Sat.Jul 30, 2016 - Fri.Aug 05, 2016

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Short Form Product Video Can Be The Key To Converting Customers

Forrester IT

Marketers have a great arsenal of tools to drive conversions and now short form video needs to be part of that mix. Invest in it now to differentiate your business. Historically, video has been expensive to produce and manage, but that's changed. It no longer costs a fortune to produce video content. In fact, some retailers added video production to their existing photography process and they're using the same equipment.

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Risk IQ Launches Groundbreaking Security Intelligence Services Product That Enables Automated Defenses

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. 28 July 2016--SAN FRANCISCO--( BUSINESS WIRE )--RiskIQ, the leader in external threat management, today announced general availability for its Security Intelligence Services, a ground-breaking new product that uses the Internet itself as a detection system to automatically defend a network from cyber attacks. Attackers use automation and can launch sophisticated attacks at very low cost by rotating and reusing undetected infrastructure.

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Artificial intelligence takes centre stage in cyber security

Computer Weekly

Artificial intelligence-led cyber security technology has been in the spotlight at two major industry conferences in Las Vegas, signalling a firm trend in cyber defence research

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Xirrus Adds Distributed Location Functions to Its Wi-Fi Services Stable

IT Toolbox

Though not the biggest name in enterprise Wi-Fi, Xirrus seems evolve right along with the rest of the market with new hardware, features, and services. Case in point- it’s new distributed location services that the company has branded XPS, for Xirrus Positioning Service.

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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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Insights-Driven Businesses Will Make $1.2 Trillion In 2020. Wanna Join Them?

Forrester IT

You can't win, serve, and retain powerful customers without being insights-driven. It's one of the principles of customer obsession: customer-led, insights-driven, fast, and connected. So what does it mean to be insights-driven? We think we know based on conversations with over 50 companies over three years. We have identified 40 public companies and a horde of venture-backed startups that work in a fundamentally different way: They harness and apply data at every opportunity to differen

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The Real Difference Between Electronic Signatures and Digital Signatures

CTOvision

John Harris. Whether the paperless office has actually arrived is debatable, but there’s no question that almost every business today is at least leaning towards the digital direction. For many companies across the industry spectrum that includes changing the way their staff – and their clients – sign contracts, forms and other documents. As to how companies implement the change to e-signed documents, well, the similarities stop there.

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How Vantage Data Centers ‘Created Land’ For a 51 MW Santa Clara Expansion Campus

Data Center Knowledge

In California's Silicon Valley, data center developers now must resort to alchemy, imagination, and a bit of elbow grease to create land parcels suitable for new developments. Read More.

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Bosch Software Innovation Offers Lessons For Digital Transformation

Forrester IT

Traditional manufacturing businesses must rework the structure and culture of their organization to address rapidly changing client expectations. Bosch is a fascinating example of how a traditional manufacturing firm can successfully transition into a leading digital business. Our discussions with Bosch highlight that: Read more Categories: Bosch. Digital Transformation. cultural transformation.

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A Chat with Jeh Johnson, Secretary of Homeland Security, at the July 2016 Aspen Forum

CTOvision

Michael Johnson. In his final months in office, the Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson gives us his assessment of the state of the nation’s security. This discussion is moderated by Thom Shanker, Assistant Washington Editor of the New York Times.

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DWP director Kevin Cunnington set to take over as new head of Government Digital Service

Computer Weekly

Kevin Cunnington, currently director general for business transformation at DWP, is taking over as the new head of the Government Digital Service

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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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How to Use CRM to Drive Sales and Increase Profits

IT Toolbox

Customer relationship management software is much more than a simple tool for cataloging customers. For your sales department, the right CRM system is a gold mine of opportunity. Here are a few ways you can use your CRM software to drive up sales and increase profit for your business. Keep Your Customers Coming Back.

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Verizon’s Acquisition Of Fleetmatics Group Boosts IoT Momentum In The Telco Space

Forrester IT

Verizon's acquisition of Fleetmatics Group isn't the first deal that involves a telco pushing into new internet-of-things (IoT) territory in the vehicle management space. In 2015, Orange acquired fleet management provider Ocean to strengthen its vehicle fleet management activities. However, at $2.4 billion, the Fleetmatics deal is much bigger than most telcos have been willing to contemplate to date, underlining Verizon's commitment to the IoT space.

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Bob Flores on How to Stop Catastrophic Failure in Your Organization

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. Bob Flores (founder and partner of Cognitio ) and Junaid Islam (CTO of Vidder) will lead an interactive discussion titled "How to Stop Catastrophic Failure in Your Organization" at the TTI/Vanguard conference Sept 27-28, 2016in Pentagon City. TTI/Vanguard is a unique forum for senior-level executives that links strategic technology planning to business success.

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British breakthrough for IoT- based business applications this year

Computer Weekly

Internet of things-based business applications could be mainstream tools in the UK by the end of this year

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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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Switching the Switch Gear: Schneider Electric’s Push for SSIS

Data Center Knowledge

It is not a radical or even new idea: If every part of a power distribution system were adequately shielded, none of the common elements that can gum up such a system — air, humidity, erosion, insects, rodents, the occasional exploding beer can — would negatively impact its performance. .

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Ping Identity Acquires UnboundID

Forrester IT

Yesterday, Ping Identity announced it has acquired Austin, Texas-based UnboundID. Although the financial terms were not disclosed, Forrester estimates the purchase price in the $50M-$75M range, based on typical M&A SaaS revenue multiples of 6X to 8X and Forrester's estimation of UnboundID's annual revenue. This acquisition is not particularly surprising, as UnboundID and Ping have had a healthy reseller relationship since April 2015, so the purchase merely consummates the existing relationsh

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Deeper Insights Into Facebook’s Torchnet

CTOvision

Rick Delgado. Deep learning may be the next great frontier in computer development, essentially taking the concept of artificial intelligence and turning it into a reality. While AI has been around for years, many developers believe taking it to the next level is only a matter of time. That’s why so many are excited by Facebook’s recent announcement at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) back in June.

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One in five businesses hit by ransomware are forced to close, study shows

Computer Weekly

More than half of UK companies have been hit by ransomware in the past year, a study on the impacts of this popular attack method has revealed

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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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Report: Data Center Market Trends ‘Strong Demand, Smart Growth’

Data Center Knowledge

Have the last few quarters ushered in a "new normal," as more enterprise customers join the cloud bandwagon, or will absorption revert back to historic levels? Read More.

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Cloud VoIP platform rolls out upgrades for service providers

IT Toolbox

Cloud voice-based platform provider Allianz is introducing new enhancements for its residential and business VoIP solution portfolio for service providers. Its new Cloud Voice Platform is progressively adding a set of application program interfaces (APIs) that integrate into different vendor environments in a process of ongoing releases.

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VDI vs. DaaS: What is the difference, and which is best for your business' virtualization needs?

Tech Republic Cloud

Desktop virtualization is nothing new, but now you have two popular forms to choose from: VDI and DaaS. There are distinct differences between them, and knowing what's what is important if you're looking to invest.

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Slow broadband causes widespread stress, campaigners claim

Computer Weekly

A report compiled for the ISP-led Fix Britain’s Internet campaign has said that millions of people are experiencing stress and anxiety because of slow and unreliable broadband

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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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Creating the Hybrid Bridge Between Data Center and Cloud

Data Center Knowledge

This article, sponsored by Dell and Intel, provides three key planning considerations to help you bridge your data center with the cloud. Read More.

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Keep Your Customers on Board with CRM

IT Toolbox

How good is your relationship with your customers? This question has become one of the most asked questions circulating the business world in recent years, shifting the focus from acquiring customers to keeping them. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions are now considered a necessity because they help strengthen and maintain customer loyalty.

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Does Your Company Need An Internal Social Network?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Having an internal social network sounds like a good idea, but is it? Image Credit: Sam Michel. Wow – that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. sure got really big overnight, didn’t it? One idea that has been running through almost every CEO’s head as of late has been the concept of creating something like Facebook , but restricting it to only exist within the company.

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Enterprises dangerously complacent about mobile threats, says report

Computer Weekly

Businesses must ensure mobile security controls are deployed and enforced on every device used to access corporate data and apps, according to MobileIron’s latest mobile security and risk review

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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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Dissecting the Data Center: What Can – and Can’t – Be Moved to the Cloud

Data Center Knowledge

According to the results of a recent survey of IT professionals, 43 percent of organizations estimate half or more of their IT infrastructure will be in the cloud in the next three to five years. The race to the cloud is picking up steam, but all too often companies begin… Read More.

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Ways You Can Protect Yourself from Online Identity Theft

IT Toolbox

The personal data that can be stolen includes passwords, credit card numbers, bank information, usernames, health ID, social security number and similar information.

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SCCM Automated Endpoint Full System Scan upon Infection with Email Notification

Mick's IT Blog

While helping to manage Microsoft Endpoint, a former colleague suggested that I setup Endpoint to automatically run a full system scan each time an infection is detected. I Googled the blog posting on it and although it is a great post, I figured it could streamlined even more by just using SCCM alone to achieve the same outcome. It is nice when you are out of the office and your backup might not have the time to keep an eye on the antivirus infections.

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Nordic CIO interview: Liv Fiksdahl, DNB

Computer Weekly

CIO of Norwegian bank tells Computer Weekly how Indian outsourcing partners help her keep costs down and digitise the business

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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.