Thu.Aug 15, 2019

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Social Will Be The Fastest-Growing Digital Advertising Channel Globally

Forrester IT

While 2018 was a challenging year for global social media advertising amid the implementation of GDPR, privacy scandals, and brand safety concerns, Forrester forecasts that social will remain the fastest-growing digital advertising channel globally over the next five years. This growth will be driven by increasing revenue per user and will be fastest in Asia […].

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Worth the Hype? Experts Weigh In on Overrated and Underrated Tech Trends

Association of Information Technology Professional

On a recent episode of Volley, Dave Sobel, senior director of MSP evangelism, SolarWinds, discussed a tech trend that is overrated—the branding around digital transformation—and a trend that is underrated—the attention paid to digital rights and privacy in the age of data.

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Introducing Autonomous Finance: Forrester’s New Research On Algorithm-Based Financial Services

Forrester IT

People’s lives are becoming ever more automated as millions of algorithms make decisions — and, in some cases, take actions on those decisions — on behalf of a consumer. While it’s still early days, the shift toward autonomous services is already happening in financial services thanks to evolving customer expectations, advances in AI and other […].

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Q&A: Gartner's Sid Nag on IaaS Market Growth & Consolidation

Information Week

Amazon maintains its dominance, for now, ahead of Microsoft, Alibaba, Google, and IBM as the IaaS field narrows.

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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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Reconstructing the Join Command for Kubeadm

Scott Lowe

If you’ve used kubeadm to bootstrap a Kubernetes cluster, you probably know that at the end of the kubeadm init command to bootstrap the first node in the cluster, kubeadm prints out a bunch of information: how to copy over the admin Kubeconfig file, and how to join both control plane nodes and worker nodes to the cluster you just created. But what if you didn’t write these values down after the first kubeadm init command?

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The Layman’s Guide to Banking as a Service

Dataconomy

Banking as a Service (BaaS) is the democratisation of financial capabilities that have fiercely been protected, isolated and hidden in silos for hundreds of years by banks. The fact that BaaS opens up banks’ capabilities and essentially empowers anyone to be able to create their own financial products, goes against. The post The Layman’s Guide to Banking as a Service appeared first on Dataconomy.

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Superlinear scaling for innovation in cities

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

Superlinear scaling in cities, which appears in sociological quantities such as economic productivity and creative output relative to urban population size, has been observed, but not been given a satisfactory theoretical explanation. Here we provide a network model for the superlinear relationship between population size and innovation found in cities, with a reasonable range for the exponent Arbesman, Kleinberg, and Strogatz – Superlinear scaling for innovation in cities.

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The Weekly Insight of the “Future of CIO” 8/15/2019

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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Want to innovate like Amazon? This is their formula

I'm not lost, I'm wondering

You can’t escape Amazon in the digital economy. Now a trillion-dollar company , they have disrupted diverse sectors from retail to software development with a deftness and drive that’s admirable and alarming. They actually seem to be speeding up their rate of innovation as they scale, defying the Law of Large Companies that causes giants to get dragged down by their own girth.

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Build a Cognitive Digital Business to Unleash its Potential

Future of CIO

The effects of an increasingly digitized world are now reaching into every aspect of organizations. Today’s businesses are dynamic and complex, they have to keep improving their cognitive ability to solve tough problems and implement great ideas. Either at the individual or organizational level, cognition involves exploring a variety of meanings, absorbing and digesting information from varying sources, it’s a sort of perception and insight.

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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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Career-building Opportunities at.NEXT you Don’t Want to Miss

Nutanix

NEXT Europe is a once-a-year chance to build your skills and knowledge in hyperconverged infrastructure and hybrid clouds, as well as gain insights in new technologies for Enterprise IT. From educational classes and seminars to hands-on labs and certification programs, our education program is designed to help you advance your career.

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New Azure Courses and Hands-On Labs

Linux Academy

At Linux Academy, we continually invest in updating our training content. Azure training is at the top of our most-requested list, so we are proud to announce that we’re addressing the demand. We have opened multiple positions for Azure experts and are looking to hire more Azure content creators. We recognize your needs when it comes to comprehensive Azure training, and so we have released multiple new Azure courses and hands-on labs.

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What are the Security Risks of Multi-Cloud Computing?

Nutanix

As if there weren’t enough security risks in the realm of traditional IT, the cloud presents some unique vulnerabilities. “The cloud,” although a deceptively singular phrase, is many things and comes in many forms.

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WordUp: Best Way to Improve your English Vocabulary

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - WordUp: Best Way to Improve your English Vocabulary - Information Technology Blog. Are you learning English? Do you have a Smartphone? Cool! You can learn English anywhere in many ways. For example, you can learn with listening to English music, YouTube Channels and podcasts for English learners. And let’s not forget: the applications to learn English.

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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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Top 3 Benefits of End-User Computing (EUC)

Nutanix

The top three benefits of end-user computing (EUC) that drive business value around virtual desktops.

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Career-building Opportunities at.NEXT you Don’t Want to Miss

Nutanix

While.NEXT Conference is known for amazing guest keynotes, rockstar parties, and ample networking, it is also the perfect chance to elevate your career with knowledge and skills from the.NEXT education courses, certification opportunities, and hands-on labs.