Thu.Sep 28, 2017

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Large scale IoT deployments double in 12 months

Computer Weekly

Vodafone’s fifth annual look at the IoT market reveals that the percentage of companies with more than 50,000 connected devices has effectively doubled in the past year

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Palantir: Augmenting Human Intelligence, Not Replacing It

CTOvision

With this post we are initiating coverage of Palantir Technologies. Palantir has been around for 10 years now, and is widely known in the enterprise IT world for their work in big data analytics. They provide infrastructure to enterprises seeking to make optimal use of their data. Palantir continues to evolve and continuously improve their […].

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Manufacturing Automation Protocol (MAP)

IT Toolbox

Since I had mentioned it over a month ago, I've fielded several comments and questions about this old OSI modeled protocol operating system. So let's dive in and explore what it was and what it meant to network operating systems that would come after it.

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Maxta adds Red Hat in plan to help customers dodge ‘VMware tax’

Computer Weekly

Maxta allows migration from VMware to Red Hat Virtualization on its hyper-converged infrastructure nodes and looks forward to PCIe upgrades to help unleash NVMe

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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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Predict Sales Activities Using Regression Analysis of CRM Data

IT Toolbox

Customer relationship management (CRM) systems hold the key to understanding prospects and customers. Sometimes, companies fail to put enough information into the CRM database, but most companies have more data in the database than they know what to do with even, if it is not every piece of information they could be capturing. Dreaming of Data.

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WannaCry an example of pseudo-ransomware, says McAfee

Computer Weekly

The global WannaCry and NotPetya attacks were both examples of pseudo-ransomware, according to McAfee researchers

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Where the device hits the network – a mobile device management update

Computer Weekly

As business becomes increasingly mobile, we look at the latest trends in mobile device management to give businesses the edge

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6 Machine Learning Applications Using CRM Data

IT Toolbox

The average customer relationship management (CRM) database holds a lot of history. Companies store the history of contact events as well as demographic and internet-based data such as social media postings as they relate to a prospect or customer.

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Cyber Security Challenge UK launches charitable foundation

Computer Weekly

Cyber Security Challenge UK is setting up charitable foundation to boost accessibility and diversity in cyber security, with an emphasis on supporting those from a disadvantaged background

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How is Software and the Cloud Benefitting Management in Correctional Facilities?

IT Toolbox

Correctional facility management has always been lacking in terms of efficiency when it comes to managing inmates. That’s at no fault of officers or the management itself - it’s simply because facilities don’t have enough employees to cater for the growing population of inmates.

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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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What is intent-based networking, and what can it do for your business?

Computer Weekly

Beyond the marketing hype, does intent-based networking mean anything, and can it improve how your infrastructure runs?

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Five Keys for Avoiding Malware

IT Toolbox

These are dangerous times for corporate IT. From employees carrying corporate data on their insecure personal devices and the threat of exploited IoT to company servers routinely being probed for vulnerabilities and rampant ransomware, there are many reasons why corporate IT professionals should stay up at night worrying.

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Microsoft Azure joins Géant's Europe-wide IaaS mega-framework

Computer Weekly

Microsoft joins Géant's bid to create a cost-effective and accessible cloud procurement hub for Europe's education and research community

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A cost-effective route to auto dealer CRM

IT Toolbox

For the past quarter century, conventional wisdom within the automotive industry has held that selling to an existing customer is eight times less expensive than successfully attracting a new one. Despite this fact, auto dealers in the US spend, on average, 22% of their advertising and marketing budget on driving new or used vehicle buyers into their showrooms.

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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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EC threatens legislation if tech companies fail to act on terrorism and hate speech

Computer Weekly

European Commission adds to growing political pressure on technology companies by threatening legislation if they fail to remove terrorist posts and hate speech from the internet quickly

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SAP makes major acquisition in CRM data management

IT Toolbox

Software giant SAP has made yet another incursion into the universe of CRM with its acquisition of Gigya, a specialist in customer identity and access management tools. Gigya is known for its ‘registration as a service’ (RaaS) service that enables companies to come to grips with opt-in profiles and customer identity data in an increasingly efficient manner.

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Virtus sets out plans to build London’s largest datacentre campus

Computer Weekly

Colocation provider outlines the next phase of its expansion plans, which will see it build out its presence in west London

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The Key Steps in using Big Data in Direct Sales

IT Toolbox

Big data promises analytical success to companies in high competition direct-sale businesses. It promises such success to all companies that operate in the private sector. This is due to the intense competition that has developed in virtually all industries since the 1960s since businesses need to perform beyond the basic triple-bottom-line approach.

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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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Grosvenor signs broadband investment deal for London’s West End

Computer Weekly

Landowner and property developer has signed a co-investment partnership with Openreach to address poor broadband connectivity standards in parts of the capital

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This CRM Can Harness the Weather

IT Toolbox

New Salesforce and IBM Lightning Components Leverage the Weather. Weather causes businesses to lose more than half a trillion dollars every year, so it wasn’t surprising that in December of 2015 IBM announced their plan to leverage real time weather data as part of their resource management planning solutions.

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Be pragmatic, not dogmatic

Eric D. Brown

I’m currently reading Scott Brinker’s book Hacking Marketing: Agile Practices to Make Marketing Smarter, Faster, and More Innovative (awesome book – look for a much more complete review here soon) and came across a line in Chapter 7 that says “Be pragmatic, not dogmatic.” This really spoke to me. One of the things I dislike about many business books is that they try to create dogma and that readers should follow their ‘recipe’ and you’re business

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How Gamification Can Transform CRM and Your Sales Team

IT Toolbox

Why do sales goals sometimes fall short when it comes to motivating employees? The missing ingredient, according to a Harvard Business Review study , is insight. People must be able to see how—and if—they are making progress toward their goal.

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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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UK spending on subscription services triples in a year

Computer Weekly

Almost all UK adults subscribe to services for products they would traditionally pay for up front

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September Was a Great Month For Wireless Tools

IT Toolbox

When it comes to legitimate WLAN design and support for business environments, you certainly have to pay to play. Whether the expertise is developed in-house or outsourced, the right tools in skilled hands make all the difference in creating and sustaining successful Wi-Fi environments. Those tools generally aren't cheap, and sticker shock is common to the initiated.

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How to Deploy and Install Office 365 Software Updates with SCCM CB ADR

Anoop

Since many years, SCCM was able to manage Office updates and patching using different methods. SCCM CB latest version introduced loads of new ways for managing Office 365 application updates in a better way. SCCM uses the Software Update workflow to update Office 365 application update management. SCCM CB latest version has a special dashboard […].

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U.S. Army adopts ERP to accelerate migration to AI

IT Toolbox

U.S. Army logistics experts working with IBM to accelerate the military’s migration to cloud computing are bringing ERP methods to bear on the Army’s global enterprise.

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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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Upcoming Spousetivities Events

Scott Lowe

Long-time readers/followers know that my wife, Crystal, runs a program called Spousetivities. This program organizes events for spouses/partners/significant others at IT industry conferences. This fall is a particularly busy season for Crystal and Spousetivities, as she’ll be organizing events at DockerCon EU, the fall OpenStack Summit, and AWS re:Invent!

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The New Classism & Economic Rent in the Air

IT Toolbox

I had to travel for business this week. It was far enough away that I had to fly. I was sort of shocked by what I experienced at the airport! In an effort to be fair, I won't reveal the name of the airline, but their boarding process completely blew me away. They had layer after layer after layer of advantaged boarding.

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Preparing your team and your tech for GDPR

Dataconomy

On October 12th, Cloudera will be in Munich composing a series of straightforward approaches and concise strategies for companies preparing for one of Europe’s biggest regulatory reshufflings of data ever. Register now to find out what tactics, methods and tools are best suited for you. May 25th, 2018 is. The post Preparing your team and your tech for GDPR appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Five Ways to Protect Mobile Enterprise Data

IT Toolbox

Every day, some of the most important data at your company walks out the door on the mobile devices of employees. It might be encrypted, it might be in a protective container. Just as likely, however, it travels as dangerously unprotected email attachments or on devices that are one phishing attack away from being compromised.

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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.