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Expectations And Suggestions For Mobile World Congress 2017 Visitors — From An Enterprise Angle

Forrester IT

Photo: Bergman Group. Between February 27 and March 2, 2017, Mobile World Congress (MWC) will once again take place in Barcelona. Last year , over 100,000 attendees visited the event in search of new insights about "everything mobile." This year's MWC theme is "The Next Element" and aims to underline how elemental mobile has become in our everyday lives.

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How information security professionals can help business understand cyber risk

Computer Weekly

Information security is continually moving up business and board agendas, but information security professionals find it challenging to help business leaders to understand fully the cyber risks across increasingly digital businesses.

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Here are the 10 Largest Data Center Providers in the World

Data Center Knowledge

Bigger is better when it comes to success in data center services, and here’s who the biggest players are Read More.

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Update On The Megatrend of Artificial Intelligence

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. There are seven key megatrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the helpful mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for C loud Computing , A rtificial Intelligence , M obility , B ig Data , R obotics , I nternet of Things , C yberSecurity. In this post we dive deeper into Artificial Intelligence.

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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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Top 6 Questions You Should Ask a VoIP Provider

IT Toolbox

There are several questions you should ask a voice over IP (VoIP) service provider before you sign up for a plan that may not fit your business needs. These questions will help you avoid surprises that could affect the way you handle daily business or your satisfaction with the service.

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GDS declares public cloud secure enough for "vast majority" of public sector

Computer Weekly

Government Digital Service moves to allay public sector concerns about using off-premise services in a bid to speed up cloud adoption beyond Whitehall

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Questions CIOs Need To Ask When Building New Data Centers

The Accidental Successful CIO

New data centers are expensive and must be planned correctly Image Credit: Intel Free Press. As the person with the CIO job, one of the most expensive decisions that you may ever make will have to do with the decision to build a new data center for your company. For all the talk of the benefits of “the cloud”, most companies still have data and applications that they fell most comfortable running and storing on machines that they own.

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8 Ways Small Businesses Can Boost Sales with CRM

IT Toolbox

As a small business (SB) owner, you’ve heard how important it is to have a customer relationship management (CRM) system to increase and improve customer satisfaction. You’ve probably also heard that customers demand more personalized experiences that you can develop only by using CRM. However, knowing is only half the battle.

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The evolution of smart Dubai

Computer Weekly

Aisha Bin Bishr, director general at Smart Dubai Office, discusses how Dubai is evolving as a smart city with the support of local telecoms provider Du.

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Automated Traders Take Over Bitcoin as Easy Money Beckons

Data Center Knowledge

Mimicking Wall Street, professionals armed with cutting-edge technology now drive 80 percent of bitcoin trading 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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80% of IoT apps not tested for vulnerabilities, report says

Tech Republic Security

A new report from the Ponemon Institute, IBM, and Arxan claims that just 20% of IoT apps and 29% of mobile apps are actually tested for vulnerabilities, raising security concerns.

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VoIP in the Age of BYOD: Are Office Phones Necessary Anymore?

IT Toolbox

In many businesses today, it’s a given that employees are empowered to bring their own devices to work. These bring your own device (BYOD) programs have become quite popular with management and employees alike because they enable office professionals to work more productively and flexibly using the devices with which they’re most comfortable.

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Hybrid cloud 101: Using the cloud as a storage tier

Computer Weekly

We look at what’s possible when it comes to hybrid cloud, what types of data and what hybrid cloud architectures can combine on-premise and cloud storage capacity

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Who Leased the Most Data Center Space in 2016?

Data Center Knowledge

Cloud companies are creating huge supply-demand imbalance in top data center markets 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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There's a new Gmail phishing attack going around, and it's fooling everyone

Tech Republic Security

Tech professionals don't generally fall for phishing attacks: They know what to look for and when to be suspicious. One new attack, however, is even fooling the experienced.

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The Convergence of CRM and Sales Enablement Tools

IT Toolbox

Customer relationship management (CRM) software isn’t just about keeping customer contact records any longer because a full-blown convergence between CRM and sales enablement tools is taking place. Consider that the traditional view of CRM is that salespeople enter information about prospective and current customers and their interactions during the sales funnel.

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How Singapore can help Southeast Asia reach its digital potential

Computer Weekly

Singapore could play a vital role in supporting the digital transformation of its Asean partners in the Asian Century

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Rationalizing the Move Toward the Software-Defined Data Center to Achieve IT as a Service

Data Center Knowledge

For IT, the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) can provide a strategic approach to support the goals of the business and provide the agility and flexibility to thrive with digital transformation. 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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2017 Events for CIO, CTO, Chief Digital Officers, and Chief Data Officers

Social, Agile and Transformation

I was doing some research last week on 2017 events for CIO, CTO, Chief Digital Officers, Chief Data Officers, and IT leaders. I found articles on CIO.com and TechTarget with a number of events listed and then went looking at other institutions (Gartner, Forrester, CDM Media, Evanta, Argyle, HMG Strategy, O'Reilly and others) for their lists. I focused on events in the United States (MVP) and.

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Top Challenges for CRM Marketers in 2017

IT Toolbox

Customer relationship management (CRM) software is a crucial tool for giving sales and marketing a 360 degree view of customers. More importantly, it should take some of the weight off the sales team. As our ability to collect data becomes more complex, however, new problems arise that could prevent marketing and sales from reaching important sales goals.

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UK firms struggling to manage cyber threats, survey shows

Computer Weekly

Businesses want security suppliers to offer more complementary products and collaborate more effectively as they struggle to manage data protection in the light of new laws, a survey shows

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Avaya Folds Under $6B Debt Burden, Cloud Competition

Data Center Knowledge

Company files for bankruptcy in an attempt to restructure massive debt load 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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How Seattle wants to avoid becoming a 'dumb smart city'

Tech Republic Data Center

Putting the right tech in place, and doing it the right way, is the key for Seattle's smart city goals. TechRepublic talked to Seattle's CIO to find out more about the city's plans.

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5 ERP Trends to Watch in 2017

IT Toolbox

It’s a new year, and 2017 is shaping up to be a year of change. In the tech sector, that’s not news. Technologies change so fast it’s hard for companies to keep up with them. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) technologies are no different. Over the past few years, ERP has changed dramatically from the on-premises, legacy behemoth it was a few years ago.

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2017 may be crisis year for DDoS attacks, warns Deloitte

Computer Weekly

The proliferation of IoT devices and IoT exploit kits may make 2017 a turning point in DDoS attacks requiring new defence tactics, warns Deloitte

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Here’s What’s Next for CenturyLink’s Data Center Business

Data Center Knowledge

Unit prepares for becoming a platform for new owners’ cybersecurity-focused solution Read More.

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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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IDG Contributor Network: Fighting cybercrime using IoT and AI-based automation

Network World

Last November, detectives investigating a murder case in Bentonville, Arkansas, accessed utility data from a smart meter to determine that 140 gallons of water had been used at the victim’s home between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m. It was more water than had been used at the home before, and it was used at a suspicious time—evidence that the patio area had been sprayed down to conceal the murder scene.

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5 Ways to Improve the Quality of Your CRM Data

IT Toolbox

Even the most expensive customer relationship management (CRM) software won’t help you improve the quality of your data if you use it incorrectly. Unfortunately, this is a common issue facing many organizations. With the right information, however, you can easily turn it around. Reasons for a Decline in CRM Data Quality.

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DDoS protection provider alleged to be Mirai botnet creator

Computer Weekly

Investigative journalist Brian Krebs believes distributed denial of service mitigation firm owner is the author of malware designed to enable massive IoT botnet-enabled DDoS attacks

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How the Chinese Data Center Market is Evolving

Data Center Knowledge

The Chinese data center market is currently on the rise, so much so that research analyst firm Technavio predicts a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 13 percent over the next four years. Read More.

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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.