April, 2017

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Is Business Intelligence (BI) Market Finally Maturing? Forrester Three Big BI Market Predictions

Forrester IT

No. The buy side market is nowhere near maturity and will continue to be a greenfield opportunity to many BI vendors. Our research still shows that homegrown shadow IT BI applications based on spreadsheets and desktop databases dominate the enterprises. And only somewhere between 20% and 50% of enterprise structured data is being curated and available to enterprise BI tools and applications.

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Anti-trust complaints target Microsoft in the European Union

Computer Weekly

Microsoft comes under pressure as software suppliers raise market abuse complaints with the European Commission over bundling of Defender security software with Windows

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How to Avoid Runaway Costs in the Public Cloud

Data Center Knowledge

Both the tools and the techniques needed to keep a lid on public cloud costs are dramatically different when you rent infrastructure instead of owning it outright. Read More.

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IP Phones are Hot - What's Up with That?

IT Toolbox

The market for phone systems has always been large, and any change will be closely followed given its connection to the broader communications ecosystem. Depending on who you talk to, desk phones are either obsolete or still have utility, and businesses need to know which scenario to support when making decisions.

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Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to Production

Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, CTO of Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI prototypes into

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How to check your Linux servers for rootkits and malware

Tech Republic Data Center

Linux is a reliable, secure choice for your data center. Even so, doing regular checks for rootkits and malware is always an advised best practice. Jack Wallen shows you how.

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Do you work in the financial sector? Time to step up your cybersecurity habits

Tech Republic Security

A report from IBM Security revealed a 937% increase in records stolen from the financial sector in 2016. Here's what you need to know and do to protect your sensitive data.

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Government must extend machine learning support across education and industry

Computer Weekly

The Royal Society believes the UK is well placed to make the most of machine learning, but it is early days and technical and policy issues need addressing

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Google Reveals Espresso, Its Edge Data Center SDN

Data Center Knowledge

Fourth and most challenging pillar of its SDN strategy, Espresso manages performance at peering points Read More.

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Ruckus Keeps Rolling, Despite Corporate Drama

IT Toolbox

Buckle in- these first few sentences are a bumpy ride. But I promise, I’ll get you to nice smooth road pretty quickly. Deep breath… ready? Let’s go. First there was Ruckus, the maker of cost-effective, really good Wi-Fi technology. The company came onto the WLAN scene when 802.

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IT pros fear cloud adoption is putting their jobs at risk

Tech Republic Cloud

A cloud trends survey from ScienceLogic shows that many IT pros feel that they don't have the necessary skills, or access to the right tools, to manage a cloud deployment.

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Embedding BI: Architectural Considerations and Technical Requirements

While data platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and programming platforms have evolved to leverage big data and streaming data, the front-end user experience has not kept up. Holding onto old BI technology while everything else moves forward is holding back organizations. Traditional Business Intelligence (BI) aren’t built for modern data platforms and don’t work on modern architectures.

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How an IoT DDoS warning system helps predict cyberattacks

Tech Republic Security

Cybercriminals are leveraging vulnerable IoT devices to create massive DDoS botnets. Researchers have devised a platform for early warning and analysis of these cyberattacks.

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Power Your Digital Ecosystems With Business Platforms

Forrester IT

" Platforms " are fast becoming all the rage in the B2B context. Several traditional businesses like GE or Siemens are claiming to either offer or become a platform operation. A big driver for platforms in the B2B context has been the success of consumer-focused platform businesses like Amazon, Uber, or Airbnb. Although the reality of B2B platforms looks more mundane than the hype, platforms in the B2B context offer real benefits to ecosystem participants.

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One in eight people have suffered a healthcare data breach

Computer Weekly

A quarter of victims had their NI number compromised and 18% saw their biometric identifiers compromised, but most people trust healthcare providers with their data

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A Call for IoT Standards

Data Center Knowledge

Industry-wide IoT standards and certifications are a solution with many obvious benefits; vendors and IoT experts can craft them with an eye for security and allaying customer concerns. Read More.

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7 Leadership Themes for Procurement & Supply Chain Leaders in 2024

Procurement and supply chain leaders are presented with their fair share of challenges, with a host of tools and strategies to resolve them. That said, what’s the best path forward to leverage this year’s trends? In this recap of a recent GEP-WBR webinar, 7 Leadership Themes for Procurement & Supply Chain Leaders in 2024, GEP’s Pramod Sethumadhavan explores seven vital leadership trends that will help guide procurement and supply chain decision-makers.

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Why Is Employee IT Education Important for Businesses

IT Toolbox

As businesses are always looking to cut down costs, training employees has become their primary goal, especially for large corporations that count thousands of employees.

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How to upgrade the Linux kernel with a handy GUI

Tech Republic Data Center

If you're looking to get your Linux kernels up to the latest releases, here's how to use a GUI tool available that makes this process very easy.

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5 ways robots are vulnerable to cyberattacks

Tech Republic Security

Robotic devices flooding the IoT market are insecure, according to IOActive researchers. Authentication and privacy issues are some of the cybersecurity risks the researchers found.

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Demise of OpenStack Innovation Center does not mean demise of OpenStack

Forrester IT

The ever-dependable Barb Darrow at Fortune reported late last week that the OpenStack Innovation Center (OSIC) is to shut down. Cue wailing, gnashing of teeth, and portents of doom. But this may not be quite so bad as it appears, because the OpenStack Innovation Center isn't nearly so critical to the open source cloud computing project as its name might imply.

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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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IR35 reforms: Stakeholders warn of risk to public sector IT projects as contractors walk

Computer Weekly

With the IR35 reforms coming into force today, 6 April, contracting stakeholders warn of the widespread threat the changes pose to the delivery of public sector IT projects

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Amazon Web Services Head Jassy Reaps $35.4 Million for 2016

Data Center Knowledge

Leading the fastest-growing and most profitable division of Amazon.com Inc. is paying off for Andrew Jassy. The head of Amazon Web Services, which includes the company’s cloud business, received $35.4 million in stock and about $179,000 in salary and a 401(k) match, according to a regulatory filing.

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3 Red-Hot IT Tech Trends for Summer 2017

IT Toolbox

Machine learning and automation are so early 2017. This summer, IT workers will adopt the cloud, collaborate on projects via mobile and analyze data with more accuracy than ever before. Here are three red-hot IT tech trends for summer 2017. 1. Business Value Dashboards.

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Virtual assistants hear everything, so watch what you say. I’m not kidding

Network World

The law of unintended consequences is once again rearing it’s ugly head: Google, Apple, Amazon and others now make virtual assitants that respond to commands, and recordings can trigger them. Burger King found out how, via a radio commercial, it could get Google’s attention. It produced an ad designed to trigger Google Home to advertise the Whopper.

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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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Why businesses have the wrong cybersecurity mindset, and how they can fix it

Tech Republic Security

The Evolution of Security Skills, a new report from CompTIA, is calling on IT security professionals to form a more proactive strategy and examine emerging threats.

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Forrester Methodology To Selection Business Intelligence Implementation Service Providers

Forrester IT

Business Intelligence (BI) pros continue to look for outside professional services. Forty-nine percent of decision makers say their firms are already engaging and/or expanding their engagements with outside data and analytic service providers, and another 22% plan to do so in the next 12 months. There are two main reasons for this sustained trend: Read more.

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Court grants Lauri Love appeal against extradition

Computer Weekly

Alleged hacker’s appeal court hearing will be the first major test of the UK’s forum bar, designed to protect vulnerable people from extradition

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IBM Launches Four Cloud Data Centers in US

Data Center Knowledge

Expanding cloud network strategically important in competition with rivals like AWS and Azure 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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Six Ways to Make ERP More Employee-Friendly

IT Toolbox

ERP systems are foundational for many businesses, but they aren’t typically sexy or easy to use, even for firms that have chosen web-based systems. That can be a problem. If employees find their ERP system clunky and hard to use, they will avoid it whenever possible.

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How Red Hat's strategy helps CIOs take baby steps to the cloud

Tech Republic Cloud

Red Hat's OpenStack strategy isn't about miring CIOs in private clouds, but rather helping them along their cloud journey and providing the stepping stones to get them there.

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Online shoppers are losing trust in e-commerce, study finds

Tech Republic Security

According to a global survey from the Centre for International Governance Innovation, almost half of all respondents say they don't trust online shopping.

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For Better Security Operations, Speak to the Pack in its Native Tongue

Forrester IT

I have a huge German Shepherd that ranks only slightly behind my human children when it comes to being spoiled and how much attention he gets. I've been working on training him for nearly a year now, and he amazes me with how intelligent he is. He knows all the basics: sit, stay, here, lay down, etc. But he also picked up detecting scents very quickly and is learning to detect things with his nose that I can't even see with my eyes.

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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.