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Businesses bracing for GDPR data deletion requests

Computer Weekly

Businesses are concerned that data deletion requests under the GDPR will have a significant or even crippling effect, with many unprepared to meet the expected demand

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4 Common ERP User Complaints and How to Remedy Them

IT Toolbox

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are used by thousands of companies all over the world. They aid companies in various business process, helping them improve productivity, efficiency, and profits. No matter how good an ERP system is, though, or how flawless the implementation seems, nothing is perfect. There will be complaints, especially from those who spend the most time using the software.

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Should CIOs Be Working With “Engines”?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Perhaps you need an engine to power your IT shop Image Credit: Jorge Quinteros. As the person with the CIO job, you have a lot of challenges facing you. One of the biggest is how you are going to use your limited IT resources to meet the needs of the entire company. As the company’s awareness of the importance of information technology continues to grow more people will be coming to you with requests for the IT department to automate some process, monitor some inputs, or do a better job of

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Overview Windows 10 Co-Management with Intune and SCCM

Anoop

Co-Management is another buzz word in device management world. What is this co-management? Windows 10 co-management is a dual management capability available with Windows 10 1709 version (Fall Creators Update) and later. Co-management is the bridge between traditional management and modern management. In this post, we will see more details “Overview Windows 10 Co-Management with […].

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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TfL forges ahead with 4G for the Tube after successful test

Computer Weekly

Having built a pilot 4G network for ESN on the Waterloo & City Line during the summer, TfL is pressing ahead with plans to roll out mobile broadband for all London Underground users

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5 VoIP Trends That Are Pushing Enterprises to Evolve

IT Toolbox

These days, an increasing number of enterprises are choosing Voice over Internet Protocol technology because of the value it adds to their organizations. But this solution-based software isn't new. In fact, although it has been in the telecommunications field for two decades, it is only now starting to get the recognition and growth it truly deserves as key decision-makers realize its potential.

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The Endpoint Imperative: The Perimeter is Dead; Long Live the Perimeter!

Cloud Musings

Cloud, mobility and the Internet of Things have obliterated the traditional perimeter that protected organizations. The result: Higher productivity, but bigger challenges for security, data protection, and mobile device management. This episode of the “The Endpoint Imperative” podcast series from Intel, Kevin L. Jackson and Intel’s Yasser Rasheed explore the new normal for security, with a focus on the end users.

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Councils continue to spend on Oracle despite budget constraints

Computer Weekly

Local authorities face a challenges balancing their meagre budgets with services they can afford to provide, but spending on Oracle seems to be increasing

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What to Know About ERP Security

IT Toolbox

Security for your ERP system starts with the system itself and needs to extend down through the operating system to the bare iron. While, it’s not top-of-mind, security is critical – as a couple of cases making the evening news demonstrate. Security is a job, but it doesn’t have to be a major time sink.

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Video Tutorial SCCM 1710 New Features Overview Plus Upgrade Guide

Anoop

Microsoft SCCM team released the latest production version 1710 of SCCM/ConfigMgr. The version is published as an opt-in option. This release of SCCM CB 1710 production version won’t show automatically in your SCCM console. This release is called Fast Ring production release of SCCM CB 1710. In this post, we will see “SCCM 1710 New […].

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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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IDG Contributor Network: The case for securing the SD-WAN

Network World

With everything from massive data breaches at global organizations to explosive ransomware attacks that infect hundreds of thousands of users within days, it’s well established that enterprises these days are dealing with more threats than ever before – all of which are increasing in abundance, frequency and complexity. Among other things, this rapidly evolving threat environment can be attributed to new and expanding threat vectors that have opened the door for external threats to reach critica

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‘Sound policy’ to prosecute hackers in UK, says former DPP in Love case

Computer Weekly

The former director of public prosecutions (DPP), Ken Macdonald, said in written evidence in Lauri Love’s extradition case that it is normal practice to prosecute hackers accused of attacking US servers in the UK – rather than extradite them to the US

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Five Enterprise Security Threats to Watch Today

IT Toolbox

One of the keynotes at this year’s OracleWorld in San Francisco was about the automated security built into Oracle’s new self-driving database. CEO Larry Ellison made a big deal about the dangers of cyberattack in a world where every part of a business is driven by software, and how the threat is getting beyond what humans can effectively manage.

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FIX CBB Ring Devices are Getting CB Updates Intune Windows 10 Update Rings

Anoop

Are you an early adaptor of Intune? Intune custom policies configured using CSPs are very helpful in most of the scenarios. But, you can get into trouble with some of the custom CSPs if you don’t update it promptly. In this post, we will see “FIX CBB Ring Devices are Getting CB Updates Intune Windows […]. The post FIX CBB Ring Devices are Getting CB Updates Intune Windows 10 Update Rings appeared first on Anoops.

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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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Stuff Worth Reading – November 2017

The Investing Edge

We’re fully into the cold weather in New England, watching the snow-guns fire away in the northern ski areas, recovering from Thanksgiving, and closing in on year-end numbers. We wish you all a blockbuster Q4. Here’s some of what we’ve been reading: . Industry Themes. In Innovation That Matters 2017 , sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation and others, Boston leads the country as an innovation hub for the second year in a row.

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Businesses need to balance user experience, privacy and security

Computer Weekly

Balancing user experience, privacy and security for the connected consumer is a key challenge for online businesses, according to KuppingerCole

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Top Five Reasons You Need to Invest in Security Certifications

IT Toolbox

Every company holds data that is critical and valuable to its daily operations. For this reason, it is important then to protect and secure its confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

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Short URLs for Lazy Microsoft Intune Admins

Anoop

Are you a Lazy Microsoft Intune Admin? You don’t want to type portal.azure.com and click on Intune blade?

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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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Tech Talk: Uber hack, Google tracks, AWS packs (in China). and Firefox is back

Network World

Our tech panel looks at how Uber (secretly) handled last year's hack and the controversy around Google's decision to track Android users' locations. Then it's time to discuss why AWS is selling off hardware in China and what Mozilla is up to with its new Firefox Quantum.

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GDPR likely to affect internal processes heavily, warns lawyer

Computer Weekly

Businesses should not overlook the fact that the EU’s new data protection laws may require fundamental changes to internal business processes, warns a data protection lawyer

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Six Keys for Better Operational Intelligence

IT Toolbox

Last week I sat down with a product manager in Silicon Valley who was very excited. Her team was delivering ahead of schedule and the latest version of the product was looking good. What had her enthused, however, was the tweak she had just discovered that helped the product development team move about 15 percent faster.

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How big data technology is transforming fraud investigations

Dataconomy

The inside story of the Paradise Papers leak With more than 1,4 terabytes of data, the Paradise Papers is the illustration of the new possibilities for the fraud investigation world. Conducting investigations is a challenge in the age of big data. Massive volumes, unstructured and siloed data make it harder. The post How big data technology is transforming fraud investigations appeared first on Dataconomy.

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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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What keeps IT administrators up at night? Ransomware, for one | Salted Hash Ep 8

Network World

A solid backup policy and frequent awareness training can reduce the risk of ransomware, but unintentional breaches by insiders are still a worry for administrators. Watch as Steve Ragan and Michael Nadeau talk security strategy.

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My brother Lauri Love should have the right to a trial in the UK

Computer Weekly

Lauri Love should face trial over hacking allegations in a British Court, rather than be extradited to the US, where his extraordinary skills will be lost to society, says his younger sister

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One Bitcoin Transaction Consumes One Week Worth of Electricity for Your Home

IT Toolbox

As the Bitcoin hype is increasingly rising so does its exorbitant energy consumption.

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Liveblog: IPv6 in the Cloud - Protocol and Service Overview

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of an AWS re:Invent 2017 breakout session titled “IPv6 in the Cloud: Protocol and Service Overview.” The presenter’s name is Alan Halachmi, who is a Senior Manager of Solutions Architecture at AWS. As with so many of the other breakout sessions and workshops here at re:Invent this year, the queues to get into the session are long and it’s expected that the session will be completely full.

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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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CIOs as “Chief Improvement Officer”: How to Apply Maslow’s Hierarchy to IT management

Future of CIO

Abraham Harold Maslow was an American psychologist, who stated that people are motivated to achieve certain needs and that some needs take precedence over others. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a motivational theory in psychology comprising different tier of human needs, at the bottom is the basic surviving needs to the middle tier for belonging to the top tier of self-actualization.

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AWS cloud security: Amazon CISO shares secrets to building secure cloud products

Computer Weekly

Ahead of Re:Invent 2017, AWS CISO Stephen Schmidt discusses how the cloud giant addresses user demand for new products and services, without compromising on cloud security

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Punch-Up Your Sales Process with CRM

IT Toolbox

CRM can do more than track sales calls. You can use the features in CRM to expand your sales efforts, increase the bottom line and improve morale among your employees. Automate Emails. Dealing with emails is one of the major tasks sales staffs have to perform.

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A Sample Makefile for Creating Blog Articles

Scott Lowe

In October of this year, I published a blog post talking about a sample Makefile for publishing blog articles. That post focused on the use of make and a Makefile for automating the process of a publishing a blog post. This post is a companion to that post, and focuses on the use of a Makefile for automating the creation of blog posts. Since early 2015, this site has been running as a static site with the content created using Markdown.

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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.