July, 2016

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Big data vendors see the internet of things (IoT) opportunity, pivot tech and message to compete

Forrester IT

(Source: [link] ). Open source big data technologies like Hadoop have done much to begin the transformation of analytics. We're moving from expensive and specialist analytics teams towards an environment in which processes, workflows, and decision-making throughout an organisation can - in theory at least - become usefully data-driven. Established providers of analytics, BI and data warehouse technologies liberally sprinkle Hadoop, Spark and other cool project names throughout their products

Big Data 256
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Nordic CIO interview: Tore Burheim, University of Bergen

Computer Weekly

IT director of Norwegian university tells Computer Weekly about digitising education and creating co-operative clusters

Education 183
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The State of Digital Currency: A discussion with Ed Scheidt

CTOvision

Roger Hockenberry. A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of sitting down for a regular breakfast with Ed Scheidt , former head of CIA’s Cryptographic Center and the designer of the cyrpto systems used in the Kryptos Sculpture at the Agency. He and I get together and typically it’s a free-ranging discussion that covers a lot of topics, math, current events, technology and life in general.

Insurance 180
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Protecting Your VoIP System from Security Threats

IT Toolbox

In today's technology-driven world, a major concern for many IT departments is securing confidential and important business data. Breaches are common and can be a disaster for companies, and securing VoIP lines is no exception. Let's take a look at some of the common issues that arise with cloud-based phone systems and how you can protect your VoIP system from security threats.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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How to Choose a Colocation Data Center Provider

Data Center Knowledge

Here are five steps you can take to select the service provider that's right for you Read More.

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Hillary Clinton's infamous email server: 6 things you need to know

Tech Republic Security

Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server when she served as US secretary of state has been a major issue for the 2016 presidential candidate. Here are the six most critical facts about it.

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More than 2,000 police data breaches in 4.5 years, report reveals

Computer Weekly

Big Brother Watch calls for new policies to ensure police forces keep personal data safe after FOI requests show an average of 10 data breaches a week

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NetworkToolbox- Network scanning and analyzing

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. Network Toolbox may be the best network app on in the Apple App Store. It is designed for both iPhone and iPad and if you are an enterprise IT professional or just a technology enthusiast it belongs on your iOS device. The Toolbox contains a suite of 32 tools that will help you analyze networks for configuration. It is also helpful in security or just general awareness of the networks you are on.

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A step back: A DB2 optimization term, then and now

IT Toolbox

(Posted Friday, July 24, 2016) The terms ?sagable? and ?non-sagable? became common place in the very first releases of DB2. However, the terms most commonly used today are indexable, stage 1, and stage 2. Since I have been dying to write about something (anything) since retiring, this seemed like a fun subject to attack.

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Used Electric-Car Batteries to Power Data Center in France

Data Center Knowledge

Energy storage systems for data centers promise second life to EV batteries post-car Read More.

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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Data Analytics – Prescriptive vs Descriptive

Eric D. Brown

You’ve collected tons of data. You’ve got terabytes and terabytes of data. You are happy because you’ve got data. But, what are you going to do with that data?You’ll analyze it of course. But how are you going to analyze it and what are you going to do with that analysis? How does data analytics come into play? Will you use your data to predict service outages or will you use your data to describe those service outages?

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Look Who's Running IT Now!

Forrester IT

As CIO Executive Partners at Forrester, we meet technology leaders in almost every industry sector. One theme is clear: The typical career path, leading to CIO has changed. No patience for CIOs to learn new tricks. Companies are now looking to leadership from non-traditional CIO career path sources. Over the past few years, we've noticed an increase in line-of-business leaders being appointed CIO.

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Barclays banks on agile and DevOps to tackle competitive threats in fintech

Computer Weekly

Barclays Bank opens up about how increasing competition in the financial services sector has fuelled its 18-month, company-wide campaign to increase its use of agile and DevOps methodologies

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How to choose between Native Apps or the Responsive Web?

CTOvision

Sunil Thomas. In the second article of how CTO’s can create a framework for enterprises to adopt mobile for growth we look at one of the early decisions to be made - that is choosing to build native apps or adopt the responsive web. In case you missed it, the previous article in the series discusses why a CTO makes or breaks your enterprise mobile strategy and discusses briefly the decisions that need to be taken within an enterprise to embrace mobile as a key part of its growth.

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Guide to Centralizing IT Operations: How to Link Tasks and Tools with an Automation Platform

For many IT admins, business as usual is a juggling act. Job schedulers and scripts run on autopilot, applications and operating systems can’t speak the same language, and other tools—like RPA or MFT solutions—operate in isolation. On a good day, everything runs smoothly. But good days are rare; more often than not, something goes wrong and you’re stuck putting out fires.

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Navigating CRM in a Social Media Climate

IT Toolbox

Navigating customer relationship management (CRM) in the current social media climate means making changes and adapting to what today's customer wants, while still employing the time-tested strategies that have worked in the past. What Is CRM? CRM is a term that refers to the different tools companies employ to understand and analyze their customer interactions.

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Equinix Data Center Outage in London Blamed on Faulty UPS

Data Center Knowledge

Outage causes disruptions for London Internet Exchange, connectivity problems for BT customers Read More.

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Want to build a home lab for containers and virtualization? Consider mini PCs

Tech Republic Data Center

The latest version of Intel's mobile processor family creates some interesting options for a physical home lab. Here are some considerations for leveraging this inexpensive platform.

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Forrester's 2016 ECM Panel Survey Is Open - Call for Participation

Forrester IT

Forrester's survey for ECM decision-makers is open, and we're looking for your participation! Take this opportunity to provide your perspectives on the key vendors, the challenges, and the opportunities you see in this technology market. This survey is intended for ECM decision-makers or influencers in end user organizations. This is not for ECM vendors or systems integrators. but vendors and consultants -- we would love it if you could share this survey invitation with your customers.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Lufthansa IT services arm transforms to meet customer demands

Computer Weekly

IT supplier Lufthansa Systems is changing its business model as its airline customers invest in digital technologies

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Changing Government Requirement For Market Research to Continuous Market Assessment

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. During interview today with GovMatters.tv I'll be discussing an observation many of us in the enterprise technology community have been discussing lately. There is a growing consensus in the enterprise tech community (CIO, CTO, CISO) regarding the Cambrian Explosion of great capabilities in the tech sector. Although this is an incredibly exciting time to be an enterprise technologist, this explosion of capabilities presents new challenges.

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5 Ways Mobile CRM Can Boost Your Small Business

IT Toolbox

Great technology can help level the playing field, giving small businesses the edge they need to compete with their bigger rivals. Mobile CRM is one such system that can help your business succeed and grow. Mobile CRM is especially useful if you have a decentralized sales force who are out on the road meeting clients and making deals.

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Google Devs Get to Run Google Infrastructure for Six Months

Data Center Knowledge

Company wants more engineers to understand operations at global scale Read More.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Data Analytics – The importance of Data Preparation

Eric D. Brown

How many of you would go sky diving without learning all the necessary precautions and safety measures necessary to keep you alive? How many of you would let your kid drive your car without first teaching them the basics of driving? While not as life-and-death as the above questions, data preparation is just as important to proper data analytics as learning the basics of driving before getting behind a wheel.

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Insights-Driven Business Are Stealing Your Customers

Forrester IT

Is your business digital? Like Domino's Pizza, do you realize that you are not a product or service business, but that you are a software and data business that provides products or services? Do you exploit all of your customer's data to know them inside-out? Are customers flocking to you because you are driving every engagement with insight about them"?

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Huge uptick in Zepto ransomware spam, warn researchers

Computer Weekly

Security researchers have raised concerns that attackers are gearing up for a massive Locky-related ransomware campaign

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Risk IQ Launches Groundbreaking Security Intelligence Services Product That Enables Automated Defenses

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. 28 July 2016--SAN FRANCISCO--( BUSINESS WIRE )--RiskIQ, the leader in external threat management, today announced general availability for its Security Intelligence Services, a ground-breaking new product that uses the Internet itself as a detection system to automatically defend a network from cyber attacks. Attackers use automation and can launch sophisticated attacks at very low cost by rotating and reusing undetected infrastructure.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Security Tips for Community Managers

IT Toolbox

There was a time when community managers only had to worry about the security of the premises which they are tasked with overseeing. However, in today’s digital world there are a number of security threats that can’t be detected by an on-site security guard or a CCTV security system.

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Here’s How Facebook Ensures It Doesn’t Drain Your Phone Battery

Data Center Knowledge

Lab inside Prineville data center tests software changes on thousands of smartphones at a time Read More.

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Defining Digital Transformation, Strategy and other Digital Terminology

Social, Agile and Transformation

In my last post, I took a stab at defining the Digital Mindset from the perspective of different roles and responsibilities in the organization. In doing so, I used several terms, some industry standard and others that are emerging so with this follow up post I thought I'd provide more color on my definition. Digital Transformation - See my older post older post, I provided my definitions.

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Responsive Web Design Is Not Mobile First

Forrester IT

My colleague and coauthor Julie Ask and I are watching with dismay as company after company shrinks its desktop website down to a small screen using responsive web design (RWD) techniques so it fits on - but isn't optimized for - smartphones. Companies have delightedly embraced responsive web design as the one-size-fits-all solution to mobile, tablet, and desktop sites.

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IT Leadership Agrees AI is Here, but Now What?

IT leaders are experiencing rapid evolution in AI amid sustained investment uncertainty. As AI evolves, enhanced cybersecurity and hiring challenges grow. This whitepaper offers real strategies to manage risks and position your organization for success.