Wed.Feb 06, 2019

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How CRM Will Evolve in 2019

Forrester IT

Modern CRM is delivered as software-as-a-service and microservices, is modular, and offers APIs for easy access to enterprise applications. It empowers customer-facing personnel with the right data about their customers at the right time, in context, so that they can focus on nurturing relationships across journeys even as they cross channels and devices.

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Sophisticated new phishing campaign targets the C-suite

CTOvision

A new phishing campaign to steal login credentials is being launched on businesses – specifically the C-suite. Researchers at GreatHorn first discovered the campaign which targets senior executives by claiming to be from the company’s CEO. The fake email regards the rescheduling of a board meeting. By following the link from this email and users are greeted […].

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How Digital And CX Teams Collaborate To Deliver On Brand Promise

Forrester IT

Take Practical Steps To Apply CX Disciplines To Digital Initiatives Odds are your firm is regularly seeking ways to improve customer experience (CX). You’re also likely embracing digital technologies to enable a more customer-driven, agile operating model. The question is, are these initiatives aligned? In other words, are you confident in your firms’ ability to […].

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Data-Centric Security and Zero Trust Architecture:

CTOvision

It’s been nearly ten years since John Kindervag first published a paper recommending what he called the “zero trust” model of information security. The time had come, he announced, to abandon the idea of unbreakable network perimeters, and to deal with the reality that intruders will inevitably find their way into protected networks. In 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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The B2B Analytics Portfolio: Untapped Competencies To Develop Now

Forrester IT

This past year, I attended Forrester’s Data Strategy & Insights 2018 Forum. As I sat down to breakfast on the first day, I joined two attendees from a multinational package delivery and supply chain management company. During our conversation, they commented that they felt “behind” other attendees in terms of their analytics prowess. I might […].

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Ransomware in 2019 and beyond: Don’t get complacent

CTOvision

Read why Nathan Eddy says that infosec and IT teams should expect more sophisticated ransomware attacks on Healthcare IT News : Although much of the buzz about ransomware has quieted down in the days since the NotPetya and WannaCry attacks, the threat persists and hospital IT and security teams should remain vigilant. Just like phishing attacks […].

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The hidden truth about cyber crime: insider threats

CTOvision

Barely a day goes by without reports of another major cyber-attack. Whether the target is an illicit dating site, a leading business, charity or even the National Health Service (NHS), hackers have demonstrated a level of indiscriminate ruthlessness towards wreaking havoc and stealing confidential information. The ramifications of these attacks are profound.

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Data Governance Takes A Turn — And It’s A Doozy

Forrester IT

If you were to ask me a year ago what I would point to as a best practice for data governance, my response would be to look at what financial services firms do to meet their regulatory requirements. Fast-forward to the age of GDPR and the new privacy mandates coming out of California (CCPA), and […].

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With new security tools, Google looks to reduce the impact of data breaches

CTOvision

Google LLC wants to make the web a little safer by alerting consumers if one of their online accounts is compromised in a data breach. The core component of the company’s plan is Password Checkup, a free extension for Chrome that it launched today. The add-on detects when a user logs into a website and checks […].

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Data Governance Takes A Turn – and Its a Doozy

Forrester IT

If you were to ask me a year ago what I would point to as a best practice for data governance, my response would be to look at what financial services firms do to meat their regulatory requirements. Fast forward to the age of GDPR and the new privacy mandates coming out of California (CCPA). […].

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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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Over 59,000 data breaches reported in EU since GDPR

CTOvision

New research from DLA Piper has revealed that over 59,000 data breach notifications have been reported across the EU since GDPR went into effect on 25th May 2018. According to the firm’s new GDPR Data Breach survey, the UK is in the top three countries with the highest number of data breaches reported. In the UK […].

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CIOs Want To Know: Is Tape Making A Comeback?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Is it time for magnetic tape to come back as a storage option? Image Credit: Scott Beale. Securing the company’s data is one of the primary jobs of the person with the CIO job. As the importance of information technology grows and more and more of our data moves into the cloud, keeping that data out of the hands of hackers is becoming a bigger and bigger issue.

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Why AI Needs Experts

CTOvision

Read Kayvan Alikhani explain why artificial intelligence adoption requires experts on Forbes : As artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes industries, fear of AI is on the rise. According to a Gallup poll from last year, a majority of Americans (58%) believe AI is a bigger threat to their jobs than immigration and offshoring. Many of the jobs […].

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Third-Party Applications are Patched up-to-date? SCCM admins?

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Regardless of your organization’s chosen operating system, you need various 3rd (third-party) applications to make your machines enterprise-ready. Your organization probably uses software for displaying certain document types, editing and creating image files, and displaying videos and other media on your browsers.

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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 AI can improve network capacity planning

CTOvision

Network capacity planning aims to ensure that sufficient bandwidth is provisioned, allowing network SLA targets, such as delay, jitter, loss, and availability, to be reliably met. It’s a complex, error-prone task with serious financial implications. Until recently, the network data necessary for insightful capacity planning was generally only available via static, historical, after-the-fact reports.

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Prepping the Enterprise for the AI Apocalypse

Information Week

Forget the little pilot project. Enterprises that want to survive the disruptions ahead need to get their tech ready today or expect to be gone in two years.

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FlexDeploy Loves Containers: Build FlexDeploy Plugins with Docker

Flexagon

There is exciting news for those who develop FlexDeploy plugins. So exciting, we’re adding another post to our FlexDeploy Loves Containers Blog series. FlexDeploy loves Containers: Build and Deploy Microservices to Kubernetes clusters in the Cloud Enrich Oracle Container Native Application Development Platform with FlexDeploy Pipelines FlexDeploy loves Functions: Deploy Docker Containers with Fn Functions.

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Can Big Data Help Provide Affordable Healthcare?

Dataconomy

Big Data and AI can help with the growing care provider shortage. Here is how and why. One percent of the global population possesses 40-percent of all the world’s wealth, a persistent issue for which economists and politicians have debated about for some time. Economic inequality is a problem that’s. The post Can Big Data Help Provide Affordable Healthcare?

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How to Migrate From DataStax Enterprise to Instaclustr Managed Apache Cassandra

If you’re considering migrating from DataStax Enterprise (DSE) to open source Apache Cassandra®, our comprehensive guide is tailored for architects, engineers, and IT directors. Whether you’re motivated by cost savings, avoiding vendor lock-in, or embracing the vibrant open-source community, Apache Cassandra offers robust value. Transition seamlessly to Instaclustr Managed Cassandra with our expert insights, ensuring zero downtime during migration.

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FlexDeploy 5.0.0.3 – Don’t let the Triple Dot Fool You

Flexagon

Flexagon has released fixpack, 5.0.0.3! It includes enhancements and bug fixes for FlexDeploy, our DevOps platform for continuous delivery and release automation. Here are some highlights! Cloud – Cloud in general is a big investment area for Flexagon and supports the enablement of multi-cloud strategies such as Amazon, Azure, Google, and Oracle. This fixpack includes two new plugins for cloud.

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Examples of Great Experimental Marketing Campaigns

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Examples of Great Experimental Marketing Campaigns - Information Technology Blog. When we talk about placing a brand or product in the market, it is increasingly important to pay special attention to how doing it, because consumers always look for something different. That’s why new marketing strategies have emerged to attract the attention of the people.

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The Digital CIO’s Strategic Alliance

Future of CIO

We live in a technology world and every day more and more technology affects the way we live, love, and think. Great opportunities, dangers, and disruptions are around every corner. More often than not, technology is the driver of business change and the information is one of the most invaluable business assets. Therefore, CIOs as IT leader will play a proactive role in catalyzing changes and leading transformation.

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The Bug Squasher Review: Features and Pricing

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - The Bug Squasher Review: Features and Pricing - Information Technology Blog. In this article, we present the best bug tracking tool that programmers can use and help them eliminate any bug in their program. Coding is the essence of web development, therefore, each programmer is aware of the fact that not only coding is the most important aspect of development, but must be carried out with extra care and vigilance to reduce the occurrence of errors or bugs.

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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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Nonlinearity and Change Management

Future of CIO

The hyperconnectivity nature of digital breaks down the functional, geographical, or even organizational border. Businesses today become much more nonlinear, interconnected and interdependent than ever. When systems are not just about linear relationships, they are defined as nonlinear dynamic. Applying interdisciplinary management to gain an understanding of nonlinearity as the very characteristic of the digital organization and business ecosystem could be at the tipping point for managing chan

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Big Data Training Content | New January Releases

Linux Academy

With the huge amount of data floating around your business, what you do with it is vital to your continued success. Big data has become crucial in helping businesses make decisions and stay ahead of the competition. Check out our new Big Data Course, Hadoop Quick Start to help your team’s data transformation. This course comes with a Hands-On Lab and Interactive Diagram to help solidify your learning and give you real-world experience.

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The Monthly “Digital Fit” Book Tuning: Emotional Fit Feb. 2019

Future of CIO

Digital makes a significant impact on every aspect of the business from people, process to technology, both horizontally and vertically. Digital becomes the very fabric of high performing business, being outside-in and customer-centric is the new mantra for forward-looking and high mature digital organizations today. But what are digital organizational traits, how to define digital fit and take a structural approach for digitalization?