Tue.Jul 11, 2017

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Vendavo’s Acquisition of Endeavor Commerce Highlights A Shift In The CPQ Market

Forrester IT

Today Vendavo announced its acquisition of Endeavor Commerce. This move brings together Vendavo's price management and price optimization capabilities with the configuration and quoting capabilities of Endeavor Commerce. You're probably ready to ask me "John, there have been a lot of acquisitions in the CPQ space in recent years. What makes this one so different?

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UK firms still relying on perimeter defences for cyber security

Computer Weekly

Despite the increasing number of data breaches and the looming GDPR compliance deadline, many companies are still relying on perimeter defences and are underinvesting in technologies to keep data safe, research has revealed

Security 175
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Report: Massive Internet Disruption Costing Somalia $10M a Day

Data Center Knowledge

An extended internet outage in Somalia is being called a “major disaster” to the war-torn country’s economy. The outage across the country’s south, including the capital Mogadishu, was caused by damage to an undersea fiber-optic cable two weeks ago, and is costing $10 million per day according to.

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Cyber security training must reflect real risks, warns the IISP

Computer Weekly

In the rush to skill-up through cyber security training, the IISP warns businesses may go down the wrong track, resulting in a false sense of security

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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 Proper Management of IT Assets Can Increase Your Profits

IT Toolbox

There are two ways to increase business profits: cut expenses or increase revenue. Either method will put more money in your bank account. Most businesses would acknowledge that somewhere in-house, money is being spent unnecessarily.

Banking 146
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Airbus helps drive critical infrastructure cyber security

Computer Weekly

Airbus is helping to drive the cyber security market for industrial control systems used throughout industry, including many providers of critical national infrastructure

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Political uncertainty is holding back digital transformation plans, say CIOs

Computer Weekly

UK businesses are investing in IT to help them deal with changes that could be around the corner amid geo-political uncertainty

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The Local Management Interface

IT Toolbox

After several (typically six) link integrity verification polls have been issued, the user requests the status of all PVCs on the interface. The resulting full status message response contains information on every PVC configured on that bearer channel.

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How IT can work alongside marketing to deliver on digital expectations

Computer Weekly

A recent digital customer experience summit hosted by Adobe has highlighted the link between IT, in-house talent development and change management

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Design Problems with Frame Relay Networks Part 2

IT Toolbox

Frame relay networks have two ways of notifying the network of and/or controlling congestion: explicit congestion notification and implicit congestion notification. ECN uses the FECN and BECN bits included in the T1.618 Address field to notify the network of congestion.

Network 134
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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Cincinnati Bell to Buy Hawaiian Telcom, OnX for $851 Million

Data Center Knowledge

Cincinnati Bell Inc. agreed to buy Hawaiian Telcom Holdco Inc. for $650 million and OnX Enterprise Solutions for $201 million. Read More.

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Design Problems with Frame Relay Networks Part 3

IT Toolbox

The excess burst-rate parameter (Be) lets users exceed the Committed Information Rate for brief periods, as required by such "bursty" applications as Local Area Networks. The access rate, measured at the physical interface to the network, provides an upper limit to the rate at which users may offer data to the network.

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Legal & General picks HomeServe’s IoT LeakBot to protect homeowners

Computer Weekly

Insurance firm partners with HomeServe to deploy its internet of things LeakBot technology and lower customer premiums

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Conversational Interfaces - the New Driver of Collaboration

IT Toolbox

My last series addressed five value drivers for UC in today’s market. UC may never be finished in terms of having a fixed set of applications, and that’s actually part of its allure for IT. As long as the collaboration space keeps evolving, UC will follow pace in order to remain relevant.

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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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Connecting up the Gulf Cooperation Council through the internet of things

Computer Weekly

Countries in the oil-reliant GCC region could diversify their economies by employing IoT technologies

Internet 159
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Scheduling costing companies vital time and money

IT Toolbox

Every company knows that appointment scheduling is an important aspect of proactive sales and marketing. However, when there are too many moving parts, customer-facing teams simply cannot deliver optimal results. Sales teams ideally want to be able to schedule their appointments without leaving their CRM.

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Three and Ofcom clash over spectrum auction proposals

Computer Weekly

Three boss brands Ofcom’s spectrum auction proposals a ‘kick in the teeth’ but Ofcom says the operator is already in a much better competitive position

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Design Problems with Frame Relay Networks Part 1

IT Toolbox

Committed Burst Size (Bc), the maximum amount of data in bits that a network agrees to transfer under normal conditions, over a measurement interval T

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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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These 6 companies are the worst at giving away your data

Tech Republic Security

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Who Has Your Back report takes a look at how tech companies share user data with the government. Here are the lowest performers.

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The Benefits of Digitally Managed Clinical Trials

IT Toolbox

From travel to health records and ACLS recertification courses, nearly everything is going digital these days. Clinical trials are no exception; the transition comes with its share of challenges, but also with many great benefits that can change how we allocate resources and review results.

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Assessing the appeal of AMD’s EPYC server processor family for IT buyers

Computer Weekly

Find out how AMD's EPYC server processor family compares to what Intel has to offer datacentre hardware buyers

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New Xeon Scalable Processors for Software Defined Data Infrastructures and SDDC

IT Toolbox

Today Intel announced a new family of Xeon Scalable Processors (aka Purely) that for some workloads Intel claims to be on average of 1.65x faster than their predecessors. Note your real improvement will vary based on workload, configuration, benchmark testing, type of processor, memory, and many other server storage I/O performance considerations.

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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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Video: Use the data breach calculator to determine how much cyber-intrusions might cost your company

Tech Republic Security

The cost of digital theft rose by 5% this year. Wendi Whitmore leads the IMB Security X-Force Incident Response & Intelligence Services team. She explains how your company can lower the cost of cyber-intrusions.

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Sales Proposals Dos and Don'ts

IT Toolbox

A good sales proposal is an important part of the sales process. It serves to get your foot in the door and often will be the first thing the prospect sees that will introduce your company to them. Clearly then, the sales proposal is one of the most important parts of your selling efforts. It can literally make or break your sales effort.

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VMware, Once the “Easiest Value Proposition in IT,” Defines Its New Role

Data Center Knowledge

VMware VP John Gilmartin joins us on the latest episode of The Data Center Podcast Read More.

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June's IT Monthly News Digest

IT Toolbox

Petya Ransomware Attacks Computers Around the Globe. Computers around the world were hit by a ransomware attack that appear to have used the same type of hacking tool used in the WannaCry ransomware attack that wreaked havoc in the UK in May.

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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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Fairness-verification tool helps avoid illegal bias in algorithms

Tech Republic Security

Researchers suggest human bias influences algorithms more than we realize, and offer a solution to weed the bias out. They received a $1 million National Science Foundation grant for their project.

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HOWTO: OBS with NVENC Support on Ubuntu Linux

IT Toolbox

Today we are going to go through the steps it takes to compile Open Broadcast Software with NVENC support on Ubuntu.

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Android Security Bulletin July 2017: What you need to know

Tech Republic Security

July brought to a drastic reduction in critical-level vulnerabilities found in Android. Get the highlights.

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New channel partners help meet accelerating demand for NetSuite cloud ERP

IT Toolbox

Four new partners have joined the Oracle NetSuite Global Business Unit program to support the burgeoning use of enterprise resource planning in the cloud. The new NetSuite Solution Provider Program companies -- Cherry Bekaert, Terillium, Revolution Group and Conexus SG – all recently have launched new cloud ERP practices centered around NetSuite.

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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.