Forrester IT

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Yesterday, IBM announced its intention to purchase Red Hat for $34B. Assuming a successful transaction, this acquisition blends hybrid cloud and open source synergies: Both companies target hybrid cloud from different angles; Red Hat provides a compelling middleware environment with OpenStack, while IBM supports enterprise customers with monolithic and even mainframe support in its cloud […].

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Read why Anoop Nannra says that blockchain technology and Internet of Things can be a perfect mix for businesses on IOT Evolution World: It’s not surprising that emerging technologies like blockchain and the Internet of Things draw a great amount of interest among enterprises. These technologies separately come with the significant potential to improve challenges that organizations […].

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Forrester IT

OCTOBER 29, 2018

It’s unbelievable how much attention Amazon Advertising now gets. Prior to 2018, very few media outlets or Forrester clients even spoke about Amazon’s ad products.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Read why Louis Columbus says that blockchain technology is best suited for manufacturing sector on Forbes : Blockchain’s greatest potential to deliver business value is in manufacturing. Increasing visibility across every area of manufacturing starting with suppliers, strategic sourcing, procurement, and supplier quality to shop floor operations including machine-level monitoring and service, blockchain can enable […].

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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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Social, Agile and Transformation

OCTOBER 29, 2018

How you define a feature impacts your agile mindset and may impact the culture and collaboration you are trying to achieve. Following up from my recent article on InfoWorld on 5 tips on configuring Jira for multiple teams, I thought to describe some of the antipatterns in defining features and some best practices. Let's first look at the antipatterns.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 29, 2018

There were certainly lots of quick takes from analysts on what the IBM and Red Hat news meant. This is one from TechCrunch: With the acquisition of Red Hat, IBM looks to refocus on its core strengths, rather than Watson, an AI push that was always more hype than reality. With its latest $34 billion acquisition […].

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Way back in 2017, it was predicted that AR and VR will drive the future digital business. Now slowly but surely, AR or augmented reality is making its mark in an enterprise. AR has found popularity in the enterprise with industrial deployments in automotive assembly lines, quality control, training centers, and more. We are only now […].

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Enterprise Enterprise Automotive Training 182

Information Week

OCTOBER 29, 2018

A cloud strategy isn't just about committing to cloud resources, it can mean rethinking lots of IT management basics.

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Cloud Resources Strategy 153

CTOvision

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Google Docs just rolled out a time-saving trick that’s sure to be welcomed by heavy users of Docs, or any of Google’s other productivity tools like Sheets, Slides, Sites or Forms. The company this week introduced its “.new” domain, which can be used to instantly create a new file across any of these services, it […].

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Information Week

OCTOBER 29, 2018

To make your tech budget go further, break out of the status quo and focus on where tech investments will be most effective.

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Budget 136

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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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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

DockerCon EU 18 is set to kick off in early December (December 3-5, to be precise!) in Barcelona, Spain. Thanks to Docker’s commitment to attendee families—something for which I have and will continue to commend them—DockerCon will offer both childcare (as they have in years past) and spouse/partner activities via Spousetivities. Let me just say: Spousetivities in Barcelona rocks.

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Information Week

OCTOBER 29, 2018

High demand (along with correspondingly high salaries) for cybersecurity professionals is boosting interest in security training.

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Survey Security Training 101

Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

A while ago I wrote about using kubeadm to bootstrap an etcd cluster with TLS. In that post, I talked about one way to establish a secure etcd cluster using kubeadm and running etcd as systemd units. In this post, I want to focus on a slightly different approach: running etcd as static pods. The information on this post is intended to build upon the information already available in the Kubernetes official documentation, not serve as a replacement.

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Future of CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Digital is the age of innovation. IT shouldn’t act as a controller only, limit the business’s creativity. To keep relevant, IT has to shift its reputation from a cost center to the innovation hub of the organization. In fact, IT plays a crucial role in expanding the creative side of the business, and scale the innovation effect of the organization. Innovation, in general, is surely a management discipline.

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Nutanix

OCTOBER 29, 2018

With the cloud becoming the new normal, and organizations moving toward digital business initiatives, the dynamics of IT have completely changed.

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Future of CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2018

With overwhelming growth of information and continuous digital disruptions, today’s companies are so easy to get distracted, very often say yes to all the initiatives, sometimes get burn out and overloaded with short-term business concerns, cause ineffectiveness for the long run. Besides paying enough attention to the critical issues, today’s digital leaders and professionals should also learn how to “ignore,” in order to focus on the most important things, for achieving the long-term goals and

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Future of CIO

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. The digitalization flattens the organizational hierarchy and blurs the functional, organizational and geographical borders in the business ecosystem. It is like the gigantic puzzle with many misplaced pieces, you have to put them all in the right places to discover the real meaning and unleash its full potential.

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