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The Top Emerging Technologies For Digital Predators

Forrester IT

If you've been following my research, you know I like to divide the business world into three categories of company: Digital Predators successfully use emerging digital technologies to gain market share and/or displace traditional incumbent companies (e.g. Amazon, Lyft, Priceline, AirBnB, Netflix). Digital Transformers evolve a traditional business to take advantage of emerging technologies, creating new sources of value for customers and opening up new competitive strategies (e.g.

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Meet Microsoft, the New Face of Open Source Data Center Hardware

Data Center Knowledge

If you’re running a cloud platform at Microsoft’s scale (30-plus regions around the world, with multiple data centers per region) and you want it to run on the best data center hardware, you typically design it yourself.

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Cybersecurity Due Diligence: Now a best practice in Merger & Acquisition (M&A)

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. Cooley is an international law firm recognized for its technology practice and experience in multiple practice areas, including Mergers and Acquisition (the firm has handled over 1,000 M&A transactions since 2010). In a recent post on the Cooley M&A website titled Cybersecurity Diligence in M&A Transactions , Cooley partners Andrew Lustig and Randy Sabett bring clarity to a clear trend in the marketplace: cybersecurity diligence is now a part of the M&A dilige

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Recruiting women key to closing cyber security skills gap, say experts

Computer Weekly

The European cyber security industry has one of the lowest proportions of women and the highest gender pay gaps in the world, the latest Global Information Security Workforce Study shows

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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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Platforms Are The Foundation For New Value Creation

Forrester IT

While a lot has been written about consumer-facing platforms like Facebook and Uber, the platform impact on business-to-business relationships has not been as extensively investigated. However, these "business platform models" are transforming the way how traditional businesses create value. Business platforms will reorganize a wide variety of markets, work arrangements, and ultimately value creation and capture.

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Why Microsoft Says ARM Chips Can Replace Half of Its Data Center Muscle

Data Center Knowledge

Recent years’ relative quiet on the ARM server front, the scarcity of large-scale IBM Power deployment news, and the consistent growth reported by Intel’s Data Center Group may in totality create an impression that the data center chip wars have subsided, with Intel enjoying a massive – and secure.

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Government to ramp up help for UK cyber security industry

Computer Weekly

Government, in partnership with industry, is pursuing a range of initiatives aimed at establishing a UK cyber security ecosystem, developing skills and products and boosting exports, says DIT’s Conrad Prince

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Sysadmins: You're All Developers Now

Forrester IT

In a past life I was a system administrator, or "sysadmin" I enjoyed it, but even in those halcyon days of remoting into servers and driving to the office at 2 AM (hoping the server room wasn't on fire), I knew I had a limited shelf life. It wasn't until years later that I fully understood why: Administrators are babysitters. The era of tech babysitters is over.

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4 Benefits of VoIP and CRM Integration

IT Toolbox

Voice over Internet Protocol, commonly called VoIP, lets businesses make phone calls from the internet. It boosts portability, cuts costs -- 99.9 percent of users see a reduction in their phone expenses, according to one report -- and provides more flexibility than traditional telecommunications. Companies that integrate VoIP with customer relationship management software could reap further benefits.

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Why CIOs Have To Worry About Their Company Being Disrupted

The Accidental Successful CIO

Just when you think you have the ball, that’s when a disruption can occur Image Credit: Matthew Wilkinson. As CIOs because of the importance of information technology it can be all too easy for us to put our heads down and focus on the issues that are right in front of us: securing the network, upgrading workstations, and building new data centers.

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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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IR35 research: 85% of contractors will quit public sector if tax status changed

Computer Weekly

Research by tax advisers QDos Contractor suggests few public sector off-payroll workers would be willing to stick around if made to pay the same tax as salaried staff

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Do You Have An Opinion On How Digital Is Changing Business?

Forrester IT

Do you have an opinion on how technology is changing your business? As you likely know, each year we conduct in-depth business leader research to help identify trends across industries. This year we are once again partnering with executive search firm Odgers Berndtson , reaching out to senior business executives around the world for their perspectives on how digital is changing their business.

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How Collaboration Impacts Digital Transformation

IT Toolbox

Most technology investment decisions are tactical in that they address operational needs like expanding network capacity, or supporting workflows with a new phone system. Of course, these moves deliver real business value, but each tends to exist in standalone manner.

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Supercharge Your Existing Storage with a Metadata Engine

Data Center Knowledge

The rigidity of traditional storage and compute architectures mean that there has been no way to make sure the right resource is serving the right data at the right time. 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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Derbyshire NHS Trust takes simple BI approach to secure patient safety

Computer Weekly

Derbyshire NHS Foundation Trust opts for a simple, clinician and business-led approach to business intelligence to secure patient safety, using MicroStrategy

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Okta Files to Go Public

Forrester IT

Yesterday, Okta filed its S-1 with the SEC, officially marking its intent to go public. This planned IPO had been rumored in early 2016, but less than optimal capital market conditions in 2016 likely contributed to the delay. The S-1 followed last week's news that Okta acquired Stormpath , an identity API provider based in Silicon Valley, for an undisclosed amount.

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Setting Goals with CRM

IT Toolbox

Goal setting is an important part of any effort and that goes double for sales. Without clear, properly chosen goals even the most energetic sales effort will flounder. Goal setting is the foundation of success – provided you pick the right goals.

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Google Cloud Platform: The smart person's guide

Tech Republic Cloud

This comprehensive guide covers the history of Google Cloud Platform, the products and services it offers, and where it fits in the overall cloud market.

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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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Unicef uses data science to track refugees

Computer Weekly

United Nations agency for humanitarian aid for children and mothers in developing countries is turning to data science, marshalling expertise from companies and other corporates

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How Hyperconvergence Can Revolutionize Secondary Storage

Data Center Knowledge

To recognize the value of hyperconvergence for secondary storage, companies and vendors must take a holistic view of these workloads and apply the same principles of hyperconvergence to deliver the same benefits that have been so effective with primary storage. Read More.

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VoIP hardware provider pursues certification

IT Toolbox

As demands for VoIP phones increases, platforms that offer customers device-neutral adoption and integration are working to support as wide a choice of hardware as possible.

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How to set up Google Team Drives

Tech Republic Cloud

The addition of Team Drives to G Suite simplifies file sharing in organizations. Here's how you can enable, create, and configure Team Drives.

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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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AI automation starts to transform legal profession

Computer Weekly

Artificial intelligence and automation are making inroads into legal work, but are more likely to support than displace lawyers and will draw IT more into legal service delivery

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IoT Spells Trouble for Data Center Security, Networks

Data Center Knowledge

Even the largest servers, across the widest networks, with the best cybersecurity software in place can fall victim when attacks are done on the largest of scales. Read More.

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3 IT Hacks to Dramatically Increase Small Business Efficiency

IT Toolbox

There are incredibly user-friendly software tools that can help a small business achieve great efficiency without hiring an excessive IT staff.

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Raspberry Pi in the data center: A unique option for object storage and edge computing

Tech Republic Data Center

Despite its CPU and I/O limitations, the Raspberry Pi potentially represents the future of computing with interesting options in the enterprise data center.

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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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UK identity fraud reaches record levels

Computer Weekly

The UK fraud prevention service is calling for better education about fraud and financial crime as identity fraud, which is often cyber-enabled, hits the highest levels ever recorded

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Oracle’s Cloud Business Shows Momentum as Sales, Profit Beat

Data Center Knowledge

Earnings report marks three straight quarters of revenue gains after more than a year of declines. Read More.

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Why Small Businesses Need to Utilize Big Data

IT Toolbox

Big data has been trending in the business world for quite a long time now. However, many people associate big data with large businesses; I'll talk about why small businesses need to make use of this valuable resource.

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Bad news, Android devs: 40 percent of apps in the market are leaving sensitive backdoors exposed

Tech Republic Security

Codified Security's research found backdoors that could lead to stolen customer information and worse: They could give hackers access to developer's servers and computers as well.

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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.