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We Evaluated Banks’ In-App Messaging On COVID-19: Five Brands Stood Out

Forrester IT

What do consumers expect from their banks in response to the COVID-19 pandemic? We interviewed 40 customers of 14 banks to find out. We also asked them what they think of how their banks are handling the crisis so far. Their responses show that many banks are missing the mark by making COVID-19 content hard […].

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The 13 best security certifications for newcomers and experienced professionals

Tech Republic Security

Ranging from ethical hacking to cloud security, these certs make it easier to get promoted and negotiate a higher salary.

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The Rise Of The Subscription Business Model

Forrester IT

In a post-COVID-19 world, sellers of products and services might find it easier to charge over an extended period based on consumption rather than asking for large up-front cash payments.

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Cloud computing: This new tool from AWS could make life easier for developers

Tech Republic Cloud

AppFlow has been designed to remove the need for manually-configured data transfers between AWS and services like Salesforce, Slack, Trend Micro and Zendesk.

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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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In A Crisis, People Want Dependable Technology

Forrester IT

Cutting-edge takes a back seat to reliability during the pandemic. Yet innovation still has its place.

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FIX SCCM SQL Based Database Replication Failure Between CAS Primary| ConfigMgr

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. A quick post about FIX SCCM SQL Based Database Replication. SQL based replicated issues are common when you have a Configuration Manager hierarchy with CAS, Primary, or Secondary servers. Let’s check what the necessary troubleshooting steps an SCCM admin can perform. Introduction The replication was failed for Multiple groups and tried to run Replication Link […].

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Google Meet: 4 new features in this Zoom alternative

Tech Republic Cloud

Google's enterprise video chat app, Google Meet, now has tiled layouts, higher-quality video sharing, and other user-requested features.

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FW4: The Fourth Generation Of Firewalls

Forrester IT

Not to be morbid, but the COVID-19 pandemic has come at a perilous time for the enterprise firewall vendors that rely heavily on selling big iron (and that’s most of them). During the stay-at-home quarantine, nearly every user who was previously “inside” a next-generation firewall (NGFW) perimeter is now exiled outside, and many may never return. The user exodus, coupled with the fact that most enterprise applications graduated to the cloud years ago, has […].

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Ensuring Continuity in Learning in the Times of COVID-19

Kitaboo

Over the past few weeks, all you must be hearing about is COVID-19 and how governments of different countries are coping with it. Every sector, no matter what products or services it deals in, is highly impacted due to this pandemic. As state-imposed lockdowns continue to hamper business activities, companies are finding out ways to mold themselves in this ‘new normal’ situation.

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How COVID-19 Influences The Values-Based Consumer

Forrester IT

On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, brands from Hyundai to SodaStream flexed their creativity to socialize messages of inspiration and optimism as the dire reality of COVID-19 continues to strain consumer well-being. Our research has shown that the prevalence and intensity of values-based consumers have been on the rise; now, the pandemic forces consumers […].

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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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91% of businesses already using or planning to adopt AR or VR technology

Tech Republic Cloud

Enterprises surveyed by Grid Raster noted a boost in productivity and cost savings after implementation.

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Facebook’s Investment in Reliance’s Jio Platforms Moves Its eCommerce Dream Forward

Forrester IT

On April 22, Facebook invested $5.7 billion for a 9.9% stake in Jio Platforms, owned by Reliance Industries. The deal valued Jio at a pre-money valuation of $65.95 billion, making Facebook the largest minority shareholder in the Indian telecom network. Some of the key takeaways for the deal are as follows: Both firms are working […].

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Multi-Vendor Infrastructures Are Easier Than Ever to Manage

Information Week

Now might be the right time to expand your horizons and take a second look at a best-of-breed technology adoption approach.

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Smart Manufacturing Requires A Range Of Technologies To Succeed

Forrester IT

Principal Analyst Paul Miller introduces The Forrester Tech Tide™: Smart Manufacturing, Q2 2020, and highlights a webinar that will dive more deeply into the research and its findings.

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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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Is Cisco 300-135 TSHOOT Test Still Worth Your Attention? How Can Exam Dumps Help You Stay Afloat?

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Is Cisco 300-135 TSHOOT Test Still Worth Your Attention? How Can Exam Dumps Help You Stay Afloat? - Information Technology Blog. The Cisco 300-135 exam is designed to evaluate the skills and knowledge of the candidates who want to earn the Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Routing and Switching credential. This certification is among the most popular and sought-after ones offered by Cisco.

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How sextortion scam emails sneak past security filters

Tech Republic Security

Scammers use text-based images, QR codes, and other tricks to evade spam filters, says email security provider Vade Secure.

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Installing FlexDeploy on Oracle Kubernetes Engine

Flexagon

Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) is a Developer Service in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure that expedites the provisioning and managing of 1 or more Kubernetes Clusters. In effect, this allows deploying and running an application on a cloud provided K8s engine a snap. To demonstrate just how quick it can be the following post is. The post Installing FlexDeploy on Oracle Kubernetes Engine appeared first on Flexagon.

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Lessons learned from the Small Business Administration's data breach

Tech Republic Security

The event impacted the accounts of almost 8,000 people. Here are tips on how to protect yourself and your organization from website breaches.

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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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Deploying to Oracle Kubernetes Engine with FlexDeploy

Flexagon

In a previous post I demonstrated how to quickly get a FlexDeploy installation up and running with Oracle Kubernetes Engine. The approach, while quick, simply won’t scale in the long run. Anything from a new user not knowing the process or deploying the wrong image tag could hinder your deployments. Because of these issues we. The post Deploying to Oracle Kubernetes Engine with FlexDeploy appeared first on Flexagon.

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NFL using cloud company to support three-day virtual fundraiser for COVID-19

Tech Republic Cloud

Extreme Networks is helping the NFL hold the charity drive during the league's annual draft.

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DevOps Best Practices: 5 Key Performance Indicators

Flexagon

Tracking metrics to measure performance is a fundamental best practice of DevOps. After all, how can you know if DevOps is working, or measure progress toward goals, without benchmarking and tracking metrics? Monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) is critical, to understand how successful your existing DevOps processes are, and to identify areas for improvement.

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How businesses and individuals can be ensnared by coronavirus-related spam

Tech Republic Security

Many people said they would respond to emails claiming to be from the IRS or WHO, according to IBM X-Force.

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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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Setting up etcd with etcdadm

Scott Lowe

I’ve written a few different posts on setting up etcd. There’s this one on bootstrapping a TLS-secured etcd cluster with kubeadm , and there’s this one about using kubeadm to run an etcd cluster as static Pods. There’s also this one about using kubeadm to run etcd with containerd. In this article, I’ll provide yet another way of setting up a “best practices” etcd cluster, this time using a tool named etcdadm. etcdadm is an open source project , originall

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The Insight of the Week 4/18-4/23 “Future of CIO 2020

Future of CIO

Blogging is not about writing, but about thinking, brainstorming, innovating, and sharing. The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 3 million page views with 6700+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The “ Digital Master ” book series includes 28 books to share insight from the multidimensional digital lens and perceive the multi-faceted impact the digital era upon us is making to businesses and society.

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Using External Etcd with Cluster API on AWS

Scott Lowe

If you’ve used Cluster API (CAPI) , you may have noticed that workload clusters created by CAPI use, by default, a “stacked master” configuration—that is, the etcd cluster is running co-located on the control plane node(s) alongside the Kubernetes control plane components. This is a very common configuration and is well-suited for most deployments, so it makes perfect sense that this is the default.

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Using scenario planning to see the world past COVID-19: a compilation of 5 insightful sets of scenarios

Trends in the Living Networks

Scenario planning , the discipline of building multiple relevant stories of the future to support effective decision-making, always a powerful tool for foresight, is even more relevant as uncertainty increases , making it an extremely important and valuable tool amidst our current pandemic. I have been applying scenario planning for well over 20 years, sometimes in its traditional format, sometimes with adaptations to fit the need or cultural context of the client.

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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.

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Innovative contact center trends

Spearline Testing

New technological improvements are advancing the ecosystems within call centers and business support centers. The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics and visual support have each been significant drivers of innovation in this industry. The modern consumer expects their issues to be resolved promptly and effectively. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, customers and businesses alike are more reliant on contact centers than ever to assist when a problem arises.

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Develop Business Case for Strategic Problems-Solving

Future of CIO

Fundamentally running a business is an iterative problem-solving continuum. Problem-solving is about seeing a problem and actually delivering a real solution to that problem, not just the band-aid approach to fixing the symptom. Business Case provides the description and reason for starting an initiative to solve problems, particularly at the strategic level by articulating and aligning with VSSP (Vision-Strategy-Structure-People&Processes).

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The “Reliability” Quotes of “Digital Master” Apr, 2020

Future of CIO

" Digital Master ” is a series of guidebooks (28 + books) to perceive the multi-faceted impact digital is making to the businesses and society, help forward-thinking organizations navigate through the journey in a systematic way, and avoid “rogue digital.” It perceives the emergent trends of digital leadership, provides advice on how to run a digital organization to unleash its full potential and improve agility, maturity, and provide insight about Change Management.