Wed.May 17, 2017

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Product Development Must Evolve for the Internet of Things

Forrester IT

Traditional physical products and machinery are steadily being replaced by connected products and assets that shift business models and augment customer relationships with digital experiences and data. But creation of these products is a major challenge for traditional product companies. The process of building connected products is complex, requiring new software development skill sets, accelerated product release cadences, and innovative software tools and proccesses that meet the needs of IoT

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How AI will enhance user experience and boost productivity

Computer Weekly

We meet the head of Microsoft’s Fuse Labs, Lili Cheng, to find out how artificial intelligence holds the promise to extend computing beyond graphical user interfaces

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IBM to retire Emptoris and work with SAP Ariba on next generation digital procurement

Forrester IT

SAP Ariba & IBM today announced a partnership that had been a rumour for a few days now. Part of the deal includes IBM gradually retiring Emptoris and encouraging its customers to migrate to SAP Ariba. [link]. It's an ambitious move by SAP Ariba. IBM Emptoris's leadership had an exciting vision of next gen digital procurement but decided they couldn't deliver it without a cost prohibitive replatforming of its various products.

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Bombardier signs $700m IBM cloud deal to support business turnaround efforts

Computer Weekly

Canadian vehicle manufacturer inks IBM cloud deal to support five-year push to cut costs and improve efficiency

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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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Google to Sell New AI `Supercomputer’ Chip Via Cloud Business

Data Center Knowledge

Move may test Nvidia’s grip on high-end semiconductor market and help Google catch cloud leaders Amazon, Microsoft Read More.

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Organised crime exploiting new technology

Computer Weekly

European law enforcement is to focus on collaborating with industry around cyber crime as organised crime groups increasingly exploit new technologies, according to a regional crime threat report

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How will automation affect the IT skills gap?

Computer Weekly

According to research, automation is putting some job roles at risk, but could it also be the answer to the growing IT skills gap?

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Trends in Systems Migration to the Cloud

Data Center Knowledge

In looking to the year of IT transformation ahead, the rate of technology abstraction promises to increase systems migration and hybrid IT complexity, requiring you and your business to be prepared for the shift in management and monitoring requirements. Read More.

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The evolution of OpenStack: Where next for the open source cloud platform?

Computer Weekly

The OpenStack Summit revealed details of how the seven-year-old open source platform is overcoming its growing pains and positioning itself for even greater enterprise adoption

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Just Exactly How Legal Is It To Track Your Employees?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Just because you can, does not mean that you should track employees Image Credit: Gabriel Garcia Marengo. As the person with the CIO job, you have a great deal of power that comes with your assignment dealing with importance of information technology. The big question that you always need to be dealing with is just exactly how should you go about using this power?

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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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Smart Dubai works with United Nations on smart cities index

Computer Weekly

Dubai is becoming a world leader in smart city developments and international organisations want to tap its experience

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Organizations Will Never Realize the Benefits of Agile and DevOps by Reading the Internet

IT Toolbox

What I find worse is that when you at least attempt to coach teams along this path, they sometimes will say bizarre things like: ?Um. I think there is enough stuff written about continuous integration out there on the web that we can probably figure it out for ourselves.?

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VMware expands support for Horizon Cloud to include Microsoft Azure

Computer Weekly

Virtualisation giant strikes up public cloud partnership with Microsoft to support users that want to run their business applications and desktops in Azure

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How the IoT Is Making ERP Smarter and More Powerful

IT Toolbox

The Internet of Things (IoT) holds a lot of potential for manufacturers to deliver high-quality connected products, but those manufacturers must keep in mind the major impact the IoT will have on enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and all processes involved. The goal of a great ERP solution is to offer up-to-date data and meaningful information to company leadership.

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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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Business not taking cyber security seriously enough, says Dido Harding

Computer Weekly

Most businesses are still not taking cyber security seriously enough, according to the former CEO of TalkTalk, which suffered a major data breach in 2015

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How to Prevent DRUPS-Related Data Center Outages

Data Center Knowledge

DRUPS systems were implicated in several high-profile outages recently. If you're deploying DRUPS, here's what to watch for. Read More.

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Startup aims to improve web access for disabled people

Computer Weekly

Essential Accessibility is on a mission to make online services more friendly to disabled people through a mix of assistive technology and consultancy

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Sixth-grader weaponizes smart teddy bear, hacks security audience's Bluetooth

Network World

If yet another cybersecurity expert wanted to warn the general public about the risks associated with the Internet of Things (IoT), it is likely the warning would go in one ear and out the other. But when a sixth-grader hacks an audience of security experts and “weaponizes” his smart teddy bear, it might just snag the attention of parents who have disregarded warnings about the dangers and bought internet-connected toys for their kids anyway.

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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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The UK’s new mayors must think digital

Computer Weekly

The election of new mayors in devolved regions offers an opportunity to advance digital transformation of local public services

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Accessing Other Networks in the Early Years

IT Toolbox

The network operating system or other networking software could make moving from one PC LAN to another either simple or complicated.

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Dell EMC all-flash XtremIO X2 gains I/O boost via software upgrade

Computer Weekly

Dell EMC’s XtremIO X2 all-flash arrays got a performance jump from ungraded hardware, but the real performance boost comes from changes to the way I/O is dealt with

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6 Ways to Simplify Financial Records with ERP

IT Toolbox

When you hear enterprise resource planning (ERP), terms like manufacturing, production, inventory , and productivity come to mind. Few would ever conjure thoughts of finances or financial records.

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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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CIO interview: Ibrahim Gokcen, Maersk

Computer Weekly

The first chief digital officer at Danish shipping giant Maersk tells Computer Weekly how he is taking on the digital challenge

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IP and VoIP specialists partner for new market access

IT Toolbox

Partnership deals between companies that offer complementary services are becoming increasingly prevalent in the US telecommunications landscape, particularly in the VoIP market, where growing business are readily entering into agreements with established vendors that can offer sales channels.

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Sapphire 2017: McDermott declares SAP indirect licensing policy change

Computer Weekly

At SAP’s annual Sapphire Now conference in Orlando, Florida, CEO Bill McDermott rules out of court charging for static read access in third-party systems

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Digital Transformation and UC Collaboration: The Perfect Match

IT Toolbox

Digital transformation (DX) is a hot industry buzzword and has been for a couple of years now. In the hype cycle, what does it really mean?

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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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Microsoft to NSA: WannaCry is your fault

Network World

Microsoft’s top lawyer has blamed the government’s stockpiling of hacking tools as part of the reason for the WannaCry attack, the worldwide ransomware that has hit hundreds of thousands of systems in recent days. Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer, pointed out that WannaCrypt is based on an exploit developed by the National Security Agency (NSA) and renewed his call for a new “Digital Geneva Convention,” which would require governments to report vulnerabilities to vendors rather than

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'Safety First': Steganography for Encrypting Data Transfers

IT Toolbox

Steganography is a rising star for data encryption in the IT industry, and learning how to utilize it to secure your own data will not only ensure that you are safe when transferring data, particular via Bluetooth to weak devices.

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How to create files faster with G Suite templates

Tech Republic Cloud

Templates can reduce repetitive work and increase document content consistency. Here's how G Suite Business and Education admins can manage custom templates for the enterprise.

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Carter Validus II Buys Conn. Data Center, Leased to CyrusOne

Data Center Knowledge

REIT continues to beef up data center and hospital portfolio as it considers asset sale Read More.

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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.