Fri.Nov 24, 2017

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How Artificial Intelligence is Making Big Data Better Than Ever

CTOvision

The concept of Big Data is a relatively new one. It denotes the availability of vast volumes and sources of data, which were not available before. By itself, Big Data is powerful, and when combined with Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, the opportunities presented by this combination are just endless. As big data moves to the […].

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The legal quagmire of creativity in artificial intelligence

Computer Weekly

AI holds the promise to solve problems beyond the scope of human imagination. But if an AI can create, who owns its work?

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If You’re Still Doing These Tasks Manually, You’re Out of the Loop

CTOvision

Making changes to the way you do business can seem scary, but some new technologies could help you get work done significantly faster — particularly if you focus on automation. Below, we’ll look at several tasks you can automate to save time. 1. Ordering Office Supplies Restocking your office supplies is tedious, and if you […].

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Public sector IT suppliers demand clarity over G-Cloud 10 launch date

Computer Weekly

G-Cloud listed IT suppliers are getting concerned that the next iteration of the framework agreement could be delayed by up to a year, and claim it could harm the public sector’s digital transformation efforts

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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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Remembering Banyan VINES-Part 2

IT Toolbox

Although VINES had almost as extensive a history as NetWare, Banyan was just never able to make any inroads into Novell's market domination at the time. As a result of this, and perhaps as a survival move, Banyan eventually made its services operating system?and its network operating system?independent.

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Academics and public sector organisations collaborate on London Wi-Fi project

Computer Weekly

Students and public sector staff across London will get easier access to the Jisc eduroam and govroam Wi-Fi networks through a new scheme spearheaded by City, University of London and Camden Council

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CIO interview: Adam Warne, AO.com on Black Friday

Computer Weekly

It is not often a retail CIO can spare half an hour to have a chat on what is probably the busiest day of the year

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Give Thanks

IT Toolbox

Thanksgiving, the US holiday of gratefulness for bounty, salvation and continued life has come and gone. Before the overt commercialism on the ongoing holiday season overwhelms, I want to take a moment to speak some thanks that are meaningful to me. I am certainly thankful for my family. They have been a strong supporter of my many endeavors.

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AWS announces Secret cloud region for intelligence community agencies

Computer Weekly

Amazon has launched a new cloud region for intelligence agencies managing information of a secret classification

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The Data Storage Explosion

Cloud Musings

Cloud computing innovation will power enterprise transformation in 2018. Cloud growth is also driving a rapid rise in the storage market, exacerbating the enterprise challenge around storage cost and complexity. The business reason behind this marketplace reality is the proliferation of real-time data from the web, mobile devices, social media, sensors, log files, and transactional applications.

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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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ROLLUP and GROUPING_ID in Oracle SQL

IT Toolbox

Exotic "bit vectors" become everyday decimals

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Understanding the value of your customer: CLV 101

Dataconomy

At some point, almost every company faces questions like How good are the customers that we acquire? How do they differ from each other? How much can we spend to encourage their first or next transaction? As a measure that determines the amount of profit a customer brings over the. The post Understanding the value of your customer: CLV 101 appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Using Docker Machine with KVM and Libvirt

Scott Lowe

Docker Machine is, in my opinion, a useful and underrated tool. I’ve written before about using Docker Machine with various services/providers; for example, see this article on using Docker Machine with AWS , or this article on using Docker Machine with OpenStack. Docker Machine also supports local hypervisors, such as VMware Fusion or VirtualBox.

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Running Digital IT with a Healthy Change Habit

Future of CIO

Digital is about change. IT is in a unique position because they can oversee the whole organizational processes and should have the program skills to implement transformation successfully. Thus, in forward-looking organizations, IT has become synonymous with the change department. Collectively, IT should cultivate a healthy change habit, Change Management needs to be the mechanism embedded in the multitude of IT management, in order to run IT as a change agent.

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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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Creative Personality with Paradoxical Traits

Future of CIO

Creativity is the #1 needed skill now because digital is the age of innovation. The problem is that creativity cannot be taught, it’s not an ability you can be imposed by instruction, calculated via algorithms or practiced via linear thinking only. History teaches that those gifted with ingenuity don't need stimulating, while those without it are barren ground when it comes to original thinking.

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The Popular Quotes of “Digital Master” Book Series to Celebrate Holidays: Thinking, Change, Innovation II Nov. 2017

Future of CIO

“Digital Master” is the series of guidebooks (19+ books ) is to perceive the multifaceted impact digital is making to the business and our society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the digital journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” Here is the set of popular quotes about thinking, change, and innovation to celebrate the holiday.