Fri.Jul 14, 2017

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Autonomous Capabilities for DoD Summit 26-26 Sep 2017

CTOvision

On September 26-27, 2017, senior leaders within the U.S. Military Services, DoD, Industry and Academia will convene in Alexandria, VA, for two days of off the record, non attribution briefings and senior level discussions at Defense Strategies Institute’s “Town Hall” Autonomous Capabilities for DoD Summit. The dialogue will focus on achieving and applying levels of […].

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Checklist for Getting a Grip on DDOS Attacks and the Botnet Army

Data Center Knowledge

Botnets are available for hire online from enterprising cybercriminals; and as their functionalities and capabilities are expanded and refined, more and more connected devices will be at risk. Read More.

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Are aerial deliveries the future of logistics?

CTOvision

Two years ago, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced that his company would soon deliver packages using drones. The idea sounds like it came straight from the pages of sci-fi novel but in reality, it might not be long until we see the launch of the service. Drone deliveries are slowly becoming a reality thanks to […].

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How Formula 1 plans to digitise fan experience

Computer Weekly

For a sport built on advanced technology, Formula 1 has lacked a truly digitally enabled fan experience – but that could be about to change

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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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CRM, gamified: The benefits and challenges of sales gamification that every sales manager should know

IT Toolbox

As competition goes tougher, companies revisit their CRM strategies encouraging sales staff to be more devoted to customers.

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Defence minister opens £3m cyber security centre in Gloucester

Computer Weekly

UK minister for defence procurement has opened Lockheed Martin’s job-creating cyber security centre aimed at boosting UK cyber defence capability and skills

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Not all organisations improving defences after Petya

Computer Weekly

A survey of IT leaders worldwide reveals that not all organisations are planning to improve their cyber defences in the wake of the Petya attacks

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CRM provides competitive edge to hospitality industry

IT Toolbox

Large hotel chains must tackle the tough quandary that exists for those that want to operate on a national – or international scale – but still able to deliver the high level of personalized guest service that the smaller, more boutique hotels can offer – and do as a differentiation from their larger competitors.

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NHS urged to spend extra cyber defence funds wisely

Computer Weekly

The NHS has been urged to invest wisely in cyber defences after the government announced plans to increase data security funding by millions of pounds in response to the Caldicott review

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macOS users beware: A new and nearly undetectable malware is on the rise

Tech Republic Security

Often thought of as impenetrable, macOS is falling prey to a sneaky malware that's stealing bank credentials, bypassing Gatekeeper, and disabling attempts to remove it. Find out more here.

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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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Spurs sign up intelligent edge to digitise new stadium

Computer Weekly

Computer Weekly visits White Hart Lane to see how Tottenham Hotspur football club is building the most technologically advanced stadium in the UK

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They’re The Fastest Traders, So Why Aren’t They Thriving?

Data Center Knowledge

High-speed traders have hit the wall. Read More.

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With this $7 malware, anyone can be a hacker for cheap

Tech Republic Security

Proofpoint security researchers examined the Ovidiy Stealer malware, which steals credentials and operates primarily in Russian-speaking regions.

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What Is Your TAM, and Why Should You Care?

IT Toolbox

A successful company is always looking to improve its decision-making processes and the strategies it uses to master its business-to-business (B2B) marketing. Mastering its ability to determine B2B market sizing is a necessity for growth. To determine market sizing, a business must identify its TAM. What Is TAM?

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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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Why Docker is So Popular

Data Center Knowledge

Explaining the rise of containers and Docker Read More.

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Be prepared: VoIP providers must certify again

IT Toolbox

Under US Federal Communications Commission rules, customer proprietary network information rules, or CPNI, govern the privacy obligations of voice service providers. Now that Congress has repealed a 2016 privacy order that had extended to providers of broadband internet services, VoIP service providers will again have to file CPNI compliance with the FCC, starting in 2018.

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GCP Expands Data Center Reach to London

Data Center Knowledge

Says site-selection decision predated Brexit vote Read More.

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Software reseller manages growth through cloud ERP

IT Toolbox

When Australian software reseller and services firm Adita Technologies first got started in 2008, it called on several different financial applications for its multiple offices in Australia, the United States and India. But when business began to pick up, managing all those different systems quickly became untenable.

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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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Open Security Controller Waiting for Developer Interest

Data Center Knowledge

Intel has contributed its Open Security Controller to the Linux Foundation. Read More.

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Customer Care: why it's the New Narrative, Part 2

IT Toolbox

My last post touched on how the call center became the contact center, but despite those changes, the narrative around decision-making has remained largely unchanged.

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Unstructured data: The smart person's guide

Tech Republic Big Data

Unstructured data is approximately 80% of the data that organizations process daily. This primer covers what unstructured data is, why it enriches business data, and how it speeds up decision making.

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QA for Big Data Applications - Part 1

IT Toolbox

Part 1 - The Big Data Environment

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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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6 Ways to Use Big Data in Ecommerce

Dataconomy

The creation and consumption of data continues to rapidly grow around the globe with large investment in big data analytics hardware, software, and services. The availability of large data sets is one of the core reasons that Deep Learning, a sub-set of artificial intelligence (AI), has recently emerged as the hottest. The post 6 Ways to Use Big Data in Ecommerce appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Ten Years of Spousetivities

Scott Lowe

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (OK, so it was 2008 and it was here in this galaxy—on this very planet, in fact), I posted an article about bringing your spouse to VMworld. That one post sparked a fire that, kindled by my wife’s passion and creativity, culminates this year in ten years of Spousetivities! Yes, Spousetivities is back at VMworld (both US and Europe) this year, and Crystal has some pretty nice events planned for this year’s participants.

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Box Elements brings part of the Box UI to your business app

Tech Republic Cloud

Box recently released Box Elements, pre-built components that can be integrated with business applications built on the Box platform.

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Ten Years of Spousetivities

Scott Lowe

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (OK, so it was 2008 and it was here in this galaxy—on this very planet, in fact), I posted an article about bringing your spouse to VMworld. That one post sparked a fire that, kindled by my wife’s passion and creativity, culminates this year in ten years of Spousetivities! Yes, Spousetivities is back at VMworld (both US and Europe) this year, and Crystal has some pretty nice events planned for this year’s participants.

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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.

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Three Aspects to Enforce IT Innovation

Future of CIO

Innovation is about moving forward. In any business, if you are not moving forward, you are moving backward. Innovation, as an individual process or collective processes, is about figuring out the better way to do things; it helps us adapt, improve, grow and integrate. From the business perspective, innovation is the mechanism through which you grow and evolve something to something great with higher value-add or ever breakthrough or something new or better based on a combination or modification

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Deploy Applications with Simplicity and Performance using IBM Hyperconverged Systems Powered by Nutanix

Nutanix

As a follow-on to our multi-year partnership announcement on May 16, IBM has released details on their new Hyperconverged Systems powered by Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform software.

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Managing Your Hybrid Cloud

Cloud Musings

Photo credit: Shutterstock Runaway cloud computing cost may be causing an information technology industry crisis. Expanding requirements, extended transition schedules and misleading marketplace hype have made “Transformation” a dirty word. Questions about how to manage cost variances and deviations with assets and cost across different suppliers abound.

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Eric Trump during the campaign: "You can't allow [hackers] to attack the government."

Tech Republic Security

If America is hacked the country must show backbone, the president's son told TechRepublic during the 2016 campaign. A year later, are we more secure?

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

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.