Wed.Oct 11, 2017

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Big Data: Out of the Server Room and Into the World

CTOvision

Modern business data acquisition, analytics, and warehousing have increased in both scale and frequency in recent years. The rapid development of new technologies to deal with these massive quantities of data has given birth to the so-called "Big Data" revolution. As a result, there are few industries that are isolated from the growing need to […].

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Will the review of Gov.uk Verify fix the UK's digital identity problems?

Computer Weekly

The rumoured review of the UK government’s identity assurance programme provides the ideal opportunity to fix problems and accelerate progress

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7 Emerging ERP Trends

IT Toolbox

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) has become an integral part of the business landscape, and ERP vendors are continuously coming up with less complex and more inexpensive options. An awareness of what's trending could help organizations extract the maximum mileage out of their ERP solutions. 1. User Experience.

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US says its views must be heard in legal challenge to EU-US data sharing

Computer Weekly

The US government says it has ‘has issues' with a ruling by the Irish High Court which will test the legality of EU-US data transfers as Facebook considers an appeal to Supreme Court.

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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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Novell Netware - A history Part 2

IT Toolbox

We need to keep in mind that the Netware NOS was a mainstay of networking for over a decade before it declined into obscurity against offerings from IBM and Microsoft. But the NOS and their directory services would continue to exist in many corporate infrastructures for at least another 10-12 years before complete take outs would occur. Some organizations hedged on Novell?

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Teva Pharmaceuticals turns to cloud HR as it weathers difficult trading conditions

Computer Weekly

One of Israel’s largest manufacturing companies has invested more than $10m in cloud HR, and explains how the technology is helping it turns its fortunes around

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Industrial control systems under attack, warns MIT researcher

Computer Weekly

Industrial control systems are under attack, and these attacks are likely to get worse, according to a security researcher and former NSA inspector general

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IDG Contributor Network: How smart cities can protect against IoT security threats

Network World

Smart cities, which were once confined to the realms of science fiction books, are rapidly becoming a reality all around the globe. Unfortunately, like all revolutionizing innovations, smart cities are developing their own unique challenges alongside of their perks. So what are industry insiders and tomorrow’s city planners doing to face these challenges?

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House of Lords committee hosts clash between AI enthusiasts and sceptics

Computer Weekly

In the first session of its enquiry into artificial intelligence and the UK economy, a House of Lords select committee takes contrasting testimony from academic enthusiasts and press sceptics

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What is a firewall?

Network World

Network-based firewalls have become almost ubiquitous across US enterprises for their proven defense against an ever-increasing array of threats. A recent study by network testing firm NSS Labs found that up to 80% of US large businesses run a next-generation firewall. Research firm IDC estimates the firewall and related unified threat management market was a $7.6 billion industry in 2015 and expected to reach $12.7 billion by 2020.

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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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Automation ‘will put 28% of young workers’ jobs at risk’

Computer Weekly

Research suggests the next 15 years will see young workers’ jobs at risk from automation, putting pressure on the UK to ensure the future generation has appropriate skills

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Meet Elements, a Cryptocurrency With the Power to Streamline the Loyalty Industry

IT Toolbox

There's a new cryptocurrency you must be aware of. By the end of 2017, everyone will be onto it. Whether you're a business owner, an investor or a digital mining enthusiast, now is the time to take action.

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Government proposes changes to make Britain safer online

Computer Weekly

The UK government has unveiled plans for an internet safety strategy to protect the British public from ‘worrying or nasty’ content online

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Capitalizing on Pay-as-You-Go Hybrid ERP

IT Toolbox

Newer companies with Software as a Service (SaaS) options are slowly changing the landscape of the ERP marketplace. Integrating legacy ERP with SaaS solutions to create hybrid ERP is not as complex as it once was.

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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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Nvidia unveils ‘world’s first’ AI computer chip for fully autonomous vehicles

Computer Weekly

Chip maker Nvidia announces an artificial intelligence system designed to support the greater computing workloads of future driverless cars

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How to Delete Windows.OLD Folder from Windows 10 Device

Anoop

Don’t not try to delete Windows.OLD folder from Windows 10 device via Windows Explorer. You won’t be able to remove Windows.old folder via Windows explorer. I have tried many times to delete this folder via windows Explorer but, never succeeded. In this post, we will see the method to Delete Windows.OLD Folder from Windows 10 Device. […].

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Tech investments key as European utility firms struggle

Computer Weekly

Utilities need to get their IT investments right if they are to regain and retain lost market share and boost revenue

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Seven Awesome Things You Can Learn From Your Browser

IT Toolbox

This post looks at a few things you can learn from your browser.

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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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Dubai Police launches Fajwa to streamline staff recruitment

Computer Weekly

Dubai police are improving recruitment processes through new system announced at Gitex 2017

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Unicode: Not Just For International Breakfasts Anymore

IT Toolbox

Abusing "code points" for convenience.

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Dutch government agreement increasingly focuses on IT security

Computer Weekly

The coalition government in the Netherlands has agreed its plan for the next for years, with IT security prominent

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Algorithms will out-perform Doctors in just 10 years time

Dataconomy

The power of Algorithms to calculate, contemplate and anticipate the needs of patients is improving rapidly and still has no sign of slowing down. Everything from patient diagnosis to therapy selection will soon be moving at exponential rates. Does that mean the end of doctors? Not quite. To better understand. The post Algorithms will out-perform Doctors in just 10 years time appeared first on Dataconomy.

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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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Sharjah Department of eGovernment sets out aims at Gitex 2017

Computer Weekly

The emirate of Sharjah has set out its plans for digital transformation at the Gitex 2017 event in Dubai

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The Monthly “100 Creativity Ingredients” Book Tuning: Creativity as Leadership Quality Oct., 2017

Future of CIO

All humans are born with raw creativity ability. Creativity has many dimensions, with multi-faceted truth and myth, manifold knowledge and multidimensional insight. Creativity is wings of our mind and tempo of our heartbeat. Creativity is a constructive disruption, not so bad addiction, and a sensational phenomenon. The purpose of “ 100 Creativity Ingredients - Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity “is to classify, scrutinize, articulate, and share insight about one hundred special creativity

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Samsung: NVMe benefits are available now, within limits

Computer Weekly

Customers can benefit and make big savings from deploying NVMe flash drives – but there are limits

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Digital Workplace Manifesto

Future of CIO

A digital workplace is all about people-centricity, empathy, innovation, agility and high-level business maturity. Digital workplaces are about building an environment with the abundance of information and the culture of innovation, to put people at the center of business, and to both engage employees and delight customers. From alignment to engagement to People-Centricity.

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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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3 Quick Questions with.NEXT Speaker John McAdam

Nutanix

John McAdam has served as a member of the board of directors at Nutanix since 2015. He also currently serves on the board of F5 Networks, the company for which he was president and CEO from 2000 to 2017. Under his leadership, F5’s annual revenue grew from $100 million to $2 billion.

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CIOs as Chief Investment Officer: Three Aspects to Unleash IT Enabled Digital Potential

Future of CIO

Assessing organizational personality, managing company performance and maximizing business potential are important digital management scenarios to build the high-mature digital organization. All ambitious businesses strive to unlock their business potential. Performance keeps the business lights on, potential could enable the organization to reach the next level of business growth cycle and maturity.