Mon.Jun 12, 2017

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Cognitive Search Is The AI Version Of Enterprise Search

Forrester IT

Written by Emily Miller, Senior Research Associate. Stop Wasting Time. More than half (54%) of global information workers are interrupted from their work a few times or more per month to spend time looking for or trying to get access to information, insights, and answers. The problem: Old keyword-based enterprise search engines of the past are obsolete.

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Infinera Doubles Data Center Interconnect Throughput

Data Center Knowledge

In a bid to maintain its market share lead, Infinera has introduced Cloud Xpress 2, new 100 Gigabit Ethernet data center interconnect (DCI) equipment that offers much faster speeds for cloud, colocation, and communication service providers. The new version of Cloud Xpress – which became generally.

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Why Open Source Is Really Disrupting Enterprise Software

Forrester IT

I had an epiphany today about a major reason open source is disrupting enterprise software. This is perhaps one of those things that you have heard so much, you've gone numb to it. All the big giants are still alive and kicking, however; so is this really happening? The answer is yes, however the mechanics are not what you think. It is not simply just a cost play.

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Big Data is Bringing Value to the Healthcare Industry in More Ways Than One

IT Toolbox

In order to make informed decisions regarding patient care, medical professionals require constant update and contact with every patient throughout each diagnosis and treatment.

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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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On An Agile scaling journey ? Take our survey to find out how you are doing.

Forrester IT

This year I'm excited to have my team colleague Amanda joining me in the bi-annual Forrester Agile at Scale Adoption survey. For the 2017 study we've added a few more questions in areas that we see organizations are struggling with. So in addition to successful Agile team practices, alignment with business stakeholders upstream and downstream with testing and operations, we are looking into more Agile at scale issues like budgeting and DevOps.

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HPE’s Gen10 Servers Will Have Security Drilled into Silicon

Data Center Knowledge

The company's custom silicon enables security at the firmware level. Read More.

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Work Smart, Not Hard: The Future of AI in ERP Solutions

IT Toolbox

Your ERP solution is supposed to make your work life easier and think like you do, but does it? Automated intelligence (AI) breakthroughs in ERP software are turning work processes into smarter solutions. See how you can work smarter with AI ERP. Artificial vs. Automated vs. Autonomous.

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Slack: Tech industry stereotyping risks scaring off junior engineering talent

Computer Weekly

Slack software engineer, Carly Robinson, says technology firms need to build empathetic and inclusive working environments to retain junior talent

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Do You Really Need an ERP?

IT Toolbox

Imagine your body trying to function effectively without a nervous system. All the body parts may work great on their own, but there would be nothing coordinating any of the activity or sharing information with other parts of the body. That doesn't make for a very efficient body. Your business works under the same premise.

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Wickes customers hit by ‘system-wide’ online ordering problems

Computer Weekly

Computer Weekly understands a “system-wide” issue is affecting the home improvement firm's online delivery bookings, as well as its click-and-collect services

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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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3 Benefits of VoIP for Customer Service

IT Toolbox

The global Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services market is expected to swell to $140 billion by 2021 -- up from $83 billion in 2015.

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Telematics firm on track for growth with managed SIMs and IoT

Computer Weekly

Fleet-tracking company Protrack is using a managed SIM card and internet of things services to improve its customer services posture and enter new markets

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Report: Facebook to Move WhatsApp from IBM Cloud to Own Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

WhatsApp, with its 1.2 billion uses, was at one time one of IBM’s top five cloud customers, sources say. Read More.

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Cloud-Based UC Cost Factors - Performance

IT Toolbox

This is the last post in a series where I’ve been focusing specifically on cost - economics – as a reason to deploy cloud-based collaboration solutions like UC.

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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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Virgin Media patches routers after researchers find flaw

Computer Weekly

Virgin Media has patched its wireless routers to fix a flaw that could allow attackers to gain unauthorised administrative-level access to the devices

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The CIO in the Cloud era

IT Toolbox

There are plenty of articles floating around about the role of the CIO today. Clearly, something is on people's mind. What is the problem though? The questions appear to be about the CIO’s relationship to CMO (Marketing) and CFO (Finance) chief officers and about the future of the role, taking into account the Digital and Cloud rapid evolution.

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CIO interview: Dan Ziv, TouchNote

Computer Weekly

We find out from Dan Ziv, CIO of TouchNote, what it takes to create a successful app and how companies should assess new technology platforms

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Managed Services and Cloud Hosting: What the Leading Cloud Hosts Offer

Data Center Knowledge

We compare the extent to which managed services are built into each major cloud platform. 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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London Tech Week: Brexit won’t harm London tech sector, says city’s mayor

Computer Weekly

London mayor Sadiq Khan opens London Tech Week and says Brexit will not hold back the city's growing tech sector

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Microsoft will counter cyberattacks on Windows 10 with AI from Hexadite

Tech Republic Security

Criminals are winning the battle for data access way too often. Microsoft is adding AI and automation to its security platform by acquiring innovations from Hexadite.

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GDPR and SAP Systems

IT Toolbox

SAP ECC provides businesses with several mechanisms for handling the requirements of GDPR, here I will discuss some of them

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Video: Why employers should seek out "New Collar" workers to fill the cyber-skills job gap

Tech Republic Security

There's a massive workforce shortage in the tech and cybersecurity industry. IBM Security's David Jarvis explains the benefits of hiring employees with a broad range of experience, skills, and aptitudes.

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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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Cloud-to-cloud migration emerging as new class of maintenance software

Tech Republic Data Center

Not everyone realizes clouds are migratory. There is a new class of software designed to help you transfer your data from one public cloud provider to another with minimal downtime and hassle.

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Tips for buying hyper-converged systems

Computer Weekly

Hyper-converged infrastructure has become a commonly used term. But what is it?

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Database monitors

IT Toolbox

A lot of car thefts occur because people forget to lock their doors and remove the keys from the ignition

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South Korean web hosting company infected by Erebus ransomware

Network World

Nayana, a web hosting company in South Korea, suffered a ransomware attack over the weekend which resulted in more than a hundred Linux servers and thousands of websites being infected with Erebus ransomware. The initial ransom amount was astronomically high. Yesterday, I came across the news that a South Korean web hosting company had been infected by ransomware, but it was extremely short on details.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Tips on Choosing Web Hosting

IT Toolbox

This post looks at how to choose the correct web hosting for your site.

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The Data Ecosystem: Taking a Cloud-First approach to IT

Dataconomy

The amount of data that businesses create continues to grow; at the same time, more of it is slipping out of our central data centres and into a mix of Cloud applications, mobile endpoints and remote or branch office file servers. But how can companies keep track of all this. The post The Data Ecosystem: Taking a Cloud-First approach to IT appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Speed Phreak #2: CROSS APPLY -- Key-and-Culprit

IT Toolbox

Out with CROSS APPLY; In with consistency.

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The No. 1 large place to work in IT: Quicken Loans

ComputerWorld IT Management

Lots of companies have corporate goals and mission statements and even go to the trouble of printing them on laminated pocket cards for employees to stick in their wallets. Detroit-based Quicken Loans, Computerworld’s No. 1 Large Best Place to Work in IT for the fourth year in a row, has its “isms” — 19 principles at the core of the online mortgage lender’s creative, collaborative and rigmarole-free culture.

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Understanding Scope Creep

Project managers are now spending more time managing strategic projects where the scope is susceptible to changes as the projects progress. Scope change control is now becoming a critical component of project management requiring project teams to become more active in solving problems and making decisions. Scope change control will require collaboration with stakeholders and possibly government agencies.