Fri.Sep 08, 2017

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Government recovers £645m for BDUK broadband roll-out

Computer Weekly

The government has recovered £645m of funding to be reinvested in future broadband roll-out through a mix of clauses in its BDUK contracts with BT and project savings

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How to Keep Your Company’s Information Organized

CTOvision

The larger that your company grows, the more vital that it is for all the information your company processes to be properly organized at all times. Information organization quality is directly correlated with just how actionable the information is. Accurate information organization puts your company in the best position to develop fully customized white label […].

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Millions of customer records compromised in Equifax breach

Computer Weekly

Major security breach unfolded over a two-month period, and is thought to have affected 143 million customers in the US, as well as an undisclosed number of Britons and Canadians

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Why financial planning asks more of CRM than other industries

IT Toolbox

The demands on CRMs from the financial planning and wealth management markets are greater than from other industries. This is partly the result of regulatory pressures but in addition, money management platforms need to continue to interact with clients at a highly granular level as both customers’ financial needs and the condition of public financial markets change.

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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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Interview: IT disruption hits outsourcing’s legal profession

Computer Weekly

IT is disrupting almost every corner of the business world, and those who operate in the IT services are no exception, with lawyers in the sector feeling the disruption

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The politics of email phishing

IT Toolbox

Email phishing is one of the most important security tests you can run in your IT environment. Based on what I've been seeing recently, it's arguably the only test you need to run to figure out where your environment is at greatest risk.

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Expediency and its impact on your security program

IT Toolbox

Expediency – the desire to get something or do something right now with little to no regard for future consequences – is what drives much of human behavior. We've all done it and it's never going to go away. In the context of IT and security, it's unfortunately creating a lot of unnecessary security challenges.

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Trainline uses predictive analytics to help rail passengers save money

Computer Weekly

Travellers using Trainline’s app can save money on tickets after the introduction of an in-app feature called Price Prediction

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Are your malware priorities in order?

IT Toolbox

Over the years, I've had several clients ask me how to properly handle malware outbreaks. Is it a set of procedures that you must rely on to step through the incident response process or is it something that should just be prevented altogether and you hope you don't have to deal with it when it does happen? There are compelling arguments on both sides of this.

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Half of UK fintech firms confident in growth but have doubts over skills

Computer Weekly

UK fintech companies are confident that revenues will double over the next year, but have concerns over talent and customer take up of services

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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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Should Your Business Switch to VoIP

IT Toolbox

Let?s go over some of the benefits, which will help you decide whether you should switch to VoIP.

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AI – The Present in the Making

Dataconomy

For many people, the concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a thing of the future. It is the technology that is yet to be introduced. But Professor Jon Oberlander disagrees. He was quick to point out that AI is not in the future, it is now in the making. He began by mentioning Alexa, The post AI – The Present in the Making appeared first on Dataconomy.

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AI Listening to Your Calls

IT Toolbox

We Hear You – This AI Is Listening to Your Sales Calls! The next time you chat with a sales associate on the phone, keep in mind that your every word may be being analyzed for personal insights that can reveal what and how and even when to sell you something again.

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The Golden Circle of Innovation Management

Future of CIO

Today, at the hyperconnected business ecosystem, innovation can happen anywhere, anytime, expands both horizontally and vertically. The definition of innovation is simple, to gain benefit by doing something different. Innovation is most wanted changes. In order to survive and thrive in today’s digital environment with the fast pace of changes, innovation is “must have,” not “nice to have” differentiated business capability in running a business today.

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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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Your identity for sale

IT Toolbox

Equifax, a multinational credit reporting company, has had its database breached by hackers

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Accelerate Digital Transformation via both Hard and Soft Way

Future of CIO

Businesses have to address collective thinking, attitude, balance both the hard and soft elements, enterprise behaviors and move to an outcome-focused, outside-in organization. Organizations large or small are on their digital transformation journey, although there is no one size fits all solutions to ensure the change success, it is important to take a systematic approach, strike the right balance of “push” and “pull” from multiple directions, and accelerate digital transformation via both hard

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Three Ways How Collaboration Solutions are Innovative

IT Toolbox

There have been two main themes running through this series , and I’m going to tie them together over the next two posts.

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Equifax and Correlatable Identifiers

Phil Windley

Summary: We can avoid security breachs that result in the loss of huge amounts of private data by creating systems that don't rely on correlatable identifiers. Sovrin is built to use non-correlatable identifiers by default while still providing all the necessary functionality we expect from an identity system. Yesterday word broke that Equifax had suffered a data breach that resulted in 143 million identities being stolen.

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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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Web Design Bootcamp

IT Toolbox

Thinking about attending a web design bootcamp doesn't have to be intimidating.

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Software Testing Trainings

IT Toolbox

Here are some solid ways to get effective QA software testing trainings started in your organization

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The Most Powerful Security Apps That Can Help Improve Your Overall Security

IT Toolbox

This post looks at powerful security apps that help you stay secure.

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Big Data Comes of Age: What's Next? - Part 2

IT Toolbox

Part 2: Handling Stale 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.