Mon.Feb 13, 2017

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This Valentine’s Day, Pause and Appreciate Flower Logistics.

Forrester IT

Over the past few days, Boston has been slammed by multiple snow storms. This causes challenges for my pending flight to San Jose, but another deadline looms: some roses might not be able to make it to Boston on time for Valentine's Day. Only someone deeply concerned with Supply Chain and Logistics worries about delivery time on Valentine's Day.

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Does AI Make Self-Driving Cars Less Safe?

CTOvision

Jeremy Sutter. Recently, most industries are facing a significant change due to the improvement in technology. The automotive sector is one of the industries that are defined by the normal technological development. Various automotive companies have been working to release self-driving vehicles. The self-driving vehicles use the machine learning technology to substitute the human driver.

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Will The RSA Conference 2017 Make You A Better Security Pro?

Forrester IT

Today kicks off what's always an exciting week for the infosec industry; in between meeting old and new friend at the RSA Conference, we'll hopefully hear about practical new ideas, technologies, and opportunities for better managing information risk. Coincidentally, I'm proud to announce a new report highlighting the best tactics CISOs and security leaders are using to elevate their game: How To Become A Superstar Security Leader.

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Private cloud: Orchestration, storage and containers

Computer Weekly

We look at the key requirements and components of private cloud – including the use of container platforms – and the impact of private cloud on storage in the datacentre

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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 VoIP Features That Increase Customer Satisfaction

IT Toolbox

Success in business is heavily reliant on providing great customer service. Even the slightest edge over your competitors in this regard can be the key to growth and continuing success.

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How Fake Data Scientists Could Hurt Your Business

Data Center Knowledge

The demand for immediate business intelligence and actionable analytics is encouraging many people to adopt the title of data scientist. However, there is a missing link. Read More.

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How to Get a Data Center Job at Google

Data Center Knowledge

Expertise is important, but it’s not your biggest strength Read More.

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Autodata turns to big data to predict vehicle failures

Computer Weekly

Vehicle data company sees 30% jump in revenue after moving to open source software and opening its data to garages, insurers and parts companies

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IBM uses Watson to fill cybersecurity gaps

Tech Republic Security

IBM's new Watson for Cyber Security, unveiled at RSA, can tap into more than 1 million security documents to help cybersecurity professionals more easily identify and mitigate potential threats.

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Everywoman Forum 2017: Diversity, digital and the impact on the working world

Computer Weekly

Technology is driving change throughout the world and enabling increasing diversity, so how can organisations deal with their changing way of working?

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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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4 tips to help your business recruit, and keep, cybersecurity pros

Tech Republic Security

According to a new report from ISACA, 27% of US companies are unable to fill cybersecurity positions, and most applicants aren't qualified for the job. Here's how to better recruit cyber professionals.

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Winning in the 21st century – digital is not enough

Computer Weekly

Organisations have not changed sufficiently from 20th century operating models – but successful companies have developed a new outlook

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Leading CRM platform offers new level of customer insights

IT Toolbox

How many times has a sales professional reached out to contacts only to discover they already know one of his colleagues? To say the least, wouldn’t that have been valuable intelligence before making the call? Relationship analytics are bringing new insights into interactions between customers to sales teams. SugarCRM has taken that knowledge on board with its latest partnership.

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DCMS announces cyber clubs programme to teach 6,000 students cyber skills

Computer Weekly

The Cyber Schools Programme announced by the DCMS aims to train thousands of teenagers in cyber security skills

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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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How Networks Enabled Distributed Computing

IT Toolbox

At that some point it will be important to understand how LANs fit into the overall OSI scheme of things, and that will be illustrated by reference to MAP, the Manufacturing Automation Protocol in some future post.

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Santander introduces voice-controlled payments

Computer Weekly

Santander has taken its voice-controlled banking initiative to the next phase, with customers now able to make payments by voice

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More Choices, More Data and More Intelligence: ERP Trends for 2017

IT Toolbox

Between maintenance costs, adaptability issues and flexibility challenges, ERP systems, and particularly legacy systems, present businesses with a host of difficulties, especially when it comes to data integration and facilitating the critical processes that fall beyond the scope of out-of-box ERP solutions.

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Security Think Tank: Build in controls to protect against data integrity attacks

Computer Weekly

What type of organisations is likely to be targeted by data integrity breaches and how best can they detect and mitigate against such attacks?

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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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Local Area Networks Built Cooperative Computing

IT Toolbox

A large, powerful database-management system may need additional computing power in order to meet response time objectives, or it may be desirable to maintain large amounts of data subject to extensive scientific analysis to be available to multiple researchers.

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MobileIron: Corporate IT policy and mobile device security are mismatched

Computer Weekly

MobileIron report identifies a gap between security policy and the actual deployment of that policy on mobile devices

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Cloud Integration: Working with the SuccessFactors OData API

IT Toolbox

SAP SuccessFactors is a leader in cloud-based Human Capital Management (HCM) software for talent management, core HR, and HR analytics. To integrate and automate SuccessFactors, Magic xpi Integration Platform leverages the Open Data Protocol (OData) which is a standardized protocol for creating and consuming data APIs.

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New model datacentres require hybrid approach

Computer Weekly

CIOs must marry legacy datacentre infrastructure with the agility of public and private cloud environments

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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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Who Owns Risk?

Eric D. Brown

This is a guest post from Christine Sato. Proper risk management is vital to any project manager. Any big project is sure to have a great deal of risk, which needs to be identified and evaluated. The ability to accurately identify the risk factors and gauge the stakes of a given project is instrumental to proper management of that project. It is safe to say that the management of risk is the job of a project manager, but who owns the risk?

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Middle East organisations urged to prioritise cyber defence

Computer Weekly

As the Middle East IT industry continues to transform and embrace digitisation, what are the greatest threats it faces today?

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Oracle Cloud Integration: Integration with Oracle Sales Cloud Activities

IT Toolbox

Integrating Oracle Sales Cloud activity information to third party marketing automation platforms such as Marketo, Hubspot, Silverpop, InfusionSoft, Unica, Teradata/aprimo, pardot, SimplyCast, acton, SIGNAL, genius, Manticore and others can be accomplished using Magic xpi Integration Platform.

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Security Think Tank: Data custodians likely to be top targets of integrity attacks

Computer Weekly

What types of organisation are likely to be targeted by data integrity breaches and how best can they detect and mitigate against such attacks?

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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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Big Data - Ensuring Data Availability

IT Toolbox

Many enterprises which have installed big data applications have done so using vendor-supplied hybrid hardware / software solutions. These solutions, sometimes called appliances, store huge amounts of data in a massively-parallel storage array and use sophisticated analytical software to return solutions to SQL queries.

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Why object storage provides a valuable alternative to tape storage for archive

Tech Republic Data Center

Tape has proven the most cost effective way to store enterprise data. However, tape has accessibility challenges. Learn how object storage provides an alternative to tape.

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Ford invests in artificial intelligence startup to boost autonomous drive

Computer Weekly

Motorcar maker Ford’s software development team will work alongside Argo AI on robotic vehicle technology

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Career Craft: Presenting Sides

IT Toolbox

This post is the fourth installment in Chapter 2 of the Career Craft serial. To read the entire series, click here. By the time James got to his office the next morning, he felt like he had just left. His head was sore.

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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.