Tue.Jun 20, 2017

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5.5 Million Devices Operating with WannaCry Port Open

Data Center Knowledge

By now you'd think everyone would have battened down the hatches and locked down potentially dangerous ports vulnerable to WannaCry, but that's not the case. Read More.

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Testing was key to Rio Olympics cyber security success

Computer Weekly

Two years of testing in the run up to the Rio 2016 Olympics were vital to ensuring cyber defences were effective, according to the chief information security officer for the games

Security 165
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DCK Investor Edge: Is Aligned Energy Building a Better Mousetrap?

Data Center Knowledge

The data center provider's proprietary cooling solution and contracting options continue to gain traction, but the end-game could be serving emerging markets overseas. Read More.

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GDPR: Five myths you will encounter on your compliance journey

Computer Weekly

The General Data Protection Regulation comes into force in May 2018.

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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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How Clustering Algorithms Improve Warehouse Efficiency

IT Toolbox

Some companies have charged full force into warehouse automation. Their operations are a view into a future world. Most other companies upgrade warehouse operations by using automation on a project-by-project basis. Some don’t see much advantage and continue to cost-justify manual processes. The commonality is that everyone is looking to reduce costs in the warehouse.

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Emirates Islamic uses blockchain to reduce cheque fraud

Computer Weekly

Islamic finance firm is using a combination of blockchain technology and QR codes to minimise the use of fraudulent cheques

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Video: GCS 2017 panel: The future of AI and cybersecurity for business

Tech Republic Security

Are artificial intelligence and machine learning just fancy risk vectors or will they drastically reduce risk across all categories? How are we programming machines to program the next line of defense? Is the singularity near?

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ERP Best Practices vs. Valuable Practices: Which Is Better for Your Business?

IT Toolbox

The term best practices was first used in reference to agricultural practices in the early 1700s. Sometime during the 1980s, it was adopted by management consultants and business gurus to explain the common practices and methodologies that the top companies used to stay ahead of the competition. Today, a best practice is an irrefutable requirement of doing business.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

Today, I am very excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Hong Kong! The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong. The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers for use in 2018.

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Streamlining Supply Chain Management With the IoT

IT Toolbox

The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to be an inescapable part of modern business, with Intel projecting as many as 200 billion IoT-enabled devices in 2020. Spending will rise from $737 billion in 2016 to $1.

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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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Web hosting firm agrees to pay $1m ransomware demand

Computer Weekly

South Korean hosting firm Nayana agrees to pay more than $1m to restore data that was encrypted by a ransomware attack on its Linux servers on 10 June 2017

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The Riskiest Social Media Habits

IT Toolbox

In today?s world, it is rare to go to a mall, restaurant, or even school without finding one or more teens on their cell phones. It was discovered that teens spend up to nine hours a day on social media websites and 60% of this time is spent using mobile devices with access to the internet. So, the younger generation literally has the internet at their fingertips.

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Analyst tips Microsoft Azure to overtake AWS as cloud revenue market leader in 2017

Computer Weekly

US analyst house Pacific Crest claims Microsoft is on course to surpass AWS in revenue terms later this year

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4 Ways You Can Use CRM to Improve Your Closure Rates

IT Toolbox

The goal of any business is to build and retain customers, so closing sales is an essential part to business. If you gain contacts in your names relationship management (CRM) solution but those people never buy from you, you will have a CRM application filled with empty prospects. Here, learn four ways to improve closure rates by using your CRM software.

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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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Amazon Is ‘Just Getting Started’ With Web Services Push in Canada

Data Center Knowledge

Amazon is expanding its profitable data center business north of the border. Read More.

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How to create virtual machines with KVM

Tech Republic Data Center

If neither VirtualBox or VMWare suit your virtual machine needs, Jack Wallen shows you how to get started with the Kernel-based Virtual Machine tool on Linux.

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Edge Data Centers in the Self-Driving-Car Future

Data Center Knowledge

The Data Center Podcast featuring Florian Liebert, co-founder and CEO of Mesosphere Read More.

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The changes in social media

IT Toolbox

Even before the Arpanet allowed people to communicate with each other across the network there has been a social media. People for some reason just love to communicate with each other. Whether it is by the office water cooler talking about what Johnboy did to Maryjane or over the wire sharing questionable photo's and movies.

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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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Salford City Council adopts Microsoft Azure to deliver hybrid cloud vision

Computer Weekly

Greater Manchester-based local authority, Salford City Council, is following up its foray into private cloud by adopting Microsoft Azure

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Learning from Millennials about Collaboration - Embrace Self-Service

IT Toolbox

There’s a lot to explore when it comes to the generational divide and collaborating effectively across the organization. Every business will have a distinct mix of digital immigrants and natives, and this series focuses on how the former can learn from the latter. There are definitely perceptual issues on both sides, and I’m going to explore that a bit further after this series.

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Property developer A2Dominion picks Hyperoptic broadband services

Computer Weekly

Housing developments in London and the South East will receive ultrafast FTTP broadband services under the new agreement

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Decide in haste. Prepare for waste

IT Toolbox

At least I think that's an aphorism that my grandmother might have said when I was a wee tadpole. Fully grown now, I think I've experienced enough of life that I get the point: hasty decisions are not necessarily good ones. Several years ago, the main regulatory agency in my industry made a change in the rules governing how healthcare services are to be reported.

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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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ProtonMail launches free VPN to fight privacy 'abuse' from likes of Google, Facebook

Tech Republic Security

ProtonMail's new ProtonVPN is officially available to the general public. Here's how it works, and why the company thinks it's necessary.

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Other Dead LAN Strategies

IT Toolbox

Companies such as Bridge Communications, Ungermann-Bass, AT&T, and Wang were major players, or at least they were attempting to be.

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Tesco customers miss out on deliveries due to tech fault

Computer Weekly

A glitch in the supermarket’s store-side systems has meant Tesco’s deliveries to customers have been delayed

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Street Sees Dollar Signs as Microsoft Invests in Cloud, Artificial Intelligence

Data Center Knowledge

Microsoft’s investments in cloud and artificial intelligence have not gone unnoticed on Wall Street. Read More.

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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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What is Bootstrap and How Do I Use It?

Galido

There are many ways to design a website; often developers today use content management systems, like WordPress, Joomla or Drupal, however, while good, some projects require low resources without the use of a database. While traditional html could be used, today’s technologies require mobile support with responsive design. Once way to accomplish this is with bootstrap.

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How cybercriminals are using Android security bulletins to plan attacks

Tech Republic Security

Monthly security bulletins are issued to make sure Android devices stay patched. But cybercriminals are betting that it won't happen.

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Nordic CIO interview: René Engman, Viking Line

Computer Weekly

Viking Line CIO tells Computer Weekly about his strategy for meeting the upcoming EU General Data Protection Regulation

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Video: Fileless malware explained

Tech Republic Security

Fileless malware, a new and growing threat, can't be detected using conventional antivirus means. Here's a bit more about what it is.

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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.