Thu.Aug 29, 2019

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Asia Pacific To Drive Global Social Ad Spend In The Next Five Years

Forrester IT

Forrester expects global social advertising spend to reach $165.6 billion in 2023, up from $75 billion in 2018 — a CAGR of 17.1%. Asia Pacific and the rest of world will grow fastest, capturing the US and Europe’s share of global social advertising spend. Asia Pacific’s share of global spend will increase from 30% in […].

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Overheard in August: Cybersecurity Skills, Customer Experience Rules, Tech Naming Trends and More

Association of Information Technology Professional

In August, CompTIA podcasts provided insight into today’s most talked about tech topics—from what the customer experience means in the IT channel to the importance of soft skills in cybersecurity, overused tech terms, women in SaaS, and more.

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The Security Snapshot: Shaping The New Cybersecurity Culture

Forrester IT

All managers understand that both recruiting top talent as well as crafting a winning team and company culture is crucial to high performance. However, 22% of security decision makers note their team being understaffed as one of their biggest security challenges. A further 20% list the unavailability of employees with the right skills as one […].

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Modern Management and Peer to Peer Technology

Anoop

Subscribe YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get latest updates. [link]. Let’s learn how to VMware Workspace ONE works with Windows 10. Windows 10 modern management is new mantra for all the organizations. More details about VMware’s management options. VMware Workspace One Following are main feature offerings from VMware on Windows 10 & modern device management.

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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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Forrester Has Expanded Its Coverage Of eCommerce In Latin America!

Forrester IT

With a population of over half a billion and two countries that rank among the world’s 15 largest economies, Latin America is firmly on the radar of digital business executives looking to expand their digital offerings. In a recent report, Forrester covers regional and country-level eCommerce trends in the six largest economies in Latin America: […].

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Are eTextbooks The Next Big Thing in K-12 Education?

Kitaboo

Ever seen one of those videos where a toddler is holding a phone upside down and pretending to talk? Well, they sure are cute, but what you need to really notice here is that they are already familiar with how to use a smartphone! They know they can talk through it and that when you press certain keys something moves across the screen, and there’s light and sound coming from within.

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Four Traits of Every Top-Tier IT Hire

Information Week

Each team member contributes substantially to the overall culture -- and each hire can mean the difference between an average team and an exceptional one.

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Temenos Acquires Kony — Two Leaders Unite

Forrester IT

Yesterday Temenos announced its acquisition of US vendor Kony. Both Kony and Temenos are Leaders in the recent Forrester Wave: Digital Banking Engagement Platforms Q3 2019. This acquisition adds Kony Quantum, a low code development platform, and Kony DBX to Temenos’s digital front-end product portfolio. Kony DBX is a digital banking engagement platform (DBEP), a […].

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Augmented Reality and the Network

Spearline Testing

Bob Dylan once said, “the times they are a’ changin” and that couldn’t be truer when it comes to the telco industry. The execution of VoIP , playing around with the idea of cognitive networks , the evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT), using enhanced features like A.I. and unleashing the power of 5G are all significant steps in the ever-running escalator of telecoms.

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Measure And Predict Journey Performance: The New And Right Way

Forrester IT

You know customer journeys matter. But unless your company is the exception, you probably don’t know how well each journey performs. Does it … deliver value to customers? …meet short-term and long-term organizational goals? … help improve employee experience? … shine in make-or-break moments? … flow well for the customer?

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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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Know When It's Time to Discipline or Fire an IT Staffer

Information Week

When a team member begins neglecting his or her work responsibilities, it's important to move quickly. Here's a look at the telltale warning signs.

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NPS Or No NPS — Use Our New Interactive Tool And Choose The Best CX Metric For Your Organization

Forrester IT

Executives in nearly 1 out of 2 organizations use Net Promoter Score (NPS)* to gauge CX success. This is what CX professionals told us in our recent survey. Are you wondering if NPS is right for you? Are you trying to find the right top-level CX metric for your organization? Then check out my new […].

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Box CEO: Security is Core in Ever-Changing Business World

Information Week

CEO of Box, analyst from Gartner, others take a look at the increased demand for security in the cloud.

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Video Blog: Forrester’s Salesforce Implementation Partners In Asia Pacific Wave Identifies The 10 Most Important Providers

Forrester IT

Get the most out of your organisation’s Salesforce implementation by selecting the right partner. In our recent Forrester Wave™ evaluation, we identified the 10 providers that matter most – and how they stack up. Watch below to learn more, and find the full wave here.

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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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3 leading network access control products reviewed

Network World

Real IT users evaluate network access control solutions: Cisco Identity Services Engine, Aruba ClearPass and ForeScout CounterACT. (Download the 27-page comparison.

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Brightening Up the Path of Going Digital by Uncovering Three “Hidden Spots”

Future of CIO

The characteristics of digital business are dynamic, hyperconnected, and interdependent, different companies are also at a different stage of its business life cycle. Re-imagining the future of digital business is exciting, but investigating the different path of growing the business and driving digital transformation is a tough journey. How to recharge the business and unlock its performance by identifying the following “hidden spots,” deal with problems systematically and unleash business pote

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Were the principles of life invented or discovered?

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

Even if you are not a reductionist and believe, as I do, that there is genuine causal power and functionality in the arrangements of things that is not contained in the things themselves or fully explainable by their low-level interactions, you are still left with the question of where that functionality comes from. It does feel like it somehow violates the conservation of causal power for evolution to have simply created systems that can do things – truly amazing, incredibly powerful things – f

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The Best “Intellectual Curiosity” Quotes of “Digital Master” Aug. 2019

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.

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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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Cybersecurity vendor that protects firms from data breaches hit by data breach

CTOvision

You know it’s a bad day for cybersecurity when a leading provider of internet firewall services that helps safeguard websites from malicious attacks suffers from a security breach of its own. Imperva, a popular California-based security vendor, disclosed that data belonging to an unspecified subset of users of its cloud firewall product was exposed online.

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 8/30/2019

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 5900+ 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 the businesses and society.

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Survey’s surprise finding: Only half of organizations believe they can stop cyber attacks

CTOvision

If they are being honest with you, any CISO will tell you that they are well aware of the fact that their organization can be breached. None, at least none that I know, would contend that they are impenetrable when it comes to cyber-attack. Not with a straight face, anyway. But how many of those CISOs […].

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Free Courses at Linux Academy — September 2019

Linux Academy

To continually support you in your mission to learn and grow we are always adding new courses and free resources to begin developing your Linux and Cloud skills. On September 17th Linux Torvald first released the Linux Operating System Kernel on September 17th, 1991 so we are celebrating by offering free training for you to increase your Linux Skills.

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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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The Extortion Economy: How Insurance Companies Are Fueling a Rise in Ransomware Attacks

CTOvision

On June 24, the mayor and council of Lake City, Florida, gathered in an emergency session to decide how to resolve a ransomware attack that had locked the city’s computer files for the preceding fortnight. Following the Pledge of Allegiance, Mayor Stephen Witt led an invocation. “Our heavenly father,” Witt said, “we ask for your […].

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6 essential elements of modern enterprise reporting software

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Summary: What do you look for in a reporting tool? Obviously, the requirements vary by company, but I believe that certain elements are essential in a good reporting tool. In this article, we explore 6 essential elements you should look for in any good reporting solution. Have you ever purchased business software, only to realize later that it didn’t quite meet your needs?

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Human Error Often the Culprit in Cloud Data Breaches

CTOvision

Read James Rundle explain how human error is often responsible for cloud data breaches on Wall Street Journal : Poor security practices, complicated controls and rushed technology programs are causing a rash of data breaches stemming from the use of cloud services, experts say. Both users and cloud providers could be doing more to prevent […].

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Flexibility in Vulnerability Management: Why It’s Essential

CTOvision

Read why Jim Sounders says that it is essential to have flexibility in vulnerability management on Infosec Magazine : When you consider that cybercrime is projected to cost $6 trillion annually by 2021 , securing the endpoint becomes an absolute priority as 80% of cyber-attacks happen at the endpoint today. This is why we’re seeing […].

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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.