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Data monetization: driving the new competitive edge in retail

CGI

The 2019 CGI Client Global Insights reveals that harnessing the power of data analytics to drive real-time insights and improved personalization for new revenue streams is a top business priority for the retail and consumer services executives interviewed. Advancing omni-channel strategies using data and emerging technologies.

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Understanding Have I Been Pwned's Use of SHA-1 and k-Anonymity

Troy Hunt

Every time this very blog loads Font Awesome from Cloudflare's CDN, for example, it's verified against the hash in the integrity attribute of the script tag (view source for yourself). In that SHA-1 example, the finite number is 16^40 as there are 16 possible values (0-9 and a-f) and 40 positions for them.

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In Praise of the Invisible DB2 for z/OS System

Robert's Db2

Noticing these characteristics, developers might start expressing a preference for the data associated with their new applications being stored on the platform with the industrial-strength qualities of service. A friend of mine who is a long-time DB2 for z/OS DBA has a good nickname for the system he supports: the "super-server."