Mon.Oct 11, 2021

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How to Optimize Your Hybrid Cloud Architecture

Information Week

Enterprises increasingly rely on a hybrid cloud strategy to deliver scalability, flexibility, configurability, and control. But for many, cloud spend is wasted money. Here’s how to reap the full benefits.

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Creative Consumers Demand Your Creative Response

Forrester IT

When Valve Software had to deal with consumers hacking into the encrypted software of its popular game “Half-Life,” the company took a bold, overt decision to release the code to the community. The result? A rapid-fire exchange of ideas, iterations, and crowdsourcing that led to the creation of “Counter-Strike,” which became one of the most […].

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Customize Windows 11 Start Menu Layout Settings Using Intune

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get the latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post Customize Windows 11 Start Menu Layout Settings Using Intune appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Anoop C Nair.

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The European Union’s Sustainable Regulation Jigsaw Is Almost Complete

Forrester IT

The EU has committed to becoming the first climate-neutral bloc in the world by 2050 and has adopted a slew of regulation to support this transition.

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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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Disable Windows Spotlight using Intune

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get the latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post Disable Windows Spotlight using Intune appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Jitesh Kumar.

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How to combat the most prevalent ransomware threats

Tech Republic Security

Over the second quarter of the year, 73% of ransomware detections were related to the REvil/Sodinokibi family, while Darkside attacks expanded to more industries, McAfee says.

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ServiceNow To Partner With Celonis – What To Make Of This Announcement

Forrester IT

ServiceNow and Celonis recently announced a strategic partnership that is looking to create a closer linkage between ServiceNow’s low-code platform with Celonis’ Execution Management System. The partnership goes far deeper than your standard press release and actually includes some serious co-engineering by both firms, as well as an investment in Celonis by ServiceNow.

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What Tech DevOps Never Really Resolved in Transforming to Digital Organizations

Social, Agile and Transformation

DevOps may have missed a key alignment between Dev and Ops responsibilities and ways of working. DevOps aims to help IT organizations align the speed and innovation coming from agile development teams with the performance, reliability, and security sought after by Ops.

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Is BSS ready to monetize enterprise 5G?

TM Forum

Few market observers doubt that an enterprise 5G market will emerge with the deployment of standalone 5G, and some believe it could grow explosively. However, there are doubts about whether communications service providers (CSPs) will lead it. Some Wall Street analysts are actively questioning CSP’s 5G strategies, but many mobile operators see it as an important part of their revenue growth plans.

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4 questions that get the answers you need from IT vendors

Network World

It’s the time of year when most enterprises are involved in a more-or-less-formal technology review cycle, as a preparatory step for next year’s budgeting. They’ve done this for decades, and it’s interesting to me that in any given year, enterprises share roughly three of their top five priorities. It’s more interesting that over three-quarters of enterprises carry over at least two of their top five priorities for multiple years.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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DTWS: Choosing your friends wisely

TM Forum

Telcos, suppliers, cloud hyperscalers and systems integrators all recognize the need to partner on new digital services. Building successful partnerships with lots of players, however, is far from easy. During the third CxO summit of this year’s. Digital Transformation World Series. , senior executives from Deutsche Telekom, TELUS, Red Hat, Google and Cap Gemini discussed how cross-industry partnerships are evolving and what more needs to be done.

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Amazon will leave remote work decisions to individual team leaders in new policy twist

GeekWire

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks at the GeekWire Summit on Oct. 5, 2021. In a new memo, he says the company will delegate remote work decisions to individual team leaders. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong). [Updated below with additional details from internal FAQ.]. Amazon no longer plans to bring corporate employees back to the office en masse in early January but will instead leave the decisions to individual team leaders at the director level, CEO Andy Jassy told employees Monday morning in an intern

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Smart Axiata and Infosys: An open approach to innovation

TM Forum

In this video Thomas Hundt, CEO of Smart Axiata, and Anand Swaminathan, Executive Vice President and Global Industry leader for the Communications, Media and Technology group at Infosys, meet with Nik Willetts, CEO of TM Forum, to discuss Axiata’s ambitious plan for transformation and how Infosys is working with communication service providers (CSPS) to help them go beyond connectivity profitably, including in the B2B space.

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Netflix Suspends Three Employees Who Criticized Dave Chappelle’s Transphobic Standup Special

Gizmodo

In the wake of intense blowback from the LGBTQ+ community and its allies over transphobic material in comedian Dave Chapelle’s new Netflix special, the platform has suspended three of its own employees for crashing an executive-level meeting addressing concerns about the special. Read more.

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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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Nvidia and AMD graphics cards prices are getting worse, now 83% over MSRP

TechSpot

According to updated data collected by 3DCenter, prices for Nvidia graphics cards are now 72 percent more expensive than MSRP. AMD GPUs are even pricier; they're 83 percent above the manufacturer's suggested retail price. That's a notable increase from the 74 percent figure in September, while Nvidia cards were at 70 percent.

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United Nations Tells Kids to Screw Off

Gizmodo

Two years ago, a group of teens and pre-teens filed a petition with the United Nations saying five major emitters were violating their rights. On Monday, the UN committee tasked with reviewing their complaint basically handed them a participation trophy and then ruled largely in favor of the polluting countries. Read more.

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Investors are dumping money into quantum computing firms in hopes of a big payday

TechSpot

Berkeley-based Rigetti Computing recently announced plans to merge with special purpose acquisition company Supernova II as part of a transaction valued at $1.5 billion. Once closed, Rigetti Computing will go public on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “RGTI.

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Microsoft and Nvidia team up to train one of the world’s largest language models

Venture Beast

Microsoft and Nvidia claim to have trained one of the world's largest natural language models, containing 530 billion parameters. Read More.

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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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Here's how to bypass Windows 11's TPM and CPU requirements

TechSpot

Microsoft has done an abysmal job of communicating the Windows 11 system requirements and the exact reasons behind them. Since unveiling the new operating system in June, it has only confused everyone by changing these details on the fly. Much of this confusion stems from the company’s insistence that PCs.

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Streamlit, which helps data scientists build apps, hits version 1.0

Venture Beast

Streamlit releases v1.0 of its DataOps platform for data science apps to make it easier for data scientists to share code and components. Read More.

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World's fourth-largest DRAM-maker says cheaper memory prices are coming

TechSpot

As reported by The Register, the president of Taiwan's Nanya Technology Corporation, Dr. Pei-Ing Lee, said that the company's sales were up 5.3% in Q3 compared to the previous quarter, and up 55.6% year-on-year.

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Go Update Your iPhone and iPad Right Now

Gizmodo

If you have an iPhone or an iPad, better update those suckers right now. Apple has just announced a newly discovered zero-day vulnerability affecting droves of the company’s phones and tablets—the likes of which may be seeing “active exploitation” by hackers. Read more.

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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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Cube Dev launches hosted cloud version of open source analytics API Cube.js

Venture Beast

Cube Dev, the developer behind the open source analytics API platform Cube.js, has launched a hosted cloud version of its service. Read More.

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War Thunder players keep leaking classified military documents to prove a point

TechSpot

The latest incident revolved around the in-game depiction of the French Leclerc Main Battle Tank and its variants' turret rotation speed—many who enjoy War Thunder take its accurate recreation of military vehicles seriously.

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Streamlining Data Storage at the 49ers’ Homefield

Information Week

Levi’s Stadium consolidates disparate data silos to further futureproof its services and boost operational efficiency.

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Magic Leap somehow raised $500 million to make another AR headset

The Verge

Magic Leap. Magic Leap has raised $500 million in funding and is preparing to release a new AR headset, the Magic Leap 2, next year, the company announced Monday. The headset will be generally available next year, the company said, and “select customers” are using it as part of an early access program. CEO Peggy Johnson said in a statement that with the new funding “Magic Leap will have greater financial flexibility and the resources needed to continue our growth trajectory as we expand on our i

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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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Google is hiring personnel to expand Fuchsia OS to other platforms

TechSpot

Google recently posted three job listings to hire two staff software engineers and an engineering manager (now removed) for its Fuchsia devices team. As usual, these job listings describe the project where the employee will work, and in these cases, it gives us some hints about the future of Fuchsia.

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Facebook quietly acquires synthetic data startup AI.Reverie

Venture Beast

Facebook has quietly acquire AI.Reverie, a startup that developed a platform and tools for synthetic data generation. Read More.

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Epic Games reportedly in talks to produce a Fortnite movie

TechSpot

Epic Games may be looking to expand its reach to Hollywood and is considering a Fortnite movie adaptation. Insiders familiar with the project told The Insider that the game company wants to "diversify" in the face of ongoing legal costs associated with its antitrust lawsuits against Apple and Google.

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Microsoft and Amazon reach truce allowing former AWS executive Charlie Bell to start in new role

GeekWire

Charlie Bell (LinkedIn Photo). Microsoft and Amazon reached an agreement that clears the way for former Amazon Web Services executive Charlie Bell to start his new job leading a newly formed cybersecurity engineering organization inside the Redmond tech company. The breakthrough ends a standoff that lasted several weeks, avoiding a court fight over the terms of Bell’s non-compete agreement with Amazon.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.