May, 2017

article thumbnail

AI Is Not An Exception – Technology Has Always Taken Jobs

Forrester IT

Yes, AI will take jobs away from many workers - our relatives, friends, and neighbors. So too have all technologies created throughout human history. We invent things to make things easier and the impossible possible. The invention of the wheel made transport easier. Gutenberg's printing press put lots of monk's out of business. The chainsaw saw a reduction in the number of sawyers (lumberjacks).

article thumbnail

Why smart cities need to become smarter about technology

Computer Weekly

Cities are experimenting with smarter ways to use technologies to improve the life of citizens, but their projects are fragmented. Is there a better approach?

273
273
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Big Data Experts in Big Demand

Data Center Knowledge

While tech companies employ the most data scientists, these professionals are also in demand in non-tech sectors. Read More.

Big Data 260
article thumbnail

Driving Digital: The CIO's Playbook

Social, Agile and Transformation

Thanks to Landmark Ventures and Anthony Juliano for a great CIO Summit last week and for giving me a speaking spot for Driving Digital: The CIO's Playbook. If you weren't there - here's what I covered Don't let your business fall off the disruption cliff Digital disruption is affecting many industries 10 ways to improve IT culture - I spoke about two Become a data driven organization.

Industry 188
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Voicemail Is Dead. Get over It!

IT Toolbox

Over the past 10 years or so, many authors have written about the death of voicemail, but it lingers, barely surviving. I’m here to tell you that despite apparent survival, it really is dead and it’s about time to just get over it.

176
176
article thumbnail

9 best practices to improve security in industrial IoT

Tech Republic Security

Dell EMC's senior product manager for IoT security, Rohan Kotian, hosted a presentation at Dell EMC World explaining how industrial enterprises can protect their IoT deployments.

Industry 167

More Trending

article thumbnail

Testing is key to IoT security, says researcher

Computer Weekly

Building an effective testing process across all elements associated with a product is key to securing the internet of things, according to a researcher in the field

Research 248
article thumbnail

DCK Investor Edge: Florida is Now Courting Hyperscale Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

Florida has officially entered the data center derby with elimination of sales tax and use tax for wholesale data centers Read More.

article thumbnail

Net neutrality: The smart person's guide

Tech Republic Cloud

Do internet service providers have a right to throttle certain traffic? That's the question at the heart of net neutrality, and here's everything you need to know about it.

.Net 160
article thumbnail

WannaCry shouldn't have made you weep.

IT Toolbox

Again, we have the means to protect against ransomware and vicious worms. We must get better at using them.

180
180
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

4 questions businesses should be asking about cybersecurity attacks

Tech Republic Security

At the 2017 Dell EMC World conference, RSA senior director of advanced cyber defense, Peter Tran, walked through examples of real-world IT questions and how they could be answered.

Dell 157
article thumbnail

IBM & Cisco Join Security Forces To Fight Cybercrime And The Competition

Forrester IT

I was lucky enough to be invited to IBM's 3rd annual Security Summit in NYC for about 300 of its customers. IBM used the event to showcase a new IBM and Cisco joint security initiative whereby the two will work to integrate their security solutions to better combat advanced threats. The philosophy of the partnership represents the idea that cyber defenders need to collaborate as well as cybercriminals seem to when it comes to sharing techniques and intelligence.

IBM 408
article thumbnail

Gov.uk Verify and identity assurance - it's time for a rethink

Computer Weekly

The government's Verify identity platform is not meeting user needs - it's time to step back and review how best to make online identity for public services work

Meeting 249
article thumbnail

Effective Risk Management in the Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

A standards-based risk management methodology can help prioritize risks and prepare for a data center or critical environments audit. Where to start? Read More.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Multicloud: The smart person's guide

Tech Republic Cloud

This comprehensive guide covers the use of services from multiple cloud vendors, including the benefits businesses gain and the challenges IT teams face when using multicloud.

Cloud 158
article thumbnail

How to protect your data when using public Wi-Fi

Network World

Many people are not aware of this, but Wi-Fi hotspots at Starbucks, Barnes & Noble or your local hotel that offers it as a complimentary service are not safe for confidential browsing, performing financial transactions or for viewing your emails. Public Wi-Fi does not offer encryption for individuals using the same password and hotspot. Also, your signals are broadcast across the immediate area.

Hotels 150
article thumbnail

Cyberweapons are now in play: From US sabotage of a North Korean missile test to hacked emergency sirens in Dallas

Tech Republic Security

Cyberwarfare has begun. Unlike nuclear weapons, cyberweapons can be proliferated more quickly and the threat from accidentally setting them off is even greater.

164
164
article thumbnail

Netflix Hack: Key Lessons In The Economics Of Ransomware And Managing 3rd Party Risk

Forrester IT

Netflix recently experienced a third-party breach. The data lost is Season 5 of Orange is the New Black, which is original Netflix content. Many are calling it the largest entertainment industry hack since Sony. I guess that is right, but how bad is it really? First, here is what happened. Netflix transferred season five to their post-production third party in Los Angeles, Larson Studios, for sound mixing and editing.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Fake tech support spiders on the world wide web

Computer Weekly

Fake tech support should be incorporated into security awareness training as it can be a highly effective way to trick employees into granting access to enterprise computer systems

Training 226
article thumbnail

How Do You Define Cloud Computing?

Data Center Knowledge

Almost everyone has his or her own definition of cloud from “it’s on the internet” to a full-blown technical explanation of the myriad compute options available from a given cloud service provider. Read More.

Cloud 205
article thumbnail

Why public cloud R&D is making lock-in worse, not better

Tech Republic Cloud

Each of the major cloud vendors wants to distinguish itself with innovative features, the adoption of which threaten to leave CIOs and developers dependent on them.

Cloud 158
article thumbnail

Never trust cell phone networks with sensitive information

IT Toolbox

If you think cell phone SMS and voice communications are secure, think again.

Network 193
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

United flight attendant accidentally leaked cockpit security codes to public website

Tech Republic Security

United Airlines recently alerted staff that cockpit access codes has been posted online, raising concerns about the chain of ownership for sensitive data.

Airlines 166
article thumbnail

Bimodal IT Is Past Its Due Date: Providing Speed And Innovation Need To Top The CIO's Agenda

Forrester IT

Many CIOs have embraced bimodal IT as a way to create relevance for the technology organization in the age of the customer. With marketing, CX, and other teams increasingly building their own development teams or turning to outside agencies for their technology needs, CIOs have recognized that they need to help drive fast change, not be a source of friction.

Security 371
article thumbnail

Edward Snowden: Closed public cloud platforms risk "disempowering" enterprises

Computer Weekly

NSA whistleblower tells OpenStack Summit, via video link, that investing in closed public cloud platforms can lead to users parting with more than just their money

Cloud 233
article thumbnail

NVIDIA CEO: AI Workloads Will “Flood” Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

Data center managers in every industry have to answer some key questions to prepare for AI Read More.

article thumbnail

The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

article thumbnail

Sixth-grader weaponizes smart teddy bear, hacks security audience's Bluetooth

Network World

If yet another cybersecurity expert wanted to warn the general public about the risks associated with the Internet of Things (IoT), it is likely the warning would go in one ear and out the other. But when a sixth-grader hacks an audience of security experts and “weaponizes” his smart teddy bear, it might just snag the attention of parents who have disregarded warnings about the dangers and bought internet-connected toys for their kids anyway.

Security 143
article thumbnail

6 questions every business must ask about big data architecture

Tech Republic Data Center

At the 2017 Dell EMC World conference, Dell EMC systems engineer Cory Minton explained how IT leaders can better think through their big data deployments.

Big Data 149
article thumbnail

IBM, Cisco partner to help customers in fight against cybercrime

Tech Republic Security

Cisco and IBM have announced a partnership that will see integrations across their products and services as they aim to help customers improve their security posture.

IBM 150
article thumbnail

DevOps Has Reached “Escape Velocity”, CIO’s Need To Get Onboard!

Forrester IT

In an era where velocity and agility are driving technology management organizations over simple cost reduction, every business must constantly evolve to drive business differentiation. Leveraging practices such as Lean and Agile, smaller changes, automated pipelines and product centric teams, DevOps is transitioning from unicorns and small projects to company-wide initiatives.

Devops 366
article thumbnail

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.