Sat.Dec 17, 2016 - Fri.Dec 23, 2016

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DevOps The Code To Delivering With Velocity, Quality And Agility

Forrester IT

Every business today is under pressure from a startup that is disrupting their traditional market. We have seen this in the taxi industry with Uber [i] , ATOM Bank is revolutionizing banking [ii] and Airbnb the hotel industry. [iii] The overused statement that today every business is a software business, is resonating in every industry and we are all under pressure to not only deliver faster, we must do so with quality and add value to our respective businesses.

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Why Big Data Project Management Can Be So Difficult

CTOvision

Rick Delgado. Big data is extremely beneficial to businesses, and gathering it is now easier than ever with today's technology. When it comes to the management of big data, therein lies the challenge. There is software now which can assist in tracking a company's customers and potential customers. It will collect information such as age, demographics, buying habits, and more.

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Ten Tips for Harnessing the Power of Data Analytics

Data Center Knowledge

You can’t fix what you can’t measure, and you can’t measure what you don’t understand. Data analytics can help by providing valuable capabilities for addressing current strategic needs while preparing for new innovations on the horizon. Read More.

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Almost 90% of customers say social media availability affects brand loyalty

Computer Weekly

Customers expect to be able to contact brands via social media, with nine out of 10 claiming availability of a brand through their preferred social channel has an impact on their retailer loyalty

Social 165
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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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Tell Your Board How Business Technology Will Help Win Customers

Forrester IT

Customers are more powerful than ever, and nothing is slowing that trend. Your Board is the primary body for setting, monitoring, and adapting strategy. Ensuring that the Board, and the C-suite, is equipped with the proper insight and knowledge is a requirement. Research shows that CEOs rank technological change as the second-most-pressing factor for companies after economic factors.

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What’s the delay when it comes to content analytics?

CTOvision

Bob Larrivee. Organizations are dealing with ever-growing amounts of data – and to get value from that data they need to analyze it, so what is the hold up in deploying content analytics? Practically every organization today has more content flowing through its various departments than at any time previously. This content comes in a wide variety of types, forms and formats and is a potential gold mine of insight for those that know how.

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Auticon: the IT consultancy that employs only autistic IT professionals

Computer Weekly

IT consultancy Auticon explains why and how it employs only autistic consultants and why diversity is beneficial for businesses

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Here are the biggest IoT security threats facing the enterprise in 2017

Tech Republic Security

The coming year will bring a large-scale IoT security breach, with fleet management, retail, manufacturing, and government at the biggest risk, according to experts.

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The First Quantum Revolution: Foundational information for the enterprise CTO

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. Our report on Naturally Better Security dove deep into ways quantum effects can be leveraged to enhance real world cybersecurity. It was our most popular post in November 2016 and the feedback we received was taken as a signal that we should produce more on what CTOs should know about the quantum world. With this post we are kicking off a series of five pieces that will dive into quantum effects.

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How Cloudy is the Data Center’s Future?

Data Center Knowledge

Despite predictions of the data center's impending supersession by cloud computing, the on-premise data center continues to show similar durability. Read More.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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How Shazam handles its data reserves

Computer Weekly

Chris Kammermann, senior infrastructure engineer at Shazam, explains how adopting the Splunk platform has helped the firm deal with legacy systems and data analysis

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Cisco execs foretell key 2017 enterprise networking trends

Network World

Interesting posts this week from a few Cisco executives taking a look forward into what should be a very interesting networking world in 2017. +More on Network World: 5 enterprise technologies that will shake things up in 2017 + First up was Cisco’s Jeff Reed, Senior Vice President Enterprise Infrastructure and Solutions Group who had a blog on the top 10 list for future 2017 network trends.

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Improving the Performance and Security of Mission Applications with Enhanced Networking

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. Latency breeds contempt, this is especially true in the defense and intelligence communities where seconds can be the difference between life and death. Applications supporting national security missions must work and they must work fast. In order to keep pace with rapidly evolving mission demands, agencies are constantly advancing their capabilities in the areas of distributed analytics and private cloud.

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Here’s What Experts Say about Cloud in 2017

Data Center Knowledge

Will 2017 be the year we ditch our data centers in favor of public cloud? Will security continue to be a cloud adoption roadblock? Read More.

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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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Extra £440m to get superfast broadband to hardest-to-reach places in UK

Computer Weekly

Government announces extra funding for its superfast broadband roll-out, with 600,000 more premises expected to benefit

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5 DevOps predictions for 2017

Tech Republic Data Center

DevOps saw a lot of container adoption by enterprises and more companies bolstering their offerings in 2016. Security improvements, containerization, and consolidation are on the horizon for next year.

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Digital forensics: The smart person's guide

Tech Republic Security

This comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know about digital forensics, the science of recovering data from computers, networks, mobile phones, and IoT devices.

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Self-Serve Cloud Tools for Beginners Hit the Market

Data Center Knowledge

The products, for use with AWS public cloud, are designed to allow lay people to quickly and easily access cloud computing. Read More.

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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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HMRC slammed over tax probe into Newcastle datacentre campus investors

Computer Weekly

HM Revenue and Customs said it is committed to clamping down on abuses of the UK tax system, following criticism of its decision to recoup tax relief payments to datacentre investors

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3 ways to connect your private network to the public cloud

Tech Republic Data Center

As hybrid infrastructures grow in popularity, the need to securely connect private and public data centers grows. Read three popular public cloud connection options.

Cloud 113
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Police can force you to give up your iPhone password, Florida court rules

Tech Republic Security

A Florida judge recently ruled that the Fifth Amendment did not protect an iPhone user from releasing his passcode to be used in a case. Here's what it could mean for the future of digital privacy.

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Six Pitfalls of Cloud Assessments

Data Center Knowledge

I like to think of assessments as the start of a journey, delivering a roadmap for milestones, costs and ROI. Don’t be fooled by experts who will tell you that an assessment is the same thing as capacity planning. 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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Could blockchain revolutionise the Middle East?

Computer Weekly

The Middle East could pioneer the use of blockchain, transforming the processes used by organisations in the region

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TAP Accelerates Artificial Intelligence

Cloud Musings

Photo credit: Shutterstock Over the past few years, the use of artificial intelligence has expanded more rapidly than many of us could have imagined. While this may invoke fear and dread in some, these relatively new technology applications are clearly delivering real value to our global society. This value is generally seen in four distinct areas : Efficiency - Delivering consistent and low-cost performance by characterizing routine activities with well-defined rules, procedures and criteria Ex

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How to improve the security and privacy of your iPhone: 5 steps

Tech Republic Security

Protecting the data on your smartphone is paramount. Here are five simple changes you can enact to make your iPhone more secure.

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Inside Schneider’s Big Bet on Tailored Yet Standard Data Center Blueprints

Data Center Knowledge

The data center is becoming more of a mass-producible machine, and Schneider wants to play a role in this progression. Read More.

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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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IT Priorities 2017: Quarter of Asean CIOs expect big IT budget increase

Computer Weekly

More than half of Asean IT leaders expect a budget increase next year, and a quarter of them anticipate a rise of more than 10%

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High-demand cybersecurity skills in 2017

Network World

As I’ve written many times, the cybersecurity skills shortage is the biggest cybersecurity issue we face today. Not only are there too few bodies to fill the cybersecurity jobs, but a recent series of research reports from ESG and the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) indicates that many currently employed cybersecurity professionals are overworked, not managing their careers proactively, and not receiving the proper amount of training to stay ahead of increasingly dangerous threat

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Progress in ransomware battle remains murky despite industry efforts

Tech Republic Security

Ransomware is as bad as ever, with companies continuing to pay for their data even though defensive measures are improving, finds a recent IBM security study.

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Watts to Bits: Your Daily Data Center News Briefing

Data Center Knowledge

Here are the recent developments in the data center industry you should know about. Read More.

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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.