Wed.Jun 28, 2017

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Build Social Compliance Bridges, Not Blockades — For Your Own Sake

Forrester IT

Compliance pros, try to recall your last interaction with your marketing peers about social media: How did it go? Was it productive? Who initiated the conversation? If you're like many organizations today, your answers go something like this: "Not well," "no," and "not me.". Do you see a pattern? Now to be fair, marketers' responses end up looking pretty similar.

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8 Major Problems Healthcare CIOs are Facing

CTOvision

The role of CIOs is increasingly changing as the business technology undergoes a major shift, making them face a difficult task of incorporating new technology while still retaining ethical standards of the healthcare industry. Below are some of the major challenges faced by CIOs in their efforts of implementing new technology. Security and Privacy While […].

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DVLA aims to slash IT costs by moving to public cloud and open standards

Computer Weekly

Agency’s IT strategy for 2019/20 will see a concerted move to deprecate legacy systems, deploy applications in the cloud and develop in-house IT

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Email Etiquette

IT Toolbox

What is email etiquette? My past experience tells me that these are guidelines on how to compose, respond and basically how to use email as a communication tool. Another question is should this be taught at some point and time to everyone?

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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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Security Think Tank: Can low-cost security defeat malware?

Computer Weekly

How should organisations address the need to keep software up to date with security patches without it costing too much or being too labour intensive?

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Report: 37% of adults at 'serious risk' of being hacked through their IoT devices

Tech Republic Security

Fitness trackers, smart TVs, and children's toys are extremely vulnerable to cyberattacks, but consumers don't know how to protect them, according to a new report from BullGuard.

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Wal-Mart Prods Partners, Vendors to Leave AWS for Azure

Data Center Knowledge

One provider of big data management services said it opted to host applications on Microsoft Azure instead of AWS, expressly to win business from a tech firm with a Wal-Mart account. Read More.

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Effective Tips to Automate Your Business Processes

IT Toolbox

Effective Tips to Automate Your Business Processes In the era of stiff competition, automation can help your business stay afloat. With loads of work, small businesses are often pressed for time. Consequently, routine tasks pile up resulting in redundancy and time wastage. That way your business cannot focus on the important tasks.

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Nutanix makes hybrid cloud push with Calm and Xi Cloud

Computer Weekly

Hyper-converged pioneer to extend on-premise OS to the cloud with plans to span the datacentre and public cloud using Calm, plus forthcoming hybrid cloud services via Xi Cloud

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10 tips to help reduce user account lockouts and password resets

Tech Republic Security

User account administration can waste a lot of precious time and effort, on everyone's part. Here are 10 tips, five for users and five for admins, to reduce the hassle.

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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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Victims of latest global ransomware attack urged not to pay

Computer Weekly

Victims of the latest global ransomware attack are urged not to pay, while some researchers claim to have found a local kill switch or vaccine

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Debunking the Four Myths of Speaking at Events

Data Center Knowledge

Lightning does strike the same place twice, the five-second-rule isn’t really a thing, bats are not really blind, and you should submit a proposal to speak at Data Center World! Read More.

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Email Etiquette revisted

IT Toolbox

What is email etiquette? My past experience tells me that these are guidelines on how to compose, respond and basically how to use email as a communication tool. Another question is should this be taught at some point and time to everyone?

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GE Is Changing How They Evaluate Their Employees, Should You?

The Accidental Successful CIO

General Electric wants to change how they evaluate their employees Image Credit: Jeff Turner. I’m pretty sure that we all know who General Electic (GE) is. The company has been around for 124 years and employees over 315,000 people. The company has made everything from toasters to railway locomotives to aircraft engines to nuclear power plants.

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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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App Developers: Should You Market Your App on App Stores, Or Sell Your Source Code?

IT Toolbox

Learning to develop mobile apps gives you a great skill set that can become a good way to make money. If you develop apps, whether as part of studying to become a professional developer, as a sideline to a day job, or as a full-time freelance career, you have probably noticed how competitive the market is, and how difficult it can be for new apps to get a foothold.

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Lack of accountability and investment blamed for NHS cyber attack

Computer Weekly

An approach built on partnerships, sharing and mutual accountability is essential to ensure a cyber-safe NHS, according to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT

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Most IoT devices are an attack waiting to happen, unless manufacturers update their kernels

Tech Republic Security

The security of IoT devices rests squarely on the shoulders of manufacturers. Jack Wallen explains and offers up the one solution that could go a long way to securing IoT.

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Alibaba’s Increasing Cloud Data Center Footprint

Data Center Knowledge

Latest addition is a 50,000-square foot GDS facility in China Read More.

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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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When two worlds collide

IT Toolbox

If any changes you make could potentially result in raw sewage being spilled into the water supply, you tend to be very, very cautious about making changes.

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Half of highly skilled EU workers in UK are considering leaving

Computer Weekly

Retaining IT staff might be as much of a challenge as retaining them after Brexit as EU workers get itchy feet

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Windows 10 adds end-to-end security to the Fall Creators Update

Tech Republic Security

Microsoft is ramping up Windows 10 security features, using cloud intelligence to better detect and respond to attacks. Here's how it could help your enterprise.

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Stop waiting for perfection and learn from your mistakes

All Things Distributed

This article titled " Wartet nicht auf Perfektion – lernt aus euren Fehlern! " appeared in German last week in the "Digitaliserung" column of Wirtschaftwoche. "Man errs as long as he doth strive." Goethe, the German prince of poets, knew that already more than 200 years ago. His words still ring true today, but with a crucial difference: Striving alone is not enough.

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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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Fileless malware: The smart person's guide

Tech Republic Security

Fileless malware uses system files and functions native to the operating systems to evade detection and deliver its payload. Learn more about this invisible threat and the best approach to combat it.

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QTS Pitches 2MW Data Center Product to Hyper-Scale Clients

Data Center Knowledge

Says a top cloud provider has already leased one 2MW HyperBlock Read More.

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SAP tools for forecasting

IT Toolbox

When the wheels fall off the forecast process it is usually because some process elements are not very mature or broken.

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New China Network Can Shave Milliseconds Off Trades to New York

Data Center Knowledge

That's more than 10 milliseconds faster than existing connections. Read More.

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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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Top 5 Best Exchange Server Database (.edb) Recovery software for IT Administrators

IT Toolbox

Try free demo of all tools to find out which one is the best solution for your organisation.

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Petya ransomware: Where it comes from and how to protect yourself

Tech Republic Security

The attack highlights the growing danger of compromised third-party software being used to spread malware throughout firms.

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Why suggesting that Microsoft buy Docker is crazy talk

Tech Republic Data Center

Not everyone agrees that Microsoft should buy Docker, and for good reason. Here's why Mark Balch of container appliance manufacturer Diamanti thinks that's a bad idea.

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Global Cybersecurity Summit 2017: Are cybersecurity dollars being spent effectively?

Tech Republic Security

A panel of experts at the Global Cybersecurity Summit in Kiev, Ukraine discuss where to allocate the billions of dollars spent on cybersecurity.

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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.