Tue.Dec 08, 2020

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Brand Spotlight 2020: In A Difficult Year, The Best Brands Shine Bright

Forrester IT

In a tumultuous 2020, ravaged by a pandemic and witness to a surging demand for equality, six brands occupied the spotlight. The Best Brands Are Forged In The Crucible Of Crisis As I spent 2020 researching, writing about, and working with brands, it was clear that branding as usual wasn’t cutting it. I had to […].

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Immuta, Starburst Partner To Deliver Automation To Help Users Unlock Cloud Data for Safe, Secure Analytics

CTOvision

Immuta, a provider of automated data governance solution is partnering with Starburst, creator of Starburst enterprise for Presto, commercial offering of the Presto open-source, distributed SQL query engine. In specific, the […].

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Singapore’s New Digital Banks Will Change The Banking Landscape Forever, Maybe

Forrester IT

In a landmark announcement made on December 4, 2020 Singapore’s Monetary Authority (MAS) awarded banking licenses to four players, two of which will serve the retail banking market using a digital full bank license (DFB). Notably, both of the lucky winners, i.e. the consortium formed by Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) and Grab Holding Inc. (known for […].

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Review: DataRobot aces automated machine learning

CTOvision

Read Martin Heller take a look at how DataRobot’s end-to-end AutoML suite fares amongst automated machine learning platforms on Information Weekly: Data science is nothing if not tedious, in ordinary […].

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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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Key Takeaways From The Forrester Wave: Customer Experience Strategy Consulting Practices, Q4 2020

Forrester IT

On December 2, we published The Forrester Wave™: Customer Experience Strategy Consulting Practices, Q4 2020, which is a continuation of the Forrester Customer Experience (CX) team’s study of the consulting market that supports CX professionals. These consulting services are critical to CX leaders trying to foster innovation and support CX transformations that help their companies […].

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Okta and Amazon Web Services Bring the Okta Identity Cloud to AWS Marketplace

CTOvision

Okta, Inc. the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, today at AWS re:Invent 2020, announced the availability of the Okta Identity Cloud and its products in AWS Marketplace. […].

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Quantum computing: The next WannaCry-like episode?

CTOvision

2020 was an unprecedented year in many ways, but the spike in cyberattacks that we saw during the pandemic has changed the security landscape forever, says Gaurav Banga of Balbix. […].

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Standalone 5G is more secure than previous network generations

Tech Republic Security

Business leaders are spending close to a quarter of their budget on 5G security and will increase that spend in the next 12–18 months, according to a new report.

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Strengthening our commitment to Australia

All Things Distributed

Our customers never stop building. And because they never stop, their need for security, availability, performance, scalability, and flexibility over how they choose to run their workloads never stop. At AWS, we are customer obsessed, so we never stop building either. That is why we have created more than 175 services, which we offer from 24 AWS Regions around the world to give our customers the best possible cloud experience, no matter where they are.

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How the coronavirus outbreak will affect cybersecurity in 2021

Tech Republic Security

Ensuring security for employees working remotely was cited as the biggest challenge going into the new year, says Check Point.

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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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10 Hot IT Job Skills for 2021

Information Week

For the first time in decades, some IT titles are experiencing a salary decline -- unless you have these high-demand skills.

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Managing, Motivating and Maximizing Your Partner Base: CAM Training Part 2

Association of Information Technology Professional

What does an ideal channel partner look like? There is no right answer—and that’s OK. Solution providers, MSPs, integrators of all shapes and sizes can add value to a tech vendor's business with the right plan, programs, and personnel.

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How to protect yourself from gift card scams

Tech Republic Security

With the holiday season in bloom, watch out for scams that promise free gift cards or offer to check your gift card balance, says Bolster.

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7 tips for effectively migrating to the cloud

Tech Republic Cloud

Moving to the cloud without the right strategy results in higher costs, security flaws, and disappointment with the outcome, says Gartner.

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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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Android Enterprise: An ultimate use-case guide for the different management modes available with Intune [3]

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. This blog post focuses on the different Android Enterprise management modes available with Microsoft Intune a.k.a Microsoft Endpoint Manager. I already did a blog post long back on the different ways of managing android devices from Intune. However, there has been new management modes introduced since when I wrote it.

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Linux Foundation debuts new, secure, open source cloud native access management software platform

Tech Republic Security

Based on the Gluu server, the Janssen Project prioritizes security and performance and features signing and encryption functionalities.

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Google Cloud unveils hundreds of new partner apps

Tech Republic Cloud

The new partnerships include capabilities to enhance operations across industries including manufacturing, entertainment, retail, and more.

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Video conferencing trends for 2021

Spearline Testing

Video conferencing has become a core facet of the year 2020, enabling organizations to communicate, family and friends to stay connected, and even for medical practitioners to assess their patients. By 2024 , research projects that the video conferencing industry will be worth US$20 billion. The impact of video conferencing and the opportunities it provides has been indisputable during the current pandemic, especially for organizations who rapidly had to migrate from offices to a work from home

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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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Bizible founder Aaron Bird raises $5.1M for new Seattle B2B startup studio Pienza

GeekWire

Aaron Bird. After selling a startup and traveling around the world with his family, Aaron Bird set out to build the next great Seattle tech company. He had a lot of promising enterprise software-related ideas, given his previous experience at business marketing startup Bizible. But it was hard picking just one. And thus the creation of Seattle-based Pienza , the latest entry in a growing cadre of startup studios that aim to make the company-building process more efficient.

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Back to the Future's Biggest Questions Are Answered in Doc Brown's DeLorean Owner's Manual

Gizmodo

When did Doc Brown meet Marty McFly? What did the inventor do when he first arrived in 1885? How did he find out about the future of the McFly family? Questions like these have fascinated Back to the Future fans for years and soon they’ll have official answers. Leave it to Doc to hide some of his biggest secrets in… Read more.

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Amazon Web Services launches new tool to detect bias and blind spots in machine learning

GeekWire

Dr. Nashlie Sephus, an applied science manager for Amazon Web Services AI, introduces the new Sagemaker Clarify feature at AWS re:Invent Tuesday. (Screenshot via webcast). A new feature from Amazon Web Services will alert developers to potential bias in machine learning algorithms, part of a larger effort by the tech industry to keep automated predictions from discriminating against women, people of color and other underrepresented groups.

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How to install OpenLDAP and phpLDAPadmin on Ubuntu Server 20.04

Tech Republic Data Center

If your business needs an LDAP implementation, you can't go wrong with the OpenLDAP/phpLDAPadmin combo. Jack Wallen helps you get it up and running.

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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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YouTube Gaming’s Ryan Wyatt on gaming’s explosive growth in 2020

Venture Beast

The year is just about over, and perhaps the only things worth celebrating about 2020 are the memories of the hot videos on YouTube Gaming. This year, fans watched more than 100 billion hours of gaming content on YouTube — about double the previous year. Live gaming streams created more than 10 billion watch time hours on YouTube, and there a… Read More.

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Freespira raises $10M for tech platform that aims to ease panic attacks and PTSD

GeekWire

Freespira’s flagship product. (Freepsira Photo). In a year rife with anxiety, a Seattle-area startup called Freespira has raised $10 million to support its efforts to develop and deploy a technology that eases panic attacks and PTSD. The company was founded by Beth Siegelman after she participated in a Stanford University study exploring the physiological causes of panic disorder and the role played by carbon dioxide, which we exhale when breathing.

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Arthur raises $2.5 million for its VR office space service

Venture Beast

Arthur has raised $2.5 million so you can have meetings in virtual reality. You can also set up a virtual office and hold events. Read More.

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Athira Pharma wins $15M grant from National Institute on Aging for trial of Alzheimer’s drug

GeekWire

Athira Pharma CEO Leen Kawas. Seattle-based biotech company Athira Pharma announced a three-year grant totaling $15 million from the National Institute on Aging to support an upcoming clinical trial of a treatment that seeks to stop the deterioration of neurons and restore healthy brain activity in people with mild to moderate cases of Alzheimer’s disease.

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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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VW-backed QuantumScape says its solid-state batteries will enable EVs to travel farther and charge faster

The Verge

After nearly a decade in operation, QuantumScape, a San Jose-based startup backed by Volkswagen and Bill Gates, is finally breaking its silence. In a virtual “battery day” event for investors, the recently public company announced that its “solid state” batteries for electric vehicles will charge faster, hold more power, and last longer than traditional EV batteries.

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OcéanIA treats climate change like a machine learning grand challenge

Venture Beast

Oceanographers and AI researchers are working together for OcéanIA, a four-year project to understand oceans and the impact of climate change. Read More.

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Facebook Is About To Be Sued For Allegedly Violating Antitrust Law

Gizmodo

More than 40 attorneys general and the U.S. government are gearing up to throw the book at the Book. Facebook. with an antitrust lawsuit that’s set to be filed on Wednesday. Read more.

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Few researchers thoroughly test adversarial attacks on surveillance AI in the real world

Venture Beast

In a new study, researchers find that few adversarial techniques purporting to protect against surveillance AI have been thoroughly tested. Read More.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.