Forrester IT
DECEMBER 30, 2016
Moore's Law was bound to catch up with us. Loosely applied, it says that technology grows more complex every year. Human brains do not. People can't keep up with monitoring, debugging, and managing today's technology. Users' rising expectations make it even worse: they want features and fixes in minutes, not days or weeks. Technology has gotten away from us.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 30, 2016
Marty Meehan. Historically, the public sector has focused on a narrow set of cyber threats. Espionage and insider threat were among the primary focus areas given limited public-facing services and air-gapped infrastructure. However, as recent high-profile breaches have illustrated, the infrastructure at federal agencies today is far more integrated than ever before, and transparency initiatives have increased the amount of public-facing data and services.
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CIO Musings
DECEMBER 31, 2016
“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old” Peter F. Drucker Innovation has been the focus of our conversations recently on my job. How to innovate. What it means to have an innovative culture. How to define the value of innovation. Innovation is one part of my vision for the department. My deputy CIO recently gave an award for innovation within his area, and it went to one of our rockstar millennial employees, Christopher Long (@Chris_Long_VT).
Computer Weekly
DECEMBER 30, 2016
French bank explains what working with IBM on blockchain ledger technology means for customer identification
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.
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 30, 2016
Here’s how some of the macro-level industry trends are playing themselves out in the market Read More.
Network World
DECEMBER 11, 2016
Netgear router owners, I hope you have a spare router – at least those of you with remotely exploitable models, since US-CERT recommended discontinuing use of router models which are vulnerable to arbitrary command injection. Which models? Right now it looks like Netgear R7000, R6400 and R8000 routers, but there may be more models that are vulnerable.
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CTOvision
DECEMBER 30, 2016
Rick Delgado. The growth of cloud technology has certainly been felt in the healthcare space, as large amounts of medical records are now being moved to the cloud. The technology makes it more convenient and cost effective for healthcare providers to share information, but it also brings concerns regarding privacy and legal considerations, particularly where HIPAA is concerned.
Social, Agile and Transformation
DECEMBER 11, 2016
We're tweeting about key technologies like blockchain, artificial intelligence, IoT, big data and analytics.Transformation topics on digital transformation, agile, social business, and smart cities are also top of our tweets. Click here to use the data visualization on CIO Influencer Hashtags. Click on the image to use the dashboard.
Computer Weekly
DECEMBER 11, 2016
Organisations in the Middle East face the challenge of gaining new IT skills despite IT staff budget cuts
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 27, 2016
These are the 10 most widely read and shared stories we covered on Data Center Knowledge this year. Read More.
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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.
Network World
DECEMBER 27, 2016
Bold predictions are in order at this time of year. Zeus Kerravala looked into his crystal bowl for the networking space, and Taylor Armeriding did the same for security. We went rummaging through our fortune cookies and came up with this Yoda-like one for 2017: Security shall networking become. What did that really mean? Our Yoda translator was of no help.
Forrester IT
DECEMBER 19, 2016
Every business today is under pressure from a startup that is disrupting their traditional market. We have seen this in the taxi industry with Uber [i] , ATOM Bank is revolutionizing banking [ii] and Airbnb the hotel industry. [iii] The overused statement that today every business is a software business, is resonating in every industry and we are all under pressure to not only deliver faster, we must do so with quality and add value to our respective businesses.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 31, 2016
Bob Gourley. This is the time of year when we think about change and make lists of resolutions to keep in the new year. As you think of your resolution list we have five topics for you to consider: Use a managed DNS service at home and office: This can help prevent accidental navigation to websites that have been taken over by malicious actors and contain bad code.
Tech Republic Security
DECEMBER 27, 2016
If you serve up files with a Linux machine, you should watch for malicious code. Follow this tutorial on how to add Linux Malware Detector and ClamAV for this very purpose.
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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.
Computer Weekly
DECEMBER 30, 2016
Flash storage has held onto the headlines in 2016, but hyper-converged infrastructure, containerisation, software-defined storage and VMware’s plans for the hybrid cloud are rising themes
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 28, 2016
Former Fisher Plaza houses data center providers, carriers, broadcast stations Read More.
Cloud Musings
DECEMBER 26, 2016
Photo credit: Shutterstock End of year predictions in December are as predictable as tomorrow’s sunrise, but a recent video on 2017 Technology Trends helped me really understand how important a digital transformation strategy is to just about any business executive. The CSC Town Hall conversation actually identified some of the specific tasks that today’s corporate executive really need to address in the coming year.
Network World
DECEMBER 27, 2016
This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Cybersecurity experts are excited about big data because it is the “crime scene investigator” of data science. If your organization is hacked and customer information compromised, your use of big data to collect massive amounts of information on your systems, users and customers makes it possible for data analysts to provide insig
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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.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 22, 2016
Bob Gourley. Our report on Naturally Better Security dove deep into ways quantum effects can be leveraged to enhance real world cybersecurity. It was our most popular post in November 2016 and the feedback we received was taken as a signal that we should produce more on what CTOs should know about the quantum world. With this post we are kicking off a series of five pieces that will dive into quantum effects.
Tech Republic Security
DECEMBER 18, 2016
Ransomware is as bad as ever, with companies continuing to pay for their data even though defensive measures are improving, finds a recent IBM security study.
Computer Weekly
DECEMBER 18, 2016
The Middle East could pioneer the use of blockchain, transforming the processes used by organisations in the region
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 28, 2016
Are you naughty and keeping company with one of the 10 million zombie servers, which, by one estimate, consume energy equivalent to eight large power plants worldwide? Read More.
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.
Tech Republic Data Center
DECEMBER 29, 2016
If you're looking for a cost-effective centralized server management system, find out how to get the open source Ansible up and running. It's a must have for large data centers.
Network World
DECEMBER 30, 2016
As with previous years, 2016 saw no shortage of data breaches. Looking ahead to 2017, the Information Security Forum (ISF) , a global, independent information security body that focuses on cyber security and information risk management, forecasts businesses will face four key global security threats in 2017. "2016 certainly lived up to expectations," says Steve Durbin, managing director of the ISF.
CTOvision
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Bob Gourley. Latency breeds contempt, this is especially true in the defense and intelligence communities where seconds can be the difference between life and death. Applications supporting national security missions must work and they must work fast. In order to keep pace with rapidly evolving mission demands, agencies are constantly advancing their capabilities in the areas of distributed analytics and private cloud.
Tech Republic Security
DECEMBER 30, 2016
A professor from the Naval Postgraduate School suggests that deterrence is cybersecurity's next phase.
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Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.
Computer Weekly
DECEMBER 29, 2016
2016 was the year Microsoft pushed out a major Windows update, Linux celebrated its 25th anniversary and female personae took over AI
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 29, 2016
(Bloomberg) — AppDynamics Inc., which develops software for businesses to monitor applications, filed for an initial public offering. The San Francisco-based company filed with an initial offering amount of $100 million, a placeholder used to calculate fees that will probably change. Morgan.
Tech Republic Cloud
DECEMBER 30, 2016
If you want to add document editing capabilities to your Nextcloud server, learn how to do so with the help of the Documents app.
Tech Republic Data Center
DECEMBER 30, 2016
If you're unsure how to add groups and users to LDAP, learn how simple the process is with the help of phpLDAPadmin.
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