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Martha Lane Fox warns UK is 'sleepwalking' through digital disruption

Computer Weekly

During a House of Lords debate, Martha Lane Fox claimed the UK has been “sleepwalking” through digital change and urged for more to be done to promote “digital understanding”

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 FBI vs Apple: Informed Dialog on Privacy vs Security Is Key

CTOvision

Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a five-part series on this topic. This examination by Arnold Abraham provides insights and nuanced lessons from history, the law and the tech world that can inform all of us interested in both privacy and security. For a detailed legal analysis accompanying the article, please visit Thecyberlawteam.com/publications-1/ -bg […].

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Why the best way to encourage digital innovation is not to fund it

Computer Weekly

Give people the space to grow and reward people for ideas rather than their output and innovation will come, says Frazer Bennett, a member of PA Consulting’s management team

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5 Ways to Take Advantage of ERP

IT Toolbox

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is essential for large corporations that manage complex work processes in order to achieve business goals and grow their business. The technology changes rapidly, offering new features all the time and challenging companies to reexamine how they do business. Take advantage of new features in ERP in order to leverage the benefits for your company.

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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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EAN airline broadband service moves closer to reality

Computer Weekly

The European Aviation satellite has successfully completed in-orbit testing and will begin to service in-flight broadband customers later in 2017

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Business on the Go with Mobile ERP

IT Toolbox

Those using an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system know that it provides invaluable insights into business operations and helps control the processes that give a company its competitive edge. It's a fast-moving, ever-changing global business market out there, and your ERP system helps keep you in the game.

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4 Features Of A Great PGP Encryption Provider

IT Toolbox

If you’re comparing PGP encryption providers, it’s probably because you value security and privacy. You don’t want people snooping around your emails, especially not cybercriminals who can use your personal information against you. If you’re a telecommunications user concerned about security, look for a PGP encryption provider with these 4 features. 1.

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EE repurposes 2G spectrum to support expanded 4G mobile service

Computer Weekly

The operator will re-farm a tranche of spectrum formerly used for 2G services to boost capacity and speed on its 4G network

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How network automation can speed deployments and improve security

Network World

Five years ago, IT was decentralized at the University of New Mexico. “Every school or college had their own IT, and in most cases they were completely under-resourced – a one-person shop having to do phones, apps, email, desktop, servers, storage, disaster recovery, all of that,” said Brian Pietrewicz, deputy CIO at University of New Mexico. The university transitioned to a self-service model that enables each of its more than 100 departments to deploy infrastructure and application services it

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Tooling up for DevOps

Computer Weekly

As organisations look to DevOps for continuous development, delivery and integration of business functions, careful control is crucial

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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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5 reasons why device makers cannot secure the IoT platform

Network World

If Akamai, Cisco and Google’s post-platform security and privacy machine learning security systems protecting the web and mobile platforms are indicative of the future, IoT device makers will only be part of a larger security ecosystem. That’s because they will not have the data to train the AI machine learning models. As a result, IoT post-platform security and privacy will become a layer on top of IoT device security.

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Global Shop Solutions ERP integrates new, flexible identity method

IT Toolbox

Fumbling to get a barcode badge under a scanner? Pulling off a work glove to expose a fingerprint? These kinds of actions are exactly the antithesis of ERP’s promise to streamline manufacturing processes. That’s why Global Shop Solutions has begun offering radio frequency identification technology within its enterprise resource planning systems.

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VMware adds whitelist security to the hypervisor

Network World

Overlooked in the hoopla around the VMworld conference was an announcement of the availability of AppDefense, a new product that lets companies restrict the types of operations applications are allowed to run on virtualized servers. AppDefense works with the VMware hypervisor and can also connect to third-party provisioning, configuration management and workflow automation platforms.

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Identity data protection

IT Toolbox

No doubt credit agencies provide a valuable service, otherwise they wouldn?t exist. But valuable to whom?

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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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Maintel continues revenue growth

Computer Weekly

Managed service provider enjoying fruits of Azzurri acquisition

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Don't let bad days get you down!

IT Toolbox

If you're having a bad day (or string of them), here are 3 things you can do to break out to a much better place.

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When Data Science Alone Won’t Cut it

Dataconomy

I recently read an article (paywall) in the WSJ about Paul Allen’s Vulcan initiative to curb illegal fishing. It’s insightful and sheds light on Big Data techniques to address societal problems. After thinking on the story, it struck me that it could be used as a pedagogical tool to synthesize data science. The post When Data Science Alone Won’t Cut it appeared first on Dataconomy.

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How Telecoms are utilizing the ON DEMAND Workforce to Complete Complex Projects ON TIME and ON Budget

IT Toolbox

This post looks at how companies are utilizing telecommuters to complete projects.

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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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Stuff Worth Reading – September 2017

The Investing Edge

Welcome to our second post highlighting articles relevant to entrepreneurs in New England and beyond. As you drink your pumpkin spice coffee, please let us know if you find an article you would like to have us feature by sending it along to Baiyin at Ascent. And join us on Twitter at Baiyin Zhou ( @ BaiyinVC ) and Eric Schultz ( @ ericebs ). Industry Themes.

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SQL Challenge 19: Strange Attractors of Leaves

IT Toolbox

Thinking outside the box(wood tree.

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Three “G” Factors in Innovators

Future of CIO

Part of creating an innovative workplace involves paying attention to employee wellbeing and building innovativeness as a collective mentality. Creativity is an innate ability to create naval ideas. Creativity is, by nature, unique to each person. Being innovative is a state of mind. There is no template which you can apply and suddenly have a creative workforce.

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Three Pillars in Digital Transformation

Future of CIO

It is important in helping business leaders define the vision, discover the blind spots, identify unknowns, build strong pillars. Digital transformation is the long journey with many bumps and curves on the way. The digital transformation means that companies need to infuse digital into every aspect of the business, expand to the every dimension of the organization, shape the enterprise-wide digital capabilities and overall ecosystem which include people, process, and technology.

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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.