Tue.Oct 17, 2017

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UK intelligence agencies ‘unlawfully’ sharing sensitive personal data, court hears

Computer Weekly

Intelligence agencies are “unlawfully” sharing huge datasets containing sensitive information about the population with industry, government departments and overseas intelligence services, a court will hear this week

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WTF?: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us

CTOvision

Tim O'Reilly's latest book is out! Everything he writes is worth reading. He has always brought insights into technology, business and society, and this time he is no different. WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us is a fantastic guide and overview of the tech and business megatrends sweeping over society. Topics covered […].

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Cryptocurrencies will live FOREVER - Get Used to it

IT Toolbox

Has the hype gotten too hyped? Sure. I totally agree. I have been involved with bitcoin and blockchain since 2010 and frankly I?ve heard enough about it all and really just wish that people would focus on delivering the value that the technologies can bring rather than continuing the escalation of hype.

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Apple Irish datacentre objectors to seek fresh High Court appeal against project

Computer Weekly

The remaining objectors to Apple’s plans to build a datacentre in Athenry, Ireland, are preparing to launch another appeal against the project, which has now been delayed by more than two and a half years

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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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Latest softphones crash the mobile-desktop VoIP barrier

IT Toolbox

Are we coming to the end of the service war between mobile operators and VoIP providers? Zoiper thinks so. The soft phone company is recognized in the VoIP industry for its pioneering role in launching VoIP communication apps in 2003. Its desktop and mobile platforms are now called on by more than 10 million people.

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How to protect your Wi-Fi network from a Krack attack

Computer Weekly

The discovery of a vulnerability affecting the WPA2 Wi-Fi security standard has people in a spin. But how serious is it really, and what basic steps can you take to keep your network safe from a Krack attack?

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Is artificial intelligence hype sowing damaging confusion?

Computer Weekly

IT vendors have leapt on the artificial intelligence/machine learning bandwagon, spreading a level of confusion that threatens potential technology benefits with AI washing

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How to Take Backup and Restore Office 365 Mailboxes

Anoop

Office 365 is a SaaS solution by Microsoft. Many organization uses office 365 all around the globe. There are 24.9 million total subscribers as of that last report. This confirms a vast number of people using Office 365 to help manage their businesses. Do we need to have a backup for a SaaS solution like […]. The post How to Take Backup and Restore Office 365 Mailboxes appeared first on Anoops.

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AI adoption still nascent, says SAS survey

Computer Weekly

At its 2017 conference in Amsterdam, analytics software supplier discloses research into enterprise readiness for artificial intelligence, and identifies blockages

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DB2 Data Warehouse Capacity Planning - Part 4

IT Toolbox

Part 4: Data Movement

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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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RSA’s Middle East cyber security conference gains its own identity

Computer Weekly

RSA Abu Dhabi conference focuses on region’s cyber security needs as digital technology deployments expand

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4 old malware threats still haunting business today

Network World

From Conficker to Zeus, these four malware threats continue to impact enterprises today. Watch this short video to learn where they're still lurking.

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Only 17% of European workers say they know how to use data at work

Computer Weekly

Study shows less than 20% of employees in Europe are confident in their ability to read and analyse data properly in the workplace

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Three Things Data Scientists Can do to help themselves and their organizations

Dataconomy

The importance of data science is only going to grow in the coming years. As we see the results of our data-empowered work take form in how we shape our businesses, our products and our own goals, we are beholden to take a reflective gaze at the relationship between our. The post Three Things Data Scientists Can do to help themselves and their organizations appeared first on Dataconomy.

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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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CIO interview: Peder Sjölander, Swedish Pensions Agency

Computer Weekly

The CIO of the Swedish Pensions Agency tells Computer Weekly about the organisation's DevOps journey

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LinuxKit Deep Dive

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the DockerCon EU session titled “LinuxKit Deep Dive” The speakers are Justin Cormack and Rolf Neugebauer, both with Docker, and this session is part of the “Black Belt” track here at DockerCon. So what is LinuxKit? It’s a toolkit, part of the Moby Project, that is used for building secure, portable, and lean operating systems for containers.

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Gartner survey shows PC boost as businesses upgrade to Windows 10

Computer Weekly

Businesses are finally shifting from Windows 7 to Windows 10, which is driving a major desktop PC refresh

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Container-Relevant Kernel Developments

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of a Black Belt track session at DockerCon EU in Copenhagen. The session is named “Container-Relevant Kernel Developments,” and the presenter is Tycho Andersen. Andersen first presents a disclaimer that the presentation is mostly a brain dump, and the he’s not personally responsible for a lot of the work presented here.

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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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Qualcomm successfully achieves first 5G data connection

Computer Weekly

Mobile chipset supplier Qualcomm claims it has achieved a 5G data connection on a 5G modem chipset for mobile devices

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Some Thoughts on the Docker-Kubernetes Announcement

Scott Lowe

Today at DockerCon EU, Docker announced that the next version of Docker (and its upstream open source project, the Moby Project) will feature integration with Kubernetes (see my liveblog of the day 1 general session ). Customers will be able to choose whether they leverage Swarm or Kubernetes for container orchestration. In this post, I’ll share a few thoughts on this move by Docker.

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Colliers dumps Flexpods for Nutanix and Cohesity hyper-converged

Computer Weekly

Property firm Colliers replaces NetApp converged stacks with hyper-converged infrastructure.

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DockerCon EU 2017 Day 1 Keynote

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the day 1 keynote/general session at DockerCon EU 2017 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Prior to the start of the keynote, attendees are “entertained” by occasional clips of some Monty Python-esque production. At 9:02, the lights go down and another clip appears, the first of several cliups that depict life “without Docker” and then again “with Docker” (where everything is better, of course).

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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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SCCM and MDT Master Kill Switch

Mick's IT Blog

With the advent of mass deployment errors such Emory University and CommBank , there needs to be a master kill switch. I also read several months ago about a University in one of the Scandinavian countries that did the same thing. The last two years at Microsoft Ignite, I have also talked to SCCM professionals who experienced the same thing, one in Oklahoma at an oil company and another in Michigan at a financial services company.

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Rock Stars, Builders, and Janitors: You're Doing it Wrong

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the session titled “Rock Stars, Builders, and Janitors: You’re Doing it Wrong” The speaker is Alice Goldfuss ( @alicegoldfuss ) from GitHub. This session is part of the “Transform” track at DockerCon; I’m attending it because I think that cultural and operational transformation is key for companies to successfully embrace new technologies like containers and fully maximize the benefits of these technologies.

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Webinar Replay: Tailor build a CRM over your existing databases

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Summary: Could your business use a CRM system that’s customized to your precise needs? While it sounds like a daunting project, it’s not as tough as you think. Check out this webinar replay, and learn how easily you can deliver custom CRM systems over your databases. In this webinar replay, you’ll learn how quickly you can create a custom CRM system over your existing databases using the m-Power Development Platform.

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Three “U” Traits in Innovators

Future of CIO

Innovation is about figuring out the better ways to do things. Innovation is an exceptional, exclusive, and realistic idea that separates you from others without a second thought. Being innovative is a state of mind to think and do things from a new perspectives. Innovators are rare breed, but they are in us and within us. Here are three “U” traits in innovators.

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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.

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CIOs as Chief Improvement Officer: Can you Play the Number Game Wisely?

Future of CIO

“You can’t manage it if you don’t measure it” is an old adage for modern business. A performance measurement system is a necessary foundation for continuous improvement. Because without measurements, it can be hard to tell whether attempted improvements make the situation better or worse. In fact, it is dangerous to impose metrics just because the focus on what’s measurable is manageable.

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The Monthly Insight: Principles and Practices for Digital Transformation Oct.,2017

Future of CIO

Change is inevitable, organizational change has become a common practice within an organization, but too often changes are made as a reaction to outer impulses, crisis, and demands. This is the bureaucracy’s way of meeting the challenges. A digital transformation is achieved via dynamic Strategy-Execution-Change life cycle management, though it is not all linear steps, but an iterative, ongoing and upgoing change continuum.