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Where Cloud Adoption is Still Needed

Information Week

COVID-19 is a wake-up call for leaders to embrace cloud technology. However, industries that would benefit from cloud adoption still resist adoption.

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For Super Bowl LV Advertisers, It Pays To Be Brave

Forrester IT

Sitting out this year’s Super Bowl may be the safe call for advertisers. Those brave enough to bring America levity in its moment of darkness, however, will reap the rewards. This year’s Super Bowl will be unlike any other. Stadium attendance in Tampa is limited to 22,000, a fraction of the record-breaking 100,000 fans in […].

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Digital Threshold Live: Data and Simulation Are Rebuilding the World

CTOvision

Bilal Zuberi, Partner at Lux Capital, has heard a lot of ideas. What separates him from most is how quickly he’s able to separate the truly great and innovative ideas […].

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Cloud services spending jumps by $10 billion in final quarter of 2020

Tech Republic Cloud

Driven by demand from remote workers and students as well as content streaming and online gaming, cloud services took in $40 billion in sales last quarter, says Canalys.

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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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How to Keep Machine Learning Steady and Balanced

Information Week

A gift usually is given to you neatly wrapped. Data, however, is rarely a gift that is prepared with similar care. Here are some concepts on how to keep ML models in production with balanced data.

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The Real Amazon Question: Can Amazon Retain A “Day 1” Culture When The Only Person From Day 1 Departs?

Forrester IT

First, before you all jump to making comments: I have absolutely zero doubt that Amazon will retain its dominant foothold in retail and digital long after I type the last period of this post. But this post is about the culture and operating philosophy of the company – and the real question of “Can Amazon […].

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ConfigMgr Client Component Status | Installed | Enabled | Disabled | SCCM

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s have a quick look at ConfigMgr Client Component Status in detail. You can use the Components tab of the Configuration Manager client application – Configuration Manager Properties to view the installed, disabled, and enabled components on a Windows 10 computer.

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Analysts predict Bezos' move to the board won't slow the pace of cloud innovation at Amazon

Tech Republic Cloud

New executive chairman takes a victory lap after fantastic Q4 earnings report and leaves incoming CEO Andy Jassy to deal with anticipated antitrust issues.

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Make COVID-19 The Supply Chain’s Final Cautionary Tale

Forrester IT

Where does supply chain risk rank in the hierarchy of priorities in the grand scheme of a firm’s business strategy? If 2020 taught us anything, it was that we underestimate the pivotal role of supply chain. It also taught us that supply chain risk IS business risk. If the mechanisms, processes, and partners that power our value chain suddenly come to a grinding halt, and we’re unable to deliver to our customers then effectively, we have no business.

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Why the Financial Services Industry is Embracing the Cloud

Information Week

Financial services firms, such as banks and insurance providers, are rapidly heading into the cloud, lured by the promise of multiple monetary, innovation and performance benefits.

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GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report

The technological landscape is dynamic and changes quickly. And for procurement and supply chain leaders looking to harness the power of technology to navigate complex challenges and an uncertain business environment, keeping up with the latest trends can be its own obstacle. So, what’s on the technological horizon for procurement and supply chain for the year ahead?

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Best Way to Uninstall SCCM Client | Remove ConfigMgr Client

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s understand the best way to uninstall SCCM client (How to Remove ConfigMgr Client) from a Windows 10 device. I think this is the most challenging part for many ConfigMgr Admins. Because there are different ways to uninstall or remove the ConfigMgr client. We will also see how to remove device records from the SQL […].

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Microsoft just completed the world's largest email migration, shifting 2.1 million mailboxes for the NHS

Tech Republic Cloud

Mass migration of 2.1 million NHS mailbox accounts saw some 2.3 petabytes of data moved from local servers to Microsoft Azure.

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Singapore’s Model AI Governance Framework sets out to help organizations deploy AI responsibly

Forrester IT

This is the second part of my blog and webinar series on AI governance and risk management. In my previous blog post and webinar, I discussed how AI is driving the need for data and technology governance to evolve and expand its scope to include ethics, accountability and risk management. In this blog accompanying the […].

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XOps: Real or Hype?

Information Week

DevOps was just the beginning. Now, organizations are adopting other forms of Ops inside and outside IT. But are they missing the point?

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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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Reduce Device Management Overheads with 1E Agent

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. This is a sponsored post by 1E. The post Reduce Device Management Overheads with 1E Agent appeared first on How to Manage Devices by Anoop C Nair.

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Security chaos engineering helps you find weak links in your cyber defenses before attackers do

Tech Republic Security

Security experts explain why this approach is all about data and resilience, not deliberately sabotaging your own network.

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Forrester’s Digital Go-To-Market Review: Consumer Electronics Edition

Forrester IT

Our latest update to our Digital Go-To-Market Review series for brands looks at the consumer electronics sector. Electronics store sales peaked in 2007, and since then, an ever-growing proportion of consumer electronics sales has moved online.* In 2020, 64% of US online adults said that they made a consumer electronics purchase online on a computer, […].

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Aegis Sciences CIO on Scaling IT to Meet COVID Testing Demand

Information Week

Toxicology lab finds flexible way to scale up its resources that also cut costs while increasing the pace of testing.

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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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ConfigMgr Client Action Application Deployment Evaluation Cycle | SCCM

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s understand the ConfigMgr Client Action called Application Deployment Evaluation Cycle in a bit more detail. The users/admins can initiate the app deployment evaluation cycle to speed up the application evaluation as part of troubleshooting scenarios from Windows 10 clients and from the admin console.

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6 enterprise security software options to keep your organization safe

Tech Republic Security

Enterprise security software is essential to protecting company data, personnel, and customers. Learn about some of the popular options available for your organization.

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Miami mayor says Elon Musk will tunnel under the city for just $30 million

The Verge

Image: The Boring Company. Elon Musk told Miami’s mayor Friday that The Boring Company could dig a two-mile tunnel under the city for as little as $30 million — a fraction of the $1 billion price tag once quoted by local transit officials. Musk also told the Mayor that The Boring Company could complete the job in six months, versus the original four year estimate.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Heavy Metal Nazi Hunting Online

Gizmodo

A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece for the Columbia Journalism Review about the way that my lifelong interest in heavy metal and ongoing career as a metal journalist had equipped me with a very specific skill set—namely, spotting Nazis, especially when they would prefer not to be found. In this respect, I am nothing… Read more.

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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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Embracer Group acquires Borderlands maker Gearbox Entertainment for $1.3 billion

Venture Beast

Borderlands maker Gearbox Entertainment said it is being acquired by the Embracer Group for up to $1.3 billion. Frisco, Texas-based Gearbox will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Sweden-based company. The transaction gives Gearbox access to new capital to help it make more games and become a significant part of the Embracer Group, which is ba… Read More.

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DDoS-for-hire services are exploiting Plex Media flaw to amplify their attacks

Tech Republic Security

Attackers are taking advantage of a security flaw in the way Plex Media servers look for compatible media devices and streaming clients, says Netscout.

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Another SpaceX Starship nails clean test flight, but explodes on landing

The Verge

SpaceX’s latest Starship prototype launched on Tuesday, soaring miles above its South Texas facilities in a successful flight demonstration before exploding during the landing attempt. It’s the second failed landing in a row, after a previous prototype, SN8, launched and failed to stick the landing in December. This week’s launch demo — one of many in the books already — follows weeks of tension between SpaceX and the Federal Aviation Administration, which approves test launches like this one.

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After 69 Years, Chemists Finally Get a Good Look at Einsteinium

Gizmodo

First conceived in the combustion of a hydrogen bomb on the South Pacific island of Elugelab in 1952, the heavy element einsteinium is one of the shier members of the Periodic Table; it doesn’t naturally occur and is so unstable that it’s difficult to get enough of the stuff, for long enough, to actually study it. Read more.

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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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Microsoft: PAC won’t donate in 2022 cycle to politicians who sought to overturn election

GeekWire

Microsoft President Brad Smith. (GeekWire File Photo). Microsoft says its Political Action Committee (PAC) will suspend contributions for the 2022 election cycle to all members of Congress who voted against certifying results of the U.S. presidential election, and to all “state officials and organizations who supported such objections or suggested the election should be overturned.” The company says it will also create a new initiative called Democracy Forward to allow employees, sha

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How an automated pentesting stick can address multiple security needs

Tech Republic Security

Used for offensive and defensive purposes, a penetration testing device can be configured to perform automated checks on network security and more.

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A German man is keeping $60 million in bitcoin from police by never revealing his password

The Verge

Photo by Michele Doying / The Verge. The wonderful thing about bitcoin is many of its apparent benefits, like the ability to be anonymously owned and securely transferred, are also the things that often create situations like this: police in Germany have seized more than €50 million ($60 million) in bitcoin, but they can’t access any of it because, as Reuters reports , the person they took it from won’t tell them his password.

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Rep. Matt Gaetz Staffer Cheered On Capitol Rioters Via Parler as They Overran Police

Gizmodo

As police struggled futilely to fend off a wave of rioters outside the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, Joel Valdez, an aide to Congressman Matt Gaetz, made his way to the rooftop of his boss’s office building across the street on Independence Ave. Surveying the mob as it surrounded the complex, he captured a… Read more.

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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.