Tue.Jun 13, 2017

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Hortonworks Eats IBM.And Loves It

Forrester IT

Big announcement at Dataworks today -- IBM is giving up on Big Insights and partnering with Hortonworks. This seems not unexpected and only mildly interesting until you think deeply about it. Then it hits you: Hortonworks, after digesting Microsoft, is now eating IBM. It's a total reversal from the past, when big fish like IBM would eat little fish like Hortonworks.

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Microsoft Joins Hot Open Source PaaS Project Cloud Foundry

Data Center Knowledge

The once notoriously anti-open source company has realized it's making tons of money in the cloud thanks to open source software. Read More.

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Hortonworks Eats IBM — And Loves It

Forrester IT

Big announcement at Dataworks today -- IBM is giving up on Big Insights and partnering with Hortonworks. This seems not unexpected and only mildly interesting until you think deeply about it. Then it hits you: Hortonworks, after digesting Microsoft, is now eating IBM. It's a total reversal from the past, when big fish like IBM would eat little fish like Hortonworks.

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Rubrik Alta adds Hyper-V and Nutanix AHV to backup appliance

Computer Weekly

Rubrik backup appliance now support all major physical and virtual server platforms in flash-equipped boxes that range from a few tens of TB to the hundreds

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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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On An Agile scaling journey? Take our survey to find out how you are doing.

Forrester IT

This year I'm excited to be teaming up with Diego Lo Giudice on the bi-annual Forrester Agile at Scale Adoption survey. For the 2017 study we've added a few more questions in areas that we see organizations are struggling with. So in addition to successful Agile team practices, alignment with business stakeholders upstream and downstream with testing and operations, we are looking into more Agile at scale issues like budgeting and DevOps.

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CTOvision Assessment On The Megatrend of Bigdata

CTOvision

There are seven key megatrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Mobility, Big Data, Robotics, Internet of Things, CyberSecurity. 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 […].

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Dubai to replace passport control with biometric border check

Computer Weekly

System developed by UK startup which creates a digital passport for each individual will be used at Dubai’s main airport

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Shaw Sells Data Center Provider ViaWest to Peak 10 for $1.7B

Data Center Knowledge

ViaWest and Peak 10 combined will be North America’s largest privately held data center company, Shaw said. Read More.

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University of Edinburgh and Huawei collaborate on joint data lab

Computer Weekly

University is setting up a research and development lab dedicated to distributed data management and processing, with help from Chinese company

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Equinix to Launch Eight-Story Amsterdam Data Center Next Month

Data Center Knowledge

Phase 1 capacity is 1,550 cabinets; full-build-out capacity expected to be 4,200 cabinets Read More.

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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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The IT issue and the Cloud solution (i)

IT Toolbox

continuing from. The CIO in the Cloud era. Yet, business is not too happy with the IT department. I cannot imagine why, you may say. Well, IT costs a big deal in comparison with rest of a business.

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DCK Investor Edge: Digital Realty Signs Biggest Hyper-Scale Deal After All

Data Center Knowledge

DuPont and CyrusOne's mega-deal success may have forced Digital's hand, which may explain the price premium, but that's only part of the story. Read More.

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The 10 DevOps tools that IT pros are using the most

Tech Republic Data Center

While DevOps tools are critical to the success of startups, they are a key component of digital transformation in the enterprise, as well. Here are ten tools to help you get started.

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Irish cloud provider opts for Tegile hybrid flash storage

Computer Weekly

Savenet gets 70TB of Tegile hybrid flash in a move that sees Huawei spinning disk arrays replaced as main storage and replaced with hybrid flash for cloud-based services

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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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Driving Digital Tutorial: Branching and Release Management in GitHub

Social, Agile and Transformation

What's the number one software development practice needed by organizations committed to agile delivery of application releases that delight customers? My answer is version control with branching capabilities and tagging releases. Is it number one? No need to debate whether version control is number one, top five etc. Most developers, testers, managers, and CTO will agree that version.

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Strategies for Enhancing Data Restoration Plans

Data Center Knowledge

The costs of improved malware security, better storage, and access control are exceedingly cheap when compared to the costs of a data breach caused by either internal or external agents. Read More.

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Public cloud services show no sign of slowing down, set to hit $236 billion by 2020, according to report

Tech Republic Cloud

A new report from Forrester Research predicts 30% annual growth in the public cloud services market. Here are some of the top takeaways.

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Swapping Linux for Windows in Munich too risky after WannaCry attacks, warn Greens

Tech Republic Security

Munich's Green Party says the recent WannaCry ransomware attacks on Windows machines worldwide highlight the danger of the city abandoning its Linux-based OS.

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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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GE Digital extends asset performance management portfolio with ServiceMax

Computer Weekly

GE Digital increases the reach of its Predix platform with robotics and artificial intelligence to tackle inefficiencies in industrial processes

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Malware that took down Ukraine power grid could be used in US, report says

Tech Republic Security

A threat report from security firm Dragos indicates that a malware framework called CRASHOVERRIDE could be behind the 2016 cyberattack in Ukraine, and could come to other countries.

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TfL develops artificial intelligence app on Facebook Messenger

Computer Weekly

Transport for London has begun using chatbots on Facebook Messenger to provide a level of automated customer service

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IBM simplifies identity management in the cloud with new offering

Tech Republic Security

IBM's new Identity Connect is an Identity-as-a-Service (IDaaS) solution that aims to make it easier for business users to access their applications.

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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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Crash Override: Malware that took down a power grid may have been a test run

Network World

Two security firms have released reports about the malware which was used in the December 2016 Ukraine power outage, warning that the partial power outage in Kiev may have been test run; the malware could be leveraged against other countries, including the US. The malware, dubbed Crash Override in the Dragos report ( pdf ) and Industroyer in the ESET report ( pdf ), has nothing to do with espionage and everything to do with cyber-sabotage.

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Two-tier ERP smooths out international border bumps

IT Toolbox

ERP systems are intended to unify an enterprise’s data and IT across the board, but that doesn’t always work across international borders. So when aerospace behemoth Northrop Grumman prepared to expand its operations in the Middle East, Asia and the United Kingdom, it quickly became apparent that the company’s U.S.

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UAE telco Etisalat to pilot 5G

Computer Weekly

CTO says company is committed to trials and commercial launch of 5G in the UAE and the rest of the Middle East

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VoIP market growth intensifies need for security solutions

IT Toolbox

While the VoIP market has been expanding rapidly in recent years, it is easy to lose sight of the efforts behind the scenes focused on ensuring that VoIP networks remain secure, even as they grow.

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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.

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Ford commits to London tech community with innovation centre

Computer Weekly

Ford is opening an innovation centre in east London to tap into the London tech scene

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Fast-growing healthcare market demands CRM expertise

IT Toolbox

As the CRM market becomes more sophisticated, it is also becoming more segmented, with different providers specializing in specific sectors. Why? Because some of these sectors bring with them very particular requirements – for example, defense and government contracts have a wide range of regulatory boxes that need ticking.

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Nordic CIO interview: Juha Penttilä, Valio

Computer Weekly

CIO at Finnish dairy company is trying to make its IT department proactive rather than just fixing problems

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Ruckus Solidifies Its Place in the Brocadesphere- and Joins the nBaseT Movement Too

IT Toolbox

It’s been a bit of a wild ride for Ruckus Networks of late, but the company has settled into the business of getting on with business.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.