Sat.May 18, 2019 - Fri.May 24, 2019

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Future Of Retail: Implementing Artificial Intelligence In 2019

Forrester IT

To help retailers and brands plan for 2019, Researcher Claudia Tajima and I are interviewing experts within Forrester for our series, “Applying 2019 Predictions To Retail.” Last week, we spoke to Sam Stern about how employee experience will impact retailers in 2019. This week, Claudia interviewed Michele Goetz, principal analyst on Forrester’s enterprise architecture team and an expert in AI, on her 2019 AI predictions report. […].

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Five warning signs you are at risk of a data breach

CTOvision

Data breaches are one of the biggest threat to organisations today. They can bring operations to a grinding halt, drastically damage your reputation and your relationship with customers, and cause severe financial losses from lost sales, remediation and repair costs, and regulatory fines. Since the introduction of the EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) a year […].

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How CIOs Can Solve Really Big Problems

The Accidental Successful CIO

Big problems require a special type of problem solving Image Credit: Kevin Dooley. As CIOs we are faced with a complete set of problems that we need to solve. These can be small, simple problems that we can solve just by thinking about them for a moment and then telling someone what to do in order to solve them or they can be the really big problems that we have no clue how to go about solving.

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SCCM 1902 Known Issues List and Fixes

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. I’m trying to help SCCM community with this list of SCCM known issues with the latest version of SCCM 1902. Many of these issues are already fixed before 1902 slow ring general availability. Let’s check out the list of SCCM 1902 Known Issues. Keep commenting if you find any SCCM 1902 known issue below this […].

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Digital Acceleration Is At Cross Roads – Modernize Everything Or Die

Forrester IT

Have you experienced or heard of anything similar to these anecdotes? “Tesla can’t figure out how to manage its glass inventory and replacements” or “I was abroad and had to give Uber my credit card number again!” or “My banking mobile app is not approving my online train ticket that was purchased on the web […].

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Three Steps To Promoting Productivity In The Workplace With AI

CTOvision

Read James Freeze list three steps you can use to promote productivity in your organization with artificial intelligence on Forbes : Since artificial intelligence (AI) entered popular conversation, the narrative surrounding the technology has been dominated by excitement — and also apprehension. In the media and around dinner tables, among academics, politicians and everyday workers, […].

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Windows 10 ADK Versions Plus SCCM Support Scenarios

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. In this post, you will see the details of Windows 10 ADK versions, and it’s download links. Also, this post will give some more information about SCCM 1902 and supported ADK versions. [Related post – SCCM Step by Step Guide to Update Windows ADK and WinPE Versions] Windows 10 ADK Support for SCCM The following […].

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The Impact Of Digital Transformation On The Vulnerability Management Space

Forrester IT

As I’m kicking off the next iteration of the Forrester Wave™ for vulnerability risk management in the coming weeks, I’ve been fielding a lot of questions about what I’m going to be focusing on and why. Traditional vulnerability management solutions date back 30 years and are a critical element of an infrastructure hardening process, but […].

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Companies send confusing alerts about data breaches

CTOvision

Building on their previous research that showed consumers often take little action when facing security breaches, researchers analyzed the data breach notifications companies sent to consumers to see if the communications might be responsible for some of the inaction. They found that 97 percent of the 161 sampled notifications were difficult or fairly difficult to read […].

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Proving security at scale with automated reasoning

All Things Distributed

Customers often ask me how AWS maintains security at scale as we continue to grow so rapidly. They want to make sure that their data is secure in the AWS Cloud, and they want to understand how to better secure themselves as they grow.

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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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5 Principles Full Stack Developers and Solutions Architects Must Understand About Machine Learning

Social, Agile and Transformation

According to recent and separate studies from Gartner, Harvey Nash/KPMG, and O'Reilly, somewhere between 24% and 37% of organizations are at least moderately investing in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Much of this will be AI/ML embedded in applications like chatbots, recommendation engines, and virtual assistants and some consider RPAs a form of AI/ML. require(["mojo/.

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Future Healthcare Success is Rooted in Exceptional CX

Forrester IT

We know that better customer experience (CX) in healthcare better engages customers and patients, improves care outcomes, and reduces costs. But there are several factors contributing to lagging CX in healthcare. The most common pitfalls we observe with healthcare organizations are that they: Have a limited understanding of customers’ wants, needs, and behaviors.

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DIA Provides Vision of New Data And Analytics Approach Called MARS

CTOvision

Editor’s note: The following was posted on the Defense Intelligence Agency website and is provided for your awareness. DIA’s Vision of MARS: Decision advantage for the 21st century JOINT BASE ANACOSTIA-BOLLING, D.C. , May 23, 2019 — When it comes to providing warfighters with the best intelligence to carry out missions, the decisive use of […].

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Study: Most enterprise IoT transactions are unencrypted

Network World

Of the millions of enterprise- IoT transactions examined in a recent study, the vast majority were sent without benefit of encryption, leaving the data vulnerable to theft and tampering. The research by cloud-based security provider Zscaler found that about 91.5 percent of transactions by internet of things devices took place over plaintext, while 8.5 percent were encrypted with SSL.

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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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Six DevOps Misconceptions Debunked

Information Week

The road to DevOps success is littered with myths and misconceptions. Here are the largest potholes you need to avoid.

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Why Sizmek’s Ad Server Shouldn’t End Up With Amazon

Forrester IT

Ad serving… sounds boring right? And on its face, it is. Ad servers are the pipes of digital advertising – they (virtually) move content or ad creatives into empty slots on publisher’s pages, and then keep track of how many times they did it. So, it’s no wonder the ad serving market is seen by […].

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Intelligence Exploitation Summit 23-24 July 2019

CTOvision

Defense Strategies Institute provided us with the following information on what promises to be a very interesting event: Defense Strategies Institute is proud to announce the 5th annual Intelligence Exploitation Summit, occurring on July 23-24, 2019 at the American Institute of Architects in Washington, DC. This year’s summit is designed to bring together members of […].

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FlexDeploy vs Jenkins for Git Sparse Checkouts

Flexagon

While working with many FlexDeploy customers on DevOps for middleware and enterprise applications, I have noticed that organizations setup a multitude of Git repositories and each repository is used to store source code for many artifacts. For example, one Git repository may contain a few integration composites, service bus projects, application server configurations etc., and.

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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 IT: From the Trenches to the Future

Information Week

Eversource Energy CIO provided a real-world view into her organization's big changes, an Intel exec gave a perspective into IoT futures, and an Accenture exec shared a view of how today's interconnected technology will change the world forever.

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AI, Automation, And Robotics. Oh My!

Forrester IT

As companies strive to improve customer experience through better customer and employee engagement, they inevitably face the problem of scalability. How can we provide a seamless, convenient, and consistent experience to all our customers? And how can we best equip our employees to do so, as well? The technologies in our recently published “The Forrester […].

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Artificial intelligence better than humans at spotting lung cancer

CTOvision

Lung cancer causes almost 160,000 deaths in the United States, according to the most recent estimates. The condition is the leading cause of cancer-related death in the U.S., and early detection is crucial for both stopping the spread of tumors and improving patient outcomes. As an alternative to chest X-rays, healthcare professionals have recently been using […].

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5 Crucial Elements of Application Release Automation

Flexagon

Today’s IT departments are under increasing pressure to release new solutions and enhancements to existing capabilities. Many are expected to deliver updates and new applications in tight timeframes. In a recent survey, 90 percent of DevOps professionals report increasing pressure to accelerate application release, and 93 percent link challenges to manual processes.

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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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ERP Giants SAP and Oracle Add AI to Platforms

Information Week

As CIOs and other IT leaders shift their AI programs to incorporate more buying than building from scratch, vendors are adding new artificial intelligence capabilities to their platforms to meet the demand.

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CX Execs Rise To Power Across B2C And B2B Industries

Forrester IT

Unprecedented Growth Chief customer officers and chief experience officers were once a small community of visionaries and practitioners pioneering customer experience (CX) across industries. But we’ve seen more than 1,000% growth in the CX executive role in just five years, and in that time, many have turned that new frontier into an established practice and […].

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Here’s Why More Security Solutions Doesn’t Equal Better Security

CTOvision

Read why Jennifer Glenn says that employing more security solutions don’t necessarily mean better security on Security Intelligence : Regulatory requirements such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and high-profile breaches have moved cybersecurity out of IT and into the board room. For security practitioners, this level of visibility has helped ease the budgeting […].

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New visual framework: Creating the Future of PR in a rapidly changing world

Trends in the Living Networks

In 2006 I wrote a popular article Six Facets of the Future of PR , which concluded: We are entering a world in which the flow of information and perceptions will drive much of the value creation in a highly networked global economy. The PR industry should be looking forward to a time of massive prosperity, in which it extends itself to play in entirely new fields of media and communication.

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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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Will the Real AI Please Stand Up?

Information Week

Make sure that your use of machine learning has more substance than hype. Here's a framework you can use to help you cut through the noise.

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Harry’s Acquisition Reaffirms It: Brand-Building’s In A Generational Shift

Forrester IT

Like fading celebrities, brand owners fear one thing most of all: irrelevance. “I think my mom/dad/grandma/grandpa uses them.” The horror. Edgewell Personal Care’s most recent annual report is all about that horror. In so many words, it acknowledges that its primary men’s grooming brands — Schick and Wilkinson Sword razors, among others — are grandpa […].

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Verizon’s data breach report: What the numbers say

CTOvision

Data breach, yawn. Those two little words that occur so frequently in the media and will have you switching off. Last week, Verizon released its 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) which provides valuable insight spanning across 86 countries and 41,686 incidents. The executive summary of the DBIR articulates the issue perfectly in stating that […].

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Be your own futurist: imagine a new landscape and reinvent yourself

Trends in the Living Networks

The latest issue of Business View magazine, themed The Future of Business , includes a concluding article that distills key points from an interview with me. Click on the article image left to expand or read below. We all need to be futurists. Change is all around and it’s getting faster. The chairman of think-tank Future Exploration Network says the most successful businesses of the future will be those that embrace change and are genuinely excited about innovation.

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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.