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6 Places Poised to be the New Silicon Valley Tech Hubs

CTOvision

The image of a group of computer programmers working in their garage somewhere in Silicon Valley is well known. Start-ups have taken over America’s economy and Silicon Valley has never been stronger. This is changing as more and more people flood the computer science industry. All across America, cities are enticing young entrepreneurs and programmers. […].

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Gartner: Alibaba outperforms AWS, Microsoft and Google in public cloud revenue growth

Computer Weekly

While Amazon remains leader of the IaaS and public cloud market, Gartner’s figures highlight emerging competitive pressure from Alibaba on the other runners and riders in the market

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4 New Trends in VoIP Technology

IT Toolbox

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is quickly becoming the de facto communication tool for businesses big and small. Available in a variety of formats, including hosted and cloud, VoIP can be tailored to suit the needs of almost any company. Likewise, as an internet-based technology, the cost advantage of having one phone and data provider is often significant.

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How to Implement Agile on Lowcode and aPaaS Development Platforms

Social, Agile and Transformation

A colleague and friend recently asked me whether agile practices were appropriate when managing development on lowcode or aPaaS (application Platform as a Service) technologies. These higher level languages enable developers to write a class of applications faster and maintain them easier by providing development environments, programming constructs, and other tools.

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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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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a WordPress Blog

CTOvision

Many are looking for the right way to start a blog. It can be a terrifying thought especially for those who have little to no technical knowledge. But, do not despair! Here is the most comprehensive guide on how to start a WordPress blog. The process is easy to follow whether you may be 20 […].

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SDN an essential component of future public sector networks

Computer Weekly

Public sector organisations need to adopt software-defined networking to deliver more agile and resilient networks that bring fit-for-purposes services to users and citizens

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As-Salaam-Alaikum: The cloud arrives in the Middle East!

All Things Distributed

Today, I am excited to announce plans for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring an infrastructure Region to the Middle East! This move is another milestone in our global expansion and mission to bring flexible, scalable, and secure cloud computing infrastructure to organizations around the world. Based in Bahrain, this will be the first Region for AWS in the Middle East.

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A Fierce Domain: Conflict in Cyberspace

CTOvision

A Fierce Domain: Conflict in Cyberspace, 1986 to 2012 by Jason Healey is a well researched, well history of how humanity is using the Internet to seek to impose their will on others. It contains the lessons learned in previous episodes of our history. This book is a first of its kind. It provides a comprehensive history […].

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Firms look to security analytics to keep pace with cyber threats

Computer Weekly

Traditional approaches to cyber security no longer enable organisations to keep up with cyber threats, but security analytics is an increasingly popular addition to the cyber arsenal

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What is VoIP?

IT Toolbox

You've heard the term before. But do you really know what it means? Sure, the acronym stands for Voice over IP, and through that acronym you can deduce that it allows you to send voice messages over the internet. But, have you ever thought about what that really means, and why so many people choose VoIP over standard telephony for their communication needs?

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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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Be pragmatic, not dogmatic

Eric D. Brown

I’m currently reading Scott Brinker’s book Hacking Marketing: Agile Practices to Make Marketing Smarter, Faster, and More Innovative (awesome book – look for a much more complete review here soon) and came across a line in Chapter 7 that says “Be pragmatic, not dogmatic.” This really spoke to me. One of the things I dislike about many business books is that they try to create dogma and that readers should follow their ‘recipe’ and you’re business

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Palantir: Augmenting Human Intelligence, Not Replacing It

CTOvision

With this post we are initiating coverage of Palantir Technologies. Palantir has been around for 10 years now, and is widely known in the enterprise IT world for their work in big data analytics. They provide infrastructure to enterprises seeking to make optimal use of their data. Palantir continues to evolve and continuously improve their […].

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Large scale IoT deployments double in 12 months

Computer Weekly

Vodafone’s fifth annual look at the IoT market reveals that the percentage of companies with more than 50,000 connected devices has effectively doubled in the past year

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Trying Out CRM software

IT Toolbox

CRM is an important choice and an increasingly complicated one. As more vendors offer more sophisticated choices and a broader range of features, it is getting harder and harder to make the right choice. Fortunately most vendors now offer the opportunity to test drive their products before you commit.

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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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Just Exactly How Much Should You Be Paying Your Workers?

The Accidental Successful CIO

The question is are you paying too much or too little? Image Credit: Refracted Moments™. As the person at your company who has the CIO job and who understands the importance of information technology, it turns out that you have an additional job. This is building the best IT team possible. In order to do this, you are going to have to hire some people and when you do this the odds are that you are going to have to end up paying them.

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Board of Advisors vs. Board of Directors

CTOvision

According to conventional business wisdom, behind every successful company is a successful board. But what makes a board successful? And how do you know which kind of board your company needs? At Indian River Advisors, we know that if you pay attention to what drives value in your company, when you want to sell the company […].

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African anti-malaria programme thrives on strong data culture

Computer Weekly

Path health organisation is fuelling its anti-malaria programme in Zambia, and other African countries, with data analytics from Alteryx, Tableau, and others

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Manufacturing Automation Protocol (MAP)

IT Toolbox

Since I had mentioned it over a month ago, I've fielded several comments and questions about this old OSI modeled protocol operating system. So let's dive in and explore what it was and what it meant to network operating systems that would come after it.

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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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Nextcloud’s file storage solution gets a security boost

Network World

Nextcloud today released a preview of Nextcloud 13, its online file storage solution for enterprise and individual users. What makes this release so interesting? End-to-end file encryption. When we’re talking about the needs of big businesses, keeping files secure is absolutely critical.

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Raise Your Cyber Defenses By Attending The O’Reilly Security Conference NY Oct 29-30 2017

CTOvision

The O'Reilly Security Conference brings together in-the-trenches security practitioners from organizations of every size, across a wide breadth of industries to share actionable insight in a supportive, hype-free environment. It covers interesting successes (and failures), provocative ideas, practical how-tos, proven best practices, and effective new approaches that can benefit all defenders.

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Storage 101: The IoT’s impact on storage

Computer Weekly

The internet of things will have a huge impact on storage – the sheer volume of data, the radically different types of data created, and the storage needed, from flash to object to cloud

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Eliminating Customer Pains

IT Toolbox

A customer’s interaction with your company should be as painless as possible. Stated that simply, the principle is obvious. Unfortunately in practice simplicity gets lost in a welter of competing demands. This lack of simplicity causes frustration for the customer, lowers sales opportunities and risks losing customers.

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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 to Deploy and Install Office 365 Applications via SCCM CB

Anoop

We can deploy Office 365 apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.) to clients using SCCM CB. Beginning from SCCM CB version 1702, from Office 365 Client Management dashboard, you can start the Office 365 application Installer. This will let us configure Office 365 installation settings, download files from Office Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), and deploy […].

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More SMB Love Needed

Cloud Musings

In a recent post, titled “ 10 Surprising Facts About Cloud Computing and What It Really Is ”, Zac Johnson highlighted some interesting facts about cloud computing in the SMB marketplace: Cloud Computing is up to 40 times more cost-effective for an SMB, compared to running its own IT system. 94% of SMBs have experienced security benefits in the cloud that they didn’t have with their on-premises service Recovery times for SMB are four times faster for businesses using cloud computing when compared

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UK cyber defences among the best in Europe

Computer Weekly

The UK is among the European countries that are most prepared for cyber attack, but there is room for improvement by all, a report has revealed

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The LAN: A History of Network Operating Systems Part 10

IT Toolbox

In the past, if we wished to attach some other random LAN to this system, we typically needed a gateway to perform protocol conversion from whatever the LAN was using (assuming that it was not running the same DECnet protocol) to the DECnet protocols.

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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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How to Deploy Dell Bios Firmware Updates Via SCUP and SCCM CB

Anoop

SCUP 2017 has four 3rd party software update catalogs. Dell, HP, Fujitsu, and Adobe are those four 3rd party software update catalog providers in SCUP 2017 Preview version. I have explained about installation, configuration and integration process of SCUP with SCCM in the previous blog posts and video tutorial. In this post, we will see […]. The post How to Deploy Dell Bios Firmware Updates Via SCUP and SCCM CB appeared first on Anoops.

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Congrats to Codeship – Ranked as a Top 5 Continuous Integration Vendor by Forrester

The Investing Edge

Ascent Portfolio company Codeship was recently ranked as a Top 5 Continuous Integration Vendor by Forrester’s Wave™ report, surpassing competitors like IBM, Atlassian, and JetBrains (see the report here: Forrester Wave Report on Continuous Integration tools ). According to Forrester, Codeship excelled due to its product vision and execution for the Codeship Pro product and the company’s overall market presence.

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GDPR for the CIO: Data protection is about more than GDPR compliance

Computer Weekly

If you approach GDPR as if compliance is all that matters, then you're bound to fail – data protection should be at the heart of business strategy

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The LAN: A History of Network Operating Systems Part 9

IT Toolbox

In the early 1990s, there seemed to have been some convergence on the use of 802.2 (LLC) and 802.3/802.5 Mac sub-layers as the basic Physical and Data Link Layer technology. Every major manufacturer provided this alternative, and over time it became a common methodology employed.

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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.