Tue.Sep 12, 2017

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Government wants to remain in EU cyber security club after Brexit

Computer Weekly

The UK government wants to maintain deep links with the European Union’s cyber security working groups following Britain’s exit from the bloc in 2019

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Can AI really deliver more revenue from the CRM process?

IT Toolbox

Successful implementation of artificial intelligence within CRM comes down to a matter of degrees – while many developers now claim to offer some degree of AI functionality as part of their CRM offering, much of this can be distilled down to nothing more than a basic level of predictive behavior that supports sales personnel.

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Riak NoSQL snapped up by Bet365

Computer Weekly

Betting firm Bet365 aims to give away enterprise version of Riak NoSQL to the open source community and continue the development of the product

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Choosing ERP for the smallest companies

IT Toolbox

When Stratus Ventures Group went looking for an ERP system to run three of its portfolio start-up companies, it set off on the chase with one central requirement – and several conditions: While the software had to be cloud-based, it could not be a product sourced from either Oracle or SAP. So what was the issue?

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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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Best of VMworld 2017 Europe User Awards: The winners

Computer Weekly

Find out who won what, including the best of show prize, at the 2017 VMworld Europe User Awards in Barcelona

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Habitat Soundscaping - a Fresh Take on Collaboration

IT Toolbox

Habitat Soundscaping – unless you follow the collaboration space very closely, I’m virtually certain you’ve never heard that phrase before, and from there even more certain you have no idea what it means. As an analyst, I don’t often write about specific vendors, and I won’t be this time either.

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Driving Digital Smarter and Faster - Because Everybody is a Technology Company

Social, Agile and Transformation

I hope you will listen to my recently recorded podcast at AMA Edgewise on my book, Driving Digital: The Leader's Guide to Business Transformation Through Technology. Link is below and here are some of my favorite quotes - New entrants (startups) + consumer choice + availability of technology + falling price point => is driving digital transformation CIOs "get it" - but many organizations (.

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Nearly half of Asia-Pacific manufacturers will have fully connected factories by 2022

Computer Weekly

Study finds that thinner margins and the desire for faster and higher quality production has driven manufacturers to modernise their operations through digital technology

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Jamie Dimon is a Fraud

IT Toolbox

If Bitcoin is such a fraud, then why are mainstream companies like Dell, Microsoft, and Amazon accepting payments for goods in Bitcoin throughout many regions. It?s Probably because they know that drug dealers and murders need to buy computers, software, and toilet paper too.

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Businesses that overlook ROI analysis are missing cost savings

Computer Weekly

Organisations have more chance of meeting their cost saving expectations following cloud migrations if they carry out ROI analysis before

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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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Zoho adds HR automation to shipping ERP solution

IT Toolbox

MariApps Marine Solutions, a provider of ERP solutions to shipowners and shipping business managers, is adding human resources automation to its flagship PAL ERP product with the integration of the Zoho People HR management tool.

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VMworld 2017: VMware updates software legacy

Computer Weekly

VMware is beginning to recognise there is life beyond the hypervisor as it announces VMware HCX, which will provide interoperability between private and public cloud

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Lessons for VoIP from online gaming communications

IT Toolbox

A sector of trailblazers in the usage of VoIP technology has been the online gaming community: Its demand has always been for an effective VoIP technology platform that can best serve the varied requirements of tens of millions of online video gamers globally.

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University gets Nutanix for self-serve cloud to replace Red Hat

Computer Weekly

The University of Reading replaces ageing and difficult-to-manage Red Hat storage with half a petabyte of Nutanix hyper-converged and dodges £1/2 million of VMware costs

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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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Netscout's New.11ac Adapter Gives AirMagnet Tools a Performance Refresh

IT Toolbox

Wireless toolmakers have always been challenged with “keeping up” when it comes to WLAN standards (and now Waves). All WLAN adapters are not created equal, nor do they all play nice with leading Wi-Fi support suites.

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The children of the digital revolution

Computer Weekly

Digital professionals are emerging as the source of expertise within the agile enterprise.

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Polycom debuts VoIP device-as-a-service program

IT Toolbox

Polycom Inc., whose conference phones bear a long history in businesses large and small, has unveiled a month-to-month “device-as-a-service” pilot program with the intention of increasing flexibility while cutting costs for both VoIP service providers and end-user voice subscribers.

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Home Office agrees back-office transformation deal

Computer Weekly

The Home Office is moving more of its back-office processes into the cloud

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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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How to Protect Business from Cyber Attacks

IT Toolbox

Here are 5 ways a business can protect itself from cyber-attacks.

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Today’s property rules don’t work in our IoT world

Network World

Property and ownership are among the most basic concepts of a modern society. Our ability to clarify who owns what separates us from savages because property and ownership help us maintain our independence and identity. The rules of property and ownership have evolved over centuries. There are clear transfer procedures for all types of property, including real estate, cars and even books.

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Three Ways How Collaboration Solutions are Disruptive

IT Toolbox

To close out this series , I’m going to complement my last post by focusing on how collaboration solutions can be disruptive rather than innovative. Both approaches have merit, and IT needs to know how they are different.

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The Monthly “Decision Master” Book Tuning: How to Improve Decision Making Effectiveness Sep. 2017

Future of CIO

Making sound judgments and effective decisions become the core capability to differentiate the digital leaders from laggards. “Decision Masters” refer to the digital leaders or professionals who can leverage multidimensional thought processes, information and intuition, take a step-wise scenario for making effective decisions consistently. Decision Masters also refer to the businesses or organizations that follow a set of well-defined principles, leverage fine-tuned decision processes, efficient

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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 Comes of Age: What's Next? - Part 3

IT Toolbox

Part 3: Query Performance Tuning

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Applying Critical Thinking in Three Management Disciplines

Future of CIO

As the saying's going: The quality of your life is given through the quality of the thinking you have done. Critical thinking is to apply the objective analysis for either making judgments or decisions. More specifically, in which circumstances, does critical thinking is in demand? Does tasks or activities require problem-solving or decision making that has important or high-value outcomes?

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Why We Drink Our Own Champagne

Nutanix

When I joined Nutanix 8 months ago, one of my first objectives was to audit the sprawl of applications and infrastructure typically found in a fast-growing startup, and to standardize and streamline IT operations around the globe. Naturally, being in the infrastructure business, it made a lot of sense to “eat our own dog food” — move all on-prem and hybrid workloads to Nutanix — and be the first customer of everything that comes out of engineering into production.

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CIOs as “Chief Innovation Officer”: How to Spur IT Innovation to Get Digital Ready

Future of CIO

Create and nurture an environment in your organization where curiosity is encouraged, humility is appreciated, creative thinking is recognized, and calculated risk is tolerant. Innovation is about moving forward. In any business, if you are not moving forward, you are moving backward. There is no standing still. This is particularly true for IT due to the fast growth of information and disruptive nature of technologies.

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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.