People all across the world (including myself) have had trouble with one thing on their computer at some point in their lives: Remembering their password. Thanks to another assist from ITKE blogger Ken Harthun, Ellen DeGeneres has found a new product that could change the way you remember your passwords forever!
Disclaimer: All videos presented in the “YouTube IT Video of the Week” series are subjectively selected by ITKnowledgeExchange.com community managers and staff for entertainment purposes only. They are not sponsored or influenced by outside sources.
Cloud security, cloud development and cloud backup…the ‘cloud’ was a major hit in this week’s roundup. Find out why it was such big news on the TechTarget network.
During last week’s Amazon AWS Summit, senior technology evangelist Simone Brunozzi gave attendees a history lesson by discussing how the Italian Abbey of Monte Cassino helps to illustrate the need for the five best practices on cloud backup.
In this podcast, SearchCRM News Director Mark Brunelli talks to Jack Vaughan about his recent trip to the SugarCon Conference, in particular how organizations can launch a successful social CRM initiative.
Small businesses are under attack! That’s the major takeaway from the 2013 Symantec Internet Security Threat Report, as 31% of Internet attacks were aimed at businesses with less than 250 employees.
At the OpenStack Summit, several OpenStack vendors, including Bloomberg, Samsung and Best Buy discussed the benefits and problems of their deployment of the open source cloud.
According to a recent report released by Gartner, cloud-based security systems will account for 10% of all enterprise IT security product market by 2015. The rise was driven by several factors including lack of in-house IT security staff, the need to reduce costs and compliance regulations.
Even though April Fools’ Day has come and gone, it’s nice to look back at some of the funniest technology-related jokes of April 1st. Our favorite is from Google, who introduced us to the ‘Google Nose’, which allows you to search for different smells across the Internet.
Share some other technology-related April Fools’ jokes in the comments below.
Disclaimer: All videos presented in the “YouTube IT Video of the Week” series are subjectively selected by ITKnowledgeExchange.com community managers and staff for entertainment purposes only. They are not sponsored or influenced by outside sources.
Big data’s primary executive-level sponsors are chief marketing officers (CMOs). Consequently, it’s no surprise that big-data repositories are primarily populated with information on customers. To the extent that the CMO’s IT organization has linked diverse customer records to positive identifiers–a process often known as “identity resolution”–they can drive finely targeted marketing efforts.
These massive stores of customer identity information–let’s call them “big identity”–are the lifeblood of modern commerce. Social media, other Internet sites, and enterprise repositories manage a sprawling, heterogeneous, disconnected variety of identity information. Rolling up any particular individual’s various identities across these sites demands the massively parallel horsepower, specialized analytic tools, and high-capacity storage of a robust big-data infrastructure. Identity resolution leverages advanced algorithms to uniquely match the disparate identities that an individual or group might be using.
Identity resolution is the missing link between two important use cases of big data: social media analytics on the one hand and multichannel customer relationship management on the other. High-performance identity resolution is already a substantial application in customer data integration, data quality, master data management, and anti-fraud applications.
Social media monitoring, however, has yet to tap its potential. How else can we match the disparate identities that people go under in Twitter, Facebook, and other socials, both against each other and against the system-of-record identifiers that we keep on customers in our CRM, data warehousing, and other operational platforms? Without the ability to resolve some prospective customer’s social-sourced identities, how can we determine whether or not they’re an existing customer or a hot prospect?
The flip side of the “big identity” dream is the potential for high-powered violations of personal privacy. Some say big data is Big Brother’s chief tool for mass surveillance. Others say it opens a Pandora’s box for any grass-roots peeping-Tom to pry into other people’s affairs with the most powerful telescope ever invented. A cynic might say that social business–one of the hottest new focus areas in multichannel marketing and engagement–is all about everybody minding–and mining–everybody else’s business.
Privacy concerns are rooted deep in the heart of the online experience, which thrives on freewheeling give-and-take but can easily slip into oversharing, surveillance, cyberstalking, and intrusive targeting. Businesses should put privacy considerations at the core of our big-data strategies before customers demand it or the courts, regulatory bodies, and legislators decide to force our hands.
All sorts of news came out during recent IT conferences and events including SugarCon, the Ingram Micro Cloud Summit, and the Collaborate user group conference. Take a look at what was said at each event in this week’s roundup.
While most CIOs and business executives continue to hear the term ‘creative destruction’, Urban Outfitters CSO Matthew Kaness has experienced it first hand, and responded by creating a brand new online experience for the e-commerce giant.
During this year’s SugarCon conference, David Myron, editorial director of CRM Magazine, discussed the top 10 reasons why social CRM projects fail including culture issues and the lack of compliance policies.
During the Ingram Micro Cloud Summit last week, Lynn Haber reports the company laid out its strategy to help partners take a bite out of the $25 billion worldwide cloud services market in 2013.
“We do not want to be hard to work with,” he said. “We don’t sit in a room and strategize about how we can be harder to work with.” Those were Oracle President Mark Hurd’s words during an exchange at the Collaborate user group conference.
Much of the discussion around the mobile industry as been about Facebook’s newest offering, Facebook Home. The new software, which will be available in Google stores beginning April 12, will provide deep Facebook functionality for Android smartphones and devices. Many experts, including Ron Miller, believe the company’s new approach will go nowhere. Right after the announcement, Bloomberg discussed the impact Home could have on the market.
Tell us in the comments below if you think Home will be a hit or miss for Facebook.
Disclaimer: All videos presented in the “YouTube IT Video of the Week” series are subjectively selected by ITKnowledgeExchange.com community managers and staff for entertainment purposes only. They are not sponsored or influenced by outside sources.
During his recent keynote address at EclipseCon, Forrester Vice President Jeffrey Hammond stated that building an enterprise mobile application shouldn’t be the focus of application development teams.
With Facebook recently announcing the arrival of the ‘Facebook Home’, James Furbush discusses possible data security and private challenges that Home could bring to BYOD environments.
Bloggers from across the network looked at several topics including why companies should ditch tech-specific plans for more general corporate strategies, and five trends that will dominate the networking industry in the near future.
During Enterprise Connect, a panel of hosted and cloud telephony users spoke about their implantation process and why their processes make sense for their companies.
From cybersecurity to web security, we’ve built a list of the top experts and professionals across the Twitterverse that update and share their security knowledge. Ten of our favorites are listed below; tell us in the comments below if we left anyone off!
Graham Cluley (@gcluley): Technology consultant at Sophos
All IT professionals have witnessed the ‘blue screen of death’ (BSOD) at least once in their lifetime. Thanks to an assist from ITKE blogger Ken Harthun, here’s the most famous BSOD of all-time, which comes from none other than Microsoft during a demonstration of the Windows 98 beta version. As Bill Gates put it after the error, “That must be why we’re not shipping Windows 98 yet.”
Disclaimer: All videos presented in the “YouTube IT Video of the Week” series are subjectively selected by ITKnowledgeExchange.com community managers and staff for entertainment purposes only. They are not sponsored or influenced by outside sources.
This week’s roundup is all about communication. Find out how it’s important in risk management, business intelligence and in distributing and analyzing content.
SearchCompliance.com Editor Ben Cole sat down with William J. Montanez, director of risk management at Ace Hardware Corp., to discuss why communicating risk strategy to the entire organization is “absolutely essential” to overall corporate risk management success.
After anti-spam website Spamhaus blacklisted web hosting company Cyberbunker, angry activists took to the web and unleashed the biggest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to date.
There are too many sources of content and information and no single way of managing it all, says Scott Peterson. Find out how a Chief Content Officer (CCO) can help to solve this problem.
While integrating SAP and non-SAP systems has always been a problem, Beth Stackpole points out that a slew of middleware and new third-party software is helping to ease the transition.
There's a lot of IT news and analysis out there. The IT Watch Blog has what matters to you, including breaking announcements, insider tips and unbiased opinions from the people who matter most: Real IT professionals.
Passwords, Security, YouTube IT Video of the Week
0 Comments
RSS Feed
Email a friend
