Wed.Sep 13, 2017

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Cybersecurity Isn’t Just An Issue For Tech Companies: 4 Things All Businesses Should Know

CTOvision

News of data breaches typically involve big-name companies, like Home Depot and Target, leading to the assumption that cybersecurity issues are only a concern for larger businesses. In reality, data breaches and cybersecurity should be a concern for all business owners, not just people who work for large companies or in the tech industry. The […].

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Philip Hammond: AI will stoke productivity in government

Computer Weekly

Philip Hammond, chancellor of the exchequer, told a House of Lords select committee that artificial intelligence could stoke government productivity in areas of “low-level decision making”

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Habitat Soundscaping - a Fresh Take on Collaboration, Part 2

IT Toolbox

This doesn’t happen often, but the name of this new offering from Plantronics – Habitat Soundscaping – is so unusual and so hard to connect with, that it warranted an entire post to review. Not only does the name need explaining, but so does the offering itself, and that’s what this post focuses on.

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Vodafone identifies 50 future digital hubs

Computer Weekly

A Vodafone research report has identified a number of towns and cities that have the potential to become what it refers to as Digital Super Towns

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Back-Office Advantages of VoIP

IT Toolbox

VoIP has been commercially available for over 20 years. What continues to be a solid selling point for VoIP, but is not often stressed, are the benefits for back-office workers. These are the people who design, install, support and maintain information-technology environments. What are the benefits for them and how do they contribute to the efficiency of the business?

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DevOps salary survey highlights link between server farm size and practitioner pay

Computer Weekly

The Puppet 2017 DevOps Salary Report suggests practitioners working at larger firms, with sizeable server farms and low-level manual configuration management, get paid more

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Self-preservation: The Gibraltar National Archives uses cloud to safeguard its history

Computer Weekly

The head of the Gibraltar National Archives discusses how cloud and archiving technologies are safe-guarding the history of the island for future generations

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The LAN: A History of Network Operating Systems Part 7

IT Toolbox

The fileservers were usually high-performance PCs running under some operating system that allows multiple activities to take place concurrently.

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Finland’s Valmet transforms IT with €38m outsourcing deal

Computer Weekly

Industrial tech firm Valmet outsources IT infrastructure services to focus its internal IT resources on business and digital developments

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Marketing content solution goes software-as-a-service

IT Toolbox

Marketing operations platform provider Aprimo is releasing its digital asset management offering for marketing content in a software-as-a-service version, which it says will help users reduce deployment time, encourage innovation and enable them to scale their businesses affordably.

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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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British Army enhances data-driven decision making to staunch churn

Computer Weekly

The British Army is continuing to use SAS analytics software to improve its data management, with a particular focus on reducing high-value personnel churn

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Just Exactly How Important Are Smartphones To Younger Workers?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Smartphones are useful, but just exactly how important are they? Image Credit: Pabak Sarkar. More than one CIO that I know has become very upset when what they were saying during a meeting was interrupted by one or more mobile phones going off while they were speaking. Just to make things worse, we’ve all had that sinking feeling that we get when we are addressing a group of our workers about the importance of information technology and at least one of them has their head down and is typin

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CBI calls for transitional deal with EU on data

Computer Weekly

The CBI is warning of the risks to UK businesses of no deal with the European Union on data exchange when Brexit arrives

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Free or Open Source Solution to Export Exchange OST to PST File

IT Toolbox

Explore free manual method for conversion of OST file

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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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Vodafone whitepaper hails role of IoT in delivering personalised healthcare treatments

Computer Weekly

Vodafone outlines how smart devices can improve patient adherence by offering them personalised healthcare

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5 Questions to Ask When Choosing an Internet Provider

IT Toolbox

This post looks at how to best choose an Internet provider.

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Apple faces challenge of convincing users to upgrade to iPhone X

Computer Weekly

Apple has announced the iPhone X but it faces a challenge of convincing current owners to make the jump.

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6 Things You Need to Know When Buying a Refurbished iPhone

IT Toolbox

What to do about buying a refurbished iPhone.

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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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Berlin vs San Francisco: Why Berlin’s Silicon Allee is Europe’s new Silicon Valley

Dataconomy

With “Brexit” looming over Britain, a promising new startup hub is emerging in Europe: Berlin’s Silicon Allee. As a comparison between London and Berlin demonstrates, chances are the latter may claim the position as EU’s most important startup ecosystem. But it takes a lot more to stand a chance against. The post Berlin vs San Francisco: Why Berlin’s Silicon Allee is Europe’s new Silicon Valley appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Unraveling the Recursive SQL Query

IT Toolbox

Miss Terwilliger: Woman of Mystery!

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Secrets to a Successful Corporate-Startup Relationship

The Investing Edge

Relationships between big corporate giants and startup companies are not new; young nimble companies bring innovation and new ideas, while larger established players have strong customer relationships and know how to properly support them. As innovation and market shifts accelerate, collaboration between naturally aligned companies only becomes more critical as new products need to get to market even faster.

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Announcing Data Natives Berlin 2017!

Dataconomy

Data Natives Berlin 2017: A Conference for the Data-Driven Generation This November, Dataconomy’s global community of data science enthusiasts will once again gather in Berlin for the widely-celebrated, third edition of the Data Natives conference. Last year, Data Natives brought together 1295 attendees, 20 partners, 60 speakers, 20 media partners, The post Announcing Data Natives Berlin 2017!

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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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Three “R” Factors in Innovators

Future of CIO

Great innovators are courageous, tough, positive, focus, inspiring and learning agile. Creativity is a multidimensional thought process, higher level thinking, and often multidisciplinary association. Innovation is all about the madness of solving problems and doing things in the better way. You never know how innovative you might be in some field before encountering the problems and before the adoption of solutions.

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Selling CRM to Your People

IT Toolbox

The single biggest cause of failing CRM projects is lack of adoption – getting your people to use the system, in other words. Getting your people, especially your sales staff, to use a CRM system is fundamentally a classic sales job.

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The New Book Preview "Digital Fit -Manifest Future of Business with Multidimensional Fit"

Future of CIO

Ultimately, organizational fit means how to balance the fit (growth mindset, learning agility, good attitude and accepted behavior) and misfit (independent thinking and creativity) The multidimensional digital transformation provides impressive advantages in terms of the speed of delivering business solutions and ability to adapt to changes. Either be a disrupter or being disrupted, the effects of an increasingly digitalized world are now reaching into every corner of the organization and making

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Three Secrets to Successful Emails

IT Toolbox

Email is the most popular form of direct customer contact today, but companies still have trouble getting their emails read, much less acted on. The response rate for business emails is typically in the low single digits in spite of all the effort and money companies put into email campaigns.

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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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The Two Sides of Digital IT: Transactional vs. Transformational

Future of CIO

Transactional side of IT seeks continuity, and transformational side of IT seeks to change and opportunities. Many IT organizations are at the cross road - either transform itself to get digital ready or keep “we always do things like that,” mentality, and become irrelevant. The pace of changes in IT would force more CIOs into the transformation-oriented digital leadership position because IT plays a significant role in driving the digital transformation of the company.