Tue.Apr 04, 2017

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IR35 reforms: HMRC 'delays' blamed for last-minute public sector compliance panic

Computer Weekly

Public sector stakeholders claim the late release of HMRC's online tax status assessment tool and its supporting IR35 legislation is causing contractors to leave projects in their droves

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Google Reveals Espresso, Its Edge Data Center SDN

Data Center Knowledge

Fourth and most challenging pillar of its SDN strategy, Espresso manages performance at peering points Read More.

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Chinese hacking group targeted firms though IT MSPs

Computer Weekly

Security researchers have uncovered a China-based cyber espionage campaign that targeted IT services firms and their customers, underlining the need for supply chain security

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4 Crucial Steps for Starting Your Own IT Business

IT Toolbox

The IT industry is highly competitive, so you need to make sure that you really stand out in the crowd and show your target audience that you are unique.

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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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Analytics, internet of things to drive data volumes to 163ZB by 2025

Computer Weekly

IDC study predicts consumers as creators of data will decline as the enterprise, analytics and “life critical” scenarios push total volumes to a tenfold increase by 2025

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The Promise of Software Defined Storage: From Scalability to Efficiency

Data Center Knowledge

Today, data centers are handling gigabytes and petabytes of data on a daily basis, and traditional SAN and NAS implementations are straining to keep up with soaring capacity demands. Read More.

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4 ERP Benefits for Quality Assurance

IT Toolbox

More businesses now use enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for quality assurance management. This software lets managers identify mistakes in the production cycle and ensure products are consistent, safe and effective. If you are still using manual processes for quality assurance, ERP could improve the operational efficiency of your business.

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VMware Sells Off Cloud Services Business to OVH

Data Center Knowledge

Severs the final link that kept it in the cloud provider business Read More.

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Are Your Emails Effective?

IT Toolbox

A lot of marketing emails aren't effective because the sender didn't take a minute to look at the email from the audience perspective. Here are some questions to ask about your emails before you send them. Is the email simple and direct? There is a real temptation to get too fancy in the search for impact.

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Microsoft: OCP Forced Hardware Makers to Rethink Interoperability

Data Center Knowledge

The industry went from interfacing strictly through standards devised by standard bodies to building interoperable components from the start. Read More.

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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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The Ins and Outs of Influencer Marketing

IT Toolbox

The idea behind influencer marketing is simple. Having people your audience trusts and respects talk about your product. Although this has always been done by word of mouth, social media gives this kind of recommendation a much broader reach. It is one of the most powerful tools of social media marketing.

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Open Networking Summit expands collaboration around SDN and NFV

Computer Weekly

Standards bodies, suppliers, telecoms operators and academics gather in California for the annual SDN and NFV Open Networking Summit

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Virtual Reality Marketing Creates Engaging New Customer Experiences

IT Toolbox

Virtual reality represents the cutting edge of marketing technology, creating a myriad of new ways to interact with buyers. Companies leverage VR to display products and convey experiences that engage customers with brands, mostly through visual means. A critical mass of digital devices exist to render VR through portable tech, promising explosive growth for this medium.

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What is DevOps? 3 things you need to know

Tech Republic Data Center

For a topic as hot as DevOps, there remains plenty of confusion about what it is and how it can help a company on its digital transformation journey. Here is a quick summary.

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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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Predictive Analytics in CRM

IT Toolbox

Predictive analytics is the use of the tools of big data to predict things like customer behavior. It can predict which leads are likely to turn into customers and which ones are just looking. The results of PA are usually expressed in terms of probabilities. In other words, this customer is X percent likely to buy.

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Facebook to Build Data Center in Clean Energy-Friendly Nebraska

Data Center Knowledge

New renewable energy tariff makes renewable energy sourcing easier in the state Read More.

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How to Choose the Ultimate ERP Vendor

IT Toolbox

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software helps your business outrank your rivals. This software provide you with real-time insights into your sales, manufacturing and production processes so you can improve your day-to-day operations. Choosing the right ERP vendor, however, can be a challenge. Where do you start? What should you ask? Here's how to select the best ERP vendor for your business.

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AWS to open Nordic datacentre region in 2018

Computer Weekly

Cloud services giant outlines plans to open a datacentre region in Stockholm to offer Swedish cloud customers access to low latency network connections

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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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Hackers: The Internet's Immune System

IT Toolbox

In an increasingly digital world, crime has moved from the streets to cyberspace, and many businesses have been caught unprepared.

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Automation: Not Just for DevOps

Data Center Knowledge

Automation is most closely associated with DevOps’ teams, but it can be applied to any number of functions in a traditional data center or cloud environment—especially those mundane, repetitive tasks that take up precious time and invite human error. However, “just don’t automate for the sake of.

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VMware to sell vCloud Air service and datacentre infrastructure to OVH

Computer Weekly

French IaaS challenger to take over the reins of global vCloud Air hybrid cloud service

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IDG Contributor Network: 5 biggest cybersecurity questions answered

Network World

Some things never change. Computer security, however, is not one of them. New threats, patches and problems emerge each and every week. Many of the key questions and knowledge gaps remain remarkably consistent, and the patterns become clear when you tap into a platform with tens of thousands of those questions. That’s what Experts Exchange does. The sum of this computer security community is a reflection on the top computer security anxieties in the world right now.

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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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Workers at least mentally prepared for robots to take over some of their work

Computer Weekly

One-fifth of workers are mentally prepared for technology to take over some of their roles, but employers must do more to support them

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Why big vendors could ruin Blockchain by making it a centralized service

Tech Republic Security

Blockchain has huge potential, but the way it's rolling out may be limiting that potential. Curtailing the use of middlemen is key to Blockchain's success.

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Open Group's debate on architecture reuse

IT Toolbox

Open Group's User Group's debate on architecture reuse closed to a draw. Yet, that helps no one. Perhaps, the issue should have been adjudicated once for all in the TOGAF standard rather than in a users debate.

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DataWorks 17: Hortonworks promotes maturity of HDP upgrade

Computer Weekly

Hadoop distributor leads on an upgrade to its Hortonworks Data Platform at the DataWorks 2017 Summit in Munich

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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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Big Data Quality Assurance

IT Toolbox

With promises of incredibly fast queries, many IT shops implemented one or more big data applications in combination with high-performance hardware and software suites. Results have been generally good: many installations report incredible decreases in query elapsed times, sometimes by factors of 100 or more.

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Outsourced water market IT system up and running

Computer Weekly

England’s competitive water and sewage market is now in operation, underpinned by an IT system from CGI

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Case Study: New PDI ERP system powers Retif Oil and Fuel

IT Toolbox

After piecing together various enterprise resource planning tools over the past few decades, managers at Retif Oil and Fuel in Louisiana knew their growing company needed an entirely new approach to ERP. But a general-purpose system wouldn’t do much good for Retif, one of America’s leading distributors of specialty petroleum products.

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Free PDF ebook: Riding the DevOps revolution

Tech Republic Data Center

In this joint special feature from ZDNet and TechRepublic, we offer practical advice on how to plan and implement a shift to DevOps. And we've made the whole series available as a free download.

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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.