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Wanted: Professionals Involved In Their Firm’s AI Strategy. Take Forrester’s Latest Survey!

Forrester IT

Forrester Launches New Survey On AI Adoption There’s no doubt that artificial intelligence (AI) is top of mind for executives. AI adoption started in earnest in 2016, and Forrester anticipates AI investments to continue to increase. Leaders are quickly waking up to AI’s disruptive characteristics and the need to embrace this emerging technology to remain […].

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What to Expect When You’re Expecting… Delivery of Your Outsourced Software

CTOvision

As a consulting CTO I work with companies at all stages of software product development. Startups with scarcely more than a PDF mock-up. Multi-million dollar businesses refining their umpteenth software version. But there is one stage in the evolution of a software company at which they disproportionately reach out to somebody like me — when they’re […].

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How to Setup Co-Management – Firewall Ports Proxy Requirements

Anoop

Firewall ports and proxy exception requirements are not something you can remove from your checklist while you are implementing any new infra component. Co-management is not different over here. SCCM Co-management related components from your on-prem infra need to communicate with the cloud components. Hence Firewall ports are proxy exception planning & documentation are essential. […].

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The basics of Deep Learning and Bayesian Networks in under five minutes

Social, Agile and Transformation

Still confused about deep learning, how it works, what is its shortcomings, and what is its origins? Watch this 4.5 minute keynote snippet by Zoubin Ghahramani, Chief Scientist at Uber, at O'Reilly's Artificial Intelligence Conference going on in NYC this week. He nails it. Paraphrasing Zoubin: Deep learning is neural networks rebranded. Compute power enables us to run many layers of.

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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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Global Marketing Automation Spending Will Reach $25 Billion By 2023

Forrester IT

Marketers today are managing more channels, more content, and more data, while delivering vast quantities of personalized content quickly around the globe. As digital marketing complexity increases, more marketers are embracing automation tools to improve efficiency and speed to market. In our first Marketing Automation Technology Forecast, 2017 To 2023, we expect global spending on […].

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Understanding Artificial Intelligence: 3 Key Concepts

CTOvision

Artificial intelligence’s progress is staggering. Over the past few decades efforts to advance AI has resulted in some truly amazing innovations. Big data analytics, medical research, and automated transportation are only a handful of the incredible applications emerging from AI. What makes data mining, natural language processing, and driving software possible?

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Practical CIO Advice for Managing Change on CXO Talk [Video]

Social, Agile and Transformation

My second appearance on CXO Talk may be better than my first show! Thanks to Michael Krigsman for having me on again! Some of what we covered - Technology has a huge impact on how we service customers How are organizations become more competitive with data and analytics Transformation is a "people conversation" first. Rely on people to use their innovation and expertise to collaborate on.

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TD Ameritrade’s “Accountable CMO” Makes Marketing a Business Engine

Forrester IT

I have a new work crush. It happened, of all places, at the ANA’s Advertising Financial Management conference earlier this week in Hollywood, FL. My new marketer inspiration? Denise Karkos, CMO of TD Ameritrade, who talked us through what it means – and why it’s so CRITICAL – to be an accountable CMO. Here’s a […].

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A Simple DNS Configuration Change Can Reduce Your Risk. Here Is What To Do

CTOvision

Editor's note: We are aiming this tutorial at the non-technical person. Please share with anyone in your life who could benefit from this. -bg Have you ever seen a picture of an old fashioned telephone operator? The operator played a critical function in establishing a global telephone network where any phone could talk to any phone. […].

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4 Warning Signs an Integration Wall is Approaching

Fountainhead

The Integration and API Management markets are growing, expanding in both popularity and use. Enterprise App integration will surpass $33b by 2020, and other markets like iPaaS and Data Integration are growing at double-digit CAGRs. Enablers, such as containers and serverless technologies are only accelerating the move toward increased disaggregation of applications.

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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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New Go Branding Strategy

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I joined the GoTime podcast and told them EVERYTHING about Go’s new branding strategy (and don’t worry, the gopher isn’t going anywhere!) Listen to the podcast at [link] Transcript Adam Stacoviak: And we’re live, too… Do you want a little music? Carlisia Thompson: Yeah… Adam Stacoviak: Let’s get some music going here. This is our 8-bit, Steve.

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Three Takeaways On eCommerce From My Trip To China

Forrester IT

I recently spent two weeks in China to attend an event hosted by eCommerce company JD.com for analysts and retail thought leaders. Here are my takeaways on the state of eCommerce in the world’s largest eCommerce market: Customers in China seek novelty and individuality. Nearly 60% of metropolitan Chinese consumers are Progressive Pioneers – the most […].

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AI is a Job Category Killer (But Don’t Worry)

CTOvision

According to a Gallup poll, many people think AI will destroy jobs, but just not theirs. In fact, in that poll, over 73% of Americans believe that AI will be a net job destroyer, but only 23% of these same surveyed adults were worried about it. How can you reconcile those two positions? In that […].

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4 Reasons a Professional Website is a Vital Part of Any Business

The Accidental Successful CIO

Websites can be a vital tool for reaching your customers online. Image Credit: medithIT. Websites can be a vital tool for reaching your customers online. Not only do websites show customers what your business has to offer, they also create a place for you to communicate directly with customers and present your brand image. Out of date websites, websites that don’t have enough work put into them, or no website at all, can all be damaging to your business, discouraging to customers and a was

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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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Changes in SCCM Client Support for Windows 10 1803

Anoop

Microsoft released Windows 10 1803 version. There are some changes in the SCCM client and ADK support model and Windows 10 1803 version release. SCCM Client Support for Windows 10 1803 statement is also updated by Microsoft. This is a quick post to cover SCCM client support for Windows 10 1803 version and Windows 10 ADK […]. The post Changes in SCCM Client Support for Windows 10 1803 appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Anoop C Nair.

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Early Horror Stories Of The Data Economy

Forrester IT

When salacious tales of Cambridge Analytica’s activities emerged in 2018, we thought the company was finished. The many on-air discussions of illegal activities, law enforcement warrants, legal action threats from partners, and questionable ethics had appeared to doom them. We then saw multiple suspensions and resignations, and on May 2nd, 2018 Cambridge Analytica announced it […].

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Cyberwar Is Now A 3-Way Cage Fight

CTOvision

The past few weeks has seen aggressive action by the White House against Russia and China. Cyberwar has become a 3-way cage fight. Here's a quick review of the fight and tactics to improve. US Strategy Not Working: Hit Me, I Can Take It Data exfiltration by Kaspersky and Huawei have been known for years […].

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MDT Not assigning the correct Drive Letter to the Windows Primary Partition with UEFI

Mick's IT Blog

When I installed the new MDT 6.3.8450.1000 to build the deployment package for Windows 10 1709, I ran into issues with the operating system deployment. In the process of building out the new task sequence, I also decided to convert over to UEFI. The OS was laying down, but it was installed on the wrong drive letter, D: instead of C: After trying many things, I finally decided to abandon the Format and Partition Disk task sequence provided by Microsoft and create my own using PowerShell.

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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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Group Policy Vs Intune Policy after Intune unenrollement

Anoop

In my previous post (Group policy Vs Intune Policy), we discussed Intune policy wins over GP when there is a policy conflict. We covered the workflow with example setting (IE Home Page). In this post, we will see how Windows 10 handles conflicting GP settings if Intune is un-enrollment from the Windows 10 computer. Workflow – Group […]. The post Group Policy Vs Intune Policy after Intune unenrollement appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Vimal Das.

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Radius And Leadspace Join Forces: What’s It Mean For Predictive Marketing Analytics?

Forrester IT

The executive summary here is simple: We think this is a harmonious merger. Not quite one year ago, Forrester published the The Forrester Wave™: Predictive Marketing Analytics For B2B Marketers, which evaluated 11 firms – Radius and Leadspace among them – against 28 criteria, as well as an accompanying blog post that summed it up. […].

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The IoT for unconnected things

CTOvision

It’s been the year-of-IOT for a few years now. Have we not arrived yet? Unfortunately for most, IoT (Internet of Things) and particularly IIoT (Industrial I0T) remains a continuously advancing horizon. Fix-before-failure, predictive maintenance, smart metering, asset tracking, have all been touted as the killer-apps of IIoT for a long time. To be fair, IoT […].

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VMware and VeloCloud announce their networking and security strategy

Network World

It’s been a few months since VMware closed its acquisition of VeloCloud, a prominent SD-WAN provider. In that time, the two companies have worked to integrate their products, and recently they announced a unified strategy called the Virtual Cloud Network. The strategy fully supports the migration of applications and data out of the enterprise data center to the cloud and to branches — and with IoT, pretty much anything can be considered a branch today, as VeloCloud claims to have a customer with

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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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Discuss SCOM 1801 Migration Plans With Microsoft Program Manager

Anoop

Microsoft released System Center 1801 in February. SCOM 1801 is part of Microsoft System Center suite. System Center offers enterprise-class data center management for your IT environments. System Center, version 1801 (semi-annual channel) and download the evaluation version from here. In this post I’ll share the best opportunity to discuss SCOM 1801 migration plans.

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Stop Prioritizing CX Painpoints

Forrester IT

From a customer impact perspective, it may seem to make sense that you would start prioritizing your CX improvement efforts based on a list of customer or user painpoints – in a similar fashion that an emergency department would triage incoming patients. However, the problem with this approach is that it only factors in one […].

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Napoleon: War Is Ninety Percent Information (which means all war Is cyberwar)

CTOvision

Napoleon was right when he observed that "War is ninety percent information." Since his time the nature of war has become even more information intensive. In the information age, all war is now cyber war. In the past I have really shunned the use of the term "cyber war." In 2003 several professional colleagues I […].

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How have network firewalls evolved?

Network World

Firewalls have become ubiquitous across the enterprise IT landscape because of their proven ability to stop bad traffic from entering corporate networks and protect a company’s most valuable assets. So how have firewalls evolved over the years and what are the latest trends in firewall security?

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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 Monthly “Leadership Master” Book Tuning: Innovative Leadership Apr. 2018

Future of CIO

Leadership is complex yet simple: Complex in that there are so many traits and characteristics that are considered when evaluating a leader. Simplicity in that the substance of leadership never changes, it’s all about future and change; direction and dedication; influence and innovation. The purpose of the book: Leadership Master - Five Digital Trends to Leap Leadership Maturity is to convey the vision of digital leadership, share the insight about leadership maturity, and summarize five emergen

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2018 Retail Best Practices Extended: Mobile Web

Forrester IT

Consumers can choose between a variety of touchpoints; but when it comes to mobile, loyal customers will download your app, but everyone else will be left with the mobile browser. Mobile is becoming a dominant digital touchpoint for retail, influencing online sales and purchase decisions in-store. Retailers will broaden their reach and increase the likelihood […].

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O’Reilly AI Conference | September 4–7, 2018 | San Francisco

CTOvision

Artificial intelligence and machine learning is one of the hottest topics on our site. Want to put AI to work right now? Cut through the noise and see what's real (and what's coming) in applied AI at the Artificial Intelligence Conference. Leaders and innovators will explore the most promising applied machine learning and artificial intelligence […].

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Defending against mobile technology threats | Salted Hash Ep 24

Network World

What are the current dangers in mobile technology and what are the strategies to keep yourself protected? Join host Steve Ragan from the show floor at RSA 2018, where he talks with Will LaSala, director of Security Solutions and security evangelist at VASCO Data Security.

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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.