Thu.Oct 19, 2017

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Safeguards permit GCHQ to share huge databases on public, court hears

Computer Weekly

Intelligence commissioners did not need technical expertise or support staff to check whether GCHQ and MI5 were lawfully sharing huge databases, court told

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CRM and Team Communications Made Easy

IT Toolbox

Your customer relationship management (CRM) platform should be the nexus of your team communications (if it isn’t already). With the current and prospective customer data it holds, the CRM application is the perfect starting point for collaboration among your sales, development, operations, and customer success teams.

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Tips on How to Present Your Visual Data Effectively

CTOvision

For any in the business world, presentation, especially visual data presentation, is key. You can have great facts and data to back up your proposals and ideas, but if the presentation goes bad or is not understood, they will have much less of an impact, if any at all. While this may seem a bit […].

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Moving from Social Media to Social CRM

IT Toolbox

It could be that the first time your prospects find out about you is through social media. According to a survey conducted by PwC, 39 percent say that social networks provide the main inspiration for their purchases.

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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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Endpoint, cloud, people key to future cyber security, says McAfee

Computer Weekly

Endpoint devices, the cloud and people will be the security control points of the future, according to the chief of security firm McAfee

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Cape Networks Sees Into the WLAN- and Deeper

IT Toolbox

I see you from my spy plane, baby. I see you walking on the ground I see you through my spy glasses, baby I can see right through the ground. - “Spy”- They Might Be Giants.

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Big Data Security Presents Big Challenges

IT Toolbox

Big data means big responsibilities, and anyone worried about protecting and preserving big data needs to accept those responsibilities.

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Lack of transparency obscures public cloud costs

Computer Weekly

IT administrators admit they are not making the most of their cloud storage and computing resources.

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Phishing Emails Remain a Big Problem

IT Toolbox

One of the biggest threats that many businesses and organizations face is experiencing a security breach. In response to these rising threats, many companies are investing in cyber security programs, such as network visibility solutions, to prevent a security breach.

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Security industry more open, integrated and collaborative

Computer Weekly

McAfee says shift in industry’s approach is evidenced by adoption of its Data Exchange Layer and new collaborations through McAfee Security Innovation Alliance

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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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Machine Learning Makes Your CRM Data Even More Valuable

IT Toolbox

The very definition of machine learning is often the reason people find it difficult to understand what the technology is, how it works, and why it’s important for the future. Explained semi-simply, machine learning was born from the field of computer science. It gives computers the capability to learn without being programmed explicitly for a specific task.

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Businesses must change culture to be successful with analytics

Computer Weekly

Research has shown that business must go through a culture change from the very top if they are to be successful with data analytics

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Novell Netware - A history Part 4

IT Toolbox

Directory would turn out to be one of Novell?s longest running products as many networks would initially choose this directory platform over Microsoft?s Active Directory solution. Especially if the environment was heavily favoring Unix/Linux machines.

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Southend-on-Sea to become a smart city

Computer Weekly

Southend-on-Sea Borough Council will use Cisco’s Kinetic for Cities platform to improve service delivery, development and citizen engagement through digitisation as it transitions to a smart city model

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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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Change is hard when it happens to you

IT Toolbox

It's easy to talk about change. But when the change is happening to you it's a different story. Experience brings a weight that mere words can't touch. This is me right now. I offer a glimpse of my story to open up the stress that comes from change. There has been a fairly significant change of leadership at my work.

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IT security hindering productivity and innovation, survey shows

Computer Weekly

IT security is hindering productivity and innovation across enterprises, research has revealed

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Cultivating a New Tech Category

Fountainhead

9 Things every marketer should know before they introduce a new technology At some point in their career, most technologists think they have the “next big thing”, a product or technology that stands out uniquely from anything else on the market. In fact, it’s so great that it deserves to be a new category in-and-of itself. Now, if you’re a reasonably-seasoned marketer, your initial response to this is “They first need to properly price and position the technology so that it solves a well-defined

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Millions being lost due to downtime in industrial systems

Computer Weekly

Industrial companies are losing $260,000 per hour due to unplanned downtime, but predicting failure using digital twins can help overcome the problem

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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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Touch Screen Linux Applications

IT Toolbox

Today I would like to talk about a few of the applications that allow me to get the most out of the touch screen on my Linux computer.

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Ulster bank first to use full-scale Salesforce Einstein CRM

Computer Weekly

Ulster Bank has completed its roll-out of Salesforce Einstein CRM to arm its staff with insights and recommend actions

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CRM and PRM for the Co-working Generation

IT Toolbox

More than 1 million people will work in co-working spaces in 2017, according to deskmag.com.

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SAP Q3 2017 results show steady growth in cloud revenue to €937m

Computer Weekly

SAP’s third quarter 2017 results show steady growth in cloud revenue, S/4 Hana adoption, and some uptake for its “digital transformation” spearhead SAP Leonardo

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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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Why you should combine Machine Learning with Knowledge Graphs

Dataconomy

Cognitive applications have become constant companions at our places of work. We expect smart systems to reduce repetitive workloads and support us in uncovering new Knowledge. As a result, data scientists and software engineers are applying various machine learning algorithms to finetune results and increase processing capabilities. At the same time, The post Why you should combine Machine Learning with Knowledge Graphs appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Government cuts cost of network infrastructure roll-out

Computer Weekly

Parts of the Electronic Communications Code have been updated to help communications providers deploy new infrastructure more quickly

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Digital CIOs' Skill Matrix

Future of CIO

Due to the disruptive nature of technology and overwhelming growth of information, the role of CIO has to be reinvented for adapting to changes and reenergized for harnessing innovation. Digital CIOs need to develop a broad set of skills beyond technology and have differentiated competency and recombinant professional capabilities and skills to lead the organization up to the next level of the business maturity.

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Post Office computer system legal case reaches important procedural juncture

Computer Weekly

Sub-postmasters group action against the Post Office reaches an important milestone

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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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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 10/19/2017

Future of CIO

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 2 million page views with 4100+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom.

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Norway’s Trondheim embraces the cloud with Google G Suite

Computer Weekly

Municipality is reaping the benefits of moving productivity software to the cloud

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3 Quick Questions with.NEXT Europe Speaker Mick Ebeling

Nutanix

Mick Ebeling is the chief innovation instigator and founder of Not Impossible Labs, an award-winning content and technology solution creator based in Los Angeles.

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Infoblox partners with McAfee to combine web and DNS security

Computer Weekly

Infoblox is to collaborate with McAfee to combine web and DNS security to deliver unified protection

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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.