Wed.Mar 15, 2017

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Meet Microsoft, the New Face of Open Source Data Center Hardware

Data Center Knowledge

If you’re running a cloud platform at Microsoft’s scale (30-plus regions around the world, with multiple data centers per region) and you want it to run on the best data center hardware, you typically design it yourself.

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Unicef uses data science to track refugees

Computer Weekly

United Nations agency for humanitarian aid for children and mothers in developing countries is turning to data science, marshalling expertise from companies and other corporates

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3 IT Hacks to Dramatically Increase Small Business Efficiency

IT Toolbox

There are incredibly user-friendly software tools that can help a small business achieve great efficiency without hiring an excessive IT staff.

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AI automation starts to transform legal profession

Computer Weekly

Artificial intelligence and automation are making inroads into legal work, but are more likely to support than displace lawyers and will draw IT more into legal service delivery

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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 CIOs Have To Worry About Their Company Being Disrupted

The Accidental Successful CIO

Just when you think you have the ball, that’s when a disruption can occur Image Credit: Matthew Wilkinson. As CIOs because of the importance of information technology it can be all too easy for us to put our heads down and focus on the issues that are right in front of us: securing the network, upgrading workstations, and building new data centers.

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UK identity fraud reaches record levels

Computer Weekly

The UK fraud prevention service is calling for better education about fraud and financial crime as identity fraud, which is often cyber-enabled, hits the highest levels ever recorded

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US set to charge four hackers for Yahoo breaches

Computer Weekly

Three Russians are reportedly among four hackers US authorities believe to be linked to data breaches at Yahoo affecting more than a billion accounts

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How to set up Google Team Drives

Tech Republic Cloud

The addition of Team Drives to G Suite simplifies file sharing in organizations. Here's how you can enable, create, and configure Team Drives.

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The UK needs more women in cyber security, says GCHQ chief

Computer Weekly

The need to recruit more women into cyber security has come under the spotlight at CyberUK as a study shows the UK infosec industry has one of the lowest proportions of women and the highest gender pay gaps in the world

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Three Key Things to Rethink in an Era of Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Data Center Knowledge

As businesses adopt HCIS systems, it is a great opportunity for them to rethink their infrastructure monitoring, applications management and data protection. Read More.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Nordic airline averts business disaster with application performance monitoring

Computer Weekly

Following an emergency decision to move to Amazon Web Services, Iceland’s Wow Air has wholeheartedly bought into the cloud

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How to install WordPress with Docker

Tech Republic Cloud

Deploying containers with Docker isn't nearly as complicated as you might think. Jack Wallen walks you through the process of installing and deploying WordPress, with the help of Docker.

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Raising cyber security grasp is biggest challenge, says GCHQ chief

Computer Weekly

Everyone has a role to play in cyber security, and the NCSC has the right pedigree to co-ordinate and balance the efforts of government, industry and academia, says GCHQ director Robert Hannigan

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Report: Ransomware attacks grew 600% in 2016, costing businesses $1B

Tech Republic Security

Ransomware experienced explosive growth last year, with businesses and individuals losing more than $1 billion to retrieve their encrypted information.

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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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Biggest pain in backup is lack of storage capacity, survey finds

Computer Weekly

Ever-growing need for more storage is the biggest problem for backup, followed by administration overheads, poor performance, scalability and multi-supplier complexity

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Societe Generale Taps Amazon, Microsoft Clouds as Banks Target Costs

Data Center Knowledge

Bank plans to have 80 percent of its infrastructure on internal and external clouds by 2020 Read More.

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National Theatre moves to Office 365

Computer Weekly

The National Theatre is increasingly using cloud technology, with the implementation of cloud-based productivity tools its latest move

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Server Storage I/O (CI) Converged (HCI) Hyper-converged overview

IT Toolbox

Just as there are different aspects, variations, implementations as well as solutions for CI, HCI and CiB to meet different environment size, scope and type of applications, there are also various vendors or solution providers.

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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 delivers enterprise chat through Office 365 and Teams

Computer Weekly

Teams is Microsoft’s latest step to put Office 365 at the heart of collaboration, cementing Office as the business workspace

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Free Cooling Inspires Google Data Center Murals in Dublin

Data Center Knowledge

The company unveils newest outposts in its war on boring data center walls. Read More.

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Amazon Makes it Free for Developers to Build and Host Most Alexa Skills Using AWS

All Things Distributed

Amazon today announced a new program that will make it free for tens of thousands of Alexa developers to build and host most Alexa skills using Amazon Web Services (AWS). Many Alexa skill developers currently take advantage of the AWS Free Tier, which offers one million AWS Lambda requests and up to 750 hours of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) compute time per month at no charge.

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Both Sides of Enterprise Mobility

Cloud Musings

Photo credit: Shutterstock Enterprise mobility has become table stakes in the world of business. The ability to access current information at any time, from anywhere, on any device has really become a cliché. The familiarity we all have with smartphones and wireless access, actually obscures the true difficulty of developing and executing an effective corporate mobile strategy.

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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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Digital commerce makes up less than 1% of GDP in Middle East

Computer Weekly

Region sees double-digit growth in consumer use of digital channels, but businesses seem reluctant to get involved

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Box: The smart person's guide

Tech Republic Cloud

Box makes cloud sync, file and folder sharing, and collaboration a breeze. This resource guide about Box covers how to use the cloud storage service, why it matters, and more.

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Smart meters risk exacerbating problems of digital exclusion, says Ofgem

Computer Weekly

An Ofgem report has warned of the difficulties in getting consumers to engage with smart meters

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US faces limits in busting Russian agents over Yahoo breach

Network World

In a rare move, the U.S. has indicted two Russian government agents for their suspected involvement in a massive Yahoo data breach. But what now? Security experts say Wednesday’s indictment might amount to nothing more than naming and shaming Russia. That’s because no one expects the Kremlin to play along with the U.S. indictment. “I can’t imagine the Russian government is going to hand over the two FSB officers,” said Jeremiah Grossman, chief of security strategy at SentinelOne.

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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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Researchers use $5 speaker to hack IoT devices, smartphones, automobiles

Tech Republic Security

Cybersecurity researchers from the University of Michigan used sound waves to trick accelerometers and gain backdoor access into systems.

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MSP Denies Destroying Office 365 Data in Nonpayment Flap

Data Center Knowledge

Whether Kubicek is an aggressive entrepreneur or a criminal hothead guilty of multiple felonies will be decided in the courts. Read More.

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Developers can now build Amazon Alexa skills for free on AWS

Tech Republic Cloud

A new program from Amazon will provide developers with Amazon Web Services promotional credits, making it free to build and host certain Alexa skills.

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Ascenty Secures $190M to Fund Data Center Construction in Latin America

Data Center Knowledge

Company hungry for further expansion in underserved Latin American data center markets 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.