Wed.Sep 27, 2017

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6 Places Poised to be the New Silicon Valley Tech Hubs

CTOvision

The image of a group of computer programmers working in their garage somewhere in Silicon Valley is well known. Start-ups have taken over America’s economy and Silicon Valley has never been stronger. This is changing as more and more people flood the computer science industry. All across America, cities are enticing young entrepreneurs and programmers. […].

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Gartner: Alibaba outperforms AWS, Microsoft and Google in public cloud revenue growth

Computer Weekly

While Amazon remains leader of the IaaS and public cloud market, Gartner’s figures highlight emerging competitive pressure from Alibaba on the other runners and riders in the market

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What is VoIP?

IT Toolbox

You've heard the term before. But do you really know what it means? Sure, the acronym stands for Voice over IP, and through that acronym you can deduce that it allows you to send voice messages over the internet. But, have you ever thought about what that really means, and why so many people choose VoIP over standard telephony for their communication needs?

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SDN an essential component of future public sector networks

Computer Weekly

Public sector organisations need to adopt software-defined networking to deliver more agile and resilient networks that bring fit-for-purposes services to users and citizens

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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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Five Ways AI is Changing ERP

IT Toolbox

Just about every captain of industry has been asking himself over the past 18 months how artificial intelligence will change the game. We all know that AI is coming—and in a big way—but it still is early days, and the impact of AI on various industries is anything but settled at this point. One industry that’s grappling with this question is the ERP space.

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How and why to conduct a cyber threat and risk analysis

Computer Weekly

An ethical hacker’s insights into how and why organisations should conduct a cyber threat and risk analysis based on nine years’ experience conducting penetration tests for hundreds of organisations

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How retailers are using technology to remain relevant

Computer Weekly

From the constant innovation at Asos, Amazon and Missguided to the new supply chain prowess flaunted by Diesel and Gap, fashion retailers are investing in tech to stay relevant to their customers

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The role of Views in Enterprise Architecture

IT Toolbox

Views are representations of aspects of a system, usually illustrated as partial architecture diagrams. Views filter EA to show only the aspect of interest. They look like slices, sections or computerised scans through a three dimensional architecture representation. Most diagrams we look at are Views in fact, since the blueprint of the entire enterprise would take a wall.

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ATM cyber attack a growing threat, warns Europol

Computer Weekly

Cyber attacks on bank cash machines are a growing problem despite strong law enforcement cooperation, warns Europol

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Mr. ERP Goes to Washington

IT Toolbox

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions are no longer about manufacturing organizations—or even commercial businesses, for that matter. ERP is in use across the U.S. federal government to help agencies better serve their constituencies and achieve their mission. ERP solutions help the U.S.

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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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UK-EU talks have failed to raise confidence of IT leaders

Computer Weekly

IT decision-makers are no more confident about how Brexit will affect them despite this year’s general election and talks between the EU and the UK

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Finding Gold in General Purpose Apps!

IT Toolbox

The trend these days is to develop special purpose apps that meet a very specific function. This is a great design principle and allows the developer to dive in and really make something that managed all the nuance of a given topic. I've bucked the trend and discovered something quite the opposite.

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Talent shortage keeps Nordic IT companies focused on job satisfaction

Computer Weekly

Nordic companies are aiming to win the race for scarce IT professionals through improving the workplace and concentrating on employees’ job satisfaction levels

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Listening is better than talking

IT Toolbox

I got to do a very unusual (for me) thing today. Along the way, I was seriously reinforced in a lesson on listening. It was a positive experience and is a lesson I'm happy to share. My unusual activity was getting to fly across country with one of our sales reps to demo some new software to a big prospect. Demoing isn't entirely new to me.

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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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Just Exactly How Much Should You Be Paying Your Workers?

The Accidental Successful CIO

The question is are you paying too much or too little? Image Credit: Refracted Moments™. As the person at your company who has the CIO job and who understands the importance of information technology, it turns out that you have an additional job. This is building the best IT team possible. In order to do this, you are going to have to hire some people and when you do this the odds are that you are going to have to end up paying them.

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Escape from geekdom

IT Toolbox

Until recently, cyber security was an arcane feature of the modern world that only geeks knew or cared about. No longer, it seems.

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Nextcloud’s file storage solution gets a security boost

Network World

Nextcloud today released a preview of Nextcloud 13, its online file storage solution for enterprise and individual users. What makes this release so interesting? End-to-end file encryption. When we’re talking about the needs of big businesses, keeping files secure is absolutely critical.

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Prices and unnecessary upgrades push consumers to buy second-hand mobile devices

Computer Weekly

People in the UK are growing tired of regular upgrade cycles for mobile devices

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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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Journal of Irreproducible Results

IT Toolbox

Ironically now, most science journals should have this subtitle!

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The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Education

Dataconomy

Artificial Intelligence has the potential to greatly improve and change education systems across the world. There is a strong possibility for artificial intelligence to be used to help teachers effectively streamline their instruction process and to help students receive much more personalized help that is specifically suited to their strengths. The post The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Education appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Tech Talk: The Equifax data breach, a new Apple Watch and the A.I. revolution

Network World

With the Equifax breach still making waves, the new Apple Watch now on wrists and A.I. seemingly everywhere, our panel digs into what's happening in the IT world.

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DN2017: 4 big trends in 4 major industries where tech disruption is now the norm

Dataconomy

Now that business is moving nearly as fast as data does, the tech world is constantly forging new and exciting professional paths in a range of different industries – that is, if we know where to look for them. Timing is everything and disruption is still stronger in some areas. The post DN2017: 4 big trends in 4 major industries where tech disruption is now the norm appeared first on Dataconomy.

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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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Three Traits of Contemporary Digital Board Directors

Future of CIO

The digital principle of building a contemporary board needs to be open-minded, foresightful, changeable, knowledgeable, innovative and committed. The corporate board today is the mastermind behind the digital transformation. Due to the complexity, uncertainty, ambiguity, and volatility of the digital era, the directorship in any forward-thinking organization must have the ability to guide, inspire and motivate people top-down and bottom-up toward accomplishing shared visions and goal.

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Take a Hard Look at IT to Get Ready for Change and Digital Transformation

Future of CIO

Take a HARD look at IT from a different angle is critical to ensure IT management is steering in the right decision. Digital IT has many faces, the technological side is perhaps hidden inside as the business enabler; the business side shows the measurable high-performance business result, the customer side of IT needs to be perceived outside-in, the creative side of IT solve business problems innovatively, and the commercial side of IT helps the company improve profitability, and lift its maturi

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The New Book “Digital Fit - Manifest Future of Business with Multidimensional FIt” Quote Collection IV

Future of CIO

The knowledge you select becomes “part’ of you, and shapes the lenses you perceive the world. The multidimensional digital transformation provides impressive advantages in terms of the speed of delivering business solutions and ability to adapt to changes. Either be a disrupter or being disrupted, the effects of an increasingly digitalized world are now reaching into every corner of the organization and making significant impacts on every aspect of the business from people, processes, to technol

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