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SMEs more vulnerable than ever to cyber attacks, survey shows

Computer Weekly

The biggest cyber threat to UK and US small businesses is employees’ weak passwords, as the frequency, intensity and cost of cyber attacks continue to rise, a study has revealed

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3 Signs You Have Overloaded Your Digital Transformation Program

Social, Agile and Transformation

Pressure to take on too many initiatives may bottleneck the overall program and burnout participants I am an advocate for speed and doing more. I’ve seen products, businesses, and an entire business models fall off the cliff because executives were too slow to respond, experiment, invest, challenge sacred cows, and scale toward new digital business models.

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Law firm speeds search and saves TB with Mimecast email archive

Computer Weekly

Cloud email archiving turbo-charges search, while email security is locked down and terabytes of storage use on-premise avoided with email stub on local servers

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Six ERP API Mistakes to Avoid

IT Toolbox

Application programmer interfaces matter. A recent study by CA Technologies, formerly Computer Associates, found that 88 percent of enterprises currently use APIs, and a third of them drive revenue from them.

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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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Puppet on why people, process and technology are mission critical to DevOps success

Computer Weekly

At the PuppetConf user and partner summit in San Francisco, Puppet and its customers shared insights on how best to address the people, process and technology sides of the DevOps success equation

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5 Steps to a Successful ERP Project

IT Toolbox

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) can help your company plan, organize, and regulate the flow of information more productively and efficiently. But, ERP implementations can often be frustrating, leaving many project managers feeling like they’re wasting their time. At the beginning of any ERP project, you must consider many issues and concerns.

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The Need for Higher Specifications in Gaming Laptops

IT Toolbox

Now gamers can make the most of their hobbies, by going for laptops with higher gaming specifications. Read on to know the perks of these laptops.

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More than half of businesses fell victim to DDoS attacks in the past year, survey shows

Computer Weekly

CDNeworks research shows 54% of businesses were hit by distributed denial of service attacks in the last year, and many feel they are underinvesting in cyber defences

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5 Strategies to Attract Millennial Customers to Your Ecommerce Store

IT Toolbox

The millennial generation, which is made up individuals born between the 1980s and 2000s, is an influencing force in today's world. They carry an annual purchasing power of over $200 million and are trendsetters across all industries. As companies embrace digital marketing and e-commerce stores, the pressure to market to this generation and increase sales is exceedingly high.

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How technology is transforming healthcare delivery in Gulf region

Computer Weekly

IT will transform the healthcare sector in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries over the coming years

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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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5 Essential Guidelines for Secure Online Shopping

IT Toolbox

The internet has become an integral part of our lives today. It has significantly changed our lifestyle by making it easy to it easy to search and find things online from the comfort of our homes.

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Employees will book time off using Alexa-style devices

Computer Weekly

Voice recognition and artificial intelligence will take the drudgery out of HR, but CIOs need to help their HR team develop a long-term strategy

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Effective Security for Commercial Use

IT Toolbox

The security standards for a commercial establishment have one and only one goal: to ensure the safety of the clientele as well as the safety of the employees and the goods. Find out how to create effective security for your commercial business.

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Government launches £25m trial fund to develop UK 5G industry

Computer Weekly

DCMS is drawing down £25m from the £740m National Productivity Investment Fund to fund a number of testbeds and trials of 5G mobile network technology in the UK

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Newbies Intune Bible to Learn Mobile Device Management

Anoop

Loads of people requested for an Intune starter kit as I have one for SCCM. I think SCCM starter kit page was useful for the community. Mobile device management is new for most of the IT Pros in device management world.Hopefully, this post would also be useful for Intune newbies. In this post, we will see more details […]. The post Newbies Intune Bible to Learn Mobile Device Management appeared first on Anoops.

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Pizza Hut data breach shows need for board control

Computer Weekly

The poor handling of the data breach by fast food chain Pizza Hut shows that company boards need to take control, a London-based law firm advises

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Oracle: Quilting Consistent ASCIISTR Hexadecimal Ouput

IT Toolbox

Sometimes 'a' and sometimes '00FA' annoys

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The Met Office automates functional testing of weather warnings sites

Computer Weekly

The UK’s national weather service automates testing using eggPlant to ensure integrity of weather warnings system

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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 Monthly “Dot Connections: “Digital Attitude” Dots Connection Oct. 2017

Future of CIO

There are multiple viewpoints to understand digital, and there is no one size fits all formula for digital transformation. The effects of an increasingly digitalized world are now reaching into every corner of businesses and every aspect of organizations. There are many views to understand digitalization, and there is no one size fits all formula to pursue it.

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ADMCC monitors Abu Dhabi with Cisco technology

Computer Weekly

Abu Dhabi's surveillance system is using technology from Cisco

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A “Thriving CIO”: How to Run Digital IT Effortlessly?

Future of CIO

IT organization is making a shift from transactional mode to transformational mode. It goes beyond the stage of IT-business alignment and moves up to the level of integration and engagement. Nowadays, a digital-ready IT organization is a threshold business competency and catalyzer of business changes. CIOs should also shift their leadership mentality from “struggling to keep the lights on” to “thriving to run digital IT effortlessly.

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Data Natives X India: Interview with Vikramank Singh from Facebook

Dataconomy

It’s already less than two weeks until the Data Natives X India conference commences in none other than amazing Mumbai! With the event just around the corner and so many incredible speakers to see, we took the time to talk with one of our workshop heads, Vikramank Singh about his experience as a. The post Data Natives X India: Interview with Vikramank Singh from Facebook appeared first on Dataconomy.

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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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Board Directors as the Digital Provocateur

Future of CIO

Digital transformation represents a break from the past, with a high level of impact and complexity. In order to lead today’s hyper-connected digital organizations with the hyper-diverse workforce, board directors should become the digital provocateur to drive changes and set the leadership tone for digital transformation; and the board composition should be synchronized with the digital perspective of the business, to advance its leadership maturity.