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5 Things CIO Should do this Summer

Social, Agile and Transformation

Take a step back - it's summer time. You may not be able to slow down, but you should have more opportunities to do things outside of the normal day to day and monthly grind. If you do, consider the following options - Unplug - My advice for CIO on taking summer vacations includes unplugging from email, learning something new, and setting priorities on your time.

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Judge defers ruling in Apple Irish datacentre case until end of July

Computer Weekly

Apple must wait until the end of the month to hear if its bid to build a datacentre in Athenry, County Galway, will get the go-ahead

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Hybrid cloud: The smart person's guide

Tech Republic Cloud

This comprehensive guide covers the common use cases, technical benefits and limitations, and what to know for adopting hybrid cloud in your organization.

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Corvid secures email, takes users out of firing line

Computer Weekly

Email is insecure, yet it is still the main means of business communication, with many companies relying on employees as the first line of defence, but that is unfair, says Corvid

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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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How to Choose a Fair Online Money Lender

IT Toolbox

You have probably heard of advance loans and payday loans, and how quick, easy and simple it is to acquire them. The beauty of online loans is they are largely unsecured. This fact means that you don’t have to risk your personal assets to get yourself out of a financial jam.

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Dutch bank cuts compliance data retrieval from weeks to hours

Computer Weekly

Rabobank has moved from tape libraries and robotic arms to a platform-based storage and retrieval system to help it comply with regulations

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Security Think Tank: Nine key elements to an effective patching regime

Computer Weekly

How should organisations address the need to keep software up to date with security patches without it costing too much or being too labour intensive?

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How Cloud Technology Has Increased Remote Work Opportunities

IT Toolbox

Remote work opportunities have skyrocketed in recent years. In part, this is due to the growing field of cloud technology, which allow employees to access their data remotely.

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Cyber security comes down to culture, say Dutch security experts

Computer Weekly

IT security can no longer be seen as just a technical matter.

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Online fraudsters find better pickings with phone and text scamming

Tech Republic Security

An Australian researcher has data to suggest cybercriminals are getting better results using phone calls and text messages for their scams than email. Find out why, and get tips for staying safe.

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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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Government’s Digital Infrastructure Fund for broadband up and running

Computer Weekly

Government officially launches £400m Digital Infrastructure Investment Fund to encourage more construction of FTTP networks

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SQL refresher: How to use the DECODE function to produce user-friendly data

Tech Republic Big Data

The DECODE function offers a handy way to make data easier to analyze and more understandable when you share it with others. Here's a quick review of how it works.

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NHS trust’s data sharing deal with Google firm is illegal, finds ICO

Computer Weekly

UK data protection watchdog has found an NHS data sharing deal with Google DeepMind failed comply with data protection law

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Oracle SQL MERGE: Neither INSERT Nor UPDATE ?

IT Toolbox

As far as Oracle triggers knew, it was neither UPDATE nor INSERT.

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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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H&M reinforces commitment to datacentre heat reuse with 1MW Stockholm datacentre build

Computer Weekly

The 1MW facility could potentially generate enough heat for 2,500 residential apartments in Stockholm when completed in 2018

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10 Rules for Creating Reproducible Results in Data Science

Dataconomy

In recent years’ evidence has been mounting that points to a crisis in the reproducible results of scientific research. Reviews of papers in the fields of psychology and cancer biology found that only 40% and 10%, respectively, of the results, could be reproduced. Nature published the results of a survey of. The post 10 Rules for Creating Reproducible Results in Data Science appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Dubai Police to enhance smart services with robot police

Computer Weekly

The streets of Dubai will soon see Robocops to help fight crime and help people out

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Tuning Soft Elements in Innovation Management

Future of CIO

There needs to be both “hard” and “soft” elements woven seamlessly into innovation management. Creativity is, by nature, unique to each person, it is an innate process to create novel ideas. Innovation is to manage novel ideas and generating business value from them. There is no template which you can apply and suddenly have a creative workforce. It has to be done slowly, patiently, and individually.

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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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icxit

Storage IO Blog

This is a test page of some Yogi images. Yogi0 Some more. Yogi1 And more. Yogi2 Ok, nuff said, for now… The post icxit appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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