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Simplicity is a strategy that works.

Forrester IT

This last week I was fortunate enough to be invited out to Hollywood to participate in a large exercise for the entertainment industry focusing on cyber security planning and threat management. There were folks in attendance from a variety of organizations, all of which were very interested in just how exposed they might be to data theft. The resounding call from nearly every executive that I talked to during this event was that they were aware of how exposed they likely were, and that they were

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The Macedonian surveillance scandal that brought down a government

Computer Weekly

Macedonia has been accused of using surveillance technology for covert spying - the subsequent political protests were instrumental in the ruling party losing power after 10 years

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IIoT? IoT? What is the difference?

CTOvision

The Internet of Things As the number of products on the market described as “smart” has grown, “the internet of things” has become something of a buzzword (or buzz phrase). The phrase “internet of things” suggests a network of connected or computerized devices that work together to make life more convenient and simple for the […].

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The Blockchain Revolution: Where’s the Disruption?

Data Center Knowledge

This year blockchains seem to be off the public radar. Much of that is because the complexity of both the technology and its uses don't lend itself to overnight adoption. Read More.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Two Ways That Customer Service Organizations Use To Build Emotional Connections

Forrester IT

Today customers use self-service for straightforward interactions, leaving complex issues like account closure or claims disputes for a phone conversation. These questions often take longer to resolve and are opportunities to build positive customer relationships. Customer service organizations must look out for customers' best interests and support their emotional state.

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Datacentre decisions: Converged vs hyper-converged infrastructure

Computer Weekly

Converged and hyper-converged infrastructure are ready-tested ways to put compute and storage into the datacentre. But which should you choose for your deployment?

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5.5 Million Devices Operating with WannaCry Port Open

Data Center Knowledge

By now you'd think everyone would have battened down the hatches and locked down potentially dangerous ports vulnerable to WannaCry, but that's not the case. Read More.

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Telefónica Digitizes Its Operations In Service Of The Customer

Forrester IT

With Dan Bieler. Like many organizations, Telefónica is going through a digital transformation. Our new case study "Telefónica Digitizes Its Operations In Service Of The Customer" investigates the approach that Telefónica has taken to prepare for digital transformation, including the impact of its transformation strategy on its customer experience, its operational setup, and its organizational transformation.

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MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor speaks about ‘expanding universe’ of BI

Computer Weekly

Co-founder and CEO of MicroStrategy takes the long view on business intelligence and sees its universe expanding with mobile technologies

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How Technology Increases Efficiency of Executive Management

CTOvision

As a busy executive, you understandably may feel as though you do not have enough time in your day to tackle everything that requires your attention. This can create a great deal of stress and tension in your life. The reality is that some technological enhancements in your office can dramatically improve how efficiently and […].

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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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Using Object-based Storage to Replace File-Based NAS Architectures

Data Center Knowledge

Object-Based Storage is an architecture that manages data as objects as opposed to traditional block- or file-based approaches, and is a viable option for storing unstructured data at petabyte scale. Read More.

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Telefónica Digitizes Its Operations In Service Of The Customer

Forrester IT

With Fred Giron. Like many organizations, Telefónica is going through a digital transformation. Our new case study "Telefónica Digitizes Its Operations In Service Of The Customer" investigates the approach that Telefónica has taken to prepare for digital transformation, including the impact of its transformation strategy on its customer experience, its operational setup, and its organizational transformation.

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McKinsey AI research finds slender user adoption outside tech

Computer Weekly

McKinsey Global Institute research finds artificial intelligence adoption to be exiguous and experimental outside the technology sector, but registers rapidly growing investment

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6 Ways AI Will Affect the Future of VoIP and UC

IT Toolbox

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of today’s most widely used buzzwords, but what does it mean to you? Searching for definitions, I found one referring to AI as “the art of intelligence”; another definition referred to “human automation.” Wikipedia defines artificial intelligence as intelligence exhibited by machines.

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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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Planning for the New Windows Server Cadence

Data Center Knowledge

The next version of Windows Server will let you run Linux containers using Hyper-V isolation (and connect to them with bash scripts), encrypt network segments on software-defined networks and deploy the Host Guardian Service as a Shielded VM rather than needing a three-node physical cluster. Data.

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CTOvision Assessment On The Megatrend of Robotics

CTOvision

There are seven key megatrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Mobility, Big Data, Robotics, Internet of Things, CyberSecurity. In this post we dive deeper into the trend of Robotics. Operating along a spectrum of human controlled to semi-autonomous to totally independent, robots are already […].

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Housing developer rolls out HCM to pave way for stock market listing

Computer Weekly

Bonava, which provides affordable and sustainable housing in Northern and Eastern Europe, rolled out HR technology in record time to meet a deadline to list on the Stockholm Stock Exchange

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Two Technologies That Customer Service Organizations Use To Build Emotional Connections

Forrester IT

Today customers use self-service for straightforward interactions, leaving complex issues like account closure or claims disputes for a phone conversation. These questions often take longer to resolve and are opportunities to build positive customer relationships. Customer service organizations must look out for customers' best interests and support their emotional state.

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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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Packet, Qualcomm to Host World’s First 10nm Server Processor in Public Cloud for Developers

Data Center Knowledge

Packet, a bare metal cloud for developers, announced that it will collaborate with Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc. to introduce the latest in server architecture innovation on the 48-core Qualcomm Centriq 2400 processor. The New York City-based company is currently showcasing its consumable.

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Breaking Up with Your Cloud VoIP Provider

IT Toolbox

Your relationship with your cloud voice over IP (VoIP) provider, like all good things, will eventually come to an end. Prices rise. Major outages occur on a regular basis. Support quality drops. VoIP providers go under or are acquired. The day will come when you need to switch providers. Because VoIP is the lifeblood of many businesses, you must prepare for the breakup.

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Most SAP users plan to stick with older ERP due to costly Hana migration

Computer Weekly

Survey finds many SAP users are considering augmenting their existing enterprise resource planning with cloud applications rather than go to S/4 Hana

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How to make your employees care about cybersecurity: 10 tips

Tech Republic Security

People are the largest security vulnerability in any organization. Here's some expert advice on how to make cybersecurity training more effective and protect your business.

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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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Digital Realty Study: Direct Connects to Cloud Bring 50X Less Latency

Data Center Knowledge

For a company thinking about leveraging the public cloud as part of its data center solution, latency can be a big concern. For some, unfortunately, latency isn’t considered until after they’ve already committed to using the public cloud and quickly becomes a costly issue. Others see.

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3 Ways Cloud-Based VoIP/UC Changes the Reseller Business Model

IT Toolbox

The voice over IP (VoIP)/unified communications (UC) market has dozens of types of resellers. Traditional interconnects and on-premises private branch exchange resellers have been around for years and continue to exist, but their profit model is changing.

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Why entrepreneurship is the only escape from AI-fuelled unemployment

Computer Weekly

Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, predicts up to 15m people could lose their jobs due to AI.

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The 4 types of cybersecurity threats and a formula to fight them

Tech Republic Security

Banks have long been forced to the front lines of cybersecurity and at the 2017 Borderless Cyber event, the CISO of Wells Fargo explained how to pick your battles.

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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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Energy Department Awards $258 Million to Develop Exascale Supercomputers

Data Center Knowledge

The Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $258 million to six U.S. tech companies to build the country’s first exascale supercomputer – a move designed to help the United States regain its supercomputing dominance, but also to improve the nation’s economic competitiveness. An exascale.

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3 Ways to Integrate Predictive CRM

IT Toolbox

Customer relationship management (CRM) data have become the proverbial attic, loaded with stuff we’ve forgotten about or can’t make useful. In the early days, we were relieved with CRM’s effortless ability to become our virtual Rolodex as it captured customer contact information digitally.

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Russian hackers targeted election systems in 21 US states

Computer Weekly

Russian hackers targeted voting systems in nearly 50% of states in the 2016 US presidential election, officials have revealed in testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee

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How to set up ssh key authentication

Tech Republic Security

Out of the box, secure shell is fairly secure. With the help of ssh key authentication, you can lock down secure shell so that only specific machines can log in. Here's how.

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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.