Mon.Oct 01, 2018

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The Platform Economy – What CIOs Need to Know

Forrester IT

Nary a day goes by without someone talking about their efforts to build a platform. We cannot argue, platforms can contribute massive value to customers, the ecosystem, and the company that creates the platform. More so, as a consumer, I rely on platforms for so much of my working life that I often don’t even […].

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Unstructured Data: Vulnerable, Uncontrolled, and Getting Bigger Every Day

CTOvision

Unstructured data–data in documents, spreadsheets, images, and other files–accounts for the vast majority of the sensitive information created and stored by a typical organization. These files represent some of an organization’s most valuable assets, as well as some of its greatest security risks. To keep pace with the exponential growth of unstructured data and the […].

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Get Your SEO In Shape

Forrester IT

Pick a sport. Any sport. You are now tasked with managing that team’s success. Sounds pretty fun, right? Apply this to managing a company’s search engine optimization (SEO) and it quickly turns into a cumbersome task.

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Amazon rolls out High Memory Instances for in-memory databases

CTOvision

AWS is looking to push up its leadership position in business cloud computing a notch with the new EC2 high memory instances for in-memory databases like SAP HANA. The new EC2 high memory instances offer a choice of a whopping 6, 9, and 12 terabytes of memory. AWS has said that it is now planning […].

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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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Part 2 of the Twelve Things I Learned from One Year After Publishing Driving Digital

Social, Agile and Transformation

About two months ago I shared my twelve things I learned from one year after publishing Driving Digital. But I only shared six of them and shared the remaining six with readers of the StarCIO Driving Digital Newsletter. The first six included several important findings including: (1) more companies are developing proprietary software, (5) attend the right conferences to grow and learn and (6.

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An interview with Robert Fink, Architect of Foundry, Palantir’s open data platform Part Three: Open Development Environments

CTOvision

Editor’s note: This post is the third of a series of three capturing the result of recent interview/discussions I had with Robert Fink of Palantir. The conversation was wide ranging, hitting on topics of design, development environments and a bit on the philosophy of enterprise tech. Several common themes emerged in those topic areas, including […].

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Alphabet’s Chronicle launches VirusTotal Enterprise and visual redesign

CTOvision

Alphabet’s Chronicle has now launched VirusTotal Enterprise, a business version of its free offering that, it says, increases malware search speed by 100 times. Google owner Alphabet in January unveiled Chronicle as the latest offering with VirusTotal malware scanning tool that Google bought in 2012. VirusTotal is essentially a search engine for malware and other […].

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Cisco sets $2.3B deal for unified access, multi-factor authentication security firm Duo

Network World

Cisco said today it had closed the $2.35 billion deal it made for network identity, authentication security company Duo. According to Cisco, Duo’s zero trust security model authorizes secure connections to all applications based on the trustworthiness of users and devices. Duo’s cloud-delivered technology lets IT professionals set and enforce risk-based, adaptive access policies and get enhanced visibility into users’ devices and activities.

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It’s time to revolutionise your company’s approach to IoT

CTOvision

Read why Maciej Kranz of Cisco says that it is time to relook your company’s approach to the Internet of Things on the Silicon Republic : The internet of things (IoT) is digitally transforming businesses before our eyes. Throughout the past few years, companies across industries embarked on their IoT journeys with high hopes, focusing […].

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Machine learning APIs for Google Cloud Platform

Cloud Musings

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is considered to be one of the Big 3 cloud platforms among Microsoft Azure and AWS. GCP is widely used cloud solutions supporting AI capabilities to design and develop smart models to turn your data into insights at a cheap, affordable cost. The following excerpt is taken from the book ‘ Cloud Analytics with Google Cloud Platform ‘ authored by Sanket Thodge.

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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 Ways AI Will Alter the Future of Work

Information Week

No matter what industry you're in, artificial intelligence is likely to affect your job. Here's how.

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Why Your Logo Plays a Great Role in Marketing Your Business

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Why Your Logo Plays a Great Role in Marketing Your Business - Information Technology Blog. For any company, the creation of logos is one of its most valuable assets, as it creates its brand recall recognition and identity. Concerning marketing, logos are the most commonly used products in almost all media. Whether it’s your website, social media profiles, corporate merchandise, memos, packaging or any other platform, a logo creates a brand association.

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Why It's Time IT Gets a Seat at the Table

Information Week

The growing importance and complexity of IT mean that the CIO needs a seat at the table when it comes to driving innovation.

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VMworld EMEA 2018 and Spousetivities

Scott Lowe

Registration is now open for Spousetivities at VMworld EMEA 2108 in Barcelona! Crystal just opened registration in the last day or so, and I wanted to help get the message out about these activities. Here’s a quick peek at what Crystal has lined up for Spousetivities participants: A visit to the coastal village of Calella de Palafrugell, the village of Llafranc, and Pals (one of the most well-preserved medieval villages in all of Catalunya), along with wine in the Empordá region.

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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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Why IT Should Care About Legal Holds

Information Week

When it's time to preserve company data and communications relating to pending legal matters, the IT and legal groups have to work together.

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Next Generation Hybrid Software Defined Data Infrastructures Are In Your Future #blogtober

Storage IO Blog

Next Generation Hybrid Software Defined Data Infrastructures Are In Your Future #blogtober A few weeks ago I was invited to present a keynote at the 1st annual Minnesota VMware User Group (VMUG) Super VMUG mega event in Minneapolis titled Next Generation Hybrid Software Defined Data Infrastructures Are In Your Future (download PDF presentation here).

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Demystify the Labyrinth of Digital Transformation

Future of CIO

The digital paradigm shift is inevitable. Organizations today need to constantly improve the business and seeing change as an opportunity while keeping a holistic overview of the organization. Consider digital organization as the self-organized but interlaced entities, and humans are vehicles of natural and cultural evolution. Digital transformation is “pushed” by both visible forces and invisible forces, hard forces and soft forces from multiple directions.

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The New Book “The Change Agent CIO” Introduction Chapter IV The Digital IT Change Practices

Future of CIO

In forward-looking organizations, IT has become synonymous with the change department. IT is not only the super glue but also an integrator to weave all important change elements such as people, strategies, processes// procedures, and information Technology seamlessly, and make people change, process change and technology change sustainable for the long term.

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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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The Monthly “Unpuzzling Innovation” Book Tuning: The Breadth and Depth of Digital Innovation Oct. 2018

Future of CIO

Digital is the age of innovation. And innovation is what leads to differentiation. There are many ways to differentiate and, therefore, there are many ways to pursue innovation. Digital Master refers to those high-performing, highly innovative and high-mature (less than 15%) digital organizations; at the individual level, Digital Masters are those cross-generational digital professionals who are equipped with the advanced digital minds and build a unique set of digital capabilities.

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