Wed.Feb 13, 2019

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Top 5 ABM Planning And Execution Pitfalls To Avoid

Forrester IT

Extra, extra! Read all about it! TOPO declares that“86% of account-based organizations report improved close rates and 80% say it is driving increased customer lifetime value!” TribalVision channels the ITSMA when it reports, “Companies that implement ABM strategies typically see 171% increase in annual contract value!” Really? Wow.

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Cybersecurity and the Need for SSL Monitoring

CTOvision

Read why Kameerath Kareem says that SSL monitoring is a must for app security for every organization on DZone : The cybersecurity industry is constantly striving to stay well prepared and well ahead of new threats. Data protection was in the spotlight all through 2018. It’s a common practice for applications to collect user data like […].

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Maximize Your Tech Investment By Making Sense Of The Digital Intelligence Tech Landscape

Forrester IT

Digital Disruptions Complicates Digital Intelligence Needs Digital intelligence (DI) – the practice of understanding and optimizing digital customer engagements – has been around for as long as the internet itself. But it has not remained stagnant. The practices and technologies needed to support DI have continued to be revolutionized by the digital disruption.

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One in three enterprises can’t protect themselves from data breaches

CTOvision

One in three enterprise companies do not believe they have the capabilities required to fend off a cyberattack leading to a data breach, research suggests. According to a survey involving over 600 cybersecurity professionals in business conducted by Balbix on behalf of the Ponemon Institute, organizations are having severe difficulties in implementing modern security solutions to […].

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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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FORRward: A Weekly Read For Tech And Marketing Execs

Forrester IT

Lessons From Toy Land: Digital Strategy Beats Digital Marketing Mattel and Hasbro announced earnings this week. Both saw sales decline from the collapse of Toys R Us. But Mattel’s sales declined only 5% while Hasbro’s declined 13%, and Wall Street applauded the difference. Why?

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Uber releases Ludwig, an open source AI ‘toolbox’ built on top of TensorFlow

CTOvision

Want to dive earnestly into artificial intelligence (AI) development, but find the programming piece of it intimidating? Not to worry — Uber has your back. The ride-hailing giant today debuted Ludwig, an open source “toolbox” built on top of Google’s TensorFlow framework that allows users to train and test AI models without having to write […].

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Identifying, Understanding & Combating Insider Threats

CTOvision

Read Ilan Paretsky’s article about how organizations can identify and combat insider threats on Dark Reading : Most, if not all, organizations are vigilant about safeguarding against threats that can penetrate endpoint systems via email, websites, and other known and unknown pathways. But what about threats that come from within your organization?

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Wells Fargo’s CIO Drops The Ball

The Accidental Successful CIO

Wells Fargo outage results in customers not being able to access to accounts Image Credit: Mike Mozart. If you were the CIO of a major bank responsible for the importance of information technology, what do you think that your #1 job responsibility would be? If you are guessing “keep the bank’s systems secure” then good news, you’d be close, but you’d still be missing the point.

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10 cyber insurance selling points

CTOvision

Read Elana Ashanti Jefferson list top ten reasons why companies, small and big, should buy cyber insurance on Property Casualty 360 : In a move that reflects the growing urgency for companies, organizations and institutions worldwide to proactively face down and mitigate cybercrime, Beazley, a longtime cyber insurance market leader, announced recently that it has […].

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That VPN may not be as secure as you think

Network World

If you’re a VPN subscriber and have ever wondered just how secure the supposedly encrypted pipe that you’re using through the internet is — and whether the anonymity promise made by the VPN provider is indeed protecting your privacy— well, your hunches may be correct. It turns out several of these connections are not secure. Academics say they’ve discovered a whopping 13 programming errors in 61 separate VPN systems tested recently.

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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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IBM AI fails to beat human debating champion

CTOvision

After suffering defeat to AI at Go and Dota 2, the battle between man and machine was starting to look a little one-sided. But a human has finally notched up a win against our future robot overlords. Champion debater Harish Natarajan triumphed in a live showdown against IBM’s Miss Debater AI at the company’s Think […].

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The New Workforce: 3 Tactics to Secure your Digital Future

Information Week

Both individual employees and their employers need to take action to prepare for a future where people increasingly work alongside machines.

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617M stolen account details from 500px, Dubsmash, MyFitnessPal, ShareThis, more, being sold

CTOvision

A dark web marketplace this week reportedly began selling stolen data linked to roughly 617 million user accounts from 16 different websites. The Register was first to report the incident, citing details provided by the seller, who has set up show on the Tor network-based site Dream Market cyber-souk. The affected online services consist of video messaging […].

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Tightening the Belt on Excess Spending for Cloud

Information Week

Migration to the cloud is part of many transformation plans but it can spiral into expenses that could be avoided.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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Configure a Failover Cluster with Pacemaker

Linux Academy

High availability is a major buzzword in the IT industry and there are several reasons for this. As more and more business provide their services through the Internet, the need for these services to always be accessible has grown. Gone are the days when you would have to go to a physical storefront to purchase goods and services. Now, at any time of the day or night, you can purchase food, clothes, entertainment, or just about anything else you can think of and have it shipped to your front door

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FlexDeploy Loves E-Business Suite: Walking

Flexagon

In this blog article I will expand on the solution which was showcased in FlexDeploy for EBS: Crawling, and enable Continuous Delivery using FlexDeploy Pipelines and Releases. In the previous article I configured the workflows, topology, and project configuration, and performed basic adhoc build and deployments. FlexDeploy Loves Oracle E-Business Suite: Series Overview DevOps Best.

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5 signs that your business technology is falling behind

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Summary: Technology is evolving faster than ever, and plays an increasingly important role in the business world. Is your company keeping up? In this article, we explore a few signs that your technology is falling behind. photo credit: Pavlofox via Pixabay cc If there’s one constant in the world of technology, it’s change. Modern technology is evolving faster than ever.

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How much knowledge is a dangerous thing?

ComputerWorld IT Management

Pilot fish gets a call from a user who wants a 2TB SSD disk — the sooner the better, please. User needs to transfer about 1TB of data and logs from a machine at a field site to an analysis center 30 minutes away, and the SSD disk he has for the job isn’t working. That’s odd, says fish, since such disks are rather robust. Do you know when it stopped working?

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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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The Uniqueness of Digital IT

Future of CIO

At the dawn of the digital era, with rapid changes and exponential growth of information, IT is no longer just that monolithic support function which is hidden behind, it continues to grow in importance to organizations, both operationally and as a competitive advantage. The role of CIO is also unique because every CIO is different and whatever the management team needs or wants at the time out of the CIO will also be different, and by type of business needs will be different as well.

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CIO Leadership Live with Kristie Grinnell, CIO & VP IT at General Dynamics Information Technology | Ep 21

ComputerWorld IT Management

Kristie Grinnell, CIO & VP Information Technology & Supply Chain at General Dynamics Information Technology, and Maryfran Johnson get together to discuss the use of AI in military missions, the importance of data governance, the benefits of cloud computing, and much more.

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Three “Altitudes” in the Boardroom

Future of CIO

Digital organizations are dynamic, self-evolving, and self-perpetuating. When jumping into the digital future of “VUCA” new normal –Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity, digital leadership today must be able to steer the organization in the right direction. The corporate board plays a critical leadership role in setting guidelines, envisioning the future of business, and empowering changes.

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Overview and analysis of futurist and foresight software and tools

Trends in the Living Networks

Despite being associated with technology, futurists have rarely used digital technology as a central tool of their work until recent years. Most methods developed or used for futures studies and strategic foresight (e.g. horizon scanning, system mapping) can be performed without digital technology. However, when futurists have integrated their methods into software, they have saved themselves countless hours of work and stress.

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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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The Monthly Organizational Structure Tuning: The Digital Organization with Structure Elegance Feb. 2019

Future of CIO

Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. Digital becomes the very fabric of high performing business, being outside-in and customer-centric is the new mantra for forward-looking and high mature digital organizations today. From an organizational structure perspective, how can you fine-tune the digital dimensions of your organizational development to harness innovation?

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Tip to Enhance Credibility of Your Website Content

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Tip to Enhance Credibility of Your Website Content - Information Technology Blog. The content of your website is the most important thing , and you need to improve it content through various measures. There are many ways to improve contents so that it can draw the attention of people. There are many ways to develop contents that can fetch traffic for the website.

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A Data Scientist’s relationship with building Predictive Models

Dataconomy

If you’re a Data Scientist, you’ve likely spent months earnestly developing and then deploying a single predictive model. The truth is that once your model is built – that’s only half the battle won. A quarter of a Data Scientist’s working life often goes something like this: You met with. The post A Data Scientist’s relationship with building Predictive Models appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Here’s what you need to know about Trump’s ‘American AI Initiative’

CTOvision

President Trump issued an executive order today announcing what the White House calls an “American AI Initiative.” The order encourages research in the field of artificial intelligence in the United States. The announcement is based on principles that touch on issues like AI and jobs, and the relationship between American artificial research and the international community. […].

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Tableau adds natural language interface, streamlines data prep

CIO Business Intelligence

Enterprises seeking to further democratize analytics through self-service business intelligence tools will be heartened by a push by vendors to intersect data visualization and natural language processing. Tableau Software’s 2019.1 update, released Wednesday, is the latest to move in this direction, enabling staff to query data using natural language, and offers a new subscription option for self-service data preparation.

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