Mon.Nov 06, 2017

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Any online business a target of DDoS attacks

Computer Weekly

Any business that is online is susceptible to denial of service attacks and should ensure it has the capability to mitigate such attacks, says an industry practitioner who explains how

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5 Reasons Why Marketing Organizations Must be Driving Digital

Social, Agile and Transformation

Why marketing organizations are transforming their organizations with driving digital practices Last week I had the privilege of speaking at KintoneConnect on Driving Digital: Key Practices to Lead a Smarter and Faster Transformation. The talk included some key concepts from my book, Driving Digital: The Leader's Guide to Business Transformation Through Technology on why digital impacts.

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Pioneering CIOs must prepare for next wave of digital change

Computer Weekly

Analyst Gartner told IT leaders at its annual CIO Symposium event in Barcelona that businesses must increase the pace of digital transformation

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New Oracle MAF Version Brings New Capabilities for JD Edwards Mobile Development

IT Toolbox

Among the new features announced for JD Edwards last month was compatibility with Oracle Mobile Application Foundation (MAF) 2.4.0. This makes it worthwhile to review the important new features in MAF. MAF provides JDeveloper programmers with the ability to deploy mobile applications for use with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne.

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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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One in four UK workers have maliciously leaked business data

Computer Weekly

Insider threat research has revealed that 24% of workers purposely shared info with other companies and nearly 50% have received an email by mistake

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As enterprises face hybrid IT complexity, new management solutions beckon

IT Toolbox

Explore how mounting complexity and a lack of multi-cloud services management maturity must be solved in order for businesses to grow and thrive as digital enterprises.

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ConfigMgr SCCM Troubleshooting Newbies Guide with SuperFlow

Anoop

I have a post which talks about troubleshooting steps for newbies with flowcharts. SCCM flowcharts are the best place to understand the workflow/dataflow/process of each SCCM components. More details in the following post SCCM ConfigMgr Troubleshooting Steps for Newbies with Flowcharts. In this post, we will see “ConfigMgr SCCM Troubleshooting Newbies Guide with SuperFlow.” Video […].

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OpenStack revenue to hit $6bn by 2021 as user confidence in open source cloud grows

Computer Weekly

Reports by 451 Research and the OpenStack Foundation suggest enterprise use of the open cloud platform is on the rise, as issues around installation and upgrades are addressed by the developer community

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Gartner's event driven business strategy, the "secret sauce."

IT Toolbox

Event-driven architecture will become an essential skill in supporting digital business transformation by 2018

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OpenStack claims open source integration problems are holding back enterprise innovation

Computer Weekly

The OpenStack Foundation claims the open source community has a collective problem with product integration, making it difficult for users to realise the full potential of their IT investments

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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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How To Use Responsive Images To Decrease The Page Loading Time?

IT Toolbox

This post looks at how to take advantage of responsive images.

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Newspaper woes show that when technology changes, everything changes

Computer Weekly

Traditionalists bemoan the declining finances of newspapers, but those old sources of revenue aren't coming back – technology has changed everything

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Cautionary Tales: Averages versus Discrete Event Simulation

IT Toolbox

"Average" Conceals: Discrete Event Simulation Reveals

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CIO interview: How River Island is using cloud to fend off its fast fashion competitors

Computer Weekly

River Island CIO, Doug Gardner, on how embracing cloud, online and mobile devices is driving sales in its high street stores

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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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How to Deploy 800 Servers in 8 Hours

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the session titled “How to deploy 800 nodes in 8 hours automatically”, presented by Tao Chen with T2Cloud (Tencent). Chen takes a few minutes, as is customary, to provide an overview of his employer, T2cloud, before getting into the core of the session’s content. Chen explains that the drive to deploy such a large number of servers was driven in large part by a surge in travel due to the Spring Festival travel rush, an annual event that creates high traffi

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Blockchain hype exploited by spammers and phishers

Computer Weekly

Hackers are exploiting the popularity of blockchain technologies in spamming and phishing campaigns, warns Kaspersky Lab

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Battle Scars from OpenStack Deployments

Scott Lowe

This is the first liveblog from day 2 of the OpenStack Summit in Sydney, Australia. The title of the session is “Battle Scars from OpenStack Deployments.” The speakers are Anupriya Ramraj, Rick Mathot, and Farhad Sayeed (two vendors and an end-user, respectively, if my information is correct). I’m hoping for some useful, practical, real-world information out of this session.

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Dubai hospital implements intelligent communication system to improve patient care

Computer Weekly

Latifa Hospital’s new communication system is intended to improve staff response times and create a quieter environment for patients

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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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IT reaches for its full potential

ComputerWorld IT Management

During the last three months, my geographically diverse network of contacts, who represent over 15 vertical markets, has increasingly voiced concern that the management teams at many very visible global institutions appear to have lost their way with regards to creating value with IT. Some have forgotten critical lessons learned during IT’s formative years.

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Security Think Tank: Look at full security development lifecycle to reduce web threats

Computer Weekly

What are the main web security challenges for organisations and how are they best addressed?

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A Better way to Digitize European Industries

Dataconomy

By Peter Friess // Programme Officer // Media Policy Directorate – Social Media & Networks – STARTS // European Commission, DG Connect, Brussels, Belgium There is much talk on the subject of digitization. While many think that digitization is just an inevitable force in our world, others are making the important point that in. The post A Better way to Digitize European Industries appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Bank of Scotland tests artificial intelligence on customer iPhone app

Computer Weekly

Service will initially be available to 50,000 customers, with app giving access to a software robot trained to answer common questions

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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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Three “Don’t” to Improve IT Maturity

Future of CIO

Change is inevitable, IT is facing both challenges and opportunities at the sea of changes and abundant growth of information. Whether it's a challenge or an opportunity depends on the relationship between the business and IT and how IT sets the priority to build a balanced “Run, Growth, and Transform” portfolio. There are still many roadblocks on the way, and numerous pitfalls to fail the initiatives for business transformation.

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Bank of Scotland testing out artificial intelligence on customer iPhone app

Computer Weekly

Bank of Scotland pilots artificial intelligence within its iPhone banking app.

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How to Manage Information-Based Solutions to Thorny Business Problems

Future of CIO

Information does not live alone but permeates to everywhere in the businesses, information potential directly impacts the business's potential of the organization. Today’s business problems are complex, logic or intuition only cannot solve those problems without sufficient information. Information Management is to make sure that the right information is in the right place at the right time and shared to the right persons to make right decisions for solving right problems timely.

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Automation and AI require education and training, says CBI

Computer Weekly

Industry and government must collaborate on skills and retraining to get to grips with new innovations, CBI conference told

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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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The Monthly “Digital Master” Book Tuning: How to Accelerate Digital Transformation Nov. 2017

Future of CIO

Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. Digital becomes the very fabric of high performing business, being outside-in and customer-centric is the new mantra for forward-looking and high mature digital organizations today. At the heart of digital, it is people and how to build a customer-centric organization.

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CIO Leadership Live with Bernie Gracy, Chief Digital Officer of Agero | Ep 1

ComputerWorld IT Management

In this lively hourlong discussion, Maryfran Johnson, executive director of CIO programs for CIO Events and the CIO Executive Council, talks with Bernie Gracy, Chief Digital Officer of Agero, the largest provider of roadside assistance services to car makers and insurance providers across North America. Johnson and Gracy talk about the sophisticated data analytics behind Agero’s services, the challenges he faces in digitizing the entire business and how the roles of CIOs and CDOs are changing an

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IPv6 Primer for Deployments

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the OpenStack Summit Sydney session titled “IPv6 Primer for Deployments”, led by Trent Lloyd from Canonical. IPv6 is a topic with which I know I need to get more familiar, so attending this session seemed like a reasonable approach. Lloyd starts with some history. IPv6 was released in 1980, and uses 32-bit address (with a total address space of around 4 billion).

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