Thu.May 26, 2016

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How Can Sysadmins Foster Better Employee Communication?

CTOvision

Tim Mullahy. Sysadmins are now interacting with employees more than ever - so it’s imperative that they learn how to effectively communicate. We’ll explain how they can. As a sysadmin, it can be difficult communicating with non-technical employees. They lack the understanding of your organization’s backend that you have, and if they do have technical knowledge, it’s usually just enough that they can cause some serious damage if left unchecked.

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UK Government details plans for National Cyber Security Centre

Computer Weekly

The objectives of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre are to address systemic vulnerabilities, reduce risks, respond to serious incidents and nurture national cyber security capability

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Blockchain's biggest blocker: Cryptocurrencies!

IT Toolbox

Blockchain on its own, is simply a novel implementation of a bunch of well-established technologies and there is a significant opportunity to expand and contract this pool of technologies to do even more interesting things with blockchain than people realize.

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The Top Three Barriers to Cloud Adoption and What to Do about Them

Data Center Knowledge

By having a fundamental understanding of the provider’s approach to securing your data, you can create a solid “handshake” between the data stored on-premises and data hosted in the cloud. 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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Who's to Blame? Investigating an ERP Failure

IT Toolbox

Life as an ERP expert witness has its pros and cons. While it?s discouraging to see the magnitude of failure that many organizations face when trying to implement new enterprise software, there are plenty of lessons learned from ERP failure that help project team members avoid the same mistakes in the future.

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Salesforce to run more of its services from the AWS public cloud

Computer Weekly

Cloud CRM giant Salesforce names Amazon Web Services as preferred public cloud provider, as it sets out plans to expand use of its infrastructure-as-a-service offerings

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BSA warns of malware risk from unlicensed software

Computer Weekly

While piracy rates are declining, unauthorised software poses a big security risk, says the Business Software Alliance

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Spring Updates for CRM

IT Toolbox

Spring Updates Promise Better Customer Experience. SugarCRM recently announced the release of the latest version of their platform, Sugar 7.7, which includes enhancements designed to improve both productivity and the customer experience.

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Santander uses blockchain for international payments

Computer Weekly

Bank is using blockchain to underpin its latest app, which enables customers to make international payments 24 hours a day, which clear the next day

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Don't Do Networking Like ABF Freight Does Shipping

IT Toolbox

Why I am complaining about a shipping company in a space about networking? Well, for starters- shippers move products, and networks move packets. Both are important to the senders and recipients, and the quality of the delivery experience matters in both cases. And, ABF is in the business of customer service as are most of us in networking.

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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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GDS begins publication of PSN performance data

Computer Weekly

The government makes public data gleaned from its monitoring of the performance of the Public Services Network to help customers understand their networks

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What can technology fix?

IT Toolbox

Technology, it is a word which covers an awful lot of things. Just about everything we interact with today is in some way related to technology. Without technology we would not have the standard of living we have today.

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Australian police raid opposition offices over leaked broadband documents

Computer Weekly

Australia’s federal police have raided the offices of a Labor opposition politician in an investigation into leaked National Broadband Network documents

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Ecommerce Site Tips to Give You a Leg Up

IT Toolbox

"Your biggest risk with an ecommerce store is that you'll be lumped in with everyone else. Once you get a leg up on your competition, you'll have to work hard to keep it. Don't be afraid to try new tools, re-merchandise categories, offer new payment methods, or even redesign the whole site.

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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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Healthtech brand Qardio adopts NetSuite OneWorld

Computer Weekly

Qardio, a brand offering health technology devices, wanted an ERP system to deal with billing, accounting and taxes in different regions of the world

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Windows 10: Windows could not parse or process the unattend answer file for pass [specialize]

Mick's IT Blog

I am in the beginning stages of working on upgrading the firm I work at to Windows 10. Using MDT, The OS would inject drivers and lay down with no issues. Upon the first reboot, it would pop up the following error message: The first thing I did was to look at the Unattend.xml file by opening the task sequence properties >OS Info tab. When I looked under the Specialize >Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup, everything looked normal, except for one thing.

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Nordic CIO interview: Petteri Naulapää, Stockmann

Computer Weekly

CIO of Finnish-listed international retailer tells Computer Weekly about the department store’s journey towards omnichannel

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Amazon to Battle Google With New Cloud Service for AI Software

Data Center Knowledge

AI services a rare example of Amazon chasing rather than leading in public cloud computing Read More.

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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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Cortex helps football charity kick off translatable website

Computer Weekly

Homeless World Cup’s new website will help homeless people around the world improve their lives through football tournaments

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Google alums rollout Simility fraud-detection platform

Network World

A team from Google’s fraud-detection group has started its own software as a service venture for spotting transaction fraud quickly based on rule sets and that also learns as it goes to improve its hit rate. Simility examines online transactions to identify indicators of foul play and assigns them risk scores from 0 to 1. Customers can use the information to shut down transactions it deems suspect.

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UK challenger bank OakNorth puts its core systems in AWS cloud

Computer Weekly

UK challenger bank OakNorth is putting core banking systems in the Amazon Web Services cloud

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Nlyte Virtualizes Data Center PDU Functions

Data Center Knowledge

Claims its virtual PDU does what intelligent PDU hardware does but at a fraction of the cost Read More.

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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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Avoiding a security nightmare at South Australia’s Catholic schools

Computer Weekly

Taking on the challenge of securing student and organisational data while ensuring easy access to resources

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11+ security questions to consider during an IT risk assessment

Tech Republic Security

IT risk assessments are crucial to minimize the fallout from cyberattacks. Experts explain why and suggest what questions to consider to assess your company's risk.

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European cloud buyers unmoved by low prices, suggests 451 Research

Computer Weekly

451 Research’s latest Cloud Price Index investigates link between low-cost cloud services and provider market share

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5 ways to secure OS X

Tech Republic Security

With OS X security exploits on the rise, Jesus Vigo takes a look at 5 ways to better protect your Mac from malware infections and data loss.

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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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5G

IT Toolbox

5G isn?t here yet, but according to the hype it will enable everything to be connected all the time to everything else.

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DARPA wants to find the vital limitations of machine learning

Network World

What are the fundamental limitations inherent in machine learning systems? That’s the central question of a potential new DARPA program known as the Fundamental Limits of Learning (Fun LoL) which according to the researchers will address how the quest for the ultimate learning machine can be measured and tracked in a systematic and principled way.

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Ex-Cisco CEO Chambers’s Next Act: Grandpa Startup Investor

Data Center Knowledge

Invests "substantial" sum into government data startup OpenGov Read More.

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IDG Contributor Network: Most CMS-run websites have obsolete software and are vulnerable to attack

Network World

If you’ve been putting off software updates on websites that you’ve developed, been bamboozled into managing, or somehow become inexplicably responsible for, you’re not alone. All of the major content management systems (CMS) website brands are out of date much of the time. Magento-built websites are running on aging software 97 percent of the time, according to a security firm that handles clean-ups of attacked website.

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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.