August, 2016

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Google Pitches In To Declutter The Mobile Web

Forrester IT

On their constant quest to enable users to quickly find the best answers to their questions, Google announced last week that starting in January 2017, they will bury mobile websites where the content is blocked by intrusive interstitials. In other words, mobile websites that have pop-up ads won't rank as high in Google's search results. We've all felt the pain of having to hover our finger over the closeout sign of a large ad, before we can get to the content we set out to find.

Mobile 271
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Blockchain and the promise of cooperative cloud storage

Computer Weekly

Blockchain technology allows distributed retention of encrypted data and is at the heart of cooperative cloud storage

Storage 265
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Automotive Technology Accelerates Beyond the Curve

CTOvision

Jeremy Sutter. For decades, the automotive industry was a technological backwater full of missed opportunities. Now, automakers worldwide are responding to new challenges with high-tech solutions. Today, the auto sector is seen as the fastest- evolving tech industry of them all. The Old Days. Not more than fifteen years ago, the typical car still relied on technology commonplace in the 1930's.

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What Facebook Has Learned from Regularly Shutting Down Entire Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

Infrastructure chief shares lessons learned from the company’s unusual infrastructure stress tests 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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How to Use Educational Offerings to Strengthen Your Email Marketing

IT Toolbox

Our modern marketing columnist offers creative tactics for including educational offerings, online surveys, and loyalty rewards programs in email marketing campaigns.

Education 140
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CIOs And The Dangers Of Overloading Your Team

The Accidental Successful CIO

If you burn out your team, nobody will be able to get anything done Image Credit: Jorge Franganillo. The CIO of any company is judged by how much his or her department is able to accomplish. Now that just about every department in the company understands the importance of information technology, IT departments are being asked to do more and more every day.

Resources 113

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Cyber security breaches reported to ICO double in a year

Computer Weekly

An increase in cyber security incidents reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office is further evidence of the need to shift to automated, artificial intelligence-led defences, says Huntsman Security

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Strata + Hadoop World New York 2016: Save 20% with our discount code

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. There's no conference quite like Strata + Hadoop World. Just a few days among the best minds in data can entirely change the way you think about data—and can provide tips and techniques that can save you hours of time. Find out why one attendee said "I learned more about big data in just three days attending Strata + Hadoop World than in one year doing research on my own.".

Big Data 157
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Cisco Moves into the Container Market with Latest Acquisition

Data Center Knowledge

As part of its strategy to pivot toward cloud technologies, Cisco has pursued a slew of acquisitions in the last year. Its latest buy gives it a toehold in the emerging container market. Read More.

Strategy 137
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Test-Driving the D-Link AV2-2000 PowerLine Gigabit Passthrough Adapter

IT Toolbox

PowerLine Adapters are curious little units. Many residential and SMB do-it-yourself networkers lament the challenges of running new network wiring runs in challenging buildings, but PowerLine Adapters can be the ace in the hole here.

SMB 124
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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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Governments and nation states are now officially training for cyberwarfare: An inside look

Tech Republic Security

Europe, Canada, USA, Australia, and others are now running training exercises to prepare for the outbreak of cyberwar. Locked Shields is the largest simulation and we take you inside.

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Facebook Violates Rule #2 Of An Insights-Driven Business: Marry Algorithms And Expertise

Forrester IT

Facebook can't buy a break with its newsfeeds. Every time it changes the model, somebody complains. But its latest snafu -- turning over the job to an algorithm without expert oversight is not the answer. Posting a fake story just isn't smart. It's not insights-driven; it's head-in-the-sand. (The provenance of this image is opaque. If you own it, please let me know so I can attribute it properly.).

Report 199
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Less than a third of organisations prepared for IoT security risks

Computer Weekly

The security industry needs to address the security basics with the growing number of IoT devices in corporate networks, according to security firm Tripwire

Security 175
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TechNet Augusta 2016 “Cyber in the Combined Arms Fight”

CTOvision

ChrisScott. This is the first in our series of posts based on our attendance at AFCEA’s TechNet in Augusta. Other coming posts will dive into details of Army Mission Needs for Networking, Integrated Electronic Warfare, Tactical Radios, Defensive Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Training, and the Army’s Cybersecurity Center of Excellence. The annual AFCEA TechNet Augusta conference continues to grow in scope and is an excellent forum for Industry and Army Cyber/Signals/Electronic Warfare experts to i

CTO Hire 155
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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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IoT Could Drive Micro Data Centers for Telcos

Data Center Knowledge

Wireless connections between sensors and hubs, one Schneider Electric ops manager believes, could attract Verizon and AT&T. Read More.

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How to install Tonido to enable cloud access to your desktop

Tech Republic Cloud

One of the easiest ways to access your desktop files and folders from the cloud is Tonido, says Jack Wallen. See why self-employed IT pros, in particular, might like this option.

Cloud 111
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How to install Ubuntu server 16.04 and the Webmin GUI

Tech Republic Data Center

If you need to add Linux to your data center, consider giving Ubuntu server a try. Follow these steps to install Ubuntu server 16.04 and the Webmin GUI admin tool.

Linux 113
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Frugal Innovation Supports Customer-Obsessed Innovation

Forrester IT

Photo: Indian By Design. The age of the customer demands that businesses drive innovation at ever faster speeds and with limited budgets. More than ever, innovation is of the essence, and innovation must be cost-effective. Frugal innovation offers an alternative approach to driving innovation as it is based on the tenet to do "more with less" in contrast to the widespread practice to increase the R&D budget.

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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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Encryption hiding malware in half of cyber attacks

Computer Weekly

Cyber attackers are using encryption to hide malicious activity, making it increasingly difficult to find as more organisations turn to encryption to protect data, a study has revealed

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Improbable: Simulation platform technology

CTOvision

Research Team. Improbable is developing an operating environment that makes building simulated worlds possible. Improbable is developing SpatialOS; a distributed operating system that makes building simulated worlds possible. Simulated worlds provide unique insight to those asking questions of complex systems. As well as enabling completely new experiences in gaming, simulated worlds can solve significant problems in areas as diverse as defence, energy, city efficiency, health, and finance.

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Can Data Centers Really Revive Rural Towns?

Data Center Knowledge

Touted as a chance for economic comeback, long-term economic benefits of data centers are overshadowed by their small staffing needs Read More.

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How to delete photos from your Android device and retain them on Google Drive

Tech Republic Cloud

If you need to free up local storage space on your Android device, and have lots of photos on your phone, learn how to delete those images without actually losing them.

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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.

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Update all iOS devices to 9.3.5 immediately, or risk a remote jailbreak

Tech Republic Security

A critical new Apple iOS update patches three iOS flaws that cybercriminals used to steal confidential messages and eavesdrop using device cameras and microphones.

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On-Premise Hadoop Just Got Easier With These 8 Hadoop-Optimized Systems

Forrester IT

Enterprises agree that speedy deployment of big data Hadoop platforms has been critical to their success, especially as use cases expand and proliferate. However, deploying Hadoop systems is often difficult, especially when supporting complex workloads and dealing with hundreds of terabytes or petabytes of data. Architects need a considerable amount of time and effort to install, tune, and optimize Hadoop.

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Businesses struggling with EU-US data transfer uncertainty

Computer Weekly

Businesses are facing a highly complex regulatory landscape due to uncertainty around the future of transatlantic data transfers, according to the initial findings of an IAPP report

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Samsara: Internet connected sensors enabling smart, scalable, managed IoT

CTOvision

Research Team. Breakthroughs in semiconductors are making sensors smaller and radically cheaper, and wireless Internet connectivity is becoming ubiquitous. Yet traditional enterprise-scale sensor systems still require complex infrastructure, from hard-wired networks to servers, middleware, and custom code. As a result, sensor projects can take months — if not years — to bring online.

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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.

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One Data Center Standard to Rule Them All?

Data Center Knowledge

This group wants to solve the problem of too many standards by creating just one more Read More.

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How to save from LibreOffice directly to Google Drive

Tech Republic Cloud

If you're looking for an easy way to connect LibreOffice to your cloud service, look no further. Here's how to connect the flagship open source office suite to Google Drive.

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2012 Dropbox hack worse than realized, 68M passwords leaked

Tech Republic Security

According to a recent report, a 2012 hack on cloud file sharing company DropBox put millions of users at risk. It also highlights the importance of good security hygiene for every employee.

Cloud 105
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The Demand For Industry-Specific CRM Explodes

Forrester IT

Horizontal CRM solutions -- as mature as they are (and they have been around for 20+ years) -- don't always do a good job at supporting industry-specific business processes. Consider these examples: CRM users in manufacturing need capabilities to track projects, schedules, time sheets, labor efficiencies, and equipment inventory in addition to core CRM attributes.

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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.