Mon.Mar 13, 2017

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Why Microsoft Says ARM Chips Can Replace Half of Its Data Center Muscle

Data Center Knowledge

Recent years’ relative quiet on the ARM server front, the scarcity of large-scale IBM Power deployment news, and the consistent growth reported by Intel’s Data Center Group may in totality create an impression that the data center chip wars have subsided, with Intel enjoying a massive – and secure.

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Silicon Valley startups aim to make big data capture and prep slicker

Computer Weekly

A group of California-based startup and early-stage data analytics and management companies are bidding to make big data, including sensor data, more tractable for analysis

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Promising Expectations for SMBs and Hosted Contact Center

IT Toolbox

This marks the final post in my series based on BroadSoft’s recently published Future of Work Survey. If you follow me, you’ll know that from time to time I’ll prepare my own analysis of publicly-available studies on trends in the collaboration space. I do this for two reasons.

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The true impact of a cyber breach on share price

Computer Weekly

As cyber security breaches become increasingly common, a security consultant explores how recent headline breaches have affected company valuations

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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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Six Tips for SMEs Deploying ERP

IT Toolbox

The cloud has made ERP deployments easier for small and medium-sized enterprises, just like it has made deployment easier for other types of software. But let’s be under no illusion: Deploying a new ERP system still is devilishly hard.

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NCSC to educate UK politicians on the cyber threat

Computer Weekly

The National Cyber Security Centre is to deliver tailored seminars for politicians on how to protect their email communications and voters’ data to defend against cyber threats to the political system

Education 134

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Powering the cloud: Unlocking the secrets of Google datacentres

Computer Weekly

At the Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco, the internet search giant opened up about how it secures, operates and stress-tests its growing cloud datacentre fleet

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Bad news, Android devs: 40 percent of apps in the market are leaving sensitive backdoors exposed

Tech Republic Security

Codified Security's research found backdoors that could lead to stolen customer information and worse: They could give hackers access to developer's servers and computers as well.

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Moving CRM to the Cloud

IT Toolbox

More and more companies are finding the cloud is an ideal place to host their CRM systems. As a result, CRM is moving to the cloud in a big way. By next year it is estimated that 62 percent of CRM applications will be deployed to the cloud.

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Strategic IT Infrastructure in 2017

Data Center Knowledge

Analysts forecast that NVMe, which is enabling the next generation of flash performance and density, will become the leading interface protocol for flash by 2019. Read More.

Industry 123
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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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The Future Is Now: Top 3 Live Video Streaming Trends for 2017

IT Toolbox

These new technologies have slowly crept their way into our lives and it seems that they are here to stay.

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Danish shipping company uses blockchain in IBM partnership

Computer Weekly

Maersk and IBM test out the application of blockchain technology to track and manage the paper trail of shipping containers around the world

IBM 129
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Three ERP Features That Point to the Future

IT Toolbox

If you are in the market for an ERP system, you may be feeling a little overwhelmed. Not only do you want a solution that is the best fit for your industry and company size, but it must also improve productivity and provide a rapid, impressive ROI. Typical ERP System Features.

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Analytics sell Tegile hybrid flash as college replaces iSCSI

Computer Weekly

Bolton College replaces six-year-old Dell EqualLogic iSCSI block arrays and is won over to Tegile hybrid flash by ease of troubleshooting troublesome VM I/O spike issues

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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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AI Powered CRM

IT Toolbox

China Moves to Embrace AI. According to a recent article in the MIT Technology Review, this will be the year that China emerges as a major player in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). Leaders of the tech industry in China have identified AI and machine learning as their next big areas of innovation.

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Nearly 2,000 Lloyds bank IT jobs set to move to IBM in £1.3bn outsourcing deal

Computer Weekly

Around 2,000 IT staff at Lloyds Banking Group are set to transfer to IBM as part of a seven-year IT outsourcing deal, says union

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Can Your Company Endure an AWS-size Outage?

Data Center Knowledge

Developing a plan to restore systems and business as soon as possible goes hand-in-hand with preventing outages from the get-go. Read More.

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Report: 48% more IT professionals are taking security training

Tech Republic Security

As cyber attacks continue to make headlines, more IT professionals are undergoing security training and assessments, paid for by their employers, according to a new report.

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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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Royal Dutch Touring Club stimulates innovation and renewal of ICT

Computer Weekly

Dutch motoring club has shaped its business in a way that enables the business and IT department to innovate together

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35% of LinkedIn users' passwords are weak enough to hack

Tech Republic Security

More than 63 million LinkedIn users employ common passwords, or reuse passwords, putting them at risk for cyber attacks. Here's how to protect your company.

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Filling Your Sales Funnel

IT Toolbox

The process starts with the sales funnel. All other things being equal, the more leads you can shovel into your sales funnel, the more sales you will make. Clearly, keeping the sales funnel full is a key component of a successful business strategy. Generating leads is a vital function of any business, but it isn't easy.

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Storage systems evolve to meet need for speed

Computer Weekly

The race is on to develop revolutionary storage-class memory products to meet rocketing data processing requirements

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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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Changing Channels: The New Role of Channels in Marketing

IT Toolbox

The role of channels in marketing is changing. New technologies, such as mobile, and new customer attitudes are blurring and interweaving the role of channels in selling products to customers. In fact in many cases it is no longer clear which channel deserves credit for the sale. This is requiring major adjustments in the attitude and approach of marketers.

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IDG Contributor Network: Botnets: Is your network really protected?

Network World

The tech world moves at a tremendous pace, unleashing wave after wave of innovation intended to improve our everyday lives. Many new devices, from security cameras to fridges, or TVs to baby monitors, are now internet connected. This affords us remote access and facilitates the collection of data, which is ostensibly used to make our systems “smarter.

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Are You Thinking About Analytics for your Contact Center?

IT Toolbox

I have a coda to add to the series I just finished on the Future of Work Survey. Turns out there was another contact center finding that merits analysis, especially when thinking more broadly about collaboration and choosing the right deployment model for UC.

Survey 100
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Equinix Opens Its Third São Paulo Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

New facility brings the colo giant's Brazil portfolio to five sites, plus upcoming Verizon footprint. 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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Seven Keys for Better ERP Analytics

IT Toolbox

ERP juggernauts such as Oracle and SAP certainly make a lot of noise about the importance of BI and analytics, but this doesn’t mean it is just marketing spin. ERP systems are at the core of daily operations for many businesses, and better data insight from these systems certainly can help improve business decision-making.

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Vodafone brings offshore contact centre work to UK

Computer Weekly

Mobile operator Vodafone is creating 2,100 jobs in the UK by reducing the amount of call centre work done offshore

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The Power of VoIP Telemarketing

IT Toolbox

If your small business is ready to move to a modern communications solution, but you’re skeptical of the dramatic claims being made by IP telephony of much lower costs and expanded features, consider this odd proof of purchase - the increase in the number of those annoying robocalls coming in from telemarketers every day. Don’t see the connection?

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Containers: The smart person's guide

Tech Republic Data Center

Containers make it easier for IT admins to deploy and update apps and services. Here's an overview of what tech pros need to know about containers.

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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.