Fri.Oct 13, 2017

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Don't use cost savings to secure senior management DevOps buy-in, CIOs advised

Computer Weekly

IT leaders may find themselves unlikely to succeed by promising senior management DevOps-induced cost savings, according to PuppetConf panel

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How Algorithms Can Be Used to Predict Great Literature

CTOvision

Just like in music industries, book publishing bases its popularity on hits. More importantly, most experts feel that the process of predicting best-selling work is an art by itself. Most of the time, the aforementioned faculties serve the institution well. However, in other situations, they do not perform so well. For instance, when it comes […].

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MEPs push for stronger data protection by EU institutions

Computer Weekly

All EU institutions, bodies and agencies should live up to strong data protection safeguards when processing personal data, says the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee

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Seven Steps to Better Email

IT Toolbox

Email is one of the most important, and one of the most difficult, parts of modern CRM. In addition to the emails sent and received from specific people in the course of business, there are the emails to people on various lists created and maintained with your CRM system. The difficulty here is three stages.

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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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WEF gets to grips with risks posed by transformative technologies

Computer Weekly

World Economic Forum is bringing technology, insurance and government sectors together to better understand the risks posed by technology failures

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How virtual IT labs help software developers' CRM systems

IT Toolbox

Software development companies are turning to cloud-based applications to help them with sophisticated CRM activities that otherwise would consume mountains of vital time. They are seeking safe, secure, easily accessible cloud environments that can be used for customer support scenarios, regardless of how complex the customer’s environment is.

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Messaging - it's for Collaboration and Customer Engagement

IT Toolbox

I’ve talked enough about Facebook in this series – but for good reason - and it’s time to broaden the scope for the messaging opportunity.

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London issues call to arms to cyber security community

Computer Weekly

Cyber security community called on to help educate capital’s small businesses about cyber crime and give them practical advice

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Why Modern Businesses Need a VPN

IT Toolbox

It is important to secure all of your employees that use the internet and all of their computers because, if their security is breached, valuable business data and your entire organization might be at risk.

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Executive interview: David Mahon, CSO, CenturyLink

Computer Weekly

David Mahon, chief security officer of CenturyLink, discusses why cyber security is actually the business strategy

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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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Why is Walmart Using Facebook for Collaboration? Should You?

IT Toolbox

This post should get your attention for at least two reasons, as both Facebook and Walmart aren’t normally associated with collaboration. On top of that, they’re now linked together, and that should give cause to wonder whether you should be thinking this way as well.

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How will the UK supercharge its digital economy?

Computer Weekly

The country needs to focus on the key issues it faces to make the most of the opportunities presented by the digital revolution

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Workplace Collaboration - Comparing use cases for Messaging and VoIP

IT Toolbox

My last post ended with a punchline of sorts, and is key to understanding what’s different with collaboration when messaging is introduced.

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JLab 2017 retail startups describe tackling retail’s biggest challenges

Computer Weekly

This year’s cohort of retail startups in the JLab accelerator describe the retail challenges their businesses face and how the 2017 JLab differs from the rest

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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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Top 3 Best OST to PST Converter Tools for MS Outlook and Exchange Server Users

IT Toolbox

Read expert's opinion to find and compare the performance of best 3 OST to PST converter tools

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Cloud services sales to hit $260bn this year, says Gartner

Computer Weekly

Global sales of cloud services expected to increase by 18.

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An elegant solution to text-data processing problems

Dataconomy

A breakthrough in the field of natural language processing (NLP) has been achieved with the Cortical.io Retina engine, which elegantly solves numerous text-data processing problems faced by big businesses. The Retina engine surmounts the obstacles in dealing with terabytes of unstructured text data, thanks to a unique algorithm that is. The post An elegant solution to text-data processing problems appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Manage Change as Continuum not Conundrum

Future of CIO

Digital disruptions are inevitable, and digital transformation is unstoppable. Nowadays, change happens nonlinearly with increasing pace. Organizations shouldn’t just respond to them in a reactive way or perceive change as a conundrum. The successful businesses are the ones that can manage change in a structural way, have learned WHY to change, WHEN change is called for, decide WHAT to change, WHO are change agents, WHEN to change, and HOW to change effectively, manage change not just as linear

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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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Three Stages to Reach The Maturity of IT Digital Transformation

Future of CIO

IT continues to grow in importance to organizations, both operationally and as a competitive advantage. IT also plays a critical role in driving changes and leading digital transformation. IT has to reinvent itself to exemplify proficiency in planning, designing, innovating, and building a new business model or optimizing information management. Digital CIOs need to take the risk above the status quo, take on a new set of activities that involved in defining, developing, and differentiating thei

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Digital Innovation Manifesto

Future of CIO

Innovation is the art in the eyes of the artist; innovation is the science in the mind of the scientist; innovation is the bridge between the art and science. Digital era opens the new chapter of innovation. Today, at the hyper-connected digital ecosystem, innovation can happen anywhere, anytime, it expands both horizontally and vertically. Innovation comes in many flavors and there are many opportunities in an enterprise to do so.

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