Wed.May 24, 2017

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What to Do When Big Data Doesn’t Deliver

CTOvision

Rick Delgado. In a world so powered by technology, the ability to analyze data and use its results to help direct business plans for marketing and innovation becomes imperative. Unfortunately, collected data can be corrupted through malfunction of machine or simple human error, and when that happens, it can mean huge roadblocks for the business that needed that information in the first place.

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OSI Interoperability and Internetworking with TCP/IP

IT Toolbox

we saw that the interconnection of OSI standard networks generally takes place through the Network Layer by use of a relay system. A message moves from one Open System network to another Open System network through peer Network Layers.

Network 153
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Implementing Your Company’s Cybersecurity, Military Style

The Accidental Successful CIO

You can never have too much cybersecurity Image Credit: Randen Pederson. Implementing a cyber-defense system for your company sure sounds like a good thing for the person with the CIO job to do. Just exactly what does that mean? I guess you purchase and install tools that will allow you to detect if the bad guys are able to get in, you create policies for what various people are supposed to do if this happens, and you make sure that your most precious assets are safely hidden away even if the ba

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Facebook Building Own Fiber Network to Link Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

Claims 200-mile underground fiber cable will be 50 percent more efficient than most other cables in existence Read More.

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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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Finding customer data is big hurdle to meeting GDPR right to erasure

Computer Weekly

Global organisations do not know where customer data is stored and use unreliable data removal methods to erase content, a study shows

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DevSecOps, Machine Learning and Beyond: How IT Security is Changing

Data Center Knowledge

Machine learning, automation, immutable infrastructure and DevSecOps are redefining IT security strategies. Read More.

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SoftBank Takes $4B Stake in GPU Titan Nvidia

Data Center Knowledge

Sources: 4.9-percent stake makes SoftBank chipmaker's largest shareholder Read More.

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Iceland IT firm gets Cohesity hyper-converged backup boxes

Computer Weekly

Thekking scraps ageing IBM and HPE iron for Cohesity hyper-converged nodes with hybrid flash capacity to power deduplication for Veeam backups

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10 ways to protect your Windows computers against ransomware

Tech Republic Security

The risk of malware infection may be inevitable--but that doesn't mean you can't take steps to protect your Windows computers from attack. Here are 10 measures that will help minimize the threat.

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Identity, authentication and authorisation becoming risk-led

Computer Weekly

Identity management, and authentication and authorisation governance are shifting away from being purely IT initiatives, according to RSA

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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 Amazon hopes to win the cloud by hiring older engineers

Tech Republic Cloud

Tech may be a youthful industry, but Amazon Web Services is building the cloud on the experience of more mature employees.

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US retailer Target agrees $18.5m data breach settlement

Computer Weekly

A breach settlement with 47 US states has taken the cost of the 2013 data breach at retailer Target to more than $220m

Retail 147
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How Integrated is Your JDE Reporting Solution?

IT Toolbox

A few years back, when Oracle introduced OneView reporting as their solution for end user generated reports with JD Edwards, it began to pick up a following because it was included with the product.

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Interview: Nick Bleech, head of information security, Travis Perkins

Computer Weekly

Last year Travis Perkins implemented Splunk to help it to respond more quickly to security threats.

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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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Salesforce unveils new partner program for AppExchange developers

IT Toolbox

Salesforce has launched a new AppExchange partner program designed to accelerate the ability of any start-up, developer or independent software vendor (ISV) to build, market and sell intelligent apps for the $389 billion Salesforce economy.

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Dubai financial services regulator launches temporary licence aimed at fintechs

Computer Weekly

Dubai is making it easier for financial technology companies to test out their ideas through a temporary licence

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5 Examples of Responsive Web Design Patterns

IT Toolbox

Nowadays, we see people opening websites and search through hundreds of pages for a certain one. The websites come in all shapes and sizes and are viewed across the different devices varying from desktop computers and laptops to smartphones. Sometimes, it can be a serious challenge to develop websites assuming all these options.

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SAP aligns with Saudi Arabia’s IT transformation agenda

Computer Weekly

Global software giant SAP sees an opportunity for its wide portfolio in Saudi Arabia as the Middle Eastern country transforms

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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 Does A Webinar Streaming Server Work

IT Toolbox

Plug and play technologies make it possible for any business to set up their own webinar streaming platform in minutes. But how exactly does it work?

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Twenty years of online banking has increased financial awareness

Computer Weekly

Online banking is helping people manage their finances better and reduce their debt as a result

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Major UCaaS provider focuses on communications

IT Toolbox

Rapidscale will acquire the hosted infrastructure services segment of Vonage’s business under an agreement that will see employees of the Vonage business unit move to Rapidscale. Vonage is selling its infrastructure as a service, hosted exchange, virtual desktop, IT services, hosted firewall, back up service and Microsoft Skype for Business services.

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How Much of the $900M in Wasted Cloud Spend Are You Responsible For?

Data Center Knowledge

ParkMyCloud automatically shuts down public cloud resources during no-use hours 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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Case Study: NetSuite ERP modernizes textile maker's business processes

IT Toolbox

For nearly four decades, Dowi Hosiery Mills has provided socks and other specialty textiles to a growing roster of retailers. But as the company grew, it developed a complex maze of legacy home-grown and custom software systems, manual processes and multiple databases to manage business processes.

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Digital-only business bank gets regulatory approval

Computer Weekly

The latest challenger bank gets its regulatory approval and puts modern technology at the core of its offering

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iOS 10 Vs Android Nougat - Which Stands Out?

IT Toolbox

In today?s digital world, if you have a phone, then either it is an android or an iPhone. Apple?s iOS 10 and Google?s Android Nougat are the two giants of today when it comes to smartphone UI, Accessibility and overall convenience.

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Want to understand how Google runs its production systems? Read this free book

Tech Republic Data Center

The book "Site Reliability Engineering" provides insight into how Googlers think about production systems. The ideas could help any enterprise team improve service reliability.

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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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Nextcloud ramps up to a global scalable solution

Tech Republic Cloud

If you've been looking for an in-house cloud server that scales to enterprise-level service, Nextcloud Global Scale is in the works and will deliver exactly what you need.

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Hackers can use malicious subtitles to remotely take control of your device

Network World

Do you use Kodi, Popcorn Time, VLC or Stremio? Do you use subtitles while you watch? If so, then you need to update the platform as Check Point researchers revealed that not all subtitles are benign text files and hackers can remotely take control of any device running vulnerable software via malicious subtitles. The attack is not in the wild, since Check Point developed the proof of concept attack vector; however, with news of the attack vector and an estimated 200 million video players and str

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AIM for Infrastructure Visibility in the Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

By delivering greatly improved visibility into the network, AIM systems improve security, MTTR, and service agility. Read More.

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IBM's new platform readies open source databases for private cloud

Tech Republic Data Center

IBM launched a new Database as a Service (DBaaS) toolkit for its Power Systems that's optimized for use with major open source database services.

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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.