Tue.Jun 05, 2018

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Five Best Practices To Scale Data Science Across The Enterprise

Forrester IT

Nearly all firms want to do more with data science. However, executives and data scientists alike are frustrated by the difficulty of turning new initiatives into business impact at scale. Outside of well-established use cases – such as risk scoring or optimizing search results – data scientists regularly complain that their solutions can take months […].

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Not all Machine Learning (ML) Is Artificial Intelligence (AI): Part II

CTOvision

No two companies define Artificial Intelligence (AI) the same way, but they all insist they are doing it. Or at least some version of it. However, if AI is to mean something and be a useful term to help delineate different technologies and approaches from others, then it has to be meaningful. A term that [.].

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C/4HANA: SAP’s Industrialization Of Customer Engagement

Forrester IT

SAP announced a new name, market position, and strategy for its customer engagement portfolio. Instead of a potpourri of products, SAP will now offer the quirkily named C/4HANA, which is comprised of SAP Marketing Cloud, SAP Commerce Cloud, SAP Service Cloud, SAP Sales Cloud (including CallidusCloud), and SAP Customer Data Cloud (Gigya). C/4HANA attempts to remind […].

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Blockchain Templates: Amazon Making Technology Mainstream

CTOvision

It might just be me, but the news of Amazon’s blockchain templates has got me very excited. I can assure you that it’s not the thought of a blockchain template though that is the exciting bit. What has got me jumping for joy and so should the rest of the blockchain world, is that one of the [.].

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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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Avoid Bad HiPPO Directives With Insights and Prioritization

Forrester IT

CX professionals often fall victim to the top-down HiPPO approach to prioritization; HiPPO being an acronym for the “Highest Paid Person’s Opinion” – where priorities are set by the CEO or other senior management based on gut and experience rather than actual underlying data. Case in point, Hilton hotels digital team often received “suggestions” from […].

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Apple’s new Core ML 2 Framework promises faster and smaller AI, Google opts out of Project Maven, Nvidia launches two AI Platforms

CTOvision

The following are some of the Artificial Intelligence topics we are following: Apple’s Core ML 2 is 30% faster, cuts AI model sizes by up to 75% The iPhone maker is training its guns on artificial intelligence with its new Core ML 2 Framework which promises to help devs cut AI model sizes by 75 [.].

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SDNs and NFV are complementary and core components of modernized networks

Network World

The terms software defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) are often used interchangeably, which is incorrect. In a sense, the two are tied together as companies start using NFV as part of their SDN plans but that doesn’t have to be the case. Enterprises could maintain their current network architecture and shift to NFV or they could roll out an SDN and never leverage the benefits of NFV, so it’s important to understand what each is and the benefits of both. [ For mo

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Marketers, You Don’t Understand How Consumers Feel About Advertising

Forrester IT

Marketers, you don’t know how consumers feel about your advertising, and it may be hurting you in ways you don’t understand. Did you know, for example, that some people are totally cool with personalization in exchange for something useful, relevant, or valuable to them, while others — even when they understand what’s happening with their data […].

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What happens if IoT security doesn’t get solved?

Network World

Sometimes, confirmation of the obvious can be really important. At least, that’s how I felt when I saw a new Bain & Company report, Cybersecurity Is the Key to Unlocking Demand in IoT. According to the consulting firm’s survey , 45 percent of Internet of Things (IoT) buyers say “ concerns about security remain a significant barrier and are hindering the adoption of IoT devices.

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AI Takes Location To A New Level

Forrester IT

Really excited to join Venture Beat today for the webinar: “AI-powered location: A step closer to the future?” This isn’t my first foray into the spatial and mapping world. In fact, I’ve been a big fan of maps since my days in Africa where my map of the world was the only decoration I had […].

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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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Azure AD Application proxy Browser Addon “My Apps Secure Sign-in”

Anoop

Azure AD Application Proxy is the recommended solution to access on premise web application from external network (outside corporate). The end user can login to My Apps portal to access all the application assigned to the user. With My Apps Browser addon installed, user can use the same Web URL to access from both internal and […]. The post Azure AD Application proxy Browser Addon “My Apps Secure Sign-in” appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Vimal Da

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Learn what the 'zero trust' security model really means | Salted Hash Ep 29

Network World

Host Steve Ragan reports from RSA 2018 conference, talking with Wendy Nather, director, advisory CISOs at Duo Security, about how organizations can build a zero trust model, including consistently authenticating users.

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Exploring Kubernetes with Kubeadm, Part 1: Introduction

Scott Lowe

I recently started using kubeadm more extensively than I had in the past to serve as the primary tool by which I stand up Kubernetes clusters. As part of this process, I also discovered the kubeadm alpha phase subcommand, which exposes different sections (phases) of the process that kubeadm init follows when bootstrapping a cluster. In this blog post, I’d like to kick off a series of posts that explore how one could use the kubeadm alpha phase command to better understand the different com

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CIOs as “Chief Investment Officer”: Three Aspects of Clarifying Digital Business Model

Future of CIO

The emerging digital trends bring significant opportunities for organizations to pursuing business growth through methodical examinations of alternative business models. With emerging digital technology trend and abundant information, the new digital business model can be discovered if organizations can ride learning curve and explore the art of possibility.

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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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Finally, we can talk about SAP HANA on Nutanix!

Nutanix

We’ve been struggling for months now to hold our tongues and not prematurely talk about this popular topic. We are at the cusp of yet another exciting and natural next step for the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS based on hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), as we continue to expand into the core of the enterprise data center.

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The Monthly “Change Insight” Book Tuning: The Digital Change Pendulum June 2018

Future of CIO

Change is inevitable, organizational change has become a common practice within an organization, but too often changes are made as a reaction to outer impulses, crisis, and demands. This is the bureaucracy’s way of meeting the challenges. A digital transformation is achieved via dynamic Strategy-Execution-Change lifecycle management, though it is not all linear steps, but an iterative, ongoing and upgoing change continuum.