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Big Data: Out of the Server Room and Into the World

CTOvision

Modern business data acquisition, analytics, and warehousing have increased in both scale and frequency in recent years. The rapid development of new technologies to deal with these massive quantities of data has given birth to the so-called "Big Data" revolution. As a result, there are few industries that are isolated from the growing need to […].

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World at a cyber security crossroad, warns expert

Computer Weekly

Governments need to agree on cyber security realities and priorities, and move towards more effective regulation, legislation and law enforcement to enable tech interoperability for business

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The Impact of IT on Education: 5 Great Elearning Platforms

IT Toolbox

Businesses have flourished due to lower expenses for numerous in-house processes, people have started communicating more easily, but education has also greatly changed.

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How to Setup SCCM CB and InTune Co-Management

Anoop

Many organisations are looking for a more simplified management options for Windows devices. There are two ways of management. First one is. The Traditional way of management and the second is the Modern way of management. They are also looking for a more easy way to transition from SCCM and Domain Join devices (Traditional) to a modern […]. The post How to Setup SCCM CB and InTune Co-Management appeared first on Anoops.

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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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5 Powerful Ways Businesses Benefit From Data Visualization

CTOvision

Data visualization can play a pivotal role in helping businesses improve their sales goals and budgeting while expanding and better planning sales territories. With companies increasing their amount of data each year, data visualization makes sense to help organize and analyze data for meaningful value. Additionally, data visualization aids in real-time monitoring, for time-sensitive cases. […].

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GE opens up on how its move to the AWS public cloud is progressing

Computer Weekly

The multi-national conglomerate claims to have migrated more than 2,000 apps to the AWS cloud, as its digital transformation efforts continue apace

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SCCM ConfigMgr Troubleshooting Steps for Newbies with Flowcharts

Anoop

SCCM is not dead, and many newbies are trying to learn SCCM. Instead, this is the most happening time for an SCCM engineer. SCCM + Intune Co-management opens up many new opportunities for SCCM engineers. Enterprises are getting ready for Windows 10 migrations. And most of the organizations depend on SCCM team to get the […]. The post SCCM ConfigMgr Troubleshooting Steps for Newbies with Flowcharts appeared first on Anoops.

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How Algorithms Can Be Used to Predict Great Literature

CTOvision

Just like in music industries, book publishing bases its popularity on hits. More importantly, most experts feel that the process of predicting best-selling work is an art by itself. Most of the time, the aforementioned faculties serve the institution well. However, in other situations, they do not perform so well. For instance, when it comes […].

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Making public cloud ERP work for your business

Computer Weekly

If you work with specialists, migrating ERP to the public cloud can bring big business benefits – but it’s not for everyone

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How the SEC breach resembles immature teenage behavior

IT Toolbox

If you were like me growing up, you had some temper tantrums where you expressed your emotions perhaps a little too much. As I got into my mid-to-late teens, I remember it happening quite often. In one particular situation, I got into a pretty heated fight with my older sister and, thanks to my sister wearing a cast on her foot, my bedroom door ended up with a hole in it.

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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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Data and Culture go hand in hand

Eric D. Brown

A few weeks ago, I spent an afternoon talking to the CEO of a mid-sized services company. He’s interested in ‘big data’ and is interviewing consultants / companies to help his organization ‘take advantage of their data’ In preparation for this meeting, I had spent the previous weeks talking to various managers throughout the company to get a good sense of how the organization uses and embraces data.

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How Big Data Can Tell You Which Book to Read Next

CTOvision

If you enjoy to read, but still haven't decided on your next book to cozy up with on that upcoming rainy day, your smartphone might be able to suggest one. Artificial intelligence (AI) through big data is now able to rank literature for deciding which will be the next bestseller - a kind of recommendation […].

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Don't use cost savings to secure senior management DevOps buy-in, CIOs advised

Computer Weekly

IT leaders may find themselves unlikely to succeed by promising senior management DevOps-induced cost savings, according to PuppetConf panel

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How one CRM support platform is creating flexibility for employees and clients

IT Toolbox

One of the most modern solutions for empowering the workforce and enhancing performance went live this week as Verint Systems unveiled its new Verint Workforce Optimization (WFO) suite of applications. WFO is designed to integrate secure mobile access, enabling managers and employees to get work done from anywhere, at anytime.

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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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What A CIO Can Do About Eliminating Dead Wood In The IT Department

The Accidental Successful CIO

The one thing that you don’t want to have in your IT department is dead wood Image Credit: Iain Farrell. Who works in your IT department? Is it a bunch of fired up people who arrive at work each and every day ready to take on the world? Do they believe in the importance of information technology and are they straining to find new and better ways to do just about everything?

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IDG Contributor Network: How smart cities can protect against IoT security threats

Network World

Smart cities, which were once confined to the realms of science fiction books, are rapidly becoming a reality all around the globe. Unfortunately, like all revolutionizing innovations, smart cities are developing their own unique challenges alongside of their perks. So what are industry insiders and tomorrow’s city planners doing to face these challenges?

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MEPs push for stronger data protection by EU institutions

Computer Weekly

All EU institutions, bodies and agencies should live up to strong data protection safeguards when processing personal data, says the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee

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Cloud or Local? Choosing Your CRM System

IT Toolbox

One important decision to make in choosing a CRM system is whether you want it to be hosted locally or in the cloud. Both approaches have their good and bad points and today both offer a lot of choices. In the SMB market the choices are split about equally and both offer mixes of features suitable for running a small or medium business.

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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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State of the Go Nation – Gotham Go 2017

SPF13

This talk is an overview of the entire Go project. It covers “what we’ve done”, “why we did it” and “where we are going” as a project. It highlights our accomplishments, challenges and what the Go Project is doing to address our challenges. It was delievered as the opening Keynote for Gotham Go in 2017.

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What is a firewall?

Network World

Network-based firewalls have become almost ubiquitous across US enterprises for their proven defense against an ever-increasing array of threats. A recent study by network testing firm NSS Labs found that up to 80% of US large businesses run a next-generation firewall. Research firm IDC estimates the firewall and related unified threat management market was a $7.6 billion industry in 2015 and expected to reach $12.7 billion by 2020.

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WEF gets to grips with risks posed by transformative technologies

Computer Weekly

World Economic Forum is bringing technology, insurance and government sectors together to better understand the risks posed by technology failures

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WLA- A New WLAN Professionals Organization Takes Wing

IT Toolbox

You may have heard about the fledgling WLAN Advisory Board in the last couple of years, if you hit the right industry conference along the way. The WLANAB was borne out of frustration with widely varying approaches to WLAN design, and the resultant variance in quality of network performance.

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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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11 years, 1400 blog posts…and a pretty graph

Eric D. Brown

As part of a tutorial on Text Analytics and Visualization I just finished over on technical blog called Python Data (where I blog about using python for data analysis), I took a look at all 1400 posts over the last 11 years (11 years!). The findings weren’t surprising but they are interesting (at least to me). First, a visualization. This is a network map of the top three keywords from each of my posts and their association with other keywords.

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How to speed up IoT deployment: Give each device an identity

Network World

Most enterprises are in the process of evaluating how the Internet of Things (IoT) will affect their organization, especially how devices targeted at the Enterprise of Things (EoT) will be deployed. Indeed, companies that deploy “things” need to worry about security, manageability, longevity/availability and robustness — unlike consumers who generally don’t concern themselves with such things.

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Will the review of Gov.uk Verify fix the UK's digital identity problems?

Computer Weekly

The rumoured review of the UK government’s identity assurance programme provides the ideal opportunity to fix problems and accelerate progress

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Novell Netware - A history

IT Toolbox

Version 2.0 of Advanced NetWare was released in 1986 and brought increased functionality in performance and internetworking. Through the full implementation of the 80286 microprocessor's protected-mode operation, Advanced NetWare brought performance to networks unavailable in real-mode operating systems, which were limited to 640K of RAM.

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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 to Delete Windows.OLD Folder from Windows 10 Device

Anoop

Don’t not try to delete Windows.OLD folder from Windows 10 device via Windows Explorer. You won’t be able to remove Windows.old folder via Windows explorer. I have tried many times to delete this folder via windows Explorer but, never succeeded. In this post, we will see the method to Delete Windows.OLD Folder from Windows 10 Device. […].

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Oracle leverages machine learning to manage, secure enterprise systems

Network World

Oracle is not the first company that comes to mind when you think of enterprise security, but the company announced at its recent OpenWorld conference new products with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities to quickly identify security threats. The company introduced two new sets of integrated suites called Oracle Identity Security Operations Center (SOC) and Oracle Management Cloud.

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Cyber security a business necessity

Computer Weekly

Cyber security is a business necessity, according to the T-Mobile security chief in Poland

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7 Emerging ERP Trends

IT Toolbox

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) has become an integral part of the business landscape, and ERP vendors are continuously coming up with less complex and more inexpensive options. An awareness of what's trending could help organizations extract the maximum mileage out of their ERP solutions. 1. User Experience.

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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.