Mon.Feb 27, 2017

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Citizen Love: the story of an ordinary family's fight with the US government

Computer Weekly

Finnish documentary makers Raimo Uunila and Lauri Danska tell the behind-the-scenes story of activist Lauri Love’s battle with the US government – and the impact of the case on his family

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Why It’s Time to Make the Leap to the Cloud

Data Center Knowledge

Even if yours is not one of the “cool” companies that was born in the cloud, you can get going now, and your company will reap significant benefits from the cloud that will pay dividends -- for years to come. Read More.

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Making mobile apps work

Computer Weekly

Mobile users have high expectations, and there is no such thing as one size fits all.

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How to Get a Data Center Job at Facebook

Data Center Knowledge

Here’s what one of the world’s most cutting-edge data center teams is looking for. Read More.

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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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Teachers ‘need help’ to get kids into Stem

Computer Weekly

More assistance should be given to teachers to encourage children into science, technology, engineering and maths careers, says Ada College head of computer science

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Ericsson CEO Says Cloud Capability Key to Capturing 5G Market

Data Center Knowledge

5G means more bandwidth, more data, and more opportunities for data-based services Read More.

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Sales, Marketing and CRM

IT Toolbox

It's no secret there is basic tension built into the relationship between sales and marketing. For one thing, the marketing department complains that sales doesn't follow up on the leads they send them and the sales department complains about the quality of the leads. Each of them blames the other when sales sag. And on and on it goes.

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MWC 2017: Global mobile operators to use big data for social good

Computer Weekly

The GSMA has launched the Big Data For Social Good initiative, drawing together the big data capabilities of mobile network operators to address humanitarian crises around the world

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De-anonymizing web-browsing histories may reveal your social media profiles

Tech Republic Security

Researchers from Princeton and Stanford explain how linking social media profiles to web-browsing activity may threaten the anonymization of browsing histories and lead to a cyberattack.

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Santander bank to work with IBM developing mobile apps for staff

Computer Weekly

Santander bank wants to make its staff more productive through mobile apps, which it will create alongside IBM

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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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Equinix Heats Up Data Center Alley’s Landgrab Rush

Data Center Knowledge

Recent real-estate deal signals that data center land in Loudoun County just got more expensive. Read More.

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Nimble offers Nimble Cloud Volumes all-flash cloud storage

Computer Weekly

Hybrid and all-flash array maker extends offer to the cloud with Nimble Cloud Volumes cloud storage that can be provisioned for compute on Amazon or Microsoft clouds or on-premise

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Can AI learn to code?

Social, Agile and Transformation

AI is coming along with artistic impression. There is Paul and e-David that can draw, an AI that can write a Beatles inspired song, followed by an AI that wrote a Christmas song. There's been a lot of work on natural language processing, but natural language understanding remains elusive. It's hard to keep up with all of AI's creative works and how fast AI will go from pattern-based.

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MWC 2017: Standard allows for LoRaWAN roaming

Computer Weekly

A LoRa Alliance draft standard will allow wider collaboration and cross-border use cases for long range WAN IoT network operators by enabling roaming

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Responding to cyber threats in the terabit era

Tech Republic Security

Prepare for a new wave of cutting-edge cyber attacks linked to emerging technologies like networked IoT devices. Deloitte vice chairman Paul Sallomi explains how hacks are evolving in the terabit era.

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Cyber criminals net £8bn from financial services in 2016

Computer Weekly

Organised cyber fraud gangs are turning their attention to online lenders and emerging financial services, potentially netting £8bn in 2016, a report reveals

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February 2017 Data Center and Data Infrastructure Insights (BD2017)

IT Toolbox

Also keep in mind that while technology can and will fail, hardware and software including clouds are defined by people, and when people are involved, human error is also present.

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Greenpeace calls for sustainable smartphone manufacturing

Computer Weekly

Electronic waste and the carbon emissions from manufacturing are among the areas smartphone makers must address, says environmental organisation

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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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What's at Stake with Owning Collaboration

IT Toolbox

My last post introduced a notion you may not associate with collaboration – ownership. In the world of hardware, ownership is clear with a physical asset and an amortization timetable. The world of software puts this on a slippery slope where there are models both for outright ownership and lease-based subscription.

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Sainsbury’s CDO Andy Day maps path to join customer and product data

Computer Weekly

Sainsbury’s CDO Andy Day, who claimed the number one spot on DataIQ’s 2017 100 top data leaders list, is mapping out a data strategy to join customer and product data, in a “farm to fork” pathway

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Fast-growing Digerati attacks rich SMB VoIP market

IT Toolbox

According to estimates, some 75% of U.S. SMBs have yet to migrate to VoIP communications – an opportunity driving strategy for Digerati Technologies, the Texas-based cloud communications specialist identified by Deloitte as one of the fastest-growing technology companies in North America.

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MWC 2017: BT showcases network startups and 5G for VR

Computer Weekly

At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, BT announces new research into network design and build, and explores the future of 5G networks

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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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Custom manufacturing requires fully integrated ERP

IT Toolbox

When custom development and manufacturing company Innovize decided to step up its efforts in the medical and healthcare space, executives quickly realized their aging enterprise resource planning system wasn’t up to the task -- the old system didn’t have the management control tools they needed. So the St.

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Hundreds more sub-postmasters apply to join group action against Post Office

Computer Weekly

Initial hearing regarding sub-postmasters who say they were wrongly punished for false accounting reveals admission by Post Office legal team

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Salesforce muscles up Einstein AI platform

IT Toolbox

Salesforce has added new power to its existing Einstein intelligence CRM with the launch of Service Cloud Einstein, breaking it down into a number of components aimed at strengthening customers’ various critical CRM functions.

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Ankabut creates hyper-connected ecosystem for UEA education

Computer Weekly

United Arab Emirates education network implements cloud-based software to improve students’ access to resources

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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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The real means for advancement

IT Toolbox

Education is a great lever to advancement. There is no way around it. These days employers increasingly look for candidates with college degrees, or preferably advanced degrees. My sister even tells me that her employer looks for "advanced degrees from Tier 1 nationally recognized programs." That's putting a lot of emphasis on education.

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IDG Contributor Network: 5 ecommerce fraud predictions for 2017

Network World

As the number of consumers turning to online shopping increases, the rise of online fraud is also rising. Those committing internet crimes are depriving their victims of either funds, interests, personal property and/or sensitive data. As the threat escalates, consumers and companies alike are seeking various methods to tackle the phenomenon. Ecommerce fraud has a long and controversial history.

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The mystery of the art and science of Managing

IT Toolbox

In recent months I've gotten the opportunity to work pretty closely with the marketing team. It's been a good collaboration between two teams that need to be pretty hand-in-glove. I've worked around marketing a fair amount over the years. I have a general idea what they do and how it all works. But this is by far the most involved I've been with them.

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Microsoft Joins Facebook’s Push to Disrupt Telco Infrastructure

Data Center Knowledge

Enters collective effort to make global networks scale faster 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.