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How CIOs Are Using Algorithms To Tell People What To Do

The Accidental Successful CIO

Algorithms can sometimes make better decisions than people can Image Credit: x6e38. As the person with the CIO job, one of your main tasks is to assign work to the various people who work for you. As the number of people grows and the amount of work that has to be done seems to get even larger, this task that once upon a time appeared to be simple, can quickly get out of hand.

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Time To Rethink Channel Incentives And Program Management (CIPM)?

Forrester IT

Channel incentives are used to improve indirect sales performance, orchestrate partners’ behavior, and engender channel loyalty. For decades channel professionals have used channel incentives to drive behavior; whether establishing new behaviors, suppressing old ones, or repositioning partners for a new opportunity. Incentives are also effective in masking deficiencies in business value propositions.

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11 Artificial Intelligence Trends Every Business Must Know in 2019

CTOvision

Read Sohaib Khalid list 11 artificial intelligence trends every business should know about on Read Write : Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a game changer for global businesses, opening doors to innumerable possibilities. With the integration of AI in businesses, the global economy is excepted to grow exponentially in the coming years. Although the introduction […].

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Beyond microservices; Software architecture driven by machine learning

Social, Agile and Transformation

It's not a question of if, it's a question of when and how AI and machine learning will change our programming and software development paradigms. Today's coding models are based on data storage, business logic, services, UX, and presentation. A full stack developer elects to build a three-tiered web architecture using an MVC framework. An IoT application calls for an event-driven.

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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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Step by Step SCCM 1902 Upgrade Guide Production Version

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. This post is to help to perform the SCCM 1902 upgrade. This post is a comprehensive step by step guide to upgrade SCCM infra. Microsoft released SCCM 1902 in the opt-in/slow ring. You will get more details about step by step SCCM 1902 upgrade process in this blog post.

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Apple ITP 2.1: What It Is, What It Means, and Why It Matters

Forrester IT

Apple first introduced Intelligent Tracking Protection (ITP) in 2017, but the latest update (2.1) creates a new set of challenges for advertisers, publishers, and tech vendors that make money from online behavioral advertising (OBA), attribution, web analytics, testing, and personalization. With new reports that Google may be following suit, we decided it was time to […].

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Running an SCCM Package via PowerShell and Command Line

Mick's IT Blog

While working on a new compliance policy, I ran into a lot of hurdles that needed to be resolved. One of those hurdles was executing an SCCM package via PowerShell. Using the WMIExplorer, I was able to locate a method that allows you to execute an SCCM package as shown below. Once I located the namespace, class, and method, I needed to find out the name of the package in SCCM that I wanted to execute.

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SCCM Patch Management is Enough for Vulnerability Management?

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. SCCM patch management is enough for Vulnerability management for your overall Information Technology (IT) strategy for an organization? You will get the answer from this post. SCCM has excellent patch management, and it has many integration options for third-party application patch management.

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Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) Brand Growth Will Boost Social Ad Spending

Forrester IT

In recent years, a wave of so-called digitally native direct-to-consumer (DTC) startups have burst onto the scene and have grown in popularity. Consumers are increasingly purchasing products and services such as mattresses, shoes, razors, and groceries from the over 400 DTC firms now in operation. Forrester forecasts that online spend by DTC enthusiasts will grow […].

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6 Essential Skills Cybersecurity Pros Need to Develop in 2019

CTOvision

It’s definitely a job seeker’s’ market out there in the cybersecurity employment pool. According to an about-to-be-released report from ISSA and ESG, 74% of organizations today have been impacted by the cybersecurity skills shortage. Meantime, a report released last month from ISACA says that 60% of organizations need a minimum of three months to fill […].

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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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Halo Jakarta! An AWS Region is coming to Indonesia!

All Things Distributed

Today, I am excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Indonesia! The new AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region will be composed of three Availability Zones, and will give AWS customers and partners the ability to run workloads and store data in Indonesia. The AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region will be our ninth Region in Asia Pacific. It joins existing Regions in Beijing, Mumbai, Ningxia, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo, as well as an upcoming Region in Hong Kong SAR.

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Kubernetes Cheat Sheet

Linux Academy

If you’re like me, you may have those moments where you’re at the terminal, hands hovering over your keyboard, and … nothing. I always seem to freeze up and probably rely too much on bash history. (The up arrow is my friend.). While learning Kubernetes, I ended up posting 14 or 15 sticky notes on my monitor to help me in those moments — but after a while, I could barely read what was on the screen.

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Watch Your Language! “Low-Code” And “No-Code” Are Not The Same

Forrester IT

Low-code or no-code? Some vendors use these terms interchangeably or are overpromising. In particular, we cringe when we see or hear “low-code/no-code” — as if those two things are the same. Don’t be confused, don’t be deluded; here is what’s going on. Businesspeople hankering to deliver their own apps love the “no-code” message. […].

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AI And ML: Greatest Hype Or Hope?

CTOvision

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a remarkable bias: it simultaneously predicts amateurs underestimating the complexity and being overconfident and veterans underestimating complexity, with often less confidence than the amateurs! This is well shown in the famous Mount Stupid diagram. Today, we see the rise of hype in technologies like the Internet, blockchain, and cloud, three of […].

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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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7 Most Used Online Corporate Training Platforms

Kitaboo

Your employees might be highly qualified for their roles, but on the job, they are as good as the training you provide them. Using a well-structured employee training program, you can shape them into the ideal and efficient employees who will make every effort to help your business grow. L&D teams and corporate trainers may design effective training programs, but without the right delivery platform, the training still remains ineffective.

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What Should a Modern Practical Programming Language Look Like

SPF13

Keynote delivered at The Landing Festival – Berlin. This presentation describes the many inspirations and influences of the Go programming language and goes into detail about how we shaped and created the language.

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Orchestrate Your Customer Analytics Practice With The Next Best Experience

Forrester IT

I went to see a concert last night that epitomizes the state of customer insights in most companies today. It was a benefit for Creative Music Studio and brought together incredible artists such as Billy Martin, Cyro Baptista, Marc Ribot, and Ingrid Sertso. While I was happy to contribute to Creative Music Studio’s cause, the […].

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Toyota suffers second data breach in five weeks

CTOvision

Japanese car manufacturer Toyota has suffered a second data breach in the space of five weeks, leading to the data of 3.1m customers being accessed through a malicious attack. Toyota said that hackers breached its IT systems and gained access to information belonging to several of its sales subsidiaries. “We take this situation seriously, 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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How to Operationalize Your Machine Learning Projects

Information Week

Operationalizing those data science, analytics, and machine learning projects is one of the top concerns of IT leaders. But the same tried-and-true best practices you've used for other IT projects can guide you on these new technologies, too.

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Product Management for Everyone

SPF13

An interactive workshop developed for and given at the Landing Festival in Berlin 2019. This workshop covers: What a product manager does. How to become a product manager. Practice thinking like a product manager. Building product manager skills.

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Telcos must prioritize Innovations that extend beyond networking

Forrester IT

Since the birth of cloud computing in early 2000, telecommunications companies have seen business growth thanks to these IT transformational partners. But as we head into the next 20 years of this digital transformation decade no one in the networking space should keep their focus purely on their networking business. With the emerging technologies of […].

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The Importance Of A Timely Data Breach Response

CTOvision

Read why Eric Hamilton says that timely response to a data breach can save millions of dollars on Tech Times : When companies are targeted by cybercriminals, it is essential that they have plans in place in order to deal with this and enable themselves to get back online rapidly. This not only applies to […].

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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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AI, Machine Learning, Data Science: What Enterprises Are Doing

Information Week

CIOs say that AI and machine learning are the top technologies that will drive transformation, but there aren't many enterprises who have them in production, yet. Here's how they are planning to get there.

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SCCM 1902 Prerequisite Error Network Access Protection (NAP) is No Longer Supported

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. SCCM 1902 Opt-in ring got released last week. Many organizations are trying to go through the staging environment or performing testing with the Opt-in version of SCCM 1902. More details about SCCM 1902 Prerequisite Check Failed error in this post. You will learn more how to fix for Network Access Protection (NAP) is no longer […].

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The Pendulum Swings Back To Creativity: Decoding Accenture Interactive’s Droga5 Deal

Forrester IT

Today, Accenture Interactive announced its Droga5 acquisition. The New York and London-based creative agency joins previous Accenture creative acquisitions Fjord, Karmarama, and The Monkeys to bolster the consultancy’s creative and brand communication capabilities. Combined with Accenture Interactive’s technology, data, experience design, commerce and programmatic capabilities, the addition of Droga and others helps move them one […].

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Three Ways To Use Artificial Intelligence To Improve The Employee Experience

CTOvision

Read Dan Turchin list three ways companies can use artificial intelligence to improve employee efficiency on Forbes : According to Ray Kurzweil, famed inventor and futurist: “Our technology, our machines, are part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves.” Striving to extend ourselves is the essence of what it means to be human. […].

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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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Secure Your Migration to the Cloud

Information Week

Five best practices for ensuring that your cloud strategy keeps things safe and secure.

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How to Convert Youtube Videos in MP3 ?

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - How to Convert Youtube Videos in MP3 ? - Information Technology Blog. We are now at a time where you can find interesting video and audio content pretty much on any social media. There was a time when saving this content required to jump through hoops and questionable software to get anywhere. Today you can easily convertisseur youtube , with readily available online mp3 converters to do the job for you.

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The Insights Beat: Get Smarter About Your Competitors, Customers And Company

Forrester IT

Insights come in many flavors. Customer insights. Consumer insights. Competitor insights. Market insights. Company insights. Operational insights. Process insights. Sales insights. Marketing insights….you get the drift. All types of enterprise data (big, medium, small and petite), as well as external data fuel these insights and make you smarter about how you engage with your customers, […].

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Blockchain: Top 4 challenges CIOs face

CTOvision

Blockchain had been heralded as the next gen technology but its hype is fading. Alison DeNisco Rayome takes a look at the reasons why blockchain implementation presents a challege to the CIOs on Tech Republic : By 2023, blockchain technologies are poised to support the global movement of $2 trillion worth of goods and services […].

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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.