mrc's Cup of Joe Blog
MARCH 28, 2019
Summary: A growing trend, low-code development claims to address many of the common challenges facing businesses today. But, how accurate are these claims? In this article, we take a realistic look at low-code platforms–exploring the pros and cons. photo credit: ppokta via pixabay cc According to Forrester Research , the low-code development platform market is growing by 50% year-over-year.
Forrester IT
MARCH 25, 2019
Motherboard and Kaspersky unveiled that hackers compromised a server of computer manufacturer, ASUS’ live software update tool to install a malicious backdoor on thousands of computers. The malicious file was able to masquerade as authentic software update as it was signed with legitimate ASUS digital certificates. The manufacturer unwittingly pushed out the backdoor to customers […].
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Future of CIO
MARCH 28, 2019
We are living in a dynamic business environment in which inventions, developments, and conflicts are continuously changing and that makes it impossible to have complete knowledge and understanding of many issues facing the company and market today. The business needs to keep discovering its strength, ride the multiple digital curves to build differentiated competencies and reach its full potential.
CTOvision
MARCH 26, 2019
When people think about artificial intelligence or AI, they can be quick to jump to the all-too-common sci-fi depiction of a heartlessly rational computer willing to kill people to fulfill its programming. Real AI is light-years away from that. Today, AI is still pretty far from basic things humans can accomplish, like being able to […].
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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.
Social, Agile and Transformation
MARCH 25, 2019
Sponsoring self-service BI where business users are empowered to develop their own dashboards and instrumenting data governance are not conflicting objectives. In fact, they are complementary and both are necessary to enable data driven organizations. Don't believe me? Go count the number of Excel spreadsheets or GSheets are on your network. Try to count how many duplicate data sources are.
Forrester IT
MARCH 25, 2019
When was the last time you answered a phone call from a phone number you didn’t recognize or opened an email from an unfamiliar sender? Like, never? Same here. The sad truth about most modern marketing tactics is that they’re too cheap and too easy. When anyone can do it, everyone will — which also […].
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CTOvision
MARCH 27, 2019
Read Stephen Moore’s tips for businesses to find out when a cybersecurity data breach is over on Forbes : People often ask, “When does the pain of a security breach finally end?” The answer is often a surprise. It isn’t over when you’ve removed a hacker or insider threat from your network environment, just as […].
Network World
MARCH 29, 2019
The Russian censorship agency Roskomnadzor has ordered 10 VPN service providers to link their servers in Russia to its network in order to stop users from reaching banned sites. If they fail to comply, their services will be blocked, according to a machine translation of the order. RELATED: Best VPN routers for small business. The 10 VPN providers are ExpressVPN, HideMyAss!
Forrester IT
MARCH 26, 2019
Apple and Goldman Sachs are partnering to deliver a new credit card. The industry seems to be quick to dismiss the partnership, especially the rewards program – but we think they’re missing the bigger picture. There’s an awful lot more at stake here than credit card rewards. The bigger concern for digital banks, traditional banks, […].
Anoop
MARCH 29, 2019
Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Windows Admin center is always a dearest tool for IT admins. I’m happy to see that Microsoft is investing time and efforts add new capabilities to the Admin Center. What’s New in Windows Admin Center The new Windows admin center (preview) for 1903 comes with many exciting features.
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.
CTOvision
MARCH 27, 2019
Read Alison DeNisco Rayome list three top cybersecurity threats that businesses should prepare for on the Tech Republic : To stay secure in the modern connected world, businesses must keep track of all emerging cybersecurity threats and assess the potential business impacts of when not if, they will experience a breach or incident, according to […].
Network World
MARCH 28, 2019
Cisco has dropped 17 Security advisories describing 19 vulnerabilities in the software that runs most of its routers and switches, IOS and IOS/XE. The company also announced that two previously issued patches for its RV320 and RV325 Dual Gigabit WAN VPN Routers were “incomplete” and would need to be redone and reissued. [ Also see What to consider when deploying a next generation firewall. | Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ].
Forrester IT
MARCH 27, 2019
Direct-to-consumer brands (DTC) are making a splash — for example, Glossier and Rent the Runway just reached unicorn status (a valuation of $1 billion or more) last week. What does this mean for incumbent brands? We’ll be unpacking the DTC trend and its repercussions next week at Forrester’s Consumer Marketing Forum in New York City, […].
The Accidental Successful CIO
MARCH 27, 2019
CIOs have to be able to anticipate the worst Image Credit: josef.stuefer. CIOs at banks have a great deal to worry about. Simply because their companies have so much valuable data and money, the bad guys are always trying to break in and steal things. As though this wasn’t bad enough, every bank is connected to every other bank. What this means is that if something bad happened to a connected bank, then your bank could also suffer.
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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.
CTOvision
MARCH 27, 2019
There is a perception gap between IT leaders and employees over the likelihood of insider breaches. It is a major challenge for businesses: insider data breaches are viewed as frequent and damaging occurrences, of concern to 95% of IT leaders, yet the vectors for those breaches – employees – are either unaware of, or unwilling […].
Network World
MARCH 25, 2019
One way to bolster your understanding of Wi-Fi security is to do some hacking yourself. That doesn’t mean you should infiltrate a company’s network or snoop on a neighbor’s setup. Rather, ethical hacking and legitimate Wi-Fi penetration testing – done in cooperation with the network owner – can help you learn more about the strengths and limitations of wireless security.
Forrester IT
MARCH 29, 2019
We’ve just published this year’s edition of “The State Of Retailing Online 2019: Omnichannel, Marketing, and Personalization,” a report we conduct annually with the National Retail Federation (NRF). This research summarizes how retailers and digital business professionals are thinking about and investing in their stores and online businesses.
Kitaboo
MARCH 26, 2019
In this age of instant gratification, where people want to consume fresh content every day, digital platforms emerged as a channel that met their needs. A digital publishing platform allows all kinds of content such as books, magazines, videos, newspaper etc. to be made available on smartphones and tablets. So, it comes as no surprise that educational publishers are trying to leverage this platform to deliver learning to K-12 and university students.
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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.
CTOvision
MARCH 27, 2019
UC Browser, a hugely popular mobile browser from Alibaba-owned UCWeb, has a design flaw that allows attackers to swap out downloads from the company’s servers with files from any server on the internet, according to researchers at Russian security firm Dr. Web. The company has raised an alarm over the mobile browser because it can download […].
Network World
MARCH 27, 2019
Cisco this week stepped deeper into the venture capital world by announcing Decibel, an early-stage investment firm that will focus on bringing enterprise-oriented startups to market. Veteran VC groundbreaker and former general partner at New Enterprise Associates Jon Sakoda will lead Decibel.
Forrester IT
MARCH 25, 2019
I get asked 2 questions at least weekly, in some cases almost daily: Where do we start for Zero Trust – Fix your IAM and user side of the equation. What is the difference between other frameworks and Zero Trust – Ok, now we can get down to the nuts and bolts on this one. Zero Trust turned ten years old this […].
Information Week
MARCH 25, 2019
The growing interest in automation in the enterprise highlights the need to place humans in jobs that are best suited for humans rather than machines, and a need for continuous training.
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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.
CTOvision
MARCH 26, 2019
Read Naga Rayapati list four reasons that AI community should think beyond deep learning on Forbes : Artificial intelligence (AI) is dominated by pattern recognition techniques. Recently, major advances have been made in the fields of image recognition, machine translation, audio processing and several others thanks to the development and refinement of deep learning.
All Things Distributed
MARCH 27, 2019
At re:Invent 2018, AWS announced the AWS App Mesh public preview, a service mesh that allows you to easily monitor and control communications across applications. Today, I'm happy to announce that App Mesh is generally available for use by customers. New architectural patterns. Many customers are modernizing their existing applications to become more agile and innovate faster.
Forrester IT
MARCH 26, 2019
Information technology keeps moving forward at an ever increasing pace. Business Intelligence (BI) technology isn’t falling behind and keeps constantly evolving. Gone are the days when vendors categorized themselves as IT focused and enterprise scalable vs. business user focused BI platforms mostly going after departmental and line of business (LOB) use cases.
Mick's IT Blog
MARCH 27, 2019
Recently, I have been working on Configuration Baselines for security purposes. While doing so, two of my baselines required remediation that takes longer than 1 minute. I do not recall where I read it, but I believe the timeout for a compliance check is 1 minute. If the compliance remediation takes longer than 1 minute, then the baseline is designated as non-compliant until the next compliance check is run.
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“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.
CTOvision
MARCH 26, 2019
Machine learning is not real learning — machine learning would appear to be a misleading phrase, maybe as a result we need to re-think our understanding of AI; at least these are the implications of a recently published paper. Artificial intelligence is a misleading phrase, or so many argue. It is misleading because there is […].
Information Week
MARCH 27, 2019
Plenty of young organizations may be cloud native with public services, but many incumbents cannot go that route.
Forrester IT
MARCH 27, 2019
At Adobe’s marketing conference, the company focused on content and experiences as the key differentiators for brands. Watch my video summary of the event that explores these key themes. Questions or comments? Find me on Twitter. Forrester clients: setup an inquiry.
Kitaboo
MARCH 28, 2019
Cloud computing became popular among businesses for its ease of data management and data security. The term cloud in this context basically means one centralized location where all your data is stored. This centralized storage system simplifies the sharing and managing of huge volumes of data. When it comes to delivering training solutions, leveraging a cloud-based platform for training content delivery is an effective alternative to certain eLearning modules which have to be copied or downloade
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