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Why Startups Should Not Ignore Big Data

CTOvision

Startup businesses are a risky proposition. This means that if things aren’t done in the most effective way possible, businesses will never make it past the first year. The business plan can often determine whether or not a business gets passed the startup phase of the company. When creating a business plan, owners sometimes skip […].

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Digital Store Technologies Take the Stage For Both Customer and Associate Experience

Forrester IT

Digital retail theater is becoming reality for consumers as retailers rush to find ways of attracting and retaining store customers. What is digital retail theater? It’s the combination of original retail theater – entertainment, novelty, and engagement – with digital technologies and services to create the next level of in-store experience.

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Cyber security not a priority for most sectors, study finds

Computer Weekly

Despite data breaches costing UK firms nearly £30bn in 2016, cyber security is still not a priority for most UK industry sectors, a study has revealed

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Three Agile Management Practices for Driving Digital Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

When I joined Businessweek ten years ago to lead their digital technology team, I was very surprised that they wanted to develop their own proprietary web applications. Could a magazine owned by a publisher mature a software development practice and deliver new customer experiences? The answer was yes - and as it turns out - many other companies are investing in their software development.

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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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Kinetica: GPU-accelerated analytics database

CTOvision

With this post we are initializing our coverage of Kinetica. Kinetica offers a GPU-accelerated, in-memory analytics database that delivers truly real-time response to queries on large, complex and streaming data sets: 100x faster performance at 1/10 of the hardware of traditional databases. Kinetica was initially developed for the US Army Intelligence and Security Command to […].

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Five ERP Onboarding Mistakes to Avoid

IT Toolbox

There are levels of ERP deployment hell. First there is lengthy planning with lots of stakeholders. Then there is design and build-out with much scope for project creep, budget overruns, technical gotchas and customization boondoggles. Like a game of the Atari classic, Pitfall!

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Packet Says Your Data Center Shouldn’t Have an Opinion

Data Center Knowledge

Bare-metal cloud expansion targets companies with latency-sensitive workloads, such as IoT, self-driving cars, AR/VR Read More.

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The Relationship between AR Tech and Insurance

CTOvision

Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology that involves the use of digital content such as music, text, video and pictures to enhance a real world environment. It is important to point out that this technology does not entirely replace the real world like the virtual reality technology. In this case, a mobile device is normally […].

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Passwords are not lame and they're not dead. Here's why.

IT Toolbox

Everywhere you turn, it seems that someone is proclaiming that passwords are lame, passwords are dead, and so on – you know the jingle. The argument is that passwords don’t work. They’re hard to remember. They’re easily-cracked. Users complain when they have to be complex. I know you’ve heard these things and have even thought them yourself from time to time.

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Getting stuck on OpenStack: Overcoming the open source cloud platform's upgrade barriers

Computer Weekly

Some members of the OpenStack community are finding it a struggle to upgrade to newer versions of the open source cloud operating system. Could customisation be to blame?

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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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Oilfield Rush to High-Tech Helps Smaller Companies Thrive

Data Center Knowledge

Computers, digital signals, algorithms redefine drilling; old guard snapping up next-gen firms with patents in hand Read More.

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Help Shape The Course of Artificial Intelligence at O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference in San Francisco Sep 17-20 2017

CTOvision

The O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference gathers some of the brightest minds in AI to cut through the hype, identify and explain the most promising AI developments, and provide practical case studies, time-saving tips and tricks, and proven best practices you need to use AI right now—as well as the insight you need to see where […].

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Seven Keys for Driving ERP Adoption

IT Toolbox

ERP systems are more powerful than ever, but that only matters if employees are using them. Organizational change management is one of the most important success factors for a new ERP implementation, according to a recent study conducted by Panorama Consulting.

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Security Think Tank: Employees are in the cyber attack firing line, so educate them well

Computer Weekly

What are the best security controls to ensure a safe working environment where employees do not have the unfair pressure of being the first line of cyber defence?

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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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10 books on cybersecurity that all IT leaders should read

Tech Republic Security

Want to start learning about cybersecurity? Check out TechRepublic's top 10 titles to understand how hackers have stolen millions in private data, how governments wage cyberwar, and how to beef up security systems.

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UK Startup Raises $30M to Build AI Chips for Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

The increasing use of artificial intelligence is opening the possibility of a shakeup in the data-center industry. Read More.

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Usability and integration: keys to successful CRM platforms

IT Toolbox

Legacy CRM suites often involve slow, cumbersome interfaces that frustrate users and get in the way of wide adoption. According to a new Forrester/CustomerThink survey, 46% of respondents encountered user adoption struggles when implementing their CRM initiative.

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How Wales has evolved into a hotspot for cyber security

Computer Weekly

Wales may be a small country but, in just a few years, it has become a global hotspot for cyber security innovation

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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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Are CIOs Ready To Enter The World Of 3D Printed Metal Objects?

The Accidental Successful CIO

As companies start to print 3D metal objects, the CIO is going to be involved Image Credit: gillyan9. Just in case you missed it, the world around us is changing. Although CIOs like to surround themselves with things like servers, software, clouds, and secure networks, we need to keep in mind that our company employs us for a reason. They understand the importance of information technology and they want us to help them to harness it so that they can do what they do better.

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Uber’s New CEO Short List Is Said to Include HPE’s Meg Whitman

Data Center Knowledge

Employees say company has short list of fewer than six CEO candidates Read More.

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Global IP Traffic Will Increase Nearly Threefold Over the Next 4 Years

IT Toolbox

Rapid advances in technology over the past few years have created different kinds of ?eras? and ?ages? within short time periods. We?re quickly leaving the Information Age and pushing forward into the Augmented Age: with all this change in technology, the internet will change just as quickly.

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GDS wants IT suppliers to use its GaaP products – but won’t offer service guarantees

Computer Weekly

The Government Digital Service encourages tech firms to adopt the platform services it has developed – but can’t offer any service or support guarantees

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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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How to Contribute to Go

SPF13

I wrote this presentation with Jessie Frazelle. She made it look very nice and delivered it at the “Go Contributor Workshop” at GopherCon. Some of the instructions are clearly only relevant to that workshop, but the vast majority of the presentation should be helpful to anyone wanting to contribute to Go.

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GoDaddy Drops Curtain on Its Cloud Business… Again

Data Center Knowledge

I know what you're thinking. "GoDaddy is in the public cloud business?" Read More.

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Reasons Why Application Lifecycle Management Is Important

IT Toolbox

ALM outlines methodologies which are to be used during software development and the tools that can help improve efficiency

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UK government wants to give 6,000 teenagers cyber security training

Computer Weekly

Government launches £20m Cyber Schools Programme aimed at students aged between 14 and 18

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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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Microsoft Azure: The smart person's guide

Tech Republic Data Center

This comprehensive guide about Microsoft Azure includes common use cases, technical limitations, and what to know before adopting the cloud computing platform.

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Facilitating Digital Transformation in One Step

Data Center Knowledge

According to a new study of 200 industrial executives conducted by IFS, mobility represents just as large an opportunity for industrial organizations as it does for Uber. Read More.

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UDP: User Datagrams

IT Toolbox

Although the idea of UDP protocol port numbers seems straightforward, there are two basic approaches to its implementation. Both approaches are consistent with the protocol standard, but they provide slightly different interfaces for application programs. The different cases are not always mutually exclusive ? there may be reasons to leverage both approaches within an application.

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CIF gears up to target public sector cloud

Computer Weekly

Cloud Industry Forum wants to help the UK government achieve its digital strategy, but working with government is still a big challenge for many providers

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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.