Tue.May 23, 2017

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CTOvision Assessment on The Megatrend of Cloud Computing

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. There are seven key MegaTrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for C loud Computing , A rtificial Intelligence , M obility , B ig Data , R obotics , I nternet of Things , C yberSecurity. In this post we dive deeper into the first of these trends, Cloud Computing.

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Security Think Tank: 10 control areas to mitigate against malware attacks

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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3 Ways UC Integration Can Deliver Added Value to Your Business

IT Toolbox

As the market for unified communications (UC) matures and grows stronger, many businesses are turning their attention to UC integration and how it can deliver increased value for them. This recent trend is taking several intriguing forms; here are three integrations that are especially noteworthy because of their significant potential to boost business productivity and, in turn, the bottom line.

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Mobile C-level executives are major risk to business security

Computer Weekly

C-suite executives logging on to unsecured public Wi-Fi hotspots seem to present one of the biggest security risks to enterprise networks

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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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How UC's Shift to the Cloud Will Benefit Businesses

IT Toolbox

As the cloud becomes increasingly fundamental to how business services are delivered and deployed, it’s no surprise to see that unified communications (UC) are tilting toward a cloud future, as well. Many flavors of UC implementation are available today, including hybrid and entirely on-premises versions, but the trend is clearly heading toward a cloud-centric model.

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ChefConf 2017: How DevOps sets enterprises on course for digital transformation success

Computer Weekly

To mark the start of the ChefConf 2017 user summit in Austin, Texas, Chef CTO Adam Jacob shares his thoughts on how early DevOps adopters are now on course to become “high-velocity” technology companies

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EternalRocks worm combines seven leaked NSA attack tools

Computer Weekly

Hard on the heels of the WannaCry ransomware attacks, a researcher has found a worm that combines four NSA exploits and associated attack tools, including EternalBlue used by WannaCry

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What Does Your Wi-Fi Captive Portal Say About Your Business?

IT Toolbox

Among those of us who design and build business wireless networks, the topic of captive portals (splash pages, paywalls, sign-in forms, etc) can be fairly polarizing.

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Cloud data portability: Obstacles to it and how to achieve it

Computer Weekly

Cloud providers are very keen to get your data into their systems but sometimes it can be difficult or costly to move it elsewhere.

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LinkedIn’s Data Center Standard Aims to Do What OCP Hasn’t Done

Data Center Knowledge

Open19 aims to make new breed of data center hardware easy to source for smaller IT shops Read More.

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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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Three-quarters of internet of things projects are at risk of failure

Computer Weekly

At Cisco’s IoT World Forum in London, the network supplier releases statistics suggesting that most IoT projects are at risk of, or doomed to, failure

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How Intelligent Does Intelligent ERP Need to Be?

IT Toolbox

Intelligent enterprise resource planning (iERP) is a technology that’s gaining buzz throughout the industry. The message is that it’s no longer enough just to have ERP but that your ERP solution must be intelligent, with capabilities such as machine learning or artificial intelligence (AI).

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Racetrack Memory products in five years, says IBM fellow

Computer Weekly

Millennium Prize winner Stuart Parkin says flash and 2D methods of storage are fatally limited – Racetrack Memory offers 100x the capacity without flash’s wear issues

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Thinking Clearly about the Cloud for Collaboration

IT Toolbox

There is no bigger trend in tech than the cloud, and really, the collaboration space is just a small slice that’s only recently been getting attention. I would contend the cloud is getting too much attention, and with big developments coming seemingly daily, things are getting cloudier, not clearer for decision-makers.

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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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How to avoid technical debt in open source communities

Computer Weekly

Businesses that make use of open source software should dedicate resources to supporting and maintaining the projects their organisations rely on

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The Case for Vertical Market CRM Skill Sets

IT Toolbox

The customer relationship management (CRM) market is growing increasingly more specialized, so it’s important to realize that the time for vertical market CRM skill sets is now. It’s no longer enough for CRM developers or administrators to know the platform: They’re going to need to know about the industry and so much more. Here are a few reasons why.

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Digital Realty’s First Japan Data Center Comes Online

Data Center Knowledge

Says Digital Osaka 1 will be first of several data centers on future campus Read More.

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Smart eSBCs to replace 'obsolete' telephony adapters

IT Toolbox

Forgive the alphabet soup but they’re worth remembering given the importance of the story: Most eSBCs (enterprise session border controllers) are designed for SIP-to-SIP architecture—without consideration for legacy connectivity requirements, network survivability, security or quality of service. TDM-to-IP telephony is typically handled by an ATA (analog telephone adapter).

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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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SAP Leonardo positioned as digital transformation catalyst

Computer Weekly

SAP’s leadership explains how it has devised Leonardo as a cloud-based product plus services concept for moving organisations beyond mode 1 IT to mode 2, drawing on AI, ML, IoT and blockchain

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Making the Customer Experience As Easy As Possible

IT Toolbox

A central goal of customer relations should be to make the customer experience as easy as possible. Your entire operation, from the flow of business to the personnel, should be designed to make it as easy as possible for the customer to do business with you and have a satisfying experience in the process. Your entire business should be designed around making the customer's life easier.

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Why traveling CEOs and coffee shops are your company's greatest security risks

Tech Republic Security

Some 93% of tech decision makers said they are worried about the security challenges posed by an increasingly mobile workforce, according to a new report from iPass.

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5 Tips for Integrating an ERP Solution into a Hybrid Environment

IT Toolbox

The hybrid environment. Once the red-headed step-child of cloud deployments and legacy environments, hybrid is quickly becoming the way of the world. Many companies are now putting some applications—often, enterprise resource planning (ERP)—in the cloud and maintaining some capabilities in house.

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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 Challenges of Implementing Microservices

Data Center Knowledge

One of the primary first steps toward success with microservices is the codification and validation of functional and nonfunctional requirements within a CD pipeline. Read More.

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3 Ways to Boost Business Productivity with WebRTC

IT Toolbox

As unified communications (UC) enjoys an increasingly solid footing in the market, businesses are becoming more proficient with a range of communications technologies and beginning to envision more sophisticated use cases for applying such technology at their organizations.

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Economic and political uncertainty drives organisations to rethink IT strategies

Computer Weekly

CIO job satisfaction reaches a three-year high as organisations hire more IT staff and invest in innovative digital technology

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IGMP: Joining a Host Group

IT Toolbox

To eliminate unnecessary multicast traffic on a network, hosts and multicast routers use the Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP).

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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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Co-ordinating data sources is the key to CRM success

Computer Weekly

Next-generation customer relationship management requires a data-first strategy

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Gamification and CRM

IT Toolbox

Gamification – using the principles and techniques of game design to improve business performance – is on the horizon and it offers major potential improvements especially in areas like CRM. Gamification isn't a new concept but it isn't mainstream either. Companies and vendors are still experimenting with using its features to improve business performance.

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Almost a quarter of UK and US firms likely to miss GDPR deadline

Computer Weekly

Some 24% of companies polled in the UK and US expect to miss the GDPR compliance deadline of 25 May 2018

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Are You Susceptible to an EHR Failure?

IT Toolbox

The development of electronic medical records (EMR), also known as electronic health records (EHR) have helped medical care providers to overcome many of these physical file vulnerabilities.

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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.