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Top Reasons Why Mobile Apps Fail

Xicom

So many businesses are now going for app development to build their business website. This is not a surprise as this is the age of mobile phones and internet and now billions of people around the world are using smartphones and mobile apps on daily basis to do so many of their day today tasks. Although there are millions of apps on Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store but not all of them are successful and popular.

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Service Provider Analytics – Unlocking the Value of Data

Dell EMC

Big Data is still new even after all these years. It’s difficult to pin down the exact origin of the term, “Big Data.” Evidence of the term being used in computing dates back to at least the 1990s[1]. But regardless of when the term was coined or by whom, the consensus today is that Big Data refers to data generated in enormous volumes, at blinding velocity, and in such a wide variety of formats that it is impossible to categorize in a structured way.

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Highlights from the Strata Data Conference in New York 2018

O'Reilly Media - Data

Watch highlights from expert talks covering data science, machine learning, algorithmic accountability, and more. People from across the data world are coming together in New York for the Strata Data Conference. Below you'll find links to highlights from the event. The future of data warehousing. Executives from Cloudera and PNC Bank look at the challenges posed by data-hungry organizations.

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Explaining The ‘New Normal’ In Cybersecurity To The C-Suite

CTOvision

Read Travis Greene’s article explaining the new normal in cybersecurity on Forbes : Even the most insulated CXOs are certainly cognizant of the constant stream of news related to cyber attacks. News feeds are full of reports of IT security breaches, to the point where awareness is no longer an issue. My own mother mails […].

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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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The power of Ethereum

O'Reilly Media - Data

Joseph Lubin explains how Ethereum can help with new innovations like cryptocurrencies, automated and self-executing legal agreements, and self-sovereign identity. Continue reading The power of Ethereum.

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The missing piece

O'Reilly Media - Data

Cassie Kozyrkov explores why businesses fail at machine learning despite its tremendous potential and excitement. Continue reading The missing piece.

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AI Project Development – How Project Managers Should Prepare

Toptal

With AI already disrupting numerous industries, it's vital for technical PMs to prepare to tackle AI projects. From a varied software development lifecycle to new challenges, ranging from technical to ethical, project managers should have a strong pulse on these new concepts. This article examines what AI is, the new team roles it creates, and the challenges for PMs to consider when running an AI project.

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Preserving privacy and security in machine learning

O'Reilly Media - Data

Ben Lorica offers an overview of recent tools for building privacy-preserving and secure machine learning products and services. Continue reading Preserving privacy and security in machine learning.

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The Power of Traditional Marketing Today

Women on Business

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Streamlining Database Compliance with CI/CD Integration

IT leaders know the importance of compliance at every level, but the database often gets left behind as other environments are automated for robust protection. This whitepaper emphasizes the importance of robust, auditable, and secure database change management practices for safeguarding organizational compliance. Learn how automating database compliance: Mitigates risk Protects against security vulnerabilities Helps avoid regulatory penalties Aligns database workflows with app lifecycle Turns d

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AI, ML, and the IoT will destroy the data center and the cloud (just not in the way you think)

O'Reilly Media - Data

DD Dasgupta explores the edge-cloud continuum, explaining how the roles of data centers and cloud infrastructure are redefined through the mainstream adoption of AI, ML, and IoT technologies. Continue reading AI, ML, and the IoT will destroy the data center and the cloud (just not in the way you think).

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That British Airways breach shows hackers fine-tuning e-commerce attacks

CTOvision

The British Airways data breach is proof that hackers are getting more and more sophisticated. It took only 22 lines of code for the hackers to break into user data of the UK’s largest airline and steal data from up to 380,000 people. But the hackers behind British Airways’ data breach, which took place from late […].

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The answer to life, the universe, and everything: But can you get that into production?

O'Reilly Media - Data

Ted Dunning discusses how new tools can change the way production systems work. Continue reading The answer to life, the universe, and everything: But can you get that into production?

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PowerVault ME4 Storage: Benefits for Everyone

Dell EMC

Entry-level that gives your customers more When they’re in the market for storage, companies on tight budgets and with limited in-house IT capabilities often feel the need to accept compromises. But with the arrival of the PowerVault ME4 Series from Dell EMC, those days are gone. These new entry-level storage systems are big on value and small on price – and they’re purpose-built and optimized for both Direct-Attached Storage (DAS) and Storage Area Network (SAN) environments.

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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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Leveraging the best of the past to power a better future

O'Reilly Media - Data

Drew Paroski and Aatif Din share how to develop modern database applications without sacrificing cost savings, data familiarity, and flexibility. Continue reading Leveraging the best of the past to power a better future.

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Sometimes We Love The EU and Their Regulations: Tech Firms Face Prospect of Fines in Europe Over Terror Propaganda

CTOvision

CTOvision hardly ever calls for more regulation in the tech world. There are usually just too many unintended consequences when rules are applied by legislators who do not have a good grasp of technology. It is usually most prudent for legislators to move slowly and carefully consider a wide range of inputs before crafting new […].

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The future of data warehousing

O'Reilly Media - Data

Executives from Cloudera and PNC Bank look at the challenges posed by data-hungry organizations. Continue reading The future of data warehousing.

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Safari, Edge fans: Is that really the website you think you’re visiting? URL spoof bug blabbed

CTOvision

A security researcher had found a flaw which allows potential hackers to spoof URLs in Safari and Edge while visiting a malicious link. However. even weeks after disclosure, while Microsoft has patched the flaw, Apple hasn’t yet shown interest in patching it. The vulnerability is the result of what researcher Rafay Baloch describes as a […].

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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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What Is A CIO To Do With Artificial Intelligence?

The Accidental Successful CIO

The arrival of artificial intelligence will change everything, will you be ready? Image Credit: Peter Durand. In just about any science fiction movie that you’ve seen, there always seems to be some form of artificial intelligence involved. No matter if it’s helping out the good guys in the form of R2-D2 or it’s the bad guy in the form of HAL, this has been a staple of what we see in the future for a long time.

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Leveraging Cloud Services with HCP S3 Tiering

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

Amazon’s cloud business grew nearly 48.9$ in the second quarter of 2018 generating $6.11 billion in revenue which contributed 11.5% to Amazon’s total revenues in that period. Their cloud business also was one of the main contributors to Amazon’s record $2.5 billion in profit. This is a strong sign that the cloud business is growing and adding value to organizations.

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CodeSOD: Padding Your Time

The Daily WTF

Today will be a simple one, and it’s arguably low-hanging fruit, because once again, it’s date handling code. But it’s not handling dates where it falls down. It falls down on something much more advanced: conditionals. Supplied by “ _ek1n ”. if ($min == 0) { if ($hours == 12) { $hours = 12; $min = '00'; } else { $hours = $hours; $min = '00'; } }.

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4 Great Ideation Techniques When Nothing Else Seems to Work

Planbox

Not everything has to be organized and structured – have fun! Are your ideation and brainstorming sessions mostly filled with people keeping to themselves while a select few contribute? Is it possible to have better ideation sessions? Let go of conventional idea generation techniques and try some fun, innovative ideation tactics to transform those good ideas into great ones.

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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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And the winners are…. Congratulations to the Sixth Annual Data Impact Awards winners

Cloudera

It’s a big week for us, as many Clouderans descend on New York for the Strata Data Conference. The week is typically filled with exciting announcements from Cloudera and many partners and others in the data management, machine learning and analytics industry. Last night we kicked it off with the sixth annual Data Impact Awards Celebration. These awards recognize organizations that transform complex data into actionable insights and illustrate impact to technology, science, health, lifestyle, and

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New Dell EMC PowerVault ME4 Series Makes Storage Simple, Fast and Affordable for SMB Customers

Dell EMC

When speaking with small- and medium-sized customers, there’s a consistent theme that I hear: “We have the same needs as large enterprises, but we have to meet business expectations with a significantly smaller IT budget and staff.” Customers need solutions that truly offer the best mix of price/performance for business workloads. That’s why the debut of our next generation entry-level PowerVault ME4 Series storage array family is great news for SMB customers.

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September 2018 – Microsoft Patch Tuesday

TechTalk

Although summer isn’t officially over until later this month, it might as well be autumn already where I live. School has started, the swallows that nest in our eaves have left for South America, the weather has grown slightly cooler (and rainier), and the Atlantic is full of hurricanes (which I narrowly avoided by cruising […].

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Meet the Women of the Dell EMC Partner Program: Julie Christiansen

Dell EMC

This is the fourth post in our Meet the Women of the Dell EMC Partner Program series, which provides insight into what drives the inspiring women of the Dell EMC channel. Missed the first posts? Get to know Joyce Mullen (President, Global Channel, OEM & IoT, Dell EMC), Cheryl Cook (Senior Vice President of Global Channel Marketing, Dell EMC) and Mary Catherine Wilson (Senior Director Global Channel Marketing, Dell EMC) now.

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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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Scaling Human Systems

Federico Cargnelutti

“The change from a business that the owner-entrepreneur can run with ‘helpers’ to a business that requires management is a sweeping change. One can compare the two kinds of business to two different kinds of organism: the insect, which is held together by a tough, hard skin, and the vertebrate animal, which has a skeleton. Land animals that are supported by a hard skin cannot grow beyond a few inches in size.

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Do You Have Deep Data Insights Yet?

Dell EMC

Modern service providers face an imperative to utilize the petabytes of data collected from their operations to accelerate business growth and improve operational efficiency. Service providers have learned that the value of data is maximized when real-time, streaming and batch analytics are combined to enable advanced use cases and inform important operational and investment decisions about their networks.

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iQCloud Delivers Smart Cloud Migration with Engage ESM (an Atos Company)

CloudSphere

Engage ESM brings customers to the cloud faster and easier with rapid, automated discovery from iQCloud. LOS GATOS, Calif., Sept. 12, 2018– iQuate announces a new partnership with Engage ESM Ltd., an Atos company, to deliver accelerated cloud migration. Known for their innovative, next-generation software for discovery and service mapping, iQuate provides the understanding required to evaluate and prioritize applications for a cloud migration plan.

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