Sat.Mar 04, 2017 - Fri.Mar 10, 2017

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DevOps has reached critical mass, CIOs need to get on board

Forrester IT

DevOps is one of the most powerful weapons that CIOs have in their arsenal. DevOps unites the entire enterprise in delivering business transformation with superior customer experience. Companies like Target , Capital One , Walmart , ING , Nordstrom , Netflix and JetBlue are already reaping the benefits. In order to unlock the promise of DevOps, CIOs must lead the call for cultural change.

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More than a million Gmail and Yahoo account credentials on sale

Computer Weekly

Usernames, email addresses and plaintext passwords of more than a million Yahoo and Gmail accounts are reportedly on sale on the dark web, posing a threat to corporate security

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The Race for The Best Self-Driving Auto Tech

CTOvision

Jeremy Sutter. Whether the public is ready or not, carmakers and tech giants are beginning to cooperate to make driverless vehicles a commodity sooner than anyone expected. Competition. Global companies such as Honda, Hyundai, and BMW, are just a few of the big car makers joining tech firms like Intel, Google, and Samsung to perfect driverless systems.

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How Linux Conquered the Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

Linux’s ubiquity in the data center wasn’t by design. It was the effect of a powerful and unpredictable undercurrent. 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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Fourteen Machine Learning Solutions For Data Scientists - Which One Is Best For You?

Forrester IT

The Power To Predict Is Mighty. Yogi Berra once said, "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." It is tough indeed, but enterprises that can make probabilistic predictions about customers, business processes, and operations will have an edge over enterprises that can't. These predictions don't have to be macroscopic to be consequential.

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6 Ways to Improve Security on Your Android Device

IT Toolbox

Since there are many android smartphone users surfing the internet on a daily basis, we have decided to give you six simple ways to improve the security on your android device.

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IBM readies quantum as a service

Computer Weekly

A universal quantum computer, available through the cloud, offers the potential for researchers and enterprises to tackle computationally impossible problems

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Mobile World Congress 2017: Observations Regarding The Main Enterprise Themes

Forrester IT

Recently, the largest annual get together of the mobile industry, Mobile World Congress (MWC) took place in Barcelona. In my opinion, the biggest themes at MWC in 2017 that are relevant for enterprise customers were the internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), platforms, collaboration, and connectivity. These themes underline how mobility is becoming part of the broader digital transformation initiative.

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What discipline should CIO master to drive transformation?

Social, Agile and Transformation

Several years ago, I was in a forum where a CIO I deeply respect admitted to me that the hardest thing for him to do on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis was manage his time. Time was his biggest issue? Not a demanding CEO? Not firefighting the latest operational issue? Not trying trying to get a team to align on priorities or technical strategy? We all have struggles managing our time and.

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Switch Launches Its Pyramid-Shaped Data Center in Michigan

Data Center Knowledge

Sticks to its signature bold design approach, using dramatic lighting, Focault pendulum in the lobby. Read More.

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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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Escaping waterfall government and the myth of ‘digital transformation’

Computer Weekly

An agile approach to digital programmes will not transform Whitehall unless the waterfall approach to policy and decision-making is overhauled too

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AI's emerging role in IoT highlighted at IBM Genius of Things event

Forrester IT

Photo: Bergman Group. IBM hosted an artificial intelligent (AI) event at its Munich Watson IoT HQ, where it underlined its claim as a leading global AI and internet-of-things (IoT) platform providers in the enterprise context. AI and the IoT are both very important topics for enterprise users. However, there remains some uncertainty among enterprises regarding the exact benefits that both AI and IoT can generate and how businesses should prepare for the deployment of AI and IoT in their organiza

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Tech Companies That Missed the Mark in 2016

CTOvision

Rick Delgado. From Snapchat Spectacles to virtual reality, 2016 was a year of innovation and growth in the tech industry. However, not every company saw great success, and even the tech giants had some big snafus. Here are some of the most notable tech company failures of the past year. Samsung. At the top of the list is Samsung , which faced a huge loss both in its finances and reputation with its Galaxy Note 7 fiasco.

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What's Trending for ERP in 2017?

IT Toolbox

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is the cornerstone of modern business, from small storefronts to large manufacturers. ERP is an integrated application that lets computers share, mix and assimilate information across all business functions. It provides a business with a centrally located, consolidated core to systematically process information between departments.

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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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Navigating those early stages: research in its many forms

Computer Weekly

This is the third in a series of articles charting the progress of participants from HutZero, a new cyber security entrepreneur acceleration programme run by Cyber London (CyLon) and the Centre for Security Information Technologies (CSIT) at Queen’s University Belfast

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Customer Success Should Be A Team Sport

Forrester IT

Customers hold the power in their relationships with businesses. Today, it's not enough for businesses to deliver products. Customers expect them to deliver outcomes and success. To do this, businesses must understand who the customer is, what their pain points are in achieving their business goals, and must help them choose the right products to meet their goals.

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JPMorgan Marshals an Army of Developers to Automate Finance

Data Center Knowledge

New era of automation is now in overdrive as cheap computing power converges with fears of losing customers to startups. Read More.

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When WLAN Experts See a Problem, They Rise Up- Getting to Know the WLAN Advisory Board

IT Toolbox

Most people I know that “do” wireless networking professionally are fixers. They naturally assess whatever situation that stands before them, and try to make the best out of budget, constraints, available resources, and whatever situational requirements apply.

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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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Cloud-based ID management is key to PostNL’s public cloud strategy

Computer Weekly

Mail company uses Azure, AWS, Salesforce, SuccessFactors, Office 365 and Microsoft Dynamics as it shifts from on-premise IT

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Mobile World Congress 2017: As Mobile Is Morphing Into Digital, Use Cases Matter More

Forrester IT

Mobile World Congress (MWC) which took place in Barcelona once again broke new records in terms of attendees, reaching 108,000. Yet, discussions with end-user businesses indicate that mobility is often no longer treated as a standalone focus area by CIOs and CTOs. Mobility has become part of the broader digital transformation initiative. This has implications for mobile strategies.

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Can Google Lure More Enterprises Inside Its Data Centers?

Data Center Knowledge

The company is doing all the right things to grow its enterprise cloud business, but there’s still a long way to go. Read More.

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Why Your Wi-Fi Router Will Be Obsolete in 2017

IT Toolbox

American households are adopting more and more smart devices that demand wireless access. According to a 2014 study published in Recode , more than 90 percent of U.S. households have three or more Internet-connected devices.

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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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Country as a service becoming reality in Estonia

Computer Weekly

Programme to help foreigners set up businesses in Estonia through virtual residency is gathering pace

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Text And Geospatial Analytics Bring Growth And Innovation To Business Intelligence And Analytics Tools

Forrester IT

We recently published an updated version of our Forrester Data: Business Intelligence And Analytics Software Forecast, 2016 To 2021 (Global). What's new? We added two new forecast categories: text analytics and geospatial analytics. ■ Text analytics makes sense of unstructured data. Unstructured data, such as tweets, call center logs, and social media comments, provide an increasingly important view into consumer sentiment and trends today.

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N. Virginia Landgrab Continues: Next Amazon Data Center Campus?

Data Center Knowledge

COPT, major builder of AWS data center shells in the region, appears to be setting the table for its next large data center campus there. Read More.

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Days in the Life- Real Tales of Wireless Support

IT Toolbox

It has been an interesting run of late when it comes to supporting wireless clients. Thankfully, sometimes I can go weeks without needing to troubleshoot. Then there’s the last cluster of oddball problems… In each scenario, users were impacted by something , for sure. But the root cause of each was vastly different.

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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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Paying ransomware attackers perpetuates attacks, says researcher

Computer Weekly

Continually evolving ransomware is among the threats organisations need to factor into their cyber defences in 2017, but only once they have taken care of the basics, says Kaspersky Lab researcher

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Why machine learning and data analysis are critical to Google's success in the cloud

Tech Republic Cloud

At the 2017 Google Cloud Next conference, machine learning efforts took center stage in the first keynote address, highlighting Google's work with data as a core asset.

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The Right Approach to Database Monitoring Can Eliminate Poor App Performance and Availability

Data Center Knowledge

Many components contribute to an app's performance, but the database is at the foundation of these technology stacks. When an app is functioning poorly, it is often due to problems at the database level that include: server stalls, bad query performance or poor latency. Read More.

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How Contact Center Adds Value to Hosted UC

IT Toolbox

As this series progresses, I’ve been addressing various aspects of the UCaaS value proposition based on findings from BroadSoft’s Future of Work survey. The analysis began by looking at the drivers for hosted UC, and then I moved on to extending the solution to incorporate team collaboration.

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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.