Mon.Sep 18, 2017

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Want to Learn Big Data? These Courses Can Help

CTOvision

One of the best things about the explosion of different kinds of technology across the world, is the fact that many tech-related courses can be easily accessed. Whether you are looking to build your knowledge about big data or build a skill that could help you in your job, there are lots of ways to […].

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ScotRail to test ‘world’s fastest’ in-train Wi-Fi service

Computer Weekly

The train operator has teamed up with Cisco, Network Rail Telecoms and others to collaborate on an Innovate UK funded proof of concept for ultrafast Wi-Fi on board

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Data Quality – The most important data dimension?

Eric D. Brown

In a recent article I wrote over on CIO.com titled Want to Speed Up Your Digital Transformation Initiatives? Take a Look at Your Data , I discuss the importance of data quality and data management in an organization’s digital transformation efforts. That article can be summarized with the closing paragraph (but feel free to go read the full version): To speed up your transformation projects and initiatives, you need to take a long, hard look at your data.

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UAE banks share information to combat cyber threats

Computer Weekly

Banks in the United Arab Emirates will share information on cyber attacks through a platform instigated by the country’s banking federation

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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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5 Ways to Secure Wi-Fi Networks

Network World

Wi-Fi is one entry-point hackers can use to get into your network without setting foot inside your building because wireless is much more open to eavesdroppers than wired networks, which means you have to be more diligent about security. But there’s a lot more to Wi-Fi security than just setting a simple password. Investing time in learning about and applying enhanced security measures can go a long way toward better protecting your network.

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Heads roll as Equifax reveals 400,000 Britons affected by breach

Computer Weekly

Equifax replaces two senior staff members as it reveals how many Britons were hit by a massive data breach that affected millions of consumers

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Hackers installed backdoor in CCleaner, Avast’s Piriform warns

Computer Weekly

Avast-owned Piriform has warned that some versions of its CCleaner software was compromised by hackers that would allow them to install malware on users’ computers

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4 Often-Overlooked Challenges of Federated ERP Solutions

IT Toolbox

A federated enterprise resource planning (FERP) system is an ERP system that allows various functions of business applications and components to be assigned or developed by different providers or vendors. As businesses continue to grow, expand, and evolve, business software has attempted to keep stride.

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Office 365 and Outlook outage: Users across UK and Europe hit by service interruption

Computer Weekly

Monday morning service issues hit users of Microsoft's online productivity suite, Office 365, and its free consumer email service, Outlook

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Mobile UC: Is It Ready for Prime Time?

IT Toolbox

Unified communications (UC) systems have faced some productive competitive pressure in the mobile arena. Over-the-top (OTT) communications apps like WhatsApp as well as collaboration apps such as Slack have raised consumers’ and employees’ expectations for how mobile communications should be delivered.

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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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NHS Digital hopes for orderly transition to new Health and Social Care Network

Computer Weekly

NHS Digital’s Health and Social Care Network is gearing up to connect its first customers in the next month, in the first stage of a staggered transition process

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#Boomiworld17 - I'm Speaking at the first Boomi User Conference

IT Toolbox

Boomi has come of age, and is holding the first Boomi User Conference this week at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco. I'll be speaking.

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Can DevOps deliver on digital potential?

Computer Weekly

DevOps and agile methodologies are seen as key ingredients of digital initiatives.

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5 Ways to Maximize Your Online Tracking

IT Toolbox

In order to be successful with digital marketing, it's absolutely essential that you are tracking your metrics. Most businesses understand the importance of tracking their digital marketing campaigns.

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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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Interview: Technology startups gaining momentum in the UAE

Computer Weekly

The Middle East and the UAE in particular is setting up as a centre for startups

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4 Benefits of Online Collaboration for Small Business Teams

IT Toolbox

Effective teamwork is essential for success in any modern business. Virtually all workers in the business will have mobile internet access that permits them to work from anywhere. But without effective collaboration tools, members of the team will not be able to work together and achieve maximum productivity.

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Tech disruption in Middle East a key focus at GITEX 2017

Computer Weekly

Not surprisingly, Middle East digital disruption will take centre stage at this year’s GITEX event in Dubai

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Aruba rolls out security fabric designed for IoT and the digital era

Network World

Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, is best known for its outstanding business-grade Wi-Fi products. What’s less well known about Aruba is that it has always had excellent security products. In fact, I’ve often described the company as a security vendor dressed up as a Wi-Fi vendor, as Aruba and security have gone hand in hand like the New England Patriots and winning.

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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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Retrieving all Files off of the SpaceMonkey, Now the Vivint Smart Drive

Mick's IT Blog

I purchased the SpaceMonkey back when it first came out. It has been a so-so NAS device that also backed up to the cloud. Vivint bought them out and I ran into real problems when the HDD had failed on the device and the cloud backup was lost during the transition to Vivint. Luckily, I overnighted it to them and they were able to retrieve all contents and back it up to the Vivint drive.

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5 Ways to Secure Wi-Fi Networks

Network World

Wi-Fi is one entry-point hackers can use to get into your network without setting foot inside your building because wireless is much more open to eavesdroppers than wired networks, which means you have to be more diligent about security. But there’s a lot more to Wi-Fi security than just setting a simple password. Investing time in learning about and applying enhanced security measures can go a long way toward better protecting your network.

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New Generation of Routers Monitor Their Own Network Traffic

IT Toolbox

Here is some good news for SMBs - a router that can monitor its own operations

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Securing Competitive Advantage with Machine Learning

Dataconomy

Business dynamics are evolving with every passing second. There is no doubt that the competition in today’s business world is much more intense than it was a decade ago. Companies are fighting to hold on to any advantages. Digitalization and the introduction of machine learning into day-to-day business processes have. The post Securing Competitive Advantage with Machine Learning appeared first on Dataconomy.

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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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15 MAC apps for graphic designers

IT Toolbox

This post looks at a few of the best applications for graphic designers.

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THE DATA NATIVES CONFERENCE IS BIGGER, BETTER & BACK IN BERLIN

Dataconomy

A global community of data science and technology enthusiasts will gather in Berlin in November for the third Data Natives conference. Europe’s premier event for the data-driven generation, Data Natives is the meeting point for some of the greatest minds in data science, technology, and business. More than 1500 people. The post THE DATA NATIVES CONFERENCE IS BIGGER, BETTER & BACK IN BERLIN appeared first on Dataconomy.

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CSV Shredding in SQL Server and Oracle

IT Toolbox

SQL Server 2012 shows limited functionality

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Webinar Replay: Build Enterprise Dashboards in 10 Minutes

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Summary: Would you like to deliver dashboards to your users? Would you like to learn how to create dashboards that integrate with your existing system, in just 10 minutes? If so, check out this webinar replay, and see how easily you can create dashboards. How long does it take to build a secure enterprise dashboard that integrates with your existing systems and delivers real-time data?

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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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The Monthly “100 Creativity Ingredients” Book Tuning: Creativity Credos Sep., 2017

Future of CIO

All humans are born with raw creativity ability. Creativity has many dimensions, with multi-faceted truth and myth, manifold knowledge and multidimensional insight. Creativity is wings of our mind and tempo of our heartbeat. Creativity is a constructive disruption, not so bad addiction, and a sensational phenomenon. The purpose of “ 100 Creativity Ingredients - Everyone’s Playbook to Unlock Creativity “is to classify, scrutinize, articulate, and share insight about one hundred special creativity

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Some Q&A About the Migration to Hugo

Scott Lowe

As you may already know, I recently completed the migration of this site from GitHub Pages (generated using Jekyll ) to S3/CloudFront and Hugo for static site generation. Since then, I’ve talked with a few readers who had additional questions about the site migration. I thought others might have the same questions, so I decided to gather the most common questions here and share the answers with everyone.

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Digital CIOs’ Three Role Shifts

Future of CIO

The digital mantra of IT is to “Do more with innovation.” Information and Technology are permeating to every corner of the business, IT is no doubt becoming more critical in either making or breaking a business. IT transformation means rationalizing current IT department and planning to partner with the business to provide tailored services and solutions in new ways.

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The New Book “Digital Fit - Manifest Future of Business with Multidimensional Fit” Chapter 1 Introduction: The Characteristics of Digital Fit

Future of CIO

Like people, every organization has its own personality and digital fit characteristics. Digital organizations are increasingly exhibiting digital characteristics in various shades and intensity. They are hyperconnected and over-complex, with well-mixed physical workplace and virtual team setting. Like people, every organization has its own personality and digital fit characteristics, how do you define organizational fit, in order to build innovative and high-performing teams and transform the w

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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.