July, 2016

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Big data vendors see the internet of things (IoT) opportunity, pivot tech and message to compete

Forrester IT

(Source: [link] ). Open source big data technologies like Hadoop have done much to begin the transformation of analytics. We're moving from expensive and specialist analytics teams towards an environment in which processes, workflows, and decision-making throughout an organisation can - in theory at least - become usefully data-driven. Established providers of analytics, BI and data warehouse technologies liberally sprinkle Hadoop, Spark and other cool project names throughout their products

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NetworkToolbox- Network scanning and analyzing

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. Network Toolbox may be the best network app on in the Apple App Store. It is designed for both iPhone and iPad and if you are an enterprise IT professional or just a technology enthusiast it belongs on your iOS device. The Toolbox contains a suite of 32 tools that will help you analyze networks for configuration. It is also helpful in security or just general awareness of the networks you are on.

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Protecting Your VoIP System from Security Threats

IT Toolbox

In today's technology-driven world, a major concern for many IT departments is securing confidential and important business data. Breaches are common and can be a disaster for companies, and securing VoIP lines is no exception. Let's take a look at some of the common issues that arise with cloud-based phone systems and how you can protect your VoIP system from security threats.

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Barclays banks on agile and DevOps to tackle competitive threats in fintech

Computer Weekly

Barclays Bank opens up about how increasing competition in the financial services sector has fuelled its 18-month, company-wide campaign to increase its use of agile and DevOps methodologies

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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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Hillary Clinton's infamous email server: 6 things you need to know

Tech Republic Security

Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server when she served as US secretary of state has been a major issue for the 2016 presidential candidate. Here are the six most critical facts about it.

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Oracle Loses $3B Verdict for Ditching HP Itanium Chip

Data Center Knowledge

Jury appears swayed by argument that pulling Itanium support was deliberate effort by Hurd and Ellison to damage Hurd's former employer Read More.

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Dallas Police Used Robot With Bomb to Kill Ambush Suspect

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. Dallas Police used robotics in response to the horrible events of 7 July 2016, including the use of a robot with an explosive device to kill a suspect involved in the coordinated attack. The suspect was holed up in the El Centro College parking garage for several hours overnight Thursday before policed moved with their robotics. Mayor Mike Rawlings said Friday Morning that: "We saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension for it to detonate where

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A step back: A DB2 optimization term, then and now

IT Toolbox

(Posted Friday, July 24, 2016) The terms ?sagable? and ?non-sagable? became common place in the very first releases of DB2. However, the terms most commonly used today are indexable, stage 1, and stage 2. Since I have been dying to write about something (anything) since retiring, this seemed like a fun subject to attack.

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More than 2,000 police data breaches in 4.5 years, report reveals

Computer Weekly

Big Brother Watch calls for new policies to ensure police forces keep personal data safe after FOI requests show an average of 10 data breaches a week

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Want to build a home lab for containers and virtualization? Consider mini PCs

Tech Republic Data Center

The latest version of Intel's mobile processor family creates some interesting options for a physical home lab. Here are some considerations for leveraging this inexpensive platform.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Bracing for Brexit: How Your IT Department Can Prepare for the Coming Changes

Data Center Knowledge

Here's what you need to know as you plan for expansion to the UK, what happens to your existing data in the UK, and what Brexit could mean for cloud as we know it Read More.

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After Brexit, it's business as usual for most of Europe's public cloud workloads

Forrester IT

(source: Wikimedia Commons ). Two weeks on, the result of the UK referendum on membership of the European Union (EU) continues to reverberate around the world. Forrester provided advice for clients needing to understand the business implications. Looking at the specific impact on public cloud deployments in Europe introduces a number of additional points.

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A New Era of Data Integration with Tamr and 451 Research

CTOvision

Michael Johnson. Data preparation involving the integration, cleansing and enrichment of data so that it is ready for analysis is a tedious and time-consuming process, and it can occupy up to 80% of an analytical development effort. Because it is vital to analytics, given the ‘garbage in garbage out’ maxim, data preparation can’t be circumvented. But it can be made easier, more efficient and indeed faster.

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Navigating CRM in a Social Media Climate

IT Toolbox

Navigating customer relationship management (CRM) in the current social media climate means making changes and adapting to what today's customer wants, while still employing the time-tested strategies that have worked in the past. What Is CRM? CRM is a term that refers to the different tools companies employ to understand and analyze their customer interactions.

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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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The problem of passwords and how to deal with it

Computer Weekly

Security experts have long recognised passwords as inadequate, but finally technology is offering some viable alternative authentication methods that businesses can explore to keep their data safe

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PowerShell: CMTrace Installer

Mick's IT Blog

This is an update to the last CMTrace installer I wrote for Windows 7. This installer has been completely rewritten that allows it to function both for installing and configuring CMTrace. I included all of the requirements within the same script for installing as an administrator and configuring CMTrace to be the default.log file viewer under the user context.

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How to Choose a Colocation Data Center Provider

Data Center Knowledge

Here are five steps you can take to select the service provider that's right for you Read More.

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Microsoft’s Big Bang: Everything CRM and ERP On One Platform

Forrester IT

This week Microsoft announced a new offering (available in the Fall): Microsoft Dynamics 365. Sound familiar? It should. Office 365, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, and Microsoft Dynamics AX all come to mind, and this was not done by mistake. Microsoft is bringing together the capabilities from these products, their intelligence tools, and third party or internally-built apps from its newly launched AppSource.

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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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Coming Events Of Interest

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. The following are some of the events we are tracking in our CTO Events Calendar. We maintain this calendar as reference for our readers and keep it up to date with events we believe to be of high value to technologists seeking to track emerging trends, learn what peers are doing and find new ways of doing things. Coming events include: SINET Innovation Summit.

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5 Ways Mobile CRM Can Boost Your Small Business

IT Toolbox

Great technology can help level the playing field, giving small businesses the edge they need to compete with their bigger rivals. Mobile CRM is one such system that can help your business succeed and grow. Mobile CRM is especially useful if you have a decentralized sales force who are out on the road meeting clients and making deals.

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Business has critical role in fighting cyber crime, says report

Computer Weekly

The National Crime Agency is calling for a stronger collaboration between business and law enforcement to fight cyber crime in the light of a report produced with private sector partners

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Government Cloud Achilles Heel: The Network

Cloud Musings

Cloud computing is rewriting the books on information technology (IT) but inter-cloud networking remains a key operational issue. Layering inherently global cloud services on top of a globally fractured networking infrastructure just doesn’t work. Incompatibilities abound and enterprise users are forced to use “duct-tape and baling wire” to keep their global operations limping along.

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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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Used Electric-Car Batteries to Power Data Center in France

Data Center Knowledge

Energy storage systems for data centers promise second life to EV batteries post-car Read More.

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PowerShell: Pin and Unpin Applications to the Start Menu and Taskbar

Mick's IT Blog

I am in the middle of building a new Windows 10 image and testing out all of the GPOs and applications. One of the settings we do is to add apps to the taskbar and start menu. I had written a script a couple of years ago to do this, but it was in a rush when I had just started this position. With the help of using Sapien's PowerShell studio , this script was a breeze to write.

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Elon Musk at Recode Code Conference 2016

CTOvision

Michael Johnson. In the video below SpaceX CEO Elon Musk talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and The Verge's Walt Mossberg about his plans to send a one-way rocket to Mars in 2018. He estimates colonists could start arriving on the Red Planet by 2025. Musk also talks about the proliferation of electric vehicle initiatives that compete with his other company, Tesla, and why autonomous cars will become the norm.

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The Twisted Pair Ethernet Physical Channel

IT Toolbox

Because of the great interest among users and vendors in the twisted pair Ethernet concept, many vendors developed and began marketing products prior to the finalization of the 10BASE-T standard. As a result, some interoperability problems may occur if hardware from different vendors (all claiming some degree of compliance to 10BASE-T) is used.

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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.

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HummingBad Android malware highlights worrying trend, say researchers

Computer Weekly

Security researchers uncover a cyber crime operating model that provides financial self-sufficiency, which they fear will enable larger and more sophisticated campaigns in the future

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Facebook Messenger boosts privacy with end-to-end encryption, self-destructing messages

Tech Republic Security

In a recent privacy push, Facebook announced that it was rolling out the beta of a new feature called 'secret conversations,' bringing better encryption and ephemeral messaging.

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Report: Cloud Providers Will Spend $23B on Data Center Hardware This Year

Data Center Knowledge

IDC predicts 19 percent uptick in hardware spend by public cloud providers, while traditional IT spend contracts slightly Read More.

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FTC warning: The IRS does not accept payment in iTunes cards

Network World

The Federal Trade Commission issued a warning today about a scam that sounds ridiculous but is nonetheless surprisingly common: Con artists are convincing victims that they’re from the IRS and will accept outstanding payments in the form of iTunes cards. From an FTC blog post : People have told the FTC about scammers who called and demanded iTunes cards as “payment.

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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.