Wed.May 09, 2018

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3 tips to secure your connected home

The Parallax

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google’s voice-activated Assistant is about to get an impressive power boost. At its annual Google I/O developer conference here Tuesday, the company revealed a new Assistant feature that can carry out an entire phone conversation on your behalf. The feature, called Google Duplex and available on its Google Home, Android, Chromebooks, and other devices, has been in development “for many years,” CEO Sundar Pichai told the crowd of more than 6,000 Google developers and media.

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Three People Factors to Include in Your Project Timeline

Change Starts Here

People can be the greatest risk to a project timeline. Making sure they are ready to adopt change and not obstruct it takes time and deliberate effort. If left off the schedule, the resulting resistance and confusion can prevent your project from delivering results. Trying to add it later will blow up your budget and […].

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Apache Cordova Tutorial: Developing Mobile Applications with Cordova

Toptal

Mobile applications are creeping in. Developing for each mobile platform can be an exhaustive task, especially if resources are limited. This is where Apache Cordova comes in handy by providing a way to develop mobile applications using standard web technologies - HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. This article explores how one can get started with Apache Cordova and build mobile applications targeted at a wide range of mobile devices.

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Developers Should Abandon Agile

Ron Jeffries

The above was the title of my talk with Chet Hendrickson at deliver:Agile. I'll update this with a link to the talk when it is published. Meanwhile, here are some thoughts.

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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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Google We Have A Problem With Duplex: Cool tech, but needs bounding

CTOvision

Have you seen the really cool demo of Google Duplex? This is a fantastic demonstration that combines voice recognition, machine learning and very capable voice synthesis to show how AI can interact with people to get things done. Watch the video and you can see for yourself how very smooth this AI bot can be: […].

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Meaningful Design and the Art of Delightful UX

Toptal

Creating meaningful designs, capturing customer attention, and influencing their behavior is something that designers and marketers will agree is one of the most difficult things to achieve.

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What The Board Needs To Know About the GDPR

CTOvision

Executives in businesses around the globe have been tracking The European Union's (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which goes into effect 25 May 2018. Those who operate primarily in the EU have had plenty of time to focus on this and no excuses for not paying attention. Those who operate primarily elsewhere also have […].

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Why Google+ is an Effective Platform for Entrepreneurs

Women on Business

We've Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] If you haven't already done so, update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. [link].

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Adapting the U.S. Approach to Strategic Deterrence In An Age Of Rapid Technology Change

CTOvision

Deterring strategic attack on the United States, and its allies and partners, has been a central goal of U.S. national security strategy since at least the advent of the nuclear age. While the goal has remained consistent, the challenges in meeting the goal have not. There are many dynamics underway including geopolitical changes but perhaps […].

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Top 5 Challenges in Designing a Data Warehouse for Multi-Tenant Analytics

Multi-tenant architecture allows software vendors to realize tremendous efficiencies by maintaining a single application stack instead of separate database instances while meeting data privacy needs. When you use a data warehouse to power your multi-tenant analytics, the proper approach is vital. Multi-tenant analytics is NOT the primary use case with traditional data warehouses, causing data security challenges.

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Ransomware one year after WannaCry: attack vectors still commonly exploited by attackers

Darktrace

This article discusses some of the most common infection vectors and how the Darktrace Enterprise Immune System can assist security teams in catching ransomware threats.

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Data Center Modernization - Transforming Data Center Focus from Infrastructure to Information

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

While the acronym IT stands for Information Technology and is synonymous with the data center, in reality the focus of IT has often been more on infrastructure since infrastructure represented the bulk of a data center’s capital and operational costs. Digital transformation and the need for more agile business outcomes requires the transformation of IT from an infrastructure focus to an information and application focus.

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Why CIOs Should Stop Putting Employees In Boxes

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs need to stop classifying their employees by placing them in a box Image Credit: jon jordan. As the person with the CIO job, you by necessity meet a lot of people. Many of these people work for you and so it’s important that you remember who they are. Just because it’s important does not make this any easier to do. We have all developed a coping mechanism for dealing with this challenge: when we meet someone, we put them in a box.

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Velocity Metric and the Cobra Effect

Derek Huether

The cobra effect occurs when an attempted solution to a problem makes the problem worse, as a type of unintended consequence. History According to reports from the 1800s, the British Empire wanted to reduce deaths caused by cobra bites in Delhi. Thinking the best solution was to reduce the number of cobras, the locals were offered a financial incentive for every cobra skin.

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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.

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Online or On Campus: Pros and Cons

Strategy Driven

There is no doubt that the internet has played a big role in changing the way we learn. Many people are not engaging in courses which are taught solely online. However, this doesn’t necessarily mean that you should discount traditional learning environments entirely. In this blog post, we are going to weigh up some of the pros and cons of online learning versus on-campus study.

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X-Ray Vision as Nutanix Goes Open Source

Nutanix

Nutanix launched X-Ray in 2017 with a simple premise: to enable organizations to understand, with a high degree of certainty, how various hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platforms would perform for their mix of applications and use cases under real-world conditions.

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4 Hacks to Become More Productive In Business

Strategy Driven

Productivity levels are as important to a business as its revenue streams. In fact, the true character of a company can only be found out from the productivity levels of the workers. Still for many businesses productivity levels seem to be an abstract concept. The point is that a business without a tight grip on its productivity levels is bound to suffer.

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Nutanix Introduces Application Mobility from Public to Private Clouds

Nutanix

When Xtract for VMs launched just seven months ago, it provided Nutanix customers with a simple and granular method to onboard existing workloads to on-premises Nutanix Enterprise Clouds.

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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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Nutanix Era: Databases Made Simple

Nutanix

Nutanix first made datacenter infrastructure invisible with enterprise cloud built on hyperconverged infrastructure. The company next transformed and simplified virtualization from stand-alone product to feature.

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Nutanix Beam – Multi-Cloud Governance At Your Fingertips

Nutanix

Today we proudly announce the general availability of Nutanix Beam, a new software as a service (SaaS) offering that delivers multi-cloud governance as part of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS.

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Go with the Flow

Nutanix

It may seem like an overused idiom, but we think it’s the perfect title for a blog post on Nutanix networking and Flow. Today the journey is well underway.

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