Fri.Sep 29, 2017

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African anti-malaria programme thrives on strong data culture

Computer Weekly

Path health organisation is fuelling its anti-malaria programme in Zambia, and other African countries, with data analytics from Alteryx, Tableau, and others

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A Fierce Domain: Conflict in Cyberspace

CTOvision

A Fierce Domain: Conflict in Cyberspace, 1986 to 2012 by Jason Healey is a well researched, well history of how humanity is using the Internet to seek to impose their will on others. It contains the lessons learned in previous episodes of our history. This book is a first of its kind. It provides a comprehensive history […].

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Trying Out CRM software

IT Toolbox

CRM is an important choice and an increasingly complicated one. As more vendors offer more sophisticated choices and a broader range of features, it is getting harder and harder to make the right choice. Fortunately most vendors now offer the opportunity to test drive their products before you commit.

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Young wayward hackers could help fill Dutch IT skills gap

Computer Weekly

An initiative in Rotterdam is helping young people get into the IT sector by targeting those overlooked by traditional methods

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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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Eliminating Customer Pains

IT Toolbox

A customer’s interaction with your company should be as painless as possible. Stated that simply, the principle is obvious. Unfortunately in practice simplicity gets lost in a welter of competing demands. This lack of simplicity causes frustration for the customer, lowers sales opportunities and risks losing customers.

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Cyber security should be data-based, says NCSC

Computer Weekly

The National Cyber Security Centre has begun several initiatives in its first year and hopes to use data drawn from those to drive better cyber security practices

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Finnish tax administration strengthens cyber security capabilities

Computer Weekly

Tax administration steps up cyber security initiatives as more of its services are delivered digitally

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Choosing the Right CRM for SMB

IT Toolbox

Selecting the right CRM system for a small or medium size business is essentially an exercise in reduction. You need to decide which features are important to you and limit yourself accordingly. The modern CRM landscape is crowded with CRM systems with various prices and capabilities. Winnowing down the field is an important part of choosing the right system.

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Sweden investigates introducing its own e-currency

Computer Weekly

Nordic country’s central bank is planning for a future e-currency as cash becomes less relevant

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What Business Can Learn from Amazon Alexa

IT Toolbox

My last post was about the TacoBot, and if you think chatbots don’t have a place yet in the office, then this post is for you. With so much of today’s collaboration innovation coming from vendors outside the circle you know, an open mind is needed.

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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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More SMB Love Needed

Cloud Musings

In a recent post, titled “ 10 Surprising Facts About Cloud Computing and What It Really Is ”, Zac Johnson highlighted some interesting facts about cloud computing in the SMB marketplace: Cloud Computing is up to 40 times more cost-effective for an SMB, compared to running its own IT system. 94% of SMBs have experienced security benefits in the cloud that they didn’t have with their on-premises service Recovery times for SMB are four times faster for businesses using cloud computing when compared

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Complete Free MS Outlook Troubleshooting Guide for Users

IT Toolbox

here, you will learn to fix different errors like send/receive, Outlook profile error, missing Outlook emails and damage in PST database file.

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Congrats to Codeship – Ranked as a Top 5 Continuous Integration Vendor by Forrester

The Investing Edge

Ascent Portfolio company Codeship was recently ranked as a Top 5 Continuous Integration Vendor by Forrester’s Wave™ report, surpassing competitors like IBM, Atlassian, and JetBrains (see the report here: Forrester Wave Report on Continuous Integration tools ). According to Forrester, Codeship excelled due to its product vision and execution for the Codeship Pro product and the company’s overall market presence.

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Why Doctors Say Health IT is Failing

IT Toolbox

With all new products and ideas, there are early adopters and there are those who wait months or even years before making a change. The healthcare industry is no exception: for years medical practices kept paper records to stay compliant with laws and to have a physical log of information for each patient.

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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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INVESTING, FAST AND SLOW PART 3: FROM SATELLITES TO STOCKS

Dataconomy

Financial markets offer countless ways of making (or losing) money. A key distinction among them is the investment horizon, which can range from fractions of a second to years. Previously, I sat down to talk about investing and data with co-founders of new investment management firms representing the high-frequency and. The post INVESTING, FAST AND SLOW PART 3: FROM SATELLITES TO STOCKS appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Cyber health checks

IT Toolbox

What a cyber health check should do is ask how and where an outside attacker can get into your system

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Three Views to Enforce CIO Leadership Influence

Future of CIO

CIOs are in the unique position to oversee the business from different angles, and they can have the multitude of business views to lead changes and enforce leadership influence. With overwhelming growth of information and fierce competition, now we are approaching the inflection point in which businesses are facing accelerating changes and can be disrupted even overnight.

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Reinventing the wheel

IT Toolbox

How many things do we invent in the IT world that already have counterparts in other areas?

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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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Brainstorm to stimulate Digital Mining

Future of CIO

Brainstorming to stimulate digital mining is an important step to leverage information and collective wisdom to envision the future of business. Many say digital opens the new chapter of innovation because digital technologies and social platforms provide unprecedented opportunities and convenience for people to brainstorm and collaborate. Brainstorming is a creativity technique by which a group of people can come up with multiple solutions to solve the problem creatively.

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Poof! Mind Blown! Learned Something. Old School SQL

IT Toolbox

Someone "schooled" me!

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The Monthly “Digital Gaps” Book Tuning: How to Bridge Innovation Gaps Sep. 2017

Future of CIO

Innovation gap differentiation helps delineate the problems and opportunities for innovation. “Digital Gaps -Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Business” is a guidebook to help digital leaders and professionals today identify, analyze, and mind multiple gaps with multidisciplinary insight and holistic understanding. Today’s digital organization simply just can’t stand still., bridging the 'gap of opportunity' between where you are and want to become is a welcomed challenge, it is important t

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Will The Real HCI Market Leader Please Stand Up?

Nutanix

IDC recently published its latest market share statistics for “Converged Infrastructure,” which includes the rapidly-growing hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market as a distinct category.

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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.