Wed.Apr 11, 2018

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Automation, AI, And Robotics Are Critical CIO Targets

Forrester IT

We’ve just released a major new report, The CIO’s Guide To Automation, AI, And Robotics. We find that, to stay ahead, CIOs, CTOs, CDOs, and other executives integrating leading-edge technologies into their companies’ operations and business models must turn their attention to automation technologies, including intelligent machines, robotic process automation (RPA) bots, artificial intelligence, and physical […].

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Assessments on AWS Snowball and AWS Snowball Edge Post Confirmed By User Feedback

CTOvision

In March I opined on the remarkable engineering in AWS Snowball and AWS Smowball Edge. There are many trends in tech now and some of them, like the specific capabilities in this cloud computing domain, can seem like they are slow to develop till they are right on you. This is one of those times […].

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A Social Take On Social Selling

Forrester IT

Social selling is one of my B2B Marketing and Sales team’s top inquiry topics. We’ve also helped numerous clients plan and execute effective social selling programs. Given this and the recent report that Mary Shea just published, New Tech: B2B Social Selling Tools, Q1 2018, I thought now would be a great time to touch […].

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Steps to Take to Beat the Insider Threat in 2018

CTOvision

Hackers get the headlines, but a data breach is more likely to originate inside your own office walls. Errors, negligence and malicious intent by employees are the leading causes of security incidents but remain the least reported. Why do employees pose so much risk? The list of reasons is long: busy schedules that lead to sloppiness […].

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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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Zuckerberg vs. US Senate, Round 1: Reasonable Expectations

Forrester IT

“…would not reasonably expect.” Those four words form the basis of a fair and ethical data practice. Today, as he was questioned by the Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees, Mark Zuckerberg made it clear that, even now, he isn’t concerned with what users might reasonably expect him to do with their data, as long […].

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SitScape and AECOM announce five-year strategic partnership

CTOvision

As an advisor to SitScape I've been in a position to watch the capabilities of that firm evolve over time, from their beginnings as an incredibly functional and fast integrator of visualizations to what is now an incredible provider of enterprise grade collaborative user-defined visualization and solutions. It has been great watching them grow in […].

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Changing the calculus of containers in the cloud

All Things Distributed

I wrote to you over two years ago about what happens under the hood of Amazon ECS. Last year at re:Invent, we launched AWS Fargate , and today, I want to explore how Fargate fundamentally changes the landscape of container technology. I spend a lot of time talking to our customers and leaders at Amazon about innovation. One of the things I've noticed is that ideas and technologies which dramatically change the way we do things are rarely new.

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Solve The Digital Transformation Puzzle

Forrester IT

What do the following companies have in common? Southwest Airlines FTD AARP Stumped? They’ve all made significant progress on digital transformation. And they aren’t alone in undertaking these initiatives. You’ve heard the term “digital transformation” quite a bit over the last few years. But it can be a puzzle. Why? Because people can stretch “digital […].

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SCCM CB 1803 Review of Upgrade and Features

Anoop

SCCM CB 1803 preview version is released a few weeks back. I was busy with SCCM CB 1802 production posts so I couldn’t get time to install SCCM 1803 preview version. In this post, we will see the review of my SCCM CB 1803 upgrade experience. What is SCCM CB Preview Version If you have not […]. The post SCCM CB 1803 Review of Upgrade and Features appeared first on SCCM Intune Real World Enterprise Experience Blog by Anoop C Nair.

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Getting to Base Camp: A Conversation with Pete Williams on the Mistakes Made in AI Implementation

Dataconomy

Machine learning and AI are the latest technologies transforming business — carrying on from digitization and big data. It is difficult, however, to pull apart the hype from implementation and distinguish the realities from the marketing jargon. Pete Williams is a “data evangelist” who works with companies to get them. The post Getting to Base Camp: A Conversation with Pete Williams on the Mistakes Made in AI Implementation appeared first on Dataconomy.

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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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CIO Leadership Live with Klara Jelinkova, CIO of Rice University | Ep 7

ComputerWorld IT Management

Maryfran Johnson talks with Klara Jelinkova, Rice University’s CIO, on a range of topics, including the responsibility of senior women in IT to mentor the next generation and how the university's GDPR project was an opportunity to talk with business unit leaders and stakeholders about data security and privacy.

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The Digital Maturity Book Summary Apr. 2018

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. At the heart of digital, it is people and how to build a customer-centric organization.

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What Can CIOs Learn From The Evolution Of Smartphones?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Smartphones have matured and CIOs can learn from this Image Credit: Nokia Connect. CIOs exist in order to help their companies do more things and do them faster. The person in the CIO position has the responsibility of marshaling all of the company’s IT talent and using the importance of information technology to work on projects that are going to help the company to do a better job of competing.

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Three Innovation Clarity

Future of CIO

Innovation is the specific phenomenon and strategic imperative of the knowledge-based digital economy. Innovations in the digital era are coming at seemingly much fast space, with changes and potential disruptions, and therefore, innovation management also becomes more complex and dynamic. innovation is often dependent on business insight because you can't change an organization without insight.

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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.