Sat.Dec 29, 2018 - Fri.Jan 04, 2019

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Data Mining – A Cautionary Tale

Eric D. Brown

For those of you that might be new to data, keep this small (but extremely important) thing in mind – beware data mining. What is data mining? Data mining is the process of discovering information and patterns in data. Data mining is the first step taken in the Data -> Information -> Knowledge -> Wisdom conversion process. Data mining is extremely important – but can cause you a lot of problems if you aren’t aware of some of the issues that can arise from data mi

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You’ve Still Got Mail

Forrester IT

It has been more than two decades since AOL popularized email with the catchy “you’ve got mail” greeting. So ubiquitous was it in its heyday that it was the title of a romcom starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. Since then, however, the way that people use the internet to communicate has evolved significantly. AOL […].

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10 Ways Machine Learning Is Revolutionizing Sales

CTOvision

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning show the potential to reduce the most time-consuming, manual tasks that keep sales teams away from spending more time with customers. Automating account-based marketing support with predictive analytics and supporting account-centered research, forecasting, reporting, and recommending which customers to upsell first are all techniques freeing sales teams from manually […].

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Six IoT predictions for 2019

Network World

This time of year, it can seem like the world is swimming in predictions for the new year, and the Internet of Things (IoT) is no exception. In fact, in fast-evolving areas like IoT, multitudes of trends and opportunities and challenges are in play, making predictions ridiculously easy — just about anything can happen, and probably will. [ Also read: Gartner’s top 10 IoT trends for 2019 and beyond | Get regularly scheduled insights: Sign up for Network World newsletters ].

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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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SCCM 1810 Known Issues and FIXES

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Happy & Blessed New year 2019 to all of you! I’m trying to help SCCM community with this list of known issues which are already fixed (well, most of them) with the latest slow version of SCCM 1810. Microsoft can fix the critical issues on the fly with new cloud connected updates and servicing.

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Cloud Trends: Look Behind the Numbers

Information Week

For all the market research numbers floating around about cloud computing, what is missing is advice on what IT organizations should be doing with IaaS, SaaS, and other cloud concepts.

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5 New Year's Resolutions for CIO and Digital Transformation Leaders

Social, Agile and Transformation

Happy holidays and new year everyone! Have your final cocktails of 2018, read up on my driving digital predictions for 2019, and get ready to lead your organizations through what is likely going to be a jittery year of successes, surprises, and necessary pivots. I'm guessing you have your 2019 plan locked and loaded, but if you're a reader of my book Driving Digital, my articles (here and.

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FIX – SCCM Upgrade Issue – SQL Based Replication

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. My name is Deb and this is my first post in this blog. I will try to share my experience with SCCM, OSD, and Task Sequence more frequently with you all. Recently, I faced an issue during SCCM CB in-place upgrade. I will try to explain the issue and resolution in this post.

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AI in Production: A Roadmap for Success

Information Week

Plenty of enterprises have run pilots or small-scale projects that leverage machine learning and AI. Scaling those to high-value, large-scale data projects can get complicated.

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How to Build a Balanced Healthcare Cybersecurity Budget

CTOvision

Read Jessica Davis’ tips to healthcare firms for building a balanced cybersecurity budget on Health IT Security : The majority of healthcare security stakeholders agree that cybersecurity budgets are underfunded. And frankly, health organizations aren’t keeping pace with hackers who are continuously improving in sophistication. Data security programs are still often underfunded and understaffed, according to a […].

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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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How to Create a Website: Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners (2019)

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - How to Create a Website: Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners (2019) - Information Technology Blog. How to create a website is probably the first question posed by every new webmaster. After all, the web platform you use to create your site will determine the flow and growth of your online project. Therefore, it is important to have a solid plan and evaluate all available options.

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Forrester + SiriusDecisions

Forrester IT

Today Forrester closed the deal to acquire SiriusDecisions. SiriusDecisions helps business-to-business companies align the functions of sales, marketing, and product management; Sirius clients grow 19% faster and are 15% more profitable than their peers. Leaders within these companies make more informed business decisions through access to industry analysts, research, benchmark data, peer networks, events, and continuous learning courses, while their companies […].

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What Enterprises Have to Learn About Emerging Tech, Again

Information Week

Enterprises often make the same mistakes when adopting technology, generation after generation. A PwC tech leader outlines seven considerations to keep in mind.

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The hype around driverless cars came crashing down in 2018

CTOvision

Big players in autonomous driving like Uber, Tesla, and Waymo had a disappointing 2018, but several startups with a “minimum viable product” made good progress. As 2018 dawned, expectations for self-driving vehicles were sky-high. Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving car company, was testing fully driverless cars and preparing for a commercial launch in the Phoenix area.

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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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Five Digital Business Tips for Small Companies

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Five Digital Business Tips for Small Companies - Information Technology Blog. Business operation in the modern era has truly become more about tailoring your online space to suit your customers than it is about the offline, real-weld space. Recognizing this change is of fundamental importance to small businesses that are looking to grow and evolve with the digital opportunities presented to them in the twenty-first century.

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2018: A year of highlights! Plus, 2019 overview

Spearline Testing

2018 was a year of a number of highlights and milestones that we are very proud of. Below is a summary of some of the developments and launches in 2018 that are already benefiting a number of our customers. And we have some significant plans in the pipeline for 2019, full details of which will be revealed to you shortly. As always, if there’s anything you’d like to discuss, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

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What Do Tech's Most Powerful Women Have in Common?

Information Week

When the IBM Watson Personality API analyzed these female tech leader's words, it identified nine traits as being most dominant.

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Hybrid cloud technologies become table stakes in IaaS market

CTOvision

Read Alan R. Earls’ articles about how IaaS providers will increase stakes in hybrid cloud on Tech Target : AWS, Azure, and Google made hybrid cloud technologies the main point of focus in 2018. Their strategies, however, were unique — and look to remain that way in 2019, as all three providers continue their efforts 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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The Linux Migration: December 2018 Progress Report

Scott Lowe

In December 2016, I kicked off a migration from macOS to Linux as my primary laptop OS. Throughout 2017, I chronicled my progress and challenges along the way; links to all those posts are found here. Although I stopped the migration in August 2017, I restarted it in April 2018 when I left VMware to join Heptio. In this post, I’d like to recap where things stand as of December 2018, after 8 months of full-time use of Linux as my primary laptop OS.

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Connected Cars, Telematics and Connectivity-as-a-Service ?: What’s the Future?

Dataconomy

Vehicle-to-Cloud – yes, it is a thing! And it is making automotive insurance providers and telecoms thrive together to support telematics “Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do,” this is a popular quote by Elon Musk. But wait, even more popularly discussed. The post Connected Cars, Telematics and Connectivity-as-a-Service ?

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Act Now to Reap Automation Benefits Later

Information Week

Forward-thinking enterprises are delivering business and infrastructure optimization with intelligent automation and looking now to business transformation.

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Facebook AI Research (FAIR) turns five: What has accomplished and where they are headed

CTOvision

From Facebook on Facebook AI Research (FAIR) : Five years ago, we created the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) group to advance the state of the art of AI through open research for the benefit of all — it’s an effort to understand the nature of intelligence so that we might create intelligent machines. Since then, FAIR […].

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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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Are You Well Ahead of Change Curve

Future of CIO

Do not underestimate the learning curve, and do not get overwhelmed by the intensity of change as well. The digital transformation, like the computer technology revolution itself, is a long journey over the bumpy road. It is reshaping our thinking and recasting the way we view ourselves, the systems of which we are the part of the environments. Digitalization represents the next stage of business maturity which will improve how the enterprise works and interacts with its ecosystem, with people a

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It’s Time to Forge a Consensus on Cloud

Nutanix

Ever since the emergence of cloud, there’s been fierce debate about which architecture is best. Public and private cloud both have their advocates.

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IoT: Living on the Edge

Information Week

Where is your data when you need it? Edge computing offers an alternative to processing all data in the cloud or the data center.

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7 tips for scaling your AI strategy

CTOvision

Read Clint Boulton list 7 tips for companies to scale up their AI strategy on CIO : Pilot projects of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies proliferated in 2018, as many enterprises tested machine learning (ML) algorithms and an array of automation tools to cement relationships with customers, improve network operations or augment their cybersecurity postures.

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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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Five Thinking Forces to Drive Digital

Future of CIO

With fast-paced changes, shortened knowledge cycle and fierce competitions, no one can rest on a static mindset, past accomplishments, or the wishful thought that everything is perfect the way it is. The digital organization is the self-organized but interlaced and hyper-connected ecosystem. The high mature digital organization today needs to be sophisticated enough to act intelligently and nimble enough to adapt to changes promptly.

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Why Can’t IT Administrators and Decision Makers Agree on Cloud?

Nutanix

Here’s a test. Would you be comfortable giving a definition of ‘the cloud’ to a stranger? If you have any doubts, don’t worry – you’re not alone.

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The Secret to Digital Transformation Success

Information Week

New technologies promise business results, but rollouts can be risky. Here's how CIOs can reduce adoption risk, close skill gaps and keep teams happy.

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The big three in 2019: Apple, Google and Microsoft’s upcoming hardware year

CTOvision

While 2018 was a year of iterative updates, Apple, Google and Microsoft all released some of their best products yet, even if they weren’t as innovative as some would like. While many flagships went without any upgrades – we didn’t even see a new MacBook or Surface Book – devices like the MacBook Air and […].

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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.