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

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The Business Case For Digital Transformation

Forrester IT

Photo: Rebecca Minkoff. Digital transformation investments are ultimately about business survival through disruption. Such investments have a direct impact on customer expectations and go beyond the traditional ROI. The business case for such disruptive investments is the focus of my upcoming report, Build Your Digital Transformation Business Case Around The Customer And Revenue Growth.

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Record-Breaking Launch of 88 Satellites by Planet: Is there any doubt in your mind that your world is changing?

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. Planet is designing, building and launching satellites faster than any company or government in history. They use commodity consumer electronics to build highly capable satellites at drastically lower costs. With the most advanced satellites launching into orbit every 3-4 months, their capabilities are on the cutting edge and always advancing.

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Data Centers Scrambling to Fill IT Skills Gap

Data Center Knowledge

Military veterans, local universities and STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) programs are gaining in popularity as ways to strengthen the data center talent pipeline. Read More.

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Just Eat uses startup accelerator to stay ahead in foodtech

Computer Weekly

Online food ordering service’s head of corporate ventures explains how helping startups through its accelerator programme helps it to keep in the centre of the food technology ecosystem

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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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AI Makers Will Squelch Free Speech

Forrester IT

Artificial intelligence (AI) is real, albiet maturing slowly. You experience it when you talk to Alexa , when you see a creepily-targeted online ad , and when Netxflix turns you on to Stranger Things. Oh yea, and that self-driving car over there is AI super-powered! AI is indeed cool, but many are scared about how it ultimatley may impact society. Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and even the Woz warned that " artificial intelligence can potentially be more dangerous than nuclear war.

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21.co Pioneers A New Way To Communicate: Recommend setting up your profile now

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. 21.co is known as the company making Bitcoin useful for developers. They provide capabilities like the 21 Bitcoin Computer which gives developers everything they need to build Bitcoin enabled apps. Perhaps more importantly they have provided tutorials, tips, FAQs and a place for developers to directly interact on all topics Bitcoin. The company is now providing a new capability that will be of interest not only to developers but to a wide range of technologists and soon perhaps to t

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How artificial intelligence is powering retail customer experience

Computer Weekly

Retailers are beginning to explore how cognitive computing and AI could make e-commerce smarter and more personalised

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I'm Starting An Insight Platforms-as-a-service Wave - Who Should Be Included?

Forrester IT

Technology buyers have made it clear to us they want platforms for building data analytics applications. I call these insight platforms , and they were the No. 1 emerging technology of interest for enterprise architects in 2016. Understanding why is easy -- insight platforms provide a common toolset and a place to run what you have built. They accelerate both time-to-value and agility, which are crucially important for keeping up with markets and customers.

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Update On The Megatrend of Robotics

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. There are seven key megatrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the helpful mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for C loud Computing , A rtificial Intelligence , M obility , B ig Data , R obotics , I nternet of Things , C yberSecurity. In this post we dive deeper into the trend of Robotics. Operating along a spectrum of human controlled to semi-autonomous to totally independent, robots are already operating in our world.

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Data Center Market Kicks Off 2017 With Flood of Acquisitions

Data Center Knowledge

With deals by three of the six public data center REITs, strategic acquisitions are back in vogue The first few weeks of 2017 are in the books, and strategic data center acquisitions are back in vogue with three of the six publicly traded REITs having announced new deals. 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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British Gas calls on datacentre operators to help solve UK's looming energy supply crisis

Computer Weekly

British Gas makes the case for datacentre operators to do their bit to close the UK energy supply and demand gap by hooking up their backup power supplies to the National Grid

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Forrester’s First CPQ Wave Addresses The Tech Needs Of The Empowered Buyer

Forrester IT

If you're in a B2B environment, you've undoubtedly noticed the changing behaviors of your customers in recent years. As a result, technologies have shifted their focus to get closer to the customer and I'm not talking about just CRM or SFA. With a flurry of acquisitions and new entrants to the CPQ market popping up regularly, we decided to tighten the aperture and evaluate the top 11 CPQ vendors in The Forrester Wave™: Configure-Price-Quote Solutions, Q1 2017.

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What’s in Store for the Big Data and Security Debate

CTOvision

Rick Delgado. Data is becoming an increasingly important component of business models and marketing mixes. As a result of this, we are seeing the emergence of a culture of data collection that is startlingly creative and in some cases, arguably invasive. In the current data-obsessed business and tech environment, almost anything anyone does can be quantified and collected as data.

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The Multi-Cloud Convergence Tipping Point

Data Center Knowledge

In 2017, more than 85 percent of enterprises will commit to multi-cloud architectures that IDC describes as “encompassing a mix of public cloud services, private clouds, community clouds and hosted clouds." 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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Cyber resiliency of UK firms barely changed in a year, study shows

Computer Weekly

High performing UK companies with a high level of cyber security maturity are leading in cyber resiliency, but most have to work on operationalising incident response plans, Ponemon report shows

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Turn Supply chain analytics is your Moneyball

Forrester IT

I watched Moneyball over the weekend for the first time, and I really enjoyed it. As a nerd, I love all movies that demonstrate the power of mathematics and analytics (On top of that, Brad Pitt did a fine job). But while everyone loves the idea of Moneyball - Using statistical insight to overturn old ideas and revolutionize baseball, in baseball, why are supply chain managers reluctant to apply similar winning concepts?

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2017 Expectations: 5 Areas Where Technology Will Continue to Revolutionize Business Processes

CTOvision

Carol M. Evenson. It's safe to say that the advent of computers changed the way business is done. As computing has continued to evolve, so is business changing to leverage the new technologies and new techniques that better computing provides. Technological changes happen so fast that most businesses struggle to keep up, and are forced to adopt a philosophy of innovation and streamlined operations to stay competitive.

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Manufacturers Choose Deacom ERP to Unify Business Process Solutions

IT Toolbox

Two manufacturing companies – Kahiki Foods of Ohio and Process Technologies of Pennsylvania -- have chosen Deacom’s ERP software to simplify and consolidate their existing business process systems.

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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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UK cyber security workforce up 163% in five years

Computer Weekly

Private and public sector step up efforts to close the cyber security skills gap in the face of a global skills shortage

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Turn Supply chain analytics to your Moneyball

Forrester IT

I watched Moneyball over the weekend for the first time, and I really enjoyed it. As a nerd, I love all movies that demonstrate the power of mathematics and analytics (On top of that, Brad Pitt did a fine job). But while everyone loves the of using statistical insight to overturn old ideas and revolutionize baseball, but why are supply chain managers reluctant to apply similar winning concepts?

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WordPress Bug Allows Hackers to Alter Website Content

Data Center Knowledge

Data Center Knowledge was among nearly 70K sites that were hacked Read More.

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Chat bots need AI + ML!

IT Toolbox

Taking an AI-only off-the-shelf white label banking bot as they are offered today will hundreds require hundreds of hours to code out the asks and intents for adding enhancements on these tools.

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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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The internet of things gains traction in business

Computer Weekly

While consumers are buying more IoT, the wheels are starting to turn in an industry set for an IoT revolution

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Check out our Infrastructure & Operations research plan for 2017.exciting stuff!

Forrester IT

Hello I&O community (or others): We have been busy in November and December finishing some great research for the year but we ALSO planned some awesome research for you and your team coming in the near future. Are you needing to step up to the DevOps plate? Are you questioning what decisions to make on your cloud journey? Do you struggle to determine your multi-sourcing strategy?

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Cisco Warns of Catastrophic Clock Signal Flaw

Data Center Knowledge

Issue affects Nexus 9000 data center switches, series 4000 routers, ASA security devices among other products Read More.

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Top Tech Tricks to Increase Real Estate Prices

IT Toolbox

One of the biggest benefits of technology is the huge return on your investment by making small changes to the way you currently do things. There aren't too many better examples than the real estate market because homes aren't cheap. Let's look at some of the technology revolutionizing the industry.

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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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Google to appeal against order to hand over foreign emails

Computer Weekly

UK firms urged to consider the risks of non-UK cloud service providers and to encrypt data in the light of another US warrant to access emails held by a US cloud services firm on non-US servers

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Google will soon delete apps with no privacy policies from Play Store

Tech Republic Security

This week, Google warned developers whose apps collect sensitive user data, but do not include a privacy policy, that their apps are at risk of removal from the Play Store on March 15.

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Snowden-Era Paranoia Fuels Data Center Networking Startup Boom

Data Center Knowledge

Fear of government tampering gave urgency development of alternatives to Cisco Read More.

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CRM Cleaning

IT Toolbox

It's a law of nature that things get corrupted over time. In the real world it's called entropy. In the world of CRM it's call bad data and the rule applies to your customer database just as much as it does to your house. The cure for entropy in any form is cleaning and repair. This is doubly true of databases and spring is a traditional time for cleaning and repairing anything.

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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.