Forrester IT

JULY 5, 2016

(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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CTOvision

JULY 6, 2016

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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Computer Weekly

JULY 5, 2016

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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Tech Republic Security

JULY 6, 2016

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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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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Forrester IT

JULY 8, 2016

(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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CTOvision

JULY 8, 2016

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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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 8, 2016

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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Forrester IT

JULY 8, 2016

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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CTOvision

JULY 7, 2016

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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Computer Weekly

JULY 6, 2016

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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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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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 7, 2016

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

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Forrester IT

JULY 8, 2016

The World Bank explains Islamic finance as "equity-based, asset-backed, ethical, sustainable, environmentally and socially responsible finance." In previous Forrester research, we have described many of the core principles of Islamic banking: limitations on interest, certain contractual considerations, and the prevention of gambling -- which limits many of the speculative aspects of financial services.

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CTOvision

JULY 8, 2016

Bob Gourley. Coda is a combination text editor and FTP client for iPhone and iPad. It is much needed utility for those that want to use the small mobile form factor of an iPhone or iPad for more than just consuming info. With Coda you can create and modify code. After configuring it, Coda's main display shows all sites that you have set it to use, so you can easily modify entire websites by tapping on a thumbnail.

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Computer Weekly

JULY 6, 2016

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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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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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 5, 2016

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

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Tech Republic Data Center

JULY 8, 2016

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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Mick's IT Blog

JULY 7, 2016

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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Computer Weekly

JULY 8, 2016

Skills minister Nick Boles has announced an overhaul of the delivery of technical education in the UK, including introducing new courses and a focus on creating skilled workers

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 6, 2016

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

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 8, 2016

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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Network World

JULY 7, 2016

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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Computer Weekly

JULY 5, 2016

IT director of Norwegian university tells Computer Weekly about digitising education and creating co-operative clusters

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“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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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 7, 2016

After Britain's shocking vote, savvy investors have chosen to "vote" with their dollars, driving up the price of most US REITs, including data centers Read More.

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 5, 2016

A new malware called HummingBad, associated with Chinese cyber criminals Yingmob, has infected millions of devices and brings in millions of dollars of fake ad revenue.

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Tech Republic Cloud

JULY 5, 2016

Many businesses are migrating existing applications to the public cloud. Here are the key considerations you should make before selecting apps to migrate to the cloud.

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Computer Weekly

JULY 7, 2016

As part of the Cast launch event, government, corporate and social tech representatives discussed some of the challenges facing social tech and how we can grow tech for good initiatives

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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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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 4, 2016

Here are the 10 most popular stories that ran on Data Center Knowledge in June Read More.

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Tech Republic Security

JULY 6, 2016

If your Gmail account credentials ever become public, here are five steps you can take to secure your account and make sure only the right people have access to your account.

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Tech Republic Cloud

JULY 6, 2016

The Seafile on-premise file sync/share cloud system is a worthy competitor to Dropbox, ownCloud, and Nextcloud, says Jack Wallen. Learn how to install Seafile on Ubuntu Linux.

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Computer Weekly

JULY 5, 2016

Professors at Reading University see virtual reality as an increasingly important research and teaching tool in science and arts subjects

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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.