CTOvision

AUGUST 16, 2016

JL Lewitin. Women Who Code (WWCode) is an international non-profit that empowers career aged professionals to achieve success in technology. They do this through a series of over 60 Networks around the world which host technical talks, study groups, hackathons, and other career development and social events. Their latest initiative is a Job Board that is designed to cater to the specific needs of engineers, while eliminating some common mistakes that can make female coders less likely to conside

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 17, 2016

Google this week added yet another chat app to the mix with Duo, a smartphone-only video chat application that bridges the gap between iOS and Android devices. Rather than solve the problem of interoperation between different video chat applications, though, it made another application altogether. The killer video chat app will be the one that works like a telephone.

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Computer Weekly

AUGUST 17, 2016

The improvement of specialist security expertise is one of the top three drivers for an additional investment in IT security, but many struggle to find people with the skills they need, a report reveals

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IT Toolbox

AUGUST 15, 2016

Many businesses and organizations have come to rely on their customer relationship management (CRM) application, making it one of their most useful and reliable tools for simplifying management tasks.

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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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CTOvision

AUGUST 16, 2016

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 Mobility. This is the greatest leap in humanity's ability to stay connected since the advent of spoken word.

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 19, 2016

Customers' perception of a company depends on their experiences with the organization at every point of contact. Companies can try to change how customers view a brand in a number of ways, such as a new mobile app or an improved complaint-handling process. However, to really improve customer perception, every interaction at every touchpoint must answer questions, suggest new services, and deepen the relationship.

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IT Toolbox

AUGUST 15, 2016

There’s no argument that cost is the most compelling reason for mid-sized organizations turn to cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Companies that fall under the mid-sized umbrella often don’t have the available capital to invest in an in-house ERP application as well as all the equipment and personnel needed to operate it, yet they need the advantage of ERP.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 19, 2016

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 Big Data. For years now people and our sensors and our computers have been generating more information than we can analyze.

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 19, 2016

This week's announcement by Cisco , that it will be restructuring to move away from hardware to further invest in key priority areas in its portfolio, such as security, IoT, collaboration, next generation data center and cloud, did not come as a real surprise to Forrester. Last year, Forrester evaluated Cisco's efforts to transform itself from a network business to a global provider of business technology (BT) -- the technology, systems, and processes to win, serve, and retain customers -- and a

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Computer Weekly

AUGUST 15, 2016

Banks and other financial institutions are threatened by a new breed of elite cyber criminals running professional operations that will use any means to achieve their goals, says Barclays security chief

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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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IT Toolbox

AUGUST 15, 2016

Customer relationship management (CRM), a long-established core technology upon which businesses everywhere rely, is still rapidly evolving and growing. According to Gartner, the CRM industry will be worth $37 billion by 2017, expanding at a compound annual growth rate of 15 percent each year until then.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 16, 2016

Sanjeev Sularia. We have come to a point where online needs to be connected at a cellular level with offline. The problem is that many companies still treat them as separate entities, and that is hobbling any chance of success warns Intelligence Node’s Sanjeev Sularia. Shopping has changed – consumers now want to be able to shop in-store or online, wherever and whenever they want, but the problem is many retailers still don’t see the two roads intersecting, which means they are losing out when i

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 16, 2016

Today, everyone is a content producer. At Forrester, we've seen many companies do this- whether it's Virgin America's Hollywood-produced in-flight videos, Kohler's partnership with parent bloggers to create YouTube content, or Lego's webisodes available on their website. Customers' interactions with your firm rely on the content you produce at every interaction point.

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Computer Weekly

AUGUST 19, 2016

Law enforcement organisations are set to ramp up arrests of cyber criminals behind ransomware attacks, according to financial technology startup Chainalysis

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IT Toolbox

AUGUST 15, 2016

Switching to a new voice over IP (VoIP) system from a public switched telephone network (PSTN) can be difficult if you don’t know where to start. If you’re interested in making the change to a new VoIP system and are ready to get rid of old phone lines, there’s no better time to make it happen. VoIP helps all businesses save money as well as increase production and efficiency.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 13, 2016

Research Team. We have been tracking Amazon for years, but as a reference point consider that in November 2006 BusinessWeek ran a cover story with the title "Jeff Bezos' Risky Bet" where the concept of cloud computing as a business model disruptor was catapulted into the mainstream. Since then the risky bet has paid off for Amazon and has helped transform the business ecosystem in ways few could have predicted.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

AUGUST 15, 2016

With the hot weather in the US northeast this weekend, I was able to catch up on some reading and research around big data, data science, and agile. In thinking about the culture required to leverage big data capabilities and data science programs, I found some interesting data worth sharing. The first comes from Computing Big Data 2016 - This is showing that the collaboration between.

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Computer Weekly

AUGUST 15, 2016

Organisations need to take insider threats more seriously say security experts, as Sage warns that a data breach using an internal log-in may have compromised employee data at nearly 300 UK firms

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IT Toolbox

AUGUST 15, 2016

Radar detectors are always chasing radar guns, the technologies trying to “one up” each other. Cloud security folks and malicious hackers continue to duke it out in the trenches in a similar fashion.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 18, 2016

Bob Gourley. As a reminder, the largest data science/data analytics/data infrastructure gathering in the world is the yearly Strata + Hadoop World in NYC. This year's is 26-29 Sep. Thanks to the team at O'Reilly, CTOvision readers can sign up to attend with a 20% discount. To do that simply follow this link and use the registration code: PCCTOV. [link].

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The Accidental Successful CIO

AUGUST 17, 2016

Silos exist inside and outside of IT, CIOs need a plan to deal with them Image Credit: Rex Hammock. As the person with the CIO job at your company, you have control over the domain of IT. If you want it to happen in your department, then it’s going to happen. However, if we step outside of your department into finance, or accounting, or sales, your power starts to drop off rather quickly because they don’t have the same view of the importance of information technology.

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Computer Weekly

AUGUST 15, 2016

Voluntary organisation Disaster Test Lab deploys ruggedised Cradlepoint technology to provide mobile connectivity to 18 refugee camps in Greece

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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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IT Toolbox

AUGUST 17, 2016

In addition to incorrect cable connections to the NIC, the usual pitfalls of the Interrupt Request (IRQ), I/O Base Address, and DMA Channel must be optioned properly for the host PC. In addition, some NICs have a RAM buffer or BIOS ROM that must share the PC's address space. Use caution to avoid memory conflicts with other devices in the PC.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 16, 2016

Bob Gourley. Intel Corporation ( NASDAQ:INTC ) is best known for chips, but is involved in many other aspects of the delivery of compute platforms. At a current market cap of $164B they have the resources to continue to innovate and we expect to see Intel as a Tech Titan for years to come. From Reuters: Intel Corporation is engaged in the design and manufacture of digital technology platforms.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 18, 2016

No deal or joint product, but channel partners can now offer certified Nutanix-on-UCS solutions Read More.

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Computer Weekly

AUGUST 19, 2016

The government welcomes a review of the controversial Investigatory Powers Bill that found there is no viable alternative to the bulk data collection powers proposed by the bill

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IT Toolbox

AUGUST 15, 2016

Modern businesses are switching to voice over IP (VoIP) solutions because they’re a cost-effective alternative to the plain old telephone system (POTS). VoIP solutions are also powerful tools to use in the cloud.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 13, 2016

Research Team. Boston Dynamics is an engineering company that specializes in building dynamic robots and software for human simulation. Currently a wholly owned subsidiary of Google, Inc. Began as a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where National Academy of Engineering member Marc Raibert and his colleagues first developed robots that ran and maneuvered like animals.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 19, 2016

This data center operator believes it’s possible, and they’re doing something about it Read More.

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Computer Weekly

AUGUST 16, 2016

Ongoing data breaches through point of sale malware highlights the need for security standards and central support for franchisees in the hotel industry, say security experts

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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.