Forrester IT
MAY 9, 2016
They say a picture is worth a 1000 words. so our graphics designers and my wonderful research associate, Rachael Klehm, created this infographic to highlight a few of the data points from the Digital Transformation Playbook and the Forrester / Odgers Berndtson Digital Business research study. Previous post: Digital's golden rule; always save your customer's time.
CTOvision
MAY 10, 2016
Bob Gourley. Cognitio's Bob Flores and Roger Hockenberry are widely known for their ability to articulate what is important about the cyber threat and the digital risks to the modern organization. The clip below shows both Bob and Roger in action, succinctly articulating what business leaders need to know about the nature of digital risk in the modern age.
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Data Center Knowledge
MAY 10, 2016
There are two big problems with reusing server exhaust heat, but there are also good solutions to both of them Read More.
The Accidental Successful CIO
MAY 11, 2016
CIOs want to know how to correctly identify their star performers Image Credit: Susanne Nilsson. On top of all of the jobs that the person with the CIO job has to do, one of the most important is identifying the leaders of tomorrow. What this means is that from all of the employees that the firm has, some of them are better than others. What a CIO needs to be able to do is to figure out who the company should make the investment in and who they should pass over.
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.
Forrester IT
MAY 13, 2016
Today's customers, products, business operations, and competitors are fundamentally digital. Succeeding in this new era mandates everyone constantly reinvent their businesses as fundamentally digital. You have two choices, · become a digital predator; or. · become digital prey. To compete in this new digital market norm, software applications and products must contain new sources of customer value while at the same time adopting new operational agility.
CTOvision
MAY 11, 2016
Dan Cybulski. This post was written by Cognitio and sponsored by Verisign. So far in our quest to establish a framework for resilient cybersecurity we have talked about the importance of understanding and evaluating the threat landscape. Specifically, we highlighted the advantage of context focused threat intelligence and the value it can add to quickly and proactively detect and respond to threats.
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Social, Agile and Transformation
MAY 8, 2016
HBR is proving they understand Digital Innovation with two recent posts, one on Embracing Agile co-written by Jeff Sutherland one of the Agile Manifesto's signers and the other, You Don't Have to Be a Software Company to Think Like One. Anyone who has led an agile transformation in their organization knows that getting people, teams, departments, and organizations on board takes time and.
Forrester IT
MAY 10, 2016
Over the past 25 years, many organizations have modelled their support - and in some cases their delivery organization - after the ITIL frameworks and processes. For many, ITIL has been helpful in establishing the rigor and governance that they needed to bring their infrastructure under control in an era where quality and consistency of service was critical and technology was sometimes fragile.
CTOvision
MAY 10, 2016
Bob Gourley. The Institute of World Politics is an independent graduate school formed to fill a major national security need: the need for greater professional education in statecraft, national security and international affairs. They do so by use of highly qualified, motivated, experienced practitioners from the community and world class best academics.
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 13, 2016
Transpacific Hawaiki cable expected to improve AWS latency for users in Australia and New Zealand Read More.
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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.
Cloud Musings
MAY 13, 2016
In the mythical, medieval land of AWS, a civil war brews between the several noble Cloud Services over rulership. Meanwhile, across the sea, the former controlling dynasty, Traditional IT, attempts to make its way back home and reclaim the throne with the help of the " Do It Yourself " old guard. While the conflict of political power ensues in the civilized world, an ancient, forgotten army of an undead race located far north of any inhabited territory begin traveling south for a chilling invasi
Forrester IT
MAY 9, 2016
Over the past several years, Forrester's research has written extensively about the age of the customer. Forrester believes that only the enterprises that are obsessed with winning, serving, and retaining customers will thrive in this highly competitive, customer-centric economy. But in order to get a full view of customer behavior, sentiment, emotion, and intentions, Information Management professionals must help enterprises leverage all the data at their disposal, not just structured, but
CTOvision
MAY 13, 2016
Katie Kennedy. The following are some of the hot topics we are tracking in the technology ecosystem: Technology Ticker. Round-the-world Solar Impulse plane dodges bad weather and lands in Oklahoma. Revealed: The winners of the 2016 GeekWire Awards. Second bank hit by 'sophisticated' malware attack, says Swift - The Guardian. Federal Microbiome Project Aims to Solve Tiny Riddles of Science - New York Times.
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 11, 2016
Brocade’s Tom Nadeau, who literally wrote the book on SDN, says data centers are transforming, and OpenStack is just the first step Read More.
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Tech Republic Cloud
MAY 12, 2016
Often times, a small business will have similar challenges as a large enterprise in terms of finding the right tools. Here are a few things to consider as you vet a CRM for your small business.
Forrester IT
MAY 11, 2016
Cybersecurity requires a specialized skillset and a lot of manual work. We depend on the knowledge of our security analysts to recognize and stop threats. To do their work, they need information. Some of that information can be found internally in device logs, network metadata or scan results. Analysts may also look outside the organization at threat intelligence feeds, security blogs, social media sites, threat reports and other resources for information.
CTOvision
MAY 11, 2016
Toby Duthie. In October last year, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated the EU-US Safe Harbor agreement. Concern had been mounting for some time that the agreement failed to provide adequate protections for EU citizens’ private data located in, or transferred to, the United States. The decision means that the most commonly used data transferring method between the EU and the US – allowing for over 4000 companies to store and process data in the US – is no longer an optio
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 12, 2016
Partners with artists in US and Europe to paint murals on the walls of its server farms Read More.
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All Things Distributed
MAY 10, 2016
Building your applications with only managed components has become very popular, and AWS Lambda plays a crucial role in that. I see a tremendous interest in examples how to build such applications, and articles such as " The Serverless Start-Up - Down With Servers! " about teletext.io are read eagerly around the globe. If you are looking for more examples there are the Lambda Serverless Reference Architectures that can serve as the blueprint for building your own serverless applications.
Forrester IT
MAY 13, 2016
"We are in the business of building [FILL IN THE BLANK], why would we build an insights platform out ourselves.". That sentiment will drive more and more companies to explore the insights services option. Many already feel like they are chasing a moving target. Data and analytics practices are evolving quickly with new tools and techniques moving the bar higher and higher.
CTOvision
MAY 11, 2016
Katie Kennedy. The following are some of the hot topics we are tracking in the technology ecosystem: Technology Ticker. Facebook Rebuts Criticisms About a Bias Against Conservatives - Wall Street Journal. Institute of World Politics Holds Unique Cyber Intelligence Initiative Event 24 May 2016. Staples and Office Depot are calling off their merger - The Verge.
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 9, 2016
Plans call for 500,000-square foot data center in response to influx of inquiries from financial services firms Read More.
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Tech Republic Security
MAY 10, 2016
Think your Amazon Echo or Samsung Smart TV are IoT security threats? Businesses using the 'industrial internet of things' are even bigger targets for cyberattacks.
Forrester IT
MAY 10, 2016
By 2020, every company that exists today will have become a digital predator or digital prey. This isn't news to you if you follow my research or blog posts. In fact I've been saying that since 2014. But why is it that some companies seem to understand digital business more than others? Is their a difference in the leadership in digital predators compared to digital dinosaurs?
CTOvision
MAY 9, 2016
Katie Kennedy. The following are some of the hot topics we are tracking in the technology ecosystem: Technology Ticker. Agricultural innovation committee recommends government upgrades rural telecommunications infrastructure - ZDNet. Yelp, Google Hold Pointers to Fix Governments - Wall Street Journal. Automatic Assignment of Future Inventions: A Serious Error of Federal Law that Requires Supreme Court Review - Patently-O.
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 12, 2016
Your data center just went down. Your manager is on the phone. Do you know exactly what to do? Read More.
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Galido
MAY 10, 2016
The ability to work-at-home is fantastic, but before you start there are a few essential tools that must be at your disposal to make your job easier. Without these tools you will face more time looking for solutions than working, and chances are this isn’t going to make the job very fun. There are a number of online tools available and you should have many of them to make your job easier.
Forrester IT
MAY 9, 2016
At the TechCrunch Disrupt event in NY today, Dag Kittlaus delivered the first public demonstration of Viv , his team's follow-up to the popular Siri service. There's been a lot of press in advance of the demo and frequent chatter around eBusiness and bots and what Viv means to them. My focus is on Application Development and Delivery (AD&D) professionals, so I thought I'd update you on what all of this means to them.
Tech Republic Cloud
MAY 9, 2016
TabCloud is one of those Chrome extensions you'll find yourself unable to work without. Jack Wallen shows you to install and use this amazingly handy Chrome tab tool.
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 13, 2016
Microsoft said it would help you brew up Big Data along with your latté, while Amazon and HPE had some IoT news of their own Read More.
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.
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