Thu.Jul 06, 2017

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The Future of Operations: A Developer

Forrester IT

Infrastructure is increasingly software-based with rapid container growth, composable infrastructure [i] , and of course the consumption of cloud. Additionally, as the velocity of change increases - and will continue to increase - the premise that we can continue to manage these systems with our traditional methods is no longer true. The management of your estate mandates that system administrators (sysadmins) quickly acquire skill sets common among Agile development and operations (DevOps) [ii]

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Nominet Trust invests £600,000 to help young people acquire digital skills

Computer Weekly

Tech for good funding firm launches programme to fund several organisations with the aim of increasing digital skills among young people in the UK

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Navigate The Kubernetes Ecosystem

Forrester IT

Containers are at the heart of so-called "cloud-native" applications and platforms -- the emerging term of art for apps born in or redesigned for container-centric technologies. Containers enable faster software delivery, tremendous scale, higher resiliency, greater flexibility, and a wider range of implementation options -- all critical features that EA pros need to accelerate digital transformation.

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Google Hopes Nutanix Can Unlock the Enterprise Data Center for Its Cloud Business

Data Center Knowledge

Hybrid-cloud partnership with hyper-converged infrastructure pioneer gives Google more than a me-too on-premises component. Read More.

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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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What Kind of Threat Intelligence are You Selling Me?

Forrester IT

The threat intelligence market has not been well defined. This is a problem that frequently arises when marketing departments start playing buzzword bingo in a "me too" attempt to latch onto the latest trend. This year it's happening with machine learning. Unfortunately, the market response to this type of message pollution is to "lose faith" in the trend or technology, leaving nothing but the echoes of a melancholy Michael Stipe song.

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Five Ways Mobile ERP is Evolving

IT Toolbox

Apple just released a toolkit for easily incorporating augmented reality into mobile apps. You’re not alone if you think this is an opportunity for mobile ERP. In fact, even before Apple announced its push into augmented reality, ERP makers already were busily working on ways to make ERP data more useful and accessible for mobile.

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Using webinar metrics to blast CRM data to the next level

IT Toolbox

Webinars are becoming a highly popular component of the digital marketing tool box, but harnessing the rich customer data they yield is still a missed opportunity. Frequently, that vital information is distilled into a simple e-mail-harvesting exercise, with customer details folded into an automated email routine. Yet, there are more effective outcomes available.

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Security Think Tank: Five things businesses can do to protect from cyber attack

Computer Weekly

How should organisations address the need to keep software up to date with security patches without it costing too much or being too labour intensive?

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Machine intelligence pushes ERP data analysis even higher

IT Toolbox

Traditionally, companies have deployed comprehensive ERP systems to streamline and modernize business processes. Now, however, a Silicon Valley company is using machine intelligence to help managers glean even more value from the big data that ERP generates.

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Sainsbury’s Group sales grow as Argos boosts performance

Computer Weekly

Group reports 8% increase in online grocery business and 10% rise in online Argos sales as total like-for-like sales jump 2.

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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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The Peculiarities of High-Availability Data Center Design on a Cruise Ship

Data Center Knowledge

TUI vessels set sail with new multi-site IT infrastructure aboard Read More.

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Why GDPR is so relevant to the business

Computer Weekly

The GDPR is not only relevant to CISOs and DPOs, and has a massive impact on businesses

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UC companies prowling for the next hot VoIP acquisition

IT Toolbox

The growth of unified communications (UC) throughout North America’s business infrastructure is leading some larger firms to take to the acquisitions trail in an effort to broaden their offering. VoIP is an important piece in the overall UC puzzle, and VoIP companies are becoming increasingly tempting acquisition targets for fast-growing players in the UC space.

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IDC: On-premise infrastructure spend will continue to fall in 2017 as cloud demand soars

Computer Weekly

IDC's latest quarterly cloud infrastructure spending forecast shines a light on how the dwindling demand for on-premise technologies is shaking up IT investments

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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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UN report: 50% of countries have no cybersecurity strategy in place

Tech Republic Security

Singapore and the US top the list of countries with the greatest commitment to cybersecurity. However, most other countries are lacking in their approach to cybercrime, hacking, and more.

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TomTom and Cisco to address real-time comms for autonomous cars

Computer Weekly

Navigation firm teams up with network giant to develop low-latency, real-time traffic services for autonomous vehicle management

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Surviving the Fallout of the Deep Root Leak: Best Practices for AWS

Data Center Knowledge

There were essentially no such protections for Deep Root’s data stored in an AWS S3 bucket. Anyone with a simple six-character Amazon subdomain could access it. Read More.

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Young people without workplace skills fear competition from robots

Computer Weekly

Young people are worried they will not have the skills necessary to set themselves apart from robots when leaving education

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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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IDG Contributor Network: Fraud and the Internet of Things

Network World

During the past few years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has become one of the hottest movements of our time. Although many technology trends and buzzwords come and go overnight, it’s clear that the IoT is here to stay. Almost half of the world's population is online, and technology is a deeply integrated part of our lives. Smart thermostats regulate our business and household temperatures, connected cameras watch over our homes and pets, online TVs and speakers respond to our every need, and int

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Roam like at Home will prompt European telco consolidation

Computer Weekly

Mobile users are understandably looking forward to an era of low phone costs now they can roam freely around the European Union, but it is very possible that they will be disappointed

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One of China’s Poorest Provinces Emerges as a Big Data Hub

Data Center Knowledge

High-speed railways, bridges, tunnels, and added international flights linking it to domestic and foreign cities have lifted Guizhou from isolation and connected it with the world. Read More.

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Why now is the time to appoint a chief agility officer

Computer Weekly

Companies need to innovate and find new ways of getting products to the market more quickly.

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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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What is an Enterprise Architecture good for, a reminder

IT Toolbox

Enterprise Architecture is the integrated, consistent and navigable diagrammatic description of the enterprise. An EA method should offer an Enterprise Modelling framework at least, a development process and the architecture principles that guide the coherent enterprise change and strategic transformation. But what is EA good for? Forget the EA as a glue, strategy.

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Tegile launches Intelliflash tiered all-flash arrays with NVMe

Computer Weekly

Hybrid flash turned all-flash maker Tegile adds tier of NVMe to SAS-connected flash with all drives encrypted and an all-NVMe array planned for later in 2017

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Get ready for the post-cloud world

IT Toolbox

It?s not that cloud computing is going away. It?s that we need to be ready for making the best of IT productivity once cloud in its many forms become so pervasive as to be mundane, the place where all great IT innovations must go.

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Sensors Supercharge Predictive Data Center Modeling

Data Center Knowledge

The closer the data in the model to the real data in the room, the more informed decisions can be made. Read More.

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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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UC Value Drivers in 2017 - Application-Driven

IT Toolbox

As this series progresses, it might be easy to conclude that telephony has no place with collaboration in 2017. Messaging seems to have taken over, but voice will always have a role. Real-time communication remains essential for collaboration, but less of it will be running over fixed line phone systems.

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TfL figures reveal massive contactless adoption

Computer Weekly

Transport for London figures for the use of contactless payments on its network add weight to its plans to sell its expertise to other cities

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Be careful allowing customers to do their own penetration testing

IT Toolbox

Most clients of mine are often approached by their customers or other third party regarding their current level of security. Some people are okay with reviewing my most recent penetration and vulnerability testing reports. Some are good with basic vulnerability scans. However, there is another group that often request to do their own security testing.

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10 tips to help you get the most out of Google Chrome

Tech Republic Cloud

Google Chrome is the most popular US web browser, and has made large gains in the enterprise in recent years. Here are 10 tips for increasing your productivity with the browser.

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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.