August, 2016

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Google Pitches In To Declutter The Mobile Web

Forrester IT

On their constant quest to enable users to quickly find the best answers to their questions, Google announced last week that starting in January 2017, they will bury mobile websites where the content is blocked by intrusive interstitials. In other words, mobile websites that have pop-up ads won't rank as high in Google's search results. We've all felt the pain of having to hover our finger over the closeout sign of a large ad, before we can get to the content we set out to find.

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Blockchain and the promise of cooperative cloud storage

Computer Weekly

Blockchain technology allows distributed retention of encrypted data and is at the heart of cooperative cloud storage

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Women Who Code Launches Job Board Catered Directly to Tech Professionals

CTOvision

JL Lewitin. Women Who Code (WWCode) is an international non-profit that empowers career aged professionals to achieve success in technology. They do this through a series of over 60 Networks around the world which host technical talks, study groups, hackathons, and other career development and social events. Their latest initiative is a Job Board that is designed to cater to the specific needs of engineers, while eliminating some common mistakes that can make female coders less likely to conside

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What Facebook Has Learned from Regularly Shutting Down Entire Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

Infrastructure chief shares lessons learned from the company’s unusual infrastructure stress tests Read More.

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Activating Intent Data for Sales and Marketing

Sales and marketing leaders have reached a tipping point when it comes to using intent data — and they’re not looking back. More than half of all B2B marketers are already using intent data to increase sales, and Gartner predicts this figure will grow to 70 percent. The reason is clear: intent can provide you with massive amounts of data that reveal sales opportunities earlier than ever before.

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Xirrus Adds Distributed Location Functions to Its Wi-Fi Services Stable

IT Toolbox

Though not the biggest name in enterprise Wi-Fi, Xirrus seems evolve right along with the rest of the market with new hardware, features, and services. Case in point- it’s new distributed location services that the company has branded XPS, for Xirrus Positioning Service.

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Data Analytics – Data Modeling, a Necessary first step

Eric D. Brown

What do you think of when you hear the term ‘data modeling’? Just typing ‘data modeling’ almost made me go to sleep. Who am I kidding…I’m a data geek and this stuff is interesting…but some folks aren’t quite as excited by this stuff as I am. Data modeling has many different definitions and connotations.

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Cyber security breaches reported to ICO double in a year

Computer Weekly

An increase in cyber security incidents reported to the Information Commissioner’s Office is further evidence of the need to shift to automated, artificial intelligence-led defences, says Huntsman Security

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Want The Government To Do Something About Cybersecurity? Advocate Congress establish a permanent joint committee on information technology

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. The United States Congress Permanent Joint Committee on Information Technology does not exist, yet. But with attack after attack against our nation's IT systems the time has come to consider the idea. First, some background on what a Joint Committee of Congress can be. Congress has great leeway in how it executes its constitutionally mandated responsibilities to legislate and fund.

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One Data Center Standard to Rule Them All?

Data Center Knowledge

This group wants to solve the problem of too many standards by creating just one more Read More.

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How VoIP Impacts the way Businesses Think about UC

IT Toolbox

This series began by examining the evolution of telephony to VoIP, and as it progresses, I’ll explain how our thinking around this impacts how we adopt other technologies. In this post, I’ll address the impact specifically on UC, and then will connect that to the contact center in the subsequent post.

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GEP Outlook Report 2025

For years, you and your team have fought an uphill battle. Supply disruptions. Cost pressures. ESG compliance. You name it, and you’ve had to navigate it. In 2025, many challenges will persist, but procurement and supply chain teams have a powerful tool with rapidly advancing capabilities to tackle them — artificial intelligence (AI). The GEP Outlook 2025 report examines the disruptive transformation AI is driving in procurement and supply chains, alongside other key trends and the macroeconomic

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Why Agile Data Science Practices Drive Big Data Impact

Social, Agile and Transformation

With the hot weather in the US northeast this weekend, I was able to catch up on some reading and research around big data, data science, and agile. In thinking about the culture required to leverage big data capabilities and data science programs, I found some interesting data worth sharing. The first comes from Computing Big Data 2016 - This is showing that the collaboration between.

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How To Solve The Digital Dilemma

Forrester IT

From the start of my research into the changes surrounding emerging digital technologies in 2013 (see " The Future Of Business Is Digital "), I've been struck by the differences between those companies that apply digital technology as a bolt-on (frequently adding an eCommerce site, social media, or customer mobile apps) and those that take a more holistic approach to transforming the way the company uses technology to deliver better customer outcomes and drive revenue.

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British breakthrough for IoT- based business applications this year

Computer Weekly

Internet of things-based business applications could be mainstream tools in the UK by the end of this year

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Tracking The Megatrend of CloudComputing

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. There are seven key MegaTrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the helpful mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for C loud Computing, A rtificial Intelligence, M obility, B ig Data, R obotics, I nternet of Things, C yberSecurity. In this post we dive deeper into the first of these trends, Cloud Computing.

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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Don’t Let Brexit Choke Internet Traffic With EU, Operators Urge

Data Center Knowledge

British telcos and data center operators push UK to adopt EU's data protection rules Read More.

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4 Ways to Use CRM to Increase Retail Sales

IT Toolbox

Many businesses and organizations have come to rely on their customer relationship management (CRM) application, making it one of their most useful and reliable tools for simplifying management tasks.

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VDI vs. DaaS: What is the difference, and which is best for your business' virtualization needs?

Tech Republic Cloud

Desktop virtualization is nothing new, but now you have two popular forms to choose from: VDI and DaaS. There are distinct differences between them, and knowing what's what is important if you're looking to invest.

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On-Premise Hadoop Just Got Easier With These 8 Hadoop-Optimized Systems

Forrester IT

Enterprises agree that speedy deployment of big data Hadoop platforms has been critical to their success, especially as use cases expand and proliferate. However, deploying Hadoop systems is often difficult, especially when supporting complex workloads and dealing with hundreds of terabytes or petabytes of data. Architects need a considerable amount of time and effort to install, tune, and optimize Hadoop.

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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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Less than a third of organisations prepared for IoT security risks

Computer Weekly

The security industry needs to address the security basics with the growing number of IoT devices in corporate networks, according to security firm Tripwire

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RiskIQ Accelerates Momentum Across Entire External Threat Management Solution Set in First Half of 2016

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. Editor's note: We saw this news about RiskIQ and had to share. What the press release does not capture well enough is that RiskIQ is the only firm we have seen that can provide network defenders with true insights into how adversaries are using infrastructure to attack. They are like the SIEM of the Internet and all mobile devices. Love that the use case below mentioned Facebook, which means RiskIQ is really protecting all of us already.

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Cisco Shares Fall After CRN Report of as Many as 14,000 Job Cuts

Data Center Knowledge

Move would mean laying off 20 percent of the tech giant's global workforce Read More.

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3 Ways Mid-Sized Businesses Benefit from Cloud-Based ERP

IT Toolbox

There’s no argument that cost is the most compelling reason for mid-sized organizations turn to cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Companies that fall under the mid-sized umbrella often don’t have the available capital to invest in an in-house ERP application as well as all the equipment and personnel needed to operate it, yet they need the advantage of ERP.

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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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How CIOs Can Deal With The Problem Of Silos

The Accidental Successful CIO

Silos exist inside and outside of IT, CIOs need a plan to deal with them Image Credit: Rex Hammock. As the person with the CIO job at your company, you have control over the domain of IT. If you want it to happen in your department, then it’s going to happen. However, if we step outside of your department into finance, or accounting, or sales, your power starts to drop off rather quickly because they don’t have the same view of the importance of information technology.

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Google Video Chat App Duo Connects iOS And Android, But Fragments The Landscape

Forrester IT

Google this week added yet another chat app to the mix with Duo, a smartphone-only video chat application that bridges the gap between iOS and Android devices. Rather than solve the problem of interoperation between different video chat applications, though, it made another application altogether. The killer video chat app will be the one that works like a telephone.

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Hadoop starts to trumpet way through UK public sector

Computer Weekly

Big data technology Hadoop is starting to appear in patches of the UK public sector, including GCHQ, HMRC, the Home Office and the NHS

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Tracking The Megatrend of Mobility

CTOvision

Bob Gourley. There are seven key megatrends driving the future of enterprise IT. You can remember them all with the helpful mnemonic acronym CAMBRIC, which stands for C loud Computing, A rtificial Intelligence, M obility, B ig Data, R obotics, I nternet of Things, C yberSecurity. In this post we dive deeper into the trend of Mobility. This is the greatest leap in humanity's ability to stay connected since the advent of spoken word.

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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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Delta System Failure Marks Wake-Up Call for Airline Industry

Data Center Knowledge

Each major US carrier sustained disruptions during the last year due to outdated information systems Read More.

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3 Ways Mobile CRM Can Improve Customer Engagement

IT Toolbox

Customer relationship management (CRM), a long-established core technology upon which businesses everywhere rely, is still rapidly evolving and growing. According to Gartner, the CRM industry will be worth $37 billion by 2017, expanding at a compound annual growth rate of 15 percent each year until then.

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Ransomware: The smart person's guide

Tech Republic Security

This guide covers the history of ransomware, the systems being targeted in ransomware attacks, and what you can do to avoid paying a ransom in the event of an attack.

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Tame The Beast: Forrester's Insight Platform Vendor Landscape

Forrester IT

The mix of analysts who showed up to a recent Cambridge Semantics briefing illustrates a big problem data and analytics technology buyers have - too many data and analytics solutions and a ton of overlap. For example, of the five analysts who came: One saw Cambridge Semantics as a text analytics tool -- and that is true. Another saw it as a search tool -- and that too is true.

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Predicting the Future of Sales: How AI and Automation Will Revolutionize Strategies

In this exploration, we're diving into predictions about the future of sales. We're talking about a complete shake-up powered by automation and artificial intelligence (AI). These aren't just fancy tools — they're real game-changers. Automation and AI are here to redefine every interaction, making them smarter, faster, and more meaningful. From personalized customer journeys to streamlined sales processes, the goal is to make every moment count, enhancing both efficiency and connection.