Mon.May 30, 2016

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Richard Stiennon interviews eSentire CEO J. Paul Haynes

CTOvision

Michael Johnson. The video below features two of the most highly regarded people in the Cybersecurity community, Richard Stiennon and J Paul Haynes. Watch for good content on the approach of eSentire. Their approach leverages three of the most positive trends in the tech world to mitigate weaknesses in the cyber defense of most organizations. The positive trends leveraged are of cloud computing, the development of disciplined professionals in Cybersecurity and the new operational concept of hunt

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Middle East CIO interview: V. Chandrasekar, Standard Chartered

Computer Weekly

The CIO of Standard Chartered bank in the Middle East tells Computer Weekly about the challenge of keeping customers happy through IT

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Now where was that file?

IT Toolbox

I am sure you have asked yourself that question many times while using a computer. I know for certain I do. Especially when the file in question hasn't been used for a long time. Is it on my computer? Is it on a USB stick? Have I recorded it to a CD or DVD ROM? Maybe it is on one of my external hard disks? So we go searching for that file and eventually we find it.

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Top 10 Data Center Stories of the Month: May

Data Center Knowledge

Here are the 10 most read stories that ran on Data Center Knowledge this month Read More.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Unplugging (the brain)

IT Toolbox

Every once in a while, I unplug my computer and turn it off. I think it's good for the machine to take a break. Not a because it's tired, but because it allows a fresh reset of the process and has a cleansing effect. Today (in America) is Memorial Day. A day we stop to honor our dead soldiers. So I won't be working. That's a nice thing, for sure.

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Coldest Data Center in the World – Ice Cube Lab

Galido

Negative 40 degrees… So cold, they have to heat the air used to cool the data center. The Ice Cube Lab data center has over 1,200 computing cores and three petabytes of storage and tethered to the IceCube Observatory, a neutrino detector with strings of optical sensors buried a kilometer deep in the Antarctic ice. IceCube observes bursts of neutrinos from cataclysmic astronomical events, which helps to study both “dark matter” and the physics of neutrinos.

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New products of the week 5.30.16

Network World

New products of the week Our roundup of intriguing new products. Read how to submit an entry to Network World's products of the week slideshow. Actiance Platform for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries Key features: The Actiance Platform addresses communications challenges for healthcare and pharmaceutical organizations in the midst of changing regulations by ensuring companies meet industry-specific data retention and security requirements.

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Important Things to Consider When Opening an eCommerce Store

IT Toolbox

Even though it may seem complicated at first, opening an eCommerce venture is not that hard.

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Flaw in popular WordPress plug-in Jetpack puts over a million websites at risk

Network World

Owners of WordPress-based websites should update the Jetpack plug-in as soon as possible because of a serious flaw that could expose their users to attacks. Jetpack is a popular plug-in that offers free website optimization, management and security features. It was developed by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and the WordPress open-source project, and has over 1 million active installations.

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SAP invests in machine learning to simplify customer transition to cloud

Tech Republic Big Data

SAP believes it has the capabilities to deliver machine learning solutions to help customers improve their end-customer journey and tackle issues that were previously too costly.

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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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Stealth Falcon group uses custom spyware, fake journalists to target UAE dissidents

Network World

Meet Stealth Falcon, a sophisticated and likely state-sponsored cyberespionage group, which is hell bent on conducting targeted spyware attacks “against Emriati journalists, activists and dissidents.” The digital attacks started in 2012 and are still being carried out against United Arab Emirates (UAE) dissidents. It’s not “just” spying with custom spyware that leads to dissidents being “arbitrarily detained;” once identified as criticizing the authorities, UAE dissidents can be forcibly disappe

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Spousetivities at DockerCon 2016

Scott Lowe

Long-time readers of my site know that my wife, Crystal, launched what is now known as Spousetivities at VMworld 2008. Since that time, she’s been able to organize activities for hundreds of companions at dozens of events around the world. This year she’s adding another event to the roster: DockerCon 2016 in Seattle! That’s right, Crystal and Spousetivities will be available at DockerCon in Seattle.

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PDF Form Filler

Galido

PDF Escape provides a FREE PDF reader, editor, form filler, and form designer solution FREE! Simply drag your PDF and begin editing files, creating forms, annotating, fill out PDF and password protect your PDF file. Free PDF Editor & Form Filler. PDF Escape Features. Edit PDF Files Edit PDF Files. Create New PDF Forms Create New PDF Forms. View PDF Files View PDF Files.

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Holiday Hoax

IT Toolbox

Statistical propaganda

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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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An Introduction to Virtual Reality: Where Does the Technology Stand?

Dataconomy

No matter what word you use—virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial life, virtual environments—the upcoming family of virtual technology is slowly but surely coming to the general market. New VR companies are popping up. Old companies are finding new uses for VR. Data science is getting a VR makeover. All of. The post An Introduction to Virtual Reality: Where Does the Technology Stand?

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Digital Leadership as Harmonizer

Future of CIO

Harmonization is the digital leadership theme to celebrate this holiday weekend. Though the substance of leadership never changes, it is all about the future. Leadership is situational, in every era, there is a different theme for leadership effectiveness. If the agricultural leadership is about surviving from the scarcity of resources; the industrial leadership is based on command and control to build a certain order from chaos, and then digital leadership is about harmonizing and orchestrating

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Parallel Processing and Unstructured Data Transforms Storage

Cloud Musings

(This post originally appeared on Direct2Dell, The Official Dell Corporate Blog) Enterprise storage is trending away from traditional, enterprise managed network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area networks (SAN) towards a more complex environment that includes software-defined and cloud-based solutions. Spinning disks are also being replaced with flash arrays and solid state devices.

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How to Fine Tune a Digital Learning Organization

Future of CIO

There is no panacea, no magic bullet with regards to change management. Digital means the increasing speed of change and hyper-connected, always-on businesses. Change Management in high mature organizations are no longer just a one-time business initiative, but an ongoing business capability. Change Management and Strategy Management need to go hand-in-hand.

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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.