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Women in Cybersecurity: Reducing the Gender Gap Part I

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Katie Kennedy. This post is the first in a three part series on the Women in Cybersecurity Conference. On March 31 st through April 2 nd , women from academia, government, and industry from around the globe gathered in Dallas, Texas for Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) Conference. This three-day long event was designed to both enhance the state of cyber security and to raise awareness about the importance and nature of a cybersecurity career.

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Where are you Implementing your Big Data Algorithms?

Social, Agile and Transformation

It sounds like a simple question. You have to load several data sets, implement some data cleansing, perform some matching to third party data, compute several aggregates, develop some rankings, group several dimensions, benchmark against another data set, analyze for trends and then normalize the data for multiple data visualizations. In all likelihood, the algorithms that perform these.

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HPE Debuts ProLiant Easy Connect Platform for SMBs

Data Center Knowledge

HPE is looking to capture a larger share of the SMB market with the launch of the ProLiant Easy Connect Managed Hybrid solution, the first in a new series of plug and play devices for small and mid-sized businesses sold exclusively through the channel. The Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) ProLiant.

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Import Active Directory Module into Windows PE

Mick's IT Blog

One thing I have been wanting to have is access to active directory in a WinPE environment. The main reason I want it is to be able to delete systems from active directory during a build. When I first started researching, I found this blog that guided me on writing this script. The blog tells how to inject the AD module into the WIM file. That is fine, but do you really want to do that every time you generate a new WIM file?

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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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Warning Meat Puppets: Robotic Trucks Drive Across Europe In Demonstration Of What Is Possible Today

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Bob Gourley. An operational fleet of robotic trucks just demonstrated their safety and efficiency by autonomously moving across Europe. In an article titled " A fleet of trucks just drove themselves across Europe ," Joon Ian Wong writes that: About a dozen trucks from major manufacturers like Volvo and Daimler just completed a week of largely autonomous driving across Europe, the first such major exercise on the continent.

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How to expand the Facebook Messenger app with Dropbox

Tech Republic Cloud

If you're a Facebook Messenger and Dropbox user, you'll be glad to know that the apps have been integrated so you can add files to Messenger threads from Dropbox with ease.

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Using PowerShell to control Dell Command | Update for drivers and BIOS updates

Mick's IT Blog

The Dell Command | Update is a great tool to use, but it also lacks some features that I have implemented in the following script. During system builds, I have the application to update all drivers and the BIOS. The features I have included are: Ability to disable the BIOS password Ability to either run the dcu-cli.exe on either a 32-bit or 64-bit machine Ability to apply XML policies For features 1 and 3, if the parameters are not populated, they are skipped over.

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How to Achieve Elastic High Performance Computing in the Cloud: A Case Study with Bright Computing

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Katie Kennedy. Fabio Trojani, a Professor of Finance at the Geneva Finance Research Institute (GFRI) of the University of Geneva and a Senior Chair of the Swiss Finance Institute, oversees a quantitative research team that carries out research in various areas of Financial Economics, Financial Econometrics and Statistics. The projects Professor Trojani works on, need to be powered by a significant HPC infrastructure.

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Report: Almost half of enterprises have no one in charge of database security

Tech Republic Data Center

A recent research report published by Osterman Research detailed its findings on data and database security. Here's what you can learn from the findings.

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Google Reimburses Cloud Clients After Massive Google Compute Engine Outage

Data Center Knowledge

Google is reimbursing Google Compute Engine users up to 25 percent of their monthly charges after an outage that impacted instances across all regions on Monday. Read More.

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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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Query Event Logs to a Central Log File

Mick's IT Blog

Recently, we have had sporadic issues with Outlook and needed to see who all was experiencing the problem. We knew it was logged in the event viewer logs. I decided to write a PowerShell script, with the help of Sapien Technology's PowerShell Studio , that would be able to be deployed to machines, query the event viewer logs, and then write the machine name to a centralized log file if it met the criteria.

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The Air Traffic Control System: We all assumed it was vulnerable, but now we know

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Bob Gourley. There have been rumors in the security community for several weeks now about outages in the Swedish Air Traffic Control System that may have been caused by malicious activity. Now reporting indicates these rumors may in fact be true. There have not been any official government reports on this, and there is no publicly available forensic information we can analyze, but press reports indicate that outages between 4 and 9 November that were initially attributed to solar flares were act

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Apple's healthy CareKit revolution

Computerworld Vertical IT

Around three years ago, I was talking with the CIO of a regional hospital about how mobile apps could improve hospital and post-discharge experiences for patients. The conversation came up largely because of the Affordable Care Act, which included new rules to lower Medicare reimbursements to hospitals with high rates of readmissions for people with specific conditions.

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Rackspace Calls on Software Devs to Break CPU Performance Barriers

Data Center Knowledge

The days of getting software improvements by the brute force performance improvement of a generic CPU are slowing down drastically. Read More.

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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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vSphere Software Defined Beta, Something for free from VMware

Storage IO Blog

vSphere Beta, Something free from VMware (other than your time) Something free from VMware (other than time) VMware is looking for candidate beta test sites and environments for an upcoming vSphere release. Target audience or environments are those who have deployed vSphere 5.5 and 6.0 in your environment and looking to test the new software […].

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Hortonworks DataFlow 1.2 Released

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Katie Kennedy. Last month, Hortonworks announced their release of their Hortonworks DataFlow 1.2 , a data-source agnostic, real time data collection and dataflow management platform that makes data movement fast, easy and secure. HDF 1.2 supports over 130 processors including Kafka, Couchbase, Microsoft Azure Event Hub and Splunk, which enable an easy point and click user experience for creation of powerful and scalable directed graphs of data routing, transformation and system mediation logic.

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5 Actionable Insights to Make You Stand Out in Data Science

Dataconomy

In 2009, Hal Varian (Google’s Chief Economist) famously joked that “the sexiest job in the next 10 years will be Statistics”. Fast forward to 2016, and it’s abundantly clear that he was right (and how!) $118,709 – the average salary for a Data Scientist today (according to Glassdoor). Compare that. The post 5 Actionable Insights to Make You Stand Out in Data Science appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Report Confirms Large Cloud Providers Drive Q1 Leasing

Data Center Knowledge

The NADC report confirmed that it was Microsoft that leased 22 MW in Ashburn, VA, plus another 9 MW in San Antonio from data center REIT CyrusOne. Read More.

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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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“CIO Master” Tuning VII: IT Digital Transformation

Future of CIO

Digital IT is about running IT as a business enabler to catalyze growth and improve organizational agility. The majority of IT organizations today get stuck at the low to mid level of maturity, IT is suffered from its reputation as a cost center. Hence, IT leaders need to continue asking those tough questions: Are you doing the right things? Are you doing them the right way?

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Tech News Roundup April 15

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Katie Kennedy. The following are some of the hot topics we are tracking in the technology ecosystem: Technology Ticker. Federal government to spend AU$5.95m on joint research with China - ZDNet. Get your cycler to Mars: Buzz Aldrin lays out his not-so-simple plan to settle Mars in 2040. New Relic partners with Major League Baseball to highlight data and analytics in sports.

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Can Big Data Help Us Travel Better?

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There are hundreds of hotel booking sites online. They all have their own method of matching customers with options. There are basic options, like how many bedrooms for less than $200, and users will still end up searching through several pages before finding the right offer. Generic offers and bad. The post Can Big Data Help Us Travel Better? appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Datera, Fresh from Stealth, Moves Intent-Based Config to Data Storage

Data Center Knowledge

Data center architects familiar with software-defined infrastructure will recognize decoupling as referring to separating the resource requirements of software from the hardware that hosts it. 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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What are inside the Innovation Leaders’ Toolbox

Future of CIO

Innovation is not a serendipity, innovation is nothing without exploration and exploitation. Businesses today face fiery competition and rapid digital paradigm shift technologically and economically, hence, innovation becomes a “must have” strategic capability to compete for the long-term business growth. Innovation is about prioritization, a system that can “smell” the right idea at the right time and place, innovation is about having new knowledge and new processes to transform creative ideas

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Tech News Roundup April 13

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Katie Kennedy. The following are some of the hot topics we are tracking in the technology ecosystem: Technology Ticker. Noblis Among 2016 SECAF Small Business Partner of the Year Award Finalists. Serco Inc. Awarded $131M Contract to Support NAVFAC. Immunovaccine Inc., Leidos to Collaborate on Zika Vaccine. DISA Selects CenturyLink Inc. as Authorized Network Services Provider.

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5 Novel Ways to Monetize the IoT

Dataconomy

Every day it seems, there’s a new buzz worthy entrant into the IoT market – from smart plugs that efficiently connect you to your power source to connected cars that smartly help you avoid would be accidents. But what if you don’t have an IoT device in the pipeline? What. The post 5 Novel Ways to Monetize the IoT appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Monitoring as a Discipline and the Systems Administrator

Data Center Knowledge

Monitoring as a discipline is a practice designed to help IT professionals escape the short-term, reactive nature of administration often caused by insufficient monitoring, and become more proactive and strategic. 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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Three Stages on the Road for IT to Reach Digital Mastery

Future of CIO

To become value-added and master digital transformation, IT needs to be acutely in tune with the business, to be a proactive business problem solver with setting priority right. The majority of IT organizations today are still running at the industrial speed, stick at the lower or mid-level of maturity, IT also is suffered from its reputation as a help desk and cost center and running as a silo.

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Three Reasons for Procurement’s Slump with Tamr

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Katie Kennedy. Content for the blog post below is provided by Matt Holzapfel. This is the first in a series of blog posts. This blog series will examine the value procurement organizations are gaining by accelerating their technology agenda. Even though procurement’s constant push for efficiency gains, declining commodity process, and the rise of technology, procurement has been struggling to improve.

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“Perhaps by the end of 2021, FinTech will no longer be a buzzword at all…” – Interview with SwipeStox’s Wladimir Huber

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Wladimir Huber (29) worked several years as a professional trader in a German investment bank, founded an eCommerce startup and holds a M.A. in Finance from Leuphana University. Since he graduated from the university, he constantly developed internet business models. He especially enjoys the data-driven and analytical approach to business. The post “Perhaps by the end of 2021, FinTech will no longer be a buzzword at all…” – Interview with SwipeStox’s Wladimir Huber appeared first on Dataco

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Vapor IO’s Re-envisioned Data Centers One Step Closer to Reality

Data Center Knowledge

Imagine designing self-healing physical environments that work in concert with self-healing IT environments. This is the power of OpenDCRE. Read More.

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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.