Thu.Sep 21, 2017

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How to make the right technology choice

Computer Weekly

Organisations need digital technology, but how do you decide which is the best technology for you? The answer is not to make one big decision, but many small ones.

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3 Features LinkedIn Just Added to Help Your Sales Team

IT Toolbox

Top business social network site LinkedIn took a huge leap earlier this year into the customer relationship management (CRM) market with the announcement of its Sales Navigator service. Sales Navigator has multiple features designed to help salespeople use LinkedIn as a social selling platform to boost leads.

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Ireland mulls datacentre planning review to help others avoid Apple-like build delays

Computer Weekly

Speaking at the inaugural Datacloud Ireland event, Irish state minister Patrick Breen outlined the government’s commitment to helping other datacentre operators avoid the planning problems Apple has encountered in Athenry

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5 Ways to Take Advantage of Modern-Day Technology

IT Toolbox

Modern technology changes rapidly and it is up to society to quickly shift to the newest trend. New tech allows businesses, families, and individuals to reach new heights.

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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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Enterprise SDN adoption rapidly approaching tipping point, claims report

Computer Weekly

A study commissioned by networking solutions supplier Riverbed claims that legacy networks are causing problems for businesses trying to undergo digital transformation, and more decision makers are considering SDN as a result

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What Does the Amazon Connect Contact Center Mean for Businesses and Their Customers?

IT Toolbox

At the end of March, Amazon released Amazon Connect, a contact center that serves as a hosting service within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. The new contact center is Amazon’s attempt to break into the cloud-based center software market. Amazon Contact is a cloud-based contact center that you can set up and customize quickly. It can place and receive calls, including toll-free numbers.

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Why Chatbots Represent New Value for your Business

IT Toolbox

The term “chatbot” has become part of the technology vernacular, and along with several related technologies is now finding its way into the collaboration space. If this isn’t on your radar yet, it should be, and this new series will help explain why.

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More than one million new phishing sites created each month

Computer Weekly

Phishing attacks continue to increase in volume and sophistication, according to researchers at security firm Webroot

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The purpose of measuring.

IT Toolbox

A few weeks ago I had an interesting chat with a coworker about measuring and failure. She was prepping for a status meeting where she had to deliver what she thought was "bad news". We were falling short on a key metric. She was actually worried that her audience was going to make a ruckus when they heard.

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Cyber security demands change in approach

Computer Weekly

There needs to be a change in the way technology is designed and in attitudes to data security to ensure cyber safety, say industry experts

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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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When ERP implementation goes wrong

IT Toolbox

It’s hard to recover from a failed ERP implementation, but at least there are valuable lessons to be learned in order to avoid suffering the same fate. Panorama Consulting founder Eric Kimberling says one particular client, whose name he understandably chose not to release, had an implementation that was a disaster from Day 1.

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UK organisations lose £217m a year due to lack of cloud skills

Computer Weekly

The cloud computing skills shortage in the UK is costing businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in lost revenue

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Getting serious about IoT security

IT Toolbox

It?s hard to take security precautions when you don?t know there?

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Cern calls on industry to collaborate on its datacentre challenges

Computer Weekly

Particle accelerator lab has set out a plan, inviting the industry to help it develop next-generation IT to support science

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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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The New Book “Digital Fit: Manifest Future of Business with Multidimensional FIt” Chapter IV Introduction: Knowledge Fit

Future of CIO

Knowledge Management is a human problem and not a technological problem. Knowledge is power, it couldn’t be truer in the digital era. On one hand, the fresh knowledge can be captured from the abundance of information, on the other hand, it doesn’t take long for the knowledge to become a commodity and even outdated soon. Thus the only sustainable competitive advantage is the people's learning agility and how quickly they can keep updating knowledge to capture insight through it, and how well busi

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Gas distribution network SGN invests in software-defined perimeter

Computer Weekly

SGN manages the network that distributes natural and green gas, and is now updating its corporate IT network for the cloud

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The Monthly “Digital Boardroom -100 Q & As Book Tuning: Build an Inquisitive Digital Board Sep. 2017

Future of CIO

Modern corporate boards play significant roles in guiding businesses toward the right direction and achieve expected business results. Due to the “VUCA” characteristics -Complexity, Uncertainty, Ambiguity and Velocity of the Digital Era, the directorship in any organization must have the curiosity to ask insightful questions, agility to adapt to changes, and build abilities to advise, inspire and motivate a group of people toward accomplishing shared visions and goals.

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UK organisations lose £217m a year due to lack of cloud skills

Computer Weekly

The cloud computing skills shortage in the UK is costing businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in lost revenue

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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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Three “DE” Efforts to Rejuvenate IT to get Digital Ready

Future of CIO

CIOs have to reimagine IT on how to unleash the full potential of running a digital organization via management innovation with some necessary “DE” efforts. Due to the disruptive force of technology and exponential growth of information, more and more innovative organizations empower their IT organization to lead digital transformation at the front.

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Nats awards Updata network contract for air traffic services

Computer Weekly

Air traffic control organisation Nats is upgrading its network capabilities to enhance its performance

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Is Sovrin Decentralized?

Phil Windley

Summary: To determine whether Sovrin is decentralized, we have to ask questions about the purpose of decentralization and how Sovrin supports those purposes. People sometimes ask "Is Sovrin decentralized?" given that it relies on a permissioned ledger. Of course, the question is raised in an attempt to determine whether or not an identity system based on a permissioned ledger can make a legitimate claim that it's self-sovereign.

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Some Static Site Resources

Scott Lowe

Over the last few days—prompted perhaps by my article with some additional information on my site migration—a few folks in the community have reached out to me to share some resources they thought I might find useful. In turn, I’d like to share them with you, my readers, in the event you might find them useful as well. This is (clearly and obviously) not a comprehensive list, but here’s what folks have shared with me over the last few days: Josh Habdas shared this link wi

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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 Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 9/22/2017

Future of CIO

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 2 million pageviews with 4100+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The content richness is not for its own sake, but to convey the vision and share the wisdom.

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