Thu.Jun 01, 2017

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Top UK firms’ websites violate key GDPR principle

Computer Weekly

Just over one-third of all the public web pages of leading UK companies that collect personal information violate a key principle of new European data protection regulations

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What You Need To Know About Mary Meeker’s 2017 State of the Internet Report

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. We should all collectively thank Mary Meeker for her continued efforts in helping capture key trends in our interconnected technology. Her yearly report on the state of the Internet (available at Internet Trends Report and embedded below) provides context relevant to just about every enterprise decision-maker. Here are key takeaways: Global smartphone growth is slowing.

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Business applications embrace IoT, blockchain to face future

Computer Weekly

Next-generation ERP systems could intersect with IoT, blockchain and smart contracts to drive a new wave of automation aimed at operational efficiency

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The Right Questions to Ask About Data Center Strategy

Data Center Knowledge

Data center customers often don’t ask some of the most important questions. Here's what they are. Read More.

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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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Why and how men in the technology industry have helped women progress

Computer Weekly

Many have argued gender parity will not happen in the technology industry without help from the top.

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Free PDF download: Cybersecurity in an IoT and mobile world

Tech Republic Security

This special report from ZDNet and TechRepublic examines the evolving landscape of cybersecurity as mobile and IoT become indispensable tools in the enterprise. Download it as a free PDF ebook.

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Cloudflare Hires Ex-Symantec Finance Chief in Move Toward IPO

Data Center Knowledge

Network security company aiming to be ready for IPO next year Read More.

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Security Think Tank: Don’t blame employees – give them secure working environments

Computer Weekly

What strategies should organisations follow to block malware attachments which continue to account for two-thirds of malware infections that result in data breaches?

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Seven Keys for Better ERP Security

IT Toolbox

For something so important, you would think ERP systems would be more secure. A report in February by Crowd Research Partners found that 89 percent of security industry observers surveyed said they thought that the number of attacks on ERP systems will increase this year.

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Enterprises struggle with emergency patching

Computer Weekly

Companies are struggling to maintain emergency patch cycles, despite the fact that enterprise reliance on legacy systems often means emergency patches are an everyday fact of life, a survey shows

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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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Mainframe or Cloud: It Isn’t An All-or-Nothing Decision

Data Center Knowledge

Sometimes there is simply no substitute for a modern version of the original, which is inherently better and doesn’t need to be replaced, but rather simply requires sincere stewardship. Read More.

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Simple ways to avoid malware on all your devices

Tech Republic Security

If you work without concern for security, your data will be breeched. Jack Wallen offers up a few bits of advice that will help you to use your devices intelligently and avoid malware.

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SAP's Internet of Things platforms expands into machine learning

IT Toolbox

While enterprise resource planning software may have its roots in unifying record-keeping and reporting, its present and future are about fundamental digital transformation.

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How to protect Samba from the SambaCry exploit

Tech Republic Security

If you make use of a Linux server to share out directories and files, you'll want to make sure you do everything you can to prevent the likes of SambaCry. Here are a few tips.

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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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Microsoft nails integration milestone for global marketing automation firm

IT Toolbox

Software developers are placing more emphasis on the automation of CRM activities, and there is increasing recognition that time is being wasted by sales teams in interfacing between different platforms. Higher levels of integration and automation can pay dividends for sales and marketing departments, not just in time saved, but also in offering new insights.

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NHS loses digital director Beverley Bryant to private sector

Computer Weekly

The director of digital transformation at NHS Digital has led several key technology programmes in the health service, but is moving to work for a supplier

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What Shade of Blue is Your WLAN? Cisco's New Fast Lane App Tells You

IT Toolbox

I can’t tell you how many blasted times the notion of wireless speeds come up in conversation in my profession. Like when a colleague says “Man, our network is fast! I’m getting over 300 meg per second.” Or when a user complains “It seems like my wireless is slow, like I’m only getting maybe a couple of megabits per second.

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Shopping centre giant intu launches startup incubator programme

Computer Weekly

Intu has partnered with L Marks to launch a startup incubator programme to help advance UK retail and cater to modern consumer habits

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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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Rapid ERP implementation boosts construction firm's shift from public to private

IT Toolbox

It’s tough to get an entirely new ERP system up and running quickly – and even tougher for an enterprise that is just resuming life as a private company after more than a decade as part of a publicly-traded corporate parent.

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British Airways confirms investigation under way into bank holiday datacentre power failure

Computer Weekly

Airline says investigation will focus on ensuring the IT problems of the bank holiday weekend will never be repeated

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Platform as a Service option to help communications firms steal a march

IT Toolbox

BroadSoft is making its Broadcloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) commercially available to help service providers address the changing landscape for unified communications.

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Chrome web pages could secretly be recording audio and video

Tech Republic Security

A Chrome bug, reported by an AOL web developer, would allow websites to record a user without alerting them to the action.

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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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Will Salesforce Go from CRM Provider to Data Analytics Provider in 2017?

IT Toolbox

Salesforce.com has grown into a diversified platform provider by extending its customer relationship management (CRM) solution into vertical markets and launching tools like Desk.com that can benefit from the company’s large-scale CRM experience and cloud chops.

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Cisco and IBM Team Up to Fight Cybercrime

Data Center Knowledge

It’s like the start of a little cyber-Justice League. Read More.

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Latest behavioral marketing technology now available from Oracle marketplace

IT Toolbox

Behavioral marketing – the science of matching your marketing to your customers’ habits and activity – is fast becoming a watchword for the CRM industry. Now real-time personalization technology developed by one of its leading proponents, SmarterHQ, is available to brand-led marketers from the Oracle Cloud Marketplace.

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7 safety rules in social networks

Galido

Now, in the era of the Internet, it’s hard to imagine a person who does not use at least one of the social networks. To universal use we have “Facebook”, “Instagram”, and “Snapchat”, and even a lot of not so popular resources for communication and chat. Social networks are used by everyone – both young and old.

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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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Fiber comms partnership to deliver new dialing services

IT Toolbox

A rapidly expanding provider of nationwide network communications has created new dialing services as a result of an agreement with a fast-growing national fiber communications network business. Cloud-based VoIP switching and billing specialist Telinta will make Windstream Wholesale’s DID (direct inward dialing) services available directly from its hosted softswitch platform.

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Cloud spending to catch data center, according to Meeker's 2017 trends report

Tech Republic Data Center

As part of her yearly Internet Trends report, KPCB's Mary Meeker examined growth in cloud spending and adoption, as well as the shifting concerns around its use.

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When the Push from Management Becomes the Rationale for the Cloud

IT Toolbox

As this series continues, I’m examining a set of factors that can serve as the basis for going with the cloud for collaboration.

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CenturyLink Data Center Chief to Run Rackspace’s Private Cloud Business

Data Center Knowledge

David Meredith will lead the largest revenue-driving business at Rackspace. Read More.

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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.