Thu.Aug 22, 2019

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The State Of Influencer Marketing: Growing

Forrester IT

For all the dramatic headlines about influencers, our research states that they’re capturing steadily larger proportions of marketing budget. For our latest report we interviewed more than 30 enterprise marketers who are responsible for their brand’s influencer marketing. And the data shows: investments continue to rise and marketers’ budgets for influencer marketing are growing in […].

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Tech for Good: IoT Solution Helps Brings Clean Water to Sub-Saharan Africa

Association of Information Technology Professional

Using emerging technologies, such as IoT, business intelligence and automation, Britehouse is helping farmers improve their communities for the better by producing healthier crops and ensuring there’s plenty of water to drink.

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Digitally Evolving Customer Mindset Will Reshape Indian Financial Services Landscape

Forrester IT

Indian financial service customers are changing! Forrester surveyed 3,000 online adults in India on their financial attitude, expectations, and preferences and found that more than half of customers accessing the internet are constantly online. We found that most of the respondents are early adopters of new technology — Forrester calls them “Progressive Pioneers.” As digital […].

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Don’t worry about shadow IT. Shadow IoT is much worse.

Network World

For years, IT departments have been railing about the dangers of shadow IT and bring-your-own-device. The worry is that these unauthorized practices bring risks to corporate systems, introducing new vulnerabilities and increasing the attack surface. That may be true, but it’s not the whole story. As I’ve long argued, shadow IT may increase risks, but it can also cut costs, boost productivity and speed innovation.

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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Become An Adaptive Thinker: Flex Between Divergence And Convergence

Forrester IT

Every business runs on thinking, mostly in two modes: divergent and convergent. I’ve been researching this and I just published my findings in a new report to help individuals, teams, and organizations tap both modes. Divergent thinking helps you create — generating many alternatives. Convergent thinking helps you decide — choosing among alternatives.

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Netflix, Google Talk Continuous Delivery at DevOps World

Information Week

Members of the Continuous Delivery Foundation discuss the formation of the open source organization and the future of continuous integration and delivery.

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Out with the old - phasing out of PSTN/POTS globally by 2030

Spearline Testing

Voice, data, video, and broadcasting companies are now offering customers more services than ever before, but they also have to maintain a multitude of legacy networks. This includes the public switched telephone network (PSTN). The PSTN is the original, analog landline telephone network, and is also known as plain old telephone service (POTS). Initially, the PSTN was only intended only for voice, but as our communication needs evolved, the PSTN was modified and enhanced to carry data traffic.

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The Best “Scorecard” Quotes of “Digital Master” Aug. 2019

Future of CIO

" D igital 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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"Games" are afoot at.NEXT Europe

Nutanix

Our philosophy on.NEXT keynote presentations—much like our products—is all about disruption and delight. We seek presenters who share a passion for shaking up the status quo. Who are resilient and creative in the face of adversity.

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Discover What is at the Heart of the Problem

Future of CIO

We live in the world with all sorts of problems, even though we understand all different forms of thinking, the problems facing the planet don't seem to be reducing. Many problems exist because they are either ill-defined or the concept cannot be adequately captured contextually. Trying to fix the wrong cause of a problem will waste time and resources, increase anxiety and even cause chaos.

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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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A Hybrid Cloud Approach to Securing Public Cloud

Nutanix

If you are struggling with on-premise security, you would also struggle with cloud security! IT teams are now realizing that my moving to public cloud can amplify your security shortfalls. But thankfully these can also be easily addressed.

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 8/22/2019

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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Don’t Put Backup on the Backburner

Nutanix

Our philosophy on.NEXT keynote presentations—much like our products—is all about disruption and delight. We seek presenters who share a passion for shaking up the status quo. Who are resilient and creative in the face of adversity.

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8 Ways to Keep Members of Societies Engaged in the Digital Era

Kitaboo

When we talk about organizations, the term employee engagement refers to the concept of keeping the employees interested at their workplace and in their work. To achieve employee engagement , you might use gamification techniques , enhance the training process, organize fun events etc. But when it comes to engaging members of a society or non-profit association, it means retaining them by making them believe in your cause.

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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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Texas ransomware attacks: to pay or not to pay? | TECH(feed)

Network World

Nearly two dozen cities in Texas have been hit by a ransomware attack executed by a single threat actor. These attacks beg the question: Is it ever worth it to pay a cyber attacker’s ransom? In this episode of TECH(feed), Juliet discusses the pattern of ransomware attacks on local governments, how municipalities have responded and how to prevent a ransomware attack in the first place.

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Flexport Tackles Trump Tariffs with Data and Analytics

Information Week

In business for just 6 years, newcomer Flexport is disrupting the freight forwarding and import/export global shipping logistics arena with data and analytics.

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