Forrester IT
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Hello I&O community (or others): We have been busy in November and December finishing some great research for the year but we ALSO planned some awesome research for you and your team coming in the near future. Are you needing to step up to the DevOps plate? Are you questioning what decisions to make on your cloud journey? Do you struggle to determine your multi-sourcing strategy?
Computer Weekly
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Private and public sector step up efforts to close the cyber security skills gap in the face of a global skills shortage
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Data Center Knowledge
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
As deep learning proliferates, companies search for the best infrastructure strategy Read More.
Computer Weekly
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
UK firms urged to consider the risks of non-UK cloud service providers and to encrypt data in the light of another US warrant to access emails held by a US cloud services firm on non-US servers
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.
IT Toolbox
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Two manufacturing companies – Kahiki Foods of Ohio and Process Technologies of Pennsylvania -- have chosen Deacom’s ERP software to simplify and consolidate their existing business process systems.
Computer Weekly
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Cultivating a supportive and collaborative business culture is considered central to getting DevOps to take hold in an organisation.
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Computer Weekly
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
To reinvent IT, CIOs must go beyond current process-based approaches and equip their teams with the right information and tools, completely automate end-to-end workflows, and provide the business with the controls to govern IT
IT Toolbox
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
It's a law of nature that things get corrupted over time. In the real world it's called entropy. In the world of CRM it's call bad data and the rule applies to your customer database just as much as it does to your house. The cure for entropy in any form is cleaning and repair. This is doubly true of databases and spring is a traditional time for cleaning and repairing anything.
Computer Weekly
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
The much-delayed plan – now expected to be known as the government transformation strategy – is due to be announced by Cabinet Office minister Ben Gummer
Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Clearing your cache and cookies can often be a simple fix for some common web performance issues. Here's how to do it in Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, and Opera.
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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.
Computer Weekly
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Organisations in the defence and finance sectors are leading the way in making people a key element of their cyber defences, says human behaviour specialist Jessica Barker
IT Toolbox
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
As words are spoken into the microphone, the carbon granules move and change the resistance of the circuit through the microphone, thereby changing (modulating) the actual level of the DC current. On the listening end, the strength of the electromagnet changes in time with the changes in the strength of the DC current, thus making the membrane move back and forth, producing or reproducing sound.
Computer Weekly
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Mobile network operator Three is to acquire UK Broadband, heralding an expansion into fixed broadband services for the first time
Data Center Knowledge
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Is Cisco’s most sophisticated network monitoring system to date capable of supporting the infosec community’s most desired trust model? Read More.
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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.
Computer Weekly
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
In the Netherlands, cloud computing is used by the central bank, large multinationals like Unilever, startups such as WeTransfer, and even a Dutch potato processing plant in China
IT Toolbox
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Beer and yeast go together right? How is then that two related businesses go in different directions regarding hardware to support SAP HANA?
Computer Weekly
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
BT’s infrastructure arm, Openreach, has made digital maps showing its duct and pole network infrastructure available to allow other comms services providers to plan new fibre broadband networks
Network World
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Digital disruption has demolished more than 50% of the Fortune 500 since 2000. Technology is creating new online-only companies—i.e., Kickstarter for funding, Sofi for lending and Venmo for payments. The digital disruption and, more important, its pace continues to disrupt long-established business models. Incumbents, not wanting to become another cautionary tale of digital disruption, are making radical changes to their businesses to focus on online and mobile channels.
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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.
Computer Weekly
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Equinix has hit the acquisition trail once again to snap up the UK business of US modular datacentre provider IO
Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Cybercriminals use social networking outlets to tailor their social engineering attacks, increasing their chance of success. A solution is in the works to mitigate the effects of these threats.
Computer Weekly
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Fast food chain is using SAP software to help it better understand its customers and operations
IT Toolbox
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Social media marketing plays by different rules than conventional marketing campaigns. It is important that you follow those new rules in your social media marketing efforts. The most important thing to realize about social media is that it is inherently a many to many channel. Unlike conventional marketing, the marketer doesn't dominate the channel.
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“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.
Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
If you're ready to take your Ubuntu Server security to the next level, read these five quick tips.
IT Toolbox
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Lightning Interface Adds Magic to the Mix. SMS-Magic, known for their popular out-of-the-box business texting solutions, has been the app of choice for on-the-fly SMS communications among Salesforce1 mobile app users for some time. Now SMS-Magic has announced that their communication utility is officially Lightning Ready.
Tech Republic Cloud
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
If you want to install OpenStack, but don't want to have to dedicate multiple machines for the project, here's how to do that with a single Ubuntu Server virtual machine.
IT Toolbox
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
If you recall, EMC acquired DSSD back in 2014 which you can read more about here. EMC announced four configurations that include 36TB, 72TB and 144TB raw flash SSD capacity with support for up to 48 dual-ported host client servers.
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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.
Computer Weekly
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Can system performance continue to improve to cope with the burgeoning needs of datacentres
IT Toolbox
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Converged Infrastructure (CI), Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) along with Cluster or Cloud In Box (CIB) are popular trend topics that have gained both industry and customer adoption as part of data infrastructures. Data Infrastructures exists to support business, cloud and information technology (IT) among other applications that transform data into information or services.
Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Cybercriminals are just waiting to strike, even in places you might not expect. Here are 5 cybercrime vectors to be aware of.
IT Toolbox
FEBRUARY 6, 2017
This is the second in a multi-part series (read part one here) based on a white paper hands-on lab report I did. The focus is looking at Content Solution platforms with Seagate Enterprise Hard Disk Drive (HDD?s). In this post we look at some decisions and configuration choices to make for testing content applications servers as well as project planning.
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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