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Your Data Is Worth Nothing, Unless You Use It

Forrester IT

I’m often asked the question, “What’s my data worth?” And, my immediate (and somewhat provocative) response is, “Nothing!” As the data economy heats up, the fear of being left behind leaves some company execs in a cold sweat. Forward-looking board members ask about data commercialization strategies and expect answers. That question – “what’s my data […].

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The Global Ungoverned Area

CTOvision

There are places on this planet where good, civilized people simply do not voluntarily go, or willingly stay. What elected governments do in safer and more developed parts of the world are carried out in these areas by despots and militias, often at terrible cost to those who have nowhere else to go and no […].

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Open Banking and PSD2 – the first 100 days. A slow, fragmented start.

Forrester IT

TLDR: A slow, fragmented start to open banking, but the pace will accelerate. Fintechs are forging ahead with innovation, and a new set of intermediary service providers is growing. Banks need to become outside-in fast to thrive with open banking, building operating model competence for an externally oriented business. Few Banks Place Open Banking At […].

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Quantum Computing: The Potential Cure For Cancer?

CTOvision

Think about the first time you encountered the Internet. Did you have any idea that you could not live without it or let alone make a living without it? This paradigm shift has ushered a digital revolution and influence our lives in ways we still have yet to experience. I think back to 1991, working […].

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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 Can CIOs Remove The Bias From How They Hire?

The Accidental Successful CIO

To increase diversity in IT, CIOs need to take the bias out of the hiring process Image Credit: Quinn Dombrowski. Just in case you have somehow not gotten the message, if you want to build the best IT department that will be able to share the importance of information technology with the rest of the company, you are going to want to make it as diverse as you possibly can.

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How to Setup Co-Management – Introduction – Prerequisites

Anoop

Co-management is device manageability feature of Windows. It’s a solution that provides a bridge from traditional to modern management and gives you a path to make the transition using a phased approach. This post is based on the presentation Rajul, and I had given at GAB 2018. Co-Management Related Posts Overview Windows 10 Co-Management with Intune […].

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Business Process Automation 101: Understanding the Basics

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Summary: Business process automation (BPA) is the technology-enabled automation of business processes. It is performed to improve efficiency through the automation of manual processes. In this article, we explore the basics of BPA, and explain why it’s so important to your business. photo credit: Nikiko via pixabay cc We’re living in a digital era.

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Through-Channel Marketing Represents The Third Stage For Sales And Marketing Leaders

Forrester IT

Over the past few decades, sales and marketing leaders have been transforming themselves into predictable, data-driven business units. The CRM stage started in the 1990s and accelerated quickly a decade later with lower-priced cloud offerings. The marketing automation stage began to grow exponentially around 2008 and has reached critical mass in its first decade. […].

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How can CIOs Shift their Focus to Avoid Becoming “Chief Irrelevant Officer”

Future of CIO

More often than not, technology is the catalyst for driving business change and digital transformation, information is the lifeblood of the business. The expectations for CIO have grown multi-fold, and they are expected to be visionary and path-finder for organizational strategy and growth. How should CIO shift their focus to improve leadership effectiveness and how can CIOs prioritize the limited time and resources to ascend IT maturity?

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VMware vSphere vSAN vCenter Server Storage I/O Enhancements

Storage IO Blog

VMware vSphere vSAN vCenter Server Storage I/O Enhancements This is part three of a three-part series looking at last weeks v6.7 VMware vSphere vSAN vCenter Server Storage I/O Enhancements. The focus of this post is on server, storage, I/O along with deployment and other wrap up items. In case you missed them, read part one […] The post VMware vSphere vSAN vCenter Server Storage I/O Enhancements appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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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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The Monthly “Digital Gaps” Book Tuning: Gap Minding Leadership Apr. 2018

Future of CIO

" Digital Gaps -Bridging Multiple Gaps to Run Cohesive Business ” is a guidebook to help digital leaders and professionals today identify, analyze, and mind multiple gaps with the multidisciplinary insight and holistic understanding. Today’s digital organization simply just can’t stand still., bridging the 'gap of opportunity' between where you are and want to become is a welcomed challenge, it is important to bridge leadership gap and take a stepwise approach to make a leap of digital transform

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VMware vSphere vSAN vCenter v6.7 SDDC details

Storage IO Blog

VMware vSphere vSAN vCenter v6.7 SDDC details VMware vSphere vSAN vCenter v6.7 SDDC details of announcement summary focus on vCenter, Security, and management. This is part two (part one here) of a three-part (part III here) series looking at VMware vSphere vSAN vCenter v6.7 SDDC details of announcement summary. Last week VMware announced vSphere vSAN […] The post VMware vSphere vSAN vCenter v6.7 SDDC details appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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The NEXT step for Veeam + Nutanix

Nutanix

Last June at the Nutanix.NEXT Conference in Washington, D.C., Veeam announced a new partnership with Nutanix, the leader in enterprise cloud computing and hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI).

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VMware vSphere vSAN vCenter version 6.7 SDDC Update Summary

Storage IO Blog

VMware vSphere vSAN vCenter version 6.7 SDDC Update Summary VMware announced last week vSphere vSAN vCenter version 6.7 among other updates for their software-defined data center (SDDC) and software-defined infrastructure (SDI) solutions. The new April v6.7 announcement updates followed those from this past March when VMware announced cloud enhancements with partner AWS (more on that […] The post VMware vSphere vSAN vCenter version 6.7 SDDC Update Summary appeared first on StorageIOblog.

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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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Coherence and Decentralized Systems

Phil Windley

Summary: Building decentralized system requires more than defining a few specifications and hoping for the best. In order to thrive, decentralized systems need coherence, the social organization necessary to get otherwise independent actors to cooperate. We take the Internet for granted, not realizing that such a global, decentralized system is a rare thing.

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