Thu.Jun 13, 2019

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Global Warming For Iceberg Metaphors

Forrester IT

The Dark Web Is Nothing Fancy; It’s Really Just A Different Series Of Protocols Commonly when surfing the web, Transport Layer Security (TLS) is the cryptographic protocol that provides confidentiality for your communication with the server. The green lock on your URL bar is an assurance, but not a guarantee, that you’re communicating confidentially with […].

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Fugue: Autonomous Cloud Security and Compliance

CTOvision

Fugue automates enterprise cloud security and compliance enforcement to prevent data breaches, policy violations, and system downtime. Fugue ensures cloud infrastructure stays in continuous compliance with enterprise security policies. Their solution identifies cloud infrastructure security risks and compliance violations and ensures that they are never repeated.

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The Forrester Wave™: Data Management Platforms, Q2 2019

Forrester IT

I’m excited to share that our evaluation of data management platforms — “The Forrester Wave™: Data Management Platforms, Q2 2019” — is now live. In our 34-criterion evaluation, we identified the top seven DMP vendors — The ADEX, Adobe, Lotame, Neustar, Nielsen, Oracle, and Salesforce — and racked and stacked them on current offering, strategy, […].

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Can Technology in the Classroom Replace Expensive Textbooks

Kitaboo

Increase in Textbook Prices Over the Years. It is believed that textbook prices have skyrocketed over the last few years. According to NBC’s review of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, textbook prices have risen over 3 times the rate of inflation from January 1977 to June 2015, a whopping 1,041% increase. With the big 5 controlling most of the textbook market, they are the ones who end up determining a standard price range to avoid further competition.

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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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Healthcare Organizations Are Future-Proofing Strategy And Operations With Cloud

Forrester IT

Healthcare organizations (HCOs), once cloud laggards, are embracing public and private cloud services to address a wide range of business problems. A recent survey revealed that 76 percent of HCOs anticipate using public cloud services within the year, putting public cloud vendors on pace to be the most popular cloud services providers in healthcare.

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What the Dock is Docker: A Simplified Explanation of Containers and Docker

Flexagon

The Problem “Did you get the application I sent you?” “Yeah, it doesn’t work.” “It runs fine on my machine.” I am sure we have all had multiple conversations that can be summed up with these three lines. When running applications within different environments, there are bound to be some issues with differing environments and. Read more. The post What the Dock is Docker: A Simplified Explanation of Containers and Docker appeared first on Flexagon.

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Waiting for the AI Revolution? Don't.

Information Week

There's no one-size-fits-all solution to becoming AI-ready, but the building blocks for maximizing its value over the long term are already available.

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A New Rhythm In HCM

Forrester IT

Maybe I’ve been in the software world for too long. Or maybe I’m a product of my earlier years. You might remember the old Russian proverb, “Doveryai, no proveryai,” which President Reagan made famous in the context of nuclear disarmament. Translated: “Trust, but verify.” Either way, I’m curious about a lot of things, question everything, […].

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How Salesforce’s Tableau acquisition will impact IT

CIO Business Intelligence

Salesforce.com’s $15.7 billion bid for Tableau Software has many organizations wondering how the proposed acquisition will impact their operations. According to industry analysts, it all depends on how your enterprise makes use of their respective platforms. Users of Salesforce’s CRM platform have all subscribed to its software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, putting their data in the cloud — but the company is only beginning to respond to the demand for sophisticated tools to analyze that data. [ De

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The Rise Of The Agile Employee

Forrester IT

Digital leaders tell us that they often struggle to find the right people with the right skills, and competition for elite talent is fierce. As their firms become more advanced in their digital journeys — embracing new technology and evolving their business models — the skills and talent they need to execute on that become […].

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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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Salesforce Buys Tableau: Next Wave Analytics Consolidation

Information Week

Salesforce buys Tableau, and Google buys Looker, kicking off a new wave of consolidation in the analytics and BI space.

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What CX Should Mean For Government Leaders

Forrester IT

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What is the Difference Between Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery?

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - What is the Difference Between Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery? - Information Technology Blog. Blizzards, hurricanes, and rainstorms occur every year, affecting businesses, homes, and institutions. Almost everyone now is thinking about measures to mitigate disaster and to recover from the effects. Many companies require policies to keep operating even in the aftermath of nature’s wrath.

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The Power of Voice Analytics

Spearline Testing

Competitors in every business sector are striving for Customer experience (CX) excellence which will drive growth. Gartner estimate that more than 90% of customer conversations happen on the phone, therefore telephone conversation is a huge area for CX management. With many millions of customer conversations happening each and every day, voice traffic is very much “big data” offering a world of insights to those who choose to look deeply.

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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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How to attract and retain the important, but elusive, data scientist

Dataconomy

As a relatively new role, “data guru” is a challenging job specification to draft for. Organisations are seeking highly-skilled and well-educated individuals to fulfil the position but, the truth is, the data scientist an organisation needs is not a guru, but a colleague. Most organisations forget that recruiting the right. The post How to attract and retain the important, but elusive, data scientist appeared first on Dataconomy.

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5 (more) IT trends to watch in 2019 and beyond

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Summary: As technology evolves at an ever-increasing pace, it brings major changes to the IT department. In this era, the IT department moves from a back-office function to a true business partner. What trends are driving this change, and how must your IT department adapt? In this article, we examine 5 more trends to watch in the near future. photo credit: nvokicka via pixabay cc The role of the IT department is changing.

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Applying Strategic Thinking Principles to Drive Digital Transformation

Future of CIO

In the digital era, any business can be at risk for survival at any minute due to continuous digital disruptions and change as the new normal with a faster pace and broader spectrum. Digital leaders and professionals must be comfortable with “VUCA” reality, apply strategic thinking principles to broaden their outlook, envision the bigger picture, keep the end in mind in order to drive digital transformation in a structural way.

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The New Book “100 IT Charm” Introduction: Chapter 2 IT as an Information Broker

Future of CIO

Nowadays information is the lifeblood of the organization, all forward-looking organizations declare they are in the information management business. IT needs to shift from “T” driven operation focus to “I” information, insight and innovation centered management. IT as an information value creator: Information is the lifeblood of the enterprise; but if not properly managed, it becomes at worst case liability and at the best case an underutilized asset.

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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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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 6/13/2019

Future of CIO

The “Future of CIO” Blog has reached 3 million page views with 5700+ blog posting in 59+ different categories of leadership, management, strategy, digitalization, change/talent, etc. The “ Digital Master ” book series includes 28books 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.