Forrester IT

JUNE 24, 2016

Yesterday's decision by UK citizens to leave the European Union ("Brexit") brings about short-term uncertainties and unintended consequences that will make it harder for UK businesses to keep customers and attract talent. While times of high-market volatility can tempt firms to panic and cut spending on customer-focused initiatives, now is the time to drive innovation in order to win, serve, and retain customers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 27, 2016

Second study of its kind in history shows overall growth in data center energy use has flattened Read More.

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CTOvision

JUNE 22, 2016

Len Padilla. With enterprises increasingly dependent on shadow IT, enterprise IT departments must stop being seen as the ‘Ministry of No’ and start engaging with users to help them get the business-critical applications they need to do their jobs. The increase in employees going rogue and purchasing shadow IT without the permission, control or knowledge of the IT department is a growing trend, and one that business departments are increasingly relying on.

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Computer Weekly

JUNE 29, 2016

Cyber attackers use more legitimate software than malware, which means most organisations are incapable of detecting much of the malicious activity in their networks, a report reveals

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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.

Applications

IT Toolbox

JUNE 21, 2016

As enterprises and small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) alike weigh the balance of apps and convenience with security -- a new dynamic is emerging. Security concerns increasingly dwarf other architecture considerations.

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Social, Agile and Transformation

JUNE 27, 2016

We all hear and say that "Digital" requires a different mindset, a "Digital Mindset, but what exactly does that mean? If you think digital mindset is about having the latest gadget, or being the go-to person to configure your mobile device, or knowing the latest startup that is likely to disrupt an industry then you're missing the point. If you believe that digital natives have a leg up on.

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Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 23, 2016

Flying generally under the radar, the private equity-backed data center roll-up has grown from a small local player to a service provider of national scale Read More.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JUNE 29, 2016

Things don’t seem to work as well as they used to Image Credit: Bob Mical. Does anyone besides me remember the phone system? You could be just about anywhere in the world at any time and you could pick up a phone, call someone, and your call would go right through. The Plain Old Telephone System (POTS) just worked. Now nothing is ever perfect and the POTS wasn’t perfect either, but it was 99.999% perfect which meant that it only didn’t work for about 5 minutes per year.

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Computer Weekly

JUNE 23, 2016

Organisations need to think of cyber attackers as adversaries and competitors focused on stealing data, maximising their profit and minimising their risk, says HPE security strategist Tim Grieveson

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IT Toolbox

JUNE 24, 2016

Programmatic advertising automates a significant portion of the ad buying process, which frees up your staff's time for other high-skill tasks. You define your target audience for a campaign through a demand side platform (DSP), which connects you to ad inventory from relevant publishers.

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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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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 23, 2016

Is Intel's Management Engine a backdoor for security groups and hackers, or just a feature created to aid businesses? Jack Wallen dives in and draws his conclusions.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 28, 2016

This a guest post by Meredith Cain , a Research Associate on the Application Development & Delivery (AD&D) team. Let's take trip back to 1989. One of the big movies of that year was "Back to the Future: Part II." One of the great things about that movie was its view of the future--or, because so much has time has passed since the film was released, its view of what our present should be like.

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Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 28, 2016

Trove of 3,000 patents and applications being sold includes data center design innovations Read More.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

JUNE 22, 2016

When you work for a younger boss, you’ll have to make some adjustments Image Credit: Christopher Lance. What have you always pictured your boss looking like? If you are anything like me, you’ve always pictured them as a grumpy old man. Or a grumpy old woman if you want to get all modern. However, there is one thing that I’ve never really pictured my boss as being – younger than I am!

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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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Computer Weekly

JUNE 21, 2016

The Lower Colorado River Authority’s chief administrative officer urges enterprises to balance the risks of using the internet of things with the benefits connected devices can bring

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IT Toolbox

JUNE 20, 2016

Voice over IP (VoIP) telephony services provide businesses with a host of benefits. From lowered costs to increased security, the advantages over legacy phone systems are numerous. Of course, these benefits don't simply materialize overnight. VoIP implementation can take a bit of work, but as long as a business utilizes the following tips, the transition can be seamless.

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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 30, 2016

Security researchers recently issued warnings against a trojan family known as Hummer, which affects more than a million phones by installing malware and unwanted apps.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 29, 2016

Some CIOs and enterprise architecture (EA) pros believe that business process management (BPM) is on the opposite side of agility -- but they don't realize that BPM technology itself is also evolving. Agility-oriented BPM platforms are the foundation of a digital business. I've recently published a report that discusses the four key areas that EA pros must focus on to accelerate digital transformation with BPM.

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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.

Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 29, 2016

What to keep in mind when evaluating SDN options for the ever important networking layer Read More.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 10, 2016

Building your applications with only managed components has become very popular, and AWS Lambda plays a crucial role in that. I see a tremendous interest in examples how to build such applications, and articles such as " The Serverless Start-Up - Down With Servers! " about teletext.io are read eagerly around the globe. If you are looking for more examples there are the Lambda Serverless Reference Architectures that can serve as the blueprint for building your own serverless applications.

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Computer Weekly

JUNE 24, 2016

Micro-segmentation enables organisations to improve data security at reasonable cost without compromising agility, governance, risk and compliance, says Unisys

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IT Toolbox

JUNE 20, 2016

Voice over IP (VoIP) is a terrific communications tool on which businesses increasingly rely to move their work forward, but especially for IT teams new to handling telephony in-house, it can be challenging to manage well at the outset. VoIP makes stronger demands on network quality than most other applications, and users tend to notice (and complain) right away if call quality slips.

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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.

Tech Republic Cloud

JUNE 21, 2016

Forgot you subscribed to a podcast that no longer interests you? Never deleted that audiobook you finished? It's time to free up that needed space on your iPhone or iPad.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 28, 2016

Given Symantec's recent acquisiton of BlueCoat (and with it BlueCoat's earlier acquired Elastica and Perspecsys cloud security gateway (CSG) assets), and IBM's organic buildout of its Defender CSG solution it comes hardly as a surprise that Cisco today announced its intent to acquire CloudLock for US$293M (in Forrester's estimation this purchase price represents at least 10-15x of CloudLock's current revenues).

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Data Center Knowledge

JUNE 27, 2016

Workers building Apple and Facebook data centers having a hard time finding local places to live Read More.

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Data Center Data Report Apple 175

Tech Republic Security

JUNE 22, 2016

The Clinton Foundation's network was allegedly hacked late Tuesday, while a variety of documents from last week's DNC hack were leaked simultaneously, pushing cybersecurity toward center stage.

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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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Computer Weekly

JUNE 27, 2016

Cloud and datacentre analysts claim IT buyers are already feeling the pinch from the outcome of the EU referendum, but past performance suggests demand for colocation space will rise in the event of recession

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IT Toolbox

JUNE 24, 2016

Any CEO will tell you that it's a hard climb to reach the heights of success, especially in an uncertain economy. This is why more companies are looking at investing in software solutions which help them to increase sales and reduce operational costs. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) technology is one of the most popular choices for enterprises because it is multi-functional and versatile.

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Tech Republic Cloud

JUNE 22, 2016

Insert a chart from a Google Sheet in Google Slides and Google Docs, or create an interactive data story with Silk.co, to make sure your presentation always stays current.

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Mick's IT Blog

JUNE 21, 2016

One of the things that has annoyed me in the past is having to keep the Microsoft Office Updates folder up-to-date with the latest.MSP files. The reason I bother with keeping the Updates folder up-to-date is because it speeds up the process of building a golden image, which in my environment, Office is installed during that phase. To automate this process, I created an automatic deployment rule in SCCM that keeps the Microsoft Office software update group up-to-date with the latest Office update

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