Thu.Jun 08, 2017

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Cloud Security Spending Will Grow To $3.5 Billion By 2021

Forrester IT

Cloud is big business today. Forrester estimates that global cloud services revenues totaled $114 billion in 2016, up from $68 billion just two years ago -- that's annual growth of 30%. And we see the public cloud services market reaching $236 billion by 2020. What does this mean for cloud security? · This rapid shift to the cloud raises new issues and challenges for security and risk professionals.

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Smart farming, IoT only way to feed growing population, says Beecham report

Computer Weekly

A report from IoT sector analyst Beecham says the agricultural industry will need to embrace smart farming methodologies to support the growing human population

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Ringing down the curtain on change management theater

Forrester IT

Change Management is a hot topic lately on my social media channels. Like my friend Jon Hall , I also am a long time veteran of the classic Change Advisory Board (CAB) process. It almost seems medieval: a weekly or bi-weekly meeting of all-powerful IT leaders and senior engineers, holding court like royalty of old, hearing the supplications of the assembled peasants seeking various favors.

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Watchdog fails to audit intelligence agencies’ sharing of surveillance data with industry

Computer Weekly

New privacy concerns raised after intelligence watchdog confirms it has never audited or inspected the way intelligence services share sensitive surveillance databases with industry partners

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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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Automation For The Better Good - Security

Forrester IT

Automation gets a bad rep these days, what with public fear that robots will take over jobs (an invalid assumption - we will be working side by side with them ). However, if you asked the most diehard Luddites if they were ready willing to give up the following: Depositing a check using a mobile app. Ordering products on Amazon to receive the next day.

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It is not my fault if your WiFi Signals Are Hitting My Laptop and Phone Antennas

CTOvision

As you probably realize, right this minute your computers are being bombarded with WiFi signals. Where ever you are, whatever you are doing, WiFi signals are making the electrons in your device cycle back and forth. That's just a fact of life, and you should assume it is happing every second of the day. In […].

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Islamic State supporters shun Tails and Tor encryption for Telegram

Computer Weekly

Confidential communications show terror group’s supporters are turning to simple mobile phone messaging apps to exchange messages and distribute propaganda

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Switch Backs Away from Uptime’s Tiers, Pushes Own Data Center Standard

Data Center Knowledge

Plans non-profit standards org it says will be more impartial than for-profit Uptime Read More.

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BT introduces customer-facing CIO roles

Computer Weekly

As part of its overhaul in terms of how it serves its largest clients, BT has set up a team of internal CIOs to speak for enterprise and public sector customers within the wider group

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The Cost of Complexity

Data Center Knowledge

New storage solutions are helping enterprises simultaneously manage rapid data growth, inputs from new data sources, and new ways to use data. Read More.

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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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Emails Your Customers Will Be Glad To Get

IT Toolbox

Email is an effective, powerful tool for reaching customers – when it gets read. An avalanche of content that arrives in the typical inbox daily means that most emails are simply deleted. The effort you spent to create an email campaign is wasted if the customers don't open and read them.

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New IBM app helps you cut cost in hybrid cloud and stay on track for digital transformation

Tech Republic Cloud

IBM's new Cost and Asset Management application, part of its Cloud Brokerage Services, aims to help companies better track cloud assets and policies across multiple vendors.

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Things To Know Before You Develop a Mobile App For Your Business

IT Toolbox

Many businesses are turning to apps to increase and maintain customer interaction with their products.However, before you think of investing in this line of promotion, it is important to filter out a number of factors regarding their applicability and suitability.

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Provide Cloud Services to the Feds? Study the Space-Weather Threat

Data Center Knowledge

Latest National Defense Authorization Act adds requirements for studying EMP threat to critical infrastructure Read More.

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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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Gain Bitcoin - Scam or Legit?

IT Toolbox

If you know anything about Bitcoin and keep up with the latest news in this area, then you?ve undoubtedly come across a term called Gain Bitcoin. This is a program that is particularly famous on social media, with many people watching for its legitimacy. But can you believe everything you read on the Internet?

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When are self-signed certificates acceptable for businesses?

Tech Republic Security

Self-signed SSL certificates are a handy tool to have at your fingertips, but using them for the wrong purpose could be a big mistake. Here's when they make sense and when they don't.

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Survey: Integrating payments processing with ERP improves both

IT Toolbox

A desire to better integrate with existing enterprise resource planning systems is driving billing organizations to invest in expanded electronic payments technology, according to a new report jointly released by the research firm Ovum and payments provider ACI Worldwide.

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Infosec17: CheckRecipient crowned UK’s most innovative cyber security firm

Computer Weekly

Venture capital-backed machine learning technology developer startup wins national competition to find most innovative cyber security company

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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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Transformation for the Slovak Republic National Police

IT Toolbox

SAP recently announced it had completed an implementation for the Ministry of the Interior of the Slovak Republic (Ministerstvo vnutra SR) to transform the National Police Force information systems.

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NVMe flash storage: What are the deployment options?

Computer Weekly

NVMe offers to unleash performance potential of flash storage that is held back by spinning disk-era SAS and SATA protocols.

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Cloud-Based UC Cost Factors - Human Resources

IT Toolbox

My previous post set the stage for this series by identifying three types of cost factors that need to be considered when trying to make the business case for economics as being the rationale for deploying UC in the cloud.

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Equinix First Member of CommScope’s New Colocation Data Center Alliance

Data Center Knowledge

Alliance aims to standardize colo customer solutions 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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Beyond Meeting Customers' Needs

IT Toolbox

“Give the customers what they want” is a basic mantra for CRM. However the mantra is incomplete. To be successful in business you need to give the customers things they don’t know they want yet. In other words, you have to be proactive in your approach to customer needs. How do you anticipate customers’ desires when they don’t even know them?

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Raspberry Pi owners: Update your Pi to protect against this Linux trojan

Tech Republic Security

The Linux.MulDrop.14 trojan specifically targets Raspberry Pi devices running older versions of the official Raspbian OS.

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Improving Your Proposals

IT Toolbox

For some businesses proposal writing is a way of life. In fact they live or die on the quality of their sales proposals. In addition to the contents itself, your company is judged on the quality of the overall proposal and the associated process. So it’s important that the proposal meet the fundamental qualities of a good proposal. Is it accurate?

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Dubai Airports automates resource planning

Computer Weekly

Airports in Dubai are using automation software to co-ordinate resources such as check-in gates and aircraft stands

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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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All You Need to Know About Gain Bitcoin - Is it Legit or a Scam?

IT Toolbox

If you know anything about Bitcoin and keep up with the latest news in this area, then you?ve undoubtedly come across a term called Gain Bitcoin. This is a program that is particularly famous on social media, with many people watching for its legitimacy. But can you believe everything you read on the Internet?

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IDG Contributor Network: Top 5 InfoSec concerns for 2017

Network World

Cloudbleed , WannaCry, ransomware , hackers. Each and every day, it seems, the tech community wakes up to news of another attack on data security and privacy. As IT professionals, we spend our days working to the best of our knowledge and ability to keep company information secure. Some days, however, when news of new attacks hit, it can feel like we’ll never get ahead.

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Combating Financial Fraud With Big Data

IT Toolbox

It is of course important to educate your customers on the risks of identity theft and follow generic guidelines to protect themselves online. In recent times however, big data is proving to be a lucrative channel to detect and combat identify theft related crimes.

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Microsoft Power BI: The smart person's guide

Tech Republic Big Data

This smart person's guide explains everything you need to know about Microsoft's data visualization toolset, Power BI.

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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.