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The Fight For Cybersecurity Brand Dominance Intensifies

Forrester IT

Everything Is An Endpoint Brings Blackberry Back From The Dead For many, the fact that Blackberry still exists – and the fact that it spent $1.4 Billion of the $2.4 Billion in capital it had – is the most surprising part of the Cylance acquisition. Blackberry hasn’t shirked its mythological status as the case study […].

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Improving Customer Experience by Automating Incident Response

Social, Agile and Transformation

The tools and practices of IT Operations have to get better and easier. Every IT Ops engineer has the job of responding to alerts when a website is down or unresponsive. To restore service, the engineer follows a certain procedure to restart the web server and validate that the website is operational. Maybe it happens again a few days later and another engineer repeats the procedure to restore.

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Please Spread The Word: Cybersecurity Scholarships From (ISC)² and the Center for Cyber Safety and Education

CTOvision

The following info comes via friends at isc2.org, please share this with any you believe eligible: Each year, (ISC)² and the Center for Cyber Safety and Education partner together to offer scholarships to students around the world. There are three categories of scholarships in this program: Graduate, Undergraduate and Women’s. All are open to students […].

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How Can A CIO Help To Transform WebMD Into An Action Center

The Accidental Successful CIO

Everyone already knows about WebMD Image Credit: Peter Morville. In this modern age in which we are living, what do you do when you start to feel not so good? If you are like most of us, you think about the symptoms that you are experiencing and then, because you understand the importance of information technology, you go online to try to figure out if what you are dealing with is serious.

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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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eCommerce Will Account for 36% of Global Fashion Retail Sales by 2022

Forrester IT

Fashion is the second largest retail category after grocery. The eCommerce shift is a significant, palpable movement in most economies. A quarter of clothing, accessories, and footwear (fashion) spending already occurs online and is still rapidly growing. Brick-and-mortar and eCommerce retailers are vying for shoppers’ attention and dollars. In our recently published Online Fashion Retail […].

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Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

Today, I am happy to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Italy! The AWS Europe (Milan) Region is the 25th AWS Region that we've announced globally. It's the sixth AWS Region in Europe, joining existing regions in France, Germany, Ireland, the UK, and the new Region that we recently announced in Sweden. The AWS Europe (Milan) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers in early 2020.

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SCCM Management Insights – Healthy SCCM Infra

Anoop

I shared my experience about SCCM Management insights in the previous post. In this post, you will what are the management insight rules probably be coming soon with SCCM 1810 production release. SCCM 1810 production release is due for Nov 2018. Before the end of Nov 2018, I’m expecting the fast ring production version of […]. The post SCCM Management Insights – Healthy SCCM Infra appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Anoop C Nair.

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Examine The Cybersecurity Risk Ratings Market With The Forrester New Wave™ Evaluation

Forrester IT

The Forrester New Wave™: Cybersecurity Risk Ratings, Q4 2018 Earlier today, we published “The Forrester New Wave™: Cybersecurity Risk Ratings, Q4 2018” evaluation. We take a close look at the nine most important vendors in this rising market, reviewing their current capabilities, customer references, and strategic road maps. This includes vendor profiles, with our analysis and buyer […].

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Consider Our Vets and One Younger Source as Tech Pros

Information Week

Veterans Day is an appropriate time to remember that the millions of US vets represent a talented tech workforce. At the same time, maybe there's a second way to help close the tech talent gap.

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13 Tech Experts Share What Facebook Should Do Post-Data Breach

CTOvision

Facebook has had a harrowing 2018. First the Cambridge Analytica data breach scandal and then the issue of selling personal user information to Chinese smartphone companies for profit. And now, the recent data breach which could have affected millions of its users. When a business experiences a security breach, there are a lot of steps […].

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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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Repurpose Existing Devices to Windows Autopilot – SCCM or MDT?

Anoop

Repurposing of existing devices is one of the decisions that you want to make while you are getting ready with Windows Autopilot. I’m trying to help you to decide how to repurpose devices to Windows Autopilot? Is it best use MDT or SCCM? [Related Posts – Step by Step Guide Windows AutoPilot Process with Intune & Beginners Guide Setup […].

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Data Protection Vendors Are Emerging From The Stone Age

Forrester IT

A little over a year and a half ago, I completed an evaluation of data resiliency vendors, published as “The Forrester Wave™: Data Resiliency Solutions, Q3 2017.” I gleaned many insights from the assessment process as I spoke with vendors about their offerings and road map and with end users about their successes and challenges.

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Securing the IoT has become business-critical

Network World

The IoT era has arrived. Here's some proof: 83% of organizations say the Internet of Things (IoT) is important to business today, and 92% say it will be in two years. That's according to a recent DigiCert survey conducted by ReRez Research of 700 organizations in five countries to better understand the IoT and IoT security. Anecdotally, I always find that markets have matured when it’s no longer an unusual thing.

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Ransomware is the most significant cyber threat to SMBs

CTOvision

While the hype around ransomware attacks has died down, it still construes a significant risk to small and medium businesses, especially those who don’t afford high-quality anti-virus solutions and other tools. Ransomware continues to be the leading cyberattack method experienced by small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) according to new research from Datto Inc.

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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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Turn your data geeks into customer geeks

Eric D. Brown

What would you do if you had so much data about your customers that you know could know (almost) everything about your customer when they contacted you? Better yet, what if you had the ability to instantly know the exact offer for service or product that would pitch the right ‘sales’ approach that your customer would immediately sit up, take notice and spend money?

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Ghost In The Machine? No, It’s A Robot, And It Is Here To Help

Forrester IT

Just a few years ago, conversations about robotic process automation (RPA) were scattered and far between. Those familiar with RPA had a limited understanding of its potential and at best had carried out?only?a few isolated “proof of concept” experiments. Today, the RPA market is estimated to?reach $2.9 billion by 2021, and conversations are becoming more frequent.

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GPUs are vulnerable to side-channel attacks

Network World

Computer scientists at the University of California at Riverside have found that GPUs are vulnerable to side-channel attacks, the same kinds of exploits that have impacted Intel and AMD CPUs. Two professors and two students, one a computer science doctoral student and a post-doctoral researcher, reverse-engineered a Nvidia GPU to demonstrate three attacks on both graphics and computational stacks, as well as across them.

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How AI Is Revolutionizing Digital Marketing

CTOvision

ReadNicole Martin explain how AI is revolutionizing digital marketing on Forbes : Artificial Intelligence and digital marketing are beginning to go hand in hand. With the ability to collect data, analyze it, apply it and then learn from it- AI is transforming digital strategy. As it continues to advance, so will the capabilities to use […].

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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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Restrict Personal Email Sync On Windows Devices

Anoop

Intune has an out of box option to setup email profile. However, I couldn’t find any out of the box option to restrict personal eMail sync. So the only option left to deploy custom Windows 10 CSP policy to block personal email sync from the business device. How to Deploy eMail Profile with Intune? The […]. The post Restrict Personal Email Sync On Windows Devices appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Anoop C Nair.

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Transform Your Organization From Data-Driven To Insights-Driven

Forrester IT

Over the last five years, most large enterprises have slowly but surely matured from being data-aware to data-driven. They all collect data from operational and transactional applications; process the data into data lakes, data hubs, data warehouses, and data marts; and build business intelligence (BI) and analytics applications to understand what the data is telling […].

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The perils of using voice commands with IoT machines

Network World

Earlier this week, German carmaker Volkswagen announced an upgrade to its VW Car-Net mobile app that lets iPhone users control their Golfs and Jettas using Siri commands. Specifically, iPhone users on iOS 12 can say, “Hey, Siri” to lock and unlock the car, check estimated range remain, flash the warning lights, and toot the horn. You can also add Shortcuts to Siri with personalized phrases to start/stop charging, defrosting, and climate controls; set the temperature; and even ask, “Where is my c

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FTC Launches New Cyber Security Tools for Small Business

CTOvision

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched a resource to raise awareness about the vital role cybersecurity plays for the 32+ million small businesses in the US. This effort was part of the National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) in October, which has been recognized every month since 2003. The NCSAM was established with the collaboration […].

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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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6 Tech Trends for the Enterprise in 2019

Information Week

Look for new technologies to emerge - and for emerging technologies to become the norm - in the new year.

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The Shifting Map Of US Tech Talent Offers New Opportunities For Talent-Hungry CIOs

Forrester IT

The US tech economy is starting to spread from major cities on the East and West Coasts to inland metro areas. This is great news for American cities, employers, and tech workers. Inland urban centers that were once considered flyover cities are now bustling with tech startups and incubators, as well as the tech workforces […].

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Test your PRTG knowledge and Win 100€ Amazon Voucher

Anoop

Savision is giving you chance to win 100€ Amazon Voucher. You want to try luck? Try reading about PRTG. PRTG Network Monitor is a powerful network Monitoring solution that analyzes your entire IT infrastructure. PRTG is an agentless monitor solution. PRTG can monitor Traffic, packets, applications, bandwidth, cloud services, databases, virtual environments, uptime, ports, IPs, hardware, […].

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Artificial Intelligence and how it will affect our day to day life

CTOvision

Read Jeremy Kahn and Dina Bass’ analysis of artificial intelligence and how it will affect our day to day life on Washington Post : Artificial intelligence, or AI, is both the stuff of Terminator-esque, end-of-humanity scenarios and an invisible but steadily increasing part of our daily lives, suggesting what news we should read, for instance, […].

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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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Key Characteristics of Digitally Mature Organizations

Information Week

This is what a successful digital transformation looks like, based on research into the characteristics of enterprises that have succeeded with transformations in real life.

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Your People Problem With Emerging Technology And Innovation

Forrester IT

Nearly half of the firms we survey are prioritizing innovation as key to their business strategy. When I step back and think about it, the why is easy to understand; exponential changes like Moore’s Law in the past and Metacalfe’s Law today are accelerating the pace of business. In a recent study of 26 senior […].

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Expanding the Cloud – The Second AWS GovCloud (US) Region, AWS GovCloud (US-East)

All Things Distributed

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region, our 19th global infrastructure Region, is now available for use by customers in the US. With this launch, AWS now provides 57 Availability Zones, with another 12 zones and four Regions in Bahrain, Cape Town, Hong Kong SAR, and Stockholm expected to come online by 2020. The AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region is our second AWS GovCloud (US) Region, joining AWS GovCloud (US-West) to further help US government agencies, the contract

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Assisted Intelligence vs. Augmented Intelligence

CTOvision

In the conversation around the application and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive technologies, two recurring types of solutions usually come up: AI solutions meant to work in conjunction with people to help them accomplish their tasks better, and AI solutions meant to function entirely independent of human intervention. In Cognilytica’s nomenclature, we’ve usually […].

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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.