. By looking at how several variants of ransomware work - CryptoLocker, CryptoWall, Locky, SamSam - researcher Weston Hecker found characteristics of their beha

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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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Scott Lowe

MAY 22, 2016

Late last week, Cyrus Durgin from Luminus Networks published an article on SDx Central titled “The (R)evolution of Network Operations.” You may notice that my name is mentioned at the bottom of the article as someone who provided feedback. In this post, I’d like to share some thoughts—high-level and conceptual in nature—on network operations and Luminus Networks.

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Network World

MAY 22, 2016

The Boston BSides conference is bursting at its seams and may have to find a new place to carry out its mission of providing inexpensive IT security training, educational sessions and informal networking where peers can share experiences and help guide aspiring security pros. The conference this weekend at Microsoft’s New England Research and Development (NERD) Center in Cambridge, Mass., was full to capacity with about 400 people attending – the NERD limit, says Daniel Reich, one of the show’s

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Galido

MAY 22, 2016

What is Cybersquatting and how can companies protect themselves? Have you ever tried to purchase a domain, only to find that it’s already taken and merely goes to a landing page trying to sell it for more? This practice you’ve just come across is called, Cybersquatting, or domain squatting. The United States has a federal law known as the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, which protects the registering, trafficking in, or using an Internet domain name with bad faith intent

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Future of CIO

MAY 22, 2016

The three sides of coin are: business, IT, and interaction & integration of both. Forward-looking organizations empower their CIOs to lead digital transformation because IT is in a unique position to oversight business process and becomes a critical component in building business capabilities. Most of the senior CIOs understand that the digital transformation of most of the organizations depends, to a large extent, on their capabilities to transform their duty from an inside-out focus into a

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