Mon.Oct 02, 2017

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Five General Maintenance Tasks Every Webmaster Needs To Do

CTOvision

You are no longer a web student… today, you become a webmaster! But what does that mean, exactly? What does a webmaster do? Or, more to the point, what does a good webmaster do? Whether you’re an aspiring webmaster, an experienced one looking to improve their game, or a hiring manager that wants to know […].

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5 Steps to Prepare Your Organization for Artificial Intelligence

Social, Agile and Transformation

Last week I delivered a keynote talk at Synechron's InSync Charlotte event around developing the data driven organization. The talk showed the audience the alignment between digital transformation and data driven practices and how evolving data practices should address small data (through citizen data science programs) and big data governance that can enable organizations to be organizationally.

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Kinetica Brings GPU Acceleration to Tableau

CTOvision

Tableau is transforming the business world by making it easy to visualize and understand data. However, with large datasets, streaming data and more complex queries, enterprise users can find themselves frustrated with slow performance and long wait times as the underlying database struggles to keep up. Kinetica, a provider of GPU-accelerated database technology, is introducing […].

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on why empathy is essential for technology innovation

Computer Weekly

Speaking at the London launch of his Hit Refresh book, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed how a shortfall in empathy nearly cost him a job at the firm in the 1990s

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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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Here's What Businesses Need to Know About UC and APIs

IT Toolbox

Unified communications (UC) is in an interesting phase of development, transforming from simply a workplace collaboration platform into the nexus for powerful business software integrations. Key to that evolutionary step are application programming interfaces (APIs).

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Europol and Interpol reaffirm fight against cyber crime

Computer Weekly

Europol-Interpol Cybercrime Conference sees No More Ransom anti-ransomware initiative highlighted as successful example of law enforcement agencies’ collaboration

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Peer-to-peer CDN improves customer experience for Equinix

Computer Weekly

Datacentre and colocation services provider Equinix cut page load times at its customer information resource library using a developing peer-to-peer model of content delivery networking

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Human Capital

IT Toolbox

Oracle Leverages WeChat. Oracle marketing clients looking to engage with potential customers across China just got a major boost to their efforts with Oracle’s planned direct integration between Oracle Eloqua, part of the Oracle Marketing Cloud, and WeChat.

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Splunk.conf2017: Increasing diversity will require conscious shift

Computer Weekly

Experts gathered at Splunk’s 2017 conference to discuss increasing diversity in the technology industry and what needs to be done to speed up the shift towards a diverse workplace

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ERP and Human Resource Planning

IT Toolbox

When most business people think of enterprise resource planning, they think of sales, products and time management. Hiring and benefits invariably come to mind, but rarely are these specifics discussed. Human resources are the primary resources of business. Without people there can be no business, but an in-depth look at this part of the ERP system is seldom done.

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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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OpenWorld 2017: Ellison declares autonomous database 'revolutionary'

Computer Weekly

Oracle’s Larry Ellison claims revolutionary cast for autonomous 18c database at the supplier’s 2017 OpenWorld conference in San Francisco

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The Digital enables us today to outsource the Digital problem

IT Toolbox

In the not so far past, when companies were adopting a new IT technology, they hired the necessary IT skills in the enterprise. But today, the Digital pace makes keeping up with the technology change a challenge. The enterprise Big Issue today is the rapid Digital evolution because it may change so fast the competitive landscape.

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UK National Cyber Security Centre looks to future in annual review

Computer Weekly

While there is still much work to be done, the NCSC’s first annual report says it has prevented thousands of cyber attacks since its inception

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Top 7 Ways to Improve Performance of Your Windows 10 PC

IT Toolbox

This post looks at ways to speed up your PC's performance.

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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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Hard Brexit would see UK tech exports fall by £1.7bn

Computer Weekly

UK manufacturers including those in the technology sector will lose billions of pounds of export revenue if the government completes a hard Brexit

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ROWS vs RANGE Clause: SQL Exploration of Analytics

IT Toolbox

Anyone felt home with the RANGE?

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CW500 video interview: Yiannis Pavlosoglou, UBS

Computer Weekly

UBS' strategic change manager for operational resilience speaks to Computer Weekly about the lessons learnt from the latest cyber attacks

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DB2 Data Warehouse Capacity Planning

IT Toolbox

Part 1: An Overview of the Warehouse

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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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Don’t complain about tech giants paying out to shareholders – it’s how innovation begins

Computer Weekly

Critics of publicly quoted technology giants say they should invest profits before paying out to shareholders – but that would stifle innovation elsewhere

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4 Insights on the future of data centers

Dataconomy

Our ever-increasing dependence on the Internet to do business, entertain ourselves, communicate with others and shop for supplies has increased our amount of data exponentially. The vast amount of data needed to complete all of our activities requires a growing number of centers to safely store this information. Today, there. The post 4 Insights on the future of data centers appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Security Think Tank: Security analytics needs serious resources

Computer Weekly

What are the main challenges that security analytics can be used to address?

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5 Problems Solved by Web Development Platforms

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Summary: Do your development projects drag on for months? Are business users bypassing the IT department for third-party, cloud solutions? Or, is your aging software holding you back from modern technology? Learn how a web application development platform will help solve these problems. As technology plays an increasingly important role, many businesses struggle to keep up.

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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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Cultural change required in organisations to increase cyber security, says US Secret Service

Computer Weekly

The US Secret Service says current human factors are restricting the progression of cyber security

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Five Aspects to Unlock Digital Performance

Future of CIO

Performance Management a holistic management discipline which needs to connect many relevant dots to involve development, enablement, and enhancement. Enterprise Performance Management is a multidisciplinary management discipline. It is critical because new competitive challenges and active market changes underscore the strategic imperative of managing performance more than ever.

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CW500 video interview: Dan Taylor, NHS Digital

Computer Weekly

The NHS Digital head of security speaks to Computer Weekly about the lessons learnt from the latest cyber attacks

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The Monthly “Unpuzzling Innovation” Book Tuning: The Key Traits in Innovators II Oct. 2017

Future of CIO

Innovators are the rare breed, but innovators are also among us and within us. Digital is the age of innovation. And innovation is what leads to differentiation. There are many ways to differentiate and, therefore, there are many ways to pursue innovation. Talking of innovation is not new nowadays, everybody, every organization now is talking about innovation.

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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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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations. It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication.

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