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Meath County Council CEO explains support for Facebook’s Irish datacentre expansion plans

Computer Weekly

Jackie Maguire, CEO of Meath County Council, shares details of the preparatory work the local authority has done to pave the way for Facebook to expand its Irish datacentre presence

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5 Tips for Launching a Successful Ecommerce Website

IT Toolbox

Follow these 5 tips and your new ecommerce website is guaranteed to be a success. Always keep working on improving your ecommerce website and you?ll give it a chance to stand out among the crowd.

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Messaging apps a growing business security risk, study shows

Computer Weekly

Businesses should introduce urgent policy changes to catch up with the reality of employees’ use of messaging apps, which is a growing security risk, say security researchers

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Third Party Patching Best Practices for an Organization

Anoop

I have involved in the patching of Windows machines since ‘SMS 2003 + ITMU’ days. Every month, we need to perform very complex steps to deploy patches. Nowadays SCCM 2007/ 2012 /CB uses WSUS along with Windows Update to Download, Deploy and Install patches. There are challenges in Microsoft patching process using SCCM. And I’ve […]. The post Third Party Patching Best Practices for an Organization appeared first on Anoops.

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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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Heathrow to probe leak of security files

Computer Weekly

Heathrow is investigating how and why files containing security information were stored without any protection on a USB stick found by a member of the public

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How To Promote Diversity in IT

IT Toolbox

As IT teams seek to remain competitive and compete in an ever-changing market, placing a heavier emphasis on diversity and inclusion can foster innovation.

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Why do people choose Linux? part 3

IT Toolbox

I just can't seem to be able to put this subject behind me. Especially when I consider that when I started blogging I had a hard enough time stringing a few paragraphs together. Now I can't seem to shut up on a particular subject.

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Study reveals employees’ fears over digital change

Computer Weekly

Many employees are fearful of the job risk associated with automation and company-wide digital transformation initiatives

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Novell Netware - A history Part 7

IT Toolbox

In the discussion of MAP, we noted the need for the use of coherent directory services through the X.500 standard. With NDS, Novell had met this requirement. It had based NDS on the X.500 public directory standard, which enabled NDS to work with other X.500 directories as they became available.

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Court dates set for Post Office accounting system trials

Computer Weekly

An end is in sight for sub-postmasters’ campaign against alleged wrongful prosecution, which they blame on a faulty computer 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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Lowcode Platforms are Key to Digital Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

Forrester recognizes two lowcode platform types, one targeting business users and the other for application developers. Java,Net, PHP, Javascript, Ruby, and Python along with the very large number of MVC and other frameworks that support these languages are appropriate tools when you need to develop an application that requires complete control. But for many applications, the MVP can.

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UK must speed up and skill up to co-drive fourth industrial revolution

Computer Weekly

UK manufacturing is falling behind the pack leaders in the revolution to apply digital technologies to industry, says a government-sponsored report led by Siemens’ UK CEO

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Why do people choose Linux? final

IT Toolbox

There are simply too many reasons to choose Linux and I have come to the conclusion that it is just not practical to go over them all.

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Financial services CIOs above average for digital focus

Computer Weekly

IT leaders in the financial services sector realise they must undergo digital transformation as existing business models become outdated

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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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Why do people choose Linux?

IT Toolbox

In my mind, Linux is the ultimate operating system. Other people will, of course, think differently, however, Linux is the operating system I have chosen to use and I have used it for many, many years. Lots of people have chosen Linux same as lots of people have chosen different operating systems.

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Russian organisations harness artificial intelligence

Computer Weekly

Russian organisations in multiple sectors are applying artificial intelligence to a wide range of tasks

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Why do people choose Linux? part 2

IT Toolbox

Well, it seems that I have more to say on this subject than I thought I would. Previously I said that the most popular reason people say that they choose Linux is because it is free as in beer. It is not, however, the only reason people choose Linux. Some people choose Linux because it is not a proprietary operating system.

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Container technologies for cloud-native apps

Computer Weekly

A deep dive exploring the layers that go into a container-based platform for enterprise applications

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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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UDP: Input Processing Part 1

IT Toolbox

In addition to the declaration of the UDP datagram format, udp.h contains symbolic constants for values assigned to the most commonly used UDP protocol port numbers. For example, a TFTP server always operates on port 69, while RIP uses port 520.

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Gigaclear ramps up broadband network build in Oxfordshire

Computer Weekly

More than 10,000 properties in rural Oxfordshire will get access to 1Gbps FTTP broadband by the end of 2019

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UDP: Input Processing Part 2

IT Toolbox

Because the code uses a sequential search of the upqs array, allocation of an entry is straightforward. Procedure upalloc searches the array until it finds an entry not currently used, fills in the fields, creates a Xinu port to serve as the queue of incoming datagrams, and returns the index of the entry to the caller.

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Security Think Tank: Starter for 10 in the web security challenge

Computer Weekly

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

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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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Why do people chose Linux?

IT Toolbox

In my mind, Linux is the ultimate operating system. Other people will, of course, think differently, however, Linux is the operating system I have chosen to use and I have used it for many, many years. Lots of people have chosen Linux same as lots of people have chosen different operating systems.

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Ascent B2B IT Forum – Secrets to a Successful Startup/Corporate Relationship

The Investing Edge

Today’s ultra competitive, ever-evolving and customer-centric business landscape demands a continuous flow of change – change that’s often delivered in the form of “shiny and new.” Innovation has become the cornerstone for sustainable success, and one way to achieve this is through strategic partnerships. As a result, mergers and acquisitions activity continues to trend upwards , and more than ever, corporate giants and startup companies are joining forces to accelerate innovation through

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Predicting the future - II

IT Toolbox

What are the most likely disruptive technologies that we may see in the next few decades?

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How Data Science is Serving Passengers at Lufthansa

Dataconomy

The Lufthansa Group is about much more than just transporting passengers and air freight from A to B. The subsidiary company I work for is called “Lufthansa Industry Solutions” (LHIND for short). As well as dealing with the exciting challenges faced by the airline industry within the Lufthansa Group, we. The post How Data Science is Serving Passengers at Lufthansa appeared first on Dataconomy.

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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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Enterprise Modelling in a few posters (i)

IT Toolbox

Enterprise Modelling in posters. continuing from. Enterprise Modelling in a few posters. 3.

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Data Infrastructure server storage I/O network Recommended Reading #blogtober

Storage IO Blog

Data Infrastructure Recommended Reading List and Book Shelf Updated 10/30/17 The following is an evolving recommended reading list of data infrastructure topics including, server, storage I/O, networking, cloud, virtual, container, data protection and related topics that includes books, blogs, podcast’s, events and industry links among other resources.

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Doxx-Hounding - Death Threats

IT Toolbox

Putting dysfunction in dystopia.

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October 2017 Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter

Storage IO Blog

Server StorageIO October 2017 Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter The post October 2017 Server StorageIO Data Infrastructure Update Newsletter appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.