Thu.Dec 03, 2020

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Do You Know The $-Value Of Improving CX?

Forrester IT

We just updated our calculations for how much business growth you can expect from improving CX. We did this for the 14 industries we cover in our CX Index survey. For all the details, you can check out our new report “How Customer Experience Drives Business Growth, 2020.” But for now, here’s a… Sneak Peek […].

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Pulumi infrastructure-as-code tool adds.NET language support

CTOvision

Pulumi has added.NET language support to its open-source tool for Kubernetes and cloud provisioning and management. The Pulumi infrastructure-as-code tool now allows developers to declaratively provision cloud infrastructure using […].

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Using The Right Metrics For The Subscription-Based Business Model

Forrester IT

The subscription model offers new opportunities for businesses to enhance the value of their offerings as they become more embedded in the changing context of their clients’ customer journeys. But companies need to have the right metrics in place to be able to support the shift of the underlying value equation. Processes and systems for […].

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Sumo Logic Integration With New AWS Network Firewall Service

CTOvision

Sumo Logic, the pioneer in continuous intelligence, announced its Cloud SIEM solution now integrates with AWS Network Firewall, a new managed service that makes it easy to deploy essential network […].

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

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.

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Key Takeaways From The Forrester Wave™: Hybrid Cloud Management, Q4 2020

Forrester IT

This week, we published “The Forrester Wave™: Hybrid Cloud Management, Q4 2020” evaluation to help infrastructure and operations professionals understand the nine most relevant vendors in this space. This is a refresh from our previous evaluation in 2018. You’ll find there’s a number of familiar faces: BMC Software, Flexera (acquired RightScale), Micro Focus, and VMware. […].

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8 Innovative Tech Companies to Watch for in 2021

CTOvision

Read why Renee Johnson rates SiSense as one of the eight most innovative tech companies to watch out for in the next year on The Tech Report blog: Pfizer has […].

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SiliconANGLE reports Spatial VR introduces new auditorium environment and remote work updates

CTOvision

Spatial Systems Inc., a holographic collaboration platform for augmented and virtual reality, today announced the addition of a new auditorium environment and other features and updates. Spatial told SiliconANGLE that […].

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Facebook Looks To Monetize Messaging By Acquiring Kustomer And Extend Into Customer Service

Forrester IT

Facebook announced its intention to acquire Kustomer for $1B, adding digital customer service to its portfolio. Why the focus on customer service? It’s because customers hold the power in interactions with companies. Customers demand easy, effective service that values their time, and provides them with personal experiences that are in context of their actions.

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BHP deploys big data fabric to connect its worldwide data stores

CTOvision

BHP has spent the past 14 months establishing a “logical data fabric” that makes it easier to find and access data stores from across its worldwide operations for data-driven projects. The […].

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Announcing The Updated-For-2020™: Multicloud Managed Services Providers

Forrester IT

Today, we released the “The Forrester Wave™: Multicloud Managed Services Providers, Q4 2020.” We looked at the top 11 vendors — Accenture, Capgemini, Cognizant, Deloitte, HCL Technologies, IBM, Infosys, NTT DATA, Rackspace Technology, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and Wipro — in the market and evaluated them across 24 criteria. As workloads migrate to the cloud, […].

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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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GitLab is being valued at more than $6 billion in secondary share sale

CTOvision

GitLab, a site that helps developers share and manage code, is letting some employees sell a portion of their equity in an offering that values the company at over $6 […].

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SCCM Create Custom Windows PE Boot Image Using MDT with ConfigMgr

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. In this post, you will learn about the process to create custom Windows PE Boot Image Using MDT with Configuration Manager Console. When you install configuration manager, provides two default boot images: One to support x86 platforms and one to support x64 platforms.

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Open source freedom on overdrive–via the cloud?

CTOvision

DataStax open sourced a distribution of Apache Cassandra built for Kubernetes called K8ssandra. That’s cool, but it’s not really the story. I waited for a few days to see if […].

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How to Identify, Develop Your Best Tech Partners: CAM Training Part 1

Association of Information Technology Professional

Building a broad, deep of talent partners requires a well-thought-out strategy because partners come in all shapes and sizes and treating them all equally is likely to end up frustrating you, your partners, and ultimately your customers.

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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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Imperva SD-SOC: How Using AI and Time Series Traffic Improves DDoS Mitigation

CTOvision

Read Johnathan Azaria explain how Imperva’s SD-SOC uses artificial intelligence and time-series traffic to help companies mitigate DDoS attacks on Security Boulevard : Much has changed since we first started […].

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73% of organizations have embarked on a path to intelligent automation

Tech Republic Cloud

"It seems that robots—although still bearing the burden of deep-seated human stigmas—have entered the mainstream," says Deloitte in a new report.

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SCCM 2006 Revised Update Rollup Hotfix KB4575789 ConfigMgr

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Microsoft recently released revised update rollup KB4575789 for SCCM 2006. This is mainly because there is a couple of known issues with the previous HFRU KB4578605. There is a known issue with the ConfigMgr Console after installing KB4578605. The console terminates unexpectedly and Microsoft released another KB4575786 to fix this issue.

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Looking forward to 2100 on offices, robotics, education, social media, urbanization…

Trends in the Living Networks

A recent article in ICON magazine looks at what to expect as we think far into the future, potentially the end of this century, based primarily on an interview with me. The full article is well worth a read. Below are some excerpts from my quotes in the piece. On offices. “Yes, offices will exist because there is, in the end, no complete substitute for being in the same place,” Ross Dawson, author, futurist and strategy advisor admits to ICON.

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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 tune Nextcloud on-premise cloud server for better performance

Tech Republic Cloud

Jack Wallen offers tips on configuring Nextcloud for performance that should better meet your demands.

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Popular Android apps still vulnerable to patched security flaw

Tech Republic Security

Cybercriminals can exploit the at-risk apps to steal login credentials, passwords, financial details, and text messages, says Check Point.

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Every 2021 Warner Bros Film Will Stream on HBO Max for Free

Gizmodo

The ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic has radically changed the movie industry as we know it, and its ramifications are going to continue into the foreseeable future. Warner Bros., attempting to deal with that uncertain future, has just announced a shocking, unprecedented step. Read more.

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After reaching $40B in revenue in record time, Amazon Web Services hints at its own reinvention

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy with a chart showing AWS revenue growth at the company’s virtual re:Invent conference this week. (Screenshot via webcast). Kicking off the annual Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference this week, AWS CEO Andy Jassy pointed to a major milestone for the tech giant’s cloud division: AWS has officially surpassed $40 billion in annual revenue, and not at a leisurely pace.

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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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How Microsoft crushed Slack

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / Th. Slack’s life as an underdog darling of Silicon Valley ended on November 2nd, 2016. That’s when the upstart communication startup published an open letter to Microsoft in The New York Times , offering the tech giant an insincere “welcome” to the world of workplace chat software. The occasion was Microsoft’s launch of Teams , a Slack clone that would come bundled with the company’s popular Office 365 suite of products.

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Around 1:26 Rudy Giuliani Farts

Gizmodo

If it pleases the court, I submit evidence that on December 2nd, while giving testimony at a Michigan House Oversight Committee hearing, Rudolph William Louis Giuliani farted multiple times. Read more.

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If you’ve got an older iPhone, your FaceTime calls just got better

The Verge

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge. When Apple released iOS 14.2 last month , it didn’t mention that FaceTime calls would now be in 1080p for older iPhones. As MacMagazine notes , Apple has updated the product comparison pages of the iPhones 8, X, XR, XS, SE, and 11 (including the Max and Pro versions) to show that they now support FaceTime at 1080p over Wi-Fi, as opposed to before when they only supported 720p.

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Voyager Probes Spot Previously Unknown Phenomenon in Deep Space

Gizmodo

NASA’s Voyager spacecraft may be billions of miles away and over 40 years old, but they’re still making significant discoveries, as new research reveals. 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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Google fires prominent AI ethicist Timnit Gebru

The Verge

Photo by Kimberly White / Getty Images for TechCrunch. Timnit Gebru, one of Google’s top artificial intelligence researchers, says the company abruptly fired her yesterday. The technical co-lead of Google’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team claims managers were upset about an email she’d sent to colleagues. The email, which was sent to the Brain Women and Allies listserv, voiced frustration that managers were trying to get Gebru to retract a research paper.

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6 security predictions that will impact healthcare in 2021

Tech Republic Security

Attacks against COVID-19 vaccine developers will continue, while more reports will surface about patient data leaks in the cloud, says Kaspersky.

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People are putting their routers in jail to protect themselves from harmless Wi-Fi

The Verge

Image: Amazon. Please do not put your internet router in a Faraday cage. Please do not put your internet router in a Faraday cage. If you’re reading this, as someone who uses the internet, this may seem obvious. A Faraday cage, after all, blocks electromagnetic radiation and signals from escaping. Putting one around your router would, by very similar physics, prevent those same radio waves that carry your internet from reaching your devices.

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These Scammy 5G Router Cages Have Michael Faraday Rolling in His Grave

Gizmodo

While products that promise to protect you from radiation are far from new, now so-called Faraday router cages that claim to block harmful electromagnetic field radiation (and also 5G signal) are proliferating on Amazon. 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.