Mon.Dec 18, 2017

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We are Doing Agile, but are not Agile

Social, Agile and Transformation

Everyone, or at least almost everyone is doing some form of agile practices today. In fact, some leaders drive their digital transformation programs with leading agile to deliver customer facing applications. In a year of speaking at conferences, I did not meet anyone selling their waterfall, top-down project management practices as keys to their transformation programs.

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Top 10 storage and backup stories of 2017

Computer Weekly

In Computer Weekly’s top 10 storage stories of 2017, we tracked key trends such as the continued rise of hyper-converged infrastructure, the emergence of NVMe flash and object storage

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'Paris s'éveille'! Introducing the AWS EU (Paris) Region

All Things Distributed

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS EU (Paris) Region, our 18th technology infrastructure Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. With this launch, AWS now provides 49 Availability Zones, with another 12 Availability Zones and four Regions in Bahrain, Hong Kong, Sweden, and a second AWS GovCloud (US) Region expected to come online by early 2019.

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Top 10 cloud stories of 2017

Computer Weekly

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 cloud stories of 2017

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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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BITPro User Group Meeting Presentation Decks and Useful Links

Anoop

We had another successful Bangalore IT Pro user group meeting at Microsoft office Bangalore. We had more than 80 participants from different parts of the country. Thank you for all of the attendees, speakers, and sponsors (Microsoft and Adaptiva) to make this event successful. In this post, I will share BITPro User Group Meeting Presentation Decks […].

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Top 10 business applications stories of 2017

Computer Weekly

Indirect licensing of SAP software was the big story, with SAP’s victory over Diageo in the High Court proving a tinderbox.

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Highways England awards telecoms service contract to Telent

Computer Weekly

Network upgrade will enable Highways England to prepare for technologies such as 5G and connected cars

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Zero Trust networks and enterprise security strategy | Salted Hash Ep 12

Network World

Executives at cloud services vendor Akamai -- David Lewis, global security advocate; Andy Ellis, CSO; and Charlie Gero, CTO -- talk with host Steve Ragan about the evolving role of security in the enterprise.

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Dubai Health Authority to launch app to help doctors’ stroke diagnosis

Computer Weekly

Dubai healthcare organisation is developing a medical application with UAE telco Etisalat

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30% off APC 1500VA Compact UPS Battery Backup & Surge Protector

Network World

An APC UPS provides backup power power and surge protection to power and protect your PC or Mac, network router, gaming consoles like Xbox and PS4, AV and other business electronics from the dangers of power surges, spikes, lightning and power outages. By powering your critical electronics with a backup battery during blackouts, you ensure personal and professional connectivity when it matters most.

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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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Top 10 broadband stories of 2017

Computer Weekly

Here are Computer Weekly's top 10 broadband stories from 2017

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Secure Pico Channels with DIDs

Phil Windley

Summary: Decentralized identifiers are a perfect complement to the event channels in picos and provide the means of performing secure messaging between picos with little effort on the developer's part. Picos are Internet-first actors that are well suited for use in building decentralized soutions on the Internet of Things. See this description of picos for more details.

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The Digital-Driven CIO’s Three Focuses

Future of CIO

The digital world is so technology-driven and information-intensive, technology needs will only expand, and most likely expand hyperbolically. To effectively respond to the business dynamics, digital companies must begin thinking about ways with strategic planning to broaden their ecosystems while becoming more innovative, nimble, and intelligent. Here are three focuses of digital-driven CIOs.

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“The Mindset is Often the Hardest Thing to Change” – An Interview with Karol Przystalski

Dataconomy

Karol Przystalski is the CTO and founder of Codete, a company specializing in IT consulting and implementation of innovative solutions for businesses. Karol obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, and has worked as a research assistant at Jagiellonian University in.

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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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The Book “Digital Rules: Setting Guidelines to Explore Digital New Normal” Quote Collection III

Future of CIO

A well-defined set of digital rules are not for limiting innovation, but for setting the frame of relevance and guide through changes and digital transformation. The purpose of “100 Digital Rules: Setting Guidelines to Explore Digital New Normal “ is to establish digital principles and update business policies that can be applied holistically and guide the digital transformation systematically.

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The Monthly “Digital Gaps” Book Tuning: How to Bridge Management Gaps Dec. 2017

Future of CIO

“Digital Gaps -Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Business” is a guidebook to help digital leaders and professionals today identify, analyze, and mind multiple gaps in multidisciplinary insight and holistic understanding. Today’s digital organization simply just can’t stand still., bridging the 'gap of opportunity' between where you are and want to become is a welcomed challenge, it is important to bridge communication, knowledge and insight gaps and take a stepwise approach to make a leap o

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